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Madam Secretary on CBS: Tea Leoni returns to TV!

September 14, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

Madam Secretary CBS Premieres: Sept. 21 Airs: Sundays at 8pm Who’s In It? Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth The Naked Truth’s Leoni returns to series television after a 16-year absence, playing Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst turned college professor (and a married mom) who unexpectedly rises to the role of U.S. secretary of state, in this drama co-executive produced by Morgan Freeman and Judging Amy’s Barbara Hall. “I’ve always really enjoyed a fish out of water — a lively fish out of water — and by about page 2 of the script, I knew that’s what this was going […]

ABC To Celebrate Schoolhouse Rock With Primetime Special

August 27, 2014 Kellie Freeze Comments Off

Just in case you finally got the words from Conjunction Junction and I’m Just a Bill out of your head, ABC is bringing beloved Schoolhouse Rock songs to TV in a one-night-only primetime special. The alphabet network announced yesterday that the special The ABC’s Of Schoolhouse Rock, will even dare to countdown the 5 best songs from the cartoon series. I think it’s preposterous to even try to rank them, it’s like picking your favorite child. But I had to choose, here’s my vote for #1. (I’ve always wondered if the voice of the boy is the same kid who […]

‘The 90s: The Last Great Decade?’ three-parter premieres July 6 on NGC

July 3, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

National Geographic Channel Takes An In-Depth Look At The Era That Brought Us Televised Warfare, The World Wide Web, Vanilla Ice And Springer. If the 1980s were America’s technicolor candy land, filled with shoulder pads and parachute pants, MTV and the Brat Pack, the 90s was the decade that grew us up a little and connected us a lot, in ways that both thrilled and horrified us. With television cameras in places they’d never gone before — courtrooms, war zones, emerging crime scenes — the line between news and entertainment blurred and then nearly disappeared, while, in the White House, […]

FOX News Channel interviews Hillary Clinton tonight

June 17, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

FOX News Channel’s Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren will team up on a live interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tonight on the network starting at 6:45pm ET. The joint interview, titled Special: FOX News Interview with Hillary Clinton, will begin on Baier’s Special Report, and continue with Van Susteren during On the Record until 7:15pm ET. According to FNC, the half-hour interview will cover an array of topics, including Clinton’s book Hard Choices, the upcoming 2016 presidential election and the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya (this latter point may elicit some interesting comments from Clinton, given the […]

Oliver’s Twist: “The Daily Show” standout John Oliver gets his own gig on HBO

April 24, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

Turns out The Daily Show’s fans weren’t the only ones thinking, “That guy should really have his own show” when the Comedy Central hit’s droll correspondent John Oliver aced his guest-hosting stint last summer, sitting in for Jon Stewart while Stewart directed his first film. Not long after, HBO offered the witty Brit his own weekly news-satire series. Airing late-night on Sundays, Last Week Tonight With John will feature the Emmy-winning writer and sometime standup comic (who also appears as Professor Ian Duncan on NBC’s Community) skewering the previous week’s news highlights and political water cooler moments in trademark Oliver […]

Years of Living Dangerously: Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron present a powerful look at climate change

April 10, 2014 Lori Acken 1

Though it’s produced by a veritable Hollywood power squad — Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub — and stocked with celebrity correspondents, the real stars of Showtime’s stunning climate-change docuseries Years of Living Dangerously are the everyday souls from around the globe whose lives have been irreparably changed by the weather. While the verity of global warming has been a polarizing issue even before the Kyoto Protocol made greenhouse gases a matter of international policy, the show’s creators and advisers wanted their story to be one of the power of people, not politics. “Politics are covered, but the path […]

2014 State of the Union: Date, time, channels for President Obama address

January 27, 2014 Jeff Pfeiffer 1

President Barack Obama will deliver the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, and the nation, on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 9pm ET. The president’s 2014 State of the Union address will be followed by the official Republican response from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). Several TV and online outlets will have live coverage of the 2014 State of the Union. Here are some places to watch; all times listed are ET. Check back for updates as networks further announce their planned coverage: ABC — ABC News will cover the 2014 State of the Union […]

Killing Kennedy’s Rob Lowe on how “every president today talks like” JFK

November 8, 2013 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

Rob Lowe stars as John F. Kennedy in National Geographic Channel’s film Killing Kennedy (Nov. 10). But to hear his analysis, it isn’t only actors who find much to emulate in the beloved 35th president of the United States. “Every president today talks like him,” Lowe told reporters at a press conference this summer. “They all just are, like, excuse me, bad actors who found the greatest one who ever was and do their variation of that performance, every single one of them. And I don’t want to call any of them out by name, but I could if we were […]

PBS’ “Constitution USA” breathes new life into the historic document

May 7, 2013 Jacqueline Cutler Comments Off

Three of the most majestic — certainly the most democratic — words in the English language are the start of the United States Constitution: “We the people.” To see how the Constitution continues to be brought to life, Peter Sagal (pictured) of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! news quiz show sets out across the country on a customized red, white and blue Harley-Davidson, interviewing various people along the way. The result is PBS’ four-week series Constitution USA With Peter Sagal. “The great thing about Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! is it treats everything with no respect,” Sagal […]

History responds to Satan/Obama controversy in “The Bible”

March 18, 2013 Ryan Berenz 2

History channel’s response to critics and commentators who’ve remarked that the character of Satan resembles President Obama in “The Bible” miniseries. SEE ALSO: ‘The Bible’: Does devil character in History Channel show look like President Obama? ‘The Bible’: Satan Actor Looks Like Obama In History Channel Miniseries RELATED: “The Bible”: History channel brings scripture to the screen HISTORY statement: “HISTORY channel has the highest respect for President Obama. The series was produced with an international and diverse cast of respected actors. It’s unfortunate that anyone made this false connection. HISTORY’s ‘The Bible’ is meant to enlighten people on its rich […]