Posted in Ratings, Television on May 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Last night’s programming was repeat-heavy as we are getting that much closer to the end of the 2012-2013 TV season.
Here is how the only drama that aired a new episode fared in the overall ratings:
10 PM Show:
Grimm (NBC) [Season Finale] – 5.2 million
What did you watch last night? Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Television on May 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
8 PM:
NCIS on USA Network
Unstoppable movie on FX
8:30 PM:
Burlesque movie on ABC Family
9 PM:
Rogue on Audience (DirecTV Only) (NEW)
Bomb Girls on Reelz Channel (NEW)
Falling Skies on TNT (Reair)
NCIS on USA Network
9:45 PM:
The Vow movie on Encore
10 PM:
Nashville on ABC (Season Finale)
Chicago Fire on NBC (Season Finale)
Psych on USA Network (NEW)
Game of Thrones on HBO (Reair)
Falling Skies on TNT (Reair)
Unstoppable movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on May 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news for yesterday and today:
TELEVISION
Actor Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5 and Scarecrow and Mrs. King) will join the cast of the first-ever scripted drama series Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove set to debut on the Hallmark Channel on July 20. He will play Bob Beldon, owner of the local Cedar Cove Inn called Thyme and Tide. (The Futon Critic)
ABC will air the four remaining episodes of last fall’s new thriller 666 Park Avenue starting on June 22. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Doctor Who has been renewed for an 8th season by the BBC. (The Deadline Team)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actress Mia Maestro (Alias and Breaking Dawn Part 2) will star opposite actor Corey Stoll in the FX drama project called The Strain, which is an of the Guillermo del Toro vampire novel trilogy that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Stoll), the head of the Centers for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, who works so closely with Ephraim, they finish each other’s sentences and stumble into an affair. The project is being eyed for a 13-episode pick-up by the network. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Legendary director Steven Spielberg is set to produce a live-action TV series based on the popular video game Halo for Microsoft, who is attempted to move into Netflix and Amazon territory of producing original content for its VOD service. (Dark Horizons)
Actress America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) is set to star in the potential limited series for ABC called Pedro & Maria, a modern day twist on Romeo and Juliet. Here is the tagline for the project: Pedro and Maria are two opposites cut from the same cloth caught in the trap of forbidden love. He is a second generation Dominican from the mean streets of Washington Heights. She is a Puerto Rican whose parents made millions as real estate developers. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Star Trek Into Darkness – 70.2 million
2. Iron Man 3 – 35.8 million
3. The Great Gatsby – 24 million
4. Pain and Gain – 3.2 million
5. The Croods – 3 million
6. 42 – 2.8 million
7. Oblivion – 2.3 million
8. Mud – 2.2 million
9. Tyler Perry Presents Peeples – 2.1 million
10. The Big Wedding – 1.2 million
Actor Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games) is set to star in the upcoming box office film called Aurora Rising, playing a Southern California surfer turned military fighter pilot who, after acing a complicated and messy first combat mission, gets recruited to be part of an elite team to test the next generation of aircraft. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
Actor Christian Borle (Smash) will star in the upcoming cyber crime movie from Michael Mann that is as-yet untitled. The film will feature Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Holt McCallany as part of the cast. (The Deadline Team)
Actress Sarah Hyland (Modern Family) and actor Gabriel Byrne (Vikings) have joined the cast of the anticipated adaptation of the Vampire Academy books by Richelle Mead. Byrne will play Victor, one of the leaders of the Academy while Hyland will play Natalie, Victor’s daughter and the best friend of the lead characters, Rose and Lissa. Actresses Lucy Fry and Zoey Deutch will play the lead characters. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
Actress Shannyn Sossamon (Moonlight) will play architect and designer Eileen Gray in the upcoming biopic called The Price Of Desire with singer-actress Alanis Morissette set to play her lover. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
Actress Carey Mulligan (The Great Gatsby) and actor Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust And Bone) will star in the adaptation of the Thomas Hardy 1874 novel Far From The Madding Crowd. They will play Bathsheba Everdine and Gabriel Oak in the story of the ill-fated passions of a willful young woman and her three suitors. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
BROADWAY NEWS
Actor Zachary Levi (Chuck) will star opposite actress Krysta Rodriguez (Smash) in the Broadway play First Date. He will play Aaron, who is set up on a first date with Casey (Rodriguez). As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds they are not alone on this date as Casey and Aaron’s inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons and the wait staff get into the act. (The Deadline Team)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on May 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We are getting even closer to the end of the 2012-2013 TV season with another season finale airing on Monday night along with the debut of a new summer show and a new episode of one other drama.
Here is how the Monday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
10 PM Shows:
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) [Season Finale] – 9 million
Motive (ABC) [DEBUT] – 6.8 million
Revolution (NBC) [NEW] – 5.8 million
What did you watch last night? Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Television on May 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
6 PM:
Independence Day movie on Spike
7 PM:
Mulan (animated) movie on ABC Family
Moonrise Kingdom movie on HBO
8 PM:
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (Reair)
The Vampire Diaries on The CW (Reair)
The Borgias on Showtime 2 (Reair)
Castle on TNT
Taken movie on FX
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie on IFC
Brave (animated) movie on Starz
9 PM:
NCIS on CBS (Reair)
The Big C: Hereafter on Showtime 2 (Reair)
Castle on TNT
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows movie on HBO Signature
9:05 PM:
Pocahontas (animated) movie on ABC Family
9:30 PM:
Awkward. on MTV (Reair)
9:50 PM:
Underworld: Awakening movie on Encore
10 PM:
Awkward. on MTV (NEW)
NCIS on CBS (Reair)
Castle on TNT
What’s Love Got To Do With It movie on Cinemax
Taken movie on FX
10:01 PM:
Grimm on NBC (Season Finale)
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on May 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Here is a list of the programming options to expect on TV this week:
On May 20, it will be a big night of TV with Hawaii Five-0 airing its season finale on CBS at 10 PM while the series finale of The Big C: Hereafter will air on Showtime at 10 PM. That same night the new ABC summer drama Motive will air it sneak peek premiere at 9 PM.
The season finale of Grimm will air on NBC on May 21 at 10 PM.
On May 22, the season finales of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Chicago Fire will air on NBC at 9 and 10 PM; Nashville will air its season finale on ABC at 10 PM and Criminal Minds will air its two-hour season finale on CBS at 9 PM.
The new ABC series Motive will move to its regular timeslot of 9 PM on May 23 followed by the premiere of the summer series Rookie Blue at 10 PM.
On May 26, the two-hour series finale of Smash will air on NBC at 9 PM.
And that same night, Behind the Candelabra, the movie about pianist extraordinaire Liberace will air on HBO at 9 PM.
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Television on May 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable
series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
8 PM:
Bates Motel on A&E (Reair)
Da Vinci’s Demons on Starz (Reair)
Defiance on Syfy (Reair)
Castle on TNT
The Scorpion King movie on AMC
Iron Man 2 movie on FX
9 PM:
Defiance on Syfy (NEW)
Bates Motel on A&E (Reair)
Game of Thrones on HBO2 (Reair)
Da Vinci’s Demons on Starz (Reair)
The Big C: Hereafter on Showtime2 (Reair)
Castle on TNT
Mulan (animated) movie on ABC Family
Juno movie on E!
9:30 PM:
Enough movie on Oxygen
10 PM:
Bates Motel on A&E (NEW)
Rectify mini-series on Sundance (NEW)
The Big C: Hereafter on Showtime 2 (Series Finale)
Warehouse 13 on Syfy (NEW)
Castle on TNT
10:01 PM:
Motive on ABC (Sneak Peek Premiere)
Revolution on NBC (NEW)
The Scorpion King movie on AMC
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on May 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Friday night’s programming on the major networks was mostly repeat-heavy, but there was one more season finale of note:
8 PM Show:
Nikita (The CW) [Season Finale] – 1.1 million
What did you watch last night? Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Television on May 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
5:30 PM:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie on BBC America
6:30 PM:
The Big C: Hereafter on Showtime (Reair)
6:45 PM:
Sherlock Holmes: Game of the Shadows movie on HBO
7 PM:
Rectify mini-series on Sundance (Reair)
Twister movie on ABC Family
Second Honeymoon movie on Hallmark
We Bought a Zoo movie on HBO Family
Steel Magnolias movie on Lifetime
Underworld: Evolution movie on Syfy
7:30 PM:
The Borgias on Showtime (Reair)
8 PM:
Call the Midwife mini-series on PBS (Season Finale)
Da Vinci’s Demons on Starz (Reair)
Rectify mini-series on Sundance (Reair)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves movie on BBC America
Star Trek movie on FX
The Shawshank Redemption movie on IFC
My Week with Marilyn movie on TMC
9 PM:
Game of Thrones on HBO (NEW)
Army Wives on Lifetime (NEW)
Mr. Selfridge mini-series on PBS (Two-Hour Season Finale)
Awkward. on MTV (Reair)
Rectify mini-series on Sundance (Reair)
Undercover Bridesmaid movie on Hallmark
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans movie on Syfy
9:30 PM:
Awkward. on MTV (Reair)
Twister movie on ABC Family
10 PM:
The Borgias on Showtime (NEW)
Star Trek movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Television on May 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
7 PM:
I Want to Marry Ryan Banks movie on Hallmark
The School of Rock movie on Showtime
7:15 PM:
Moonrise Kingdom movie on HBO
7:30 PM:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 movie on ABC Family
27 Dresses movie on Fox Movie Channel
8 PM:
Doctor Who on BBC America (Season Finale)
Elementary on CBS (Reair)
Bates Motel on A&E (Reair)
Banshee on More Max (Reair)
Warehouse 13 on Syfy (Reair)
NCIS on USA Network
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (animated) movie on Disney
The Debt movie on HBO Signature
50 First Dates movie on MTV
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen movie on Showtime 2
The Bodyguard movie on TV Guide Network
9 PM:
Orphan Black on BBC America (NEW)
Bates Motel on A&E (Reair)
Warehouse 13 on Syfy (Reair)
The Seven Year Hitch movie on Hallmark
10 PM:
Bates Motel on A&E (Reair)
Warehouse 13 on Syfy (Reair)
Psych on ION
The Iron Lady movie on Showtime 2
Enjoy!
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