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Reality TV

“Project Runway All Stars” Says ‘Auf’ With The Old, In With The Old?

Fans are in for a real shakeup when the new Project Runway All Stars premieres on Lifetime, Jan. 5. No Heidi Klum. No Michael Kors. No Nina Garcia. And — gasp — no Tim Gunn. Instead, the Project Runway spinoff will feature model Angela Lindvall as host, Marie Claire’s editor in chief Joanna Coles as mentor, and designers Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman as judges. Not to worry, though. There will still be plenty of familiar faces. The returning “All Stars” are some of the most beloved designers — Mondo Guerra, Austin Scarlett, Sweet P — from seasons past, and […]

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Family

Christi Lukasiak talks “Dance Moms” Season 2!

“A year ago, I was sitting on my porch with a Flip camera talking about how crazy my dance studio is,” laughs Christi Lukasiak, cuddling her toddler daughter Clara while on break from shooting a brand-new episode of the runaway Lifetime reality hit Dance Moms. “A year later, we’re on national television and heading into our second season!” • MORE: Lifetime announces plans for Dance Moms: Miami Fans recognize the bold, blond thirtysomething as unofficial leader of the posse of four put-upon mothers united by their daughters’ training at the nationally known, Pittsburgh-based Abby Lee Dance Company — and the […]

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Reality TV

“Dance Moms” returns to Lifetime January 10

From Lifetime: Ever since it wrapped its hit first season shrouded in sequins, costumes and fiery catfights, die-hard fans have been clamoring for more of Lifetime’s fast-rising docu-series Dance Moms. Last summer’s most talked about show, featuring infamous dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, her world-class students and their mothers, Dance Moms will take its long-awaited leap back into the world of competitive dance on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at 9pm PT/ET. • MORE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Dance Mom Christi Lukasiak! Dance Moms will debut prior to the premiere of Lifetime’s new fashion competition series 24 Hour Catwalk, […]

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Reality TV

“America’s Most Wanted” finds a new home on Lifetime

And you thought Lifetime was just a girly-girl movie network. Giving A&E, TLC, Discovery I.D. and other networks featuring true-crime series a run for their money — and their diverse viewership — the network has announced that it is the new home of the granddaddy of the fugitive-hunting-TV genre, John Walsh’s America’s Most Wanted, which was cancelled as a weekly series by Fox in June. Walsh will return to host the series’ remarkable 25th season, which will feature 20 all-new, late-breaking cases and continue its signature effort to empower the viewing audience to help authorities hunt down America’s most dangerous criminals. […]

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Interview

“Dance Moms”: Chloe’s audition tape, finale fallout and a teensy teaser for Season 2

Even though Dance Moms’ domineering diva Abby Lee Miller swore to Reality TV World that the production company for the jaw-dropper hit auditioned moms only and the kids came aboard untested, today her co-star Christi Lukasiak tweeted a link to what she says is Chloe’s (perfectly adorable) audition tape for the series: • MORE: Read Channel Guide’s exclusive interview with Dance Mom Christi Lukasiak!

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Casting Calls

Lifetime is casting families for new reality show “America’s Supernanny”

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA With legendary Supernanny Jo Frost now retired from naughty steps, passy fairies and the stay-in-bed technique to focus on a family of her own, Lifetime has decided it’s time America had a brand new tot-tamer. After what the network calls “an exhaustive search and numerous casting calls,” Lifetime has tapped Virginia-based wife, mom and highly-educated early-childhood specialist Deborah Tillman to fill the bill and take over the sensible suits, comfy footwear and surefire techniques of America’s Supernanny.

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Dance Moms finale: And it’s Chloe for the win!

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA I knew it! I said! Way back in episode …well, whatever episode it was where the Big New York Casting Agent came! I said this: “So now that I’ve accepted this new reality in this new reality show, I feel equally secure in tossing this prediction: Despite the fact that she has done nothing but dance joyfully, express her love for her peers and look splendid in an inappropriate pile of brown eye-shadow — Maddie is about to get her comeuppance at the hands of Chloe. I say this for several reasons. One, because that would make […]

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Interview

More of our interview with Jeanne Tripplehorn, star of Lifetime’s breast cancer anthology “Five”

When I picked up the phone to interview Jeanne Tripplehorn about her pivotal role in Five — Lifetime’s star-saturated film anthology that is the showpiece of its long-running “Stop Breast Cancer For Life” initiative — it was Tripplehorn who began asking questions. “They sent me some information,” she said of the PR folks at Lifetime who connected us. “You are a breast cancer survivor?” I told her I am. “Congratulations!” said the actress, who plays Pearl, an oncologist whose mother’s death inspired her to specialize in breast cancer — and who is the one character that ties all five films […]

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Movies

Lifetime will re-air Amanda Knox movie with updates

In light of Amanda Knox’ successful  bid for acquittal for the murder of her roommate — and her subsequent return home to Seattle — Lifetime Networks will re-air their controversial made-for-TV film Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial In Italy with text updates to reflect the retrial and Knox’ turn of fortune. The film, which stars Hayden Panettiere as Knox and Marcia Gay Harden as her mother, will air on Lifetime Movie Network Thursday at 10pm and Friday at 2am, and on Lifetime Network at 10pm on Saturday, Oct. 8. Even before it’s February premiere, the film faced fierce opposition from […]

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Reality TV

“Dance Moms” episode 11: bad dad, Abby mad!

  Are you getting melancholy about next week’s season finale, Dance Mom nation? Or has news of a second season warmed your heart? In any case, I’m pretty sure last night’s episode set us up for some of what we’ll see in Season 2. Namely a big pile of Maddie drama. We begin in beautiful Lake Tahoe, site of the much anticipated Nationals, where the girls frolic (i.e. bend themselves in thirds backward)  in the sunshine and fresh mountain air — and Abby Lee is suddenly sporting an on-purpose hairdo and department store make-up in her “confessionals.” Also pearls. We […]