Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
On January 21, the Hallmark Channel movie The Wedding Veil Journey will debut at 8 PM
Tracy and Nick (Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster) agree to set aside work to make time for a long overdue honeymoon to Greece. When they are stranded on a secluded island, they confront their life choices.
Here is a trailer for The Wedding Veil Journey.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 17, 2023| 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:
The Legend of Tarzan movie on Syfy
5:40 PM:
Stillwater movie on Showtime 2
5:45 PM:
A View to a Kill movie on MGM+ (formerly EPIX)
6:53 PM:
Jumanji: The Next Level movie on Starz
7 PM:
Morning Show Mysteries: Death By Design movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation movie on FX
8 PM:
The Rookie on ABC (NEW)
FBI on CBS (Check Local Listing for NEW or Reair)
The Resident on FOX (NEW – Season Finale, Part 2 of 2)
The Winchesters on The CW (Reair)
Black Adam (2022) movie on HBO
Skyfall movie on MGM+ (formerly EPIX)
Tomb Raider (2018) movie on Syfy
9 PM:
The Rookie: Feds on ABC (NEW)
FBI: International on CBS (Check Local Listing for NEW or Reair)
New Amsterdam on NBC (NEW – Hour One, Series Finale)
Morning Show Mysteries: Murder Ever After movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife movie on Starz
10 PM:
Will Trent on ABC (NEW)
FBI: Most Wanted on CBS (Check Local Listing for NEW or Reair)
New Amsterdam on NBC (NEW – Hour Two, Series Finale)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on January 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Sunday night’s primetime line-up on the major networks was filled with football, repeats, news, a movie and the Critics Choice Awards along with new episodes from two Sunday night dramas.
Here is how those three Friday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show:
East New York (CBS) [NEW] – 5.1 million viewers
9 PM Show:
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) [NEW] – 4.5 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On January 16, both NCIS and NCIS: Hawai’i will be back in their regular time slots on CBS at 9 and 10 PM respectively.
The two-hour series finale on New Amsterdam will air on NBC at the special time of 9 PM on January 17; while that same night, the second hour of the two-part season finale of The Resident will air on FOX at 8 PM.
On January 18, the finale of Big Sky will air on ABC at 10 PM.
The second season of the Australian series Mystic will premiere on January 19 at8 PM on UPtv.
On January 20, the third season of Truth Be Told will premiere on Apple TV+.
The Hallmark Channel movie The Wedding Veil: Journey will debut at 8 PM on January 21. Tracy and Nick (Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster) agree to set aside work to make time for a long overdue honeymoon to Greece. When they are stranded on a secluded island, they confront their life choices.
Lastly on January 22, the following will both debut:
* The UPtv movie The Clue to Love at 7 PM. Audrey Harper heads to Hope Cove to write about the anonymous Ask Aunt Hope, a love advice column and a mainstay of the town’s local newspaper. There, she meets the charming and handsome Editor-in-Chief Morgan Cooper, who helps her uncover the true identity of “Aunt Hope.” The movie stars Rachel Bles and Travis Milne.
* The new FOX drama Accused at 9 PM. This series is a collection of 15 intense, topical and exquisitely human stories of crime and punishment. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, with an entirely original cast. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show holds a mirror up to current times with evocative and emotional stories. Among the cast who will be feature include Aaron Ashmore, Abigail Breslin, Aisha Dee, Ian Anthony Dale, Jack Davenport, Jill Hennessy, Kyle Schmid, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Margo Martindale, Mary Lynn Pajskub, Megan Boone, Michael Chiklis, Molly Parker, Rachel Bilson, Rhea Perlman, Robert Wisdom, Wendell Pierce and Whitney Cummings.
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 16, 2023| 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
5:45 PM:
Selma movie on Showtime
6 PM:
A Royal Runaway Romance movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
6:30 PM:
Speed movie on Syfy
Judah and the Black Messiah movie on TNT
7 PM:
14 Love Letters movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:50 PM:
Death on the Nile (2022) movie on HBO
8 PM:
Fantasy Island on FOX (NEW)
Big Sky River movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Hidden Figures movie on FX
8:30 PM:
Mulan (animated) movie on Freeform
9 PM:
NCIS on CBS (NEW – Winter Return)
Alert: Missing Persons Unit on FOX (DEBUT)
The Legend of Tarzan movie on Syfy
10 PM:
NCIS: Hawai’i on CBS (NEW – Winter Return)
Quantum Leap on NBC (NEW)
Unthinkably Good Things movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Enjoy!
Posted in Daily/Weekly Updates on January 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
The CW has given a 6th season renewal to the drama All American. (TV Line)
FX has pulled the plug on Mayans M.C. The show’s upcoming fifth season will be its last. (Variety)
Paramount+ has given a second season order for the rebooted sequel Criminal Minds: Evolution. (TV Line)
It’s been made official: TNT has pulled the plug on the fourth season of Snowpiercer despite the fact the episodes have been filmed, are ready to be aired and the show was given the greenlight for the 4th season. The show is now being shopped around though. (TV Line)
TV DEVELOPMENT
It looks like Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood are involved in a workshop on the musical version of Thelma & Louise, which has been in the works since at least 2021. (Variety)
ORDERED TO SERIES
It looks like Paramount+ has given an order to a live-action version of Dungeons & Dragons, giving the show an 8-episode order. Exact plot details, including what elements of the Dungeons & Dragons canon will be included, are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Veteran actress Donna Mills will appear in the upcoming episode of The Rookie: Feds, playing Layla Laughlin, a famous cosmetics maven who had humble beginnings, and began as a single mom who made her way by developing skincare products in her kitchen. (Variety)
Actor Sope Dirisu (Gangs of London) has joined the cast of season 3 of the Apple TV+ British spy drama Slow Horses, playing Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul. (Variety)
The Good Doctor is getting a spin-off. Kennedy McMann (The CW’s Nancy Drew) will appear in The Good Lawyer alongside Desperate Housewives alum Felicity Huffman. They will make their debut in the backdoor pilot on March 6 when Dr. Shaun Murphy (series lead on The Good Doctor Freddie Highmore) seeks legal representation to help him win a case and puts his faith in a promising, young lawyer who has obsessive compulsive disorder. McMann will play that lawyer, Joni DeGroot, a brilliant, funny and self-aware lawyer who is relatively new to her prestigious law firm when she takes Shaun’s case. Meanwhile, Huffman will play Janet Stewart, a highly regarded attorney and partner at the law firm with a fierce intellect and dry wit. (TV Line)
Veteran actor Morgan Freeman has joined the upcoming Paramount+ series Lioness, a CIA drama from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, which includes among its cast Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldana along with Hallmark alum Jill Wagner. The show is based on a real-life CIA program, following Cruz Manuelos, am rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Freeman will play Edwin Mullins, the U.S. Secretary of State. (The Hollywood Reporter)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Nickelodeon has started production on a Zoey 101 original sequel film that will find original cast members Jamie Lynn Spears, Erin Sanders, Sean Flynn, Matthew Underwood, Christopher Massey, Abby Wilde and Jack Salvatore all reprising their roles. The movie sequel entitled Zoey 102 will reintroduce fans to the Pacific Coast Academy alumni as they reunite for a wedding in the present day. (Variety)
NETFLIX MOVIE NEWS
Kerry Washington and Oprah Winfrey have joined the all-star cast of the upcoming Netflix film Six Triple Eight from Tyler Perry himself. The movie will tell the inspiring true story of the only all-Black, all-female World War II battalion. When these women joined the war effort, they were given the herculean task of sorting through and delivering the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. For nearly 75 years, their story has been kept out of history books and away from the national spotlight. But, on March 14, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the bill for the women to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’ highest honor. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Marisa Abela (HBO’s Industry) will star as the late singer Amy Winehouse in the box office biopic called Back to Black that will look at Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London in the early aughts and her intense journey to fame. (Variety)
Oscar-nominee Aunjanue Ellis will star in the Ava DuVernay feature film Caste, which is inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winner bestseller Caste: Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson. The story examines the system of hierarchy that has shaped America. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 15, 2023| 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 new season of Mayor of Kingstown will premiere on Paramount+ while the finale of Tulsa King will also air on Paramount+ online today.
5 PM:
The Blind Side movie on Freeform
Jerry Maguire movie on FX
6 PM:
The Wedding Veil Inspiration movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Reba McEntire’s The Hammer movie on Lifetime (Encore)
6:30 PM:
Edward Scissorhands movie on BBC America
Kingsman: The Secret Service movie on Syfy
6:45 PM:
Black Adam (2022) movie on HBO
6:50 PM:
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) movie on EPIX
7 PM:
The Princess and the Bodyguard movie on UPtv (DEBUT)
The 28th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on The CW (Special)
Air Force One movie on VICE
7:30 PM:
The Accountant movie on TNT
7:35 PM:
Abominable (animated) movie on FXM
8 PM:
East New York on CBS (NEW)
Miss Scarlet and the Duke on PBS (NEW)
The Blind Side movie on Freeform
Snowpiercer movie on TMC
9 PM:
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (NEW)
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches on AMC (NEW)
The Way Home on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
All Creatures Great and Small on PBS (NEW)
Groundswell movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
9:30 PM:
I Still Believe movie on FXM
Speed movie on Syfy
Air Force One movie on VICE
10 PM:
The Rookie on ABC (Reair)
East New York on CBS (Reair)
10:04 PM:
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches on AMC (Encore)
10:30 PM:
True Lies movie on Sundance TV
Enjoy!
Posted in Ratings, Television on January 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The primetime line-up on the major networks last night was filled with reality, wrestling, comedies, repeats and news along with new episodes from three Friday night dramas.
Here is how those three Friday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
8 PM Show:
S.W.A.T. (CBS) [NEW] – 5.4 million viewers
9 PM Show:
Fire Country (CBS) [NEW] – 5.8 million viewers
10 PM Show:
Blue Bloods (CBS) [NEW] – 6 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
Posted in Ratings, Television on January 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Last night’s primetime line-up on the major networks was filled with comedies, a game show and reality and repeats along with new episodes from seven Thursday night dramas.
Here is how those seven Thursday night dramas fared in the overall ratings on Thursday night:
8 PM Shows:
Law & Order (NBC) [NEW] – 4.5 million viewers
Walker (The CW) [NEW] – 740,000 viewers
9 PM Shows:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) [NEW] – 5 million viewers
So Help Me Todd (CBS) [NEW] – 2.2 million viewers
Walker: Independence (The CW) [NEW] – 443,000 viewers
10 PM Shows:
Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC) [NEW] – 3.3 million viewers
CSI: Vegas (CBS) [NEW] – 2.2 million viewers
What did you watch on TV on Thursday night. Please share.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 14, 2023| 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
5:25 PM:
Bad Boys for Life movie on Freeform
5:45 PM:
Shooter movie on Showtime 2
6 PM:
It Was Always You movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
The Batman (2022) movie on HBO 2
Pretty Woman movie on TBS
6:15 PM:
Ocean’s Thirteen movie on TNT
6:30 PM:
Fast & Furious movie on USA Network
7 PM:
Girlfriendship movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie on FX
7:30 PM:
Taken 3 movie on IFC
8 PM:
Lease on Love movie on Great American Family (DEBUT)
The Wedding Veil Inspiration movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
George & Tammy on Showtime 2 (Encore)
No Time to Die movie on EPIX
The Equalizer 2 movie on Starz
8:30 PM:
Open Range movie on Sundance TV
Fast Five movie on USA Network
8:45 PM:
The Accountant movie on TNT
9 PM:
Family History Mysteries: Buried Past movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
10 PM:
Roadhouse Romance movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Thor: The Dark World movie on Encore
The Italian Job movie on IFC
Kingsman: The Secret Service movie on Syfy
10:30 PM:
Elvis (2022) movie on HBO 2
Enjoy!
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