It was a pretty typical Sunday night of programming on the major networks last night with football, news and repeats. CBS aired the final episodes of 2017 of their Sunday night dramas and FOX aired a live version of a holiday classic [that didn’t quite go over well with viewers].
Here is how those dramas and one movie fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show/Special: Wisdom of the Crowd (CBS) [NEW – Winter Finale] – 7.4 million viewers A Christmas Story Live! (FOX) [Live Special DEBUT – 3 Hours] – 4.5 million viewers
9 PM Show: NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) [NEW – Winter Finale] – 7 million viewers
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 PM: The Notebook movie on AMC
5:20 PM: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie on HBO
5:30 PM: Frozen (animated) movie on Freeform
6 PM: Christmas Under Wraps movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair) Kung Fu Panda 2 (animated) movie on Cartoon Network
7:01 PM: Patriot Games movie on Encore
7:45 PM: Star Trek Into Darkness movie on FXM
8 PM: The Mistletoe Inn movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore) Snowed-Inn Christmas movie on Lifetime (Encore) Titanic movie on BBC America You’ve Got Mail movie on POP
9 PM: Christmas in Angel Falls movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore) The Gifted on FOX (Reair)
9:45 PM: La La Land movie on HBO2
10 PM: Scorpion on CBS (NEW) Gunpowder mini-series on HBO (DEBUT – Part 1 of 3) The Christmas List movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
10:11 PM: The 12 Men of Christmas movie on Lifetime (Reair)
Netflix has renewed Marvel’s The Punisher for a second season. (Variety)
The USA Network has given Mr. Robot a season four renewal. (Variety)
Netflix has renewed the Jason Momoa series Frontier for a third season. It will include 6 episodes and is set to premiere in 2018. (The Futon Critic)
NEW PRODUCTIONS
Netflix will stream the UK-produced drama The Frankenstein Chronicles, a supernatural crime drama that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Set in 1830s London, Sean Bean will play John Marlott, a war veteran and river policeman who is thrown into the supernatural world after taking on the case of a corpse made up of body parts from different children. Soon, John Marlott discovers the horrific crime is entangled in a web of demonic forces and powerful figures in the political establishment. (Variety and TV Guide)
Uber producer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica and Outlander) has a new project in the works. Apple has given a straight-to-series order for the as-yet titled project that will explore what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. (Deadline)
CASTING NEWS
Actor Colton Haynes is returning to Arrow as Roy Harper for a short arc. (Entertainment Weekly)
Actress Kylie Bunbury (Pitch) will star in the ABC reboot of the 1970’s cop drama Get Christie Love, playing the title character, an African-American CIA agent in charge of an elite special-ops unit. (TV Line)
Actress Gabrielle Carteris (Beverly Hills, 90210 and SAG-AFTRA president) will guest-star in a late-January episode of NCIS, playing Julie Hart, the mother of a high school student who witnessed a crime that Gibbs’ team is investigating. (TV Line)
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 PM: The Rock movie on A&E Shawshank Redemption movie on Spike TV
5:30 PM: Thor: The Dark World movie on FXX
6 PM: The Christmas Cottage movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore) Happy Feet 2 (animated) movie on AMC Hitman movie on BBC America
7 PM: Journey Back to Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore) A Prince for Christmas movie on ION (Reair)
8 PM: Last Tango in Halifax mini-series on PBS (Season Premiere – Part 1 of 2) Christmas Connection movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT) A Perfect Christmas List movie on Lifetime (Reair) Independence Day: Resurgence movie on Cinemax The Fast and the Furious movie on HBO
9 PM: NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (NEW) Romance at Reindeer Lodge movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT) Victoria on Masterpiece on PBS (Reair) A Cinderella Christmas movie on ION (Reair) The Mask of Zorro movie on Encore
10 PM: With Love, Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
With the holidays just around the corner, the networks are bringing most of their dramas to an end until the new year. Most of the Friday night dramas aired their fall finales as well as one season finale.
Here is how those handful (or so) of dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Shows: MacGyver (CBS) [NEW – Winter Finale] – 6.9 million viewers Blindspot (NBC) [NEW] – 3.3 million viewers Once Upon a Time (ABC) [NEW – Winter Finale] – 2.3 million viewers
9 PM Shows: Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) [NEW – Winter Finale Hour 1] – 8.5 million viewers Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) [NEW] – 1.8 million viewers The Exorcist (FOX) [NEW – Season Finale] – 1.3 million viewers
10 PM Show: Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) [NEW – Winter Finale Hour 2] – 7.7 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night? Please share.
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: Happy Feet (animated) movie on AMC
6 PM: Finding Santa movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
6:30 PM: Bridge of Spies movie on Showtime
7 PM: Maggie’s Christmas Miracle movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore) NCIS on USA Network
7:10 PM: Footloose (original) movie on Encore
8 PM: Christmas Next Door movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT) Snowed-Inn Christmas movie on Lifetime (DEBUT) NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (Reair) The Vow movie on FXM Thor: The Dark World movie on FXX The Bodyguard movie on HBO2
9 PM: Rocky Mountain Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT) A Christmas Cruise movie on ION (DEBUT) S.W.A.T. on CBS (Reair)
9:53 PM: Outlander on Starz (Encore)
10 PM: The Mistletoe Inn movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore) My Christmas Prince movie on Lifetime (Encore) The Vow movie on FXM
Last night’s programming options on the major networks included plenty of holiday specials, football, reality, some repeats and comedy with only ONE Thursday night drama airing a new episode.
Here is how that lone drama fared in the overall ratings last night:
10 PM Show: S.W.A.T. (CBS) [NEW] – 6.4 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night? Please share.
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:
5:39 PM: Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie on Starz
5:50 PM: La La Land movie on HBO2
6 PM: Marry Me at Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
7 PM: Magical Christmas Ornaments movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
8 PM: Once Upon a Time on ABC (NEW – Winter Finale) Blindspot on NBC (NEW) Outlander on Starz (Encore) A December Bride movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair) Legally Blonde movie on CMT Deepwater Horizon movie on HBO It’s a Wonderful Life (classic) movie on USA Network
9 PM: A Bramble House Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
9:01 PM: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC (NEW)
9:30 PM: The Last of the Mohicans movie on HBO2
10 PM: Coming Home for Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
On December 18, the new 3-part HBO thriller Gunpowder will debut at 10 PM.
British activist Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics plan to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early 17th century.
The cast includes Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Liv Tyler (The Lord of the Rings franchise), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), Edward Holcroft (Kingsman movies) and Robert Emms (Atlantis) [among others].
NOTE: Parts 2 and 3 will air on December 19 and December at 10 PM.
Since the holidays are fast approaching most of the primetime landscape will be cleared for specials, repeats and the such. That means mid-season finales are airing all over the major networks, whether they are clearly announced as that or not.
Here is how the Wednesday dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show: Empire (FOX) [NEW – Fall Finale] – 5.9 million viewers Riverdale (The CW) [NEW – Mid-Season Finale] – 1.4 million viewers
9 PM Show: Star (FOX) [NEW – Fall Finale] – 4.2 million viewers Dynasty (The CW) [NEW – Mid-Season Finale] – 721,000 viewers
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