Happy Earth Day~

NOS4A2~ *premiere date revised*

The premiere of NOS4A2 Season 2 has been pushed back from Monday, June 1 to Sunday, June 21 at 9 pm/8c on AMC.
Refer to 16Apr2020 previous post.

Tom Lester~⚰

Tom Lester, best known for his role as the smart-aleck farmhand Eb Dawson on the ’60s sitcom “Green Acres,” died Monday in Nashville, Tenn. from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Lester, who was 81, was the last surviving actor of the original “Green Acres” cast.

Hallmark~

Chicago Fire~ 🚒

Annie Ilonzeh, who has played paramedic Emily Foster on Chicago Fire for two seasons, won't be back for Season 9.

The last couple episodes of Season 8 even set up an exit for her character. She performed a fasciotomy to save a man showing signs of compartment syndrome in his arm during a protest at the house in "Light Things Up." After, Med's Will (Nick Gehlfuss) asked which trauma surgeon's work it was, and when she told him it was hers, he commented that she'd missed her "calling."

In the finale, she revealed that she'd decided to go back to med school and had applied, which caused a bit of conflict with Brett (Kara Killmer). She interviewed at Northwestern, but her application status was still pending at the end of  "51's" Original Bell." With news of Ilonzeh's departure, it's likely that she'll get in.

The season finale of Chicago Fire by the way  on Wednesday drew the largest same-day audience in the show's history, helping NBC sweep all three hours of primetime in total viewers. ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire declined significantly in its second week

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries~

Intriguing Mysteries All Week Long! 🔎

New Amsterdam~

What we can expect to see in Season 3.

"We can't just pick up where we left off," New Amsterdam creator and executive producer David Schulner told TV Guide in an interview after the early Season 2 finale. It makes sense. It's a hospital show set in New York City, after all, but that also means that some of the events of the episode that became the finale, could be rendered moot.

 Like just about every scripted show on television this year, had its season interrupted by coronavirus, but only New Amsterdam has the added distinction of having a pandemic-themed episode set in New York shelved too. Fortunately, all the show's crew members who contracted the virus, including new recurring star Daniel Dae Kim, recovered, but with the global crisis hitting so close to home, you better believe that the show's next season is going to incorporate COVID-19 into its storylines.

We'll see that pandemic episode at some point: This was alluded to in Ryan Eggold's opening sequence at the beginning of the last episode of the season "Matter of Seconds." How that will factor into a whole season isn't clear yet.

Dr. Reynolds' return is still a possibility - maybe in a spin-off?: Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) famously (and sadly) took off for San Fransisco in Episode 17 ("Liftoff") but in past interviews, Schulner has played coy about whether or not he's really gone from the show. "Reynolds is leaving New Amsterdam [but] not leaving the show," Schulner told Cinemablend in March, and even Sims has said we probably haven't seen the last of him. Schulner told TV Guide that Aaron Ginsburg, who wrote the finale episode, has joked that a spin-off for Reynolds might be called "San Fransterdam," but also, "We don't know how to bring him back, especially now." Could he be bluffing? We'll find out when it returns.

New Amsterdam planned a hurricane episode for the Season 2 finale: It's entirely unclear, and perhaps unlikely, that New Amsterdam
will actually shoot and air the Season 2 finale they'd initially planned, but for what it's worth, Schulner told TV Guide that the show had initially cooked up an ending with the team going to the Dominican Republic to help out after a hurricane. 

"Hurricanes are becoming more frequent because of global warming, a lot of hospitals don't have the resources to handle it. [The doctors] were going to a failing hospital to help - it was going to be a huge cliffhanger, life and death, people's jaws would have dropped. Now they're going to have to wait before jaws drop again," he said.

New Amsterdam aired its last episode of Season 2 on April 14; it has been renewed for three more seasons.

The season finale of New Amsterdam scored season highs for NBC, tying its best 18-49 rating of 2019-20 and drawing its biggest total viewer count in more than a year. CBS' FBI: Most Wanted also improved, drawing its second-largest audience of the season, airing directly after NCIS. 

Much ado has been made about Daniel Dae Kim's debut on New Amsterdam and rightfully so: his work on Lost and Hawaii Five-0 prove him to be one of the best actors on TV and well, he ain't exactly rough on the eyes, either. But when New Amsterdam airs the episode that's now the Season 2 finale after the show's production was halted due to coronavirus, fans might not love his character, Dr. Cassian Shin, right away. 

According to Schulner,  Kim was originally slotted to appear in five episodes in Season 2, with the potential for more, before production on the show was shut down and Kim was diagnosed with COVID-19. So fans can expect Kim in at least a handful of episodes when the show returns with the possibility of a longer run. 

Sources: TV Guide & THR ( The Hollywood Reporter)