NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Shark Tank | 20/20 | ||||
CBS | MacGyver (R) | Hawaii Five-0 (R) | Blue Bloods () | |||
CW | The Originals | Reign | ||||
FOX | US Open Golf: Second Round | So You Think You Can Dance (R) | ||||
NBC | America’s Got Talent | Dateline NBC | ||||
MISC | Stuck in the Middle/Andi Mack (Disney) RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) | The Great British Baking Show (PBS) | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) | |||
ONL INE | Cardinal (Hulu) | The Ranch (Netflix) | ||||
SYFY | Dark Matter | Wynonna Earp |
Archives for June 2017
FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE Trailer: Re-Living the Past in the New Netflix Comedy Series
FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE has a stellar cast, including Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, Fred Savage and Jae Suh Park, and hails from Nicholas Stoller (NEIGHBOURS, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, GET HIM TO THE GREEK).
The series centers around a group of friends from Harvard who are all quickly approaching their forties. Each of these people are still extremely connected and often have complicated relationships with one another, which makes FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE “a comedic exploration of old friendships, former romantic entanglements and balancing adult life with nostalgia for the past.” As these friends get older, they’re all desperate to hang on to their youth — but they may find out that growing up isn’t as terrible as they believe.
FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE debuts internationally on Netflix on July 14.
On TV Tonight: Thursday June 15, 2017
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Celebrity Family Feud | To Tell the Truth | The $100,000 Pyramid | |||
CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | Superior Donuts (R) | Mom (R) | Life in Pieces (R) | Scorpion (R) | |
CW | Supernatural (R) | Supernatural (R) | ||||
FOX | US Open Golf: First Round | Love Connection | ||||
NBC | The Wall | Law & Order: SVU (R) | ||||
MISC | BET Awards Nominations (BET) The Putin Interviews (SHO) The Tunnel Nashville (CMT) | Queen of the South (TNT) AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Diane Keaton (TNT) |
WORLD OF DANCE Recap: And The Final Qualifiers Are…
For the first time since the series began, a few comparatively weak competitors managed to meet the required average score of at least 80 points to advance to the next round.
But even with some of the moments that might have left viewers (or at least this one) scratching their heads, the overall result of WORLD OF DANCE’s final qualifying round was just the same as that of the first two: Whoever manages to win this competition is going to be well worth that million dollars. There are far too many excellent dancers — both those with established reputations and some newer faces — capable of winning nearly any other competition; but there can be only one WORLD OF DANCE champion.
Let’s just start the final round of qualifiers off with an obvious win.
They won the first season of AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW back in 2008. So, obviously, the Jabbawockeez had to make an appearance in the first season of WORLD OF DANCE. These guys have been everywhere, including their own Vegas show, for the past nine years. The dancers knew they were putting their reputation on the line and had a target on their backs the second they decided to compete; but they weren’t going to just phone it in. “It’s not like ‘oh, you got a Vegas show, and then you retire,” after all.
As in, if you love dancing, you’re not in it for the money or the fame. You’re here to constantly push yourself to do better. These guys get it.
There’s really no way to critique the Jabbawockeez. So, I just won’t.
The judges, on the other hand, had the unenviable task of not only giving the Jabbawockeez feedback but also giving them scores. See also: A formality at this point because there’s no way WORLD OF DANCE was going to pass on a crew with a reputation for such excellence. Not if the series cared at all about, well, any of its carefully chosen judging criteria.
Ne-Yo probably said it best: “You cannot have a dance competition with the best dancers in the world without the Jabbawockeez.” Like it or not, he’s right. In the interest of keeping the series from turning into a fangirling-fest, Ne-Yo also talked about the actual dancing, saying he really liked the new groove — different from their famous isolations — that the crew had added to their performance. Derek Hough gave a mixed review. While he liked the groove and professed himself to be a “huge fan” of the Jabbawockeez, thus continuing tonight’s fangirl-fest, he also admitted that he missed the isolations.
Cue judges’ table bickering, as Jennifer Lopez wanted more of that groove. She also said the Jabbawockeez “just gave everybody, like, a master class in how to kill it without breaking a sweat.” (Your girl’s not wrong.)
Average score: 86.7. They’re going to be in the next round. Obviously.
After the pesky business of delivering their scores, the judges returned to their Jabbawockeez fangirl-fest, complete with Derek saying he had way more respect for them than ever before since they were willing to put everything on the line to come to this competition.
I sure hope there were selfies and autographs after the show.
The Mihacevich sisters: “I know what it’s like to dance with family, and it truly is special.”
This trio was dancing before it was cool. No, wait. That’s not right. They were dancing in the womb, though, as their mother was a dance teacher before they were born. Mark my words: This statement was a setup for the Mihacevich sisters to either be stars or absolute garbage who hated dance. In my experience, there’s no middle ground with children of dance teachers. Seeing as how the Mihacevich sisters were trying to qualify for WORLD OF DANCE, therefore ruling out the hatred option, that meant that all of their dad’s awesome sandwiches had been feeding future stars on the way to dance competitions.
The Mihacevich sisters had everything you’d want to see in a contemporary performance (aka, my personal crack). Their lines were gorgeous; and they had an excellent use of breath in their movement. Steps didn’t just terminate at the end of the count; rather, the dancers created movement that had a life of its own, extending beyond their bodies and beyond time.
That’s not to say that the music and timing didn’t exist, either. I was particularly impressed with how the Mihacevich sisters utilized their music’s accents. Throw in great emotion, especially from the oldest sister; and you’ve got yourselves yet another potential winner. It looks like Studio 82 taught them well.
The judges very impressed with the trio, with J-Lo complimenting the feeling they brought to the dance, as well as the connection between the three of them. Ne-Yo was so impressed with the Mihacevich sisters’ contractions that he had to do some weird impression of them at the judges’ table. Derek commented on the emotions and breath, same as yours truly, so I think he and I should judge something together sometime.
No, really. Derek, please call me.
Average score: 87. Qualified.
Montage time!
Some kid asked J-Lo to call him. Derek got giddy over ballroom. A tap dancer finally squeaked through…And there was a lot more dancing tossed into one fast-paced, flashy highlight reel.
Perhaps the biggest crime of the latest WORLD OF DANCE episode was that it showed some, yet not all, of The Posse’s performance. What little bit the editors happened to keep in the episode stirred up all sorts of pesky feelings. I mean, how can you not want to see the full number when one of the dancers has this to say? “As long as you love yourself, you’re beautiful no matter what people think of you.”
Couldn’t keep up with all the awesome in this segment? Same. But don’t worry: NBC has full routines here.
Swing Latino.
As the name suggests, WORLD OF DANCE is open to dancers from all over the world. Enter Swing Latino, a group of dancers from Colombia, who have been working together for fifteen years. Many of the dancers found it difficult to dance in Colombia; their own parents didn’t even support them.
The joke’s on those unsupportive parents because anybody who doesn’t want to be associated with what Swing Latino did on that stage is an idiot. Their performance was, in a word, shocking. The Colombianos’ footwork was lightning-quick, yet still incredibly clean. And can we talk about that throw?? How? Just how.
The judges were just as shocked after watching Swing Latino as anybody else might have been. Derek Hough reminded everyone that “dancers are athletes. Artistic athletes,” but that was only after he called the group “sparkly.” He’s been around a lot of rhinestones, guys, so he would know. Ne-Yo said the dancers represented Colombia well. And while the men generally tend to fade into the background during ballroom performances, that wasn’t the case here. “Everybody on stage felt like they were meant to be there.” J-Lo spoke to the dancers in Spanish, telling them they had the potential to win the competition. In English, she assured them that people weren’t used to seeing that level of salsa, and “the guys were strong, like, NUTS!”
(Mmm nuts.)
Average score: 89.3
On TV Tonight: Wednesday June 14, 2017
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | The Goldbergs (R) | Speechless (R) | Modern Family (R) | American Housewife (R) | Steve Harvey’s Funderdome | |
CBS | Undercover Boss (R) | Criminal Minds (R) | Code Black (R) | |||
CW | Arrow (R) | DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (R) | ||||
FOX | MasterChef | The F Word with Gordon Ramsey | Fargo (FX) | |||
NBC | Little Big Shots | The Carmichael Show | Superstore (R) | This Is Us (R) | ||
MISC | Kingdom (AT&T) | The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) | Blood Drive (Syfy) Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (10:30PM, TBS) Nobodies/Lopez (TVLand) |
On TV Tonight: Tuesday June 13, 2017
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Downward Dog | The Middle (R) | Blackish (R) | Blackish (R) | American Housewife (R) | Fresh Off the Boat (R) |
CBS | NCIS (R) | Bull (R) | 48 Hours: NCIS | |||
FOX | Lethal Weapon (R) | The Mick (R) | Brooklyn Nine-Nine (R) | |||
NBC | America’s Got Talent | World of Dance | ||||
CW | The Flash (R) | iZombie | ||||
FFORM | Pretty Little Liars | Famous in Love | Famous in Love | |||
MISC | Casual (Hulu) Oh, Hello on Broadway (Netflix) | Genius (NatGeo) Animal Kingdom (TNT) | Team Ninja Warrior (USA) Tosh.0/The Jim Jefferies Show (Comedy) |
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT Renewed for Season 4
Kimmy will return! Netflix has announced that its comedy series UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT will be returning for a fourth season.
The third season of the Tina Fey-produced series debuted on Netflix in May and saw Kimmy heading to college. The series has garnered 11 Emmy nominations.
There is no information at this time about when the new season will premiere.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Recap: Welcome Home, Mary Murphy
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE season 14 began with the first round of this year’s Los Angeles auditions. The reality dance competition series has (thankfully) returned to a more traditional format. The “Stage vs. Street” and “Next Generation” gimmicks are dead, hopefully for good. What’s left is, as series host Cat Deeley put it, the show we all “know and love.” And speaking of something SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE viewers all know and love? Perhaps the best part of the new season’s return to the SYTYCD of old is its corresponding return of a familiar face. For the first time in almost three years, Mary Murphy was back at the judges’ table, bringing along her screams and plenty of tickets for the series’ talented dancers to take on her trademarked hot tamale train.
Welcome home, Mary Murphy. You’ve been missed. It would have been impossible, even with the massive amount of talent auditioning for this new season, to consider anything a return to form without you. Now, let’s take a trip on that train in search of this season’s hot tamales.
Just getting started.
We all know the drill by now. Episodes of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE that feature auditions tend to start out with sweeping shots of the dancers, lined up and waiting for their chance to show their stuff. The season 14 premiere was no exception. Even in these short clips, it was obvious that there was a lot of talent and a lot of heart, just waiting to be put on full display.
After the opening montage, it was time to take a trip to the judges’ table, where Mary Murphy was taking shots of the crowd on her phone. As excited as everyone is to have her back, it looked like she was just as happy to be there. Before the first dancer of the day had his chance to take the stage, Mary let out her first “WOOO!!!” since season 11.
If that moment didn’t bring tears to your eyes (to accompany the ringing in your ears), make sure to leave some comments that will teach me how to turn off the feelings…
First contestant: Mark Villaver.
As is SYTYCD tradition, Mark had a chance to share his backstory with Cat Deeley and, by extension, the viewers at home. On the one hand, he had this weird, almost egotistical, air about him in one of the clips. On the other, he was almost bashful with Cat. And his story about his single, deaf mother — who also happened to be a street dancer — raising him was just the kind of feel-good stuff this series is known for. In other words, there was no way of knowing exactly what to think of Mark before he actually danced.
Cat Deeley, on the other hand, was as on-point as always and knew just how to handle this guy. When Mark said he loved being on television and dancing, she responded with, “you’ve hit the bullseye with our show.” Love it.
When asked about his style of dance, Mark rambled about expressing himself and came up with “thera — therapeutic” as a name for his hybrid breaking and contemporary style. Then, he wasted time by “teaching” the judges some moves; so, by the time Mark finally danced, yours truly was already like, “ok, and?”
His feet were kind of just…hanging there. And he didn’t quite have the connection in the more contemporary-type parts of his solo. But Mark’s tricks were nothing short of amazing. Despite not quite nailing some of the contemporary flavor, he still blended two very different styles of dance in an interesting way. The creativity and diversity of movement involved were both more than enough for me to consider this a successful outing for Mark Villaver.
The judges agreed.
Mary Murphy was basically just excited, which I was completely here to see. She loved every second of Mark’s performance and said the two styles he worked with were “integrated beautifully.” Nigel Lythgoe complimented Mark on his signature moves: “We will remember you long after you’re gone today because of your moves.” That left Vanessa Hudgens, who was new to the judges’ table and, as far as I could tell, borrowing Carrie Ann Inaba’s happy pills for the day. She said Mark’s audition was “an amazing way to start the morning,” with about 900 exclamation marks thrown on the end of that sentence.
The verdict? The first contestant of the day was given the first ticket to the Academy for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE season 14.
But, really, who cares? The most important part of Mark’s audition was the moment when Mary Murphy put him on the hot tamale train. That’s the first passenger on that train in almost three years. How, exactly, did this series even exist for two seasons without it?
Wait. It didn’t. Just ask the massive ratings drop.
Up next: Ballroom dancers Kristina and Vasily. “It’s ok, everybody. They’re married.”
Guys, there’s actually someone here to explain ballroom to us again. Someone get me a cardiologist because I’m having palpitations.
Before Kristina and Vasily had the chance to dance, they proved to Cat Deeley that men can’t count. The couple has been married for some number of years (nobody can agree on how many), and Vasily couldn’t even keep his guess straight. Disaster? For their relationship, maybe. For their dancing, strangely not.
The piece started off without much of interest, save for maybe Vasily’s blindfold. But then it just kind of…took off, performance-wise. Throw in some nice samba rolls (per Nigel’s comment during the audition — I never know ballroom until Mary explains it to me) and Kristina’s great extension; and you’ve got an amazing number. Bonus points to the dancers for kissing their way through that lift.
Mary cried because she was sure that seeing a performance like Kristina and Vasily’s was going to make tons of people fall in love with ballroom dance. She wanted to put the dancers on the hot tamale train; but she couldn’t get the words out until after they were gone because she was so overcome with emotion (I cried because Mary cried.)
Nigel made weird comments about “50 shades of dance” before saying the pair was “absolutely stunning,” and Vanessa told the dancers that her “heart exploded” when they were kissing.
Simmer down, Vanessa. The real feels should come from seeing SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE actually be its old self again.
Verdict: A pair of tickets to the Academy.
WRECKED Season 2 Preview: Pirates are Coming!
The castaways of WRECKED will be encountering pirates when the TBS comedy series returns for a second season. In a new preview for season 2, we see a boat and a group of pirates arrive on the island and they are determined to take over this little slip of non-paradise — and they’re in no hurry to leave. But the castaways are desperate to leave and are prepared to do whatever is necessary to get off the island.
WRECKED returns for season 2 on June 20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on TBS.
On TV Tonight: Monday June 13, 2017
8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM | |
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ABC | Jimmy Kimmel Live | NBA Countdown Live | NBA Playoff Game 5: Cavaliers at Warriors | |||
CBS | Kevin Can Wait (R) | Man with a Plan (R) | Mom (R) | Life in Pieces (R) | Scorpion (R) | |
FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | Superhuman | ||||
NBC | American Ninja Warrior | Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge | ||||
CW | Supergirl (R) | Whose Line Is It… | ||||
MISC | Shadowhunters (FForm) | Stitchers (FForm) The Putin Interviews (SHO) | Better Call Saul (AMC) American Dad/Angie Tribeca (TBS) Daytime Divas (VH1) |