The CW aired CTV’s sleuth procedural Spencer Sister in the Fall. But was that enough to get the sweet and funny series a second season?
Lea Thompson, who played the mother and author, who is solving crimes with her ex-cop daughter, gave an update on the show’s future.
I think the @ctv canciled us. Thank you friends who enjoyed our little show! I am sad we won’t make more of #thespencersisters I loved so much working in beautiful #winnepeg and acting with the wonderful @staceyfarber and the rest of our cast and crew. We had such joy acting together. Hoping to make you laugh. When we got a late time slot on Friday night I was worried. And It’s a weird time with companies changing staff. Strikes. And the recalculating of our business. And we just got in the crossfire of too much change I guess. It was fun to be on @thecw as well. With a better time slot. But alas. On to new frontiers. But it’s always sad to say goodbye to a great character. And a fun job. And to the fans who rooted for us. thank you!!!
I hope she is wrong and that The CW decides to give it another season. It would be a good pairing with Wild Cards. Both series are fun and funny crime-solving adventures. And we need more of that and less of the grit.
For those of you who have been waiting for the Superman & Lois final season, I have some bad news for you. You are going to have to keep on waiting. That is because The CW announced its midseason schedule, and the show is not on it.
So what is on their lineup? We are getting the third seasons of Son of a Critch, Children Ruin Everything, and Family Law. Along with the debut of I Am, a docuseries about famous dead celebrities like Burt Reynolds and Chris Farley. And if that is not enough, get ready to meet Wildcards, a series that pairs a con artist with a cop. Finally, there is Crime Nation, a true crime anthology with stories that were ripped from the headlines.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30
8:00-10:00pm I AM BURT REYNOLDS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
8:00-10:00pm I AM CHRIS FARLEY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11
9:30-10:00pm CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING (Season 3 Premiere)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12
8:00-9:00pm PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (Original Episode)
9:00-9:30pm MASTERS OF ILLUSION (Original Episode)
9:30-10:00pm WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS (Original Episode)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 13
8:00-10:00pm I AM PAUL WALKER
MONDAY, JANUARY 15
8:00-10:00pm I AM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17
8:00-9:00pm WILD CARDS (Series Premiere)
9:00-10:00pm FAMILY LAW (Season 3 Premiere)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25
8:00-8:30pm SON OF A CRITCH (Season 3 Premiere)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
8:00-10:00pm CRIME NATION (Series Premiere)
The new CW tried to do sitcoms with imports from all over the World, and it doesn’t seem to be working out for them.
That is because first they pulled Australia’s The Bump, and now they are doing the same to Canada’s Run for the Burbs and Britain’s Everyone Else Burns.
It is not all sad news. Canada’s Son of a Critch and Children Ruin Everything are still airing on Thursdays. At least for now…
Tonight at 9p on The CW, you are going to tune into The Swarm for your newest addiction. The 8-part German series is based on Frank Schätzing’s 2004 book, Der Schwarm, which makes you wonder what would happen if the ocean decided to rebel against us humans.
I love Disaster movies and ones that are based in the ocean, and The Swarm doesn’t disappoint. Plus, the series is so beautiful to watch that you forget the sea creatures are trying to kill us.
The series starts off with a fisherman in Peru who thinks it is going to be another day in the office, aka the water. But when he loses his net, he makes the mistake of going under to get it back. As he tries to get it free from a rock, he finds himself trapped by a swarm of pissed-off fish.
Leon (Joshua Odjick) is a whale researcher, and he is called out to look at a dead orca on the beach in Vancouver. He needs to find out why this giant mammal washed up dead on shore.
This is not the only thing he is concerned about; the whales are late this year, and he doesn’t know why. It is starting to hurt the tourist town that needs them for their economy
Things seem to be looking up when they return. But things take a quick turn for the worst with their arrival.
Charlie Wagner (Leonie Benesch) is earning her Ph.D. in microbiology. She believes that we are overfishing, and she isn’t wrong. Now, the fish of all sizes are mad, and they are not going to take it anymore.
Most Disaster series have a great pilot episode, but then they go to crap. The Swarm keeps getting better as the show goes on. And let me tell you, the final scene in tonight’s episode will leave you with your chin on the floor.
Seriously, you can tell they spent a lot of money on this series, and it looks better than the big-budget movies that cover the same topic.
Seriously, there is so much that will blow you away. I just sat back and watched in awe. It is the story that grabs and doesn’t let go.
Could this happen? Who knows? But we just did have a hurriquake in California. So, at this point, if the muscles wanted to show some muscle, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Oh, and I am never eating lobster again! But I will tell you about that next week.
We have seen movies and TV shows where the animals have rebelled against us. And on September 12th, on The CW’s The Swarm, we are going to find out what happens when marine life all over the world stands up and gets revenge. Well, they don’t stand, but you know what I meant.
Around the world, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans: Whales destroy boats, deep sea crabs attack beaches, mussels block container ships. An unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes and triggers tsunamis. A deadly pathogen spreads into the drinking water. Across the globe, lives are increasingly imperiled, the situation worsening by the day—and yet, nobody can draw a connection between the seemingly random attacks. Except for a group of scientists who come together through their shared sense that something bigger is at play: an intelligent life force, dwelling in the deep—capable of manipulating the ocean, and everything that resides in it. A being which has borne witness to our destruction of the seas and has decided to drive us to extinction. But hardly anyone believes their findings. And so, the group is forced to undertake a life-threatening mission, tracking the intelligent life force within the Arctic Ocean. It is a mission they know may claim their lives.
Even though I live on the coast, I am super excited about this show. It looks like it is going to be a thrilling disaster show. And TV needs more of those.
