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Last night’s primetime line-up was filled with sports, movies, reality, game shows, animation and repeats with only one Sunday night drama airing a new episode.
Here is how that lone Sunday night drama fared in the overall ratings last week:
8 PM Show:
Pandora (The CW) [NEW] – 270,000 viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
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On November 6, the gripping Netflix movie Citation will debut online.
Based on real events, a bright student (newcomer Temi Otedola) in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor (Jimmy Jean-Louis from Heroes and Claws) who tried to rape her.
Here is a trailer for Citation:
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The holiday movie The Christmas Yule Blog will debut on Lifetime at 8 PM on November 6.
Caroline Williams (Sara Canning from The Vampire Diaries and A Series of Unfortunate Events), a well-known social media travel writer, is given the assignment to cover a hundred-year-old Christmas parade in the small town of Carte De Amor, New Mexico. Not excited about the assignment, Caroline goes anyway and meets a high school music teacher, Oscar Ortiz (Zak Santiago from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency), who introduces her to a side of Christmas that she has never seen, with different traditions and meanings.
In the twelve days before Christmas, Caroline falls in love with Christmas all over again and finds true love for herself.
Here is a trailer for The Christmas Yule Blog.
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Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On November 2, for our Canadian viewers, GlobalTV will air the 4th season premiere of Private Eyes at 8 PM. NOTE: At some point American viewers will get to see this season on ION, but there are no plans just yet for that to happen. Once the season finishes its run in Canada, then it’ll hit US TV screens.
The season premiere of The Good Doctor will also air on ABC on November 2 at 10 PM; while that same day (November 2), the season finale of the HBO drama We Are Who We Are will air at 10 PM.
On November 3, it’s election night coverage all over network TV. Batten down the hatches!!
The A Word will air its 3rd season premiere on Sundance on November 4 at 11 PM.
On November 5, the Netflix holiday movie Operation Christmas Drop will debut online. Congressional aide Erica (Kat Graham) forgoes family Christmas to travel at her boss’s behest. At a beachside Air Force base, she clashes with Capt. Andrew Jantz (Alexander Ludwig), who knows her assignment is finding reasons to defund the facility. Aaron Douglas, Xavier de Guzman and Virginia Madsen co-star.
The third season of Riviera will get started online on Sundance Now on November 5 along with a new episode added every Thursday.
On November 6, the holiday movie The Christmas Yule Blog will debut on Lifetime at 8 PM. Caroline Williams (Sara Canning), a well-known social media travel writer, is given the assignment to cover a hundred-year-old Christmas parade in the small town of Carte De Amor, New Mexico. Not excited about the assignment, Caroline goes anyway and meets a high school music teacher, Oscar Ortiz (Zak Santiago), who introduces her to a side of Christmas that she has never seen, with different traditions and meanings. In the twelve days before Christmas, Caroline falls in love with Christmas all over again and finds true love for herself.
The gripping Netflix movie Citation will debut online on November 6. Based on real events, a bright student (Temi Otedola) in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor (Jimmy Jean-Louis from Heroes and Claws) who tried to rape her.
On November 7, the Lifetime holiday movie A Welcome Home Christmas will debut at 8 PM. Chloe (Jana Kramer) has always supported various military organizations, including the town’s Army toy drive for Christmas. This year, she is paired up with Michael (Brandon Quinn), a vet who recently returned home, and together they recruit other veterans and active military personnel to help in the cause. As the community gears up for the Officer’s Christmas Ball, where all the kids will meet Santa Claus and receive their gifts, Michael and Chloe begin to realize the greatest gift this season has been each other’s company. Charlene Tilton and Tim Reid co-star.
The Hallmark Channel holiday movie Never Kiss A Man in a Christmas Sweater will debut on November 7 at 8 PM. Single mom Maggie (Ashley Williams) is facing Christmas alone until Lucas (Niall Matter) crashes into her life and becomes an unexpected houseguest. Together they overcome Christmas while finding comfort in their growing bond.
Also on November 7, The Christmas Ring will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 10 PM. A reporter (Nazneen Contractor) searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring. With the help of the ring’s owner’s grandson (David Alpay), they learn the legacy his grandparents left behind.
On November 8, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Christmas with the Darlings will debut at 8 PM. Just before the holidays Jessica Lew (Katrina Law) is ending her tenure as the assistant to her wealthy boss to use her recently earned law degree within his company, but offers to help his charming, younger brother (Carlo Marks) as he looks after his orphaned nieces and nephew over Christmas.
A Very Charming Christmas Town is the latest holiday movie set to debut on Lifetime on November 8 at 8 PM. City girl and travel and lifestyle blogger, Aubrey Lang (Natalie Hall), goes to the little town of Solvang for her next holiday vlog piece after it’s voted Most Christmassy Town in the USA. She soon meets Sawyer Larsen (Jon Prescott), a local community coordinator and chocolate shop owner assigned to show her around the small town. At first, the unlikely pairing is at odds but soon start to fall for each other amidst the twinkling lights of the romantic little Danish village. Joe Lando (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), Tracey Bregman (The Young and the Restless) and Jo Marie Payton (Family Matters) co-star.
On November 8, the holiday movie The Christmas Bow will debut at Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at 10 PM. When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist (Lucia Micarelli) reconnects with an old family friend (Michael Rady), who helps her heal and find love during the holidays.
The UPtv holiday movie A Ring for Christmas will debut on November 8 at 7 PM. Spoiled single girl Angie Moore (Liliana Tandon) gets cut off 25 days before Christmas. When she discovers the existence of a sizable trust fund that she will inherit once she gets married, Angie decides to find a man to marry – by Christmas. The cast includes Dean Geyer, Charles Hittinger and Lorraine Bracco.
Lastly also on November 8, the season finale of Cobra will air on PBS at 10 PM as well as the season premieres of NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans will air on CBS at 8:30 and 9:30 PM respectively.
Mark your calendars!
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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:
NOTE: Check your local listings for air times on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as they have changed the airtimes of their movies this holiday season.
6 PM:
A Cheerful Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Twinkle All the Way movie on LIfetime (Reair)
6:30 PM:
Pitch Black movie on Syfy
7 PM:
A Joyous Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:03 PM:
The Spanish Princess on Starz (Encore)
7:25 PM:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie on Freeform
7:30 PM:
Twister movie on AMC
8 PM:
L.A.’s Finest on FOX (NEW)
Britannia on EPIX (Encore)
The Christmas Aunt movie on Lifetime (Encore)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (Encore)
Christmas at the Palace movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
The American President movie on Encore
The Equalizer 2 movie on FX
9 PM:
Filthy Rich on FOX (NEW)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime 2 (Encore)
Christmas in Wonderland movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
On the Basis of Sex movie on Showtime
10 PM:
The Good Doctor on ABC (NEW – Season Premiere)
Soulmates on AMC (NEW)
Christmas Land movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Galaxy Quest movie on TruTV
10:03 PM:
Candy Cane Christmas movie on Lifetime (Encore)
10:30 PM:
The Equalizer 2 movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on November 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATIONS/RENEWALS
Peacock has cancelled Brave New World after one season. (TV Line)
Netflix has renewed The Baby-Sitters Club for a second season. (TV Line)
FOX has cancelled both new dramas Filthy Rich and NEXT mere weeks after each show debuted. Any remaining episodes for each show will be aired, however. (TV Line)
The CW has picked up the Canadian dramas Burden of Truth and Coroner for a fourth and third season respectively. Both dramas have already been renewed by their home Canadian network CBC. Burden of Truth will follow Joanna (Kristen Kreuk) and her husband and law partner Billy (Peter Mooney) as they take on a mining company. (The Hollywood Reporter)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actresses Awkwafina and Sandra Oh will star in an as-yet untitled comedy flick at Netflix, playing sisters. Oh will star as a lonely recluse whose life is upended when her train-wreck sister (Awkwafina) vows to mend their relationship by helping her fulfill a lifelong dream: to appear as a contestant on her favorite game show. (Variety)
Father-daughter duo Ethan and Maya Hawke are set to star in the romantic coming-of-age comedy Revolver that will be set in 1966. Maya will play Jane, a teen resident of Anchorage, Alaska. When the impossible happens — a flight to Japan carrying The Beatles is forced to make an unexpected stop — all hell breaks loose as the unsuspecting residents are consumed by Beatlemania. Jane devises a plan to lose her virginity to George Harrison, discovering that adventure (and romance) are actually a little closer to home than she thought. (Variety)
Actor Joel Kinnaman will executive produce and star in a feature film about NFL player Jerry Smith and his long-time teammate Brig Owens. The film will be set at the height of the civil rights movement between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, during a time of societal upheaval. Smith was secretly gay — a fact he kept hidden until his death from AIDS in 1986 — and Owens faced constant challenges and bigotry as a Black man while attending law school. Through it all, the men formed a close bond to always be there for each other regardless of differences or obstacles. (Variety)
Actor Sam Heughan (Outlander and actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico) will star in the romantic drama tentatively titled Text For You that will include international music icon Celine Dion. The movie is inspired by the 2016 German-language box office hit SMS Fur Dich about a woman who, to ease the pain after tragically losing her fiancé, starts to send romantic texts to his old cell. It turns out, the phone number has been reassigned to a man across town suffering from similar heartbreak. The two meet and feel an undeniable connection, but can’t seem to leave the past behind. In this verion the music and influence of Dion gives them the courage to take a chance on love again. (Deadline)
CASTING NEWS
Nicole Kidman will star in and executive producer the Amazon drama series Things I Know to Be True, based on the play by Andrew Bovell, that is about the resilience of an enduring marriage and the evolving nature of a family’s love, as Bob and Fran Price watch their adult children make unexpected decisions which change the course of their lives. (Variety)
Actor/musician Felix Mallard (Locke & Key, Happy Together and the Australian soap Neighbours) has joined the cast of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. He will recur as Zoey’s childhood free spirit neighbor Aiden, who has returned from backpacking around Asia, moving back in with his parents while trying to launch a garage band. (TV Line)
Some of the new cast members for the second season of Why Women Kill, the anthology series on CBS All Access, have been announced, including Alison Tolman (Fargo and Emergence), Lana Parrilla (Once Upon a Time), Matthew Daddario (Shadowhunters) and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) [among others]. (The Futon Critic and Deadline)
Actress YaYa Gosselin has been promoted to series regular on FBI: Most Wanted where she plays Tali, the daughter of Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon). (Deadline and TV Line)
Actor Jason Diaz (The 100) has landed a recurring role in season 3 of Charmed where he will play Antonio, a charming classmate of Maggie’s (series lead Sarah Jeffery) who becomes her nemesis. (Deadline and TV Line)
Actor Nick Tarabay (Arrow) has joined the cast of season two of DC’s Stargirl. He will play Eclipso. Jonathan Cake will recur as The Shade. The arrival of Eclipso and The Shade was foreshadowed in the final moments of Stargirl‘s first season finale. While Cindy (Meg DeLacy) found a mysterious diamond shard in The Magician’s storage locker, The Shade was seen materializing inside the ISA lair. (Deadline and TV Line)
Actresses Claudia Doumit and Colby Minifie have been promoted to series regular for season 3 of The Boys. Claudia plays Victoria Neuman, the young wunderkind congresswoman who harbors a dark secret while Colby plays Ashley Barrett, the often stressed VP of Hero Management for Vought. (Deadline)
Actress Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy and Everwood) will appear in the upcoming Freeform thriller Cruel Summer, which takes place over three summers – 1993 to 1995 – in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate (Olivia Holt), is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette (Chiara Aurelia), goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America. Each episode is told from the point of view of one of the two main girls. Drew will play Cindy Turner, the mother to Jeanette. Although once the most popular girl in town, Cindy struggles to hold her family together while being in the crosshairs of town gossip. (Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Mindy Kaling will produce and star in the film Good in Bed based on the best-selling book by Jennifer Weiner that tells the story of an up-and-coming journalist in Philadelphia, grappling with shaky self-esteem, a fresh-out-of-the-closet mom, an absent father and the guy who broke her heart. In the course of one eventful year, with the help of a fairy godmother’s best friend (also a movie star), the protagonist weathers public humiliation, finds true love and learns to accept herself, and her life, in all of its messy, imperfect glory. (Variety)
The CW is working on a Nancy Drew spin-off drama (no not The Hardy Boys), but rather a series centered on iconic inventor Tom Swift with a twist: the formerly white, blonde and straight lead character will now be Black and gay. Tom Swift will follow the serialized adventures of the billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father. Tom takes to the road on a quest to unravel the truth, leaving behind the comforts of his usual moneyed lifestyle, all while fighting to stay one step ahead of an Illuminati-scale group hell-bent on stopping him. The Tom Swift character will appear in an episode of Nancy Drew‘s upcoming second season. (TV Line)
Actor Oscar Isaac (the Star Wars franchise) is expected to star in the Marvel series Moon Knight at Disney+, which tells the story of Marc Spector, an elite soldier and mercenary, who decides to fight crime after he becomes the human avatar of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon. (Variety)
Netflix is developing a live-action series based on Assassin’s Creed, the best-selling video game franchise that first debuted in 2007 and became an instant hit. The game explores the war between the rival secret orders of the Assassins and the Templars as they use advanced machines to access the genetic memories of Assassins in different periods of the past to track down powerful artifacts called Pieces of Eden. (Variety)
Actress Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black and Mrs. America) is set to star in a 4th season of the HBO drama In Treatment. The reimagined series will focus on a diverse trio of patients in session with the observant, empathetic Dr. Brooke Lawrence (Aduba) while she wrestles with her own issues. The show is slated to debut in 2021. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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On November 5, the Netflix holiday movie Operation Christmas Drop will debut online.
Congressional aide Erica (Kat Graham from The Vampire Diaries) forgoes family Christmas to travel at her boss’s behest. At a beachside Air Force base, she clashes with Capt. Andrew Jantz (Alexander Ludwig from Vikings), who knows her assignment is finding reasons to defund the facility.
Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Xavier de Guzman (The 100 and Take Two) and Virginia Madsen (Sideways) co-star.
Here is a trailer for Operation Christmas Drop:
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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:
Candy Cane Christmas movie on Lifetime (Encore)
6:35 PM:
The Greatest Showman movie on FXM
6:55 PM:
Captain America: The First Avenger movie on EPIX
Frozen (animated) movie on Freeform
7 PM:
A Very Country Christmas Homecoming movie on UPtv (DEBUT)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (Encore)
Picture a Perfect Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Once Upon a Christmas Miracle movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:31 PM:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie on Syfy
8 PM:
The Trouble with Maggie Cole on PBS (NEW)
On the 12th Date of Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
The Christmas Aunt movie on Lifetime (DEBUT)
The Bourne Ultimatum movie on A&E
Top Gun movie on CMT
Waves movie on TMC
The Equalizer movie on TNT
9 PM:
Brittania on EPIX (NEW)
The Undoing on HBO (NEW)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (NEW)
Roadkill on PBS (DEBUT)
Holly & Ivy movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT)
Patriot Games movie on Showtime 2
9:25 PM:
Coco (animated) movie on Freeform
10 PM:
Cobra on Masterpiece on PBS (NEW)
Brittania on EPIX (Encore)
The Undoing on HBO (Encore)
Christmas at Graceland movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
10:03 PM:
Jingle Belle movie on Lifetime (Reair)
Enjoy!
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