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What celebrities are saying about Elizabeth Taylor

March 24, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi Sometimes it’s difficult to put into words the career of a screen icon like Elizabeth Taylor, so we’re not even going to try, other than to say how fortunate we were to have witnessed her great body of work. Instead, we have decided to defer to the people who knew the two-time Oscar winner and AIDS activist best. So with a nod to Twitter and several news-gathering sources (such as Yahoo!), here is what folks are saying about the late, great Liz Taylor: Elton John: “We have just lost a Hollywood giant. More importantly, we have lost […]

“The Celebrity Apprentice” is really good bad TV

March 8, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi It would be an understatement to say The Celebrity Apprentice lacks legitimate stars, and it would be misleading to say that the contestants are remotely bright enough to ever work for Donald Trump in real life. But it would 100-percent accurate to say that the show is the kind of train-wreck television that makes it almost impossible to turn away from. I tuned in for the premiere episode Sunday night (9 pm ET on NBC) thinking I would just watch one time, and what transpired over the next two hours has me hooked for the entire run. […]

Fore! Rush Limbaugh is a force on Golf Channel show

February 10, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi Rush Limbaugh has never really been my cup of tea (or is that tea party), more so because of his brashness and arrogance than because of his politics. So you can imagine my dilemma when I heard he was going to be the next pupil on one my favorite shows, The Haney Project on the Golf Channel (Tuesdays, 9 pm ET). The program features Hank Haney – arguably the world’s best golf instructor – tutoring celebrities on their golf game. I loved the first two seasons of the series with NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and […]

Kathy Griffin puts “D-List” to bed

February 2, 2011 Tom Comi 1

It might be an understatement to say that comedian Kathy Griffin isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but the recent announcement that she will no longer be doing her series My Life on the D-List left me a little sad. And then I couldn’t help but chuckle a little at the irony that a show about a bottom-of-the barrel celebrity would end its run because the celebrity decided it was time. That’s right, this wasn’t Bravo’s call to end the popular reality show; it was all Griffin. “It was a tough, because I think of D-List as pretty much my baby […]

Fact or Fiction: The Lowdown on the Charlie Sheen Situation

January 31, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By now it is common knowledge that the hit CBS show Two and a Half Men will go on a 3-month break while star Charlie Sheen attends rehab, but what is not certain is the current and future state of the show. So in addition to wishing Sheen well in getting the help that he desperately needs, we here at Channel Guide also wanted to clear up many of the rumors that have been circulating lately. Fact: The show will remain the same when Sheen returns. Fiction: The name of the show will be changed to Two Guys, a […]

Ted Williams: The ultimate reality TV story

January 27, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

Every once in a while life really does imitate art, and we needn’t look any further than Ted Williams — the homeless man with the golden voice — whose life is unfolding before our very eyes like Jim Carrey’s character in the movie The Truman Show. Fortunately for the fictional Truman Burbank, his story did have a happy ending. But many of us watch with bated breath to see how the Ted Williams fairy tale will end. Williams’ life has transpired like the realest of reality shows. He has gone from begging for money and work on an Ohio street corner […]

Royalty Check: TLC Married To Wedding Coverage

January 21, 2011 Tom Comi Comments Off

By Tom Comi You have to give the folks at TLC some credit. Knowing full well how enamored (read: obsessed) Americans are with all things Royal, TLC has cleverly decided to devote a week of coverage to capitalize on the April 29th wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Cha-ching!

Animal Planet to get “INFESTED!”

December 15, 2010 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Debuting Jan. 9 on Animal Planet, the three-part miniseries INFESTED! features true stories of ordinary people plagued by frighteningly extraordinary infestations. Among the unwelcome critters are mice, scorpions, spiders, bedbugs, rats, roaches, raccoons and snakes, all of which are filmed in reenactments with macro-lens photography for maximum up-close effect. Each episode of INFESTED! relives the unimaginable, intimate nightmares of three families with three different types of infestations and a boatload of dread. Cameras show an up-close image of a cockroach planted on the bristles of a toothbrush and a mass of reproductive mice running through clothes, on children’s toys and […]

HGTV orders new episodes of “The Outdoor Room,” “Selling New York”

October 13, 2010 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. [October 13, 2010] — HGTV has ordered additional episodes of two of its newest series — 39 episodes of Selling New York and 13 episodes of The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie. Selling New York, a popular weekly series that premiered in March, gives viewers a rare glimpse inside the high-stakes world of buying and selling luxury Manhattan properties. Cameras follow a colorful group of assertive, razor-sharp brokers from three upscale boutique real estate firms: The Core Group; the Kleier family of Gumley Haft Kleier; and new this season, the Realtors® of Warburg Realty. In a competitive city […]

Edgy designer gives HGTV “The Antonio Treatment”

March 12, 2010 Channel Guide Staff 5

By Stacey Harrison Having covered HGTV for the past couple of years, I’ve seen more than a few shows pitched as something completely different for the network. While sometimes you can chalk that up to clever marketing, it happens to be oh-so true in the case of The Antonio Treatment. For instance, how many design shows can boast life-size pink rhinos coming out of walls and boxing with a former Saved by the Bell heartthrob? Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore brings his rock’n’roll background heavily into play as he revamps dumpy spaces with his signature edgy style. Along […]