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Producer Thom Beers talks “Storage Wars: Texas”

There’s a trend on TV these days that seems to suggest everything is bigger in Texas. That would explain why the Lone Star State has become a mecca of reality TV, with shows like Big Rich Texas, Texas Women, Donna Decorates Dallas, American Hoggers and Top Chef: Texas spreading like wildfire across the prairie. A&E has joined in, having launched the massively popular spinoff Storage Wars Texas to record numbers earlier this month. Producer Thom Beers — who knows a thing or two about fronting successful reality shows, having been the brains behind The Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, Black […]

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7 Questions With … Anthony Bourdain

1. You’re at a magazine rack and can only pick three magazines. Which ones do you pick? Lucky Peach would definitely be one … The New Yorker … I’m going to go with MOJO. 2. If your television only aired three shows, which three would you want? They change. Right now, Breaking Bad … Archer … Justified. 3. What has been your strangest fan encounter? A guy who jumped up onstage, dropped his pants and revealed a life-sized tattoo of my face next to his nut sack. … It happened twice. Same guy. It was even weirder — it was […]

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Family

Zach Anner on Oprah, OWN and his new TV series “Rollin’ with Zach Anner”

What’s with Oprah, The Price is Right and the Olive Garden? Zach Anner, comedian and winner of Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star shows us in his offbeat travel series Rollin’ with Zach. The series debuts on OWN beginning Monday, Dec. 12 and will air through December on Mondays at 8pm ET/PT. Anner, who has cerebral palsy, became an Internet sensation with his quick smarts (he did an impromptu interview with Oprah that got national attention) and comic flare (in a hilarious audition tape where he cited himself as having “cerebral palsy – the sexiest of […]

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Comedy

VOD Spotlight: “The Hangover Part II” headliner Bradley Cooper is officially a box-office star

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA Bradley Cooper seems to have taken a page from the George Clooney playbook — cloak your matinee-idol looks in such an easygoing everyman charm that ladies will happily sit through man-centric films and their guys won’t question the reason they’re there. Still, it took 10 years and a pair of irresistibly goofball buddy films to make Bradley Cooper a Clooney-class star (and People‘s Sexiest Man Alive for 2011). Sure, plenty of folks loved him as Sydney Bristow’s sidekick Will Tippin on the ABC spy series Alias. And as egotistical Hearts ’n Scalpels doctor Aidan Stone […]

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Carla Gugino and Dermot Mulroney take TNT Mystery Movie Night to new heights

By Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuideK Sometimes you need to remove yourself from all of the holiday cheer and hullabaloo and escape into something else entirely. And nothing succeeds in that regard like a good murder. The TNT Mystery Movie Night continues this month with several suspense- and star-filled titles, including Lisa Gardner’s Hide (Dec. 6), starring Carla Gugino, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kevin Alejandro; Silent Witness (Dec. 7) with Dermot Mulroney and Michael Cudlitz, from Richard North Patterson’s bestseller; Good Morning, Killer (Dec. 13), featuring Catherine Bell, and adapted by April Smith from Smith’s own novel; and Deck the Halls […]

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Food TV

Chef Roble Ali Talks Bravo’s upcoming “Chef Roble & Co.”

It’s a tale told by many a chef — how they learned their craft at the knee of a family elder. Not Roblé Ali. Though his grandfather was, indeed, a caterer who once cooked for JFK, Roblé — consulting chef at New York City’s celebrity hotspot Avenue and star of Bravo’s new docuseries Chef Roblé & Co. — says what he learned from his family is that he likes to eat. And eat well. “A light bulb went off in my head one day that, ‘Hey, if I want to eat the way that I want to eat all the time, […]