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Supergirl: The Complete Fourth Season Is Flying Into Homes September 17

June 12, 2019 TRR News Television, Television News

Just in time for the fifth season premiere on The CW, catch up with one of TV’s favorite DC Super Heroes as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you Supergirl: The Complete Fourth Season on Blu-ray and DVD on September 17, 2019. Fans can purchase the sets which, in addition to all 22 super-powered episodes from season four, also contain the DC Crossover featurette, the show’s 2018 Comic-Con panel, deleted scenes and a gag reel! All three DC Crossover: Elseworlds episodes will also be available only for fans who purchase the Blu-ray set. Supergirl: The Complete Fourth Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.

Contains All 20 Episodes From Season Fourteen, Plus Over Two Hours of Bonus Content Including Two All-New Featurettes!

The Journey Continues As Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season Comes To Blu-ray & DVD September 10

June 12, 2019 TRR News Television, Television News

Reunited, and it feels so good! Or does it? The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings you Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season on Blu-ray and DVD on September 10, 2019. The sets contains all 20 exhilarating episodes from Season 14 – including the landmark 300th episode “Lebanon,” featuring the return of Sam and Dean’s father John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)! The discs are loaded with over two hours of bonus content including two all-new featurettes, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and audio commentaries from the cast and producers. Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season is also currently available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.

Virginia Beach based team "Madea Made" will run the race this Sunday on Food Network

Madea Made Enters the Great Food Truck Race

June 8, 2019 Dean Rogers Interviews, Television

Welcome to your summer edition of THE INTERVUE, I’m Dean Rogers

The Great Food Truck Race celebrates the summer with a Tyler Florence-hosted culinary beach battle along the Atlantic coast, with nine teams of aspiring food truck owners with unique concepts competing for a $50,000 grand prize.

Our special guests today called Virginia Beach home. Team Madea Made is Married couple Hope and Andre Thourogood and Hope’s twin sister Faith Johnson. This team serving up faith, family, and food with dishes described as Southern soul food with innovation. The trio is dedicated to their church, but just because their beliefs are strong – it doesn’t mean they aren’t competitive. Their truck name honors Hope and Faith’s grandmother Madea and the legacy of generations that came before them.

TRR Continuing coverage with MMC30 with more interviews from the Mouseketeers

The MMC30 Interviews Part II

May 24, 2019 Dean Rogers Interviews, Television

Continuing our special edition of the INTERVUE, I have traveled to Orlando for three fun-filled days of Mouseketeers and childhood memories come alive in the epic MMC30, the Mickey Mouse Club 30th Anniversary Reunion! If you loved Part I of my interviews of our beloved Mouseketeers at the World Showcase at Disney’s Epcot, get ready Part II, enjoy!

Our exclusive interviews with the cast of MMC of the Mickey Mouse Club 30th Anniversary Reunion

The MMC30 Interviews Part I

May 21, 2019 Dean Rogers Interviews, Television

On this special edition of the INTERVUE, Dean on the Scene has traveled to the land where he and hundreds of fans were invited to meet the members of the club that’s made for you and me M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! The Mouseketeers from the Mickey Mouse Club has come back to Orlando for three fun-filled days of Mousekememories in the epic MMC30, the Mickey Mouse Club 30th Anniversary Reunion! Its Day 2 of the festivities and I got the chance to live out a dream of mine: to meet and greet the Mouseketeers before the “Mousketeers & Memories” event at the World Showcase at Disney’s Epcot! These sets of interviews is so long that we had to divided into two parts. Enjoy Part 1

Mary McCormack Joins as Co-Host for 30th Anniversary National Memorial Day Concert in DC

May 16, 2019 TRR News Television, Television News

PBS’ NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT announced today that Tony-nominated actress and star of TV’s THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, Mary McCormack will be joining Tony Award-winner and long-time concert host Joe Mantegna to co-host the multi-award winning live show for its 30th-anniversary broadcast, Sunday, May 26th. Also added to the lineup, AMERICAN IDOL Season 17 finalist Alyssa Raghu joins the show for a special performance of the “National Anthem.”

Gender Inequality Just Met Its Match | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents Desi Lydic: Abroad | Premieres May 13

May 8, 2019 TRR News Television, Television News

In her first one-hour special, The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic is setting out on a global expedition — exploring how and why the U.S. has fallen so far behind much of the world when it comes to women and education, economics, health and politics. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents Desi Lydic: Abroad will premiere on Monday, May 13 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Justin Moore and Jaina Lee Ortiz with the National Symphony Orchestra - Dennis Haysbert, Alison Krauss, Christopher Jackson, Amber Riley, with General Colin Powell, Sam Elliott, Patti LaBelle, Gavin DeGraw, - All-Star Line-up Hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise

All-Star Lineup for 30th Anniversary National Memorial Day Concert in DC

May 7, 2019 TRR News Television, Television News

PBS’s multi award-winning NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT returns live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for a special 30th anniversary broadcast hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise. The 30th annual broadcast of the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT airs live on PBS Sunday, May 26, 2019, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m., before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home, as well as to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Network.

Hulu's Shrill starring SNL's Aidy Bryant is a win for representation

Hulu’s Shrill should be Shouted from the Rooftops

March 17, 2019 Cortland Jacoby Television, Television Reviews

Fifteen seconds into Hulu’s new series Shrill and we are already seeing skin. The woman is not sexualized, but instead she is shown in her bra, trying to figure out what to wear to work. This mundane event might not even be shown in most shows, however, the moment stands out for one reason– this woman is fat.

"It's really about modeling what I needed to see when I was younger, which was someone whose body looks like mine."

A Conversation with Shrill’s Lindy West

March 15, 2019 Cortland Jacoby Interviews, Television

As a fat woman, you could say that I have been hungry for positive fat portrayals of women in media. Since movies and TV rarely showed any normal depictions of fat women, I often went to books to read what I couldn’t see. That’s where I first came across writer and activist Lindy West.

In 2016 Shrill, West’s comedic memoir on fat shaming and coming of age as a woman in a world that wasn’t made for you, was published to critical acclaim. Now, a TV show based on her life and the fat and female experiences, also called Shrill, is coming to Hulu Friday, starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant and produced by Elizabeth Banks and Lorne Michaels. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with Lindy by phone and talk about adapting her memoir, representation, fat people on TV and how comedy has grown in the last five years to include more diverse voices. Here’s our conversation: