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Live PD’s producer discusses and defends the popular A&E show
An interview with the executive producer of Live PD, covering everything from its tape delay to privacy, its point of view to the dialogue it’s creating.
Rescue Dog to Super Dog’s trainers help dogs and people in need
An interview with Nate Schoemer and Laura London of Animal Planet’s Rescue Dog to Super Dog, on which they train shelter dogs to become service dogs.
First in Human profiles doctors, patients, and ‘our government at its best’
An interview with First in Human director and Discovery Channel executive John Hoffman, who says the NIH’s Building 10 represents “government at its best.”
Fox’s new singing competition, The Four, is named for its number of contestants
Fox has acquired the Armoza Formats show The Final Four, which it calls The Four and will feature four contestants being challenged by new people.
Discovery’s Darkness: a survival challenge turns mental
On Darkness, which is yet another twist on the survival show genre, three participants enter a pitch-black space in separate locations. They have six days to find each other and exit out the other side. In the first episode—which airs tonight at 10 on Discovery as a “sneak peak” of the new series (another episode airs… continue reading
Review: The Lowe Files, supernatural reality TV with a celebrity family
A review of Rob Lowe’s new A&E series, The Lowe Files, on which he investigates the paranormal with his sons John Owen and Matthew.
Another exceptional Startup season, and a comedic show I didn’t expect to like
Reviews of MTV2’s Shinesty, which follows employees at a clothing company, and Startup season 4, which follows Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel.
TRL is coming back to MTV, without Carson Daly
MTV’s strategy of returning to its roots to win back viewers will continue this October, when the network will resurrect Total Request Live, aka TRL. It has been off the air for nine years, having been on television for a decade. The Voice host Carson Daly will not return to the show, which he hosted… continue reading
Comic books, horror movies, hip-hop, sci-fi, and more coming to new AMC doc series
AMC has created Visionaries, an umbrella for its documentary series about pop culture genres, each of which is guided and directed by a master in the genre.
Review: Signed, a music competition set in the real world
Andy Dehnart’s review of VH1’s Signed, the music competition that gives hip-hop and R&B artists
Survivorman Les Stroud will face predators in his new TV show
Survivorman Les Stroud will star in Alaska’s Grizzly Gauntlet, on which he’ll face different predators in Alaska in each episode.
Shark Week and its cheeky competitor Shark Fest: their schedules and promos
The schedules—and hilarious promos—for Discovery’s Shark Week and NatGeo WILD’s Shark Fest, which are both airing at the same time this year.
Reviews: A Night with My Ex and Spouse House, two new social experiments
Reviews of TLC’s Spouse House, where singles have to get married or are evicted, and Bravo’s A Night With My Ex, on which former partners reconnect.
Review: American Ripper, an attempt to link Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes
A review of the History Channel’s new series American Ripper, which explores the theory that Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes was also Jack the Ripper.