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“Dancing Fools” host Melissa Peterman talks about bringing everyday Astaires to ABC Family

Dancing Fools Wednesday, May 29 ABC Family, 9pm ET Why should the stars have all the fun? ABC Family is letting everyday Astaires get their groove on with Dancing Fools, a hybrid clip/competition show that scours the Internet looking for funny dance videos — while also having taken submissions online — then allowing some of those featured in the clips to show their stuff in front of a live studio audience for a chance to win $10,000. Actress Melissa Peterman (Baby Daddy) will host, lending her comic flair to the fun-loving madness. She says the dances range from rehearsed routines […]

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Interview

Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on how the clothes helped make them the men

For the first time in his 25-year film career, Matt Damon says that — courtesy of Behind the Candelabra’s over-the-top nature — he finally embraced wardrobe fittings. Fittings that had him donning everything from a bespangled, bare-cheeked thong to a periwinkle chauffeur getup with matching silver boots to a white-and-turquoise lounge set that would look equally at home on a grandma at the grocery. “I loved it,” Damon says proudly of his country-bumpkin-goes-Hollywood progression. “More than any other movie I’ve been on, actually, the wardrobe and the hair and the makeup really made a difference — and the props, all […]

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Comedy

Family Tree: HBO brings Christopher Guest mockumentary style to TV

Family Tree Sundays beginning May 12 HBO, 10:30pm ET The Christopher Guest troupe of actors from films like Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and For Your Consideration seem like a little family all their own. So it’s only appropriate that they finally got around to making a show about a family. With Family Tree, Guest brings his celebrated improv mockumentary style to HBO, along with actors such as Michael McKean, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Ed Begley Jr., in a story about 30-year-old Tom Chadwick (Chris O’Dowd), a British man who has recently lost his job and his girlfriend. […]

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Comedy

Isabella Rossellini creates “Mammas” for Sundance Channel

Mammas Sunday, May 12 Sundance Channel, 5:30pm ET Usually when someone I’m interviewing excuses themselves for a minute, it can really interrupt the flow of the conversation. That extra time it takes to get back on track could lead to me missing out on some great nugget they were about to throw my way. But when it’s Isabella Rossellini, and you overhear her speaking beautiful Italian to her son, it’s just a pleasure to sit and listen. I called the actress to learn more about her new series of short films, Mammas, premiering on Sundance Channel on Mother’s Day. It […]

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Family

Rock My RV with Bret Michaels on Travel Channel: Bret gives us the details

Poison frontman Bret Michaels says he’s logged over 3 million miles in a host of rolling homes — from the cozy Winnebagos of his Butler, Pa., youth to the most luxurious Prevost tour buses when he grew up to be a rock star. In fact, the open-road lifestyle is so much a part of Michaels’ DNA that if you hope to get an offstage glimpse at him when he tours your town, don’t look in the lobbies of luxury inns. “When all my other bandmates stay at hotels on our days off, I actually stay [on the bus] at the […]

TV Season Finales
Magazine Archive

TV season finales 2013

TV season finales 2013: A list of notable TV series season and series finale dates: New Girl season finale airs Tuesday, May 14 on FOX Notable Season Finales All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, NBC (May 19) The Amazing Race, CBS (May 5) America’s Funniest Home Videos, ABC (May 19) American Dad, FOX (May 12) American Idol, FOX (May 15-16) Arrow, The CW (May 15) Beauty & the Beast, The CW (May 16) The Big Bang Theory, CBS (May 16) The Big C: Hereafter (Series Finale), Showtime (May 20) Blue Bloods, CBS (May 10) Bob’s Burgers, FOX (May 12) Body of Proof, ABC […]

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Comedy

The Office series finale: 9 most memorable episodes

The Office series finale airs May 16 on NBC as the comedy ends its nine-season run. We picked the nine best episodes that defined the series. RELATED: NBC airs The Office retrospective before series finale Thursday The documentary film crew that set out in 2005 to chronicle life at the Scranton, Pa., branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company has all the footage they need. For better or worse, The Office ends its nine-season run on NBC May 16 and will leave us with some brilliant work and characters that will resonate for years. Michael Scott (Steve Carell), Dwight Schrute […]

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Elvis Presley on Encore: Network shines the spotlight on The King’s movies all month long

Elvis Presley made 31 movies between 1956-69, and while his celluloid career will never be as celebrated as his musical output, it’s hard not to crack a smile when thinking about good-time movies like Viva Las Vegas, Blue Hawaii and, of course, Clambake. Throughout May, Encore will have those titles during an event the network has dubbed The Elvis Collection: Whole Lotta Elvis, which will feature 24 of the King’s films, with one airing each night. The event includes the 1981 docudrama This Is Elvis (May 14), as well as an all-day marathon of Elvis movies May 25. In addition […]

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Comedy

Marc Maron gets real on IFC’s “Maron”

Maron Friday, May 3 IFC, 10pm ET Marc Maron is in a good place. Such a simple sentence, but it’s taken so much to make it a reality. A few years ago, the acerbic comedian was reeling financially and emotionally from his second divorce and a floundering career. That’s when almost on a lark he started inviting fellow comedians — many of whom he’d been friends with, and in some cases he had become jealous of for their success — over to his garage for interviews that he recorded for a modest podcast. WTF With Marc Maron eventually became an […]

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Behind the Candelabra: Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon on the year’s most talked-about telefilm

Depending on how you look at it, the genesis for Behind the Candelabra, HBO’s extravagant and surprisingly emotional Liberace biopic, happened nearly 14 years ago — or more than 40. The film’s director, Steven Soderbergh, 50, says he watched the beloved pianist and “World’s Greatest Showman” with his parents as a kid and recognized that this was no ordinary entertainer. Revisiting those old clips years later, Soderbergh knew his opinion hadn’t changed a bit. By then, he was filming his 2000 Oscar-winning smash Traffic with Michael Douglas. “I was in the middle of playing the drug czar and Steven said, […]