Fox Releases Fall Premiere Dates

FOX TVLookFall2021  Primetime 

     FOX has released their fall primetime premiere dates. They are sticking with a tradition premiere week format.  The only thing that will start out of premiere week will the start of the final season of Thursday Night Football on FOX.   Here's the premiere dates, all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted. 

      Monday, September 20 

  8pm 9-1-1 (Season 5 Premiere) 

  9pm The Big Leap (Series Premiere) 

      Tuesday, September 21 

  8pm  The Resident (Season 5 Premiere) 

   9pm  Our Kind of People  (series Premiere) 

   Wednesday, September 22 

  8pm  The Masked Singer (Season 6 Premiere) 

  9pm   Alter Ego (Series Premiere) 

  

    Thursday, September 23 

  8pm  The Masked Singer (Season premiere, part 2) 

  9pm  Alter Ego (Series premiere, part 2)

   Fridays (ongoing) 

8pm  Friday Night SmackDown

  Saturdays (on going) 

7pm  Fox Sports Saturday 

Sunday, September 26

8pm The Simpsons (Season 33 Premiere) 

8:30  The Great North  (Season 2 Premiere) 

9pm  Bob's Burgers  ( Season 12 Premiere) 

9:30pm Family Guy (Season 19 Premiere) 

Thursdays  (Beginning October 7 ) 

8pm/5pt  Thursday Night Football 

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Into the Twilight: Evergreen

The Twilight Zone  The Flashback

           We've not looked at an episode of the 2002 Twilight Zone series since 2016, with a look at a sequel episode of the 1959 series "It's a Good Life", we are back with a look at the 2002 series that ran one season on UPN (America's favorite network!.  So anyway, the best way to look at this is why not start from the very first episode? That's right, "Evergreen". 

           The episode starts with a family moving into a new gated community and the episode is focused on  a teenager who has dyed hair, nose ring and stuff that was to scare early 2000's parents. The father, Mr. Winslow, is annoyed with his older daughter and feels that she needs to not act this way.  There's also a noticeable look to the neighborhood where the kids are in uniforms for example.  (It's going to be one of those episodes huh?)     

I don't even know/ Copyright Paramount 

        It's morning and the girl notices that her nose ring is gone, her hairs is not dyed, her tattoos are gone  (Usually those don't go away overnight, ) her CD's are gone too, anyway she's angry and yells at her parents and her sister had to take out her earrings. The head of the homeowners' association is at the house and tells Jenna, the girl, that her parents gave up almost everything for them to be there. (Which I think how most terms of service go for things too) The idea is to have them be in a safe world. 

The true moral is that homeowners'  associations are bad/ Copyright Paramount 

        Jenna thinks about running away, but a boy from the neighborhood, named Logan tells her it's hard to get away. (Maybe it's a trick, it might be a trick, I think it might be a trick)  Later on, she's outside and waiting for Logan and sees that he was taken away and zapped. The next day, they tell her he attacked a security guard with a hunting knife.  Jenna is suspicious about this place when she founds out the military school they threaten kids with doesn't exist.  Logan is seen again being sent on a truck that says ARCADIA on the front. There's also a meeting that was going on at the same time where I think they decide that kids die when they aren't conforming to their system. 

       Jenna runs home and tells her sister, Jules, that what she saw and that's she leaving, and later tells her sister where's going to be and later the sister turns her in and she gets put into an ARCADIA truck. 

The Shot shows that Arcadia is a fertilizer company, meaning they turn bad children into fertilizer. There was a shot at the start where a family was planting a tree and crying, which was a good clue.

 

         This episode is a standard "creepy" and authoritarian  dystopia story. The thing that makes it work a little more here is that it's parents who are willing to sign away everything to have their kids conform to a perfection.  I think the other thing that gets me is the ending because of how close the sisters seemed to be, it makes it more surprising what happens.  The episode leaves good clues of what happens to those don't conform that makes a good thing to see in hindsight. 

    

      Being the first episode of a new "Twilight Zone" series it has a lot to live on and it's an alright episode.  The hard thing it has going for it is that these kind of stories aren't as new as they were in the original series time and it's hard to be really creative with it, but it does work, the twist was still a surprising one, and it works that reveal in well, the episode had some mystery to keep investment.  

      Anyway, that's it for now, tune in next time when we wonder who is our mulch. 

NewsNation Expanding Programing in September

News Nation   Cable News 

      

        Nexstar Media Group's  news channel, NewsNation, is expanding its programming from September 27th.  

        Beginning on September 27, NewsNation' adds a new morning show  Morning in America airing  from 7 to 10am ET, hosted by former ABC News anchor, Adrienne Bankert.  Replacing NewsNation's current morning programing of religious  infomercials and an hour of "Jag".  

  Meanwhile, in primetime, veteran journalist and analyst, Dan Abrams, will be hosting Dan Abrams Live  will be airing from 8 to 9pm ET.   This is latest change to the news network's line up, which launched a programming block on WGN America in September of 2020.  In March 2021, WGN America rebranded as NewsNation and expanded news programming live from weeknights 6pmet to 11pmet (repeating 11-3amet)  and weekends 7-9pmET.  (repeating 10-1amet) . 

  

   Earlier this month, Newsnation announced slight changes to their line up starting for today, July 19, with the 6pm newscast "Early Edition" being rebranded as "Rush Hour" and evening newscast "Prime" be cut to 1 hour at 9pmet, with a new show "On Balance with Leland Vittert" which starts at 8pmet. Its currently unknown what will happen with this new program and the 9pm "Prime" with these changes coming in September. 

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NBC Announces Fall Premiere Dates

NBC TVLookFall2021  Premiere Dates 

                    

     NBC has reveled their fall line premiere dates. With note that almost everything will be coming out around the same "premiere week" with less staggering. They have also released premiere dates for late summer shows, including the final season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"   Also,  NBC has decided that new "Law & Order: For the Defense" will not be going forward  and "The Blacklist" will be taking the slot. 

A replacement for The Blacklist's Friday night slot has not been announced as of yet. 

  Here's the full premiere dates all times ET/PT unless otherwise noticed 

Sunday, August 8

10:30pm  Friday Game Fight (regular slot 9pm, Wednesday 11th) 

Monday, August 9

10pm The Wall 

Thursday, September 9

8:20pm/5:20pt   NFL Kick Off 

Sunday, September 12

8:20/5:20pt  Sunday Night Football

Monday, September 20

8pm  The Voice 

10pm  Ordinary Joe

Tuesday, September 21

10pm  New Amsterdam

Wednesday, September 22

8pm Chicago Med

9pm  Chicago Fire

10pm  Chicago P.D. 

Thursday, September 23

8pm Law & Order : SVU (two hours)

10pm Law & Order: Organized Crime 

Friday, September 24 

9pm  Dateline 

Tuesday, September 28

9pm La Brea 

Thursday, October 21

8pm The Blacklist 

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ABC Announces Fall Premiere Dates

ABC  TVLookFall2021  Premiere Dates 

        

        ABC has revealed their fall premiere dates.   Their premieres start on Monday, September 20 with Dancing with the Stars.  

       Here's the full line up; all ties are ET/PT; unless otherwise noted) 

  

  Monday, September 20 

   8pm  Dancing with The Stars (Season 30 Premiere) 

  

   Wednesday, September 22

  8pm  The Goldbergs (Season 9 Premiere) 

 8:30pm   The Wonder Years (Series Premiere) 

 9:01pm   The Conners   (Season 4 Premiere) 

9:31pm   Home Ecomics (Season 2 Premiere; new time) 

10pm   A Million Little Things  (Season 4 Premiere) 

Sunday, September 26

8pm  Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (Season 2; new day) 

9pm   Supermarket Sweep  (Season 2; new time) 

10pm The Rookie (Season 4) 

Monday, September 27

10pm  The Good Doctor (Season 5 Premiere) 

Thursday , September 30 

8pm  Station 19 (Season 5 Premiere) 

9pm  Grey's Anatomy (Season 18 Premiere) 

10:01pm  Big Sky (Season 2 Premiere; new night) 

Sunday, October 3

7pm  America's Funniest Home Videos 

Friday, October 8

8pm Shark Tank (Season 13 Premiere) 

9:01pm 20/21  (Season 44 Premiere) 

Tuesday, October 19 

8pm  The Bachelorette (Season 17 Premiere) 

10:01pm Queens (Series Premiere) 

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Into the Twilight: A Nice Place to Visit ( From The Original Series)

Twilight Zone  The Flashback 

        Back to the original series for our "Into the Twilight" series, this is an episode coming from season 1 it's episode 28 called "A  Nice Place to Visit".    This happens to be our second look at the something from the original series, and we really should dip into it more.  

         This episode about a man named Henry Francis Valentine but goes by the name Rocky.  He was robbing a pawn shop and when he's running from police he gets cornered and lets out a shot and starts to climb away and gets shot.  Anyway later on, he gets woken up by a man named Pip.  Pip is a man in an all white suit (played by Sebastian Cabot). Now Rocky is a little confused because he does remember getting shot and etc. (Fun thing to remember)  He also wonders how Pip knows his name and stuff about him like his likes.   Pip says his job is to give Rocky anything he wants  and Rocky is of course suspicious because this doesn't happen.  Rocky asks for Pip's wallet and Pip gives him $700 in cash. ( I said wallet!, oh well anyway) 

Money? I wanted your wallet!/Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Pip takes him to a fancy home and says that it's Rocky's house.  Rocky is a little suspicious since people don't normally get free fancy houses with fancy stuff. (Usually) The episode wants to make us invested by also making us wonder what's going on here, when saw this guy get shot and now he's getting these rewards. We can already infer some things that could have happened, but the episode is not showing its hand too much to give us a conclusion yet.   When the food comes Rocky gets suspicious again and wants Pip to eat it, but Pip says that he hasn't eaten in centuries,  Rocky decides to start shooting Pip but nothing happens to the guy  and he figures out that Pip isn't of this Earth.  

In heaven, you have guns some how/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Rocky figures out that he's dead and figures out the place he is in heaven. He thinks Pip is an angel and this makes him happy and starts asking for stuff.  He starts to have fun and goes to casino (they have guns and casinos in heaven? Interesting)  

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My Network TV Line Up for the 2021-22 Season

My Network TV 

        My Network TV is coming up to its 15 year on the air and has revealed its 2021-22 TV schedule.  This season they are adding "Chicago Fire" which includes other series from Dick Wolf and Universal TV.    

           The  My Network TV schedule starts on September 13.  Chicago Fire will be airing Tuesday Nights replacing  Law & Order: Criminal Intent.   

    Here is the line up (note: in some markets My Network TV stations air programming at different times than here, some stations air programming later in the evening and or overnight) 

     Monday 

    8pm  Law &Order: SVU

    9pm  Law& Order : SVU 

      Tuesday

     8pm  Chicago Fire  (new addition) 

     9pm  Chicago Fire  (new addition) 

    Wednesday 

    8pm  Dateline 

    9pm  Dateline 

     Thursday

   8pm  Dateline 

   9pm Chicago P.D  (new night) 

  Friday 

8pm  Chicago P.D.   (new night) 

9pm  Chicago P.D    (new night) 

    

2021 Primetime Emmys Nominations

Emmys  Awards

    The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy award nominations have been announced. The Award Show airs on CBS on Sunday, September 19 at 8pmet /5pm pt. 

 Here are the nominations 

Comedy

Lead Actress, Comedy

Aidy Bryant, "Shrill"

Kaley Cuoco, "The Flight Attendant"

Allison Janney, "Mom"

Tracee Ellis Ross, "Black-ish"

Jean Smart, "Hacks"

Lead Actor, Comedy

Anthony Anderson, "Black-ish"

Michael Douglas, "The Kominsky Method"

William H. Macy, "Shameless"

Jason Sudeikis, "Ted Lasso"

Kenan Thompson, "Kenan"

Supporting Actress, Comedy

Hannah Einbinder, "Hacks"

Aidy Bryant, "SNL"

Kate McKinnon, "SNL"

Cecily Strong, "SNL"

Juno Temple, "Ted Lasso"

Hannah Waddingham, "Ted Lasso"

Rosie Perez, "The Flight Attendant"

Supporting Actor, Comedy

Carl Clemons-Hopkins, "Hacks"

Kenan Thompson, "SNL"

Bowen Yang, "SNL"

Brett Goldstein, "Ted Lasso"

Brendan Hunt, "Ted Lasso"

Nick Mohammed, "Ted Lasso"

Jeremy Swift, "Ted Lasso"

Paul Reiser, "The Kominsky Method"


Guest Actress, Comedy

Jane Adams, "Hacks"

Yvette Nicole Brown, "A Black Lady Sketch Show"

Bernadette Peters, "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist"

Issa Rae, "A Black Lady Sketch Show"

Maya Rudolph, "SNL"

Kristen Wiig, "SNL"

Guest Actor, Comedy

Alec Baldwin, "SNL"

Dave Chappelle, "SNL"

Morgan Freeman, "The Kominsky Method"

Daniel Kaluuya, "SNL"

Daniel Levy, "SNL"

Comedy Series

"Black-ish" (ABC)

"Cobra Kai" (Netflix)

"Emily in Paris" (Netflix)

"Hacks" (HBO Max)

"The Flight Attendant" (HBO Max)

"The Kominsky Method" (Netflix)

"Pen15" (Hulu)

"Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Lead Actress, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Michaela Coel, "I May Destroy You"

Cynthia Erivo, "Genius: Aretha"

Elizabeth Olsen, "WandaVision"

Anya Taylor-Joy, "The Queen's Gambit"

Kate Winslet, "Mare of Easttown"

Lead Actor, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Paul Bettany, "WandaVision"

Hugh Grant, "The Undoing"

Ewan McGregor, "Halston"

Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton"

Leslie Odom, Jr., "Hamilton"

Supporting Actress, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Phillipa Soo, "Hamilton"

Renee Elise Goldsberry, "Hamilton"

Jean Smart, "Mare of Easttown"

Julianne Nicholson, "Mare of Easttown"

Moses Ingram, "The Queen's Gambit"

Kathryn Hahn, "WandaVision"

Supporting Actor, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Daveed Diggs, "Hamilton"

Jonathan Groff, "Hamilton"

Anthony Ramos, "Hamilton"

Paapa Essiedu, "I May Destroy You"

Evan Peters, "Mare of Easttown"

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, "The Queen's Gambit"

Limited Series

"I May Destroy You" (HBO)

"Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

"The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

"The Underground Railroad" (Amazon Prime)

"WandaVision" (Disney+)

Made-For-Television Movie

"Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square" (Netflix)

"Oslo" (HBO)

"Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia" (Lifetime)

"Sylvie's Love" (Amazon Prime)

"Uncle Frank" (Amazon Prime)

CBS Announces Premiere Dates

CBS  TVLookFall2021  Premiere Dates 

        

        CBS has released premiere dates for the fall season.  With a note they will be a airing the first four episodes of SEAL Team's 5th season before it moves to Paramount Plus.   

  Here's a full listings (reminder all times ET unless otherwise stated) 

Sunday, September 12 

7:30-8:30pm  60 Minutes (Season Premiere) 

Saturday, September 18

10pm 48 Hours (35th Season Premiere) 

Sunday, September 19

5-8pmpt/ 8-11pm et   73rd Annual Emmy Awards 

Monday, September 20

8pm  The Neighborhood (4th Season Premiere) 

8:30pm Bob ♥ Abishola (3rd Season Premiere) 

9pm  NCIS  (19th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

10pm  NCIS : Hawai'i (Series premiere) 

Tuesday, September 21 

8pm  FBI (4th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

9pm  FBI: Most Wanted ( 3rd Season Premiere;  special time) 

10pm  FBI : International (Series Premiere; special time) 

Wednesday,  September 22

8-10pm   Survivor ( 2 Hour Season 41 Premiere) 

10-11pm  Big Brother

Sunday, September 26

7-8pm 60 Minutes (regular time slot) 

8-9pm Big Brother 

9-11pm   The Tony Awards Present : Broadway's Back!

 Tuesday, September 28

8pm  FBI 

9PM FBI: International  ( regular time slot ) 

10pm  FBI : Most Wanted  (regular time slot) 

Wednesday, September 29

8pm Survivor (regular time slot)  

9pm Big Brother  (Live Season Finale) 

Friday, October 1

8pm S.W.A.T (5th Season premiere; new time slot) 

9pm  Magnum P.I (4th Season premiere) 

10pm  Blue Bloods  (12th Season premiere) 

Wednesday, October 6

8pm  Survivor 

9pm Tough As Nails  (3rd Season premiere; new time slot) 

10pm  CSI: Vegas (series premiere) 

Thursday, October 7

8pm  Young Sheldon (5th Season Premiere) 

8:30pm  United States of Al (2nd Season Premiere) 

9pm  Ghosts (Series Premiere) 

9:30pm B Positive (2nd Season Premiere) 

10pm  Bull (6th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

Sunday, October 10

7pm  60 Minutes 

8pm  The Equalizer (2nd Season premiere) 

9pm  NCIS : Los Angeles (13th Season premiere) 

10pm  SEAL Team (5th Season premiere; new time slot) 

Friday, October 22

8pm  The Activist (Series Premiere) 

Friday, December 3 

8pm  S.W.A.T (Continues season 5) 

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A Brief Moment In to the Twilight: Ye Gods

The Flashback 

    

        Previously, we looked at a 1985 "Twilight Zone" episode "If she Dies" since the 1985 series episodes have segments, that means we have the other segment in that episode to cover.  This is from episode 5,the other segment  "Ye Gods" this episode is from October 25,1985.

Not love at First Sight/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

           Our main character is named Todd Ettinger (played by actor David Dukes) and he bumps into a woman and apparently  thinks that these two should be a couple and sprinkles magic love dust on them. (The eighties dust?)   They awkwardly share an exchange  but they don't start just making out and cupid follows him and wonders why they didn't fall in love. He's mad at yuppies. Cupid meets with Todd and wants to know why he doesn't fall in love.  At first, Todd doesn't think this man is cupid but he proves that he his at least magic by melting his phone. (that's a mess) 

No, I guess I don't want to change long distance carriers/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Cupid gets mad and shoots three love arrows into Todd and walks away. Todd sees the woman again and starts to give chase to her (that's how love works in the 80's ) but he can't get to her.  Todd wants to talk to her.  Todd talks to his co worker that he feels hollow even with all the nice stuff he has, he wants love. (those arrows have side effects) 

What's the point of wanting a yacht if I can't marry it?/ Copyright Viacom CBS

            Todd can't sleep because he keeps having sexy 80's music dreams about her.  So he decides the next day to find  Bacchus, the god of wine making, because Cupid mentioned him earlier. Thankfully, he finds the god in the phone book.  (You can't do that on Bing)  He finds Bacchus and Cupid at a fancy dinner party.  He finds out that Cupid is depressed because he and a fury named Megaera (because we going Greek here) had split up and decides to help Cupid get back with her. 

I'm the god of business and wine/ Copyright ViacomCBS

             Todd the logical thing of using an incantation to get Megaera to show up. (She's not in the phone book, apparently)  She does (played by Carolyn Seymour)  and she seems angry. Anyway she's mad because she thinks Cupid wants to be with mortals (in the loving way). She was angry enough to turn the woman she thought Cupid wanted into a tree frog.   Anyway, Todd plays fix it by calling Bacchus to help him get Cupid and Megaera together to talk it out. (Inviting two gods into his office might be a bad idea) 

We're going to tear this office down/ Copyright Viacom CBS

         Cupid and Megaera after some yelling seem to make up (The little heart effect graphic helps)   and they stare into each other eyes for a long time then a long kiss.  After leaving them alone for awhile, he finds out they left out the window with the window washers.  Todd is annoyed  that he still has unrequited love.  Todd decides to do some comfort shopping and gets rear ended  and finds out that woman was the lady he met before and the sexy 80's music is back and loving happens.  The episode ends with these two kissing in the middle of the street. 

Here on Chopper5 we are showing you this couple kissing in the road, expect delays/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

            

        It's a pretty quirky and weird episode, but I do like how the main character kind of learned the point Cupid was giving him that he should try to maybe focus on things more than just his working life and fancy stuff that's a nice little touch.  The idea to have the Greek gods be modernized was pretty interesting, this segment had some charm to it and it was pretty entertaining for what it was.  

     That does it for now, tune in next time, when we try match making two strangers only to find out  that we shouldn't use arrows. 

            

The Lookback: Disney's One Saturday Morning / ABC Kids (Rewrite Edition)

The Flashback  ABC  Children's TV 

      Another one of our rewrites of a previously done post, continues with us looking at Disney's One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids once again. You can read our original post here.     So let's see if we can improve upon that one  and see what happens. 

        Disney's One Saturday Morning in sense starts the final trend of Saturday morning network kids programming.  This is also an example of how media was changing and ownerships were part of that.  On July 31, 1995, The Walt Disney Company announced it wanted to buy Capital Cities/ABC. (In hindsight, this may have been a bad idea)   Thus this eventually allowed in early 1996. I'm going to keep this to the block's relvantacy, or we'd be here all day. (Yes, thankyou)  Disney's children's tv focus was  The Disney Afternoon, but that block was dying. It had everything going against it in 1995, that would now both the WB and UPN having a kids block in the afternoon. These were stations that used to air the Disney afternoon; Fox Kids was also running.  It was dying, first the name then later the whole block. Meanwhile, Disney was also offering its programming on ABC and CBS already, along with The Disney Chanel, which comes into our story soon.  

     1996 was the setting year, like Disney bought ABC and was trying to figure out things. The Fall 1996 line up on ABC Sat AM was including some Disney made stuff, already. They had plans in the works. Enter, Peter Hastings, he had left Warner Bros and came to Disney and one of the things to bring in was  a new concept of a Saturday Morning block. 

“Disney and ABC had been looking for a way to frame Saturday morning to make it look different and set it apart from programming on other networks,” explains Hastings. “I thought of basing the show on the concept that Saturday mornings were different from the rest of the week, with each day represented by a special building...

                      ----Peter Hastings, 1997

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