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On April 9, the new movie A Royal Runaway Romance will debut on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM
Princess Amelia of Bundbury (Philippa Northeast) travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard Grady (Brant Daugherty).
Here is a trailer for A Royal Runaway Romance:
Posted in Ratings, Television on April 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
It was a night filled with the Grammy Awards, reality and repeats on the major networks last night with only three Sunday night dramas airing new episodes.
Here is how those three Sunday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show:
Riverdale (The CW) [NEW] – 207,000 viewers
10 PM Shows:
The Rookie (ABC) [NEW] – 3.4 million viewers
Transplant (NBC) [NEW] – 1.1 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on April 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
On April 8, the Amazon feature film All the Old Knives will debut online.
Ex-lovers and spies Henry and Celia (Chris Pine and Thandie Newton) meet over dinner to reminisce on their time together at Vienna station. The conversation moves to the disastrous hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127, which ended in the deaths of all on board. That failure haunts the CIA to this day, and Henry seeks to close the book on that seedy chapter. Over a sumptuous dinner, it becomes clear that one of them is not going to survive the meal.
The film also stars Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Pryce.
Here is a trailer for All the Old Knives:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On April 4, the Spectrum Original drama Long Slow Exhale will debut. The drama follows J.C. Abernathy (Rose Rollins), a successful Head Coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a potentially career shattering sexual abuse scandal. As she tries to find the truth among the many secrets she uncovers, she has to make hard decisions that will affect her, her family and the team of female athletes who all rely on her. The cast includes Josh Lucas, Ian Harding, Famke Janssen, Lyriq Bent and Brent Sexton.
The second season of The Hardy Boys will premiere online on Hulu on April 6.
On April 7, the season finale of The Dropout will air online on Hulu.
The HBO Max drama Tokyo Vice will debut online on April 7. Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, the crime drama series, filmed on location in Tokyo, captures Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem. The cast includes Ken Watanabe.
On April 8, the Amazon feature film All the Old Knives will debut online. Ex-lovers and spies Henry and Celia (Chris Pine and Thandie Newton) meet over dinner to reminisce on their time together at Vienna station. The conversation moves to the disastrous hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127, which ended in the deaths of all on board. That failure haunts the CIA to this day, and Henry seeks to close the book on that seedy chapter. Over a sumptuous dinner, it becomes clear that one of them is not going to survive the meal. The film also stars Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Pryce.
The season finales of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and Severance will both air on Apple TV+ on April 8.
On April 9, the Lifetime movie Fallen Angels Murder Club: Heroes and Felons will debut at 8 PM. The members of the Fallen Angels Murder Club must band together again as they search for answers surrounding the death of one of their own. Hollis (Toni Braxton) finds herself at the center of the investigation when a journalist reporting on the murder also winds up dead. As bodies begin to stack up, and Hollis connects the dots, she must solve the murders before it’s too late. The ensemble cast also includes Yanic Truesdale, Rainbow Sun Francks,Henderson Wade, Kaitlyn Leeb, Rob Stewart and Kelly Hu.
The new movie A Royal Runaway Romance will debut on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM on April 9. Princess Amelia of Bundbury (Philippa Northeast) travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard Grady (Brant Daugherty).
Also on April 9, The Look Back Diaries will debut online [check online for further details about where to watch]. To celebrate the ten year anniversary of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (LBD), lead star Ashley Clements is launching The Look Back Diaries, a twice weekly vlog show where she will rewatch LBD on the anniversary of each episode, sharing memories, stories, and commentary about the making of the show, her experiences at the time and ten years of perspective. Expect appearances by cast, crew and more along the way.
There will be a special presentation of Fear the Walking Dead online on April 10 on AMC+; while that same night, the series finale of Killing Eve will air online on AMC+; also the season finale of Billions will air at 9 PM on Showtime that same night while the spring finale of The Walking Dead will air on AMC at 9 PM on April 10. Also that night, the 100th episode of S.W.A.T. will air on CBS at 10 PM; and that same night the season finale of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber will air on Showtime at 10 PM.
The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate will debut on April 10 at 9 PM. Goldy (Nikki Deloach) is a spirited, single mom who’s thrust into the role of town sleuth to help solve a friend’s mysterious death. With the clock ticking to find the culprit, Goldy strikes up an unlikely partnership with Detective Tom Schultz (Andrew Walker), who leans into Goldy’s local knowledge. As their relationship shows signs of becoming something more, the suspect list rises. Will Goldy narrow in on the killer before the killer narrows in on her?
Lastly also on April 10, the new drama 61st Street will debut online on AMC+ and on AMC at 10 PM. This drama will show what courses through the dark heart of the infamous Chicago criminal justice system as police and prosecutors investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens to unravel the police department’s code of silence. Courtney B. Vance leads an ensemble cast that includes Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard and NCIS: Los Angeles), Mark O’Brien (City on a Hill), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter) and Tosin Cole (Doctor Who).
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 4, 2022| 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 Pairing movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
6:15 PM:
West Side Story (2021) movie on HBO
7 PM:
Fixer Upper Mysteries: Concrete Evidence movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Mrs. Doubtfire movie on Paramount Network
8 PM:
From on EPIX (Encore)
Outlander on Starz (Encore)
9-1-1 on FOX (Reair)
Snowkissed movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
9 PM:
9-1-1: Lone Star on FOX (Rearir)
Fixer Upper Mysteries: Deadly Deed movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
10 PM:
The Endgame on NBC (NEW)
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on April 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS
ABC has given renewals to both The Good Doctor and The Rookie. (TV Line)
Hallmark Channel has given Chesapeake Shores a sixth and final season renewal. (TV Line)
CBS has renewed NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS Hawaii for new seasons. (TV Line)
REBOOT PLANS
Netflix is moving forward with a reboot of the action-adventure Spy Kids movie franchise. The still-untitled movie will premiere on a yet-to-be-determined date. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Veteran actor Richard Gant (Greenleaf) will appear as Sam Hanna’s father on the 300th episode of NCIS: Los Angeles. (TV Line)
Ed Speleers (Outlander and Downton Abbey) has landed a series regular role on the upcoming 4th season of You on Netflix. He will play Rhys, an author whose memoir garnered him acclaim and pressure to launch a political career. Born into poverty, Rhys lived a traumatic early life before he came into money, going to Oxford and making all the right friends. Now, he moves easily in any social circle, while also seeing through those around him. (Yahoo Entertainment)
Ella Purnell (Sweetbriar and Yellowjackets) has landed the lead role in the upcoming Amazon series Fallout (based on the video game) that is set in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. She joins previously announced Walton Goggins (Justified and The Unicorn). (Variety)
Rome Flynn (How to Get Away With Murder) is joining Grey’s Anatomy in the recurring role of Wendell Ndugu, the brother of Winston (Anthony Hill), a typical younger sibling with a mischievous sense of humor who he’s hoping to impress with his new sales rep role at a medical technology company. (Variety)
Victoria Pedretti (You and The Haunting of Hill House) will play the lead role in the upcoming Hulu drama Saint X based on the novel by Alexis Schaitkin and is described as a psychological drama told via multiple timelines and perspectives. It’s about how a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth. Pedretti will star as Emily, a sharp and ambitious woman whose carefully constructed, seemingly perfect life begins to crumble. The series has received an eight-episode order at Hulu. (Variety)
Joel Edgerton will star in the 9-episode Apple series Dark Matter, adapted from the Blake Crouch novel. The show will follow Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor, and family man who – one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago – is abducted into an alternate version of his life. (Variety)
Carrie Preston (True Blood and Claws) will return as socially-stunted attorney Elsbeth on The Good Fight for the show’s upcoming 6th season. (TV Line)
SEQUEL NEWS
Bridgerton is getting a Queen Charlotte-centric spin-off, that is as-yet untitled. It will focus on young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio from Sex Education) who arrives in London bethrothed to the king only to realize she was not exactly what the royals were expecting. Bridgerton cast members Golda Rosheuval (Queen Charlotte), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Agatha Danbury) and Ruth Gemmell (Lady Violet Bridgerton) will all reprise their roles along with Game of Thrones alum Michelle Fairley as Princess Augusta. (TV Line)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on April 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The HBO Max drama Tokyo Vice will debut online on April 7.
Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, the crime drama series, filmed on location in Tokyo, captures Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.
The cast includes Ken Watanabe.
Here is a trailer for Tokyo Vice:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 3, 2022| 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:
Spider-Man: Far From Home on FX
The Equalizer movie on VH1
6 PM:
Just One Kiss movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
6:15 PM:
Ant-Man and the Wasp movie on TNT
6:30 PM:
13 Going on 30 movie on CMT
6:35 PM:
Skyfall movie on EPIX
7 PM:
Run the Race (2019) movie on UPtv (Network TV DEBUT)
It Was Always You movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Dirty Dancing movie on Vice
7:05 PM:
Live Free or Die Hard movie on FXM
8 PM:
The 64th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS (Special)
When Calls the Heart on Hallmark Channel (NEW)
Call the Midwife on PBS (NEW)
Thor: The Dark World movie on FX
Crazy, Stupid, Love. movie on Vice
9 PM:
From on EPIX (NEW)
Sanditon on PBS (NEW)
Outlander on Starz (NEW)
Always Amore movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT)
The Lost Valentine movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back movie on Encore
Sweet Home Alabama movie on Lifetime
9:43 PM:
Taken 2 movie on Cinemax
9:50 PM:
Live Free or Die Hard movie on FXM
10 PM:
The Rookie on ABC (NEW – Return)
Transplant on NBC (NEW)
From on EPIX (Encore)
Dirty Dancing movie on Vice
10:30 PM:
Thor: The Dark World movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on April 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Last night’s primetime line-up on the major networks was filled with wrestling, reality and news along with new episodes from five Friday night dramas.
Here is how those five Friday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Shows:
The Blacklist (NBC) [NEW] – 2.9 million viewers
Charmed (The CW) [NEW] – 398,000 viewers
9 PM Shows:
Magnum P.I. (CBS) [NEW] – 4.8 million viewers
Dynasty (The CW) [NEW] – 232,000 viewers
10 PM Show:
Blue Bloods (CBS) [NEW] – 5.5 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on April 2, 2022| 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:
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum movie on A&E
5:30 PM:
Bad Boys for Life movie on FX
6 PM:
Love, Romance & Chocolate movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
6:05 PM:
The Italian Job movie on HBO
7 PM:
Signed, Sealed, Delivered movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
8 PM:
Just One Kiss movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
Fallen Angels Murder Club: Friends to Die For movie on Lifetime (DEBUT)
9-1-1 on FOX (Reair)
The Magnificent Seven (2016) movie on A&E
Spider-Man: Far From Home movie on FX
The Equalizer movie on VH1
9 PM:
The Cleaning Lady on FOX (Encore)
Outlander on Starz (Encore)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie on TNT
9:30 PM:
The Proposal movie on E!
10 PM:
One Perfect Wedding movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. movie on VICE
Enjoy!
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