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Drama

Preview: Lifetime’s ‘Cleveland Abduction’ premieres May 2

Cleveland Abduction premieres May 2 at 8/7CT on Lifetime. What It’s Based On: The shocking discovery that former school bus driver Ariel Castro held three women hostage in his suburban Cleveland home for more than a decade, fathering a child with one. Lifetime of a Lesson: Truth is stranger (and scarier) than fiction. This stunning survivor story is told from the perspective of 21-year-old single mom Michelle Knight (Taryn Manning), who was abducted by Ariel Castro (Breaking Bad‘s Raymond Cruz) in 2002. Castro later added naive teens Amanda Berry (Samantha Droke) and Gina DeJesus (Katie Sarife) to his house of horrors. […]

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The Casual Vacancy: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter follow-up becomes an HBO mini

When J.K. Rowling brought her beloved Harry Potter book series to a close in 2007, fans wondered where her unique literary mind might wander next. Publishing the Potter spinoff The Tales of Beedle the Bard a year later, Rowling then turned her attention to a strictly grownup audience with 2012’s best-selling The Casual Vacancy. Now the prolific author has teamed up with the BBC and HBO to adapt the brooding tale of small town discord into a three-part, two-night event of the same name. The Casual Vacancy is set in a fictional and picturesque English hamlet called Pagford, where, behind […]

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“When Calls The Heart” Returns And Hope Is In The Air

At the conclusion of the first season of When Calls the Heart, heroic schoolteacher Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow) shared a kiss with hunky Constable Jack (Dan Lissing). In many fairy tales, a kiss signifies “happily ever after,” but for Elizabeth and Jack, or “Jackabeth” as their fans have dubbed them, nothing is ever that easy. “It would be nice if I could say that they go on lots of dates and they ride off into the sunset,” says Krakow, but “we might make them work for it.” Not long after the start of their romance, Elizabeth receives a telegram begging […]

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Trailer Park: Welcome to Myrtle Manor Wrapping Up Season 3

Tomorrow night marks the season 3 finale of TLC’s always entertaining series, Trailer Park: Welcome to Myrtle Manor. I still can’t quite believe that this is an actual TV show, and that these are real people and not caricatures (or … are they?), but if you love your TV with a side dish of deep-fried Marlboro Lights, this show may be for you. Hey, it’s reality TV, so even if you haven’t watched this yet, it won’t throw you too much to start at the end and work backwards. It might be worth tuning in to see the 2-hour finale […]

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Dancing In Celebration Of Oxygen’s “The Prancing Elites Project”

Five colorful and courageous people sacrifice everything to be able to share their love of dance with the world. In Oxygen’s newest docuseries, The Prancing Elites Project, five gay, black, men try to compete in the competitive world of Southern Drill Teams. Majorette-style dancing isn’t the bobby socks and pom poms you may imagine; this is highly athletic dance popular at many Historically Black Colleges and Universities — especially in the American South. This dance style combines elements of jazz, contemporary, crunking, and African tribal dance in high voltage performances and competitions. The specialized style of dance that the Prancing […]

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Competition

ABC Releases Details of Epic Dancing With The Stars: 10th Anniversary Special

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Dancing With the Stars, ABC has invited many of the competitions former celebs and pros to dust off their heels and join in the celebration.  The April 28th Dancing With The Stars: 10th Anniversary Special, will take a look back at some of the series’ most memorable moments, dances and partnerships. No word as of yet if Season 20’s breakout stars — the dancing crabs — will make an appearance. From an ABC press release… The pop culture phenomenon that has brought ballroom dancing and beyond to living rooms across America for the past decade […]

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News & Current Events

Diane Sawyer Bruce Jenner interview — date, time, channel and more!

After months of speculation, Bruce Jenner is expected to talk with veteran newswoman Diane Sawyer about his decision to transition from male to female, his future as a woman, his family members’ reactions to this chapter of his life and more in a special, two-hour edition of 20/20 airing Friday, April 24, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. RELATED: E! TO DEBUT SERIES ABOUT BRUCE JENNER’S LIFE AS A TRANSGENDER WOMAN Described as “far-reaching,” Bruce Jenner: The Interview will feature the 1976 Olympic gold-medal decathlete — now 65 and divorced from Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner — revealing to 20/20‘s Sawyer why “my whole life has been getting me […]

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Get Ready To Get Naked … Again

Discovery Channel’s extreme survival series, Naked and Afraid, returns Sunday with a new season. Each episode chronicles the often grueling and always dramatic adventure of two strangers — a man and a woman — who must work together and use the single survival item that they’ve each brought to survive 21 days without food, water, shelter or clothes.   In Naked and Afraid Season 4, survivalists will brave remote locations including: Guyana, Thailand, Nicaragua, Belize, the Florida Everglades and Namibia. In addition, two of this season’s participants, Paolo Di Girolamo and Kristin Young, are the winners of last fall’s #ShowUsWhatYouGot […]

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Interview

Interview: Orphan Black star Ari Millen on Season 3, “the pace does not slow down”

It’s enough to make an actor lose his mind. Actors once stretched to play two characters in a movie, but that was decades before cloning was in the realm of possibility. On the BBC America hit Orphan Black, returning for its third season April 18 at 9pmET, Tatiana Maslany has portrayed seven characters. This season, Orphan Black star Ari Millen is playing several. While shooting the sixth episode of the 10-episode new season, Millen says he still isn’t sure just how many people he will be playing. Last season, Orphan Black revealed two more characters for Millen. “There’s Rudy with […]

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Take A New Look At Rock Royalty On “Shannon & Sophie”

Shannon Tweed and Sophie Tweed-Simmons are used to the spotlight: Shannon is an actress, model and wife of KISS basist/ co-lead vocalist Gene Simmons, and Sophie grew up in front of the camera when she starred alongside her family on Gene Simmons Family Jewels, a reality series that aired on A&E from 2006-2012. Now the 21-year-old is forging her own path to stardom as an actress, singer and fashion designer and as she strides into the limelight, she does so with her mother and best friend by her side. The charming and beautiful dup star in UP’s new docu-series, Shannon […]