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CMT to air new Mindy McCready special Sunday March 10

CMT will shed light on the troubled life and tortured final days of doomed country songbird Mindy McCready in a new hourlong special, CMT News Presents: Mindy McCready Fallen Angel premiering Sunday, March 10 at 8 pm ET/PT. The 37-year-old singer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Feb. 18 on the porch of her  home in Heber Springs, Ark.  McCready’s live-in boyfriend David Wilson, father of her 9-month-old son Zayne, also fatally shot himself  on the same spot Jan. 13. The beautiful blond Florida native captured the hearts of country music fans in 1996 with her hit debut single, “Ten Thousand Angels,” and its […]

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Reality TV

CMT debuts Buckwild marathon, My Big Redneck Vacation After Show March 9

Buckwild fans, you’ve got a brand-new, country-to-the-core place to see your favorite series in one loud, proud, mud-splattered run. CMT will a marathon of the entire first season of the top-rated MTV series — featuring the homegrown adventures of nine West Virginia friends — this Saturday, March 9, beginning at 3pm as the lead-in to an all-new episode of My Big Redneck Vacation at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Buckwild became an instant hit for MTV, filling the Thursday night time-slot vacated by the series finale of Jersey Shore with the fresh — and frequently knuckle-headed — exploits of a whole new batch of […]

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Reality TV

Dog and Beth: On The Hunt premieres April 21 on CMT

Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, the new CMT reality show from former Dog the Bounty Hunter stars Dog, Beth and Leland Chapman will premiere Sunday, April 21 at 8pm ET/PT on CMT. And this time, the trio leaves Hawaii behind to help fledgling and struggling bail bondsmen across America capture some the country’s most dangerous criminals. In each of the series’ 11 episodes, the Chapmans travel to a different city, teaming up with local agencies to improve their business practices — from bond writing to tactical training to the latest in non-lethal weaponry — then lead them on pulse-pounding […]

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Interview

Beth Chapman on Baby Lyssa and Duane Lee’s absence from CMT’s Dog and Beth On The Hunt: “You can’t force your kids to stay with you forever”

When I sat down with Leland, Dog and Beth Chapman to talk about their upcoming new CMT reality series Dog and Beth: On The Hunt and told them that my own family loved watching theirs on A&E’s smash Dog the Bounty Hunter, Beth wanted to know what I liked best about the show. I told her it was her family’s bond. • NEW INTERVIEW: Dog Chapman talks business family, and CMT’s Dog and Beth: On the Hunt Season 2 Much to my surprise — and with Dog and Leland looking on — she offered candid insight into what the Twittersphere has been discussing […]

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Competition

CMT reveals new cast (and some rejects) of “Redneck Island” Season 2

Steve Austin will be back for Season 2 of CMT’s Redneck Island when the competition series kicks up again starting Nov. 10 at 9pm ET/PT. The 10-episode season is again billed as a “redneck-style competition series,” and this time the contestants discover that their first challenge is something called a “game of human cornhole” (pictured below). Whomever proves to be the “reddest” of them all over the course of the season will win $100,000. Austin will be live-tweeting the season premiere on Nov. 10 at his Twitter feed (@steveaustinBSR) using the hashtag #RedneckIsland starting at 9pm. Season 2 “Approved Applicants” […]

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Reality TV

Dog and Beth Chapman returning to reality television on CMT

Today, CMT announced that it has greenlighted Dog (working title), a new unscripted series that marks the TV return of Duane Chapman (a.k.a. “Dog the Bounty Hunter”) and his wife, Beth Chapman. The show will follow the two as they help fellow bail bondsmen and bounty hunters struggling to catch fugitives on the lam. CMT says it has ordered 10, one-hour episodes. Dog and Beth will star in and executive-produce the series, which is set to begin production early next year and premiere spring/summer 2013 on CMT. Following the end of their hit series Dog the Bounty Hunter earlier this […]

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Competition

‘Cheer’ follows competitive cheerleading at Central Jersey Allstars

Look out Sue Sylvester (Glee), CMT’s new reality series Cheer shines the spotlight on competitive cheerleading at New Jersey’s Central Jersey Allstars (CJA) where director/co-owner Patty Ann Romero puts a new meaning to “cheerleading is my life.” Cheer debuts on CMT Friday, Sept. 7 at 11pm ET/10pm CT following the two-hour premiere of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team at 9pm. The hour-long Cheer series will then move to its regular timeslot of 10pm ET/9pm CT the following week. Cameras follow the staff and students at CJA, as they train a senior team of 20 girls for the World Cheerleading […]

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Music

MTV nets to premiere new Taylor Swift video

MTV, VH1, CMT and TeenNick will exclusively premiere Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” music video to celebrate the one-week countdown to the 2012 Video Music Awards, MTV announced today. Swift had been previously announced as a performer at this year’s VMAs. Her video will premiere this Thursday, Aug. 30, at 7:49pm ET. Swift will take to the airwaves live at 7:49pm ET on MTV, CMT and TeenNick to premiere the video on the special MTV First: Taylor Swift, where the singer will personally introduce the music video for  “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” The […]

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Movies

Obama and Romney open tonight’s 2012 CMT Music Awards

‘Tis the season for political pandering! On Sunday night, the Barack Obama campaign debuted a commercial during the MTV Movie Awards, probably to attract the attention of young voters, and tonight, the Democratic incumbent and his competitor for the presidency, Republican Mitt Romney, both seem to be aiming for mainly Red State audiences. The two political rivals will appear in a pre-taped comedic opening segment of the 2012 CMT Music Awards, hosted by Toby Keith and Kristen Bell. The awards air live tonight, June 6, at 8pm ET on CMT and CMT.com. “The President and Gov. Romney each understand the […]

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Reality TV

Jennie Garth goes “A Little Bit Country” for CMT

Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills, 90210) searches for a simpler life in the new reality series Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country on CMT (premiering Friday, April 20, at 9pm ET/PT. In the series, Garth moves her family — including her three daughters and lots of dogs — from Los Angeles to a seven-acre farm in the central California countryside. Will she find peace and tranquility or will it just turn her family’s world upside-down? Unfortunately, we kind of know the answer, as Garth and husband Peter Facinelli announced their divorce last month. Garth admits that the timing is a little […]