Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
My Secret Valentine is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut on February 3 at 9 PM.
A young woman takes advice from the chalkboard notes that her mysterious house rental tenant leaves when a slick sales rep arrives with plans to buy her family’s prized winery.
The movie stars Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker.
Here is a trailer for My Secret Valentine.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
On February 3, the Lifetime original movie The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar will debut at 8 PM.
Based on her book, this film follows Simone Biles (newcomer Jeanté Godlock) through the sacrifices and hard work that led her to win 19 Olympic and World Championship medals and ultimately cemented her stake as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.
The cast includes Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife and Kids).
Here is a trailer for The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar:
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
On February 2, the Cinemax drama Strike Back will return for a fifth season at 10 PM.
A new cast join a revived Section 20, facing new threats and new enemies.
The cast includes Daniel MacPherson (The Shannara Chronicles and APB), Roxanne McKee (Dominion), Warren Brown (Luther and Liar), Alin Sumarwata (Neighbours), Nina Sosanya (Love Actually) and Katherine Kelly (Class).
Here is a trailer for Strike Back:
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The Netflix streaming series Altered Carbon will debut online on February 2.
Based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan, the series is set more than 300 years in the future where society has been transformed by new technology. A person’s consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman from The Killing and Suicide Squad) is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned – on ice – for centuries until Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy from The Following), an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder that of Bancroft himself.
The ensemble cast includes Ato Essandoh (Copper), Dichen Lachman (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dollhouse), Kristin Lehman (Motive) and Tamara Taylor (Bones) [among others].
Here is the trailer for Altered Carbon:
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on January 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
TV viewers were introduced to actress Stana Katic back in March of 2009 when she starred as NYPD Detective Kate Beckett alongside actor Nathan Fillion in the ABC drama Castle, which went on to become not only a fan favorite but also a long-running series for the network.
Katic will be returning to the small screen this Friday in the dark and gripping new series Absentia, where she will portraying FBI agent Emily Byrne, who disappeared without a trace while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers, and is declared dead. Six years later, though, Emily is discovered held in captivity, with little memory of who kidnapped and tortured her.
Emily is reunited with her family, which includes her retired cop father Warren (Paul Freeman from Raiders of the Lost Ark) and her brother Jack (Neil Jackson from Sleepy Hollow) as well as her husband Special Agent Nick Durand (Patrick Heusinger from Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce and Royal Pains).
She also learns that her young son Flynn (Patrick McAuley from The Conjuring 2) – now a 9-year-old – is being raised by Nick and his…wait for it…new wife Alice (Cara Theobold from Downton Abbey) [Emily was pronounced dead in absentia years before, remember!].
Emily tries to unravel the mystery behind her abduction while reconnecting with her family, but at lot has happened since her disappearance six years earlier. Worse yet, she becomes a suspect herself in a string of new murders that are similar in nature to the serial killer she was investigating before her disappearance.
Without giving too much away, Emily struggles with flashbacks to the torment she dealt with by her kidnapper – some scenes are fragmented but very hard to watch given she was tortured and held captive in a water tank; she has to deal with a troubled brother with his own set of problems; a husband who moved on with a new wife and a son who doesn’t see her as his mother. And, the man convicted of being the serial killer she was investigating, gets out of prison because she was found alive.
Needless to say, this is a much different character for Katic to be playing, but one that she pulls off very convincingly. The storyline is obviously much darker than that of nearly all of the episodes of the 8-season-long Castle but pulls you in wondering whether there is more to Emily than meets the eye, who was behind her horrible six-year captivity and who is really a villain or victim.
The rest of the cast includes Angel Bonanni (Shots Fired) as Boston Police Detective Tommy Gibbs, who is in charge of Emily’s case; Ralph Ineson (Game of Thrones) as Special Agent Adam Radford, Nick and Emily’s boss; Bruno Bichir (Narcos) as Dr. Daniel Vega, an FBI psychologist and profiler and Richard Brake (Ray Donovan) as Conrad Harlow, the prime suspect in the serial killer case.
Here is the trailer for Absenita:
You can learn more about the series Absentia at the show’s website and make sure to watch all 10 episodes of Absentia on Amazon Prime when it debuts on Friday, February 2.
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Here is the list of the new programming options to expect on TV this coming holiday week:
On January 29, the season finale of Valor will air at 9 PM on The CW.
Viewers should be forewarned that The State of the Union Address will air on all of the major and many of the cable networks on January 30.
On February 2, the new streaming series Absentia will debut online today on Amazon, starring Stana Katic (Castle), Patrick Heusinger (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), Neil Jackson (Sleepy Hollow) and Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey) [among others].
The Netflix streaming series Altered Carbon will debut on February 2, starring an ensemble cast that includes Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), James Purefoy (The Following), Ato Essandoh (Copper), Dichen Lachman (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dollhouse), Kristin Lehman (Motive) and Tamara Taylor (Bones) [among others].
Also on February 2, the Cinemax drama Strike Back will return for a fifth season at 10 PM, starring a new team including Daniel MacPherson (The Shannara Chronicles and APB), Roxanne McKee (Dominion), Warren Brown (Luther and Liar), Alin Sumarwata (Neighbours), Nina Sosanya (Love Actually) and Katherine Kelly (Class).
The Lifetime original movie The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar will debut on February 3 at 8 PM, starring newcomer Jeanté Godlock in the lead role and Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife and Kids).
On February 3, My Secret Valentine is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut at 9 PM, starring Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker.
Lastly, This Is Us will air a special episode on February 4 on NBC after the Super Bowl airs.
Mark your calendars!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 28, 2018| 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 PM:
Braveheart movie on BBC America
5:50 PM:
The Bodyguard movie on Cinemax
6 PM:
Thor movie on Syfy
7 PM:
Winter’s Dream movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Victoria on Masterpiece on PBS (Reair)
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie on FX
7:09 PM:
La Bamba movie on Encore
7:30 PM:
The Grammy Awards on CBS (Special)
8 PM:
Counterpart on Starz (NEW)
Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story movie on Lifetime (Encore of DEBUT)
Braveheart movie on BBC America
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back movie on EPIX
9 PM:
Victoria on Masterpiece on PBS (NEW)
Counterpart on Starz (Encore)
A Country Wedding movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
10 PM:
The Alienist on TNT (Encore)
Counterpart on Starz (Encore)
The Dark Knight movie on Cinemax
Star Trek movie on EPIX
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie on FX
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 27, 2018| 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:
National Treasure movie on Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV)
6 PM:
A Knight’s Tale movie on VICE
6:30 PM:
The School of Rock movie on Bravo
6:35 PM:
Clueless movie on Encore
7 PM:
One Winter Weekend movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Monsters, Inc. (animated) movie on Disney
8 PM:
Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette Tuff Story movie on Lifetime (DEBUT)
NCIS on CBS (Reair)
9 PM:
Winter’s Dream movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
10 PM:
Falling Water on USA Network (NEW)
10:38 PM:
Counterpart on Starz (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 26, 2018| 2 Comments »
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:
5:10 PM:
The Fate of the Furious movie on HBO
5:30 PM:
Pretty Woman movie on AMC
6 PM:
Love in Paradise movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Miss Congeniality movie on Freeform
A Knight’s Tale movie on VICE
6:10 PM:
Me Before You movie on EPIX
8 PM:
Blindspot on NBC (NEW)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl movie on AMC
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children movie on Cinemax
The Hunger Games movie on TNT
9 PM:
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC (NEW)
Jane the Virgin on The CW (RETURN)
Taken on NBC (NEW)
Hailey Dean Mystery: Dating is Murder movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
The Light Between Oceans movie on Showtime
10:01 PM:
Counterpart on Starz (Encore)
Enjoy!
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television on January 25, 2018| 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:
True Lies movie on AMC
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie on FX
5:10 PM:
Logan movie on HBO
7 PM:
Brave (animated) movie on Disney
NCIS on Oxygen
8 PM:
Supernatural on The CW (NEW)
Beyond on Freeform (NEW)
NCIS on Oxygen
8:50 PM:
Deepwater Horizon movie on HOB
9 PM:
Arrow on The CW (NEW)
Nashville on CMT (NEW)
Morning Show Murder movie on Hallmark Movie & Mysteries (Encore)
Victoria on Masterpiece on PBS (Reair)
NCIS on Oxygen
10 PM:
S.W.A.T. on CBS (Rear – Check Local Listings)
NCIS on Oxygen
Enjoy!
