April 2012 Archives - Channel Guide Magazine

Jackson thrives: La Toya Jackson chronicles her fresh start on OWN’s new Life With LaToya

April 8, 2013 Lori Acken 2

La Toya Jackson, the tabloid-tormented middle child of music’s most famous family, says the decision to welcome television cameras back into her life was an easy one for a single, wonderful reason: At long last, nothing and no one stands in her way. “There is such a misconception about not just me, but my family, as well,” Jackson explains of her new OWN series Life With LaToya. “For the first time, this is something I want to do. I want the world to see me. The Jacksons have always been sort of a secret or a mystery. That mystery has been […]

Looking at a century of “Titanic” on film

April 4, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

It’s one of the most celebrated disasters in history. It’s also the subject of one of the most successful films of all time. A century has passed since the RMS Titanic took its maiden voyage into history, and people still maintain a fascination for it. The wreck claimed a grisly toll of more than 1,500 lives and stirred a furious outcry that led to drastic revision of existing maritime laws, but in its day, the Titanic disaster grabbed the popular imagination as a symbol of humanity’s hubris, the failure of its faith in rapidly advancing innovation. Over the decades, an […]

7 Questions With … “Fairly Legal’s” Virginia Williams

April 4, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor Comments Off

The beautiful Virginia Williams got her start in showbiz on the sets of two popular soaps, starring as Lorna on One Life to Live and Brandy on As the World Turns. After numerous other projects, she’s settled into practicing law as Lauren Reed on the USA Network series Fairly Legal. 1. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three titles. Which ones do you choose? Vanity Fair, Elle Decor and Modern Bride — I’m kind of obsessed with wedding magazines. 2. If your TV only carried three networks, which three would you have to have? OK, well, USA […]

2012 Major League Baseball national TV schedule

April 3, 2012 Ryan Berenz 3

Like Channel Guide Magazine on Facebook and get a FREE printable MLB national TV schedule! When it came to offseason dealing in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Angels were on a celestial plane. The Angels landed baseball’s biggest free-agent prize, first baseman Albert Pujols, at the price of $240 million for 10 years. They also made their pitching rotation among the best in baseball by signing C.J. Wilson (five years, $77.5 million). Other big names on the move included first baseman Prince Fielder to the Tigers, shortstop Jose Reyes to the Marlins, closer Jonathan Papelbon to the Phillies and […]

Trust the Beek: ABC’s quirky “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23”

April 3, 2012 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

There’s a lot to like about ABC’s wickedly funny Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (Wednesdays at 9:30pm ET/PT beginning April 11), from the boundary-pushing title to the quirky Krysten Ritter to a part that could only be played by James Van Der Beek. In Apartment 23, wide-eyed twentysomething June (Dreama Walker) moves to Manhattan for a dream job, but her new company is immediately shut down by the government after a huge scandal. Now desperately in need of a job and a place to live, June finds a roommate in Chloe (Ritter). While Chloe seems like the ideal […]

Lifetime’s hit original film “The Client List” returns as a weekly series

March 30, 2012 Lori Acken 2

In 2010, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt and Lifetime teamed up to put a timely twist on the network’s oft-lamented “woman in peril” film fodder. Hewitt executive-produced and starred in The Client List, a sobering tale of a housewife who resorts to desperate means to save her house from foreclosure and her family from financial ruin. Though some derided the ripped-from-the-headlines tale as tawdry, the film touched a nerve with viewers, garnering impressive ratings and earning Hewitt a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. This month, The Client List returns as a 10-episode series that reunites Hewitt with venerable actress Cybill […]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars in Starz hot new series “Magic City”

March 30, 2012 Barb Oates 3

It’s a Friday afternoon in Pasadena, Calif., where the cast of Starz’s new drama series Magic City (premiering Friday, April 6) has converged at the Langham Hotel for a press junket. The star of the series, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is in great spirits. And he should be — he’s got the incredible role of Ike Evans, the glamorous king of 1959 Miami Beach whose drive and ambition turned this hotel cabana boy into the owner of the luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel. Grinning handsomely, the 46-year-old Morgan playfully skips over to greet me. It’s been a few years since we last […]

“Baggage Battles” dynamic duo Laurence and Sally Martin talk the thrill of the find

March 26, 2012 Lori Acken 5

If you just returned from a trip but your luggage did not, somebody may be claiming new ownership of your stuff right now. And it’s perfectly legal. Travel Channel’s newest reality extravaganza, Baggage Battles, lets you tag along with four “auction specialists” who’ve made a tidy living purchasing unclaimed baggage at sales and reselling the contents in their thrift and specialty stores. Trash-talking New Yorker Mark Meyer still lives with his folks, but has an eye for a buy that belies his 25 years. Dashing Billy Leroy — owner of the Big Apple’s iconic Billy’s Antiques & Props — talks […]