The Netflix 6-episode mini-series The Queen’s Gambit will debut online on October 23.
During the Cold War era, an orphaned chess prodigy (Anya Taylor-Joy) struggles with addiction on a quest to become the greatest player in the world.
The cast includes Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Harry Melling.
Here is a trailer for The Queen’s Gambit:
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Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
On October 19, the season finale of The Third Day will air on HBO at 9 PM.
The movie Rebecca will debut on Netflix on October 21. A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death. The cast includes Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes and Ann Dowd.
On October 22, the box office movie Roald Dahl’s The Witches (that was to be released in theatres) will actually debut on HBO Max. The movie tells the story of a young boy (Jahzir Bruno and voiced by Chris Rock as an adult) who stumbles upon a secret coven of witches, and, with the help of his loving grandmother (Octavia Spencer), must try to foil their evil plan to turn all the world’s children into mice. The cast includes Anne Hathaway as the menacing Grand High Witch, Kristin Chenoweth and Stanley Tucci.
The Netflix 6-episode mini-series The Queen’s Gambit will debut online on October 23. During the Cold War era, an orphaned chess prodigy (Anya Taylor-Joy) struggles with addiction on a quest to become the greatest player in the world. The cast includes Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Harry Melling.
Also on October 23, the Lifetime holiday movie Christmas on Ice will debut at 8 PM. Courtney Bennett (Abigail Klein), a former US figure skating hopeful, runs the city’s public skating rink but when the Mayor announces its closing, Courtney is heartbroken but determined to save it. After Courtney’s attempts to warm the Mayor’s Scrooge-like heart fail, she enlists the help of Noah Tremblay (Ryan Cooper), a former professional hockey player and single dad, who owns the new indoor skating center, to help her, and together they find more than just the spirit of holidays on the ice.
The holiday movie Christmas Unwrapped will debut on Lifetime on October 24 at 8 PM. The movie follows Charity (Amber Stevens West), an ambitious reporter, who learns the true meaning of Christmas when she investigates Erik Gallagher (Marco Grazzini), a beloved member of the town who insists all the gifts he provides are from none-other than Santa himself. Cheryl Ladd also stars.
Also on October 24, the Hallmark Channel holiday movie Jingle Bell Bride will debut at 8 PM. Wedding planner Jessica Perez (Julie Gonzalo) travels to a remote town in Alaska to find a rare flower for a celebrity client and is charmed by the small town during Christmas, as well as the handsome local (Ronnie Rowe Jr.) helping her.
The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries holiday movie Christmas Tree Lane will debut on October 24 at 9 PM. Music store owner Meg (Alicia Witt) spearheads the community effort to save the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district from demolition. As she finds herself falling for Nate (Andrew Walker), a recent acquaintance, she’s thrown when she learns his surprising tie to the developer.
On October 25, the PBS series Flesh and Blood will air it season finale at 9 PM.
The movie Forever Christmas [also known as Mr. 365 as shown on Passionflix] will debut on Lifetime on October 25 at 8 PM. When workaholic reality TV producer Sophie (Chelsea Hobbs) starts working on a holiday-season show about Will (Christopher Russell), a wildly sexy guy who celebrates Christmas every day of the year, she finds herself falling for her mysterious, unlikely new star, renewing her long-lost faith in Christmas in the process.
On October 25, Chateau Christmas will debut on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM. Margot (Merritt Patterson), a world-renowned pianist, returns to Chateau Newhaus to spend the holidays with her family and is reunited with an ex (Luke Macfarlane) who helps her rediscover her passion for music.
The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Deliver by Christmas will debut on October 25 at 9 PM. Bakery owner Molly (Alvina August) meets Josh (Eion Bailey), a widower who recently moved to town with his young son, but she is also charmed by a mysterious client whom she’s never met in person and doesn’t realize that they’re the same man.
Lastly, also on October 25, the 6-episode HBO limited series The Undoing will debut at 9 PM. The series follows Grace (Nicole Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family. The cast includes Donald Sutherland, Edgar Ramirez, Lily Rabe and Ismael Cruz Cordova.
Mark your calendars
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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:
5:30 PM:
Deadpool 2 movie on FX
6 PM:
Country at Heart movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
6:25 PM:
Alpha movie on FXM
6:35 PM:
Just Mercy movie on HBO
7 PM:
Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
7:10 PM
Britannia on EPIX (Encore)
7:15 PM:
21 Bridges movie on Showtime 2
7:30 PM:
Crazy Rich Asians movie on TNT
8 PM:
L.A.’s Finest on FOX (NEW)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (Encore)
The Help movie on Paramount Network
Top Gun movie on TMC
9 PM:
Filthy Rich on FOX (NEW)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime 2 (Encore)
Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
10 PM:
Soulmates on AMC (NEW)
Risky Business movie on TMC
Enjoy!
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Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
CANCELLATIONS/RENEWALS
Spectrum Originals has pulled the plug on LA’s Finest after two seasons. (Variety)
CBS All Access has renewed Star Trek: Discovery for a 4th season. (Variety)
CASTING NEWS
Actress Kate Hudson will star in the second season of the Apple drama series Truth Be Told, starring alongside series lead Octavia Spencer. Spencer plays Poppy Parnell, a true crime podcaster with Hudson set to play Micah Keith, a lifestyle guru and longtime friend of Poppy. A new case deeply involves both women and quickly puts their relationship to the ultimate test. (Variety)
Veteran actress Kathleen Turner will be back for the third and final season of The Kominsky Method. She will return as Roz Volander, the ex-wife of Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas), who is a and doctor with whom Sandy has a very volatile relationship. In season three, Roz will come to Los Angeles to spend time with their daughter Mindy (Sarah Baker). (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek and The Affair) will take over the lead role from Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey franchise) in the upcoming Peacock limited series Dr. Death, the medical doctor from hell. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, Dr. Death tells the “terrifying true story” of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Jackson), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. “Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. The series is slated to premiere sometime next year. (TV Line)
Actress Shalia Grant (NCIS: New Orleans) and actor Travis VanWinkle (The Last Ship) will join season 3 of the drama series You. Grant will play Sherry, a “Mom-fluencer” who appears down to earth, but is actually a mean girl who only pretends to welcome Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) into her social circle. Meanwhile, VanWinkle will play the wealthy Cary, who invites Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) into his inner circle. (Netflix on Twitter and The Futon Critic)
Tony nominee Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) will star in the ABC limited series The Women of the Movement. She will play Mamie Till-Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till. After the brutal murder of her son in the Jim Crow South, Mamie, a soft-spoken young mother in Chicago, put her own life on the line to seek justice in his name. Unwilling to let Emmett’s murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chose to bear her pain on the world’s stage, and as a result ignited the civil rights movement as we know it today. The 6-episode series will premiere sometime next year. (Deadline)
Actor Conrad Ricamora (How To Get Away With Murder) has landed a key recurring role in The Resident, playing Dr. Jake Wong, a handsome gay plastic surgeon, and amateur singer-songwriter in his off hours. Jake used to be Dr. Bell’s (series regular Bruce Greenwood) stepson half a lifetime ago, but their relationship ended bitterly when Bell divorced his mother. (Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Hulu is developing a series based on the novel ‘Interior Chinatown’ by Charles Yu. The book follows the story of an Asian-American actor struggling against clichéd roles and stereotypes, both at work and in his personal life. (Variety)
Paramount Plus (aka CBS All Access, at least until next year) has nabbed the rights to the Grease spin-off Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, an hour-long musical comedy about how the infamous Pink Ladies began and how the reverence, fear, and moral panic they sparked changed Rydell High forever. (Variety)
Amazon has given a series order to the planned small screen adaptation of the horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer. The young adult series will be a modern take on the hit 1997 horror film. In a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night. (Variety)
Showtime has ordered a limited series revival of Dexter, but details are being kept under wraps. (Variety)
NBC is working on a series based on Fried Green Tomatoes (the insanely popular 1991 film based on the book of the same name by Fannie Flagg). The project will star Reba McEntire as present-day Idgie Threadgoode, who returns to Whistle Stop after a decade away. She must wrestle with a changed town, estranged daughter, faltering cafe and life-changing secret. (Variety)
The CW is developing a drama Slay from Oscar and Emmy winner Regina King (Watchmen) and her sister Reina King. The series would center on Carson Jones, a bold, witty teenager with afro puffs, leather boots, seventies cool, and – thanks to her mother’s ancient African bloodline – supernatural gifts and the responsibility to use them to protect Virginia’s Historic Triangle (one of the most haunted areas in the country) from the forces of darkness. (Deadline)
MOVIE NEWS
Actors Leonardo DiCapril and Timothee Chalamet as well as actresses Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence will star in the star-studded Netflix comedy film Don’t Look Up that follows two low-level astronomers who embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an impending asteroid that could destroy the planet. The cast also includes Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi and Matthew Perry as well. (Variety)
Actress Anya Taylor-Joy and actors Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star in the box office film Furiosa, a prequel based on the Imperator Furiosa character (played by Charlize Theron) in the 2015 box office movie Mad Max: Fury Road. (Variety)
The long-anticipated sequel to Coming 2 America is in the process of being sold by Paramount Pictures to Amazon Studios. Final details are still being hammered out, though. (Variety)
Actress Xochitl Gomez (The Baby-Sitters Club) has joined the cast of the upcoming Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (Deadline)
Actors Darren Barnet, Harry Shum Jr. and James Saito will star in the Netflix romantic comedy Love Hard that will star Jimmy O. Yang and Nina Dobrev. Barnet takes over the role that was to be played by Charles Melton, who had to leave the film due to scheduling conflicts with his role on Riverdale. The movie is described as When Harry Met Sally meets Roxanne, following an LA girl, unlucky in love, who falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she’s been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up IF she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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On October 22, the box office movie Roald Dahl’s The Witches (that was to be released in theatres) will actually debut on HBO Max today.
The movie tells the story of a young boy (Jahzir Bruno and voiced by Chris Rock as an adult) who stumbles upon a secret coven of witches, and, with the help of his loving grandmother (Octavia Spencer), must try to foil their evil plan to turn all the world’s children into mice.
The cast includes Anne Hathaway as the menacing Grand High Witch, Kristin Chenoweth and Stanley Tucci.
Here is a trailer for Roald Dahl’s The Witches:
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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:
5:30 PM:
Ocean’s 8 movie on TNT
7 PM:
The Time Capsule movie on UPtv (DEBUT)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (Encore)
Sweet Autumn movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
7:30 PM:
Deadpool 2 movie on FX
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (animated) movie on FXM
8 PM:
The Trouble with Maggie Cole on PBS (DEBUT)
A Harvest Wedding movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
42 movie on BET
Crazy Rich Asians movie on TNT
8:33 PM:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie on Syfy
9 PM:
Brittania on EPIX (NEW)
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (NEW)
Flesh and Blood on PBS (NEW)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT)
9:25 PM:
Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children movie on FXM
9:30 PM:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey movie on BBC America
10 PM:
Cobra on Masterpiece on PBS (NEW)
Brittania on EPIX (Encore)
Falling for Look Lodge movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
10:30 PM:
Hope Floats movie on CMT
Enjoy!
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The movie Rebecca will debut on Netflix on October 21.
A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.
The cast includes Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes and Ann Dowd.
Here is a trailer for Rebecca:
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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:
5:25 PM:
Ford v. Ferrari movie on HBO
5:30 PM:
Star Trek Beyond movie on Paramount Network
5:41 PM:
The Amazing Spider-Man movie on Starz
6 PM:
Skyscraper movie on FX
Avengers: Infinity War movie on TBS
7 PM:
The Fall on Ovation (NEW)
Bottled With Love movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
7:30 PM
Fast & Furious movie on Bravo
Fruitvale Station movie on VICE
8 PM:
The Good Lord Bird on Showtime (Encore)
Erin Brockovich movie on Sundance TV
8:15 PM:
Something Borrowed movie on HBO 2
9 PM:
Sweet Autumn movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
9:30 PM:
Twister movie on VICE
Enjoy!
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It was a big night on the major networks with two separate town hall meetings with the current President and Joe Biden on competing networks as well as reality, repeats, some news, some comedy and baseball. There were also three Thursday night dramas airing new episodes.
Here is how those three Thursday night dramas fared in the overall ratings last week:
8 PM Show:
Supernatural (The CW) [NEW] – 1 million viewers
9 PM Show:
The Outpost (The CW) [NEW] – 633,000 viewers
10 PM Show:
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS) [NEW] – 1.9 million viewers
What did you watch on TV last night. Please share.
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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:
NOTE: The new thriller Helstrom will debut on Hulu while the new drama Grand Army will also debut on Netflix; and the new movie Clouds will debut on Disney+.
5 PM:
The Holiday movie on Lifetime
5:30 PM:
Jurassic World movie on FX
5:50 PM:
Terms of Endearment movie on TMC
6 PM:
Snowcoming movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
6:30 PM
Monsters, Inc. (animated) movie on Freeform
6:35 PM:
Midway movie on HBO 2
7 PM:
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Top Gun movie on Showtime
Twister movie on VICE
8 PM:
When Calls the Heart: Home for Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie on FX
Sweet Home Alabama movie on Lifetime
She’s All That movie on POP
Men in Black 3 movie on Starz
Mean Girls movie on TMC
Ready Player One movie on TNT
8:30 PM:
Monsters University (animated) movie on Freeform
9 PM:
800 Words on UPtv (NEW)
Hometown Hero movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
Black Hawk Down movie on Encore
9:30 PM:
Fruitvale Station movie on VICE
Enjoy!
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