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A year ago, when the networks announced their 2016-2017 schedules, time travel was a big theme. NBC had Timeless, The CW had Frequency, ABC had Time After Time and Fox had Making History. Now, a year later all four have them are no longer traveling through any more time time. That is because all of four were cancelled. Making the TV Execs wish they had a time machine, so they could come up with a more winning theme.
Ever since I was a kid and I saw the movie Time After Time, I fell in love with the concept of time traveling. Therefore, I looked forward to and watched all the shows.
Timeless was up first and it started out good. Then they focused more on the conspiracy theory then traveling through time. Causing me to lose interest in the show which had an occasional good episode.
Next up was Frequency and I loved the pilot. But, I stopped watching after 3 episodes and I honestly can’t remember why.
Time After Time was the one I looked most forward to because the movie was a huge part of my childhood. I am still obsessed with Jack the Ripper because of it. Anyways, I liked the show and where they were going with it, but ABC pulled it after just a few episodes. Which I think was a huge mistake even though the numbers weren’t there unfortunately.
Finally, there was Making History and Leighton Meester is absolutely brilliant on this show. She needs to work nonstop after this. But back to the show. I think they got lost somewhere in the writing because it is very scattered. Because of that it is one of TV’s lowest rated shows with barely over a million tuning in each week.
Having said all of that, I don’t foresee any time travel shows being announced next week at he upfronts. I do expect a lot of This Is Us knock offs and most of them failing.
Talking about failing, Making History wasn’t the only show cancelled at Fox today. Son of Zorn and APB also bit the dust. While Fox was giving us bad news, NBC picked up Blindspot and Blacklist for another season.
Stay tuned for more because we are still missing the fates for a lot of the ABC, CBS and Fox comedies. Which will be no laughing matter for me.
UPDATE: ABC and NBC picked up and cancelled a lot of shows.
ABC picked up the beloved comedy The Goldbergs for not one, but two more seasons! While American Housewife, Designated Survivor, Once Upon a Time and Agents of a Shield will back for another season. When it comes to who won’t be back, that list is longer. Going going gone are American Crime, Secrets & Lies, Imaginary Mary, The Real O’Neals, The Catch and Dr Ken.
Those are their scripted show, they also picked up Shark Tank, The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars. The latter got not one but two cycles which means that American Idol and Dancing with Stars will both air in the Spring. I think that will be a huge mistake. Too much for a reality for a network that has the least of it of the big 4.
Now what about NBC, Powerless lost its power and Great News got some great news. Oh and The Voice continues to mess with Idol because they announced that Kelly Clarkson joins the show as a coach in the Spring. Yesterday, they announced that Jennifer Hudson is joining the show in the Fall.
Tis the season that television lovers hate. That is when they find out which of their favorite Broadcast shows will be back and which one won’t be. For me, I fall in to the latter category and today several shows fell in to it too.
Over at ABC, the good news is that Modern Family will be back for not one but two more seasons. Which should be its last two, hopefully. Creativity wise it has been going down hill for while. Then we have American Idol’s first causality. Even though Last Man Standing does better than most of ABC’s other comedies and it airs on Friday nights, ABC cancelled the show after 6 seasons. But don’t worry Black-ish will be back for another season as if it wasn’t going to be.
CBS was quiet, while its sister station The CW renewed iZombie and The Originals for a fourth season. I am getting brains on the grill in honor of the pickup. Maybe awards shows will finally start to recognize Rose McIver who is the most underrated actress. While I wait to announce the new shows until next week, I have to tell you Dynasty is coming back and I am preparing to love to hate it every week.
Fox made my day because they picked up The Last Man on Earth for another season, so we will find out what Baby Phil Tandy Miller is going to look like. Will it have eyebrows and half a hair of head. Don’t send out the Bat signal because they also renewed Gotham is coming back too.
NBC was very vocal. They picked up Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med, but have not announced what they are going to with Chicago Justice. They did tell us that Timeless’ time is up. They also said that Jennifer Hudson is joining Miley Cyrus, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton on The Voice. On a positive note, she won’t be on the American Idol reboot.
In case you were wondering why I have a song from Jesus Christ Superstar at the top of my post, that is because it is getting the live treatment this Easter on NBC. I am hoping they cast Josh Groban as Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens as Mary Magdalene and I can’t believe I am saying this but Taylor Hicks as Pontius Pilate. Who do you want to cast in the lead roles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDpQgwKUzg
Do you remember that The CW started the season with 2 new shows called No Tomorrow and Frequency? You forgot about them? Don’t worry, so has The CW because Entertainment Weekly says the network officially cancelled them. Which should come as no shock because neither show got additional episode orders due to low ratings.
Proving The CW should stick with Comic Book shows because those are the ones that seem to be the ones that do well for them. While Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex Girlfriend get them award nominations but not ratings. Granted this is not me saying that I want them to pick up Dynasty because I sure as hell don’t want them to. That sounds painfully awful.
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Tonight at 8p on The CW, The Vampire Diaries is saying goodbye after 8 bloody good seasons with a retrospect followed by the series finale episode. We will find out if Stefan, Damon and Caroline will live happily ever after or if their the immortality will come to an end.
While it is bittersweet for us to say goodbye to the supernatural drama, imagine how hard it is for the actors. Last week, I was at a press event with Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Zach Roerig and Michael Malarkey and they talked about their time with the beloved drama.
What are their favorite memories? WESLEY: Off the top of my head, I don’t really have a favorite memory, but in the general sense, as an actor, you audition for something, you get a job, you shoot that job, and then you go away and shoot the next job. It all comes and goes. And with something like this, I never knew, walking into that room, that it was going to be eight years of my life. I started the job as a certain kind of person, and I left a completely different person. It’s shaped my entire existence, or at least a lot of my formative years, in my 20s. This show is going to forever be ingrained in my personality, which is a major deal. I didn’t sign up for that, when I walked into the audition, but I’m very grateful for it. It’s amazing! I’m scarred for life.
ROERIG: My favorite memory would be the pilot. A lot of us were very young, and it was early in our careers. There was a certain excitement. There was an electric buzz in Vancouver, that we all felt, especially around the casting of Stefan. Most of us were there in Vancouver, waiting to see who they were going to cast.
I remember Kayla Ewell and Nina (Dobrev) floating around pictures on their phones of who they might pick, and I saw a picture of Paul. It was the beginning of the very formative years of all of our lives, I guess. Vancouver definitely sticks out in my mind.
MALARKEY: For me, it was also the beginning. That first episode that I shot, with Ian (Somerhalder) in the cell, felt like we were shooting this little short film. All my scenes, we were shooting together, and we just had this instant connection and understanding of each other. When you come onto a show late in the game, it’s rare you have that synergy with one of the main actors on the show. I found that, subsequently, with the rest of the cast and was embraced into this world. I feel like I’ve been there forever. It all started with that episode, so that’s my most pivotal and favorite memory.
SOMERHALDER: You have to realize that it’s 171 episodes, at a minimum of eight days per episode and sometimes ten, so you’re look at hundreds and hundreds of days. The newness of it, in the beginning, was really special, with the bonding of this cast and crew. That’s what you miss most, when you leave these things. It’s not performing every day, or the writing. You miss the cast and the crew. You miss all the people who make it work because you, effectively, become a family. Paul and I have been joking for years, while we’re killing each other or staking people. In the middle of it, all of a sudden, there’s a fart joke, and you’re just hysterically laughing while everyone is covered in blood. There were these really funny juxtapositions, and there are just too many to count. It’s an era of our lives. I’m 38. Eight years of that is a substantial part of your life.
To read more about their memorable time on the show, then click here!
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Tonight it is time for a wedding that has been a series in the making. Remember during the series premiere of The Vampire Diaries, Caroline (Candice King) declared that she and Stefan (Paul Wesley) were going to have a June Wedding? Well 8 seasons later, tonight is the night and you are cordially invited to watch it at 8p on The CW.
It is the second to last episode of the beloved show, and Caroline, Stefan and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) want to bring back Katherine once and for all. The only way to get her to come to them is to throw a wedding she would not miss. Caroline and Stefan are ready to say I do and Damon is thrilled to be the party planner. Granted he has more fun throwing a Bachelor Party for his brother and Bachelorette Party for his future sister-in-law.
The first party has the two brothers going to the cemetery to get Katherine’s bones. Giving Somerharlder one of his last memorable comedic scenes that is so Damon. Then, after he gets his brother beyond drunk, it is time for Damon to take him home to sleep it off. Once he is put to bed, Damon and Caroline have a touching heart-to-heart that shows he has been redeemed.
Now it is time for the wedding. Caroline’s daughters are there to walk her down the aisle, but is it safe for them? Is it safe for any of them? It’s Mystic Falls, so you know the answer. It is not.
Several blasts from the past will show up for Stefan and Caroline’s nuptials and not everyone will live long enough to see the big celebration. There will be deaths. Yes, more than one. Plenty of surprises. Lots of raw emotions and closures that are the perfect set up for next week’s series finale.
When it comes to the actual wedding, it is one for the television history books. Their big day is seriously so beautiful and romantic, I want to model mine after theirs. Minus all the death and destruction of course.
How does Weseley feel about tonight’s episode? At a screening for it earlier this week, he told us, “It’s funny, I heard about this June Wedding, for the first time, at Comic-Con. I had no idea what everyone was talking about. I still don’t really know what it’s about, but the fans were talking about a June Wedding.” Then he added, “So, when they told me we were going to have a June wedding, I was like, ‘Oh cool, we’re going to pay homage to the fans.’ It was amazing! Stefan and Elena were like the pair for so many years, and I never, in amillion years, thought Stefan and Caroline would end up being, I don’t want to say true love because I think true love can exist in many forms, equally as powerful, as a couple. It was pretty surprising to me.”
Did he think when he proposed to Caroline at the beginning of the season that they two would actually get married? He never put a stake in it as he revealed, “I did. I know how the show works, in that sense, if we hadn’t gotten married, it would be a real twist. Once they dangled that carrot, we were going to have to get married.
What a way to go out, living happily ever after. Or as long as you in the world of The Vampire Diaries.
