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Reality TV

“Long Island Medium” Theresa Caputo returns for 2nd season March 25

Last fall TLC introduced TV viewers to Theresa Caputo, a New York mother and medium who connects her clients — and, well, really anyone she might run into whether they want to hear it or not — with the spirits of their dead relatives or friends. Her reality series, Long Island Medium, averaged 1.3 million viewers in its first nine-episode run and quickly captured the attention and emails of many needy viewers looking to find closure to their personal grieving. EXTRA: HOW TO CONTACT THERESA CAPUTO Caputo tells us life has changed somewhat since the launch of her show. “My […]

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Drama

HBO renews “Luck” for 10-episode second season for 2013

HBO found an immediate victory at the horse track with it’s new series Luck, which debuted this past Sunday logging a gross audience of 3.3 million viewers to date. The network renewed the series for a 10-episode second season slated to debut in January 2013. From director Michael Mann and Deadwood creator David Milch [pictured], the series is a behind-the-track look at the world of horse racing and gambling’s denizens — owners, trainers, jockeys and gamblers. The cast is led by Dustin Hoffman who plays the complex lead character Chester “Ace” Bernstein, and Nick Nolte, as weathered Kentucky horse-trainer-turned-owner Walt […]

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Reality TV

Stacy London focuses new series on plus-size fashion world, women

It took awhile, but finally there’s going to be a TV series that focuses on fashion for average size women (more commonly referred to as plus-size). TLC and What Not to Wear host and fashion authority Stacy London, along with BBC Worldwide Productions, are executive producing this yet-to-be titled eight-part series, set to premiere in May. No surprise that London’s behind the production after spending nine seasons helping many “plus size” women reinvent themselves and their wardrobes in her signature What Not to Wear series, which she cohosts with Clinton Kelly. The new series, however, does not feature London in […]

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TCA

TCA News: FX marks 2011 as best year, announces premiere dates for Justified, Anger Management, Archer

FX’s mix of drama, horror and comedy — Justified, American Horror Story and Wilfred — along with their returning series made 2011 a landmark year. The network grew their audience by double digits in almost all age groups. “Let me repeat that,” FX president John Landgraf (pictured) said. “All of our returning series grew in every adult demo and in total viewers:  male, female, young, old, every category.” Although Landgraf candidly shared “everything we do is a role of the dice, and sometimes it comes up the number you want, sometimes it doesn’t,” no one would argue that the network […]

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Lifestyle

Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony talk “Q’Viva! The Chosen” at TCA

Since October 2011, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Jamie King have been traveling throughout the Americas in search of the most outstanding singers, musicians, dancers and amazing artists to be part of their passion project — ¡Q’Viva! The Chosen — which is set to debut on Univision Jan. 28 at 7pm ET/PT. The outcome of their search is a celebration of Latino culture, where the best artists are being brought back to the U.S. for a chance to be part of a live show that the network says will be the “greatest celebration of Latin music and performance.” Lopez, Anothny […]

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Documentary

Gypsy TV: Gypsies are new trending topic for TV shows at TCA

For the first time cameras are taking viewers into the complex world of the American gypsy culture via two new series —National Geographic Channel’s American Gypsies (debuting later this summer) and TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (this spring). Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid) is the executive producer behind American Gypsies, a compelling look at one of Manhattan’s most prominent Gypsy families — the Johns family. Despite the title of their show, the family prefers to be referred to as Roma vs. Gypsies. “It was difficult to get people to open up on camera because the Roma have been taken […]

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TCA

New season of “The Borgias,” “Dexter,” “Inside Comedy” and the rest of the best of Showtime at TCA

Showtime and The CW were the focus of Thursday’s press sessions at the Television Critics Association (TCA) semiannual press tour in Pasadena. Showtime kicked the day off with the casts and writers for two of  their hit series  — Shameless and The Borgias  — and followed with introducing Inside Comedy and House of Lies. The top 12 notables from the session include: 1. The Claire Danes and Damian Lewis drama Homeland finished up 2011 as  Showtime’s highest-rated freshman series ever. The series will most likely return in fall. 2. Dexter will be back for two more seasons. Last season Dexter […]

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Sports

Chris and Casey Keefer star in Sportsman Channel’s “Dropped: Project Alaska”

Alaska seems to have taken over for New Jersey as the state with the most new reality TV series being filmed there. Sportsman Channel adds another show to the mix with its docuseries Dropped: Project Alaska, which airs Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT. The Keefer brothers, Chris, 32, and Casey, 28, hosts of the network’s Back Country Quest TV, were dropped on a river in a remote part of Alaska in September, where, during a month, they crossed over 110 river miles living solely off the land. They began their adventure with no provisions, where their 100 pounds of gear was […]

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Family

Bella Thorne and Zendaya talk about new movie “Frenemies”

Shake It Up stars Bella Thorne and Zendaya continue to diversify their wardrobes and their young resumés in the latest Disney Channel original, Frenemies, premiering Friday, Jan.  13 at 8pm ET/PT.  The film webs together three unique storylines that follow different pairs of friends in their best and worst times. The two girls star as inseparable friends who are elated when a bigwig publisher wants to turn their fashion blog “Geekly Chic” into a magazine. The only catch is that the publisher is only willing to bring one of them onboard as senior editor. This results in a Bride Wars […]

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Interview

TLC’s newest series “Hook, Line & Sisters” focuses on Alaskan commercial fishing crew

While Deadliest Catch gave TV viewers an unprecedented look into the dangers of the crabbing industry, TLC turns its cameras on the wild and unpredictable competitive world of deep-sea commercial fishing and the too-close-for-comfort challenges one family faces in the new series Hook, Line & Sisters debuting Thursday, Dec. 29 at 9pm ET/PT. The Anderson family isn’t your typical Alaskan commercial fishing crew. While their ship is helmed by family patriarch and captain Dean Anderson, a third-generation fisherman, his crew is dominated by females, including Dean’s wife Susan and their daughters Sierra, 26, and Memry, 21. Each summer they take […]