This season, Iyanla will continue to help people make peace with themselves and their situations. During the first episode, she tries to help troubled rapper DMX with his demons. ...
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February is Black History Month. And what better way to celebrate it than to enjoy movies, programs, and entertainment specials that celebrate and showcase the diversity in us all? ...
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Feb 20, 2013
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Boob Tube, Giveaways, Movies & Popcorn
Tagged Black History Month, Cable Television, Diversity, Diversity On Demand, Giveaways, History, OnDemand
There's a lot of stiff competition in many of the categories, and it will be interested to see who comes out the winner---it's anyone's guess. But here are my predictions for who will be bringing the Golden Globe home. ...
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Jan 8, 2013
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Watercooler
Tagged 70th Annual Golden Globes, award season, award shows, Cable Television, celebrities, Films, Golden Globes, Hollywood, television
It seems everywhere I go, people cannot get enough of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, the real life antics of a family owned restaurant based in St. Louis. The reality show has become the darling of Oprah's OWN cable imprint, and is one of my favorite reality programs on TV. ...
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Sep 3, 2012
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Boob Tube, Featured, St. Louis, Watercooler
Tagged Cable Television, OWN, reality television, Robbie Montgomery, Sweetie Pie's, Sweetie Pie's Upper Crust, The Upper Crust, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's
Reality TV and singing family the Braxtons are back with Season 3 of their popular We TV series, Braxton Family Values. Take a look at the upcoming season with this preview. ...
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Jul 25, 2012
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Boob Tube, Family Ties, Featured, Watercooler
Tagged Braxton Family Values, Cable Television, Reality TV, Tamar Braxton, Toni Braxton, We TV
Last year, I began watching Monster In-Laws, a real life series focused on families and their over-the-top in-laws who like to bust in and take over. Shown with brutal honesty in a dramatic fashion, Monster In-Laws will make you cringe at some of the antics taking place, but makes for very interesting television. ...
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Jun 1, 2012
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Boob Tube, Family Ties, Sponsored, Watercooler
Tagged A&E, Cable Television, drama, Family, Monster In-Laws, Reality TV, TV, Watercooler
Do you know a crazy pregnant couple who is expecting? Then casting agents are looking for you. A cable television network has commissioned a new reality series called 'Pregzillas' and they are looking for couples to appear in the show. Check out this post for more details. ...
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Apr 11, 2012
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Boob Tube, Watercooler
Tagged Bridezillas, Cable Television, couples, pregnant, Pregzillas, reality television, We TV
With the tagline, "Heart. Soul. Mac 'n Cheese",OWN's breakout reality series, Sweetie Pie's, is set to make its triumphant return on Saturday, March 31st at 9/8 CST. Sweetie Pie's is set in my hometown of St. Louis and features Miss Robbie, her son Tim, her nephew Charles, and her daughter-in-law Jenea as they work together to run the family restaurant, which has now grown to three locations. ...
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Mar 29, 2012
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Boob Tube, Family Ties, Featured, St. Louis, Watercooler
Tagged Cable Television, OWN, Reality TV, Robbie Montgomery, St. Louis, Sweetie Pie's, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's
Let's get this out of the way right now. I am not proud of the fact that I watch Dance Moms. If you don't know what Dance Moms is, it's a reality show focused on 7 girls who attend Abby Miller's Dance Studio in Pittsburgh, PA, alongside their mothers who often clash with Abby, and sometimes, each other. ...
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Feb 22, 2012
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Boob Tube, Featured, The 8 yr old, Watercooler
Tagged Abby Lee Miller, Cable Television, children, Dance, Dance Moms, guilty pleasure, Lifetime Television, reality television
If you are 27 and up, then chances are you remember VH1's Pop Up Video, a groovy 30 minute program dedicated to not only showing videos but also showing them in an entertaining, sarcastic,and fun way. ...
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Sep 6, 2011
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Boob Tube, The Water Cooler, Watercooler
Tagged 90's, Cable Television, Pop Up Video, VH1
The cable network now wages their bets on a show about the morbidly obese called Heavy which chronicles the lives of 22 morbidly obese people as they fight for their lives to lose weight and regain their health. ...
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Jan 17, 2011
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Boob Tube, Healthy Living/Eating, The Water Cooler
Tagged A&E, Cable Television, Heavy, Reality TV, Weight loss
It took me a long time to get into the Black sitcom The Game when it was on the CW Network. When I did finally begin watching it during the winter of 2008, it was taken off the air in the spring of 2009. ...
Read More →Oprah Winfrey is really making a mark with her new network, OWN. It is a fresh air to the cable line-up and has been making a lot of buzz lately. ...
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Jan 10, 2011
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Boob Tube, Enterprising Woman, FABulous Women, Watercooler
Tagged Cable Television, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, pictures
TweetThis week is Adventures in Parenting Week on Discovery Health Channel. According to M. from Discovery: Every parent is confronted with challenges when raising a child; however, not all challenges are created equal. From September 13 through September 17, Discovery Health offers a look into families coping with remarkable parenting challenges with ADVENTURES IN PARENTING, an all-new weeklong programming event. With premiere specials airing nightly, ADVENTURES IN PARENTING profiles parents confronting diverse family issues, ranging from raising a child genius, to tackling childhood obesity, to caring for a child with Tourette’s syndrome. The line-up Adventures In Parenting Week are as follows: TOURETTE’S UNCOVERED Premieres Monday, September 13, at 9 PM (ET/PT) In this one-hour special, viewers will meet four children with startlingly different Tourette’s diagnoses: Jonah, a boy who cannot suppress his overwhelming need to get up and run away; Colin, a boy who experiences constant headaches as a results ...
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Sep 14, 2010
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Boob Tube, Parent's Just Don't Understand
Tagged Cable Television, children, Discovery, Discovery Health, parenting, Parenting Issues
TweetWhile flipping through the channels on my boob tube, I came across a show last night called ‘Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry’, a docu-drama esque show on Discovery ID that talks about women being married to men they didn’t really know. In this ongoing series, it turns out that these husbands ended up being bigamists. serial killers, and in one case, the husband was a woman. It got me to thinking, how can you marry someone that you really don’t know? And even more, how can one go years married to someone and truly not know who they really are? Marriage is a lifelong commitment. And in this day and age, people do not take it seriously. Getting married because you love someone is not reason enough to get married—getting married because you love someone, you respect them, you like them, you cannot see yourself being without them, AND ...
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Aug 26, 2010
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Boob Tube, Family Ties, women's issues
Tagged Cable Television, Discovery ID, marriage, Relationships, Television programs, Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?
