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Billy Ray Cyrus says he regrets “Hannah Montana”

February 15, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana brought smiles to children and parents around the world, but it apparently destroyed the very family that made it so popular. At least that’s the theory of Billy Ray Cyrus, who co-starred in the show with daughter Miley Cyrus and — in a very ironic twist — is best known for the 1982 mega-hit song “Achy Breaky Heart.” It’s hard to believe that a kiddy show full of laughs and music could lead to a topic so heavy, but Billy Ray said the program that premiered in 2006 was the beginning of the […]

Heidi Klum Steps Off The Runway To Experience Some “Seriously Funny” Times

February 8, 2011 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

They are the lines that, decades after they’re uttered, continue to crack you up. Maybe it’s when your son, upon whom you have pinned such high hopes, says he wants to be a dolphin when he grows up. Or when your daughter, looking positively angelic, asks your husband’s boss why she’s a whore. Children are funny, and Lifetime intends to remind us of that in Seriously Funny Kids, airing Tuesdays beginning Feb. 1. Since early television, personalities, including Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby, have had hilarious chats with children. Lifetime is betting on Heidi Klum, supermodel and host of Project […]

The Killers play “Yo Gabba Gabba!”

January 25, 2011 Jeff Pfeiffer 1

The Killers, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Jack McBrayer are among the stars featured in new episodes of the hit series Yo Gabba Gabba! from Feb. 7-10 at 1pm ET/PT on Nickelodeon: Feb. 7: “Adventure” — Muno and friends go on an Indiana Jones-style adventure. They travel through a jungle under Gabbaland and find a golden treasure. The Killers perform “Spaceship Adventure,” and Mark Mothersbaugh is featured in his “Mark’s Magic Pictures” segment. An encore of this episode airs Feb. 11. Feb. 8: “Nature” — Toodee gets everyone to go camping. They hike, roast s’mores and tell campfire stories. They meet […]

R.L. Stine offers family frights in “The Haunting Hour”

December 20, 2010 Channel Guide Staff 2

By Stacey Harrison Back when R.L. Stine was known as Jovial Bob Stine and writing joke books for a living, not many people could have foreseen that he would one day revolutionize the young-adult horror genre. Not that there really was much of a young-adult horror genre before he wrote Blind Date back in 1986. One day an editor friend of Stine’s took him to lunch and told him she needed a horror novel for teens. Though he’d always been a fan of the genre, he’d never considered writing it himself, so he researched what was out there and came […]

VOD Spotlight: Growing up means learning to train that dragon

October 29, 2010 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

By Elaine Bergstrom Growing up means becoming your own person, moving away from the expectations of parents who, though they love you, may not quite understand what will make you happy. It’s the theme of some of the greatest animated features, such as The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast and How to Train Your Dragon — a film about a teenage Viking short on brawn but long on empathy, with an independent spirit that changes the relationship between Vikings and dragons.

Nickelodeon’s “Big Time Rush” poised to be a music cash cow

November 4, 2009 Channel Guide Staff 18

Having launched so many showbiz careers (of admittedly variable quality), American Idol and its producers are enjoying success not beyond their wildest imaginations, but exactly as they imagined it. In addition to the usual advertising revenue generated by the show, money is sluicing in via the ongoing synergy with AT&T, album and download sales, licensing and so forth, not to mention the ongoing careers of its participants. In the wake of that kind of success, it was certain that other shows would come along and do their emulation act. Shows like Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana, Nickelodeon’s Instant Star and, most […]