August 2012 Archives - Channel Guide Magazine

Tom Weston-Jones leads BBC America’s “Copper”

August 16, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

The folks at BBC America have a solid reputation for delivering some of the best in British comedy and drama. It’s taken them a while to finally get into the original drama game, but from the looks of it, they’re starting off on the right foot. The 10-part series Copper takes viewers to 1860s New York City, to the world of Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, MI-5), a rough Irish-American policeman working the notorious Five Points neighborhood. Having returned from the Civil War to find his daughter dead and his wife missing, Corcoran is driven to divine their fate, even as […]

Sanaa Lathan on Season 2 of Starz’s “Boss”

August 16, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

It’s a good deal more frantic and there are more people milling about than when I last visited the set of Starz‘s Boss. Mario Van Peebles is in the director’s chair, and neither Kelsey Grammer nor Troy Garity are anywhere to be seen. The focus of the scene being shot at the moment is Sanaa Lathan, as she does take after take of showing disgust at some as-yet-unknown plot turn playing out on a phantom television, turning around and exiting in search of a drink. Lathan is a newcomer to the acclaimed series this season, playing Mona Fredericks, a woman whom […]

Viewers Voice Awards: 2012 Official Ballot

July 25, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor 15

Channel Guide Magazine’s New Annual Awards Recognize The Best & Worst On Cable TV Determined By Viewers. We’ve taken your nominations on favorite shows and networks from this year’s Reader Survey, and added a few categories of our own, to introduce our first Channel Guide Magazine Viewers Voice Awards. The awards are a fun way to call attention to and recognize new and different program categories, as well as celebrate your favorites. So now’s your chance to vote for the best and worst on cable TV! Below is the official ballot. You can vote as many times as you like. Voting […]

Channel Guide interviews Leif Garrett!

July 5, 2012 Lori Acken 34

In the interest of full disclosure, I was one of the approximately 40 bazillion teenage girls who plastered their bedroom walls with posters of Leif Garrett throughout the ’70s and ’80s. In fact, I had it so bad for the sleepy-eyed, flaxen-haired heartthrob that my best bud and I would spend hours throwing suction-tip darts at the images and smooching whichever one we hit. So when I finally scored an interview with Garrett, Channel Guide‘s copy chief, Jill, encouraged me not to share that particular story — or as she sagely put it, “Don’t lead with the crazy.” I […]