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Cooking with Love is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut on February 11 at 9 PM.
Optimistic and cheerful TV producer, Kelly (Ali Liebert from Bomb Girls), doesn’t have time for love. Bad boy celebrity chef, Stephen (Brett Dalton from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), doesn’t have time for anything besides cooking. Fun with a side of love ensues as Kelly and Stephen are paired on a children’s cooking show.
Here is a trailer for Cooking with Love.
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On February 11, the TV One original movie Behind the Movement will debut at 7 PM.
This is a retelling of how Rosa Parks’ (Meta Golding from CSI and The Hunger Games franchise) refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott. It reveals the untold story of how a group of everyday people decided this incident was the right time to take a stand for their civil rights and demand equal treatment.
The cast includes Loretta Devine (The Carmichael Show and Being Mary Jane) and Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy).
Here is a trailer for Behind the Movement.
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The new HBO drama Here and Now will debut on February 11 at 9 PM.
The new series is centered on a middle-aged couple (Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter) and their four children, three of which were adopted from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia. Things take a turn when one of the children begins to see things others cannot.
The cast also includes Necar Zadegan (24 and Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), Jerrika Hinton (Grey’s Anatomy) and Sosie Bacon (13 Reasons Why).
Here is a trailer for Here and Now:
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The Hallmark Channel movie Very, Very Valentine will debut on February 10 at 9 PM.
Helen (Danica McKellar), a kind hearted and shy florist, meets the perfect man at a Valentine’s Masquerade Ball. When she enlists the help of her best friend Henry (Cameron Mathison) to track him down, she finds that her perfect man may already be right in front of her.
The film also stars Damon Runyan.
Here is a trailer for Very, Very Valentine.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on February 4, 2018| Leave a Comment »
On February 8, the Crackle original movie In the Cloud will air online today.
This is a high-octane, international, sci-fi thriller that takes place in the near future after dozens of people are killed in attacks by a serial terrorist bomber.
The cast includes Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Justin Chatwin (Shameless), Tomiwa Edun (Merlin), Nora Arnezeder (Zoo) and Laura Fraser (A Knight’s Tale).
Here is a trailer for In the Cloud.
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.
