April 2013 Archives - Channel Guide Magazine

“Rectify”: Sundance Channel drama shows exonerated convict’s struggle with freedom

April 22, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Rectify Monday, April 22 Sundance Channel, special 2-hour premiere 9pm ET, regular time slot 10pm ET The story pops up on the news with disturbing regularity: A wrongly convicted man is finally released after spending decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The viewers see the happy family reunited, and vicariously thrill to the thought of what he will do with his newfound freedom. But the aftermath is far more complicated than that. How does a person adjust to life in a world he hasn’t seen for nearly 20 years, over half his lifetime? Will society ever let […]

Mad Men Season 6 date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

April 4, 2013 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Mad Men, Season 6 Sunday, April 7 AMC, 9pm ET The battle for the soul of Don Draper continues Sunday night with the premiere of Mad Men Season 6. Will the powerful ad exec remain faithful to his new, young wife Megan, or resume the self-destructive hedonism that comes so easily? How’s Peggy doing in her life away from the firm? Can Joan handle the fallout from her decision to sell herself to land a big client? Will Pete get punched again anytime soon? All these questions and more will be answered (hopefully sooner rather than later, but I know, […]

HBO’s “VICE” goes where other newsmagazines won’t

April 4, 2013 Lori Acken Comments Off

HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher has long been a panacea for grownups bored by traditional newscasts. Now the network reinvents the newsmagazine with VICE (premiering Friday, April 5, at 11pm ET), a no-holds-barred weekly series for a tech-saturated generation accustomed to having the world in its pocket. Created by the international youth-oriented media conglomerate also named VICE and executive-produced by Maher, VICE takes viewers on a harrowing — and sometimes hilarious — journey to the far corners of the globe, in search of jaw-dropping tales untouched by mainstream news outlets. The series is cohosted by VICE founder Shane Smith, […]

Who Gets the Last Laugh?: Donald Faison hosts TBS hidden-camera comedy

April 4, 2013 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

Punk’d co-creators Jason Goldberg and Ashton Kutcher are pulling hidden-camera pranks again, this time with Who Gets the Last Laugh? premiering Tuesday, April 16, at 10pm ET on TBS. But don’t think of it as merely Punk’d 2.0. It’s more like Punk’d Vs. “We’ve taken Punk’d and we’ve flipped it upside on its head, and we’ve turned it into something that’s familiar but different,” says Last Laugh host Donald Faison (The Exes, Scrubs). “Celebrity friends were pranking each other, and that’s all Punk’d was, and that was intriguing. Now it’s your favorite comedians going out into the streets and just […]

Kurt Warner hosts USA Network’s uplifting “The Moment”

April 4, 2013 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

Former Super Bowl MVP and current NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner hosts The Moment, USA Network’s first unscripted series, giving people a second chance to live out their dreams. Kurt Warner starred in one of sports’ greatest rags-to-riches stories. After failing to make an NFL roster in 1994, Warner was stocking shelves at an Iowa grocery store. Undeterred, he played his way up through the Arena Football League and NFL Europe, eventually becoming the St. Louis Rams’ starting quarterback in 1999. A few months later, he was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXIV. It’s Super Bowl XLVII week when I […]