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Theresa Caputo connects with negative energy: Long Island Medium Season 4 recap “The Royal Flush”

May 20, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Long Island Medium Season 4 recap of “The Royal Flush,” original air date Sunday, May 19. Theresa Caputo continues to amaze in Long Island Medium Season 4. In “The Royal Flush,” Theresa experiences a spiritual first when she connects with a negative energy that calls her a whore. The reading started out as any normal reading where Theresa greeted Fran and Jamie, a mother and daughter who came for a private reading. While Theresa ran through her normal shtick on how she works and how she only channel souls that walk in God’s white light, she wasn’t really prepared for [...]

Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis “The Confession”

May 9, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis The Confession: The Amish return to the spotlight in the Hallmark Channel original film The Confession (premiering Saturday, May 11 at 9pm ET). The film is an adaptation of best-selling author Beverly Lewis’ second novel in her Heritage of Lancaster County book series. Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) stars as Katie Lapp, a naive, young Amish woman shunned by her township, who goes looking for her birth mother, who is dying of cancer. Sherry Stringfield (ER), who starred in the first film of the book series — The Shunning — reprises her role as [...]

Roundup: TV shows renewed or canceled for 2013

May 8, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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TV shows renewed or canceled 2013: It’s that time of year when the broadcast nets are making the call. Will Revenge be renewed for 2013? We think so. Is Nashville canceled? No chance, right!?! Of the new series that debuted over the 2012-2013 season, only a handful, to date, have gotten renewed for a sophomore season. Those series officially seeing a sophomore season include NBC’s Revolution and Chicago Fire, FOX’s The Following and The Mindy Project, CBS’ Elementary and The CW’s Arrow. As for the rest, we will be updating when the networks officially announce the show’s fate. Here’s a [...]

Is Ryan Lochte really dumb? Recap of “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?”

April 22, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Is Ryan Lochte really dumb? Last night’s premiere episode of What Would Ryan Lochte Do? certainly hammed up his idiocy, but this time Lochte has to be in on the joke. Right? The quirky, celebrated Olympic swimmer knows he’s an all-American good looking guy with a great body that sometimes (OK, who are we kidding — most times) comes across as a hair-brained idiot in interviews, but he doesn’t care. He knows — and smartly so this time — that he’s got an opportunity to cash in on his current fame and turn that into fortune. He’s modeling his road [...]

Lots to learn from Naked Castaway on Discovery Channel

April 19, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Naked Castaway on Discovery Channel continues, as the 60 day countdown for explorer Ed Stafford, whose challenge to stay alive on an uninhabited island with no clothes, no food, no water and no survival tools, picks up with the second episode on Sunday, April 21 at 10pm ET/PT. Stafford is an ex-British Army captain who holds the honor of being the only person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River. Living for 60 days on the remote Pacific island of Olorua, located 200 miles from Fiji, is a massive challenge most people would never think of attempting, let [...]

Raising Whitley on OWN features comedienne Kym Whitley

April 19, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Raising Whitley on OWN stars actress and comedienne Kym Whitley in a chaotic, fun look at single motherhood. When comedienne Kym Whitley signed up to mentor troubled young women, she never expected to walk away a mother herself. After receiving a call from a hospital where they told her, “Your baby is ready,” Whitley’s life changed forever. Her story of raising her baby boy Joshua is documented in the humorous, heartfelt series Raising Whitley, debuting Saturday, April 20 at 10pmET on OWN. The social worker told Whitley that the birth mother chose her as the guardian for the baby because [...]

What Would Ryan Lochte Do? premiere date, time, channel

April 19, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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What Would Ryan Lochte Do? is set to premiere on E! Sundays beginning April 21 at 10pmET. Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte wants more than endorsements and Olympic fame. He’s setting his eyes on Hollywood in a big way, securing his first reality TV series with E! and What Would Ryan Lochte Do? The eight-episode series shines a new light on the celebrated pinup boy of the 2012 Summer Olympics, as viewers get an inside look at Lochte’s friendships, love life and family dynamic. So what exactly would Ryan Lochte do? Actually, instead of titling the show on what [...]

Chasing Tail on History, recaps for “Deer Camp,” “No Smoking”

April 13, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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You can see how people wonder if Chasing Tail on History is for real, as the idea of an open hunting season taking place in some of the wealthiest residential neighborhoods in Connecticut certainly seems farfetched. But, Chasing Tail (Thursdays at 10pm ET on History) is indeed real for upscale Connecticut neighborhoods that have been overrun by white-tail deer. The show’s website lists that in Connecticut alone there are an estimated 18,000 deer killed in vehicle collisions along roadways each year. That averages out to 49 crashes per day caused by deer, which result in some $28 million in damage. [...]

Theresa Caputo meets fans in “Long Island Medium On The Road”

April 10, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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Theresa Caputo is on the go again in the one-hour special Long Island Medium On the Road, debuting on TLC May 12 at 8pm ET/PT, just prior to the highly anticipated return of the fourth season of Long Island Medium. In Long Island Medium On the Road, Caputo surprises a handful of unsuspecting fans with a surprise in-person reading. Theresa heads to Florida to meet up with three of her fans, who include a mother who hears from her daughter that died tragically, a son who is hoping to connect with his father and a woman who desperately needs to [...]

They’re back! Keeping Up With the Kardashians 2013, Season 8, date, time

April 8, 2013 | By Barb Oates
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When does Keeping Up With the Kardashians 2013 start? Suddenly, it’s now a question I’m getting from my teenage sons and their hormone-fueled buddies who can’t seem to turn away from all the Kardashian ridiculousness. The Kardashians have been entertaining (more like shocking and even schooling) young and old since 2007 in all subjects from sex, waxing and “leaky vaginas,” to fashion, business smarts and making millions. The anticipated Season 8 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians 2013 returns Sunday, June 2 at 9pm ET on E! The 18-episode season continues to follow the outrageous lives of Kris, Bruce, Kourtney, [...]