Merry Movie Week 2024

 All week long starting June 21 3/2c

Friday, June 21
3/2c: Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
5/4c: Christmas on My Mind
7/6c: To All a Good Night
9/8c: Mystery on Mistletoe Lane
11/10c: A Godwink Christmas

Saturday, June 22
1a/12c: Love You Like Christmas
3a/2c: Journey Back to Christmas
5a/4c: Christmas Wonderland
7a/6c: The Perfect Christmas Present
9a/8c: Christmas in Montana
11a/10c: A Glenbrooke Christmas
1/12c: The Christmas Promise
3/2c: Ms. Christmas Comes to Town
5/4c: Heaven Down Here
7/6c: Miracle in Bethlehem, PA
9/8c: Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
11/10c: Long Lost Christmas

Sunday, June 23

1a/12c: Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas
3a/2: Time for You to Come Home for Christmas
5a/4c: Once Upon a Christmas Miracle
7a/6c: A Christmas to Remember
9a/8c: Homegrown Christmas
11a/10c: Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
1/12c: Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas
3/2c: Small Town Christmas
5/4c:  A Veteran’s Christmas
7/6c: My Christmas Guide
9/8c: A Season for Family

Monday, June 24
3/2c: Project Christmas Wish
5/4c: A Little Christmas Charm
7/6c: Christmas Tree Lane
9/8c: Northern Lights of Christmas

Tuesday, June 25
3/2c: A World Record Christmas
5/4c: A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love
7/6c: Christmas at Grand Valley
9/8c: Hope at Christmas

Wednesday, June 26
3/2c: A Maple Valley Christmas
5/4c: Every Christmas Has a Story
7/6c: A Homecoming for the Holidays
9/8c: A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas

Thursday, June 27
3/2c: Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle
5/4c: The Christmas Secret
7/6c: Mystery on Mistletoe Lane
9/8c: The Christmas Promise

Friday, June 28
3/2c: My Christmas Guide
5/4c: Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
7/6c: Christmas in Montana
9/8c: Miracle in Bethlehem, PA

Prime Video The Boys final season

  
The end is nigh for The Boys
 Ahead of the Season 4 première of the gritty Amazon Prime Video supes series: Season 5 will be its last.
Returns on June 13 with the first three episodes of Season 4
 From there, the episodes will drop weekly until
 the season finale on July 18
The series was renewed for Season 5 back in May

What's on the 3 Hallmark Channel(s) this week of June 10

 🛂Passport to love is here 🧳

Refer to alternate blog post(s) for more what's on info:

What's Returning, New and Leaving the Week of June 9

~ Of which I'll be watching~

Times are ET

SUNDAY, JUNE 9
10 pm How Disney Built America Season 1 finale (History)

TUESDAY, JUNE 11
10 pm NBC News Special: Interview With Celine Dion (NBC)

THURSDAY, JUNE 13
3 am The Boys Season 4 première (Prime Video; first three episodes) or on DVR
3 am Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2 première (Netflix; last four episodes)

What's on AMC / AMC+ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire season 2 ep 12

All new episodes every Sunday

More to sink your teeth into 
 Key search word "interview with the vampire"
 
A life-changing interview
 A new episode premières tonight, After sunset 
June 2 at 9pm on AMC Stream earlier on AMC+

NBC Olympics & Paralympics: Paris 2024 in {less than} 50 days

Key search word "NBC Olympics Paris" then "sort by date"


Additional Olympic blog info:
https://just-ask-steve.blogspot.com/2023/06/olympics-paris-2024-save-date.html

What's on Netflix: Motel Transylvania

Come and stay the night
New series that follows Drac & Mavis as they head to California and try to set up a brand-new resort for humans and monsters
 Coming in 2025

What to Hallmark watch this June weekend

Refer to alternate blog post(s) for added info:

9-1-1 Lone Star season 5

Will open with a 3 episode train derailment catastrophe

NBC St Denis Medical cast update

  
Stephen Schneider is checking in to St. Denis Medical
 The actor has joined the NBC comedy series, which will premiere later this fall
 He will recur in the series, playing the hospital chaplain Steve

CW / CTW Sullivans Crossing renewed

 
For Season 3 at CTV

CTV / CW Sight Unseen renewed

 
For Season 2 at CTV
  

S.W.A.T. cast update Nichelle Carmichael

Rochelle Aytes will exit the network’s hit procedural S.W.A.T as a series regular to star opposite Morris Chestnut in the medical drama Watson

 The hope is that she will recur in Season 8
 Aytes portrays Hondo’s (Shemar Moore) wife Nichelle Carmichael 
First recurring in Season 3
 she joined the ensemble full-time in Season 6

Criminal Minds: Evolution renewed

Renewed for Season 3 at Paramount+ 
 One Day before Season 2 Première
 this will be Criminal Minds 18th Season Overall
 after airing for 15 Seasons on CBS

Criminal Minds: Evolution: season 2 countdown

Let the countdown to "Wheels Up" begin

The Sandman season 2 episodes

  More info ~ Key search word "the sandman"
The new season is expected to be 12 episodes long and listed are the episode names for the first six
In no particular order:

• The Song of Orpheus, named after the special issue of the same name. Needless to say, this one will focus on Ruairi O’Connor’s Orpheus
• More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold, referencing the issue A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Brief Lives, named after the issue of the same name
• Family Blood, likely referencing “spilling family blood”, something Dream seeks to avoid
• The Ruler of Hell, referencing Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer. Or perhaps Hell will have a new ruler? We won’t spoil.
• Season of Mists, named after the comic collection of the same name. Previously mentioned Odin, Thor and Loki are most likely to appear in this episode.

What's on Netflix: YOU season 5 cast update

Natasha Behnam, Pete Ploszek, Tom Francis and b
 Natasha Behnam, Pete Ploszek, Tom Francis and b are set for recurring roles in the fifth and final season of Netflix‘s hit psychological drama

Behnam plays Dominique. While appearing to be an aloof hipster, Dominique is in fact a passionate, clever, fiercely loyal young woman. Despite her wealthy upbringing, she’s a headstrong caretaker among her scrappy artist friends.

Ploszek portrays Harrison, Joe’s golden retriever brother-in-law. A former pro-football player and trophy husband to Reagan Lockwood, Harrison must balance the needs of his family with his own heart’s desires.

Francis plays Clayton, a pretentious, self-absorbed, wannabe author whose vindictive, controlling nature draws Joe’s attention. 

b portrays Phoenix, who’s shrewd and resourceful with a strong moral code. Their young life was upended by tragedy, setting them on a course that led to New York and a search for renewed purpose

Hallmark Channel Announces New Series: ‘The Chicken Sisters’

Hallmark is creating an all-new television series based on KJ Dell'Antonia's bestselling 2020 novel

Starring in this series are: Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Caroline in the City, Next Stop, Christmas), Schuyler Fisk (Every Other Holiday), Genevieve Angelson (This is Us), and Wendie Malick (After All These Years, Darrow & Darrow).

Story details via Variety:
A family drama with southern charm and romance, is set in the fictional town of Merinac, “where a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants – Mimi’s and Frannie’s – has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides.” When a popular cooking show comes to town, things get more complicated as sparks begin to fly and secrets are uncovered.

The series is currently in production and will have 8 episodes coming to the Hallmark Channel later this year

PBS WTTW Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

"Also underscores disco’s survival. Co-opted by the commercial mainstream, the genre dominated and flooded the market – the airwaves and record shops – leading to a subsequent hate-fueled backlash. As a result, the music and its ethos went back underground, where it evolved into an electronic dance sound that laid the foundations for contemporary dance culture.

"A brief overview of the three-part docuseries is as follows: 

Episode 1: “Rock the Boat” 
Premieres: Tuesday, June 18, 9p/8c on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app

The opening episode of the series looks at the roots of disco – how it emerged from a basic desire for inclusion, visibility, and freedom among persecuted Black, gay, and minority ethnic communities of New York City. It tells the remarkable story of how a global phenomenon began in the loft apartments and basement bars of New York City, where a new generation of DJs and musicians, like David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Francis Grasso, and Earl Young (The Trammps), pioneered a distinct sound and a new way of spinning records. 

Episode 2: “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”
Premieres: Tuesday, June 25, 9p/8c on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app

Set against the backdrop of Black power and sexual liberation, the second episode takes viewers to the high watermark of disco in the mid ’70s. As disco conquers the mainstream, it turns Black women and gay men into superstars and icons. It is a world where the drag queen Sylvester was king, and Black women found a powerful new voice – one that fused Black Power with a call for sexual freedom. It was the birth of the “disco diva” from Gloria Gaynor and Candi Staton to Donna Summer and Thelma Houston. However, mainstream success by The Bee Gees’ soundtrack album “Saturday Night Fever,” The Rolling Stones’ “Miss You,” Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy,” and Studio 54 took disco further and further from its roots of inclusivity and freedom, as straight, white men started to embrace and repackage the sound. 

Episode 3: “Stayin’ Alive”
Premieres: Tuesday, July 2, 9p/8c on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app

The final episode documents the wellspring of resentment from white, straight, male-dominated, rock-loving middle Americans, as they targeted disco for its hedonism, femininity, and queerness. A vocal “Disco Sucks” movement began to gain momentum, culminating in the “Disco Demolition Derby” at Comiskey Park Stadium in Chicago, where organizers destroyed thousands of disco records in front of a baying audience of baseball fans. In addition, the hedonism and sexual liberation embodied by disco found itself stopped in its tracks by the AIDS crisis. Pushed out of the mainstream, the pioneers of disco retreated and regrouped. Cult disco DJ Frankie Knuckles left New York for Chicago, where he remixed disco breaks with R&B to produce a new genre of dance music – house. He and other disco pioneers kept disco alive as it evolved into world electronic dance music"

What's on the 3 Hallmark Channel(s) this week of June 3

 🛂Passport to love is here 🧳
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