On February 12, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie An Uncommon Grace will debut at 9 PM.
Grace Connor, a military nurse formerly stationed in Afghanistan, hopes that moving to a farm in rural Ohio will help her recover from the ravages of war. Levi Troyer finds his pacifist beliefs challenged when he discovers his stepfather has been killed and his mother wounded by an unknown intruder. Levi and Grace are thrown together when she comes to his family’s rescue and saves his mother’s life.
The cast includes Jes McCallan (Mistresses), Sean Faris (Cedar Cove) and veteran actress Kelly McGillis.
On February 10, the new Amazon series The Collection will debut online.
The series is a gripping family saga where scandal and betrayal plague the Sabine family’s relentless pursuit of success. Set in a post-war Parisian fashion house, the Sabines have been tasked with restoring the city’s supremacy as the haute couture capital. The series explores the grit behind the glamour of a rising business run by two clashing brothers. Paul (Richard Coyle from Coupling and Crossbones), is the face and the business sense while Claude (Tom Riley from Da Vinci’s Demons), is the creative genius. They’re nothing without each other but their rivalry, deception and the hateful bargains they made to survive the Nazi occupation could threaten to topple this “first family” of fashion’s empire at any moment. The season explores the constant question, will their tenuous relationship and the ghosts of their past destroy their meteoric success?
The cast includes Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, MD and The Good Wife) and Frances de la Tour (Harry Potter franchise and Outlander)
The Hallmark Channel movie A Dash Of Love will debut on February 11 at 9 PM.
When an aspiring chef lands an assistant job at her idol’s restaurant, she’s convinced her big break is just around the corner. After a rocky start, she befriends the handsome executive chef and they begin bonding in the kitchen. But her joy is short lived when she discovers her idol’s stealing her recipes and fires them both to protect her secret. Together, they set out to create their own pop up restaurant and discover the most important ingredient is love.
The film stars Jen Lilley (Days of Our Lives) and Brendan Penny (Chesapeake Shores and Motive).
On February 11, the new Lifetime movie Britney Ever After will debut at 8 PM.
Australian actress Natasha Bassett will play Britney Spears in this made-for-TV movie that dramatizes the tumultuous story of the pop icon’s rise to fame, fall from grace and eventual resurrection, which firmly secured her status as one of the world’s most enduring entertainers.
Clayton Chitty (The Man in the High Castle) will play Kevin Federline, Nathan Keyes (the made-for-TV movie JL Ranch) will play Justin Timberlake and Connor Paton (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) will play Lance Bass.
The small screen adaptation of the box office film Legion will debut on February 8 on FX at 10 PM.
The series is about David Haller (Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep.
David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Recreation), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller from Fargo). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.
On February 6, the new FOX drama APB will debut at 9:01 PM.
This series focuses on sky-high crime, officer-involved shootings, cover-ups and corruption in the over-extended and under-funded Chicago Police Department. Enter billionaire engineer Gideon Reeves (Justin Kirk from Tyrant and Weeds), who – after his best friend is murdered in a botched attempted robbery and the killer remains at large – demands justice. Putting up millions of dollars of his own money, he makes an unprecedented deal to take charge of the troubled 13th District – and reboot it as a technically innovative police force: better, faster and smarter than anything seen before. With Gideon himself having created the department’s cutting-edge technology, this eccentric yet brilliant outsider challenges the city’s police force to rethink everything about the way they fight crime.
The cast includes Natalie Martinez (Kingdom and Under the Dome), Caitlin Stasey (Reign), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Taylor Handley (Vegas and Southland) and Tamberla Perry (Boss).
The new Hallmark Channel movie Walking the Dog will debut on February 4 at 9 PM.
Rival lawyers (Jennifer Finnigan from Tyrant and Sam Page from Switched at Birth) battle each other in court as their respective dogs fall madly in love, bringing their guardians together at every turn until they reluctantly realize it may not just be the pups who are each other’s true Valentine.
The cast also includes Kimberly Sustad (the Hallmark Channel movie The Nine Lives of Christmas) and Hilary Jardine (Van Helsing).
NOTE: Those with a watchful eye will recognize one of the dogs featured in this movie as one of the dogs featured in the Hallmark Channel movie Unleashing Mr. Darcy.
On February 2, the debut of the small screen adaptation of Training Day will air on CBS at 10 PM.
Detective Frank Rourke (film actor Bill Paxton) is the maverick head of the Special Investigation Section that hunts the city’s most dangerous criminals, and one of the finest investigators the department has ever produced. But, when the LAPD brass notices Rourke’s penchant for operating in a gray area to fight the war on crime, they assign Kyle Craig (relative newcomer Justin Cornwell), a heroic, untarnished cop, to pose as Frank’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods.
The members of Frank’s loyal team include Rebecca Lee (Katrina Law from Arrow), a formidable officer with killer aim and a dark past, and Tommy Campbell (Drew Van Acker from Pretty Little Liars and Devious Maids), a former pro surfer who follows Frank’s orders without hesitation. The team’s cases find Frank and Kyle often crossing paths with Detective Valeria Chavez (Christina Vidal from Code Black), one of the LAPD’s top investigators. Providing Frank with intel is his girlfriend, Holly Butler (Julie Benz from Dexter and Angel), a well-connected, unapologetic Hollywood madam.
While LAPD Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart (Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Blindspot and Without a Trace) coolly puts Kyle in danger in her mission to take down Frank, Kyle’s schoolteacher wife, Alyse (Lex Scott Davis from the made-for-TV movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart), worries her husband’s resolve to avenge the murder of his father, a cop, may be his undoing.
The latest Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Love Locks will debut on the Hallmark Channel on January 28 at 9 PM.
Lindsay Phillips (Rebecca Romijn from The Librarians) and her teenaged daughter Alexa travel to Paris so the girl can enroll in art school with the same teacher Lindsay had as a young woman. Lindsay is a gifted painter, however, after a broken promise with a boyfriend, she ends up back in New York, not as an artist, but as the editor of an art magazine. Lindsay cannot imagine that her journey to Paris with her daughter will result in an unplanned encounter with her former boyfriend, Jack Burrows (Jerry O’Connell from Scream Queens), a hotelier, or that the pair will reignite their passionate love affair.
On January 28, the Lifetime original movie Love by the 10th Date will debut at 8 PM.
The telefilm follows Gabby (Meagan Good from Code Black), Nell (Kelle Stewart from The Soul Man), Billie (Keri Hilson from Think Like a Man) and Margot (Destiny’s Child singer Kelli Rowland) who balance their dating adventures alongside their career ambitions at an upscale digital magazine in Los Angeles, under the watchful eye of their editor, Maureen (Cat Deeley from So You Think You Can Dance).
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