My Strange Addiction Tournament: Licks Cats vs. Pottery and Ashes

By Barb Oates Follow @ChannelGuideBO What’s with the wives? You’ve got TLC’s Sister Wives, VH1’s Basketball Wives, Investigative Discovery’s Prison Wives, then of course you’ve got the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, New Jersey, New York, Atlanta, etc. There’s also the Desperate Housewives, The Stepford Wives, Army Wives and BBC’s Footballers’ Wives, but those are fictional so we’re not going there. Instead we’ll focus on the newest entry to the wives club, TLC International’s Swinger Wives. John Sechrist, TLC’s executive producer of the series, says “It’s going to make for some really fun and interesting television, which will be water […]

Following its recently completed Season 3, the show’s highest-rated season ever, TLC’s hit My 600-lb Life has been renewed for a fourth season. My 600-lb Life Season 4 is currently in production, and is expected to return to TLC with 10 new episodes in the first quarter of 2016. The reality series follows the transformational journeys of people each weighing over 600 pounds, who are attempting to regain control of their lives. Each hourlong episode tracks a year in the life of one morbidly obese individual looking to overcome lifelong emotional and physical struggles. The stories follow each person as they undergo high-risk gastric […]

When we left the Gypsy Sisters last week, everybody was suffering from major family drama. Mellie and Nettie were struggling with their emotions about mama Lottie Mae’s release from prison — and about each other. Kayla and her husband Richard were struggling with their emotions about their daughter’s growing interest in boys — especially one particular gorger boy. And calm and sunny Laura was pretty much stuck in the middle of all it, as per usual. That’s right where we pick up for episode 3, aptly titled “Last Fling Before the Ring.” Mellie alternates between snuggling up to her mama like […]