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Betty White Shares Her Lifelong Love of Animals

January 14, 2015 Kellie Freeze 2

Betty White is still going strong in her nineties, and her boundless energy extends well beyond her love of entertaining to her first love: animals. Now White is taking the trip of a lifetime to meet some of the world’s most intelligent and inspiring animals in a limited series airing on Great American Country, Betty White’s Smartest Animals in America. The limited series premieres Saturday, Jan. 17 at 8pmET — the star’s 93rd birthday. “With all the smart animals we’ve met – the more we take time to learn about them, the more we realize how amazing they really are,” […]

Shannen Doherty & Holly Marie Combs Go “Off the Map”

January 8, 2015 Kellie Freeze 9

Last week Great American Country kicked off 2015 by sending actresses, former co-stars and real-life friends Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs off of the beaten path and onto the road. In the six-part series, Off The Map With Shannen & Holly, the twosome travel on an adventure-filled road trip where viewers voted to choose the women’s activities. As the ladies weave their way though the southeast U.S., they participate in tomato fights in Kentucky, make moonshine in Tennessee, get creeped out on a ghost tour in Georgia and race around a dirt track in Alabama. Both women are animal lovers, […]

Farm Queens preview: Great American Country takes pageant girls from stage to stable

September 11, 2014 Lori Acken Comments Off

Everything you need to know about the premise of Great American Country’s new Farm Queens is handily summed up by beauty queen turned pageant coach Juliann Sheldon in Sunday’s premiere episode: “If you can survive almost getting peed on by a cow, you can survive pageant week.” She should know. Sheldon, Miss Pennsylvania of 2011, is a veteran of longtime pageant coach (and 30-year Miss Pennsylvania pageant director) Chet Welch’s tiaras-meets-tractors beauty-queen boot camp, held on the 102-acre rural cattle farm he shares with his life partner Bob. That’s right, those of you long weary of Toddlers & Tiaras frivolity […]

“Kimberly’s Simply Southern” Is Cooking Sweet Eats In Season 3

April 4, 2014 Kellie Freeze Comments Off

Little Big Town member Kimberly Schlapman serves up a third season of tasty southern cooking. Kimberly’s Simply Southern returns to Great American Country on Monday April 7 (4pmET/PT) for a new season of homecooked recipes, regional ingredients and celebrity sous-chefs. Schlapman — a founding member of Grammy-winning band, Little Big Town — might be the spunkiest and most adorable chef on TV and her show, Kimberly’s Simply Southern perhaps the most charming. It’s fitting that Kimberly visits a Georgia honey farm, because she, like this show, is incredibly sweet. Season 3 starts off with a visit to Kimberly’s hometown where […]