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“Eve of Destruction”: Reelz miniseries pits Steven Weber vs. global disaster

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“Eve of Destruction”: Reelz miniseries pits Steven Weber vs. global disaster

Eve of Destruction (Part 1) Friday, April 12; (Part 2) Saturday, April 13 ReelzChannel, 8pm ET/5pm PT (with encore airings at 1am ET/10pm PT) Well, you just knew they weren’t going to get away with all that Large Hadron Collider business and not spawn a disaster movie or two, right? Not with all that talk about uncovering the secrets of the origins of the universe, with just a slight chance of creating a black hole and instantly ending all life on earth. I won’t pretend to fully (or much less than partially) understand the science behind it all, but it’s [...]

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Barabbas: Billy Zane takes on ReelzChannel’s biblical epic

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Barabbas: Billy Zane takes on ReelzChannel’s biblical epic

Barabbas airs in two parts. Part 1 premieres Monday, March 25, and Part 2 premieres Tuesday, March 26, both days at 9pm ET on ReelzChannel. Ever watch a movie set in biblical times and get confused — heck, maybe even a little annoyed — that everyone is speaking with a British accent? Billy Zane has, and that’s why you won’t hear the actor spout anything but his natural American tones for his starring role in Barabbas, a two-part miniseries that tells the tale of the man whose life was spared because the crowd chose to crucify Jesus Christ instead. “We [...]

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“Ring of Fire” stars Michael Vartan, Terry O’Quinn talk about disaster epic

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“Ring of Fire” stars Michael Vartan, Terry O’Quinn talk about disaster epic

Ring of Fire movie — Part 1 airs Monday, March 11, at 8pm ET; Part 2 premieres Tuesday, March 12, 8pm ET on REELZCHANNEL. How much have those blatantly cheesy, over-the-top creature features known as Syfy Original Movies permeated our consciousness? It’s to the point where every effects-heavy, end-of-the-world miniseries with B-list stars on a fledgling cable network causes us to assume the worst. But in truth, Ring of Fire — the first of five disaster-themed miniseries coming to REELZCHANNEL this year — bears more of a resemblance to classic disaster movies like The Poseiden Adventure or The Towering Inferno than [...]

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ReelzChannel’s “Bomb Girls” brings Meg Tilly back into the spotlight

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Meg Tilly (left) returns to acting in the World War II drama, "Bomb Girls," premiering tonight on ReelzChannel.

Meg Tilly thought she would just dip her toe back into acting. Having last appeared onscreen in 1995, the Academy Award-nominated actress (Agnes of God) appeared in three episodes of the Syfy series Caprica, which reunited her with her old friend Eric Stoltz. Then came a stage production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Victoria, British Columbia. Finally, she was invited to hear about a new drama for Canadian television that would tell the little-known story of women who worked in munitions factories during World War II. Not expecting to say yes, but happy to listen, Tilly found herself [...]

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5 Steps To Launching a Successful TV Network

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5 Steps To Launching a Successful TV Network

Think You Could Launch A Network? These People Have, And They Share Why It’s So Hard, Even For Oprah. By Stacey Harrison & Athena Voulgaropoulos No one is immune from the multitude of challenges that come with launching a new TV network. Not even Oprah Winfrey, whose struggles getting OWN up and running have been breathlessly detailed in the media over the past few months, or Al Gore, whose efforts to take Current into the big time hit a major roadblock with the ugly departure of Keith Olbermann. So how does it work? What are the essential components needed to [...]

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Stuart Townsend takes the lead as “XIII” comes to ReelzChannel

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Stuart Townsend takes the lead as “XIII” comes to ReelzChannel

Perhaps it’s fitting that, in a story about a man who doesn’t know his own identity, a new actor has taken over the role. That role would be XIII, an amnesiac super spy desperately searching for the truth about his past while trying to stay alive amid global intrigue, and the actor would be Stuart Townsend, whom one could say is used to this sort of thing. In 2002, he succeeded Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat in Queen of the Damned. Then in 2005 he starred in a short-lived update of Night Stalker, having to make his mark amid [...]

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Steven Seagal is out for “True Justice” on ReelzChannel

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Steven Seagal is busting bad guys on the small screen in REELZCHANNEL's "True Justice."

By Stacey Harrison Steven Seagal makes most of the fights in his movies appear effortless. Bad guy approaches, fists flailing, only to walk into the calm aikido master’s grip and limp away with a bloody nose and newly deformed limb. It’s all over in a flash, and afterward Seagal appears to have barely broken a sweat or changed his expression. The man himself will tell you it’s taken a lot more blood, sweat and tears than that to have forged the career he’s made for himself in nearly 40 movies over the past 24 years — starting with 1988′s Above [...]

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“The Undefeated” director Stephen K. Bannon talks Sarah Palin, “Game Change”

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“The Undefeated” director Stephen K. Bannon talks Sarah Palin, “Game Change”

By Stacey Harrison For the most part, my conversation with Stephen K. Bannon is civil and friendly. This might surprise folks who expect the director of the unabashedly pro-Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated — which airs on ReelzChannel Sunday at 8pm — to be a firebrand mouthpiece of the Tea Party movement. But Bannon is among those who says he seeks a friendlier discourse in the political landscape. Still, he couldn’t resist lobbing a few snark-laden bombs in the direction of Game Change, the HBO film that dramatizes Palin’s unlikely and meteoric rise to prominence during the 2008 presidential campaign. It [...]

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ReelzChannel, Chris Matthews to fully explore “The Kennedys” controversy

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[youtube HGf8pWpZ35k] By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Back in April, ReelzChannel scored the biggest coup of its short lifespan with the airing of the controversial miniseries The Kennedys, which reportedly enraged the namesake family enough that they pushed on some friends in high places to get it booted off History’s schedule even after production had wrapped. Just when it appeared the Greg Kinnear-Katie Holmes starrer was destined for the direct-to-DVD market, ReelzChannel stepped up and rode the series to eight nights of ratings gold. Critical praise also came later as costar Barry Pepper won an Emmy for his earnest portrayal [...]

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ReelzChannel recruits “The Z Team” for its debut effort into reality TV

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ReelzChannel recruits “The Z Team” for its debut effort into reality TV

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH If you’ve ever watched an action movie or TV show and wondered how the hero would do in a real-life situation, an upcoming ReelzChannel series might just have your answer. The Z Team, the network’s first foray into reality TV, assembles a group of, shall we say, below-the-radar action stars and puts them into supposedly real-life situations. The Z Team — which you have to think is a comment on the squad’s low-rent status — is led by Lorenzo Lamas, who claims in a press release to have assembled this “group of characters” that also [...]

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