CBS makes Subtle Change to Monday Line up

CBS TV News  TV Look fall 2016 

   CBS  has decided to make a change to their  Monday night line up , post Thursday Night Football.   The original schedule had the return of "Superior Donuts"  coming in at 9:30/8:30c, as  "Big Bang Theory" moves back to its Thursday home.  CBS decided to switch the time slot with  freshman comedy "Me.Myself, and I" meaning that program will be staying at 9:30/8:30c and "Superior Donuts" will be airing at 9/8c. Rest of the line up stays as planned with "Kevin Can Wait" moving an hour up to 8/7c and "9JKL  staying at  8:30/7:30c.

           Here's the new Monday Line up from October 30th
            8/7c  Kevin Can Wait
            8:30  9 JKL
           9/8C  Superior Donuts (Season 2 starting October 30th)
          9:30/8:30c  Me, Myself and I 

Thursday Line up starts November 2nd , staying the same (details here)

     

press release  after jump

CBS Announces Jeff Glor as "CBS Evening News Anchor"

TV NEWS   CBS 

    CBS News  has named  Jeff Glor as the anchor of CBS Evening News, replacing Scott Pelley who left the program in June of this year.  Anothy Mason, who was the interim anchor will still continue to be at CBS News anchoring , "CBS This Morning : Saturday" and their senior national correspondent.

  Glor  will the the youngest of the network news anchors at 42  (one year younger than David Muir) .He previously anchored "CBS Evening News" on weekends until 2016.   

   His start date has not been full announced yet, but CBS says it will be later this year. 


press release after the Jump

Into the Twilight : Can we have a little peace and quiet

The Flashback 

    We've looked at an episode of  the 2002 version of "The Twilight Zone" already  so, I guess it's time to take a look at an episode  of the 1985 series.  The 1985 series ran for 3 seasons , 2 on CBS and 1 in the golden age of first run syndication.  The episodes were an hour long (with commercials) and usually broken up into 2 or segments.  We are taking a look at one of those segments and from the first episode.   This one called  "A Little Peace and Quiet" 

       This episode stars Melinda  Dillon (who you may remember from "A Christmas Story")  as a housewife who defiantly is over worked and stressed.  It starts with her hectic morning  with her three daughter , son, and husband. Everything seems to be going wrong and the narrator asks wouldn't it be nice to have everyone just shut up , if you had the power would you use it? 

"Hmm I could kill them all right now" 

         That will be are plot : I think either our main character kills her family or gets a special power to make her not hear people anymore. (the title implies so many things)  A little later that day, she gardens  and when digging holes in the yard she finds a box in the  hole and of course she opens it and finds a little necklace with a medallion on it.   She goes in the house and puts it on.  The rest of her day goes bad still because why not?  (Bet you she wishes her biggest problem was a leg lamp)  Penny continues to be annoyed by her kids and husband (one of her daughters cry over spilled mil)  so she decides to tell everyone to shut up and they do. They froze in time.

"Hey the listened too me , it must be magic" 

      Penny is surprised by this (If this was a different show , I would have been more surprised, because I thought she was going to murder them).  She figures out  that the necklace has magical time control powers.  Having these powers means she can have a little fun with them.   I do notice something in the background of this they are tidbits of news media reporting on I guess USA and Russia relations , I didn't mention it at first , I thought it was just being a time piece but honestly it appears a couple more times and it seems to be part of the episode in some way.    The morning she decides to have breakfast with her family frozen so it's a little peace and quiet.
     

They are stuck in the 80's  

       I am kind of sad that she doesn't move things around or something that would be what I'd expect but alright. When she's at the grocery store she uses her new power to umm get the last box of a cereal her kids  wanted  away from another woman and sticks money in a man's mouth to pay for the stuff she got. (at least she didn't use her powers for evil?)   Then  checks out a man. (what?)

Umm what's going on here?  

       Two folks from non pop the people who want to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Penny says she doesn't want to attend their debate. The man from Non Pop tries to get her to care about the subject but instead she freezes time and  drags the  the woman  and man on to her yard. (then kills them?)   They get surprised as to how they are on the ground  and run away.  A little later on the Soviets have released a missile and nuclear  war  between the US and Russia has started.   This silly episode about a woman wanting some quiet and getting some magic time powers has really gotten dark.  I guess the episode was foreshadowing though.  Then she yells shut up  multiple times  and freezes everything.  Penny wanders through the frozen town  where all the cars and people are jumbled up and there's a giant missile frozen in the sky.  The end.


             The first episode all together , including  "Shatterday" and this one were directed by Wes Craven , so I am really surprised he didn't have Penny killing her entire family.    Much like the original series this segment was harking back to the worries of nuclear weapons and the arms race between the United States and Russia, (the cold war was long enough that it spans two Twilight Zone series 20 years apart.)    It also harks  back to episodes of the original series about stopping time , wanting peace and quiet (you know the episode with the man who just wants to read his book) , and episodes about nukes. 

  There's also this :
   

I see what you did there. 

     Now the episode leaves before we know if Penny made a decision to end the world or live alone for the rest of her life in quiet while everyone else is frozen but the world is saved.  

Halloween : Pumpkin Heads are scary

Halloween 

    It's that time of year again  (Yep,the countdown to Christmas is on!) and since it is the near Halloween  guess it would be good to look at some Halloween or Halloween-related stuff.

    R.L Stine is famous for his book series : "Goosebumps" which also had a TV series, The Nightmare Room, which also had a TV Series,  Mostly Ghoslty , which had a TV movie,  Fear Street, and more. He likes his horror and spooky I guess.   Since this is a television related blog we will be look at the television side and this maybe a series you may have not heard of from R.L Stine called "The Haunting Hour: The Series" based off his other series this first was a movie called "The Haunting Hour: Don't think about it"  This was  series that started in 2010 on the new Hub Network (at the time it was new ... and existed)  this series even though it was on a channel marketed  toward kids and families said that didn't mean it couldn't get dark.  (There's  a Christmas episode I may have to talk about in the future.)

         This time I am going to look at a Halloween themed episode from season called "Pumpkinhead".

     Please note there are spoilers ahead , but I'll try to minimize the amount of them.  

        The episode starts with a telephone post holding a picture of a missing child  (already dark and I guess foreshadowing).  It's Halloween day ,two brothers named Scott and Dave and their sister, Allie, are ready for Halloween and their mom has to work that evening so their sister is in charge. The school is doing a trick or treat event which apparently, is  a surprise to the mother who mentions that something happened last year. (What? please tell me!)  Scott is unhappy that he's 14 and can't go out on his own after dark. (I think he more un happy that he can't go out not the 14 part, though maybe)  He says that some kid went missing last year ruined his fun. ( Yeah poor him)

  

Darn kid, maybe you should go missing! / Copyright The Hatchery 

     Anyway, Scott suggests to his brother on how to get a real pumpkin not that tiny one his mother gave him - go to a farm that's not open the public and take one of their's!  (what?)  Allie thinks it's a bad idea.  So he convinces her that if they go he won't bother her or her friend that evening and she agrees. (that was easy.)  The scary music seems to suggest this was a bad idea.  

You know what, sis, it's a great day for stealing/ copyright The Hatchery

    Eventually a man comes out and catches them and yells at them and makes them go away. (He's convinced me)  Scott decides  to take a couple pumpkins from the farm  on their way out. (That maybe a bad idea and the music agrees)  While back at home Scott is still annoyed that he is going to the school for trick or treating and suggests that they should go back to the farm and have "real fun." Allie says no to that. She also finds out that her friend can't come over all.  Scott says the whole town is taking the fun out of Halloween.  Dave opens the pumpkins and finds worms in it. (oops) Scott opens the other one and it seems normal but Dave notices a tooth. (Aww that Pumpkin is losing it's baby teeth it's growing up!)  Scott thinks it's a trick by the farmer and wants to go back to play some tricks on him, but Allie once again says no.
                                 

I think there's something unusual about these pumpkins/copyright The Hatchery

more after the jump

Freeform's Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas Schedule 2017

Freeform  Christmas 

   Freeform has announced  their  annual "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas" programming  which runs around the week of Thanksgiving.   This year it starts on November 18th  until November 30th.  This year also includes Freeform's  premiere of  "Inside Out" , they are also airing "Snow Day" , a new original movie:  "Angry Angel"  and Freeform's premiere of  "Four Christmases". 
 
   The Full 25 Days of Christmas schedule will be out on later on.

Here's the schedule 


Saturday, November 18
7am/6c 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
7:35am/6:35c Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
9:45am/8:45c Frosty's Winter Wonderland
10:20am/9:20c Hook
1:35pm/12:35c Jack Frost (1998)
3:40pm/2:40c The Year Without a Santa Claus
4:45pm/3:45c Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
6:55pm/5:55c Despicable Me
9pm/8c The Freeform Premiere of Inside Out
11:05pm/10:05c Home Alone
1:30am/12:30c 'Twas the Night Before Christmas



Sunday, November 19
7am/6c Frosty's Winter Wonderland
7:35am/6:35c The Year Without a Santa Claus
8:40am/7:40c Dennis the Menace Christmas
10:50am/9:50c Jack Frost (1998)
1pm/12c Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
3:05pm/2:05c Despicable Me
5:10pm/4:10c Home Alone
7:40pm/6:40c Inside Out
9:45pm/8:45c Elf
11:55pm/10:55c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Monday, November 20
7:30am/6:30c Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
11am/10c Jack Frost (1979)
12pm/11c Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
2pm/1c Arthur Christmas
4pm/3c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
6:10pm/5:10c Elf
8:20pm/7:20c The Incredibles
12am/11c Richie Rich's Christmas Wish



Tuesday November 21
7:30am/6:30c Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
11am/10c Rudolph's Shiny New Year
12pm/11c Arthur Christmas
2:05pm/1:05c Dennis the Menace (1993)
4:10pm/3:10c Matilda
6:15pm/5:15c The Incredibles
8:55pm/7:55c Despicable Me
12am/11c Jack Frost (1998)

Wednesday, November 22
7:30am/6:30c Christmas Bounty
12pm/11c Jack Frost (1998)
2:05pm/1:05c Matilda
4:10pm/3:10c Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
6:45pm/5:45c Despicable Me
8:50pm/7:50c Elf
12am/11c Boxtrolls



Thanksgiving - Thursday, November 23
7am/6c Home Alone
11:30am/10:30c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1:35pm/12:35c Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4:10pm/3:10c Home Alone
6:40pm/5:40c Elf
8:50pm/7:50c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12am/11c Arthur Christmas

Harry Potter Weekend - Friday, November 24
7:30am/6:30c Arthur Christmas
11am/10c Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
12:30pm/11:30c Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4pm/3c Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8pm/7c Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
12am/11c Jack Frost (1998)

Saturday, November 25
7am/6c Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10:30am/9:30c Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2:30pm/1:30c Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5:40pm/4:40c Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
9:20pm/8:20c Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
12:30am/11:30c Tom Felton Meets the Superfans

Sunday, November 26
7am/6c Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10:40am/9:40c Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
1:50pm/12:50c Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince
5:30pm/4:30c Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
9pm/8c Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
12am/11c Home Alone

Monday, November 27
7am/6c Home Alone
11am/10c Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince
2:30pm/1:30c Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
6pm/5c Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
9pm/8c - Premiere of Angry Angel - A New Freeform Original Movie
12am/11c Snowglobe

Tuesday, November 28
7:30am/6:30c Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
12:30pm/11:30c Snowglobe
2:35pm/1:35c The Mistle-Tones
4:40pm/3:40c Angry Angel
6:45pm/5:45c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
8:55pm/7:55c Freeform Premiere of Four Christmases
12am/11c The Mistle-Tones

Wednesday, November 29
7:30am/6:30c Jack Frost (1998)
11am/10c Freeform Premiere of Snow Day
1pm/12c Hook
4:15pm/3:15c National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
6:25pm/5:25c Four Christmases
8:30pm/7:30c Home Alone
12am/11c Jack Frost (1998)

Thursday, November 30
7:30am/6:30c Snow Day
11am/10c Hook
2:15pm/1:15c Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
4:20pm/3:20c The Nightmare Before Christmas
6pm/5c Home Alone
8:30pm/7:30c Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
12am/11c Snow

The Lookback : Freaky Friday (no not that one, no not that one either)

The Flashback 

    If I ever published a list of favorite movies, on that list there would be Freaky Friday, but the 1976 version (The Jodie Foster Version) , it's one of my favorite movies, and defiantly one of my favorite Disney movies.   Now in 2003, they did another one, staring Lindsey Lohan.  All these are adapations of a book of the same name written by Mary Rodgers. Disney seemed to love her book they adapted it 3 times.  The body switch story line is a fun one to play around with, though it has to be executed in a good way.  It does open a lot of possibility for plot and complete chaos because it's hard to be someone else.

  The basic story of Rodgers' book was a 13 year old girl named  Annabel Andrews just thinks that her mother has an easy life and is out to make hers miserable. She and her mother Ellen , switch bodies.  In the book Ellen was unseen for most of it, but the movies didn't really follow that.  (Honestly though , you hire  Jamie Lee Curtis or Barbra Harris  you aren't going to hide them)


    At the top there,  I said  really loved this book, because they remade it 3 times, also after starting this post I found out that Disney is going to make it again , as a musical for Disney Channel . In speaking of musicals, Disney did make this a stage musical to. But you are saying three? maybe? Right well yes, three.  In the 90's Disney decided to make a television movie for ABC also called "Freaky Friday" based off the same book.    I remember this movie running on Disney Channel, Hallmark Channel ran it few times, and maybe ABC family not sure on that one.    So of course this fits into Joshuaonline's  obscurity remit (that's not a real thing) because that's what we are looking at this time.

         For disclosure I am not going to compare it to the book or past film or the film after it  because  that would be much, at least in full.   I am going to talk about the movie this movie by itself.  But I will mention what i think is a common structure for this story and a few other things that may refrence the book or past movie as well. (What?)

         Freaky Friday (1995) came out in May on the ABC network.(Which Disney was in the process of buying)  as part of the "The Wonderful World of Disney".  It stared  Shelly Long , who you may know as Diane from Cheers and Gaby Hoffamn who was a child star in the movies  : "Sleepless in Seattle" , and still is acting to this day.

       The movie starts with  the family having a normal morning with Ellen busy on the phone, Annabelle and her little brother, Ben having typical morning.   Also Ellen is dating a man named Bill and the kids don't seem to like him. (This movie is the 90's)  . We also found out their father and mother divorced years ago.   (It was kind of just dropped that info when Annabelle tells her brother that  their mom and dad have been divorced for years , as if he didn't already know? When he says that they should get back together. ) 

                              

      Ellen's day is followed around for a little while : it's a stressful day at work, meanwhile, Annabelle has to pick a new replacement for a swimmer for the swim meet the next day, since one of the other girls can't do it. The coach would rather Annabelle pick than herself.   Annabelle is stuck between picking the popular girl , Elaine , and another girl named Jackie who well isn't popular because 90's movie.    Ellen and Annabelle start a light argument with each other  and they go both into how their lives are stressful and the other doesn't understand.  That evening, Bill is there and brought some talismans. One is for ,Ellen the other for Annabelle and he says that they are supposed to be powered by thoughts.( Gee , I wonder how they will switch bodies.)  

Evil?  / Copyright Disney 

        The next day is Friday the 13th , yes first 10 minutes of the movie take place on a Thursday the 13th.  Ellen recommends that Annabelle wear the talisman.  She does end up putting it on.  When  Ellen leaves to her meeting , Annabelle and her make the same exact wish  at the same time thus causing our Freaky Friday body switch.   They are both confused by what's going on  (who wouldn't ?)   as (pause : I am going to refer  to Annabelle as Annabelle even though she's in Ellen's body and same is true for Ellen , makes it easier on the mind.) they trying figure out how to get through the day.  

                                         

   I have same facial expression when I switch bodies too/ Copyright Disney 

       Since it's Freaky Friday , the movie goes through our main characters  trying to figure out what  they are to do.   To hit more at some of the plot points  would make this easier . So Ellen makes the decision to pick Jackie over Elaine  in the swim meet.  Ellen also starts a science riot and stops a frog dissection and gets detention.  Annabelle has to fire one of her Mom's employees.    Also while switched they of course learn more about each other too, which again fits with the Freaky Friday story line. 

more after the jump 

Reboot Me Baby : Hey Herman Munster, you look different

Reboots  The Lookback 

    The recent trend for TV has been to take things you liked in the past and bring them back in many different forms. Reboot or Remake the whole thing again, with varied effects and viewer reception, Hey you remember that show you watched in the 90's ? Let's bring that back with a new season , shows are never cancels now just really long hiatus I guess. The final thing is take a series you watched and now give them a years later spin off maybe focus on some other characters or something.    

           The  Munsters  experienced what "Girl Meets World". "Fuller House", and "Raven's Home" are today , they had a series continuation too called "The Munsters Today" which a) literally  had the main characters come out from being knocked out for 22 years and waking up in 1988. (Imagine if they did that for  Fuller House, everyone wakes up in 2015 exactly the same as they were in 1996 -- meaning different actors --  that would be something.)    It did score one victory , it had two more episodes than the original series.  We aren't talking about that this time.   A few weeks ago there was a news report that someone is interested in remaking the Munsters, hopefully they won't be  waking up from a 25 year slumber.  In 2012, which was 21 years after "The Munsters Today" ended  NBC decided to dip their toes into this series  and well... that's our topic this time.

       In 2012, NBC aired a pilot of a new "Munsters" concept they had called "Mockingbird Lane" named after the street the Munsters lived on. This may have been a sign.   This pilot aired on October 26th , 2012 , The Friday before Halloween.

   It starts with spooky music, then boy scouts. The boy scouts food has been all eaten up and they don't know why. ( I don't what this has to do with the Munsters) Apparently they think one of the kids ate the food until they see a random animal in the forest and attacks their Scout Master. (I'm sorry we must have picked up the wrong recording, this doesn't seem right.)  The Werewolf ,as seen later, scares everyone (and the Scout master is alright so guess not too attacked) into a car one of the boys asks where's Eddie Munster? (I guess we are  on the right show after all)  The show plays a cut of the famous theme over a naked  I  guess that's Eddie Munster as it zooms into the show's title.

           Meanwhile, a lady  whom I guess is Marilyn  is buying a house  and apparently 1312 Mockingbird Lane  she looks across the screen and really wants 1313. (Well they did that right.)
Up next  they just get mean. They revival Herman Munster and in 5 seconds you go from oooh yeah to oh no!

oh Yes!  Woo Hoo there's Herman / Copyright Universal television 

oh come on!   /Copyright Universal Television 

       This also goes along with Eddie not looking like a werewolf, but apparently he changes into one but doesn't seem aware of it.   Since  Eddie was that werewolf at the beginning,  they decided to move before anyone figured it out. (That makes sense?)  The house on the other hand  does have the opening stair case so 5 points there.  Eddie says his grandfather told him that he has a condition much like how they talk of Marilyn but Eddie wants to be normal.  Even though Herman doesn't look like Herman he is made up of different people's body parts and has the stitch marks it just seems to be a more they found different head for him.  They use more that old Munsters theme in there as the seen transitions.

Wonder what we can keep down here? / Copyright Universal Television 

 
      Grandpa shows up next apparently as a bunch of mice  ( I guess that makes sense than just showing up in person. While Lilly also shows up  as cloud and turns into herself and spiders dress her up. (What did I just write?)   Herman doesn't want Eddie to know what he is while, Lilly does.

       Another day , Eddie is starting his new school and his family tries to talk around him about his little issue , so he doesn't know and he goes to school  and figures out that his father is lying to him about something. Herman turns around after seeing Eddie off and his heart does something and he collapses. (with some up beat background music.)    The next scene  , new fake out : they have this all set up where  lightning is used  and they make you think that they are maybe recharging Herman , but nope it's Grandpa's I-pad ( Apple is weird).   Anyway in Grandpa's lab  Herman wakes up and finds that Grandpa has replaced his heart with a robotic one , this displeases Herman who wants his regular heart back.  Grandpa does so  and says that he should tell Eddie the truth now.

First you tease us now you taunt us , show / copyright Universal Television 

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TV Look Fall 2017: Network Premieres for the week of 9-25 to 10/1

TV Look Fall 2017    NBC ABC  CBS  FOX  

   This is a re-purposing of our individual network  premiere date schedule dates and times posts
which can still be found here (NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, the CW).  Here are the premiere dates and times for the week of September 25th to October 1st (always subject to change) .
all times ET/PT (adjust -1 hr for CT/MT/AKT/HT,)

 Monday, September 25th 

 ABC

10PM The Good Doctor (Series Premiere)

CBS

8PM Big Bang Theory
8:30 Young Sheldon (sneak peak)
9PM Kevin Can Wait
9:30PM ME,Myself & I (series premire)
10PM Scorpion

NBC

8PM The Voice
10PM The Brave (New Series)

FOX

No season or Series Premieres this day 

The CW 

No New Season or Series Premieres until October 9th