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Steven Seagal believes politics played a role in “Lawman” troubles

December 13, 2013 Channel Guide Staff 10

In the movies, Steven Seagal always gets his way. But a recent TV project from the action star ran into some trouble that not even his steely-eyed gaze and aikido expertise could counter. The third season of his reality show, Steven Seagal Lawman, proved to be a bit too controversial for A&E to air so it has remained unseen … until now. Seagal’s exploits as a deputy sheriff in Maricopa County, Ariz., under the auspices of notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will finally make their way to audiences as ReelzChannel begins airing “The Lost Season” Jan. 2. While Arpaio and Seagal […]

“Exploding Sun”: Reelz movie unleashes a big fireball of cheese

September 9, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

With Reelz’s spate of disaster-themed movies and miniseries that it’s rolled out this year, the temptation has been to write them all off as hopelessly cheesy cash-ins and retreads. Yet while Ring of Fire, Eve of Destruction, Delete and CAT. 8 certainly have all had their moments of camp, none has really quite tread into Syfy Original Movie territory. As much as we might like it to be different, there can only be one Sharknado. But for better or worse, Exploding Sun might finally earn that reputation. It’s not so much the premise, which admittedly does smack a bit of Airplane II: The Sequel. […]

Killer computers threaten the world, Seth Green saves it in Reelz’s “Delete”

August 19, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

We all know that one day computers will kill us all, or at least make us completely subservient. That is, if The Matrix trilogy, along with WarGames, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, The Lawnmower Man, Demon Seed, TRON, Virtuosity, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and countless other scare flicks are to be believed, that is. (I’m going to count Superman III, as well, because somebody has to, dammit!) Delete, Reelz’s new disaster movie that premieres tonight, proudly takes its place among this largely cheesy collection, delivering the requisite countless scenes of people clacking away — REALLY INTENSELY — at […]

7 Questions With … Dolph Lundgren of ReelzChannel’s “Race to the Scene”

June 4, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Hard to believe it’s been nearly 30 years since Dolph Lundgren burst onto the scene as Rocky IV baddie Ivan Drago. Since then he’s gone on to a steady career in action movies, mostly the B-level, direct-to-DVD variety but with occasional forays into A-list territory. He recently re-teamed with Sylvester Stallone for the all-star Expendables flicks, and has also made a point to take on more offbeat roles in unexpected projects like the quirky comedy Small Apartments. It’s all part of an effort to hold the interest of the Swedish native, who in addition to being able to kick your […]

“Eve of Destruction”: Reelz miniseries pits Steven Weber vs. global disaster

April 12, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Eve of Destruction (Part 1) Friday, April 12; (Part 2) Saturday, April 13 ReelzChannel, 8pm ET/5pm PT (with encore airings at 1am ET/10pm PT) Well, you just knew they weren’t going to get away with all that Large Hadron Collider business and not spawn a disaster movie or two, right? Not with all that talk about uncovering the secrets of the origins of the universe, with just a slight chance of creating a black hole and instantly ending all life on earth. I won’t pretend to fully (or much less than partially) understand the science behind it all, but it’s […]

Barabbas: Billy Zane takes on ReelzChannel’s biblical epic

March 21, 2013 Channel Guide Staff 1

Barabbas airs in two parts. Part 1 premieres Monday, March 25, and Part 2 premieres Tuesday, March 26, both days at 9pm ET on ReelzChannel. Ever watch a movie set in biblical times and get confused — heck, maybe even a little annoyed — that everyone is speaking with a British accent? Billy Zane has, and that’s why you won’t hear the actor spout anything but his natural American tones for his starring role in Barabbas, a two-part miniseries that tells the tale of the man whose life was spared because the crowd chose to crucify Jesus Christ instead. “We […]

“Ring of Fire” stars Michael Vartan, Terry O’Quinn talk about disaster epic

March 8, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Ring of Fire movie — Part 1 airs Monday, March 11, at 8pm ET; Part 2 premieres Tuesday, March 12, 8pm ET on REELZCHANNEL. How much have those blatantly cheesy, over-the-top creature features known as Syfy Original Movies permeated our consciousness? It’s to the point where every effects-heavy, end-of-the-world miniseries with B-list stars on a fledgling cable network causes us to assume the worst. But in truth, Ring of Fire — the first of five disaster-themed miniseries coming to REELZCHANNEL this year — bears more of a resemblance to classic disaster movies like The Poseiden Adventure or The Towering Inferno than […]

ReelzChannel’s “Bomb Girls” brings Meg Tilly back into the spotlight

September 11, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Meg Tilly thought she would just dip her toe back into acting. Having last appeared onscreen in 1995, the Academy Award-nominated actress (Agnes of God) appeared in three episodes of the Syfy series Caprica, which reunited her with her old friend Eric Stoltz. Then came a stage production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Victoria, British Columbia. Finally, she was invited to hear about a new drama for Canadian television that would tell the little-known story of women who worked in munitions factories during World War II. Not expecting to say yes, but happy to listen, Tilly found herself […]

5 Steps To Launching a Successful TV Network

July 9, 2012 Channel Guide Contributor 1

Think You Could Launch A Network? These People Have, And They Share Why It’s So Hard, Even For Oprah. By Stacey Harrison & Athena Voulgaropoulos No one is immune from the multitude of challenges that come with launching a new TV network. Not even Oprah Winfrey, whose struggles getting OWN up and running have been breathlessly detailed in the media over the past few months, or Al Gore, whose efforts to take Current into the big time hit a major roadblock with the ugly departure of Keith Olbermann. So how does it work? What are the essential components needed to […]

Stuart Townsend takes the lead as “XIII” comes to ReelzChannel

June 28, 2012 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Perhaps it’s fitting that, in a story about a man who doesn’t know his own identity, a new actor has taken over the role. That role would be XIII, an amnesiac super spy desperately searching for the truth about his past while trying to stay alive amid global intrigue, and the actor would be Stuart Townsend, whom one could say is used to this sort of thing. In 2002, he succeeded Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat in Queen of the Damned. Then in 2005 he starred in a short-lived update of Night Stalker, having to make his mark amid […]