Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The PBS Masterpiece Classic mini-series Mr. Selfridge will begin on March 31 at 9 PM.
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) will star in the real-life story of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the flamboyant and visionary American founder of the famous London department store that revolutionized the modern shopping experience.
NOTE: This mini-series will run every week until May 19.
Here is a trailer for Mr. Selfridge.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The second season of Call the Midwife will air on PBS Masterpiece Classic on March 31 at 8 PM.
Based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth will find the continuing story of the midwives and nuns of Nonnatus House into 1950s East End London.
NOTE: This mini-series will run every week until May 19.
Here is a trailer for season two of Call the Midwife.
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
On March 30, the new BBC America drama Orphan Black will debut at 9 PM.
This sci-fi series explores what happens when a woman named Sarah (Tatiana Maslany from World Without End) finds out she’s a clone. Sarah is an outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon who, after witnessing a woman’s suicide, assumes the stranger’s identity. Oddly enough, the woman looks just like her. Sarah is keen to solve her problems by taking on her lookalike’s identity and savings, but instead she is thrust into a dizzying mystery. Sarah learns early on that she and the woman are in fact clones — and that there are more people out there like her. It also doesn’t help that an assassin is pegging off clones one by one.
The cast includes Jordan Gavaris (Unnatural History) and Dylan Bruce (As the World Turns).
Here is a trailer for Orphan Black.
Posted in Movies, New Shows, News, Recommendations, Television, Video on March 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
As anyone who has a television set and access to the internet knows, Downton Abbey became an international sensation nearly overnight, racking up scores of fans all over the globe and amassing some pretty incredible ratings.
Now, it seems that Australia just might have the next best thing to Downton Abbey in the form of the 1950s mystery melodrama called A Place To Call Home that was created by Bevan Lee and the producers of the Australian TV shows Packed to the Rafters and Winners & Losers.
The only problem right now is that A Place To Call Home is expected to air in Australia only this Easter (yes, next weekend!), but let’s all keep our fingers crossed that the American TV gods will wise up fast and claim this mini-series for our side of the pond so we can enjoy watching it too.
In the meantime, here is a trailer for A Place To Call Home.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
On March 25 and March 26, the new mini-series Barabbas will air on Reelz Channel at 9 PM on both nights
Billy Zane stars in the lead role of this special Easter TV event inspired by the novel by Par Lagerkvist that is rooted in the Bible about the man whose life was spared because of the death of Jesus Christ.
NOTE: The first part of the mini-series will reair at 11:30 PM on March 25 while the second part will reair at 11 PM on March 26.
Here is a trailer for Barabbas.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Lifetime original movie Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story will debut on March 23 at 8 PM.
In the quiet town of Delmar, New York 21-year-old Chris Porco (Matt Barr from The Hatfield & McCoys) was accused of brutally murdering his father Peter and disfiguring his mother Joan (Lolita Davidovich) in a savage axe attack, a claim made all the more shocking when the case’s lead detective Joe Sullivan (Eric McCormack from Will & Grace and Perception) believed Joan had identified Chris as her attacker. Weeks after the crime, however, Joan would refute Detective Sullivan’s story, while the town of Delmar and many of Chris’ former friends and girlfriends would also rally to his defense, despite Sullivan’s fierce mission to prove his guilt. Prosecutors believed that beneath Chris’ picture-perfect facade was a devious and cunning sociopath who would stop at nothing to keep his lies hidden.
Here is a trailer for Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
On March 23, the movie Shadow on the Mesa will debut on the Hallmark Movie Channel at 8 PM.
Bounty hunter Wes Rawlins (Wes Brown from Deception) is a man of few words and the American West’s quickest draw. A silent but calculatingly honest man, Wes is devastated when his mother is brutally murdered by a couple of outlaws who are still on the run. Determined to solve the crime and bring justice to his family, Wes leaves his adopted grandparents (Meredith Baxter and Barry Corbin) and sets off to find the father he never knew, a rancher named Ray Eastman (Kevin Sorbo from Andromeda and Hercules). Ray is in the midst of an increasingly bloody feud with a corrupt neighbor, Pete Dowdy (Greg Evigan), who greedily wants to take all of Ray’s land. As Wes gets to know his father and two half-siblings, Ray’s deceitful wife, Mona (Gail O’Grady from NYPD Blue) holds a secret that fuels the war to a colossal final showdown. When Wes jumps in to defend his new family, he learns the truth behind his mother’s murder and soon his life will never be the same.
Here is the trailer for Shadow on the Mesa.
Posted in New Shows, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The new A&E series Bates Motel will debut on March 18 at 10 PM.
This prequel series to the classic box office movie Psycho will explore the formative years of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore from Finding Neverland) and his relationship with his mother Norma (Vera Farmiga).
The cast includes Max Thieriot (House at the End of the Street), Nicola Peltz (The Last Airbender), Olivia Cooke (The Secret of Crickley Hall), Mike Vogel (Pan Am), Nestor Carbonell (Lost and Ringer), Keegan Connor Tracy (Once Upon a Time) and Richard Harmon (Caprica and Continuum).
Here is a trailer for Bates Motel that includes a behind the scenes look at the new thriller.
Posted in Movies, Recommendations, Reminder, Television, Video on March 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
On March 18, the Sundance Channel 7-part mini-series Top of the Lake will debut its first two-hours at 9 PM.
This mystery revolves around the disappearance of Tui, a pregnant 12-year-old. Investigative detective Robin Griffin (Elizabeth Moss from Mad Men) must lose herself in order to find the missing girl. During the investigation, she collides with Matt Mitcham (Peter Mullan from War Horse), Tui’s father, a local drug lord, and G.J (Holly Hunter from Saving Grace), a guru at a local women’s camp. As the case unfolds, in a paradise where honest work is hard to find, Robin will find that her limits are tested, sending her on a journey of self-discovery.
The cast also includes David Wenham (Lord of the Rings), Jay Ryan (Beauty And the Beast) and Lucy Lawless (Spartacus: Vengeance).
Here is a trailer for Top of the Lake.
Posted in Breaking News, Causes, Fan Effort, Geekdom, News, Television, Video on March 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »
You’ve probably already seen the articles at Entertainment Weekly or at Entertainment Tonight Online.
Or, maybe you’ve been reading all the Twitter posts, but it looks like this thing just might finally happen.
What is “that” thing I speak of, you ask?
A Veronica Mars movie!
Well, it looks like it might film this summer for a 2014 release…as long as fans can step up and help the Kickstarter campaign, that is.
Please visit here to learn all the details!
Let’s make this happen, Marshmellows!!
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