People can talk all they want about Britney Spears and Demi Lavato joing The X Factor or whether Jennifer Lopez will be back for a third season of American Idol, but the most relevant judging hire in a very long time was adding Howard Stern to the panel of America’s Got Talent. That’s both a complment to Stern and a criticsim of his predecessor Piers Morgan, who came across as an elitist hellbent on making the show about something it wasn’t. Stern comes in realizing that America’s Got Talent is about novelty and finding an act like no other reality [...]
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“Dance Moms: Miami” episode 6 recap: Welcome to the Circus!
Good Lord, people, if you are not following the individual Dance Moms on Twitter, you totally should. Despite their longwinded brouhahas in the Mom Room, those women can throw down in 140 characters or less. I’m not even sure when they are pretending just to get us to tune in anymore. It’s as good a show as the show, sometimes. Speaking of which, let’s get to recapping, shall we? • Missed the episode? Watch it online now for free! Victor could not be happier with the way last week’s Access Broadway performances went. Angel could. Angel! Really? What?! Everybody won. [...]
New “Call of the Wildman” episodes — Turtleman meets Hogman, takes part in a bachelor auction, and more
Animal Planet recently announced that Call of the Wildman, starring Ernie Brown Jr. (a.k.a. “Turtleman”) would be back with new episodes on Sundays starting June 3. The network recently gave some details about what some of the first few episodes will be about, and they sound very interesting, to say the least. In one, Turtleman meets “Hogman” in Louisiana, and the two search for wild hogs. And in another, Turtleman becomes a prized bid at a charity bachelor auction! “Coal Mine Creature” — June 3, 10pm. When a beaver begins chewing up the wooden support beams of a rural [...]
History statement on the passing of “Swamp People” star Mitchell Guist
Mitchell Guist, a cast member of History’s hit reality series Swamp People, died yesterday at the age of 47, (he would have turned 48 this Friday) after falling aboard his boat in Louisiana. According to the 911 caller who reported the incident, Guist had a seizure, then went into cardiac arrest. History and Original Media — the company that produces Swamp People for the network — released a joint statement: “We are extremely saddened to report that our friend and beloved member of the Swamp People family, Mitchell Guist, has passed away earlier today. Mitchell passed on the swamp, doing [...]
Meet the ladies of GOLF CHANNEL’s “Big Break Atlantis”
An all-female cast stars in GOLF CHANNEL’s Big Break Atlantis beginning Monday, May 14, at 9pm ET. An all-female cast competes in the 17th edition of the Big Break golf skills competition series, filmed this time at Atlantis resort in the Bahamas. Twelve women at different stages of their golf careers vie for a 2012 LPGA tournament exemption, cash and other prizes in Big Break Atlantis, beginning Monday, May 14, at 9pm ET. This season introduces a new format and features surprise guest appearances, including a visit from top-ranked LPGA pro Yani Tseng. Profiles of Big Break Atlantis competitors from [...]
TLC’s “Obese & Expecting” & “Birth Moms” look at troubled motherhood
It’s a good thing that TLC waited until after the warm glow of Mother’s Day to premiere two specials, both dealing with different facets of problem pregnancies. Obese & Expecting and Birth Moms premiere Thursday, May 17 and take a hard look at mothers facing particularly acute anxiety and hardship about the babies that they’re carrying and are about to deliver. The first of the two, Obese & Expecting (9pm ET/PT), looks at four mothers-to-be who are facing their pregnancies and eventual deliveries in a state of morbid obesity. Over the course of an hour, this special delves into the [...]
“My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” preview: It’s a Man’s World
Gypsy wedding fans, prepare yourself for some days of Amber and roses (and another quick but delightful glimpse at Pat Baby) when My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding airs its third episode — “It’s a Man’s World — Sunday night  on TLC. The ep spotlights the strict division of freedoms, duties and expectations between the genders — and the challenges women from outside the gypsy culture sometimes face when they fall in love with gypsy men. At the center of the hour is 23-year-old Romany Tommy, a traveling paver and construction worker, who is headed home to West Virginia celebrate his traditional [...]
“Dance Moms” diva Abby Lee Miller to guest on “Drop Dead Diva”
Wonder what Abby Lee Miller does with her downtime when she’s not filming Dance Moms or terrorizing kiddies at her Pittsburgh dance studio? She’s prepping to get her thespian on in another Lifetime show! The network is reporting that Miller will make her official acting debut in an officially scripted series — well sort of — when she plays herself in an episode of its popular dramedy Drop Dead Diva. Miller has been tapped to serve as an expert witness in a case in which attorney Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott) — who is really physically expired model Deb Dobkins on the [...]
“Dance Moms: Miami” episode 5 recap: Tone Loco
So did everyone recover from the excitement of last week’s inferno? And speaking of excitement, I’d like to give a big ol’ Dance Moms Obsessive shout out to readers Kris and Becky who pointed out peeks at the Pitt Crew that I completely missed, despite having my eyelids dang near taped open in hopes of getting a glimpse. Shore ’nuff — there the little Ab-beleagured critters were, like pigtailed manna from Dance Moms heaven. • RELATED: Dance Moms diva Abby Lee Miller will play herself on Drop Dead Diva. But we’re here to talk about the epic adventures of the [...]
CGM interviews “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” designer Sondra Celli!
Boston clothing designer Sondra Celli is catching her breath between prepping 30-plus blinged–out bikinis and an army of matching accessories for an upcoming gypsy luau and waiting for the UPS guy to arrive. “Thursdays are a little suicidal,” she chuckles. But it’s now 4pm and most of her loyal contingent of Traveller customers is in church, so I’m the only person calling. At least for the moment. As the longtime couturier of choice for America’s widespread gypsy and Traveller communities — and the unflappable star of TLC’s new Sunday night hit, My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding — Celli finds [...]
