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Welcome Back To Tuckerville: Legendary Country Music Icon Tanya Tucker Invites Viewers Into Her Life With 16 All-New Episodes For TLC
2/22/2006 --
– TUCKERVILLE Delves Inside the World of Tanya Tucker as a Single Mom and Music Icon –
(Silver Spring, MD) – TLC announced today that TUCKERVILLE, the primetime series that follows Tanya Tucker and her family as she faces the pressure of juggling her busy music career with her daily life as a single mom, has been given an order for an additional 16 half-hour episodes. The new episodes of TUCKERVILLE launch Saturday, April 8 at 10 PM ET/PT.
In each half-hour episode of TUCKERVILLE, viewers see the original country music “bad girl” at home with her family on the Tucker’s palatial Nashville estate, a 35,000-square-foot mansion on a 500-acre ranch. TUCKERVILLE also chronicles Tanya’s challenges balancing family with her music career, including her touring schedule, media appearances and recording sessions. Tanya’s lifestyle is hectic, harried and chaotic, but the word her family simply uses is “crazy.” At age 47 and with children ages 7, 13 and 16, traditional family roles change quickly for Tanya, so her children, as well as her faith and friends, keep her grounded and on track.
The 16 new episodes of TUCKERVILLE follow Tanya through a variety of family demands, personal missions and the occasional spur-of-the-moment adventure. In preparation for potential cosmetic surgery, Tanya visits a hypnotist to help her quit smoking and hires a personal trainer, who has some major lifestyle changes in store for Tanya due to his quite different attitudes towards junk food and waking up at the “crack of noon.” Along the way, son Grayson attempts to set-up his sitter, Curt, via an online dating service, which produces more surprises than anyone, especially Curt, could have expected. Add in Grayson’s attempt at a bass fishing TV pilot, Tanya’s unexpected Wal-Mart run to surprise her favorite cashier and a Tim McGraw concert escapade, and the new episodes of TUCKERVILLE have a lot of new antics and entertaining adventures.
Tanya’s musical career has twisted and turned through the ages. At age 13, Tanya burst onto the country music scene with “Delta Dawn,” her first of 38 Top Ten singles on the Billboard Country Music charts. By age 15, Tanya had earned a Grammy nomination and was the first country artist to grace the cover of Rolling Stone. Over the years, she has broken all the rules and proved that country music stars could rock hard, be sexy and have careers that last a lifetime. The new episodes of TUCKERVILLE feature Tanya recording new demos and a track for good friend, Carrie Nelson’s, upcoming country music benefit CD.
TUCKERVILLE is produced for TLC by GRB Entertainment with executive producers Gary R. Benz and Michael Branton. For TLC, Elizabeth Browde is executive producer and David Abraham is executive-in-charge of production and general manager.
TLC is the only television network dedicated to lifelong learning for viewers who want to grow up, not old. Featuring programming that explores life’s key transitions and turning points, TLC presents high-quality, relatable and authentic personal stories. TLC connects more than 94 million homes in North America to the human experience with life’s lessons you can’t learn from books. TLC is a property of Discovery Communications, the leading global real-world media and entertainment company. Discovery has grown from its core property, the Discovery Channel, first launched in the United States in 1985, to current global operations in more than 160 countries and territories with 1.3 billion cumulative subscribers. DCI’s over 90 networks of distinctive programming represent 25 network entertainment brands. DCI’s other properties consist of Discovery Education and Discovery Commerce, which operates 120 Discovery Channel Stores. DCI also distributes BBC America in the United States. DCI’s ownership consists of four shareholders: Discovery Holding Company (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB), Cox Communications, Inc., Advance/Newhouse Communications and John S. Hendricks, the Company’s Founder and Chairman.
For high-resolution photography and additional press materials, visit TLC’s media website: www.press.discovery.com.
Contact: David Schaefer, 240-662-2954
February 22, 2006 David_Schaefer@discovery.com -OR-
Sheila Morris, 818-487-9300
Sheila@morrispr.comAbout GRB EntertainmentGRB Entertainment is one of the world's leading producers and distributors of non-fiction programs. Founded in 1987 by Gary R. Benz, GRB Entertainment currently produces over 100 hours annually of prime time programming for the U.S. and international television markets. GRB distributes its own program catalog of more than 1,000 hours of original programming, in addition to representing international distribution rights for other non-fiction and entertainment producers.
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