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Interview

We talk Bride by Design with Heidi Elnora!

Bride By Design premieres tonight at 9/8CT on TLC. If you’re a fan of TLC’s famous BrideDay Friday block of bridal-gown goodness, you’re sure to love its newest addition, Bride by Design, starring Alabama-based fashion maven and Season 2 Project Runway contestant Heidi Elnora. But there’s lots of insight and inspiration here for avid fashionistas, too. “I am super excited, because it really takes the viewers into my world and seeing what it is to be a designer — all the processes and all the love and time that goes into a dress,” says Elnora, who graduated from the Savannah College […]

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Movies

On Demand DVD New Releases: Sept. 1-7

On Demand Dvd New Releases: Sept. 1-7 For No Good Reason The works of Ralph Steadman are some of the most amazing and “out there” pieces put on canvas. This film explores Steadman’s art and politics, including the time he spent working alongside Hunter S. Thompson. (R, 1:29) 9/2 From the Rough Catana Starks was the first African-American woman to coach an all-men’s college team. With no scholarships and only one US student, she worked to build a unique, global team. Taraji P. Henson, Michael Clarke Duncan (PG, 1:27) 9/2 Moms’ Night Out A stay-at-home mom needs a break and plans a long overdue […]

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Interview

Interview With Dianna Williams: “Miss D” From Bring It!

Dianna “Miss D” Williams is the energetic founder of the Dancing Dolls dance team from Lifetime’s smash series, Bring It! Williams, started dancing at age 3, been teaching dance classes in Jackson, Mississippi recreational centers in 2001 and the same year, founded her competition team, the Dancing Dolls. She opened her own studio, Dollhouse Dance Factory in 2010 and teaches every style of dance imaginable, from jazz and tap to ballet and lyrical. But Williams and her jaw-dripping competition team are best known for their eye popping hip hop and majorette routines and their legendary stand battles. Miss D and […]

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Animation

Play D’oh!: The Simpsons FXX marathon schedule

Woo hoo! TV’s longest-running marathon gets underway Aug. 21 on FXX, which will air every episode of The Simpsons — 552 episodes, 25 seasons — back-to-back in order over the next 12 days. FXX will also air The Simpsons Movie on Aug. 29. Thank you! Come again!   You’ll need a wheelbarrow full of tacos to provide adequate sustenance for this marathon. In a historic deal, FXX won exclusive pay-TV, on demand and non-linear rights to The Simpsons, and the network is celebrating with the longest marathon on TV history: all 552 episodes from Seasons 1-25 and The Simpsons Movie […]

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Competition

Abby Lee Miller on Dancing With The Stars Tonight

Tonight on Dancing With The Stars, Dance Mom’s Abby Lee Miller thunders into the ballroom as this week’s guest judge. The blogosphere has been buzzing since Abby Lee’s involvement was announced. Who will she make cry? Abby is heavily promoting her new show Abby’s Studio Rescue (which judging on concept alone is terrible) so she may play nice. As a public figure, she is so nasty that while she may be capable of smiling and being friendly, she is a woman who isn’t above making children cry for seemingly no other reason than for her own enjoyment.  I wouldn’t put […]

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Drama

Witches of East End: Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan-Tatum play magical mother and daughter in new Lifetime series

Bewitching Hour: Julia Ormond And Jenna Dewan-Tatum Play Magical Mother And Daughter in Lifetime’s “Witches of East End.” Joanna Beauchamp is the fiercely protective single mom of two beautiful daughters — sexy, saucy bartender Freya and sweet-natured librarian Ingrid. Though the girls are grown, Joanna has good reason to keep them close. After all, she has given birth to and buried them a dozen times over the course of several centuries and she isn’t eager to do either again. See, the Beauchamp women are witches cursed to repeat a seemingly unbreakable cycle of birth and death, and Joanna is desperate […]

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Interview

Lyssa Chapman on her new book, her new show and life beyond Dog the Bounty Hunter

Dog the Bounty Hunter fans know Lyssa Chapman as “Baby Lyssa,” the petite and beautiful blond daughter of Duane Dog Chapman, stepdaughter of Beth Chapman and half sister to the show’s other stars, Leland and Duane Lee Chapman — though the family famously refuses to use terms like “step” and “half” to describe their bonds. Arriving on Dog and Beth’s doorstep — and thus, on A&E cameras — as a troubled teen with her toddler daughter Abbie in tow, Lyssa eventually evolved into a key member of the bounty-hunting team and developed a broad fan base of smitten men and […]

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Reality TV

5 schoolyard games that need to be reality TV shows

Maybe (but probably not) you saw the new competition series Oh Sit! on The CW last night, an extreme version of musical chairs. Seriously. We’re not making this up. It was on TV and everything. There’s video evidence above. But here are five new reality TV schoolyard games we did make up: Duck Duck Goose of Doom Experts in various disciplines of mixed martial arts sit in a circle, with the picker challenging the goose to chase him in a Ninja Warrior-style course, followed by a cage-fighting match. Tube Top Tetherball Tetherball got a bounce in popularity from Napoleon Dynamite, […]

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Animation

Care Bears return to cuddle a new generation in The Hub’s “Welcome to Care-A-Lot”

It’s a good time to be a popular 1980s toy. With Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, The Smurfs, Pound Puppies and My Little Pony all enjoying resurgences on TV or the big screen, it was only a matter of time before the Care Bears came out of hibernation. Care Bears: Welcome to Care-A-Lot, which premieres 8am Saturday on The Hub, will transport young ones (and their nostalgia-loving moms) to a high-above-the-earth land where the belly-badge bears have all sorts of whimsical adventures. Old friends like Harmony Bear, Cheer Bear, Funshine Bear, Tenderheart Bear, Share Bear and Grumpy Bear are back, along […]

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Drama

Genie Francis is back for Hallmark’s “Notes From the Heart Healer”

One of Hallmark Channel’s more successful original movie franchises gets a third installment this month in Notes From the Heart Healer. Genie Francis returns as advice columnist Peyton MacGruder, who, while on a visit to a harbor town as part of a tour for her just-published book, has a baby left on her doorstep by a teen, Violet (Laci Mailey), who can no longer afford to take care of him. Obviously concerned for this abandoned young life, Peyton is forced to confront her own emotions, having been pressured to give up her own child under similar circumstances. Thrilled on one […]