By Robert Scucci
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Ever since TV was invented, we’ve been warned about the dangers of overconsumption, often referring to the device as an “idiot box.” In the 90s, parents would tell their children that if they sat too close to the TV, they’d get sucked into it. 1992’s Stay Tuned turns this fear into a reality for the Knable family when an emissary from hell makes a dirty deal with the family patriarch, resulting in him and his wife getting trapped inside a colorful world of satirical sitcoms and cartoons that are trying to kill them. It’s a lot of fun, and the kind of low-stakes fantasy comedy you could watch with your kids.

While there’s plenty of surface-level humor that everybody can enjoy, this movie thrives on deep cuts and meta humor. If you have young kids, for example, they may not get the Driving Over Miss Daisy reference per se, but the humor of watching it play out in the form of what’s essentially a live-action cartoon won’t be lost on them.

Don’t Get Sucked In! 

Stay Tuned gets most of its laughs from sight gags and its many TV references. The hellish landscape navigated by the Knable family at the center of its adventure is jam-packed with pop culture references. They’re your typical suburban family, but Roy (John Ritter) and Helen (Pam Dawber) Knable are on the verge of divorce due to the former’s TV addiction. If he’s not working his dead-end sales job at the plumbing company, he’s parked firmly in front of the boob tube, neglecting his family.

When Helen smashes the TV, Roy gets a surprise visit from a mysterious salesman named Johnny Spike (Jeffrey Jones), who makes him an offer he can’t refuse: a brand-new, state-of-the-art TV and dish system with 666 channels that nobody else in the world has access to. Roy signs the contract without hesitation, which results in both him and Helen getting sucked into the massive satellite dish that was just installed and thrown into the middle of a game show called You Can’t Win!

Behind the scenes of the game show production, we learn that Johnny Spike’s whole racket is luring people like Roy into this version of hell, where TV addicts’ souls are collected under a very simple agreement: if they can survive 24 hours of TV torture, they get returned to the mortal realm. However, the contract stipulates that if they don’t survive, they’re doomed to an eternity of similar treatment because their souls now belong to Satan.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, the couple’s children, Darryl (David Tom) and Diane (Heather McComb), are enjoying a night without parental supervision, not yet knowing what happened to their parents but curious about the gigantic satellite dish that’s now sitting in their backyard. Darryl, the nerdier of the two, puts two and two together after seeing various iterations of his parents on the new TV while channel surfing, and he needs to convince Diane that what he’s seeing is actually real.

Come For The Storytelling, Stay For The References

What really makes Stay Tuned shine is its willingness to go all in on TV tropes. Every time the channel changes, Roy and Helen are whisked away into a different television program, and each one is stylistically accurate. The set pieces do a lot of the heavy lifting here, as the couple has to navigate and participate in game shows, wrestling matches, hard-boiled noir thrillers, historical epics, prank shows, and, for John Ritter’s character, the worst thing of all: he’s back on the set of Three’s Company. The production goes all out, and you can tell a lot of care went into each style parody because every one is more ridiculous than the last.

At one point, Roy gets trapped in a Saturday Night Dead skit called “Duane’s Underworld,” and it’s about as glorious as you’d expect.

My favorite part about Stay Tuned, though, is how much effort went into all of the little one-off shows that the kids see while flipping through the channels. Programs like Sadistic Hidden Videos, Northern Overexposure, Three Men and Rosemary’s Baby, and The Exorcisist are some prime nugs worth mentioning, but the references and name drops seem endless. If you’re a fan of the countless sight gags crammed into a single scene of The Simpsons, you’ll feel right at home here because the visual jokes are pretty much nonstop.

While a commercial failure that received middling reviews upon its initial release, Stay Tuned is worth your time if you like that “blink and you’ll miss it” style of joke delivery that never lets up. This is not a high-stakes film, but I’ve got to give it credit where it’s due. If you’re well versed in 80s and 90s sitcoms and cartoons, you’ll have a great time watching Stay Tuned with the wife and kids the next time you want a rapid-fire buffet of TV and movie tropes that are easy to digest.

As of this writing, you can stream Stay Tuned for free on Tubi.

Summer is the time for simple makeup, and Ogee just relaunched its creamy, nourishing face sticks in a convenient three-piece set. Instead of packing bulky bronzer, blush and highlighter compacts (plus brushes), these handy swipe-and-go sticks are the ultimate summer makeup must-haves. They’re small enough to throw in your purse or carry-on!

Beyond the easy application and the dimension they add to your face, these fan-favorite bronzer, blush and highlighter sticks offer so much more. While many makeup formulas simply sit on the skin’s surface, Ogee’s complexion sticks take a skincare-based approach. In fact, 88% of the ingredients enhance your complexion in the long run. A hydrating blend of cold-pressed jojoba oil, green coffee oil, and elderberry extract floods skin with moisture while stimulating collagen production to reduce the development of fine lines and wrinkles.

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The skin benefits are nice, of course, but it’s the immediate glow and definition that will keep you swiping these sticks all year round. Each blendable formula glides on easily and melts into skin with just a few taps, giving you beautifully defined and flushed cheekbones.

Shoppers of all ages agree that these sticks are a wonderful addition to their makeup bags. “I’m 80 years old but I’m like a kid with a new toy,” one reviewer wrote. “I love the colors. They’re perfect.”

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I hope you are free from work or school right now, because Netflix just added some movies that are perfect for lazy, summertime viewing.

I’m not a huge fan of weddings, but I like watching them in movies, and underrated Debra Messing rom-com The Wedding Date has a doozy of a ceremony filled with lots of drama, romance and chiffon. My God, the chiffon!

I stink at baseball, which is probably why I like the sports fantasy Rookie of the Year. Like its kid protagonist, it lets me live out my long-dormant fantasy of becoming a world-famous pitcher.

If you’re a sports fan, chances are you’ve seen Rocky. Sylvester Stallone’s inspirational Oscar winner is back on Netflix in June, as well as all of its sequels and the Creed spinoffs with Michael B. Jordan, so now’s a good time to relive a bona fide classic.

‘The Wedding Date’ (2005)

Kat Ellis (Messing) has a champagne problem — she’s been invited to her half-sister Amy’s (Amy Adams) fancy wedding in London, and she doesn’t have anyone to accompany her. Since her ex-fiancé is going to be there, she wants a handsome man on her arm to make him jealous, so out of desperation, she hires male escort Nick (Dermot Mulroney), who has the goods to make any man envious. Once they arrive at the ceremony, Kat discovers Nick is worth every penny and begins to fall for him. But love might be too high a price to pay for both of them, and their wedding date could turn into a disaster even messier than a divorce.

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Released at the height of the 2000s rom-com craze, The Wedding Date didn’t get the attention it deserved. Seen today, it’s a winning comedy with a high concept: what if the person who works for you is the one you fall in love with? Sure, Nick is a sex worker, but he still has a heart, and his time with Kat makes him realize he wants more than just money and momentary pleasure. If you’re familiar with Messing from Will & Grace, be prepared for a mild surprise when you watch her in The Wedding Date. Her Kat is more cynical and desperate than her kooky Grace, and she shows impressive range even in a fluffy rom-com like this one.

The Wedding Date is streaming on Netflix.

‘Rookie of the Year’ (1992)

Henry Rowengartner (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is a pre-teen Little Leaguer who is terrible at playing baseball. When he breaks his right arm during a game, he thinks his luck can’t get any worse. It turns out, she’s right — after his arm heals, he discovers he has an uncanny ability to pitch no-hitters. When he shows off his newfound talent at a Chicago Cubs game, he’s immediately hired by the team’s manager, Sal (Albert Hall), who is desperate to turn his team’s bad fortunes around. While Henry helps the Cubs get closer to reaching the World Series, he’s still just a kid, and he’s way in over his head playing an adult game with high stakes.

Hollywood doesn’t make mid-budget, high-concept films like Rookie of the Year anymore, and that’s a shame. The film isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s amiable and good-natured, kinda like Henry himself. There’s a cute subplot involving Henry’s mom being romanced by a veteran pitcher who Henry is replacing, and the climax, which involves the usual “Big Game” trope, is different enough to be a little surprising — and surprisingly touching.

Rookie of the Year is streaming on Netflix.

‘Rocky’ (1976)

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Netflix just added all the Rocky and Creed movies at the beginning of the month, and while some are better than others, nothing beats the Oscar-winning original. The seminal 1976 film stars a then-unknown Sylvester Stallone as the titular character, an Italian-American nobody who is picked by heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to fight him in a highly publicized upcoming match. Rocky is seriously out of his depth, but with the support of his trainer Mickey (Burgess Meredith) and his shy girlfriend Adrian (Talia Shire), he has a fighting shot at pulling off the impossible — beating Apollo and escaping his lower-class lifestyle.

Winner of the 1976 Best Picture Oscar, Rocky stands alone as the most inspiring — and inspirational — movie ever made. Most of the credit should be given to Stallone, who also wrote the screenplay and made Rocky into an underdog hero everyone could root for. Even though the film has been ripped off and parodied for nearly half a century, it remains as fresh and vital as it was in 1976. After you watch, you’ll feel like you can take on anyone, even Apollo Creed. (Reader, please don’t do that.)

Rocky is streaming on Netflix.

Summer House is returning to Bravo for an 11th season — but no casting decisions have been finalized just yet.

“I have heard reports and everything is premature. We’re still figuring out the cast,” Bravo’s VP of current production, Josh Brown, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Thursday, June 4. “Anything that people are reading — we’re just not there yet.”

Brown confirmed that Summer House casting decisions aren’t “officially” made until late June. (The show traditionally starts filming in The Hamptons during 4th of July weekend.)

“We’re definitely talking about casting, and we’re obviously talking about next season a lot, but no final decisions have been made yet,” Brown added. “Every week we get closer, so yes, we are closer!”

Bravo fans have several questions about who will appear on the upcoming Summer House season in the wake of Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s relationship reveal.

The costars announced that they are dating with a joint statement shared via Instagram in late March. Amanda was married to fellow Summer House star Kyle Cooke for four years before moving on with West, her best friend Ciara Miller’s ex. The season 10 reunion, which airs its third and final installment later this month, has shown the fallout of Amanda and West’s romance.

A source told Us Weekly late last month that Ciara hasn’t made a final decision about returning to the show just yet.

“Ciara is thinking about coming back to the house,” the insider shared. “Likely for one last season to prove a point.”

The source noted that “there is a chance she will face Amanda and West” if she goes back to The Hamptons this summer. The cast, however, is skeptical about Ciara’s return “because they don’t think she will face them.”

The same insider hinted that production “may not even ask West to come back because he was lying to them about other women he was dating.” The season 10 reunion revealed that West was dating Meija Moreno just before the Amanda scandal broke.

“Producers are not happy that he’s been lying to everyone,” the source added. “Kyle, Ciara, the rest of the cast have been vulnerable, at least about who they were dating.”

The season 10 Summer House finale had emotional moments from the cast, almost as if they knew there was change to come. Brown addressed this during his THR interview on Thursday.

“It really surprised some of the cast, I think, especially the original cast, about how emotional it was. I think it was unknown territory for everyone,” he said. “Kyle and Amanda were at a place in their marriage they’d never been at before that I think was scary to each of them. They didn’t know what was going to happen in real life to their marriage.”

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Kyle, Amanda and Lindsay Hubbard were also gearing up to start filming In the City, which brought in a totally new aspect.

“Nothing about that said that was the end of their time on Summer House. But they knew, ‘We’re in unknown territory now. We’re onto a new series, after 10 years of filming on this other series,’ which was very familiar to them,” he added. “I think it felt new and I think everybody got caught up in the emotion, including the production crew. It was emotional for everyone.”

Part 3 of the Summer House season 10 reunion aris on Bravo Tuesday, June 9, at 8 p.m. ET.

Bold and the Beautiful finds that right now, there are several characters that B&B viewers have said they would like to see gone off of the character canvas. Starting with R.J. Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti) and Remy Price (Christian Weissmann) and several other people that for one reason or another have fans either wanting to scream or fast forward through their scenes.

We’re going to talk about five characters, actually a little more than five, that fans consistently say they’d like to see gone. So, we’ll talk about why fans are off-put by these characters and want them out. And just to clarify, this is nothing to do about the actors. It is about what fans are saying on soap social media and on fan forums about the characters.

R.J. Forrester: The Smug Nepo Baby

Let’s get right into it. The first thing we got to talk about is nepo baby R.J. Forrester. Ever since they recast him, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Ridge Forrester’s (Thorsten Kaye) son came back so smug. He acted like he owned *Forrester Creations*, and he’s just so darn unlikable. It’s not the actor’s fault. It’s Brad Bell and his insane writing. From the moment R.J. rolled into *Forrester Creations*, he began pursuing Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace), even though R.J. knew that she was in a serious relationship with Will Spencer (Crew Morrow).

And R.J. immediately approached Will and they made a deal that they wouldn’t be rivals like Bill and Ridge. But R.J. was a jerk to Will almost from the jump. And of course, Ivy Forrester (Ashley Brewer) didn’t help the situation, but her meddling wouldn’t have worked if R.J. wasn’t such a little twerp.

He thinks he’s entitled to whatever he wants, which is Electra. And he has said the nastiest things to Will. Yes, Ivy encouraged it, but R.J. is a smirking little brat boy. And to be fair, I know there are fans who would actually like to see both Will and R.J. out at Bold and the Beautiful. But when it comes down to Will versus R.J., fans are much more annoyed by Brooke’s whiny little boy.

Sheila Carter: A Redemption That Failed on B&B

Another that many fans think can just fade out at this point is Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) for a couple of reasons. First of all is that Brad Bell’s attempt to redeem her was a joke from the start. Sheila is a very bad person. She tried to murder Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and her own son John “Finn” Finnegan (Tanner Novlan). Plus, Sheila is at loose ends right now.

It was icky to have Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) cheat with Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig), but they went there. And now that Deacon dumped Sheila and moved on with Taylor, there’s really nothing left in LA for Sheila. The B&B writers shoved her offscreen from the moment Deacon broke things off with her, and now he and Taylor are back, but Sheila hasn’t been seen. Now, we’ve heard about her new roommate, but honestly, there’s not a lot of room on a 30 minute soap to even get into all this. Now, at this moment, I currently suspect that her new roomie might be Remy, who’s another really problematic person. But at this point, why not just leave her offscreen?

I will give Sheila credit for not murdering Taylor when Deacon chose her. But now that Deacon and Taylor are officially coupled up, what storyline is there that’s going to work for Sheila? Without her going back to her old vengeful ways, she’s kind of pointless. I do love Kimberlin Brown, but I just don’t feel like there’s a place or a purpose for Sheila now. And a lot of fans agree.

Bold and the Beautiful: Remy Price – A Criminal Who Doesn’t Belong

Now, another character who just came back, but could have stayed gone is Remy Price (Christian Weissmann). Another case of Brad Bell trying to redeem the irredeemable. What Remy did to Electra was disgusting. And now they’re writing dialogue having Remy say it was no big deal. But it was. And bringing him back into Electra’s orbit and trying to blame his criminal activities on him being in the closet feels tone-deaf and very poorly written. If they want to give Deacon a romantic interest, great. But why Remy? I grant you Christian Weissmann is a good actor. Again, this is not actor issues.

But the character they created was never meant to stick around. Remy was a nightmare predator that came on to terrorize Electra and then he was supposed to be gone for good. Deacon does not deserve to be stuck with that creep. And making him Dylan’s cousin just makes him more icky.

And there’s the fact that Remy seems to not have changed at all. He has no remorse for what he did to Electra. So why not bring in somebody less gross to be with Deacon? Somebody who hasn’t made deep fake nudes of a girl who trusted him. I have seen suggestions that it would have been better if they brought R.J. back as a gay partner for Deacon. That might make him more likable, but the bottom line is Remy just isn’t liked.

Bold and the Beautiful: Electra a Whiny Troublemaker?

And speaking of Electra, she’s another one that fans wouldn’t mind seeing gone. I’ve also seen fans saying Ivy should be gone, but actress Ashley Brewer is out on maternity leave, and I’m honestly not expecting to see her back. It just wouldn’t be proper. But the issue fans seem to have with Electra is that she’s whiny and pouty and self-absorbed. And she never came clean to Will about all the times she kissed R.J. At this point, it seems like Electra was leading R.J. on or, you know, juggling both to see how it fell out.

That came, of course, after he’s been so awful to Will. And even so, we keep seeing Electra defending R.J. Electra just called R.J. sweet while talking to Dylan. And I’m sorry, what? Creeping on your cousin’s girlfriend is a jerk move. And yeah, Will sucker punched him, but he had it coming. So many times, R.J. deliberately goaded and trash talked Will. So, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) told Will, “Good job for the punch.”

Plus, Electra was also unlikable during the whole thing where Dylan had been living on the street and she was in danger. And Electra was so mean to her about staying a couple of months in a spare room over Will’s garage, not even in his main house. And Electra bullied Dylan from the first moment that she moved in there, even knowing how bad her life was. It was awful, rotten, spoiled behavior.

I doubt she would be missed by many if she fell off the Bold and the Beautiful canvas. And I especially see complaints whenever Electra is on back-to-back episodes. Fans want to see less of her or preferably none of her. Despite that, I don’t see her leaving anytime soon.

Carter Walton: Underused and Poorly Written

The last character that fans think might as well exit is Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor). So, a lot of fans think Ridge never should have forgiven Carter for stealing *Forrester Creations*. But what I see more fans saying is that Carter is underused and that they don’t write well for him.

You know, we’re supposed to be seeing him and Daphne Rose (Murielle Hilaire) as newlyweds working on the baby making, but in fact, we rarely see Carter and it’s been forever since we’ve seen Daphne. I really enjoyed Carter with Quinn Fuller (Rena Sofer) and then poof, she was gone. I didn’t enjoy Carter with Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) because of the whole coup thing. Plus, they retconned and faked this insta love and they made up nonsense about how Carter had a crush on her for years. None of that had happened and it felt disingenuous.

So, basically, it seems like Lawrence Saint-Victor only gets screen time to prop other characters.

Other Characters on the Chopping Block

And another character that fans would actually love to see back is Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson). And of course, Brad Bell made a big deal out of his return and then it was a couple of episodes and then gone again. So fans felt cheated. Other fan gripes are that Finn has no storyline and just shows up for shirtless couch nookie. I am glad that Wyatt Spencer (Darin Brooks) is back. I love him. And while I do like Brooke, I’m not sure bringing back baby-selling felony flop’s mom Shauna Fulton (Denise Richards) makes any sense.

With a 30 minute runtime, the actual storyline time on a given episode is about 19 minutes. So thinning the cast makes sense, not adding to it, especially not when they’re bringing in irredeemable jerks that have fans fast forwarding through a lot of scenes and sometimes skipping entire episodes.