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Marriage Boot Camp: Tara Reid is a hot mess edition

The new season of WEtv’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars” has started, and tonight I’m just left asking the question – what is Tara Reid doing on this show? She’s supposed to be participating with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Dean, but says that she’s trying to figure out if they should take it from friendship

Kate Walsh on why she and KCET are urging voters to mobilize

This year’s tumultuous series of presidential primaries is heading into the home stretch. And looming largest of all is the crucial contest in California set for June 7. To spur voter turnout in what has been nicknamed the Big Enchilada primary, because so many delegates are up for grabs, Los Angeles public television station KCET

Interview: Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson talk Private Eyes

Jason Priestley returned home from Hollywood to Canada and made the multi-award winning comedy Call Me Fitz. He says he had so much fun making it, he stayed, and this season, Priestly launches two new series, a brainy family sitcom Raising Expectations and the detective comedy drama Private Eyes which he also executive produces. He

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United Shades of America: What’s it really like to live off the grid?

This week CNN’s United Shades of America went off the grid – from a paranoid isolationist prepper to nice sweet potato beer makers who want to live a more pared-down sustainable life. Host W. Kamau Bell visited Asheville, North Carolina, and parts of Tennessee, to experience the 0ff-grid lifestyle, and discovered a hotbed of preppers, patriots

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AMC’s Preacher review: The series that was too dark for HBO

A Texas preacher armed with the power of the word of God, his exceptional marksman of an ex-girlfriend and a hard-drinking Irish vampire. Just tune into AMC Sunday night at 10pm. Preacher was probably the craziest comic book of the late 90s. Created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, this creator-owned comic was

Watch Conan bust his staff secretly eating cake

Conan often covers important topics on his show — and there’s nothing more important than cake. Especially when that cake involves a secret email list that means some of his employees get to eat cake and other goodies ahead of everyone else working on his show. Unfortunately for them, Conan got wind of the secret

Scream: The TV Series – The Complete First Season DVD review

The Scream franchise finds new life with the DVD release of the first season from the MTV series adaptation. Although the season is a tad light on scares, the makers of the show make sure the gore lives up to what Scream fans expect and the writing has plenty of opportunity to tease the horror

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United Shades of America shines spotlight on police crisis, discussion

Did you know it is National Police Week? Perfect timing for CNN’s latest episode of United Shades of America, which took star W. Kamau Bell for a ride with the police force in Campden, New Jersey, where they are trying to introduce “community policing” in a bid to build trust with residents. Kamau’s perspective is,

United Shades of America Recap: Latinos discussion

CNN’s May 8th United Shades of America focuses on Mexicans, Chicanos and less on our east coast Spanish friends the Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Argentinian-Americans. Hispanic culture is described by one interviewed Chicano musician as a “census word” … a giant catch-all term that is meant to cover all in the USA who speak Spanish.

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United Shades of America: San Quentin discussion and recap

This Sunday on CNN (May 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.) make sure to tune into W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America where a level 2 prison, San Quentin, is Kamau’s focus as he introduces us to people behind bars trying to make the best of a stacked situation. There are four levels total in