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Last night’s primetime line-up was filled with reality, repeats and animation on the major networks along with new episodes from two Monday night dramas.
Here is how those two Monday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show:
Roswell, New Mexico (The CW) [NEW] – 660,000 viewers
9 PM Show:
The Republic of Sarah (The CW) [NEW] – 329,000 viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on August 31, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Hallmark Channel movie Journey of My Heart will debut at 9 PM on September 4.
A young wildlife biologist (Rhiannon Fish from the Australian soap Home and Away and the Hallmark Channel movie The 27-Hour Day) travels to a remote Alaskan nesting area of bald eagles where she receives inspirational guidance from a Native American family and help from a mysterious wilderness guide (Darien Martin from Legends of Tomorrow and the Lifetime movie V.C. Andrews’ Pearl in the Mist).
Here is a trailer for Journey of My Heart:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on August 31, 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:
Tombstone movie on AMC
5:05 PM:
Fast Five movie on USA Network
5:30 PM:
The Bourne Identity movie on A&E
The Fault in Our Stars movie on Freeform
Back to the Future movie on Paramount Network
6 PM:
Sun, Sand & Romance movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
7 PM:
Straight From the Heart movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:07 PM:
Legends of the Fall movie on Starz
8 PM:
DC’s Stargirl on The CW (NEW)
NCIS on CBS (Reair)
The Story of Us movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
The Bourne Supremacy movie on A&E
Forrest Gump movie on AMC
Skyfall movie on EPIX
Divergent movie on FX
Four Weddings and a Funeral movie on TMC
Avengers: Age of Ultron movie on TNT
8:30 PM:
Wonder movie on Freeform
Back to the Future, Part II movie on Paramount Network
9 PM:
Supergirl on The CW (NEW)
Fantasy Island on FOX (NEW)
FBI on CBS (Reair)
Karen Kingsbury’s A Time to Dance movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
The Personal History of David Copperfield movie on HBO 2
10 PM:
FBI: Most Wanted on CBS (Reair)
Notting Hill movie on TMC
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on August 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
It was a night filled with news, repeats, reality, game shows, the Paralympics and football on the major networks last night with only one Sunday night drama airing a new episode.
Here is how that lone Sunday night drama fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show:
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) [NEW] – 602,000 viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Movies, Ratings, Recommendations, Television, Video on August 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
On September 3, the Netflix feature film Worth will debut online.
In Washington, D.C., lawyer Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) battles cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.
The ensemble cast includes Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan, Tate Donovan, Laura Benanti, Talia Balsam and Marc Maron.
Here is a trailer for Worth:
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The feature film Cinderella will debut on Amazon online on September 3.
This modern take on the traditional tale follows Cinderella (singer Camila Cabello) who lives with her abusive and overprotective stepmother (Idina Menzel) and stepsisters.
The royal family will be played by Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver along with Nicholas Galitzine along with Billy Porter as Cinderella’s genderless fairy godparent.
Here is a trailer for Cinderella:
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Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On August 31, the new comedy series Only Murders in the Building will debut online on Hulu. This comedic murder-mystery series follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one when a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building. The trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. The cast includes Amy Ryan.
The season finale of the Disney+ animated series Monsters at Work will air online on September 1.
On September 2, the Netflix feature film Afterlife of the Party will debut online. Party planner and social butterfly Cassie (Victoria Justice) is on top of the world, but a freak accident during her 25th birthday extravaganza brings it all crashing down – literally. When she finds herself in the waiting room of the afterlife, Cassie meets Val (Robyn Scott), her guardian angel, who explains that she has five days as an angel-in-training to make things right on Earth with the people who meant the most to her. The cast includes Midori Francis (Dash & Lily) and Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly).
The feature film Cinderella will debut on Amazon online on September 3. This modern take on the traditional tale follows Cinderella (singer Camila Cabello) who lives with her abusive and overprotective stepmother (Idina Menzel) and stepsisters. The royal family will be played by Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver along with Nicholas Galitzine along with Billy Porter as Cinderella’s genderless fairy godparent.
Also on September 3, the Netflix feature film Worth will debut online. In Washington, D.C., lawyer Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) battles cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11. The ensemble cast includes Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan, Tate Donovan, Laura Benanti, Talia Balsam and Marc Maron.
The Hallmark Channel movie Journey of My Heart will debut on September 4 at 9 PM. A young wildlife biologist (Rhiannon Fish from the Australian soap Home and Away and the Hallmark Channel movie The 27-Hour Day) travels to a remote Alaskan nesting area of bald eagles where she receives inspirational guidance from a Native American family and help from a mysterious wilderness guide (Darien Martin from Legends of Tomorrow and the Lifetime movie V.C. Andrews’ Pearl in the Mist).
On September 5, the season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW at 8 PM; also on September 5, the 5th season of Billions will premiere on Showtime at 9 PM.
The UPtv movie A Vineyard Romance will debut at 7 PM on September 5. When Seattle magazine writer Samantha Hart (Rebecca Olson from The CW’s Kung Fu and the Hallmark Channel movie My Best Friend’s Bouquet) is sent home to write an article about the wedding destination of Hawthorne Vineyards, she discovers the ex (Marcus Rosner from When Calls the Heart and the Hallmark Channel movies A Harvest Wedding and Love on Harbor Island) who broke her heart not only runs the vineyard, but he’s about to get married there.
Lastly also on September 5, the PBS 4-part series Guilt, originally from the BBC, will debut at 9 PM. In Edinburgh, two brothers (Mark Bonnar from Unforgotten and Jamie Sives from To the Ends of the Earth) accidentally kill a man while driving home from a wedding. After deciding to cover it up, they must dodge encroaching suspicions from the man’s family and friends who suspect that his death was not a mistake.
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on August 30, 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:
The Notebook movie on Freeform
6 PM:
Baby, It’s Cold Inside movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
7 PM:
Gourmet Detective Mysteries: Death al Dente movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:30 PM:
Doctor Strange movie on TNT
8 PM:
Godfather of Harlem on EPIX (Encore)
Falling for Vermont movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Tombstone movie on AMC
The Shawshank Redemption movie on BBC America
The Fault in Our Stars movie on Freeform
The Equalizer 2 movie on FX
Draft Day movie on Paramount Network
9 PM:
The Republic of Sarah on The CW (NEW)
Chapelwaite on EPIX (Encore)
Gourmet Detective Mysteries: Eat, Drink & Be Buried movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
9:25 PM:
Independence Day: Resurgence movie on FXM
10 PM:
Titans on TNT (NEW)
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (Reair)
The Equalizer 2 movie on FX
10:01 PM:
Heels on Starz (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on August 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
Freeform has renewed Motherland: Fort Salem for its third and final season. (TV Line)
Your Honor has been renewed for a second season with Bryan Cranston set to return in 2022. (TV Line)
Cobra Kai has been renewed for a 5th season by Netflix, months before season 4 is even set to premiere. (TV Line)
Ten weeks after it got cancelled by NBC, Manifest has been picked up for a 4th and final season that will consist of 20 episodes (more episodes than any season of the series). (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
The CW series Kung Fu has made Yvonne Chapman, who played villainous Zhilan, as a series regular for season 2. (Deadline and TV Line)
Tony Curran (Defiance and Doctor Who [he played Vincent Van Gogh]) will play the newest villain – Despero, a powerful and intelligent alien – in the upcoming Arrowverse 5-part ‘Amageddon’ crossover event that finds Barry Allen [aka The Flash] (Grant Gustin) and his crime-fighting friends calling on fellow DC superheroes Black Lightning (Cress Williams) and Batwoman (Javicia Leslie) for help. (Entertainment Weekly and Digital Spy)
Chantal Thuy (Black Lightning) has joined “the mix” for season 4 of Magnum P.I, playing Lia Kaleo, a smart, street-savvy Hawai’i Police Detective who has been secretly dating Magnum behind everyone’s back, including her partner, Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang). And as the season progresses, we’ll learn that Lia’s relationship with Magnum isn’t the only secret she’s been keeping. (TV Line)
The former Quibi drama Most Dangerous Game will return for a second season at Roku Channel with Christoph Waltz back as Miles Sellers, the CEO of The Tiro Fund, a front for a centuries old game in which hunters pay exorbitant fees for the privilege of hunting the most cunning and dangerous prey there is. Liam Hemsworth won’t be back; but David Castaneda (The Umbrella Academy) will step in to play Victor Suero, a down-on-his-luck fighter who will do anything to protect his sister. When he learns she’s in trouble, he springs into action. To protect her, he agrees to participate in a deadly game. If he survives, he’ll make a fortune. Out of love for his sister – he’s determined to live. The new season will retain the short-form format that the show had in Season 1. (Variety)
Brandon Routh (Legends of Tomorrow) has landed the lead role in the animated Netflix production of Magic: The Gathering, based on the Dey Rey Books novel of the same name that finds Planeswalkers Gideon Jura and Jace Beleren adventuring together as they right wrongs across the multiverse. But with very different insights into what they witness, it is safe to say that the partnership is under quite a bit of strain. Plot details are being kept under wraps though. (Variety)
More cast members have been added to the Yellowstone prequel 1883 that already boasts Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott in lead roles. Isabel May (Netflix’s Alexa and Katie and Young Sheldon) will play Elsa, the eldest daughter of John and Margaret Dutton (McGraw and Hill). Through her eyes will come much of the perspective of the family’s struggle when they up and leave Texas aboard a wagon train caravan into hostile territory toward a better life in Montana, where the fictional Duttons reside in the present. And, LaMonica Garrett (The Last Ship and Arrow) will play the right hand of Pinkerton agent Shea Brennan (Elliott), who hitches a ride with the Duttons and many others who’ll fill the 30 actual wagon trains. (Deadline)
Tony winner Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen) has landed a major recurring role in The Good Doctor, but details on what role she will play is being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah) will star in and executive produce the upcoming Apple TV+ drama The Changeling, which will be adapted from the Victor LaValle novel. The series is described as a fairytale for grown-ups, a horror story, a parenthood fable; a perilous odyssey through a New York City you didn’t know existed. (TV Line)
Cast members for the upcoming FX on Hulu series adaptation of Under the Banner of Heaven, based on the Jon Krakauer novel, have been announced. The series will follow a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Among the cast are the already announced Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man) and Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and new cast members Sam Worthington (Avatar), Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Gil Birmingham (Yellowstone), Adelaide Clemens (Rectify), Rory Culkin (Halston), Seth Numrich (Turn: Washington Spies) and Christopher Heyerdahl (Hell on Wheels and Sanctuary). (Variety)
Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson (he played Grey Worm) has landed the lead role of the titular vampire Louis in the AMC series adaptation of Interview With the Vampire, based on the novel. Anderson will also appear in the upcoming season of Doctor Who as a new character named Vinder. (Variety)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Sisters Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Ashley Williams are teaming up to play sisters in two original Hallmark Channel Christmas movies expected later this year. They will also serve as executive producers along with Ashley’s husband Neal Dodson. The movies are currently entitled Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday and Sister Swap: Christmas in the City. (People)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the box office movie Oblivion Song, which is an adaptation of the graphic novel by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) and Lorenzo De Felici, which focuses on Nathan Cole, a man who makes daily trips to try and rescue those still living in Oblivion, an apocalyptic hellscape in Philadelphia that was lost a decade prior, along with 300,000 of its citizens. (Variety)
This Is Us alum Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass (Bombshell) will team up in the sci-fi movie Biosphere, which will be written by Duplass and director Mel Eslyn in her feature directorial debut. Details on the plot, however, are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
The Oscar-winning singer-songwriter H.E.R. is in final negotiations to make her feature film acting debut in The Color Purple movie musical, which is an adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which – of course – is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker that centers on a woman named Celie Harris and tracks her life-long struggles as an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s. H.E.R. will play Squeak, who, in the musical, goes from a juke joint waitress to an aspiring singer. (The Hollywood Reporter)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on August 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
On September 2, the Netflix feature film Afterlife of the Party will debut online.
Party planner and social butterfly Cassie (Victoria Justice from Victorious, Zoey 101 and Eye Candy) is on top of the world, but a freak accident during her 25th birthday extravaganza brings it all crashing down – literally. When she finds herself in the waiting room of the afterlife, Cassie meets Val (Robyn Scott from Vagrant Queen), her guardian angel, who explains that she has five days as an angel-in-training to make things right on Earth with the people who meant the most to her.
The cast includes Midori Francis (Dash & Lily) and Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly).
Here is a trailer for Afterlife of the Party:
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