Head Snaps: TV Tango's Blog
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Not-So-Good Knights of Bloodsteel
- Lisa Angelo - Tue Apr 14th, 2009
As you have probably heard, SCI FI is trying to shed its nerdy image by changing its name to SyFy. So what better way to usher out the geek and bring in the chic than with … an epic costume miniseries about the battle of good and evil in a mystical, faraway land?
- Isn't It Romantic? Nora Roberts and a Lifetime of Love
- Jay Rubin - Sat Mar 28th, 2009
Nora Roberts and Lifetime team up for the second series of The Nora Roberts Collection. It's romance novel TV with four made-for-Lifetime movies based on Roberts' best-selling books, Northern Lights, Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute. Midnight Bayou premieres tonight at 9PM, and you can watch High Noon (4/4) and Tribute (4/11) on the next two Saturday nights. If you missed Northern Lights, you can buy it at iTunes.
- AllTheLooks.com: The Future Site of Celebrity Fashion
- Mike Vicic - Thu Mar 26th, 2009
Did you ever wish there was something like TV Tango for celebrity fashion? Somewhere you could search for Eva Longoria, Jon Hamm or some other fave celebrity to see what they're wearing today, what they wore last year at the Emmys, or how their hairstyles changed during their careers. Basically a place you could see all the looks of any celeb.
Lifetime TV is hoping you'd use a site like that because it's going to be called AllTheLooks.com.
- Oso, Special Agent Oso
- Barry Garron - Fri Mar 20th, 2009
Parents of preschoolers, be forewarned. A new catchphrase will soon find its way into your child’s speech. The phrase is “It’s all part of the plan.” And you heard it here first.
- A St. Patrick's Day Parade of Irish-Themed TV Shows & TV Movies
- Maj Canton - Fri Mar 13th, 2009
TV Tango Celebrates the Wearin’ of the Green, the Shakin’ of the Shamrock and the Gulpin’ of the Guinness.
- St. Patrick's Day In TV History: March 17, 1949
- Maj Canton - Thu Mar 12th, 2009
The first television coverage of the St. Patrick's Day Parade grew unexpectedly out of local New York station WPIX's effort to test a new camera and microphone on St. Patrick's Day in 1949.
- 1000 Ways to Lie
- Mike Vicic - Wed Mar 11th, 2009
Is '1000 Ways to Lie' yet another book about how to cheat in golf? Or is it a best-selling autobiography by a career politician? Or maybe it's a new reality series from the makers of 1000 Ways to Die?
Be prepared to watch more TV.
- 40 First Guests of Late-Night TV
- Mike Vicic - Mon Mar 2nd, 2009
The test shoots are over, the pickle has passed from David to Conan to Jimmy, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is ready for its debut. That can mean only one thing! Robert De Niro will earn a 'First Guest' medal tonight.
De Niro will join quite an exclusive club. Of course, Bill Murray, is the consummate First Guest of late-night TV, having received that medal three different times. But who else has been a late-night First Guest? TV Tango went through the archives and found 40 First Guests of Late-Night TV — all since Late Night with David Letterman premiered back in February 1982.
- The Other Walk of Fame
- Mike Vicic - Mon Feb 23rd, 2009
When somebody asks you, "Do you want to check out the Walk of Fame?" What's your first thought? Hollywood?
That's what I expected, but I ended up in Studio City instead.
- Daytime Squad & Soap Squad: New Companions for TV Squad?
- Mike Vicic - Wed Feb 18th, 2009
If you're a regular reader of TV Squad, then you know that the site focuses on primetime TV. Sure, you can periodically read about daytime television when there is a special event, like the first daytime lesbian wedding on All My Children, but those times are pretty rare.
Daytime TV fans rejoice! It looks like AOL Television is going to fix that problem.