Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on April 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Amazon feature film Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse will debut online on April 30
Seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife, an elite Navy SEAL uncovers a covert plot (Michael B. Jordan) that threatens to engulf the United States and Russia in an all-out war.
The ensemble cast includes Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell, Colman Domingo, Guy Pearce and Cam Gigandet.
Here is a trailer for Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 26, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On April 27, the season finale of Delilah will air on OWN at 9 PM.
The season premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale will air on Hulu online on April 28.
On April 30, the Amazon feature film Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse will debut online. Seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife, an elite Navy SEAL uncovers a covert plot (Michael B. Jordan) that threatens to engulf the United States and Russia in an all-out war. The ensemble cast includes Jamie, Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell, Colman Domingo, Guy Pearce, and Cam Gigandet.
The new Apple TV+ drama The Mosquito Coast will debut online on April 30. Adapted from the best-selling novel, the series is a gripping adventure, following the dangerous journey of a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox (Justin Theroux), who uproots his family for Mexico when they suddenly find themselves on the run from the US government. Melissa George, Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman co-star.
Also on April 30, there will be a special – Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – airing on Disney+ online as well as the series finale of MacGyver airing that same night at 8 PM on CBS.
The UPtv original movie Just for the Summer will debut at 7 PM on May 2. English teacher Penelope Campbell (Hayley Sales from Cedar Cove and Hallmark’s The Perfect Bride movies) loves her annual summer vacations visiting her Grandma Dot, despite Dot’s constant attempts to set her up with every single man in town. This year, she bumps into Jason Humphrey (Brant Daugherty from Pretty Little Liars), none other than her childhood sweetheart, who is still as handsome and charming as ever. It’s a little awkward at first but the conversation soon turns to Jason’s own Grandma Sophie, who keeps doing the same to him. In order to evade the efforts of their matchmaking grandmothers, they make a pact pretending to date each other, but will the old sparks return?
Lastly, also on May 2, the season premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW at 8 PM followed by Batwoman at its new time of 9 PM; the third season of The Girlfriend Experience will air on Starz at 8 PM followed by The Gloaming at its new timeslot of 9 PM and the two-hour season premiere of Pose will air on FOX at 10 PM.
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 26, 2021| 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:
The Perfect Catch movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:30 PM:
Fast & Furious movie on AMC
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle movie on FX
8 PM:
9-1-1 on FOX (NEW)
Easter Under Wraps movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Impossible Dream movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Erin Brockovich movie on Sundance TV
9 PM:
All Rise on CBS (NEW)
9-1-1: Lone Star on FOX (NEW)
Condor on EPIX (Encore)
London Has Fallen movie on Syfy
9:50 PM:
Bridge and Tunnel on EPIX (Encore)
9:55 PM:
The Nevers on HBO (Encore)
10 PM:
Bull on CBS (NEW – 100th Episode)
The Secrets She Keeps on AMC (NEW)
Hailey Dean Mysteries movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
A Knight’s Tale movie on TruTV
10:01 PM:
Debris on NBC (NEW)
10:20 PM:
Bridge and Tunnel on EPIX (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on April 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Hi All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CONGRATS
Here is a salute to the Academy Awards, including director Chloe Zhao, Emerald Fennell, Daniel Kaluuya, Soul, Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari), Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins and Nomadland.
RENEWALS
Netflix has renewed Ginny & Georgia for a second season. (TV Line)
CBS has given the go-ahead for the spin-off series NCIS: Hawaii. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Irregulars) and Thalissa Teixeira (The Musketeers) will star alongside Lucy Hale in the six-episode AMC-Alibi series Ragdoll, which is based on the novel by Daniel Cole. Assigned to a shocking new case, nicknamed The Ragdoll, are DS Rose (Lloyd-Hughes), DI Baxter (Teixeira) and DC Edmunds (Hale). The “Ragdoll Killer” taunts the police by sending them a list of his next victims, with Rose’s name at the very end. And with those victims to protect, our heroes soon come under intense public scrutiny. (Variety)
LisaGay Hamilton (The Practice) will recur in the Netflix small screen drama adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer, playing Mary Holder, presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the most powerful trial judge in the city and a no-nonsense jurist who doesn’t suffer fools. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Edgar Ramirez (Netflix’s new movie Yes Day) will star in the 8-episode Netflix series Florida Man, which revolves around a struggling ex-cop who is forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster’s runaway girlfriend. (Variety)
Game of Thrones alum Emilia Clarke is expected to join the cast of the new Marvel Studios series Secret Invasion that is being put together at Disney+ that already boasts Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Olivia Colman as part of its cast. The series is reported to follow a group of shape-shifting aliens who have been infiltrating Earth for years. Ben-Adir has been set as the main villain, but no word yet on Clarke’s role. (Variety)
Additional cast members have been added to the upcoming HBO drama series about the Los Angeles Lakers: Tracy Letts (Ford v. Ferrari), Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) and LisaGay Hamilton (The Practice) [among others]. The series chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Lakers. Letts will play Jack McKinney, the original architect of the Lakers’ fast paced running game; Nicholson will play Cranny McKinney, the coach’s wife; and Hamilton will play Magic Johnson’s mom, Christine Johnson. (Deadline)
Jamie McShane (Bloodline) and Reggie Lee (All Rise and Grimm) will recur in the Netflix small screen adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer that stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Neve Campbell. Based on the Michael Connelly best-selling novels, the series revolves around Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist who runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles. McShane will play Detective Lee Lankford. A cynical veteran of the police force who is working with Maggie (Campbell), Lankford has a contentious relationship with Mickey. Lee will play Angelo Soto, an intimidating, wealthy businessman who owns a string of successful nursing facilities. He’s under investigation by the DA’s office for possible illegal activity. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS
Downton Abbey will be back on the big screen for a follow-up movie with series creator Julian Fellowes back at the helm and the entire cast returning as well as four new additions, including: Hugh Dancy (Hannibal), Dominic West (The Affair), Laura Haddock (Da Vinci’s Demons and Peter Quill’s mom in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and French actress Nathalie Baye. Their roles are being kept under wraps, as are plot details. (TV Line)
Vin Diesel will be starring in the live-action movie Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em based on the Mattel children’s game, featuring battling robots. (Variety)
Dakota Johnson (from the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise) will be taking the lead in a modern-day approach of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion that tells the story of Anne Elliot, a headstrong woman living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy. Unmarried and 27-years-old, Anne reconnects with a man she was once persuaded to reject and faces a second chance at love. (Variety)
Oscar Nunez (The Office) will join Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in the upcoming romantic action comedy The Lost City of D that will center on a romance novelist (Bullock), who gets stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Tatum). Straight out of a novella, a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving that life can be much stranger — and more romantic — than fiction. What character Nunez will play has yet to be announced. (Variety)
Steven Strait (The Expanse) will star in the high concept sci-fi thriller film Five Below. The plot is being kept under wraps, but is said to be a new take on the meta-human sci-fi genre. (Deadline)
Adria Arjona (Emerald City and Good Omens) will star alongside Andy Garcia in the reboot of Father of the Bride; this time revolving around a Cuban-American family. The film will tell the story of a father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family. Also singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan will also star in the movie. (Deadline)
Additional cast members have been announced for the indie spy thriller Agent Game: Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter franchise), Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) and Adan Canto (Designated Survivor). The film also stars Dermot Mulroney, Katie Cassidy, Rhys Coiro, Annie Ilonzeh, and Mel Gibson. The film focuses on CIA officer Harris (Mulroney), who is involved in missions to detain and relocate foreign nationals for interrogation. When Harris’ superior (Isaacs) is murdered, he finds himself the scapegoat for the killing of a detainee (Abdi) and must run from a team of operatives sent to bring him in (Canto, Cassidy, Coiro), led by a ruthless double agent (Ilonzeh). Gibson will play a rogue intelligence official running the off-book operation to hunt down and kill Harris. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 25, 2021| 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:
Mary Poppins (classic) movie on Freeform
5:30 PM:
Back to the Future movie on BBC America
6 PM:
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 movie on Syfy
6:35 PM:
The Avengers movie on EPIX
6:50 PM:
The Nevers on HBO 2 (Encore)
7 PM:
Designed with Love movie on UPtv (DEBUT)
It Was Always You movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Avengers: Endgame movie on TNT
7:01 PM:
The Gloaming on Starz (Encore)
7:40 PM:
Kingsman: The Golden Circle movie on FXM
7:55 PM:
The Nevers on HBO 2 (Encore)
8 PM:
The 93rd Annual Academy Awards on ABC (Special)
The Gloaming on Starz (NEW)
The Equalizer on CBS (Reair)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Badly movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Iron Man 3 movie on FX
Shrek (animated) movie on Freeform
9 PM:
When Calls the Heart on Hallmark Channel (NEW)
The Nevers on HBO (NEW)
Atlantic Crossing on PBS (NEW)
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (Reair)
9:12 PM:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 movie on Syfy
10 PM:
Condor on EPIX (NEW)
Mare of Easttown on HBO (NEW)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
NCIS: New Orleans on CBS (Reair)
World on Fire on PBS (Reair)
Shrek 2 (animated) movie on Freeform
10:01 PM:
The Gloaming on Starz (Encore)
10:30 PM:
Queen & Slim movie on Cinemax
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on April 24, 2021| Leave a Comment »
It was a night filled with reality, repeats, news and wrestling along with a new episode from one Friday night drama.
Here is how that lone Friday night drama fared in the overall ratings last week:
8 PM Show:
The Blacklist (NBC) [NEW] – 3.3 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 24, 2021| 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:
4:45 PM:
Avengers: Infinity War movie on TNT
5 PM:
The Martian movie on FX
5:30 PM:
Draft Day movie on CMT
5:40 PM:
Midway movie on HBO
5:42 PM:
Titanic movie on Encore
6 PM:
Taken 2 movie on IFC
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie on Syfy
6:50 PM:
Moana (animated) movie on Freeform
7 PM:
Beverly Hills Wedding movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
The Green Mile movie on AMC
Ghostbusters (classic) movie on VICE
7:30 PM:
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (classic) movie on TCM
8 PM:
Matchmaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Field of Dreams movie on CMT
Star Trek Beyond movie on EPIX
Bohemian Rhapsody movie FX
Dreamgirls movie on HBO
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit movie on IFC
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade movie on Paramount Network
Avengers: Endgame movie on TNT
9 PM:
Hearts Down Under movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
The Gloaming on Starz (Encore)
9:20 PM:
Wreck-It Ralph (animated) movie on Freeform
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix movie on Syfy
9:30 PM:
The Proposal movie on E!
Fast & Furious Present: Hobbs & Shaw movie on HBO2
10 PM:
Matchmaker Mysteries on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
10:05 PM:
Bumblebee movie on EPIX
10:15 PM:
The Nevers on HBO (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on April 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Last night on the major networks there were some comedies, a little reality and a special along with new episodes from six Thursday night dramas.
Here is how those six Thursday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last week:
8 PM Shows:
Station 19 (ABC) [NEW] – 4.3 million viewers
Manifest (NBC) [NEW] – 3.1 million viewers
9 PM Shows:
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) [NEW] – 4.6 million viewers
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) [NEW] – 4.3 million viewers
10 PM Shows:
Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC) [NEW] – 4.2 million viewers
Rebel (ABC) [NEW] – 3.1 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 23, 2021| 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:
NOTE: The season finale of For All Mankind will air on Apple TV+ online today; the season finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will also air online on Disney+ today; the new Netflix drama Shadow and Bone will debut online today and the feature film Mortal Kombat will debut on HBO Max.
6 PM:
Stranded in Paradise movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Chronicle Mysteries movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
6:15 PM:
Rio 2 (animated) movie on Disney
6:20 PM:
Mare of Easttown on HBO (Encore)
6:59 PM:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabhan movie on Syfy
7 PM:
True Lies movie on AMC
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days movie on E!
Raiders of the Lost Ark movie on Paramount Network
7:20 PM:
The Nevers on HBO (Encore)
7:30 PM
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days movie on Bravo
8 PM:
The Blacklist on NBC (NEW)
Good Morning Christmas! movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Timeless Love movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (animated) movie on FX
Taken 2 movie on IFC
Thor: Ragnarok movie on TNT
9:30 PM:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie on Paramount Network
Ghostbusters (original) movie on VICE
10 PM:
Morning Show Mysteries movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on April 22, 2021| Leave a Comment »
It was a full night of programming on the major networks last night with some comedies, a game show, a repeat and one reality series airing in the primetime line-up along with new episodes from seven Wednesday night dramas.
Here is how those seven Wednesday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last week:
8 PM Shows:
Chicago Med (NBC) [NEW] – 6.9 million viewers
Kung Fu (The CW) [NEW] – 1.1 million viewers
9 PM Shows:
Chicago Fire (NBC) [NEW] – 6.7 million viewers
SEAL Team (CBS) [NEW] – 3.4 million viewers
10 PM Shows:
Chicago P.D. (NBC) [NEW] – 5.8 million viewers
S.W.A.T. (CBS) [NEW] – 3 million viewers
A Million Little Things (ABC) [NEW] – 2 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
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