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:
6:10 PM: Deadpool movie on Cinemax
7 PM: After All These Years movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries NCIS on Oxygen
8 PM: Game of Thrones on HBO2 (Reair) The Princess Bride movie on AMC Snowden movie on Showtime2 NCIS on Oxygen
9 PM: Hooten and the Lady on The CW (NEW) Nashville on CMT (NEW) The Tunnel: Sabotage mini-series on PBS (NEW) An Aurora Teagarden Mystery: Real Murders movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries NCIS on Oxygen
Here are the news items for the past week and a half, including lots and lots of videos featured at Comic Con 2017:
RENEWALS/PICK-UP ORDERS/CANCELLATIONS
Queen Sugar has been given a third season renewal by OWN. (Variety)
Amazon has given a 2-season order to the Julia Roberts-led drama Homecoming that will center on a caseworker at a secret government facility, her supervisor and a soldier. (Deadline and Variety)
The Originals will end after its upcoming fifth season on The CW. (Variety)
Netflix has renewed the Marvel series Iron Fist for Season 2. (Variety)
Stargate will be returning to TV as a streaming series called Stargate Origins. The 10-episode show will be available via MGM’s new streaming service called Stargate Command, which will be available this fall. The series will revolve around Catherine Langford, the daughter of archaeologist Paul Langford, who discovered the ancient, round Stargate. (Variety)
Wynonna Earp has been renewed for a third season by Syfy. (Variety)
A back-door pilot for the potential Supernatural spin-off Wayward Pines has been confirmed by the WB and the cast now includes Briana Buckmaster (who plays Donna Hanscum), Kathryn Newton (who plays Claire) and Katherine Ramdeen (who plays Alex). The spin-off will also feature a new character Patience Turner (Clark Backo from Designated Survivor), who is described as a high school over-achiever whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she’s a powerful psychic, a gift she inherited from her estranged grandmother, Missouri Moseley (who was played by Loretta Devine). (Entertainment Weekly)
CASTING NEWS
Actress Jaina Lee Ortiz (Rosewood) will star in the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off that center on a group of heroic firefighters from the captain down the ranks in their personal and professional lives. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Forest Whitaker (The Black Panther) has landed a recurring role in Empire in a multi-episode arc, playing Uncle Eddie, a charismatic music icon and bonafide hit maker, who gave an unknown Lucious (Terrence Howard) his first radio airplay years ago. (Variety)
Actress Tracy Spiridakos (Revolution and MacGyver) has been promoted to series regular on Chicago P.D. for the show’s upcoming 5th season. Her character made her debut in the two of the last three episodes of the show’s 4th season when her character, a robbery/homicide detective, collaborated with Sgt. Hank Voight (series regular Jason Beghe) and the rest of Intelligence on a particularly tough case. (The Hollywood Reporter)
In the aftermath of Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim leaving Hawaii Five-0, new cast members have been announced, including Meaghan Rath (Being Human) and relative newcomer Beulah Koale (who will be seen in the upcoming movie that will star Miles Teller and Haley Bennett); and Ian Anthony Dale (currently starring in the summer series Salvation) has been promoted to series regular. Rath will play Tani Rey, who McGarrett (series lead Alex O’Loughlin) recruits after finding her working as a lifeguard at a hotel pool after she was kicked out of the Police Academy. Koale will play Junior Reigns, a former Navy SEAL who just returned from serving his country and asks McGarrett for a job in hopes to re-purpose his skills as a member of Five-0. (Variety)
Actress Eloise Mumford (Fifth Shades of Grey) will have a recurring role on Chicago Fire where she will play Hope Jacquinot, an old friend of paramedic Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer). (Variety)
Actor Tom Welling (Smallville) will appear in season 3 of Lucifer as Marcus Pierce, an accomplished police lieutenant; he’s reserved and well-respected, like Lucifer (series lead Tom Ellis), he’s charming, charismatic and handsome. So when Pierce starts developing a connection with Decker (series regular Lauren German), the devil comes out in Lucifer. (Variety)
Actor Michael Emerson (Person of Interest and Lost) will appear in the 6th season of Arrow in a recurring role of an as yet named mystery character. (Variety)
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer will play Janet van Dyne, the mother of Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and the wife of Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) in the upcoming movie Ant-Man and the Wasp. The movie will be in theatres in 2018. (Variety)
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: Tombstone movie on AMC
6:30 PM: The Patriot movie on BBC America
7 PM: Murder She Baked: The Peach Cobbler Mystery movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair)
8 PM: Arrow on The CW (Reair) Descendants 2 movie on Disney (Encore)
9 PM: Salvation on CBS (NEW) Suits on USA Network (NEW) Supernatural on The CW (Reair) Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe move on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (Reair) Serendipity movie on HBO2
10 PM: Broadchurch on BBC America (NEW) Cleverman on SundanceTV (NEW) Younger on TV Land (NEW) This Is Us on NBC (Reair)
Here is a list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:
The new ABC drama Somewhere Between will debut on July 24 at 10:01 PM. The show stars Paula Patton (Warcraft) as Laura Price, a superstar news producer in San Francisco, who is a fiercely loving mom, but she isn’t crazy: Laura knows her 8-year-old daughter is going to be murdered. She doesn’t know who the murderer is, or why she’s killed, but she knows exactly when it will happen, where, and how. Despite this, all of her attempts to keep her daughter safe fail, and Serena’s fixed, unmovable, terrifying fate keeps her directly in the path of her killer. The cast includes JR Bourne (Teen Wolf), Devon Sawa (Nikita) and Samantha Ferris (Supernatural).
Also on July 24, Midnight, Texas is the new NBC drama that will debut at 10 PM. Based on the best-selling book series by Charlaine Harris (the women behind the books that inspired True Blood) the series stars François Arnaud (The Borgias and Blindspot) as Manfred, a charming, powerful psychic who can communicate with spirits and finds safety in Midnight, surrounding himself with both human and supernatural allies. The cast includes Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black), Parisa Fitz-Henley (Luke Cage), Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries), Jason Lewis (Sex and the City), Peter Mensah (True Blood and Sleepy Hollow), Sarah Ramos, (Parenthood) and Yul Vazquez (Captain Phillips).
The Amazon streaming series The Last Tycoon will debut online on July 28. The series follows Hollywood’s Golden Boy, Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer from White Collar) as he battles father figure and boss, Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer from Frasier and Boss) for the soul of their studio in the 1930’s. The cast also includes Lily Collins (The Blind Side and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land), Dominique McElligott (House of Cards). Inspired by the life of legendary film mogul Irving Thalberg from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last work.
And on July 30, the third season finale of the PBS mini-series Grantchester will air at 9 PM while that same night the final 10 episodes of Teen Wolf will get underway on MTV at 8 PM.
On July 28, the Amazon streaming series The Last Tycoon will debut online.
The series follows Hollywood’s Golden Boy, Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer from White Collar) as he battles father figure and boss, Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer from Frasier and Boss) for the soul of their studio in the 1930’s.
The cast also includes Lily Collins (The Blind Side and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land) and Dominique McElligott (House of Cards).
Inspired by the life of legendary film mogul Irving Thalberg from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last work.
What is an amazing way to start Day One of San Diego Comic Con 2017?
Sitting in the “Anything Goes” panel, featuring actor and singer John Barrowman, the man behind Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Malcolm Merlyn from the DC world of Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow from the DC universe.
Here is the video of him performing “Copacabana” at the end of his hilarious hour-long panel:
NOTE: Yes, he is wearing a glittery Tardis inspired dress with a yellow tutu underneath!!
