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Space Warriors to the rescue! The film, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater franchise debuts this Friday (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. Space Warriors tells the story of six highly-skilled teenagers hand-picked to be part of a summer space camp competition at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The kids find...
Hallmark Channel, Walden Media and ARC Entertainment chiefs talk about “Space Warriors” and their commitment family TV
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With his “Space Warriors” blasting off tonight, ARC Entertainment CEO Terry Drinkwater talks about teaming up with Walden and Hallmark to bring family adventure to TV
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Story ARC. Space Warriors, the second original installment of the new weekly Walden Family Theater franchise, premieres tonight (May 31) at 8:00 PM ET on Hallmark Channel. The production, which stars Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Danny Glover and Thomas Horn (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), is the...
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Things looking UP for former GMC TV + Prayer request for wife of global media/healthcare ministry leader
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Uplifting Entertainment UPdate. As of midnight this morning (June 1) GMC TV -- which began its life in 2004 as a cable channel focused on gospel music and has grown into a full-scale entertainment network --...
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What’s in a name? Top execs reveal why GMC TV (the former Gospel Music Channel) is now UP
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Movin' on UP. This past weekend (June 1) GMC TV officially began operating under its new moniker. The new name is simply UP, as in Uplifting Programming.
Founded in 2004 as The Gospel Music Channel by Charley Humbard, the entrepreneurial son of the groundbreaking televangelist Read the full post here »
Movin' on UP. This past weekend (June 1) GMC TV officially began operating under its new moniker. The new name is simply UP, as in Uplifting Programming.
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Real-life “Blind Side” mom Leigh Anne Touhy talks about her life since the movie, the importance of adoption and her new UP reality show launching tonight
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Team Touhy takes on television. Family Addition with Leigh Anne Touhy, premieres tonight (Friday, June 7 @ 9:00 PM ET), is the first new original to premiere on UP since the Uplifting Entertainment network formerly known as GMC TV changed its name last Saturday. The show, which...
Team Touhy takes on television. Family Addition with Leigh Anne Touhy, premieres tonight (Friday, June 7 @ 9:00 PM ET), is the first new original to premiere on UP since the Uplifting Entertainment network formerly known as GMC TV changed its name last Saturday. The show, which...
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Magic Johnson’s ASPiRE TV to spotlight importance of fatherhood in the African-American community this Father’s Day
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Valuing fathers. This Father’s Day, ASPiRE, the positive TV network founded by NBA legend Magic Johnson, will feature special programming celebrating the importance of dads. The centerpiece of Sunday's special line-up will be the world television premiere of the critically-acclaimed, conversation-starting documentary From Fatherless to Fatherhood, which thoughtfully explores the impact of...
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“Man of Steel” vs. The Angry Legos
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Cultural turning point. Man of Steel soared at the box office over the weekend -- pulling in an astounding (and record-breaking) $125 million in North America. The super feat was at least partially as a result of a Read the full post here »
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Hallmark Channel series “When Calls the Heart” to film in Colorado
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Heart finds its home. When Hallmark Channel’s second original prime-time series When Calls the Heart begins filming this summer, it will mark the first time a TV series has been shot in Telluride, Colorado and will be the first scripted TV series in the state since 1991. That show, BTW, was Father Dowling Mysteries starring the late Tom Bosley as a crime-solving...↧
Faith-and-family media leaders gathering in LA
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Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Summit. The big event, in association with Rogers & Cowan, is being held tomorrow (June 21) at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. I'm on the way out the door right now and will report all about it next week. Stay tuned. Till then, for more info click here. Have a great weekend...
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God and Hollywood: Notes from the Variety Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Media Summit
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A Common Purpose. For the second consecutive year, Variety (in coordination with the P.R. firm Rogers & Cowan) held a day-long gathering of
distributors, producers, writers, directors, actors and others who are the faces behind the current boom in uplifting entertainment -- which, BTW, is the actually...
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Producer Mario Costabile believes multimedia stage show “Array of Hope” is music to the ears of Catholic parents
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Catholic evangelization hits a high note. In November of 2012, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released its strategic plan for 2013-2016 titled “The New Evangelization/Journey with Christ: Faith-Worship-Witness.” In it, the bishops urged US Catholics to encounter Christ more fully through greater participation in a community that focuses on marriage, the family and the...
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“Bulloch Family” saddles UP
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Love is Enough. UP TV is expanding its slate of slate of original programming next week when the reality family series Bulloch Family Ranch debuts on Wednesday (July 17) at 10:00 PM ET. The show, which will follow new episodes of the scripted family drama Heartland, is set for a six week run.
Bulloch Family Ranch, which plays like a cross between an...
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Patricia Heaton aims to bring live-action family comedy back to the movies
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Everybody Loves Patricia. With Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, Patricia Heaton has officially joined the lofty ranks of TV stars who have actually managed to follow up one hit prime-time series with another. It's a relatively short list that included the likes of Mary Tyler Moore (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The...
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“Bulloch Family Ranch” debuts tonight on UP
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Not the Kardashians. The family reality family series Bulloch Family Ranch debuts on tonight at 10:00 PM ET on UP TV. Like the Kardashians on E!, the Bullochs have thrown their open to TV cameras to chronicle their supposedly everyday lives. I must say I have a bit of a problem with the entire manufactured reality genre -- believing that real personal life events are best...
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“Courageous” buddies Kevin Downes and Robert Amaya join forces again for “Moms’ Night Out”
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Friends off the screen. As actors, Kevin Downes and Robert Amaya scored in 2011 with the surprise success the faith-based police/family drama Courageous. Recently the good friends reunited onscreen for the upcoming...
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Alex Kendrick talks about his acting role in the faith-based comedy “Moms’ Night Out” and how a “Prayer Grid” helps him choose his projects
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A Courageous change of pace. Following up on my conversations with Patricia Heaton, Read the full post here »
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Matters of life and death — caught on camera by Oxygen and Showtime networks
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Too much sharing? I was recently sent a screener for two episodes the Oxygen reality series I'm Having Their Baby which airs weekly at 10 PM ET. The basic premise of the show, which is in its second season, is that cameras follow as pregnant women in difficult circumstances...
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Pendulum shift: FX and Showtime chiefs signal a shift away from dark fare
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It's always darkest before the dawn. Some good and hopeful news for the forces of light came out the Television Critics Association meetings with network execs.
From The Hollywood Reporter: “I can’t imagine a protagonist darker than Walter White [of Breaking...
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Sean Astin talks about his eclectic faith journey, his love of animals and his role in an upcoming Christian comedy from the Erwin Brothers
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Mr. Nice Guy. That's how people who know him describe actor Sean Astin and after having had the opportunity to speak him in person, I have to agree. The son of Patty Duke and stepson of John Astin (The Addams Family)...
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Movie star-turned-nun Mother Dolores Hart to take questions today via Google chat + EWTN slots “Making of Mater Eucharistiae” TV special
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Mother Dolores Hart to participate in #ElvisWeek Hangout. The former Hollywood star, now prioress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, will participate in a Google + hangout for a half hour with Tom Brown LIVE from Elvis Week in Graceland, Tenn. The event, hosted by Vice President of Original Productions for Turner Classic Movies (TCM), will...
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