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Reality TV

Cincinnati Bengals To Be On HBO’s “Hard Knocks” For Some Reason

By Ryan Good news: HBO is returning another season of Hard Knocks in August. Bad news: It’s going to be about the Cincinnati Bengals. Good news: It can double as a season of COPS. HBO Sports, NFL Films and the Cincinnati Bengals will team up for an all-access look at what it takes to make it in the National Football League when Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Cincinnati Bengals debuts Aug. 12 at 10pm ET/PT on HBO (HD). It is the show’s fifth season. Other seasons have followed the Dallas Cowboys (twice), Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs.

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Sports

NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV On SPEED Channel

By Ryan The NASCAR All-Star Race is an event that gets tinkered with so often, fans might need Digger the NASCAR on FOX gopher to explain the current rules and format in layman’s terms. But for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV, May 16 on SPEED Channel (HD), you only need to know two things: 10 laps and $1 million. This year’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.H., will feature a 10-lap shootout with a $1 million prize as its final segment, something that has provided some of the event’s most spectacular finishes, including Dale Earnhardt’s 1987 “pass […]

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Comedy

“Real Housewives Of New Jersey” Keeps It In The Family — Mostly — Beginning Tonight On Bravo

I’ll admit it. I enjoyed a deliriously happy 2-season relationship with Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County — until my fellow thirty- and fortysomething ladies bid their goofy little twentysomething pal, Jo, adieu and summarily had their turf invaded by a parade of giggly bleach-blonde trophy wives and earthy, defeated-looking brunettes who seemed to render Gina, Vicki and Lauri as disdainful, annoyed and territorial as I was. We stopped talking about the gall of our overprivleged children and the cluelessness of our never-present husbands over backyard barbecues, and started getting pissy about Botox and nightclubs. I didn’t actually the live […]

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Sports

“E:60”: UFC President Dana White, Binghamton Bar Brawl, Matt Steven, And Sports Gambling In Delaware

Features on the Tuesday, May 12 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: UFC President Dana White — At 39, Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, is both czar and star of one of the world’s fastest growing sports — mixed martial arts. He is at the epicenter of an enterprise that has moved from spectacle to sport in less than a decade. Mostly, White is outside the box, and at times, out of control. E:60 had unprecedented access to White over a four-month period, following him to UFC events in the United States and Canada. […]

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Reality TV

TV Land Hires Joan Rivers For “How’d You Get So Rich?”

Fresh from her victorious run on The Celebrity Apprentice, legendary gab queen Joan Rivers will next be seen in TV Land’s How’d You Get So Rich?, which asks several millionaires how they came into their wealth. TV Land released the following info about the show, which debuts in August: New York, NY, May 11, 2009 — The economy may be in the tank, but like it or not, there are still millionaires out there — and they didn’t all get rich by stealing your money! After allowing the notoriously uncensored Joan Rivers into your living room all these years to […]

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TV News & Program Updates

And Now, A Public Service Announcement

NBC’s award-winning series of public service announcements called “The More You Know” is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, making it the longest-running network public service campaign. Since 1989, hundreds of stars, and two U.S. presidents, have taken part in these messages designed to raise awareness of critical social issues. You might know them; they go along the lines of something like these: Now, these PSAs are part of the season finale of The Celebrity Apprentice, airing this Sunday on NBC. Joan Rivers and Annie Duke, the two remaining finalists, will be creating their own “The More You Know” messages, […]

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Reality TV

“The Cougar” Speaks!

Stacey Anderson, star of TV Land’s reality dating competition, The Cougar, addresses a recent National Enquirer article and Inside Edition piece that, among other things, paints a picture of her as a real-estate dilettante, alcoholic party girl, deadbeat mom and generally uninvolved parent. While her ex-husband is the main source of these stories, Anderson says she has since spoken to him and he has now expressed regret and that his quotes were taken — say it with me — out of context.

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Drama

WE tv Celebrates Mother’s Day With A “Locator” Marathon

By Lori Acken In honor of Mom’s big day, WE tv will air a special, mom-centric marathon of emotional and heartwarming episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 of its hit series, The Locator. So grab your mama and your tissue box and tune in Sunday, May 10, beginning at 2pm ET for these encore eps: A Mother’s Last Wish: When Carolyn and her ex-husband, Donald, split, he was granted full custody of their daughter, Cassie, who was three years old at the time. Following the divorce, Carolyn was able to stay in touch with Cassie until she turned 12, when all […]

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Drama

SNEAK PEEK: Episode 3 Of Southern Belles: Louisville, Premiering June 4 On SOAPnet

In “The Belles Bond,” the girls go away for the weekend, where friction between Shea and Emily results in a surprising makeover. Also, Kelly reveals some deep secrets from her past and later — in a tense encounter — Emily meets with a style consultant who thinks she may need to tone down her look to be taken seriously.  Southern Belles: Louisville airs Thursday nights beginning May 21 on SOAPnet.

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Sports

“E:60”: Dustin Pedroia, Polo Horse Deaths, Terrance Haynes And Jason Belmonte

By Ryan Features on the May 5 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: The Darkest Day in Polo — A few weeks ago, the genteel world of polo was rocked when 21 prized horses died during the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Fla., the Super Bowl of the sport. Lechuza Caracas, one of eight teams in competition, was one win away from the semifinals and favored to win until the team’s horses became ill and started falling to the ground one by one. Spectators watched in horror as veterinarians, players, grooms and total strangers worked together […]