https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6It2wUgc58
Today is August 28th or 8/28. 8-2-8 is the same number of the flight that the characters took on Manifest. Since it is the Sci-Fi drama’s holiday, NBC is celebrating by letting Executive Producer Jeff Rake reveals spoilers about season three and more Easter eggs.
What can we expect in 2021? We will see a long lost character return. Who do you think it is? A new passenger will make their debut in the season premiere. That episode takes place three months after the shocking season finale. What happens if someone uses the callings for bad and not good?
Rake also tells us if the Major is Michaela from the future. The EP also talks about the past. As in, he tells us things we might have missed during season two. I know I missed a few of his reveals. Did you catch them all?
There is so much information that video for fans of the series, I can’t believe it was less than three minutes. My mind exploded like the plane at the end of the pilot episode. Boom!
NBC is the first network to announce when some of our favorite scripted shows will be back. However, we will have to wait until October 22nd for the first one to premiere. That honor goes to Superstore, where we will say goodbye to America Ferrera. Then in November, we will get This Is Us, One Chicago, Law & Order: SVU, and The Blacklist.
We will have to wait until 2021 for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Good Girls, Making It, Manifest, New Amsterdam, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Plus, new series Kenan, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Mr. Mayor, That’s My Jam, Small Fortune, True Story, Who Do You Think You Are? and Young Rock.
OCTOBER
“Connecting …” (Thursday, 10/1, 8:30-9 p.m.)
“Ellen’s Game of Games” (Tuesday, 10/6, 8-10 p.m., then shifting to 9-10 p.m. on 10/13)
“The Voice” (Monday, 10/19, 8-10 p.m., Tuesday, 10/20, 8-10 p.m. then switches to 8-9 p.m. on 10/27)
“Superstore” (Thursday, 10/22, 8-8:30 p.m.)
NOVEMBER
“This Is Us” (Tuesday, 11/10, 9-11 p.m.; returns to 9-10 p.m. on 11/17)
“Chicago Med” (Wednesday, 11/11, 8-9 p.m.)
“Chicago Fire” (Wednesday, 11/11, 9-10 p.m.)
“Chicago P.D.” (Wednesday, 11/11, 10-11 p.m.)
“Law & Order: SVU” (Thursday, 11/12, 9-10 p.m.)
“The Blacklist” (Friday, 11/13, 8-9 p.m.)
Last month, NBC was supposed to announce its fall schedule. However, the coronavirus put a wrench in their plans. Now that production is starting up, the network is finally ready to show us what we are going to watch and when to in a few months.
Like all of the other broadcast networks, they are playing it safe. They are only changing up one night and it is Thursday. Gone is a two-hour block of comedies. Instead, it is going to be two hours of Law & Order: SVU. The mothership and its spinoff with Chris Meloni called Law & Order: Organized Crime.
The only other change is The Voice is bringing back Gwen Stefani instead of Nick Jonas. How nauseating it is to have the No Doubt singer and her boyfriend Blake Shelton on the show again. Couldn’t they find anyone else?
As you can see the schedule is pretty safe:
MONDAY
8-10 P.M. — The Voice
10-11 P.M. — Manifest*
TUESDAY
8-9 P.M. — The Voice
9-10 P.M. — This Is Us*
10-11 P.M. — New Amsterdam*
WEDNESDAY
8-9 P.M. — Chicago Med*
9-10 P.M. — Chicago Fire*
10-11 P.M. — Chicago P.D.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnd96tYhxZ8
Believe it or not, the networks are still fine-tuning their 2020-2021 lineups. They have been able to delay their decisions because the coronavirus pandemic threw everything up in the air. However, NBC and ABC decided to let several shows know if they will be on the lineup when there is one.
Over at ABC, For Life did not get the chair. However, The Baker and The Beauty’s goose was cooked. At least the couple had their happy ending before the network decided the sweet show didn’t deserve a second season.
NBC is OK with letting the passengers of Flight 828 not knowing their fates for another season. That is because the show, about a plane that lands five years later with all the passengers looking the same as they did the day they took off, has more stories to tell. Sadly for Indebted, Sunnyside, Bluff City Law, their stories are all done.
What do you think about the network’s choices? I was really hoping we would have gotten more from Sunnyside and The Baker and the Beauty. Hey ABC, some words of advice, stop picking up share ows about Latinx families in Miami, that are really enjoyable, if you just going to make them one and done. I don’t want to get attched again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_dlkZmmAA
It has been a month since NBC was supposed to announce their lineup for the 2020-2021 season, but they haven’t announced it yet because everything is up in the air because of the coronavirus pandemic. Several of their shows were left waiting to find out if they would still have a home on the network.
Good Girls was told they things are still good with the bad girls. The fat lady sang for Perfect Harmony. The Bone Collector killed Lincoln Rhyme. Manifest is still not sure if it crashed and burned or if it will land safely on their schedule. Indebted is waiting to find out if they indebted to NBC.
Finally, there is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Did the music die for last season’s best new show? NOPE! They will be around to sing for another day, which is a good thing for the peacock network. If they had silenced their actors’ voices, then we would have gone nuts. As in found something to send them like when we sent CBS peanuts to save Jericho. We could have sent them cereal because of the cereal bar that is at her office. But we don’t have to do that because the series is coming back!
If you missed out on the musical dramedy when it aired, I highly suggest you watch it now on NBC’s app, OnDemand or Hulu. ZEP is about workaholic programmer Zoey (Jane Levy) whose life changes while she is stuck in an MRI machine during an earthquake. When Zoey gets out of it, she now has the ability to hear people’s heart songs. As in, she is the only one who can see them sing and dance. Something that seems like a curse to her, and a dream come true for us viewers.
ZEP also stars Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, John Clarence Stewart, Peter Gallagher(?), Mary Steenburgen, and Lauren Graham.
Now I am off to watch to some more of the amazing song and dance numbers from the first season like the above one that was shot in one take. You read that right, the finale, not the swan song, was done in one take. Now you know you want to see more, don’t you?
I just want to know if we should be reading too much into her five last words of the season, “They day the music died.”
