NBA player Jason Collins, who made history last month by becoming the first active male player in a major team American sport to openly identify as gay, stopped by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night, bringing along his brother Jarren. Jarren expressed unconditional love for his brother, who currently is a free agent looking for his next team, and joked about how he used to try to set him up on dates with women all the time, to no avail. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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When Is “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on TV 2012?
When is A Charlie Brown Christmas on TV in 2012, you ask? Wednesday, Nov. 28 and Tuesday, Dec. 18 ABC, 8pm ET/PT — A Charlie Brown Christmas has been around for nearly 50 years, but it’s rarely been needed more than this one. OK, maybe it’s too much to ask of a half-hour cartoon special (which will be stretched out to nearly an hour thanks to lengthy commercial breaks) but if there’s one thing that can help heal a nation divided by one of the most bitter presidential elections in recent memory, it’s this. Republicans, Democrats, Christians, atheists, we [...]
Emmys 2012 recap: “Homeland,” “Modern Family” win big
Jon Hamm is a loser. It’s not often you can write a story with that line in it, but when you’re talking about the Emmys, it’s a fact. Despite being the driving force behind one of the most acclaimed series in TV history, Don Draper has yet to take him Emmy gold. At the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Hamm ran into a buzz saw headed up by Showtime’s terrorist drama Homeland, which finally unseated Mad Men as Outstanding Drama Series, and also secured Showtime’s first win in that prestigious category. Beyond that, however, the night went mostly [...]
Trust the Beek: ABC’s quirky “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23″
There’s a lot to like about ABC’s wickedly funny Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (Wednesdays at 9:30pm ET/PT beginning April 11), from the boundary-pushing title to the quirky Krysten Ritter to a part that could only be played by James Van Der Beek. In Apartment 23, wide-eyed twentysomething June (Dreama Walker) moves to Manhattan for a dream job, but her new company is immediately shut down by the government after a huge scandal. Now desperately in need of a job and a place to live, June finds a roommate in Chloe (Ritter). While Chloe seems like the ideal [...]
Shonda Rhimes trades stethoscopes for “Scandal”
Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice creator Shonda Rhimes says she wasn’t interested in tackling another show when Grey’s executive producer Betsy Beers approached her with a new idea. “[But Beers] kept telling me, ‘You need to meet a woman named Judy Smith,’” Rhimes told critics assembled for Day 2 of ABC’s TCA Winter Press Tour sessions. Turns out Smith is the founder and president of Impact Strategies, a crisis communications firm. That’s “fixer,” for short — the kind of person that high-profile folks hire to make their missteps and faux pas go away. Smith’s case load spans the Iran-Contra affair [...]
Best Picture, other Oscar nominees available On Demand now
You’ve got two days before the 84th Annual Academy Awards airs live on ABC (Feb. 26 at 7pm ET/4pm PT) to catch up on some of this year’s nominees. Thankfully you won’t have to waste your precious gas to venture out to the theaters to see many of them. On Demand (that’s the in-home video store you get with your cable subscription) has several of the films available. Below is detailed information on the nominees and what’s available now and when the other titles will arrive On Demand. Best Picture Nominees Available Now on On Demand The Help (Drama)Â (PG-13) [...]
Entrepreneurs try to strike it rich on ABC’s “Shark Tank”
Imagine if the judges on American Idol not only had to offer their feedback to a contestant but then had to make a spontaneous decision whether or not to invest in that singer’s future. If that premise sounds intriguing to you, then you should definitely tune into the Season 3 premiere of Shark Tank. While you won’t find anybody belting out tunes tonight (8pm ET), there are some similarities between the two programs. Men and women of all ages stand before a panel of experts and have minimal time to convince them that what they have to offer is special. [...]
TCA: “Desperate Housewives” cast and creator on the end of the beloved series
On Tuesday, the Wisteria Lane gang gathered before assembled TCA critics to, as castmember Felicity Hoffman put it, “[have] the funeral before you die. Everyone gets to go, ‘You were great. We’re really going to miss you. I’m sorry you’re dying.’ And you go, ‘Thanks. I really had a great time!’ Though the 8-season show has had its share of ups and downs, the new season is being universally heralded as a high note and the mood in the room was more like a fond-farewell party for a group of beloved friends than a funeral, with the brunt of the [...]
