Entries Tagged as 'TV News & Program Updates'

Family Guy Season 7 Episode 5 Recap: The Man With Two Brians

Posted by Sarah

After Peter and the gang watch Jackass and are inspired to new heights of jackassery, Brian has to save Peter from drowning in the river. In doing so, he hurts himself, and everyone attributes it to his getting old. Lois points out that when you figure in his drinking and smoking, Brian is 79 in human years. To take the burden of being the family dog off of Brian, Peter goes out and gets a New Brian. Great idea, no? No.

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“Mad” About “Jeopardy!”

Posted By RabbitEars

Attention Mad Men fans! If you think you’re an expert on the show, then tune in to Jeopardy! this Friday, Oct. 17, when the long-running game show features an entire category devoted to AMC’s hit series set amid the world of 1960s ad agencies. Several Mad Men cast members will be delivering clues throughout the category.

The Jeopardy! web site also features a special area where home viewers can test their knowledge of Mad Men-inspired trivia with 1960s categories and clues.

Jeopardy! airs in syndication; check your local listings for air time and channel.

"E:60": Ugueth Urbina, Sean Avery, Homeless Hoops And Jamie Nared

Features on the Oct. 7 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s prime-time sports newsmagazine E:60:

Ugueth Urbina He was one of the best relievers in baseball, a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. But his actions one night in October 2005 cost Ugueth Urbina everything, including his freedom. On his ranch in rural Venezuela, Urbina accused several men working as day laborers of stealing a gun. He attacked them with a machete, poured gasoline on them and lit them on fire. He was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 14 years in a Venezuelan prison. Now, after nearly three years behind bars, Urbina speaks to E:60’s Jeremy Schaap in an interview from his prison 150 miles outside of Caracas, Venezuela. He talks about his mistakes, his 10’ x 6’ living quarters, an appeal scheduled to be heard this fall and his chances of pitching again.
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Swingtown to air on Bravo

By Elaine B

If you missed an episode of Swingtown, you can catch it on Bravo. The cable network will air all 13 episodes starting later this fall. As soon as I learn the schedule, I’ll pass it on to you.

"E:60": Brian Kajiyama, The First Family Of Drag Racing And Missouri's Jeremy Maclin

Posted by Cubicle QB

E:60 Features on the Sept. 30 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Brian Kajiyama’s “Heart of a Warrior”: Brian Kajiyama was born with cerebral palsy, which stripped him of his ability to speak and confined him to a wheelchair. However, his affliction has never been an impediment for the Hawaii native. Instead, it has propelled him to break as many barriers as possible. As a boy, he dreamed of playing football for the University of Hawaii Warriors. And while he knew this would never happen, Brian did become the team’s biggest fan. By the time he was a student at the university, he was not only at every home game but every practice, rain or shine, sitting in his wheelchair on the sidelines. Everything changed for Kajiyama in the summer of 2005 when a new coach for the Hawaii defense, Jeff Reinebold, noticed Brian watching practice and introduced himself. Reinebold and Brian developed a deep friendship and soon Brian was helping the Warriors prepare scouting reports on their opponents. In 2007, Kajiyama was named a graduate assistant football coach for the team by then-head coach June Jones and helped the Warriors go on to become the only undefeated team in Division I in the 2007 regular season. When June Jones and Jeff Reinebold accepted coaching positions at SMU in Dallas, Brian, now a doctorate student, thought he would continue as the team’s graduate assistant. All of that changed this fall when he was removed. E:60 correspondent Lisa Salters tells the story of Kajiyama’s “Heart of a Warrior.”

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"My Name Is Earl" Season 4 Preview: The Legend Of Dan Coscino

Posted by Ryan

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In advance of the Season 4 premiere of My Name Is Earl on NBC Sept. 25, NBC held a conference call for reporters with star Jason Lee and series creator Greg Garcia. I joined in, looking for the answer to a few burning questions:

Who is Dan Coscino? How did he get involved in this show and are we are going to see a lot more of him this season?

Greg Garcia: “Dan Coscino is a production assistant on the show and he’s worked — I’ve worked with him since Yes, Dear and he is a force. He is a force and he’s an amazing singer, and a talent. And we love him here. He’s part of our family and we’ve put him in the show a couple times and we enjoy him always wearing his Dan Coscino T-shirt. I think I saw him actually in an episode we have a table read of next week — he makes an appearance. So yes, by all means, there’ll be more Dan Coscino.”

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Versus Stirs The Pot With "Sports Soup"

Posted by Cubicle QB

Sports SoupOne of the consistently funnier shows on cable is E!’s The Soup, wherein host Joel McHale gives viewers the weirdest and funniest moments from reality and talk shows and skewers them with witty commentary. I always thought this format would work well for a sports comedy show, and Versus thought so, too. On Oct. 14, Versus will debut Sports Soup with host Matt Iseman. This biweekly half-hour series will air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10pm ET.

“This will be the Chad Johnson of sports shows — a little obnoxious, usually hilarious and so fascinating that you just won’t be able to take your eyes off it because you have to see what happens next,” said Matt Iseman. “Imagine having a friend that can watch hundreds of channels, 24 hours a day and then pull the best and worst moments to share with you. Sports Soup on VERSUS will be that friend, but we won’t drink all your beer.”

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"E:60": Parkersburg, Iowa; A South Bronx Tale; And Turf 2 Surf

E:60Features on the Sept. 16 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60:

Touchdowns and Tornadoes — Parkersburg, Iowa, is a small rural town of 1,900 residents where high-school football is king. Despite its size, under the stewardship of head coach Ed Thomas, the football program has produced four current NFL players (Jacksonville Jaguar Brad Meester, Detroit Lion Jared Devries, Denver Bronco Casey Weigmann and Green Bay Packer Aaron Kampman). When the town was hit by a tornado on May 25, the community rallied around its coach to get the Aplington-Parkersburg High School football field ready to host the school’s Sept. 5 home opener. ESPN reporter Steve Cyphers and E:60 follow the story of football and the rebirth of a small town from the devastation of a tornado.  It includes the return of all four NFL players to their hometown, gripping footage of the tornado, and Aplington-Parkersburg High School football players digging graves to bury some of the six residents killed in the tornado. The story also takes the viewer inside the locker room on Sept. 5 as coach Thomas, for whom the field is named, gave a stirring pre-game speech before his team convincingly won their home opener 53-20.

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Enroll In GOLF CHANNEL's "School Of Golf: Hilton Head Island"

Posted by Ryan

IJGAGOLF CHANNEL’s latest reality series takes an inside look at life at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, S.C., as the students at the world’s top junior golf school prepare themselves for athletically and academically for a shot at a college golf scholarship. In School of Golf: Hilton Head Island, airing Tuesdays at 11pm ET, we get meet renowned instructor Hank Haney, Tiger Woods’ swing coach, and the young golfers he’ll try to mold into pro-tour hopefuls during the 2007-08 school year.

These kids aren’t beginners when they step into Haney’s school. They’re already in an elite class of junior golfers (and likely come from an elite social class, too). The first episode introduces a handful of the students the series will follow.

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Survivor: The Show So Great They’ll Make You Wait

Survivor: Gabonby Zhillbear

You now have an extra week to prepare yourself for the brilliant magnificence that is Survivor. The season premiere of CBS’ Survivor: Gabon — Earth’s Last Eden, originally scheduled for Sept. 18, will now air Sept. 25 from 8-10pm ET. The episode is the first time a season of Survivor has kicked off with a two-hour premiere, and it also marks the show’s high-definition debut.
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