Hallmark Movie & Mysteries 🍁Fall into Love 🍂 Curious Caterer: Fatal Vows

~ The third installment of this series ~ 
Premières: Friday, October 13 9p/8c
Starring: 💜Nikki DeLoach and 🔥Andrew Walker

Hallmark Movie & Mysteries 🍁Fall into Love 🍂 A Zest for Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Premières: Friday, October 6 9p/8c
Starring: 💜Alison Sweeney, 🔥Cameron Mathison
 and 💜 Barbara Niven

PBS Hotel Portofino

Season 2 Première Sunday, October 15 8p/7c

🎥Season 2 trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irtGxtvweo

  

"Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian seaside town of Portofino during the “Roaring 20s,” Season 2 begins in the summer of 1927 as Bella Ainsworth is still devoting all her energy into making Hotel Portofino a success. Having overcome earlier blackmailing threats from a local politician, the hotel is finally starting to prosper. Aside from her hotel duties, Bella is also concerned for her children — Lucian, whose marriage to Rose might be facing trouble, and Alice, who needs a break from her responsibilities at the hotel. Bella’s husband, Cecil, has not been seen since returning to England at the end of the previous summer. With Cecil’s unannounced return to Portofino, the messy private lives of her children, and an imminent visit from a travel guide that could make or break the hotel’s future, Bella has her work cut out to keep all the plates spinning"

"New faces and old — some more welcome than others — stir up adventure, romance and drama at the Hotel Portofino. With Cecil eyeing control of the Hotel, Nish moving against Mussolini’s Fascists and Rose and Lucian’s marriage growing more precarious, Bella will have more than tight budgets and grand galas to worry about."

PBS / Masterpiece Mystery: Annika

Season 2, premièring Sunday, October 15 at 10/9c
 
🎥Season 2 trailer:
https://youtu.be/bDsMFMB17FA

Marine Homicide Unit DI Annika Strandhed (Nicola Walker) is back behind the (boat) wheel for an all-new season of murky crimes
 Start those speedboat engines, and get ready

PBS / Masterpiece Mystery: Miss Scarlett & The Duke première date

Season 4 première on Sunday, January 7 at 8p/7c

 Eliza (Kate Phillips) has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and things are not going entirely smoothly, although help comes from some familiar sources. Outside of work, her relationship with William “The Duke” Wellington (Stuart Martin)
 builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives.  

PBS / Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small première date

Season 4 première on Sunday, January 7 at 9/8c

🎥Preview trailer:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/all-creatures-great-and-small-s4-trailer/?subscriber=true&list_id=general

It’s the spring of 1940 and change is on the horizon for everyone in Skeldale House. James and Helen wonder when the right time might be to start a family, Tristan’s absence is felt by all, and Siegfried attempts to hold the growing household, and himself, together  

PBS / Masterpiece Mystery: Nolly

 Première Sunday, March 17, 2024, only on MASTERPIECE on PBS

Coming in March 2024

Starring Helena Bonham Carter

🎥Trailer:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/nolly-trailer/?

 Based on the true story of Noele Gordon, one of British TV’s most famous faces in the 60s and 70s, the upcoming, all-new miniseries explores her unceremonious firing, which became front-page news

What to Hallmark watch this weekend:

  
Refer to alternate blog post for additional info ~
All New Original & Season Episode Guide

David McCallum ~ Dead at 90 ⚰️

 
 David Keith McCallum
 {19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023}
The Scottish actor who portrayed the enigmatic Russian-born U.S. secret agent Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement
and the chief medical examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS,
 died Monday He was 90

The CWeek: coming this week ~

  
~ Refer to previous blog post{s} for additional series première info ~

Hallmark 🍁Fall into Love 🍂 A Very Venice Romance

Premières Saturday, September 30 8p/7c
Starring: Stephanie Leonidas, Raniero Monaco Di Lapio

Additional blog post(s) info:
https://just-ask-steve.blogspot.com/2023/08/hallmark-channel-fall-into-love-2023.html

Hallmark Channel(s) this week:

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Refer to other blog post for additional info ~
 All New Original & Season

The Continental Series Première

Tonight September 22

The  grinding ballet of gunfire and bone-crunching carnage John Wick fans have come to expect from the Keanu Reeves franchise will not be disappointed in a three-part prequel — movie-length installments drop over three Fridays — focusing on the origin story in the gritty 1970s of Winston Scott (Ian McShane in the films, Colin Woodell here) as he fights to take control of the Continental, the hotel sanctuary for global assassins. A gruff and hammy  Mel Gibson co-stars as the current proprietor, the crooked Cormac, who’s desperate to retrieve a coin press stolen by Winston’s estranged, Vietnam-vet brother Frankie (Animal Kingdom’s Ben Robson). The coins, as Wick-ites know, are what the underground killers use as currency during their stays. After con-man Winston is summoned (violently) from London to find his brother, the mayhem rarely lets up

The Irrational Trailer:

Jesse L. Martin stars as Alec Mercer - an expert in human behavior who has solving crime down to a science in the smart new NBC procedural drama

🎥Official trailer: https://youtu.be/gmHiSRUp_cE 
Premières Monday, September 25 at 10/9c on  NBC and streaming the next day on Peacock
Refer to alter blog post for additional series info

NCIS: Sydney US Series Première {New time slot}

 The network announced Thursday that the first international NCIS offshoot’s eight-episode season will now air on Tuesdays at 8/7c (vs. Mondays at 10/9c) beginning Nov. 14 (vs. Nov. 13). The episodes will also be available live and on demand Tuesday nights for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. (“Regular” Paramount+ Essential subscribers can stream each episode the day after it airs.)

NCIS: Sydney will be followed on Tuesdays by NCIS reruns (at 9/8c) and FBI True (moving an hour later to 10/9c).

Refer to alternate blog post for additional info:

 https://just-ask-steve.blogspot.com/2023/09/ncis-sydney-us-series-premiere.html

What to Hallmark watch this weekend:

 
Refer to alternate blog post for additional info ~
All New Original & Season Episode Guide

Darks Winds ~ Season 3

     

Joe Leaphorn's story isn't over yet

❄️Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2023 🎄 Checkin' It Twice 🏒

Première Oct. 20, 8p/7c Hallmark Channel

Starring: Kim Matula, 🔥Kevin McGarry

"A journeyman hockey player (McGarry) falls for a real estate agent (Matula) in a career crisis when he's traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey loving family's backyard."

Additional ❄️snow ❄️ good updates AND blog post(s):

https://just-ask-steve.blogspot.com/2023/09/hallmark-countdown-to-christmas-2023_20.html

❄️Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2023 🎄Starts …

Additional ❄️snow ❄️ good updates AND blog post(s):

https://just-ask-steve.blogspot.com/2023/09/hallmark-countdown-to-christmas-2023.html

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries 🌟 Miracles of Christmas 🌟 Schedule:

Ms. Christmas Comes to Town

Stars: Erica Durance, Brennan Elliott, Barbara Niven 
A shopping channel host known as Ms. Christmas (Niven) receives a terminal diagnosis, which inspires a multi-city excursion set to spread Christmas cheer before her farewell broadcast. 

My Christmas Guide

Stars: Amber Marshall, Ben Mehl
After losing his eyesight, a college professor (Mehl) adopts a seeing eye dog from a guide dog trainer (Marshall). As they all begin to spend time together, his confidence returns and his heart begins to open. 

Mystery on Mistletoe Lane  

Stars: Erica Cerra, Victor Webster 
New to town, Heidi Wicks (Cerra) and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David (Webster) helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection. 

A World Record Christmas 

Stars: Nikki DeLoach, Lucas Bryant, Aias Dalman 
Charlie (Dalman) is an autistic boy determined to set a Guinness World Record by stacking 1400 Jenga blocks. His mother Marissa (DeLoach) and stepfather Eric (Bryant) encourage him to reach for his dream and they all celebrate when he gets the good news that he'll get his chance on Christmas Eve. In the spirit of the holiday, they organize a fundraiser giving the townspeople an opportunity to donate and decorate a Jenga block, with the proceeds going to benefit kids with autism. Charlie's journey to setting the Jenga world record gives them all the chance to learn more not just about themselves, but about what family really means. 

A Season for Family

Stars: Brendan Penny, Stacey Farber, Benjamin Jacobson, Azriel Dalman
Maddy's (Farber) adopted son Wesley (Jacobson) has just one Christmas wish — to meet his brother Cody (Dalman), who was adopted into a different family. Cody's father Paul (Penny) is a widower who is not ready to have this conversation with his son, so he turns down a meeting. However, circumstances bring the two brothers unknowingly together and they become fast friends, while sparks fly between Maddy and Paul. 

Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas

Stars: Shenae Grimes-Beech, Chris Carmack, Grace Leer 
Facing her first Christmas without her mother and looking to avoid loneliness, Carly (Grimes-Beech) heads to a quaint town to lead the church choir at Christmas. Once there, Carly meets Matthew (Carmack), a man back in town after serving in the army. As she gets to know Matthew, the choir and townspeople, she stumbles across clues that suggest she may have been brought here for a life changing reason. As the mystery unravels one thing is clear, this journey will teach Carly about true love, learning to trust, and that forgiveness is needed to finally heal. 

To All a Good Night

Stars: Kimberley Sustad, Mark Ghanimé 
A small-town photographer (Sustad) saves the life of a mysterious man (Ghanimé), who may just be in town to buy her family's parkland – which is also the location of the annual Christmas celebration. 

Heaven Down Here

Stars: Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon, Phylicia Rashad 
Inspired by Mickey Guyton's song of the same name, "Heaven Down Here" tells the story of four disparate people who find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve when a snowstorm hits the town. Imami (Brown) is a widowed mother of two who's having trouble making ends meet and reluctantly agrees to work the Christmas Eve shift, where she clashes with her boss Dan (Harmon), who doesn't exactly embody the Christmas spirit. Felix (Riedinger) is a local pastor desperately trying to secure food for parishioners while his faith is challenged by his alienation by his son. Clara (Lifford) is a hospice nurse with an obstinate patient (Rashad) and whose daughter is moving away, causing her to question her place in this world. Throughout the evening, these four bickers, bond and unwittingly provide each other with the answer to their respective prayers. 

Miracle in Bethlehem, PA ~ A New DaySpring Movie

Stars: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Ayres
Successful and fiercely independent, Mary Ann Brubeck (Vandervoort) adopts a baby girl to raise on her own just before Christmas. Due to weather, she and the baby get stuck in Bethlehem, PA for the holidays. When there is no room at the inn, her only option is to stay with the innkeeper's brother Joe (Ayres), a quintessential bachelor who lives in a house that he treats like a barn. As Mary Ann learns the value of community by spending time with Joe's family and participating in the local church's Christmas events, Joe starts getting his act together with new motivation… and the two begin to see each other in a new light.