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It was a busy night of programming with football, news, reality, comedies, animation and the American Music Awards all airing with only the same three dramas airing new episodes

Here is how those few dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:

8 PM Show:
Wisdom of the Crowd (CBS) [NEW] – 6.3 million viewers

9 PM Show:
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) [NEW] – 6.8 million viewers

10 PM Show:
Madam Secretary (CBS) [NEW] – 5.9 million viewers

NOTE: Due to football running over time, the ratings above are an average due to the overlap.

What did you watch on TV last night? Please share.

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 PM:
Kingsmen: The Secret Service movie on FX

5:50 PM:
The Bodyguard movie on HBO2

6 PM:
Sleigh Bells movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)

6:15 PM:
Big Hero 6 (animated) movie on Disney

7 PM:
Outlander on Starz (Encore)
Home for Christmas Day movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Encore)
Ray movie on TMC

8 PM:
Supergirl on The CW (NEW)
Enchanted Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Lucy movie on FX
Dear Santa movie on Lifetime (Reair)

9 PM:
The Gifted on FOX (NEW)
A Nutcracker Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)

10 PM:
Scorpion on CBS (NEW)
The Halcyon on Ovation (NEW – Finale)
The Mistletoe Promise movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)

10:01 PM:
The Good Doctor on ABC (NEW)
The Brave on NBC (NEW – Fall Finale)
Berlin Station on EPIX (Encore)
Road Less Traveled movie on CMT (Encore)
Lucy movie on FX

10:02 PM:
Dear Secret Santa movie on Lifetime (Reair)

Enjoy!

Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:

On November 20, the Ovation drama The Halcyon will air its season finale at 10 PM.

The new Hulu series Marvel’s Runaways will debut online on November 21. Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Marvel’s Runaways is the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other but who must unite against a common foe: their parents. The cast includes James Marsters (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer), Annie Wersching (24), Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), Brigid Brannagh (Army Wives), Kevin Weisman (Alias and Scorpion), Ever Carradine (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Gregg Sulkin (Faking It) [among others].

On November 22, the Netflix streaming series Godless will debut online. This seven-part epic western focuses on notorious criminal Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels from The Newsroom) and his gang of outlaws, who are on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell from Unbroken), a son-like protégé who betrayed the brotherhood. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge with hardened widower Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey and Good Behavior), an outcast herself, in a worn-down, isolated mining town of La Belle, NM — governed mainly by women. When word reaches La Belle that Griffin is headed their way, the town bands together to defend against the murderous gang in a lawless western frontier.

The Hallmark Channel holiday film With Love, Christmas will debut on November 22 at 8 PM, starring Emilie Ullerup (Chesapeake Shores and Sanctuary) and Aaron O’Connell (The Haves and the Have Nots).

On November 23, the PBS 90-minute special presentation of Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars will debut at 8 PM.  When Anne Shirley turns 13, she faces complex issues with her friends, inspirational adults and Marilla and Matthew. At the same time, she begins a friendship with Gilbert Blythe that emotionally escalates to disrupt the status quo of her peaceful world. Her free-spirited nature is challenged by her perceived need to become sensible, and her journey toward this goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate – albeit, amusing – mishaps.

The Mistletoe Inn is the latest, new holiday movie set to debut on the Hallmark Channel on November 23 at 8 PM, starring Alicia Witt and David Alpay.

On November 24, the Hallmark Channel movie Finding Santa will debut at 8 PM, starring Jodie Sweetin (Full House) and Eric Winter (Witches of East End).

The Christmas Train  is the latest Hallmark Hall of Fame, holiday movie that will debut on both the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on November 25 at 8 PM, starring Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Joan Cusack and Danny Glover.

On November 25, the Lifetime original holiday movie Wrapped Up In Christmas will air at 8 PM, starring Tatyana Ali (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and Brendan Fehr (Guardians of the Galaxy) as well as Kim Fields, Jasmine Guy, Dan Lauria and Jackee Harry; followed that same night at 10 PM by the mini-movie A Family for Christmas.

A Very Merry Toy Store is the new Lifetime holiday movie that will debut on November 26 at 8 PM, starring Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) and Mario Lopez (Holiday in Handcuffs) as well as Beth Broderick, Brian Dennehy and Billy Gardell followed that same night at 10 PM by the mini-movie The Snowman.

Also on November 26, the Hallmark Channel movie Switched for Christmas will debut at 8 PM, starring Candace Cameron Bure in a dual role.

The new holiday movie A Joyous Christmas will debut on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on November 26 at 9 PM, starring Natlie Knepp, Michael Rady, Bonnie Bedelia and Steve Bacic.

Also on November 26, the ION holiday movie Snowmance will debut at 9 PM, starring Ashley Newbrough (Privileged) and Jesse Hutch (Cedar Cove).

Lastly, Christmas Solo is the latest holiday movie from UP TV that will debut on November 26 at 7 PM, starring Kelli Williams (Army Wives) and Jonathan Scarfe (Van Helsing).

Mark your calendars!

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS/PICK UP NEWS

Nashville is being cancelled, again. The show aired for four season on ABC before being cancelled. But it was saved by CMT; except the cable network has announced that the musical drama will come to an end after its upcoming sixth season. (TV Line)

CBS has given a full season order to freshman drama S.W.A.T. (Variety)

The new Stana Katic (Castle) series Absentia has found its U.S. home: Amazon. The series is slated to debut in 2018. The show centers on FBI agent Emily Byrne (Katic), who – while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers – disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, Emily is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive, and with no memory of the years she was missing. Returning home to learn her husband has remarried and her son is being raised by another woman, she soon finds herself implicated in a new series of murders. (Deadline)

Amazon is also moving forward with a Lord of the Rings TV series, which will explore new storylines preceding “The Fellowship of the Ring.” (Variety)

CASTING NEWS

Actress Skyler Samuels (Scream Queens and The Nine Lives of Chloe King) has landed a recurring role in The Gifted. She will play a refugee mutant with telepathic abilities and a mysterious past. (Deadline)

Actress Carmen Ejogo (The Girlfriend Experience) will star opposite actor Mahershala Ali (Luke Cage and The 4400) in the new installment of the HBO anthology drama True Detective. She will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980. Ali will play Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. The new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. (Variety)

Actor Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge (Leverage and Underground) will star in the Showtime pilot City on a Hill, a fictional account of a real time in Boston history that came to be called the “Boston Miracle.” District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Hodge) comes from Brooklyn and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran Jackie Rhodes (Bacon), who is deeply invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system. (Variety)

Actresses Marlee Matlin (Switched at Birth) and Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and actors Zach Gilford (Kingdom and Friday Night Lights) and Colt Prattes (the Dirty Dancing small-screen remake) will star in the Sundance Now upcoming series This Close, which is based on a series of shorts featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s Short Form Episodic Showcase, created, written and starring actress Shoshannah Stern (Jericho and Supernatural) and Josh Feldman, both of whom are deaf. The show will explore the relationship between best friends Kate (Stern), who is newly engaged, and Michael (Feldman), who is attempting to move on from his ex-fiancé. Gilford will play Danny, Kate’s fiancé; Hines will play Stella, a PR maven and Kate’s boss; Prattes will play Ryan, Michael’s (Feldman) ex and Matlin will play Michael’s mother, Annie, a recovering alcoholic trying to reconnect with her son. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Nathan Lane will appear in the 100th episode of The Blacklist, playing criminal Abraham Stern, who manipulates the desperate into committing illegal and immoral acts so that he can claim his birthright fortune. (TV Line)

Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope and currently recurring on The Gifted) and actress Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) have both landed series regular roles in the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead. Details on the roles they will play are being kept under wraps though. (The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!

Friday night found all of that night’s dramas airing new episodes on the major networks.

Here is how all of those dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:

8 PM Shows:
MacGyver (CBS) [NEW] – 7.2 million viewers
Blindspot (NBC) [NEW] – 3.4 million viewers
Once Upon a Time (ABC) [NEW – Two-Hours] – 2.3 million viewers [average]
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) [NEW] – 681,000 viewers

9 PM Shows:
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) [NEW] – 9.1 million viewers
The Exorcist (FOX) [NEW] – 1.4 million viewers
Jane the Virgin (The CW) [NEW] – 627,000 viewers

10 PM Show:
Blue Bloods (CBS) [NEW] – 9.1 million viewers

What did you watch on TV Friday night? Please share.

The Mistletoe Inn is the latest, new holiday movie set to debut on the Hallmark Channel on November 23 at 8 PM.

Beloved, fastidious, high school teacher Lucy Farebrother (Alicia Witt) inherits a castle in the Scottish Highlands at Christmas. Lucy surprises her boyfriend Alex with a Christmas dream vacation to Scotland to celebrate the couple’s seventh anniversary. Over the long flight, the couple dreams of the life they will make together in the most enchanted place. Imagine their surprise when they discover before Lucy can move into the home that is her birthright, she must first come up with a plan to convince moody, artistic novelist Duncan MacBain – a squatter in the castle – to leave.

The movie also stars David Alpay.

Here is a trailer for The Mistletoe Inn.

On November 23, the PBS 90-minute special presentation of Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars will debut at 8 PM.

When Anne Shirley turns 13, she faces complex issues with her friends, inspirational adults and Marilla and Matthew. At the same time, she begins a friendship with Gilbert Blythe that emotionally escalates to disrupt the status quo of her peaceful world. Her free-spirited nature is challenged by her perceived need to become sensible, and her journey toward this goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate – albeit, amusing – mishaps.

Here is a trailer for Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars:

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:
Quantum of Solace movie on BBC America

6 PM:
The Sweetest Christmas movie on Hallmark Channel (Encore)
Despicable Me 2 (animated) movie on FX
The Rock movie on Reelz Channel

7 PM:
The Christmas Calendar movie on ION (DEBUT)
Outlander on Starz (Encore)
Dashing Through the Snow movie on Hallmark Movie & Mysteries (Reair)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back movie on EPIX

7:45 PM:
White House Down movie on FXM

8 PM:
Wisdom of the Crowd on CBS (NEW)
Durrells in Corfu on PBS (NEW – Finale)
Outlander on Starz (NEW)
A Gift to Remember movie on Hallmark Channel (DEBUT)
I Am Elizabeth Smart movie on Lifetime (Encore)
Minions (animated) movie on FX

9 PM:
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (NEW)
Berlin Station on EPIX (NEW)
Poldark on Masterpiece on PBS (NEW – Finale)
A Bramble House Christmas movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (DEBUT)

10 PM:
Outlander on Starz (Encore)
My Christmas Love movie on Hallmark Channel (Reair)
Minions (animated) movie on FX

Enjoy!

On November 22, the Hallmark Channel holiday film With Love, Christmas will debut at 8 PM.

Just how secret does an office secret Santa have to be? In Melanie’s case, she finds it’s just a little too covert. The assignments were distributed for Secret Santa, and Melanie is a little worried but very excited that she was given her crush, Donovan. She comes up with thoughtful gifts and spot-on notes. Donovan is so taken by his Secret Santa, he starts to fall in love – only someone else is stealing her credit, pretending to be his Secret Santa. Now Melanie must work to prove to Donovan that she is the right one as far as Santas and girlfriends go.

The film stars Emilie Ullerup (Chesapeake Shores and Sanctuary) and Aaron O’Connell (The Haves and the Have Nots).

Here is a trailer for With Love, Christmas.

The Netflix streaming series Godless will debut online on November 22.

This seven-part epic western focuses on notorious criminal Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels from The Newsroom) and his gang of outlaws, who are on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell from Unbroken), a son-like protégé who betrayed the brotherhood. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge with hardened widower Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey and Good Behavior), an outcast herself, in a worn-down, isolated mining town of La Belle, NM — governed mainly by women. When word reaches La Belle that Griffin is headed their way, the town bands together to defend against the murderous gang in a lawless western frontier.

The cast includes Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Scoot McNairy (Halt and Catch Fire), Sam Waterston (Law & Order) and Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie)

Here is a trailer for Godless: