TV Talk: Aubrey O’Day’s Reality Show, Degrassi’s Transgender Character

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Reality, Cable, Degrassi, Gossip, Ratings,

-Levi Johnston may be done with Playgirl, but there’s still a family to feed. Now, Johnston and fiancee Bristol Palin are shopping around a reality show. Interested parties have to commit to a full series - not just a pilot.

-Meanwhile, Aubrey O’Day already has another program in the works. The former Danity Kane singer and Making the Band star will now front The Aubrey O’Day Project. The Oxygen show will focus on O’Day’s attempt to make a comeback in the music industry.

-Who’s the hottest guy on Comedy Central? It’s not Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart. It’s Daniel Tosh. Tosh.0‘s second season has been topping both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report in viewers and demos.

-Teen series Degrassi is introducing a new first this school year: the show’s first transgender character. The groundbreaking series began its latest season last night on TeenNick.

TV on DVD: July 20, 2010

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Mini Series, Prime Time, Reality, BBC, Cable, MTV, NBC, Degrassi, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday:

• Being Human (Season 1)
• Courage the Cowardly Dog (Season 1)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (Season 9)
• Jersey Shore (Uncensored) (Season 1)
• Look Around You (Season 1)
• Matlock (Season 5)
• My Boys (Seasons 2 & 3)
• My Bride is a Mermaid (Season 1, Part 1)
• Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne (Complete Series)  **Blu-ray**
• Super Friends! (Season 1, Vol. 2)
• Tin Man (TV Miniseries)  **Blu-ray**

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TV on DVD: September 1, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, BBC, Cable, CBS, FX, MTV, NBC, The CW, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• America (Television Movie)
• Ben 10: Alien Force (Volume 4)
• Brothers & Sisters (Season 3)
• Clatterford (Season 2)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Season 9)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (Season 8)
• Desperate Housewives (Season 5)
• Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
• Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
• The Game (Season 1)
• Heroes (Season 3)
• People Like Us (Complete Series)

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TV on DVD: March 17, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, On Demand/PPV, WB, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Barney Miller (Season 3)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (Season 7)
• The F Word (Series 2)
• Ghost Hunters (Season 4, Part 2)
• Head Case (Season 1)
• JAG: Judge Advocate General (Season 8)
• Married with Children (Season 10)
• Mr. Belvedere (Seasons 1 & 2)
• The Nanny (Season 3)
• WWE: No Way Out 2009
• The Zeta Project (Season 1)

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This Week on TV (8/11-8/17)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, MTV, PBS, TNT-HD,

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)
(You can navigate NBC’s Olympics schedule here.)

• Sesame Street (PBS, check local listings):  Season 39 premiere. “One, two, three, four…chickens just back from the shore.”
• High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm):  “The contestants get a lesson on how to express emotions without using words.” Tip #1: If you need to cry, cut a hole in your pocket, take a pair of tweezers, and just start pulling. (Thanks, Joey Tribbiani.)
• The Closer (TNT, 9pm):  “Provenza gets in hot water when he loses evidence from a successfully executed sting operation.” Somebody better buy the boss a box a chocolates asap.
• The Mole (ABC, 10pm):  “The mole’s last victim and the Mole are revealed in the fifth-season finale after all 12 players reunite.” If a mole is revealed but nobody’s there to see it, will a show get whacked?

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This Week on TV (7/14-7/20)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, TNT-HD, Degrassi,

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

• Top Gear (BBC, 8pm):  Season premiere. “A game of car soccer is played.” No wonder kids are too fat these days. They can’t even get out of their car to actually kick a ball!
• American Gladiators (NBC, 8pm):  “In the ladies tilt, a student tries to make the grade against a future figure skater.” As we’ve learned from Dancing with the Stars, figure skaters come with an unfair advantage.
• The Closer (TNT, 9pm): Season 4 premiere. “Fritz and Brenda’s new duplex forbids the presence of pets, but that doesn’t stop Brenda from keeping Kitty on the premises.” If Kitty is the pet, what’s Fritz?
• Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm):  Season 2 premiere. “Grace gets busy on her day off: She works to unlock the secrets of her her haunted past, but instead ends up apprehending a criminal on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.” And I’ll bet she doesn’t get paid for doing all that work on her own time.

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This Week on TV (7/7-7/13)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Food & Home, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FOX, MTV, NBC, Hell’s Kitchen, Degrassi,

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

• The Bachelorette (ABC, 8pm):  “In the season finale, DeAnna has a choice to make between the two finalists after taking her two suitors to a Grand Bahama Island and home to Georgia to meet her family.” In the event of a tiebreaker, the most photogenic candidate should always be chosen. Good wedding photos last forever.
• Jon & Kate Plus 8 (TLC, 9pm):  “As the sextuplets turn 4, Jon and Kate take them to a bakery to decorate their own birthday cupcakes with the stipulation that they can’t eat them until after dinner.” Cupcakes? Note to the Jolie-Pitt clan. More kids = smaller birthday celebrations.
• Verminators ( Discovery, 10pm):  “Jamie has to tackle his fears when he is called in to deal with a black widow.” Apparently someone needs to work on his rochambeau skills.
• Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal (A&E, 10pm):  “A story of ReAnna Kelly, a girl supposedly visited by spirits, including that of her deceased grandmother, jazz singer Nina Simone.” There are times when hearing the song ‘Sinnerman’ is not so cool.

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TV on DVD: May 27, 2008

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Drama, Reality, Specials, Sports, Cable, CBS, NBC, On Demand/PPV, PBS, Degrassi, DVD,

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything
• The Adventures of the Black Stallion (Season 3)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (Season 6)
• Frontline: Bush’s War
• The Grand (Complete Collection)
• Gunsmoke (Season 2, Vol. 2)
• Intervention: Then and Now (Season 1)
• Lipstick Jungle (Season 1)
• Monsterquest (Season 1)
• One Piece: First Voyage (Uncut) (Season 1)
• Rawhide (Season 3, Vol. 1)
• WWE: Backlash 2008

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Degrassi Star Comes to 90210

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, The CW, Gossip, News,

Yesterday, we told you that Hilary Duff had turned down a possible role in CW’s 90210 spinoff.  Had she accepted the offer, the former Lizzy McGuire star would have been an updated version of Brenda Walsh.

Twenty-four hours later, we now know who will be playing Beverly Hills transplant Annie Mills.  Shenae Grimes, Degrassi: The Next Generation‘s Darcy, will be crossing the Canadian border to play the theater-loving girl from Kansas.  (Seriously - did this ‘Brenda’ also have to be a fan of the stage?  Couldn’t they have come up with something more original?)

Fans of Degrassi know that Shenae is perfectly capable of playing the nice girl role.  They also know that she’s very good at turning bad as well.  So assuming the CW pilot gets picked up, what will this mean for our little Darcy?  Maybe she’ll be sent away to Canada’s version of Promises to get help for all her emotional issues…

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Celebrity Double-Take: Lohan vs. Grimes

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Gossip,

Random thought: 

Am I the only one who thinks Ali Lohan, Lindsay’s little sis (pictured on left), resembles Degrassi’s Shenae Grimes (Darcy)?

(Keep in mind, that’s when Ali was still looking youthful; the 13-year-old now wears enough makeup she could use her sister’s ID.)

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