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The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery will air on May 21 at 9 PM.
Aurora Teagarden (Candace Cameron Bure) discovers that murder has been delivered right to her doorstep in a mystery involving beau Martin’s long lost niece, an adorable newborn baby, a diaper bag with $10,000 in it, and a dead man on her front porch.
Here is a trailer for A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery.
Posted in Breaking News, New Shows, News, Television, Video on May 16, 2017| 1 Comment »
The following is the proposed ABC line-up for the new fall 2017-2018 TV season:
Monday:
8 PM – Dancing with the Stars
10 PM – The Good Doctor [NEW]
The Good Doctor – Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore from Bates Motel), a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital’s surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
The cast includes Nicholas Gonzalez (Pretty Little Lies and The Flash), Beau Garrett (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Hill Harper (CSI: NY) and Richard Schiff (The West Wing).
NOTE: It’s a little like Rain Man meets House, and I’m not trying to be sarcastic or inappropriate in saying that.
TRAILER:
Tuesday:
8 PM – The Middle
8:30 PM – Fresh Off the Boat
9 PM – black-ish
9:30 PM – The Mayor
10 PM – The Gospel of Kevin [NEW]
The Gospel of Kevin – Kevin Finn (Jason Ritter from Parenthood), a cluelessly self-serving person, is on a dangerous path to despair. In a downward spiral, Kevin returns home to stay with his widowed twin sister (JoAnna Garcia Swisher from Once Upon a Time) and niece. On his first night there, an unlikely celestial being named Yvette (Cristela Alonzo from Cristela) appears to him and presents him with a mission – to save the world.
The cast includes J. August Richards (Angel and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), India de Beaufort (Younger and Jane By Design) and Dustin Ybarra (We Bought a Zoo).
NOTE: This reminds me just ever so slightly of Joan of Arcadia (for which Jason was a cast member).
TRAILER:
Wednesday:
8 PM – The Goldbergs
8:30 PM – Speechless
9 PM – Modern Family
9:30 PM – American Housewife
10 PM – Designated Survivor
Thursday:
8 PM – Grey’s Anatomy
9 PM – Scandal
10 PM – How to Get Away with Murder
Friday:
8 PM – Once Upon a Time (New Night)
9 PM – Marvel’s Inhumans [NEW]
10 PM – 20/20
Marvel’s Inhumans – This new drama explores the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family, including Black Bolt, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself.
The cast includes Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels), Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Serinda Swan (Graceland), Isabelle Cornish (Home and Away) and Ken Leung (Lost).
Saturday:
8 PM – Saturday Night Football
Sunday:
7 PM – America’s Funniest Home Videos
8 PM – To Tell the Truth
9 PM – Shark Tank
10 PM – Ten Days in the Valley
Ten Days in the Valley – The drama stars Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) as Jane Sadler, an overworked television producer and single mother in the middle of a separation whose life is turned upside down when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Just like her controversial police TV show, everything is a mystery, everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted.
The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Josh Randall (Ed) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show and Major Crimes).
TRAILER:
NOTE: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will move to Friday nights at 9 PM after the 8-episode run of Marvel’s Inhumans.
The new dramas that will debut later in the season include:
The Crossing – Refugees from a war-torn country seek asylum in a small American fishing town, only the country these people are from is America – and the war they are fleeing hasn’t happened yet. As the government tries to uncover the truth behind this mysterious migration only one thing is certain: The lives of the people here — both the townspeople and these newcomers — will never be the same.
The cast includes Steve Zahn (That Thing You Do), Natalie Martinez (Under the Dome and APB), Sandrine Holt (MacGyver), Rick Gomez (Justified) and Jay Karnes (Burn Notice).
TRAILER:
NOTE: To me, this new show gives off vibes of The 4400 and Resurrection.
Deception – When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar magician Cameron Black (Jack Cutmore-Scott (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life) has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, influence and illusion — the FBI. Using every trick in the book and inventing new ones, he will help the government catch the world’s most elusive criminals while staging the biggest illusions of his career.
The cast includes Ilfenesh Hadera (Billions), Lenora Crichlow (the original Being Human), Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break), Justin Chon (the Twilight movie franchise) and Vinnie Jones (the box office film Snatch and the TV show Arrow).
TRAILER:
NOTE: Think of this show like Castle, except the male lead is a magician and the female lead is playing Beckett as if she stayed with the FBI with a little bit of Chuck thrown in the mix. Not sure how I feel about the similarities!!
For the People – Set in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, aka “The Mother Court,” this drama follows brand-new lawyers working for both the defense and the prosecution handling the most high-profile and high-stakes federal cases in the country – all as their lives intersect in and out of the courtroom.
The cast includes Ben Rappaport (Younger and Outsourced), Ben Shenkman (Royal Pains), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Daredevil and Soul Food), Hope Davis (the box office film About Schmidt and the TV series American Crime) and Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie).
TRAILER:
Posted in Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on May 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
On May 20, the HBO telefilm The Wizard of Lies will debut at 8 PM.
Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star as Bernie and Ruth Madoff, examining the Ponzi scheme that catapulted them into a harsh and unrelenting spotlight.
Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) and Hank Azaria (Brockmire) also star.
Here is a trailer for The Wizard of Lies:
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on May 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
On May 20, the Hallmark Channel movie The Art of Us will debut at 9 PM.
Dr. Harper Higgins (Taylor Cole from The Originals and Christmas at Homestead) is determined to land a tenured position at Boston College, and she is counting on curating a big art gallery at the university to do so. But when Higgins loses her showcase artist and can find no one else, she turns to her recently hired dog walker Tom Stone (Steve Lund from Bitten and Reign) who, unbeknownst to anyone, is a very skilled painter. Transforming Tom into a credible, respected artist is going to take work, but Dr. Higgins feels up to the challenge. The only complication comes when professor and artist fall for each other during the charade and risk being outed by a competing professor.
Here is a trailer for The Art of Us.
Posted in Breaking News, New Shows, News, Television, Video on May 15, 2017| 1 Comment »
The following is the proposed FOX line-up for the new fall 2017-2018 TV season:
Monday:
8 PM – Lucifer [New Time]
10 PM – The Gifted [NEW]
The Gifted – The drama tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Red (Stephen Moyer from True Blood) and Caitlin (Amy Acker from Person of Interest) Strucker are typical middle-class parents dealing with the realities of raising a family. However, when their teenage kids, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind from Gotham) and Andy (Percy Hynes White from Night at the Museum 3), are involved in an incident at their high school which reveals they are mutants.
The cast also includes Coby Bell (Burn Notice), Sean Teale (Reign), Emma Dumont (Aquarius), Blair Bedford (Satisfaction, The Lying Game and Switched at Birth) and Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time).
TRAILER:
Tuesday:
8 PM – Lethal Weapon [New Night]
9 PM – The Mick
9:30 PM – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Wednesday:
8 PM – Empire [New Time]
9 PM – Star
Thursday
8 PM – Gotham [New Night]
9 PM – The Orville [NEW]
The Orville – This one-hour science fiction series is set 400 years in the future, following the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a mid-level exploratory vessel, which has a crew consisting of both human and alien, who face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace. Think of this new show as a farcical look at Star Trek mixed with Galaxy Quest.
The cast includes series creator Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy and the box office film Ted), Adrianne Palicki (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Penny Johnson Jerald (Castle), Scott Grimes (Party of Five and American Dad) [among others].
TRAILER:
Friday:
8 PM – Hell’s Kitchen
9 PM – The Exorcist
Saturday:
7 PM – FOX Sports Saturday: College Football
Sunday:
7 PM – NFL on FOX
7:30 PM – The OT / Bob’s Burgers
8 PM – The Simpsons
8:30 PM – Ghosted [NEW Comedy]
9 PM – Family Guy
9:30 PM – The Last Man of Earth
The new dramas that will debut later in the season include:
9-1-1 – This procedural drama will star Angela Bassett (American Horror Story) in a fast-paced story that will explore the lives and careers of first responders – cops, paramedics, firefighters – the people who put their lives on the line to save others.
The Resident – This medical drama will focus on three doctors at different stages of their careers and a dedicated young nurse, starring Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife and Gilmore Girls), Manish Dayal (Halt and Catch Fire), Bruce Greenwood (Mad Men and Nowhere Man), Emily VanCamp (Revenge and Everwood) and Valerie Cruz (The Following).
TRAILER:
Posted in Breaking News, New Shows, News, Television, Video on May 15, 2017| 1 Comment »
The following is the proposed NBC line-up for the new fall 2017-2018 TV season:
Monday:
8 PM – The Voice
10 PM – The Brave [NEW]
The Brave – While D.I.A. Deputy Director Patricia Campbell (Anne Heche from Men In Trees) and her team of analysts wield the world’s most advanced surveillance technology from Washington, D.C., Adam Dalton (Mike Vogel from Under the Dome) and his heroic Special Ops squad of highly trained undercover specialists use their unbreakable bond and commitment to freedom to save lives of innocent people and execute missions in some of the most dangerous places in the world.
The cast includes Demetrius Grosse (Justified, Game of Silence and Westworld), Tate Ellington (Quantico and Shameless) and Sofia Pernas (Jane the Virgin).
TRAILER:
Tuesday:
8 PM – The Voice
9 PM – Superstore
9:30 PM – The Good Place
10 PM – Chicago Fire
Wednesday:
8 PM – The Blacklist [New Night and Time]
9 PM – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
10 PM – Chicago P.D.
Thursday:
8 PM – Will & Grace
8:30 PM – Great News
9 PM – This Is Us [New Night]
10 PM – Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders
Special Trailer (with This Is Us Cast and Some of Their Fans):
Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders – The 8-3pisode true crime installment of the long-running powerhouse franchise will star Edie Falco (The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie) takes an in-depth look at the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trail and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras stopped rolling.
TRAILER:
Friday:
8 PM – Blindspot [New Night]
9 PM – Taken [New Night and Time]
10 PM – Dateline NBC
Saturday:
8 PM – Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
10 PM – Saturday Night Live (Encores)
Sunday:
7 PM – Football Night in America
8:20 PM – NBC Sunday Night Football
NOTE: Timeless has actually been renewed for a second season, but won’t air until some point in 2018. Meanwhile, Shades of Blue will return to the Sunday night line-up after the regular football season ends. There are no details as yet on when/where Chicago Med will be airing.
The new dramas that will debut later in the season include:
Good Girls – When three suburban moms get tired of trying to make ends meet, they decide it’s time to stick up for themselves by robbing the local supermarket at (toy) gunpoint. But when the manager catches a glimpse of one of them and the loot is far more than they expected, it doesn’t take long for the three best friends to realize the perfect getaway will be harder than they think.
The cast includes Mae Whitman (Parenthood), Retta (Parks and Recreation), Manny Montana (Graceland and Notorious) and Matthew Lillard (Scooby Doo franchise).
Reverie – This new thriller follows Mara Kint (Sarah Shahi from Person of Interest and Fairly Legal), a former hostage negotiator and expert on human behavior, who became a college professor after facing an unimaginable personal tragedy. But when she’s brought in to save ordinary people who have lost themselves in a highly advanced virtual-reality program in which you can literally live your dreams, she finds that in saving others, she may actually have discovered a way to save herself.
The cast includes Dennis Haysbert (24), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) and Kathryn Morris (Cold Case).
Rise – This drama will focus on dedicated teacher and family man Lou Mazzuchelli (Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother) sheds his own self-doubt and takes over the school’s lackluster theater department, he galvanizes not only the faculty and students but the entire working-class town. Inspired by a true story.
The cast includes Auli’i Cravalho (the voice of the Disney movie Moana), Marley Shelton (The Lottery and Eleventh Hour) and Rosie Perez.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on May 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The PBS movie King Charles III will debut on May 14 at 9 PM.
The hit Broadway show has been adopted for TV with Tim Pigott-Smith (Downton Abbey and The Hour) reprises his role of Prince Charles, who has waited his entire life to ascend to the British throne. But after the Queen’s death, he immediately finds himself wrestling his conscience over a bill to sign into law.
With the future of the monarchy under threat, protests on the streets, and his family in disarray, Charles must grapple with his own identity and purpose, to decide whether, in the twenty-first century, the British crown still has any real power.
Here is a trailer for King Charles III:
Posted in New Shows, News, Online Series, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on May 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
On May 12, the new Netflix streaming series Anne will air online.
Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and many challenges, fights for love and acceptance and her place in the world. Set in Prince Edward Island in the late 1890s, the series centers on Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty), a young orphaned girl who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an aging sister and brother.
Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform the lives of Marilla (Geraldine James) and Matthew Cuthbert (R.H. Thomson) and eventually the entire small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination. Anne’s adventures will reflect timeless and topical issues including themes of identity, feminism, bullying and prejudice.
Here is a trailer for Anne:
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on April 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
On April 30, the new Starz drama American Gods will debut at 9 PM.
Adapted from the Neil Gaiman fantasy novel, the series focusing on a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods. The traditional Old Gods, with mythological roots from around the world, fear irrelevance as their believers die off or are seduced by the money, technology, and celebrity offered by the New Gods. Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle from The 100) is an ex-con who, left adrift by the recent death of his wife, becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to conman Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane). But in truth, Mr. Wednesday is a powerful old deity, on a cross-country mission to build an army and reclaim his lost glory.
The cast includes Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies), Orlando Jones (Sleepy Hollow), Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black), Corbin Bernsen (Psych), Demore Barnes (The Unit), Jonathan Tucker (Kingdom), Jeremy Davies (Lost and Sleepy Hollow) and Peter Stomare (Prison Break and Arrow) [among others].
Here is the trailer for American Gods:
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on April 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Hulu streaming series The Handmaid’s Tale will debut online on April 26.
Based on the book of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the series is set in a dystopian future where a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The cast includes Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Samira Wiley (Orange Is the New Black), O.T. Fagbenle (Looking) and Joseph Fiennes.
Here is a trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale:
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