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Interview

Hoarders Family Secrets star Matt Paxton: “This year … it will all make sense”

When Lifetime debuts its Hoarders reboot, Hoarders: Family Secrets, Thursday night, fans of the A&E original will be pleased to see some very familiar faces have returned to the Hoarders fold — including extreme cleaning specialist Matt Paxton. Paxton says that even though A&E pulled the plug on Hoarders in 2013, reruns on the show’s new Lifetime home have kept the series — and serious discussions about this very real mental disorder — alive. “It’s been pretty surreal to see the response on social media — for me, on social media it never ended,” Paxton says. “New people were finding the show and they were […]

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Lifestyle

New Hoarders season Hoarders: Family Secrets premieres with a live intervention on Lifetime

Good news for fans of A&E’s gross-out guilty pleasure Hoarders, which ran on the network from 2009 to 2013 — and even featured a quick glimpse of our magazine (see image at right). The series is back with a brand-new name, Hoarders: Family Secrets, a bold new format and a new home on Lifetime, which currently airs repeats from past seasons. Hoarders: Family Secrets will kick off May 28 with an hourlong special focusing on two complex cases — a Massachusetts family and a relapsed hoarder on the brink of being jailed — and feature live segments culminating in the show’s first-ever live intervention. Throughout the season, some […]

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Competition

Hoarders wins Most Disturbing Yet Captivating Series in Channel Guide’s 2012 Viewer’s Voice Awards

Oh, Hoarders. Look at all that garbage. They’re up to their armpits in filth. They should just burn the place to the ground. (But save this stack of Channel Guide Magazines we spotted in an episode!) Most Disturbing Yet Captivating Series — Winner: Hoarders Hoarders/A&E 48% My Strange Addiction/TLC 24% Intervention/A&E 14% True Life/MTV 9% My Naked Secret/Discovery Fit & Health 5% Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. Check out our complete list of 2012 Viewers Voice Award winners! Channel Guide Magazine, the only monthly print and online publication dedicated to making finding what to watch on TV […]

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Reality TV

Who Watches This Stuff?: “Hoarders”

By Tom Comi Follow @ChannelGuide Would you watch a show that is so difficult at times to stomach that you are unable to eat before, during or after it airs? As part of Channel Guide Magazine‘s segment “Who Watches This Stuff?,” we turned to staff member Laura Duckett to see why she admittedly has trouble watching the A&E reality program Hoarders yet resists the urge to turn away. With a new episode airing tonight (9pm ET), here are her thoughts: Channel Guide Magazine: What draws you to “Hoarders”? Laura: It’s compelling TV, and yet disgusting at the same time. One […]