Posted in New Shows, Reminder, Television, Video on September 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The new Netflix streaming series The Politician will debut online on September 27.
Payton Hobart (Broadway star Ben Platt) has known since childhood that he’s going to be President of the United States; but first he’ll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
The cast includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Judith Light, Zoey Deutch and Bette Midler.
Here is a trailer for The Politician:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on September 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Here is the long list of the programming options to expect on TV this week, as the 2019-2020 Fall TV Season gets underway:
On September 23, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut:
9-1-1 on FOX at 8 PM (Season Premiere)
Prodigal Son on FOX at 9 PM (DEBUT)
All Rise on CBS at 9 PM (DEBUT)
Bull on CBS at 10 PM (Season Premiere)
The Good Doctor on ABC at 10 PM (Season Premiere)
Bluff City Law on NBC at 10 PM (DEBUT)
On September 24, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut:
NCIS, FBI and NCIS: New Orleans on CBS at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively (All Season Premieres)
The Resident and Empire on FOX at 8 and 9 PM respectively (Both Season Premieres)
This Is Us and New Amsterdam on NBC at 9 and 10 PM (Both Season Premieres)
Emergence on ABC at 10 PM (DEBUT)
On September 25, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut or air its series finale:
Suits on the USA Network at 9 PM (Series Finale)
Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. on NBC at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively (All Season Premieres)
Stumptown on ABC at 10 PM (DEBUT)
On September 26, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut or air its season finale:
The Ouptost on The CW at 9 PM (Season Finale)
Grey’s Anatomy, A Million Little Things and How To Get Away With Murder on ABC at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively (All Season Premieres)
Evil on CBS at 10 PM (DEBUT)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on NBC at 10 PM (Season Premiere)
On September 27, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut:
The Politician on Netflix (DEBUT)
Hawaii Five-0, Magnum P.I. and Blue Bloods on CBS at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively (All Season Premieres)
Van Helsing on Syfy at 10 PM (Season Premiere)
And on September 29, the following shows will be back with their new seasons or will debut or air its finale episodes:
Chesapeake Shores on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM (Season Finale)
God Friended Me and NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS at 8:30 and 9:30 PM respectively {special times} (Both Season Premieres)
Pennyworth on EPIX at 9 PM (Season Finale)
Godfather of Harlem on EPIX at 10 PM (DEBUT)
The Durrells of Corfu and Poldark on PBS at 8 and 9 PM (Both Season Premieres)
The Rookie on ABC at 10 PM (Season Premiere)
Fear the Walking Dead on AMC at 9 PM (Season Finale)
Preacher on AMC at 10 PM (Series Finale)
Lastly on September 29, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath will debut at 9 PM, starring Taylor Cole and Stephen Huszar.
Be prepared for LOTS of programming options and mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on September 23, 2019| 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:
Taken 3 movie on FX
Pretty Woman movie on TNT
5:35 PM:
Aquaman movie on HBO2
6 PM:
A Summer Romance movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
The Shawshank Redemption movie on AMC
6:45 PM:
The Hurt Locker movie on HBO
6:58 PM:
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle movie on Encore
7 PM:
Mystery 101: Dead Talk movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
8 PM:
9-1-1 on FOX (Season Premiere)
Pennyworth on EPIX (Encore)
Paris, Wine & Romance movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Me Before You movie on CMT
The Equalizer movie on FX
Mystic Pizza movie on ThisTV
Beauty and the Beast (2017) movie on TNT
8:02 PM:
The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie on Starz
8:30 PM:
Zootopia (animated) movie on Freeform
9 PM:
All Rise on CBS (DEBUT)
Prodigal Son on FOX (DEBUT)
Witness to Murder: A Darrow Mystery movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Cast Away movie on Sundance TV
Underworld movie on Syfy
10:30 PM
Pretty Woman movie on TNT
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on September 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
GLOW has been renewed for a fourth and final season by Netflix. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actor Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Apple series Shantaram, based on Gregory David Robert’s novel, that tells the story of Lin (Hunnam), a man on the run from an Australian prison looking to get lost in the teeming city of Bombay. Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in the slums, bars and underworld of India. (Variety)
Actor Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) will star opposite Arrow star Stephen Amell in the upcoming Starz drama Heels that will center around the world of independent professional wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, it follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals, Jack (Amell) and Ace (Ludwig) Spade, war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy (Ludwig) and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel (Amell). But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to — or hard to leave behind. (ComicBook.com and Deadline)
Actor Justin Theroux will star in the Apple adaptation of The Mosquito Coast, which follows an idealist who uproots his family and moves them to Latin America. (Variety)
Actor Kiefer Sutherland (24 and Designated Survivor) will star in the new take on The Fugitive for the new short-form streaming platform Quibi. Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) will also star, playing the wrongfully accused man Sutherland’s detective is trying to track down. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Timothy Olyphant (Justified and Deadwood) has joined the cast of the fourt season of Fargo in the recurring role of Dick “Deafy” Wickware. He will join a cast that includes Chris Rock, Jack Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Uzo Aduba and Amber Midthunder [among others]. (Entertainment Weekly)
Actor Jim Parrack (True Blood and Escape from Dannemora) will star alongside Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler in the spin-off series 9-1-1: One Star that follows Owen (Lowe), a sophisticated New York firefighter who, along with his son, relocates to the Texas capital and must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in his own life. Parrack will play Judd Ryder, a lifelong Texas firefighter marred by tragedy. (Yahoo)
Actress Willa Holland will be coming back to reprise her role of Thea Queen on the final season of Arrow. (TV Line)
Actor Tom Welling and actress Erica Durance, who played Clark Kent and Lois Lane on Smallville will appear in The CW crossover event “Crisis on Infinite Earth.” (TV Line)
Actress Cara Buono (Stranger Things) and actor Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) will have recurring roles on the fifth season of Supergirl. Buono will play Gamemnae, an ancient alien, who with others of her kind, have been safeguarding the Earth from the follies of humanity throughout the ages. Meanwhile, Pileggi will play Rama Khan, an ancient alien who is able to control the four ancient elements — fire, water, earth, and air. Arrogant and willful, Rama Khan has been entrusted to use his powers to protect the Earth from mankind for millions of years but now his agenda puts him at odds with Supergirl as well as Lena Luthor. (Deadline)
Actress Alaina Huffman (Supernatural) will recur on the 7th and final season of The 100, playing a character named Nikki, one of the newly-awakened Eligius IV convicts who is a bank robber and spree-killer who is both unpredictable and fierce. She will take on an unexpected leadership role, advocating for her people in the complicated new world of Sanctum. (Deadline)
Veteran actor Tim Matheson will recur on the upcoming season of This Is Us, playing Rebecca’s (Mandy Moore) father. (Deadline and TV Line)
NEW SHOWS-NEW STREAMING SERVICE
NBC is jumping on the bandwagon by offering a streaming series called Peacock that will feature a reboot of Battlestar Galactica from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Other shows for Peacock wil include Dr Death, based on the true-crime podcast that will star Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time and Fifty Shades franchise), Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater (Mr. Robot); Brave New World, based on the dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley that will star Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Demi Moore; the Queer as Folk reboot; a limited series from Shameless‘ Emmy Rossum; and One of Us Is Lying, based on the New York Times best-selling young adult mystery-thriller. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on September 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
On September 26, the new thriller series Evil will debut at 10 PM on CBS.
The series focuses on a skeptical female psychologist (Katja Herbers from Manhattan and Westworld) who joins a priest-in-training (Mike Colter from Luke Cage) and a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi from Blue Bloods and A Series of Unfortunate Events) as they investigate the Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and hauntings. Their job is to assess if there is a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
The cast includes Kurt Fuller (Supernatural and Psych) and Michael Emerson (Person of Interest and Lost).
Here is a trailer for Evil:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on September 22, 2019| 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:
4:30 PM:
The Fate of the Furious movie on FX
5:25 PM:
Road House movie on AMC
6 PM:
The Incredibles (animated) movie on Disney
6:15 PM:
Iron Man movie on Syfy
6:30 PM:
Beauty and the Beast (live-action) movie on TNT
6:40 PM:
Love Actually movie on HBO
7 PM:
Mystery 101: Words Can Kill movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Downton Abbey on PBS (Reair)
7:15 PM:
The Lion King (animated) movie on Freeform
8 PM:
The 71st Annual Emmy Awards on FOX (Special)
Chesapeake Shores on Hallmark Channel (NEW)
Descendants 3 movie on Disney (Encore)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets movie on A&E
The Green Mile movie on IFC
Air Force One movie on TMC
9 PM:
Pennyworth on EPIX (NEW)
Mystery 101: Dead Talk movie on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT)
Autumn Dreams movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Beauty and the Beast (live-action) movie on TNT
10 PM:
Pennyworth on EPIX (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on September 21, 2019| Leave a Comment »
On September 25, the new ABC drama Stumptown will debut at 10 PM.
Based on the graphic novel, the series follows Dex Parios (Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother) – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon. Her military intelligence skills make her a great PI, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police.
The cast also includes Michael Ealy (Almost Human and Secrets and Lies), Tantoo Cardinal (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Outlander), Camryn Manheim (Ghost Whisperer and The Practice) and Jake Johnson (New Girl).
Here is a trailer for Stumptown:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on September 21, 2019| 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 PM:
Logan movie on FX
5:45 PM:
The Princes and the Frog (animated) movie on Freeform
Batman Forever movie on TNT
6 PM:
Forever in My Heart movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
A Knight’s Tale movie on BBC America
Justice League movie on HBO
7:50 PM:
Beauty & the Beast (animated) movie on Freeform
8 PM:
Road House movie on AMC
The Incredibles (animated) movie on Disney
Mission: Impossible III movie on EPIX
The Fate of the Furious movie on FX
Man of Steel movie on TNT
9 PM:
When Hope Calls on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT – Special Presentation)
The Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle To Die For movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Iron Man movie on Syfy
Man on Fire movie on VICE
9:45 PM:
Aquaman movie on HBO
9:55 PM:
The Lion King (animated) movie on Freeform
10 PM:
When Hope Calls on Hallmark Channel (Second Episode – Special Presentation)
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on September 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
It was a night filled with special programming, repeats and reality on the major networks last night with only one Thursday night summer drama airing a new episode, as we enter the final week of TV before the fall TV season begins.
Here is how that lone Thursday night drama fared in the overall ratings:
8 PM Show:
The Outpost (The CW) [NEW] – 1.3 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on September 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The new ABC drama Emergence will debut on September 24 at 10 PM.
The series is about a police chief (Alison Tolman from Fargo) who takes in a young child (Alexa Swinton from Billions) she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
The show also stars Donald Faison (Scrubs), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption and Sleepy Hollow), Zabryna Guevara (New Amsterdam and Gotham) and Owain Yeoman (The Mentalist).
Here is a trailer for Emergence:
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