SUMMER 2006/$4.00 www.tvshoptalk.com Shop At Home’s The Sexiest Man MATTHEW In TV Shopping MARTIN “The bachelor life is insanely overrated!” Plus 10 More Sexy Men Saved By The Bell Jewelry Television Acquires Shop At Home Shopping Down Under TVSN’s On-Set Chemistry Jimmy Kimmel LIVE’s Convincing QVC Spoof Antthony Mark Hankins Celebrates 12 Years on HSN Daniel Green Is Cookin’ Travels Inspire New Recipes Bam! Emeril Legasse Vows To Rebuild New Orleans shows seemed to think that TV shop- ping channels count as entertainment. Well, we’re here to prove they’re wrong. There couldn’t be a better time to launch a magazine about TV shopping. TV shopping is sexier than ever. www.tvshoptalk.com We’ve packed our second issue with everything you’ve always wanted–ex- The ShopTalk Team clusive, behind-the-scenes scoops about your favorite hosts, guests, and models. Sheila Salido Jordan We’ll continually improve each issue Editor & Publisher to make sure that the next one is even Chuck Jordan better than the one before it. Special Projects Director Letter From The We love to shop from TV as much as Katia Gelman Editor & Publisher you do. No wonder we can’t wait to get Publication Design Director home every night and turn on the tube. Dear Readers: Shop On! ShopTalk: The Magazine For TV Shopping Welcome to your second issue of Fans™ (ISSN: 1559-8497) is published ShopTalk: The Magazine For TV quarterly by Fanzines, Inc., P.O. Box Shopping Fans™, featuring our first Sheila Salido Jordan 261573, Littleton, Colorado 80163-1573 U.S.A. © 2006 Fanzines, Inc. All rights annual edition of the Sexiest Men in P.S. TV Shopping. reserved. 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Periodicals FEATUREScontents postage paid at Denver, Colorado, and Saved By The Bell: Jewelry Televi- Jonathan Antin: additional mailing offices. Subscription Services: ShopTalk: The Magazine For sion Acquires Shop At Home..........6 Inspired By Shampoo....................28 TV Shopping Fans™ will, upon receipt of Shopping Down Under Daniel Green: a complete subscription order, undertake With Australia’s TVSN......................8 International Man of Mystery........30 fulfillment of that order so as to provide the first copy for delivery by the U.S. Postal How To Shop Online Kerry McNally: A Passion For Service or alternate carrier within 6 – 12 Without A Credit Card....................12 Lifelong Learning...........................32 weeks. Should you have any problem with The Butler Bag Revolutionizes Ron Maestri: Man On The Street...34 your subscription or if would like to update your address, please write to Customer Ser- and Accessorizes...........................14 Bam! Emeril Legasse: vice Dept., Fanzines, Inc. P.O. Box 261573, A Day In The Life of a The Philanthropist..........................35 Littleton, Colorado 80163-1573 U.S.A. Show Host.......................................16 Checks or money orders for subscriptions Chuck Long: should be made payable to Fanzines, Inc. Cross-Cultural Jewelry Warms The Thespian..................................36 Printed in the U.S.A. Up Summer Outfits........................18 Robert Thomas: Advertising Inquiries: These Colors Don’t Run: Susan The Connoisseur............................38 Please call 1-303-221-0780 or e-mail Lucci’s Patriotic Timepiece...........20 Gateway Joe: [email protected]. Books: New On The Shelf..............22 The Boy Next Door.........................40 Jimmy Kimmel LIVE’s Major League Lacrosse by Jake...42 Realistic QVC Spoof......................23 Anthony Mark Hankins: The Soul The Rocker With A Cause: Man With The Master Plan.............44 Matthew Martin—The Sexiest Man in TV Shopping.......................24 COVER CREDITS: Matthew.Martin.photographed.by.Jon.LeMay 4 www.tvshoptalk.com l Summer 2006 From Will & Grace’s Eric McCormack Professionally, they give advice. Personally, they could use it. The Founder/CEO The Receptionist The Psychologist For her, in work and play, Date Bait who’s legally A Hands-on Healer with it’s all about being on top. blond and totally off-limits. lots of (court) dates. The Relationship Consultants The Videographer Devoted Adulterer A Closet Case who If he can’t capture your soul, who believes every day hides everything he can always retouch it. is a special affair. except his ambition. INTERNATIONAL S E The last dating service you’ll ever use. C ERVI S A NEW DYSFUNCTIONAL COMEDY PREMIERES 11PM/10C MONDAY, JUNE 5 LIFETIME ENTERTAINMENT lovespringinternational.com 006 2 LifetimeTV.com © 00685-11_shoptalk_F.indd 1 5/1/06 9:29:49 AM Shop At Home will continue to operate from its current headquarters in Nashville, Ten- nessee, and will air from 9 PM – 7 AM CST, seven days a week. The target audience will be men, and the network will feature prod- ucts from hit categories such as collectibles, memorabilia, and coins. The name of the new company will be Shop At Home Network, LLC, and Jewelry Televi- sion™ will have controlling interest in this com- Chuck.Long.will.focus.on.pro- pany. The acquisition of Shop of Home was ducing.the.big.screen..version. completed at midnight on June 22, 2006. of.Del.Shores’.hit.play.South- “After careful consideration we have de- ern Baptist Sissies... cided that keeping Shop At Home on the air in a reduced capacity is a winning situation for all involved,” said Joe Fields, Chief Operat- ing Officer for Jewelry Television. “We will be able to retain a significant number of Shop At Home employees in their current positions as well as hiring others for positions with Jewelry Television in Knoxville.” Shop At Home had 660 full-time employ- ees, including three hosts featured among this issue’s Sexiest Men in TV Shopping. At press time, it was still unknown who among them will be selected to stay with the new network, but Matthew Martin remains opti- mistic about his career options. “I’m currently pursuing opportunities with other networks, though there’s been no decision made as to where to go next,” said Martin. “I am in the process of scheduling meetings to get the ball rolling.” Chuck Long will immerse himself in produc- ing. He’s part of the producing team bringing Del Shores’ hit play Southern Baptist Sis- Saved By The Bell: sies to the big screen. “I’m really passionate about Southern Baptist Sissies,” said Long. Jewelry Television “I’ve seen it literally change people’s lives.” As for our man on the street, Ron Maestri Acquires Shop At Home says, “I’m really taking everything one day at a time. As for my future, I’m certainly open to all Jewelry Television announced that it has reached new possibilities, including of course another an agreement to purchase the assets of Nashville- hosting position with any of the other shopping based Shop At Home, Inc. and plans to continue networks, assuming they’d be interested. We operating the network on a part-time basis. The de- (at Shop At Home) are all a close family, and cision comes on the heels of an announcement by as the days count down, it will become more The E W Scripps Company that Shop At Home would and more difficult to say good-bye to so many discontinue broadcasting in late June. wonderful and talented people.” p 6 www.tvshoptalk.com l Summer 2006 Shopping DOWN UNDER FIRST PERSON with By Stephanie Dickson “A lucky TV or film set is one that has been touched by ro- mance, and without spilling any beans, let’s just say that over the years our TV studios have been very lucky places to work in!” — Stephanie Dickson TVSN Channel is Australia’s only 24- In TV terms in Australia, TVSN is regarded by hour home shopping network, and a the general public close to what home shop- place that I have worked on and off ping was in the States about twenty years ago. for close to ten years. A great number of Australia’s general public is TIt’s an awesome company to work with and still not tuned into the joys of shopping from over the years swapping between being a full- home either by watching the 24-hour channel time employee and floating freelancer I have or shopping on our interactive websites. made some very close friends, been through Australia enjoys long, hot summers and births, deaths and marriages and realised comparatively mild winters. Our traditional that the world of Australian Home Shopping is shopping outlets are safe and vast. You can a very eventful place to be in. purchase anything that your heart desires. A mark of a great company is also where an But slowly the shift is changing. employee such as myself, has had the oppor- What was once regarded in Australia as late- tunity to work in various positions throughout night-only sleazy advertorials, home shopping the company, starting in the Art Department, is changing to a smarter way to shop.