My Strange Addiction Tournament: Dating My Car vs. Married to a Doll

Opening a church in the thick of the Bible Belt might be a bit like carrying coal to Newcastle, as the old saying goes, but that is not stopping the Speegle family in TLC’s new, six-part reality series Preaching Alabama from trying. The clan, headed by father Allen and mother Janice, had thrived in central Florida with a community church for over 20 years. Now about to retire, Allen and Janice are ready to turn over the church to their children — eldest daughter Jill, and her husband Rod and daughter Abi; and youngest daughter Lori, and her husband Seth. […]

Because, after last week’s series premiere, we know at least 2.2 million of you might be interested, here’s a new clip from one of this week’s back-to-back episodes of TLC’s latest hit, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, airing Wednesday at 10pm ET. The clip seems to combine two of the worlds in which TLC is interested — young beauty pageant contestants and their families, and extreme couponing — as June, Honey Boo Boo and the family visit the Piggly Wiggly: RELATED STORY: INTERVIEW WITH JUNE SHANNON

While Dance Moms has Abby Lee Miller and a veteran team of uber competitive moms, TLC’s new Cheer Perfection  (Wednesday, July 11 at 10pm ET) has an equally intense coach/co-owner in Alisha Dunlap of Arkansas’ Cheer Time Revolution, and a somewhat less-fashionable foursome of “Cheer” moms who are determined to see their kids win. Cheer Perfection debuts as a one-hour special with an opportunity to go to a series pending viewer interest. From the sizzle reel it looks promising, as Dunlap shares that Abby Lee ferociousness, belting out orders and expectations and not backing down to crying youngsters unsure of […]