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TV Recommendations: Friday, June 2

June 2, 2017 by Rueben

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:
Selena movie on VH1

6 PM:
Kung Fu Panda 2 (animated) movie on FX
The Bourne Ultimatum movie on HBO2
Mother’s Day movie on Showtime

6:05 PM:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot movie on EIPX

7 PM:
Love Actually movie on TMC

8 PM:
The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit movie on Lifetime Movie Network (DEBUT)
Sherlock Holmes movie on AMC
Crazy, Stupid, Love. movie on Bravo
Forrest Gump movie on CMT
She’s All That movie on Freeform
The Dark Knight Rises movie on Spike

9 PM:
Date My Dad on UP Channel (DEBUT)
Outlander on Starz (Reair)

10 PM:
Pretty Little Liars on Freeform (Reair)
Knight and Day movie on TBS

Enjoy!

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Underground: Gone too Soon

June 2, 2017 by rozofla

On Tuesday, WGN America announced that sophomore show, Underground, would not return for a third season. Already the cast and creative team are trying to get the show on another network (or streaming service), but generally fans are sad and frustrated that the show was cancelled.

However, the show is not the only WGN America show to be cancelled this week – Outsiders was also cancelled by the new CEO in an effort to rebrand the station. Just a few years ago, the idea of original programs (Salem, Manhattan, Underground and Outsiders) was seen as a way to branch the network away from its roots as a local Tribune station.

Winds change – as does management – but the end of all of these show (but Underground most of all) changes what types of shows are available on TV. What stood out for all of these WGN America shows was a strong sense of different narratives – all of the shows were ground in some real history but took different spins and turns on the same facts that most people know.

Underground was difficult to watch – rightly so – but it raised awareness of issues of race and class that are still relevant to all of us today. The show’s themes hit the right moment in the zeitgeist but each of the shows that are no longer on the air were important to thinking about larger issues.

Regardless of why Underground has left the air (for now), the show made many fans realize more of the cruelties of slavery while also celebrating triumphs in difficult times.

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TV Recommendations: Thursday, June 1

June 1, 2017 by Rueben

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
Iron Man 3 movie on FX

6:05 PM:
Me Before You movie on EPIX

6:59 PM:
NCIS on Oxygen

7 PM:
When Duty Calls movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

7:30 PM:
Shooter movie on Spike

8 PM:
Supernatural on The CW (Reair)
NCIS on Oxygen

9 PM:
Nashville on CMT (RETURN)
Supernatural on The CW (Reair)
10 Things I Hate About You movie on Freeform
Secret Summer movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
NCIS on Oxygen

9:30 PM:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot movie on EPIX

10 PM:
Nashville on CMT (Encore)
NCIS on Oxygen

Enjoy!

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TV Ratings: Spring TV (Tuesday, May 30)

May 31, 2017 by Rueben

Last night’s programming options on the major networks was mostly repeats and reality, but there was a final episode of one Tuesday night drama and a new episode of another Tuesday drama.

Here is how those two Tuesday night dramas fared in the overall ratings:

9 PM Shows:
Prison Break (FOX) [NEW – Finale] – 2.3 million
iZombie (The CW) [NEW] – 901,000 viewers

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

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery

May 31, 2017 by Rueben

On June 4, the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery will debut at 9 PM.

Based on the series of novels by famed historical archaeologist turned fiction writer Dana Cameron, Courtney Thorne-Smith (Life with Jim and Melrose Place) stars as Emma Fielding, a brilliant, dedicated, and driven archaeologist who discovers artifacts that have been lost for hundreds of years–and she’s very, very good at it. Emma has recently unearthed evidence of a possible 17th century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years.

But the dead body she uncovers on the site pushes Emma into a different kind of exploration. Her dig site is suddenly in jeopardy of being shut down, due to the meddling of local treasure-hunters and a second suspicious murder. Emma must team with the handsome FBI Agent investigating the case to dig up dirt on the killer, before Emma and her excavation are ancient history.

James Tupper (Revenge and Men in Trees) co-stars.

Here is a trailer for Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery.

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TV Recommendations: Wednesday, May 31

May 31, 2017 by Rueben

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:
Skyfall movie on Syfy

5:45 PM:
The Count of Monte Cristo movie on Showtime 2

6 PM:
The Proposal movie on Freeform

6:47 PM:
Tomorrowland movie on Encore

7 PM:
Iron Man 3 movie on FX
Be My Valentine movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

8 PM:
NCIS: Los Angeles on CBS (Reair)
Arrow on The CW (Reair)
The Day After Tomorrow movie on AMC
13 Going on 30 movie on WE TV

9 PM:
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on The CW (Reair)
The Lost Valentine movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Pretty Woman movie on POP

9:45 PM:
Me Before You movie on EPIX

10 PM:
This Is Us on NBC (Reair)
13 Going on 30 movie on WE TV

Enjoy!

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2017-2018 Fall Line-Up: Networks First Changes

May 30, 2017 by Rueben

And so it starts…

NBC has announced its first changes to the 2017-2018 TV season.

They are as follows:

TUESDAYS:

8 p.m. – The Voice
9 p.m. – This Is Us
10 p.m. – Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders

NOTE: This Is Us will return to its Tuesday timeslot and the new Law & Order series has been moved from Thursday night.

THURSDAYS:

8 p.m. – Superstore
8:30 p.m. – The Good Place
9 p.m. – Will & Grace
9:30 p.m. – Great News
10 p.m. – Chicago Fire

NOTE: The drama Chicago Fire and the comedies Superstore and The Good Place will now move to Thursday nights.

Viewers should expect more changes before the fall TV season officially gets under way in September.

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Movie of the Week Recommendation: Destination Wedding

May 30, 2017 by Rueben

The Hallmark Channel movie Destination Wedding will debut on June 3 at 9 PM.

Ellie (Alexa PenaVega from Nashville) has been painstakingly planning her sister Mandy’s destination wedding for the longest time. She is excited as guests begin arriving at the idyllic beach resort but is somewhat nonplussed when one of them turns out to be her ex-boyfriend Greg (Jeremy Guilbaut from When Calls the Heart), who is the groom’s best man.

When Mandy (Andrea Brooks from Supergirl) and her fiancé don’t show up, Ellie and Greg must lie to the guests and assure them everything is okay when it clearly isn’t. With the wedding fast approaching and Mandy’s attendance a question mark, Ellie and Greg scramble to stave off disaster while simultaneously falling back in love with each other.

Here is a trailer for Destination Wedding.

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TV Ratings: Spring TV (Monday, May 29)

May 30, 2017 by Rueben

It was Memorial Day here in the States yesterday with only a few Monday night dramas airing new episodes: two shows that are coming to an end for the 2016-2017 season and one summer drama that may or may not last that long.

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

8 PM Show:
Gotham (FOX) [NEW – Penultimate Episode] – 2.9 million

9 PM Show:
Lucifer (FOX) [NEW – Finale] – 3.3 million

10 PM Show:
Still Star-Crossed (ABC) [DEBUT] – 2.4 million

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

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TV Recommendations: Tuesday, May 30

May 30, 2017 by Rueben

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:

4:57 PM:
Independence Day movie on Syfy

5 PM:
Black Hawk Down movie on AMC

6 PM:
What a Girl Wants movie on Freeform

6:10 PM:
The Legend of Tarzan movie on HBO2

7 PM:
Accidentally in Love movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

7:09 PM:
Cinderella movie on Encore
Marvel’s The Avengers movie on FX

7:20 PM
Knight and Day movie on FXM

8 PM:
Pretty Little Liars on Freeform (NEW)
NCIS on CBS (Reair)
The Flash on The CW (Reair)
Miss Congeniality movie on Oxygen
Skyfall movie on Syfy

9 PM:
Prison Break on FOX (NEW – Finale)
Genius on National Geographic (NEW)
Bull on CBS (Reair)
Kiss at Pine Lake movie on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

9:02 PM:
Famous in Love on Freeform (NEW)

10 PM:
Almost Famous movie on EPIX
Miss Congeniality movie on Oxygen

Enjoy!

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