• YES! INTO THE BADLANDS Renewed by AMC
• Snow Me the Money! HBO Releases the GAME OF THRONES Season 6 Trailer
• The Business of Show: WGN America hopes to become a major cable player with dramas, ‘Outsiders,’ ‘Underground’
• Amazing! Anderson Cooper says Drumpf instead of Trump
• Pilot Watch: Vanessa Lachey Nabs Female Lead in NBC’s ‘Sebastian’
• Teen Wolf EP Reveals Season 6’s First Villain, Teases ‘Something Big’ With Stiles and Lydia, Plus More Scoop
• Pilot Watch: Goran Visnjic To Co-Star In NBC’s ‘Time’ Travel Pilot From Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan
• Anna Torv Joins Netflix’s Mindhunter, Serial Killer Series From David Fincher
• Gulp! Binge-watching TV is linked to depression
• Everyone Should Be Watching the Reality Show Cops Right Now. Seriously.
• Mark Your Calendars: NBC Sets Premiere Dates for ‘America’s Got Talent,’ ‘American Ninja Warrior’
• Late Night Wars: Lorne Michaels Gave Lonely Island His Blessing for ‘Party Over Here’
• Scoop: Wilmer Valderrama Joining ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ for Multi-Episode Arc
• Amazing: John Oliver Sells Out of ‘Make Donald Drumpf Again’ Caps
• TV Ratings: ‘Downton Abbey’ Series Farewell Draws Biggest Finale Audience Ever
• LOVE: Disney’s Tangled: Before Ever After Untangles Life Before Marriage
Archives for March 2016
On TV Tonight: Wednesday March 9, 2016
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM | |
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ABC | The Middle | The Goldbergs | Modern Family | Blackish | American Crime | ||
CBS | Survivor: Kaoh Rong | The Victoria’s Secret Swim Special | CSI: Cyber | ||||
CW | Arrow (R) | Supernatural (R) | |||||
FOX | Rosewood | Hell’s Kitchen | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia/ Man Seeking Woman (FXX) | ||||
NBC | The Voice | The Carmichael Show | |||||
MISC | Young & Hungry/Baby Daddy (Freeform) | Face Off (Syfy) | Underground (WGN) Hap and Leonard (Sundance) Broad City (Comedy) Younger/Teachers (TV Land) |
Orange denotes what the TV Addict is watching and/or recording tonight!
INTO THE BADLANDS Renewed by AMC
AMC has announced the second season renewal of INTO THE BADLANDS today.
The martial arts drama will return for a 10-episode second season, premiering on AMC in 2017. In the U.S., Nielsen live+7 ratings, the show’s first season averaged 5.6 million viewers per episode, including 3.5 million adults 25-54 and 3.4 million adults 18-49. Simultaneous to its U.S. launch, AMC Global will premiere season two of INTO THE BADLANDS within minutes of the U.S. broadcast.
“With its deep dive into authentic martial arts, the visually stunning ‘Into the Badlands’ proved to be unlike anything else on television,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “Co-creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar, along with a talented team of producers, cast and crew, brought us an artfully crafted series. We’re eager to return to the world of barons and blades and spend even more time with these compelling and evolving characters across an expanded second season.”
“We can’t imagine any other network bold enough to embrace a show like this,” said Gough and Millar. “We are incredibly grateful to Charlie, Joel and the entire AMC team for taking this leap of faith with us and we look forward to continuing the journey into the Badlands!”
Snow Me the Money! HBO Releases the GAME OF THRONES Season 6 Trailer
After months of build-up, anticipation and hype, HBO has finally released the official trailer for GAME OF THRONES sixth season. Littered with lines like “Everything they’ve taken from us we’re going to take back,” “All of it was a lie,” and “We can overthrow an Empire,” the one minute and forty-two second trailer is chock-full of moments that will have you asking, Where is Jon Snow! “Is it April 24th yet?” But hey, don’t take our word for it, see for yourself below.
NEW GIRL Sneak Peeks: Jess Returns!
NEW GIRL is hitting a milestone this week: 100 episodes! And Zooey Deschanel is returning from maternity leave this week as Jess returns to the loft.
Fresh off the end of her jury duty, Jess returns to find Reagan preparing to vacate her room. Jess is preoccupied with discovering the real identity of a juror who was sequestered with her. Apparently she and another juror hit it off and she’s hoping for a potential romance. Meanwhile, Nick is preoccupied with the fact that it’s Reagan’s last day and he wants to leave her with a memorable impression of him. Reagan doesn’t want to make a big deal about the situation and definitely doesn’t want Nick to make things weird.
Finally, Schmidt’s fear of public dancing could impact his upcoming wedding dance, which means Winston and Cece are going to attempt to get him over his phobia.
Don’t miss the 100th episode of NEW GIRL tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on Fox (U.S.) and CityTV (Canada).
OF KINGS AND PROPHETS Preview: Biblical Conflict
Picture Westeros, but in biblical times. OF KINGS AND PROPHETS is about a struggle for a throne. Only the Israelites aren’t concerned with magical dragons. They’re concerned about their ancient enemies: the Philistines.
King Saul grows tired of defending his Kingdom from the Philistines after so many years of war. In the hopes of unifying the twelve Israelite tribes, he’s marrying his daughter, Merav, to Mattiyahu of Judah.
But in the midst of the wedding preparations, the prophet Samuel tells Saul that he has a message from God: Saul must destroy the Amalekites, another of Israel’s ancient enemies. Saul’s wife insists the Amalekites don’t need to be bothered with right now and Saul’s weariness of war eventually leads him to challenge Samuel’s orders. This sets in motion of a series of events that will threaten Saul’s rule of his own Kingdom.
Meanwhile, out in a village, the shepherd David wants to settle his family’s debts with the tax collector. With a lion killing his flock, he cannot pay his taxes. And so he travels to the King’s palace with a bold claim: he will kill the lion and his debts will be forgiven. Queen Ahinoam doesn’t believe David can do it, but her daughter, Michal, seems convinced that there’s a hero buried in David.
OF KINGS AND PROPHETS premieres tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.o
Netflix Serves Up Three More Seasons of CHEF’S TABLE
Netflix will be producing three more seasons of CHEF’S TABLE, the streaming service announced today.
The first course of six episodes premieres on Netflix on Friday, May 27, followed by four special episodes later in the year dedicated to four of the world’s most renowned French chefs, with the third course highlighting another six chefs to release in early 2017.
“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with David Gelb and his team. We couldn’t think of a better way to follow such a visually stunning and engrossing first season than to profile 16 more exceptional chefs and to share their deeply personal stories with our members around the world. David’s unique vision takes viewers around the world experiencing the secret richness of street food to the most celebrated kitchens in the world,” said Lisa Nishimura, Netflix Vice President of Original Documentary Programming.
The following international chefs will be featured in upcoming seasons:
Chef’s Table, Season 2 – May 27
Alex Atala, Dom, (Brazil)
Ana Ros, Hiša Franko (Slovenia)
Dominique Crenn, Atelier Crenn (United States)
Enrique Olvera, Pujol (Mexico)
Gagan Anand, Gaggan (Thailand)
Grant Achatz, Alinea, Next, The Aviary (United States)
Chef’s Table, Season 3 – French Installment, TBD 2016
Alain Passard, L’Arpege (France)
Michel Troisgros, Maison Troisgros (France)
Adeline Grattard, Yam’Tcha (France)
Alexandre Couillon, La Marine (France)
Chef’s Table, Season 4 – TBD 2017
Ivan Orkin, Ivan Ramen (United States, Japan)
Jeong Kwan, Chunjinam Hermitage, Baekyangsa Temple (South Korea)
Nancy Silverton, Mozza (United States)
Tim Raue, Restaurant Tim Raue (Germany)
Virgilio Martinez, Central (Peru)
Vladimir Mukhin, White Rabbit (Russia)
THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON Teasers: Losing Control
Marcia Clark is unraveling. We open this week’s THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON in divorce court, where Marcia is seeking more child support from her ex. Forgetting her place, she interjects and is chastised by the judge for failing to follow protocol. Later, her ex is pursuing primary custody until her OJ trial is done.
In Judge Ito’s courtroom, the trail awaits her late arrival. At home, her clothing choices are criticized all over the evening news. At work, her boss offers to put her in touch with some media consultants.
Johnnie, meanwhile, is still obsessed with telling the jury a compelling story. And right now an enormous part of that story concerns the police officers who investigated the crime. Suddenly their behaviour is on trial and they’re admitting to shady practices concerning the chain of custody regarding evidence. At this point even Marcia is worried. And then the defense throws the prosecution for a loop when they insist on calling a defense witness early — right in the middle of the prosecution’s case.
Finally, enter Mark Fuhrman. Marcia seems convinced that he’s one of the few detectives whose handling of the case is unimpeachable. But the defense doesn’t care about that. They’re just interested in proving that he’s racist. And this is Lee Bailey’s time to shine.
Don’t miss an all new episode of THE PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON tonight (March 8) at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on FX.
LIMITLESS Sneak Peeks: Quarantine
A citywide blackout hits New York in this week’s LIMITLESS.
Brian reaches out to his family members and learns that his parents still have power, so the family decides to head over there and Brian sends Mike and Ike to pick up a few of his siblings. Naturally, that puts Rachel into a room with the FBI agent she recently slept with. She also confesses to their mother that Brian is taking some sort of drug, but she’s unsure if the FBI is giving it to him.
Meanwhile, Brian and Rebecca are going to be placed under quarantine by the CDC after they are exposed to an unknown substance when investigating the blackout. And Rebecca learns that Brian has been using a secret stash of NZT, which brings up trust issues between them.
Don’t miss an all new episode of LIMITLESS tonight (March 8) at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS (U.S.) and Global TV (Canada).
CASTLE Recap: Missing Time
It was a very Castle-centric episode of CASTLE this week, as Alexis, Haylee and Rick made their way to LA to try and discover more about the 18 months that Castle can’t remember. However, as usual, Castle discovers a mystery on the side.
A body was found in a cemetery and, after being invited to secret, underground, best-of-the-best detective agency (The Greatest Detective Society), Castle must compete with a young private eye (Summer Glao guest starring as Kendal) for a spot at the table because whoever solves the mystery gets a spot. So they track down Philip’s last known location, but on their way Castle gets a flash of the Chinese restaurant that he visited during his last stay in LA. And this is where Castle buys back a watch that he apparently used to pay for his meal last time.
Moving on, they make it to the film company where the victim was working undercover, as part of the Greatest Detective Society, and Castle runs into the executive producer who ruined his Heat Wave franchise by butchering the movies. They do, however, gain vital information (thanks to Lanie back in New York) about the murder weapon and trace it (with some help and a bit of double crossing from Kendal) to a house of one of the company’s directors. Unfortunately, the blade comes back clean and they need to find one of the other four knives that were produced that match the wounds.
Back in New York, Espo and Ryan are helping by talking to the victim’s sister (in between pranks on Lanie with fake background checks on her new boyfriend) and realizing that he was working on a serial killer case; one where on each coast victims are found with missing body parts, making the murderer very hard to track due to the varying types of victims and the physical distance between crimes. Soon, however, they realize that the work of what they thought to be one serial killer is actually the work of two men working together. They catch the east coast half of the murdering duo, and find with him a script with some very distinct hand-writing.
Back in LA, Castle recognizes the writing as none other than the same executive who ruined the Niki Heat franchise. Placing him under arrest and, therefore, being welcomed into the GDS, Castle graciously turns down the prized position, saying that he already works with the best detective back in New York, and they should give the position to Kendal.
But that’s not all, because the real drama of the episode came from Castle and Alexis trying to piece together what happened 18 months ago. When they see a connection to a dangerous man (an ex-marine), Alexis goes to check it out and discovers that Haylee was connected to the man as well. They go back to the hotel where Haylee explains to Castle that he asked her to keep track of him, lie to him if he ever asked about his memories, and to ensure that he doesn’t go looking for answers because (according to him) it’s too dangerous. When that doesn’t work and he still wants to go looking for answers, Haylee shows him a video of himself from the day he got shot. Past-Castle tells Present Day-Castle that he knows about Locksat but that any further investigating will lead, undoubtedly, to Beckett’s death.
With this new discovery, Castle makes a frightening realization: that the members of Beckett’s D.C. team were killed because he knew about Locksat and did nothing to stop it.
What will Castle do in light of this new information? Check out an all new CASTLE to find out on Monday March 14 at 10 PM ET/PT on ABC!