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Fifteen years ago, best friends Andra Liemandt and Jenny Mason never would have predicted their mid-life career change.

Back then, they worked for tech giant Dell — but nowadays, the ladies are rocking Austin and beyond with their country-tinged pop-rock band The Mrs.

“My dad still tells me, ‘You are the last of all my children I thought I’d be seeing onstage playing in a band,'” says Mason, the act’s bassist and also a former interior designer. “But now I can’t imagine doing anything else. That’s the journey it’s been.”

That long road has so...

This week’s Project Runway features a stellar pair of guest judges — designer Rebecca Minkoff and Mr. Robot star Carly Chaikin. The pair will help Heidi Klum, Zac Posen and Nina Garcia choose who wins and who loses on this week’s challenge, which is inspired by a trip to Universal Studios Orlando. The episode sees the designers head to the theme park for some much-needed R&R. But they’re also there to get inspiration for their next round of designs — based on the theme of the “Urban Jungle”. With the contestants all pretty exhausted after the past few weeks, the weariness starts...read more...

It’s day four of Star Trek Week! I see Graham and Ryan checking the clock and looking annoyed. Don’t worry guys, it’s almost over!

Star Trek: Voyager (Voy) came around during a period of maximum Star Trek saturation. Voyager premiered only a year after Tng ended and only two years after DS9 premiered. This is most likely the point in which “Star Trek fatigue” took root, but more on that tomorrow. Star Trek: Voyager debuted on January 16, 1995 with the episode “Caretaker” and, like its sister shows, would last seven seasons for a total of 172 episodes before closing with “Endgame” on May 23, 2001.

Hit the jump for my favourite episodes!

1. Eye of the Needle

“A micro-wormhole is discovered that leads to the Alpha Quadrant, and the crew make contact with a Romulan ship on the other side. “

The only flaw of this episode is that you that never really...

Tori Kelly is honoring her late friend Christina Grimmie with a musical tribute. The singer released a new live acoustic track, "Blink of an Eye," on YouTube Sunday. "Can't help but think who you would be if you just had the chance to turn 23 / It's 2 a.m., I still don't believe you're gone / And the world keeps spinning on," Kelly sings in the emotional tune, inspired by The Voice contestant who was 22 when she was shot by a fan on June 11 in Orlando while signing autographs after a concert. "You had so many songs left to sing, so many stories...

Joe Menosky and Aron Coleite have reportedly joined the writing staff of the upcoming "Star Trek" TV series for CBS All Access.

Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal," "American Gods") and Alex Kurtzman ("Fringe," "Sleepy Hollow") are producing the series which also recently hired acclaimed "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" director Nicholas Meyer to produce.

Joe Menosky was staff writer on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" with his credits including famed episodes like "Darmok," "Clues," "Time's Arrow," "The Chase" and "Suspicions" for Tng along with "The Thaw," "Future's End," "Scorpion," "Distant Origin", "Year of Hell," "The Killing Game," "Hope and Fear," "Timeless," "Equinox," "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" and "Blink of an Eye" for 'Voyager'.

Aron Coleite is a comic book writer best known for his work on "Ultimate X-Men". He also has TV experience, working on all four seasons...

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Our guide to jumping into Star Trek Voyager, if you want to get going quickly...

Maps To TV Shows: Is there a popular show you’d really like to watch but you just don’t have time to wade through years of it all at once? Do you just want to know why that one character keeps turning up on Tumblr? Do the fans all tell you ‘season one is a bit iffy but stick with it, it gets great!’, leaving you with absolutely zero desire ever to watch the boring/silly/just plain weird season one? Then Maps To TV Shows is for you!

In these articles, we’ll outline routes through popular TV shows focusing on particular characters, story arcs or episode types. Are you really into the Klingon episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Do you want to get the overall gist of...

DC Comics releases Swamp Thing Volume 4: Seeder onto fans of super hero and horror titles. The graphic novel collects issues 19 through 23 and 32.1 of the monthly series. Four different adventures guarantee a lot of action and suspense is found in this book.

In "Urban Jungle" and "This Green Hell," Swamp Thing is lured to Metropolis by the Scarecrow. When the evil Doctor Crane doses the creature with his fear toxin, plants of all shapes and sizes begin destroying the city. Only one hero can save Metropolis from certain doom - Superman.

"The Murder Poet" brings Swamp Thing in contact with a woman named Capucine. She claims he's to give her sanctuary from evildoers who have targeted her for elimination. To fully understand her purpose, he must make contact with the Parliament of the Trees and learn about the dangers of the past.

"The Whiskey Tree" Parts One and Two focus...

Celebrity MasterChef topped a quiet evening outside of soaps on Thursday (August 1), overnight data reveals.

However, the cooking competition dropped a million viewers from its premiere the previous evening to 3.77m (20.0%) at 8pm on BBC One.

Earlier, documentary Urban Jungle was seen by 3.03m (18.5%) at 7pm, while Diy Sos interested 2.91m (14.8%) at 9pm.

On BBC Two, Dara O Briain's Science Club appealed to 1.06m (5.6%) at 8pm, while Hebrides: Islands on the Edge brought in 1.75m (8.9%) at 9pm.

ITV's Married to the Job attracted 2.5m (13.3%) at 8.30pm, while a Tonight special also gathered 2.5m (12.2%) at 7.30pm (130k/0.7% on +1).

Channel 4's new documentary series The Dealership opened with 901k (4.8%) at 8pm (190k/1.0%). How to Get a Council House was seen by 1.74m (8.9%) at 9pm (345k/2.0%).

On Channel 5, The Hotel Inspector Returns attracted 1.04m (5.3%) at 9pm, followed by the latest Big Brother with 1.43m (8.4%) at 10pm. Big Brother's Bit on...

It’s day four of Star Trek Week! I see Graham and Ryan checking the clock and looking annoyed. Don’t worry guys, it’s almost over!

Star Trek: Voyager (Voy) came around during a period of maximum Star Trek saturation. Voyager premiered only a year after Tng ended and only two years after DS9 premiered. This is most likely the point in which “Star Trek fatigue” took root, but more on that tomorrow. Star Trek: Voyager debuted on January 16, 1995 with the episode “Caretaker” and, like its sister shows, would last seven seasons for a total of 172 episodes before closing with “Endgame” on May 23, 2001.

Hit the jump for my favourite episodes!

1. Eye of the Needle

“A micro-wormhole is discovered that leads to the Alpha Quadrant, and the crew make contact with a Romulan ship on the other side. “

The only flaw of this episode is that you that never really...

In its attempt to go broader and riskier, Spike TV had picked up three new series that range in scope from bounty hunters to swamp rats. In addition to Full Bounty, Tattoo Nightmares and Rat Bastards, Spike has ordered 13 new episodes of the popular series, World’s Wildest Police Videos, which previously aired on Fox from 1998-2002, and announced plans to air a two-part special, Urban Jungle Man. “These three new non-scripted shows share a theme of larger-than-life characters in extreme situations where the high stakes are real,” said Spike TV’s evp original

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Spike TV is bringing back one-time Fox reality staple World’s Wildest Police Videos. The cable channel, which previously syndicated the show, has ordered 13 new episodes of the series, a compilation of outrageous police footage. Spike also has picked up three new original unscripted series: Full Bounty, a reality competition featuring aspiring bounty hunters, which has received a 10-epidode order; Tattoo Nightmares, chronicling the stories behind unfortunate tattoos and their owners’ attempts to have them fixed, which has been picked up for six episodes; and Rat Bastards, following a group of guys in Louisiana who hunt down giant swamp rats, which has been ordered also for six episodes. Additionally, Spike has greenlighted a two-part special, Urban Jungle Man. “These three new non-scripted shows share a theme of larger-than-life characters in extreme situations where the high stakes are real,” said Spike’s Evp original series Sharon Levy. “They are perfect complements...

Red Red recording artist Katrina has released her new album .In the Blink of an Eye. and M&C.s giving away five copies of the album autographed by the singer! The album was released on iTunes and Amazon, and features the single .Shame on Me.. The album was a collaboration with legendary producer/engineer Val Garay and songwriter/multi instrumentalist Bonnie Hayes (Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Natalie Cole). It was recorded and mixed at Garay.s Studio in Los Angeles & Hayes studio in San Rafael, CA. .Shame On Me. rose to be the No. 1 most listened to track on the Clear Channel new program and is gaining airply at Hot A/C Radio. Katrina is currently on the road visiting radio stations and...

Katrina is the hot new artist with Red Red Records steamin’ up the music charts. Her hit single ”Shame On Me” is #1 on the Clear Channel Music “New” On Demand chart, and is a “New And Noteworthy Pop Pick on iTunes. The single “Shame On Me is from her latest album “In A Blink Of An Eye”. The album was released this past April and is available on iTunes and Amazon MP3. I had a chance to check out her video “Shame On Me” and this young Latin star looks great, especially when she is hoppin’ off the motorcycle. In the song she sings about how this guy breaks her heart and how...

You know those incredible looking nature documentaries Best Buy, or any other generic electronics and appliance store, has playing on those huge overpriced HDTVs it's trying to sell? Chances are they're from the BBCs increasingly large selection of superbly filmed series (like Planet Earth or Life) that highlights one aspect or another of the amazing planet we live on. Planet Earth was epic in its undertaking and Life was utterly breathtaking, and now they've gone and done it again with their series Human Planet, which started on April 17th and is running just three more nights on the Discovery Channel at 7pm (until the 24th). If you miss it now, you can buy (or rent) it on DVD and Blu-ray as of the 26th (just two days later), but if you can watch it right now just by turning on the TV...

Before we move on, here's the trailer, just to give you a taste.

To the masses he is known as Hok, short for Hokuto. Born in Japan, raised in England, Hok is a standout finalist from Season 3 of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and Season 3 winner on MTV’s Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew as part of Quest Crew. Dance Track Magazine stumbled across a mini movie he made and we had to catch up with him to find out more and bring you the footage. Hok is currently touring and performing shows with Quest crew in addition to creating his own art alongside filmmakers and fellow performers Di “Moon” Zhang and Phillip “PacMan” Chbeeb. This isn’t the first collabo this talented threesome has created. We wanted to know the inspiration behind this new short called “The Urban Jungle.” Hok said, “We did this other short film called ‘The Office Life’ about a year ago and...

Courtesy of Phil & Teds

Just joined the 2 under 2 club? Well, baby bunching just got easier thanks to phil&teds.

For a limited time, the stroller maker is giving away a matching double kit ($80 to $110) with every inline buggy purchase.

This offer is available both in store and online at all of the company’s retail partners (see store locator here).

An added bonus: mountain buggy — which is now under the same umbrella as phil&teds — is awarding one lucky CBB reader the new Urban Jungle buggy ($500, left).

This cool, easy-to-maneuver stroller works just as well on city streets as it does in the great outdoors.

Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... Toronto-based film-makers, Joyce Wong and Sonia Hong, won @ the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), September 20, capturing both 1st Place and the "Women in Film & Television Toronto" (WIFT-T) Award for 'Most Ambitious Film by a Female Filmmaker' for their stop-motion animated short EmBodying Toronto, a 1-minute silent film "...taking a fanciful look at what Toronto would look like on the body of a woman..." The duo were presented with a trip for two to the Dominican Republic, complimentary memberships to Wift-t, a $1,200 Wift-t programming pass and a $1,500 equipment rental credit. Ceremonies were held at Toronto's Queen Street West, Drake Underground, attended by local filmmakers, jurors and the Toronto Mayor. The other big award of the evening went to Toronto's Elijah Marchand, winner of the inaugural "Naish McHugh Award for Emerging Filmmakers", presented with a $2,500 cheque by the Mayor on behalf of the City of Toronto.

On May 7th and 8th 2009, 8:00pm at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, members of Pace University's Musical Theatre program will host an evening of song entitled "Our Urban Jungle" featuring contemporary musical theatre works by composers Ryan Scot Oliver (2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient), Kerrigan & Lowdermilk (2006 Jonathan Larson Grant recipients), Pasek & Paul (2007 Jonathan Larson Award), David Dabbon & Tom Bruett, Drew Fornarola & Scott Elmegreen, Danny Larsen & Michele Elliott, Joshua Salzman & Ryan Cunningham, Jonathan Reid Gealt, Tony Asaro & Vadim Feichner, Gordon Leary & Karlan Judd in benefit to Artists Striving To End Poverty (Astep).

Dahmer star Jeremy Renner has been cast in the title role of the indie feature Neo Ned, with Gabrielle Union as the female lead. Van Fischer, who directed Artisan Entertainment's Blink of an Eye, is directing the project, which is expected to go into production at end of the month in Los Angeles. Written by Wentworth Baughn, Neo Ned is about a troubled young man (Renner) belonging to the Aryan Brotherhood who, while a patient in a psychiatric hospital, falls in love with a fellow patient, a young black mother (Union) who thinks she is possessed by the spirit of Adolf Hitler. Valerie McCaffrey is producing the project, which is being funded through private equity. Renner, repped by WMA, Untitled Entertainment and Nelson-Felker, was nominated for a best actor Independent Spirit Award for Dahmer. He next stars in Columbia Pictures' S.W.A.T.. Union, repped by WMA, Jeff Morrone at Anonymous Content and attorney Michael Fuller, most recently starred in Cradle 2 the Grave and Deliver Us From Eva. She next stars in Bad Boys II and The Break Up Handbook.