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CHASING LIFE REVIEW S1E5: The Family That Lies Together "Either you tell them or I will" Its date night and Boyfriend Dominic, and April decide to go see a psychic, and after an intuitive reading where the psychic hints that the key to Aprils health may lie with her "sisters" April is all shook up. The next morning April faints at the breakfast table and flashes back to a time when her dad was alive. Playing it off as nothing, April goes out to meet Beth, and then heads to work. After talking to Beth about what the psychic said, April begins to look for her mystery sister, Natalie Ortiz. She ends up getting information about Natalie through the car she rented. After getting Natalie's vitals, she digs through all of her dad's stuff where she finds a picture of her dad, Natalie, and her uncle George.

CHASING LIFE REVIEW S1E4: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead "Are we really comparing diagnosis?" Hold on this is a long one. Episode 4 ends where episode 3 left off. April doesn't talk during the support group but Leo does. Turns out Leo has an aggressive tumor on his brain stem. By not talk April earns Leo's wrath, who thinks that April is there to get the scoop on him. But all’s is not well with April, she's run down, and late on the day she's supposed to have her biopsy.  After turning down Beth's offer to go with her for moral support, she's late and ends up missing her appointment. In a very unlike April kind of way, she tracks down Uncle George, at the pediatric hospital who had assumed she was just blowing him off again. But after hearing she overslept her alarm, Uncle George is more about why she missed her appointment, than the fact she missed it in the first place.

CHASING LIFE REVIEW S1E3: Blood Cancer Sex Carrots "I can't be the one....... I'm sick" First let me say I’m sorry. When a show gets irritating I stop watching. So, if you haven't guessed already I had stopped watching Chasing Life after 2 episodes had past and not one family member was told April had Cancer. Frustrated I took a week break, then one week became two, but it's ok because after watching the promo for Chasing Life episode 5, I binged watch episodes 3 & 4 in order to catch up. So now that apologies have been made let's jump right to it.

  Chasing Life Review S1E2 - Help Wanted "It's never a good time to get that kind of news" As we figured, being alone and having no one to talk to about having cancer can't last for long. April tells her bestie, Beth, that she's sick, and she reacts more like we thought April would with looks of disbelief and crying. Sometimes it's as hard to watch someone go through something, as it is to go through it yourself. As April tries to run around town, acting like she's not sick and nothing is wrong, one can't help but notice that she's moving a little slower and is a lot out of breath. While April seems hellbent on doing absolutely nothing as it relates to her leukemia, Beth is doing the opposite and learning everything she can about the disease. Between dating, getting an evil new supervisor, tracking down the mysterious girl at her fathers grave and covering for her sister, April is finding time for everything except her health.

Chasing Life REVIEW S1E1 - PILOT “Let me save your life then you can go back to hating me” She’s quick witted, snarky, awkward, savvy and only 24 years old. In an attempt to land the biggest story of her life, April Carver finds out that she has CANCER. Which sucks because her life is just beginning; an amazing best friend, a job that she loves, her crush returning her feelings and a family just starting to get over fathers passing, the timing of this couldn't be worse. I expected for this show to be a cry fest full of love ones mourning, hospitals full of dying patients and a family coming to terms with one of its daughters having cancer and watching how that would affect everyone else’s life. But that’s not what this is; in fact it’s the exact opposite. This isn't Cancer Girl, where the show revolves around her and her illness 24/7; instead this is about 24 year old who happens to have cancer trying desperately for that fact not to overwhelm the rest of her life. Canc...

  ABC Family 2014 Summer Schedule 3 New shows and 3 night of original programming are coming to ABC Family this summer. The recently picked up comedy series; Young & Hungry, Mystery Girls and the new network drama Chasing Life have all found spots on ABC Family’s summer line-up. To accompany these new series fan favorites; Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth and The Fosters will all return in June with new episodes. Pretty Little Liars returns for its fifth season in which the PLLs must dodge their dreaded nemesis, “A,” while navigating a world with Alison back in it. The series will hit milestone 100th episodes during its fifth season. Switched At Birth returns as the characters deal with the consequences of decisions made in the mid-season finale. And The Fosters returns for its second season where it will continue to explore the growing Fosters clan. ABC FAMILY 2014 SUMMER SCHEDULE

    Like I've said before, 2014 is going to be an amazing year for ABC Family . They are kicking the year off with by airing new episodes of their hit original series, on three nights this winter. (This usually happens in the summer, not the spring) And now the network has given Chasing Life an upcoming series on the network, that hasn't even received a premiere date yet, a back order of seven episodes. Put together Chasing Life will have a 20 episode 1st season (the networks standard). Whether all the episodes will air together or in two separate blocks has yet to be determined. Chasing Life was ordered to series at the same time as last summers ABC Family's breakout hits; Twisted and The Fosters.

2014 is shaping up to be a record setting year for ABC Family, they have decided to make a heavy push toward comedies, green lighting more than four new comedies to pilot with some big name stars attached. For the first time ABC family will air three nights of original programming this Winter, bringing back all of our summer favorites. 2014 ABC FAMILY WINTER SCHEDULE

*Updated 7/15/13* In 2013 ABC family did not host an upfront event, most likely because the fate of more than one show is still unknown. ABC Family is one of those rare television stations where I am going to try everything that premieres on that channel at least once. I may not love everything but, I must say I am addicted to more than a handful of their hit television programs. Summer programming is where Abc Family shines and I must say that this year is no different; there are new hits and returning favorites for everyone to enjoy. Although there is still no word on what lies ahead for previous summer hits such as Bunheads, and the lying game, that is no reason not to tune in this summer and get wrapped up in; the mystery, friendships, and family that remains a key component of ABC Family original series. Updated 7/15/13 - Sad News Lying Game and Bunheads Fans According to several of the leading co-stars. The show has not been picked up for a third season. Although Season ...