The CW Midseason dates

The CW  Midseason 2018

    The CW has released when it's new series "Black Lighting" will start and the dates of series to return after their mid season breaks.  The Dates and times are as follows:

 note: alll the shows are returning unless other wise noted

Monday, January 1st
9PMET    Valor 

Friday, January 5th
8PM ET  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Tuesday, January 16th
8PMET  The Flash
9PMET  Black Lightning (new series premiere)

Wednesday, January 17th
8PMET  Riverdale
9PMET  Dynasty

Thursday, January 18th
8PMET  Supernatural
9PMET   Arrow

Friday, January 26th
9PMET Jane the Virgin

Dates for the season premieres of  "The Originals", "The 100"  , and "iZombie"  or the new series , "Life Sentence" have been announced as of yet.

Note 2: Dates and or times or subject to change


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The Lookback: Garfield's Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving  The Flashback 


     Following in the tradition of  comic strip series having animated specials and having a Thanksgiving special  continues.  This time with Garfield , our favorite orange Monday hating cat, gets to grace us for this holiday.

     The special first appeared on CBS  in 1989  and once again it Features Lorenzo Music as Garfield and we have Lou Rawls and Desirée Goyette with the songs,   so let's take a look at this Thanksgiving special.

      Garfield wakes up John for breakfast and after eating he sees the calendar says that it's Wednesday and he has to go to the vet , so he rips off the date and he sees that the next day is Thanksgiving.  They go to the store, but Jon still remembers that Garfield has to go the vet.  Jon also tries constantly asking the vet, Liz, out on a date.  Liz says Garfield is healthy but he's fat and has to go on a diet and she does accept  Jon's offer after he holds his breath for a long time. (that worked!)

Fine I'll go out with you just don't die in my office/ copyright Film Roman 

      Garfield starts his diet  and of course he doesn't like it.  He later gets into a fight with the scale and tries to steal the "good food" but keep s getting foiled by Odie , who was placed by Jon into monitoring Garfield. (Bet your dog can't do that)  The next day,  its Thanksgiving and Liz is coming over to the house.  Jon gets Thanksgiving stuff ready though not very well. Garfield tries to sabotage  some of the food.

Hey that sugar is a bit ruff / copyright Film Roman 

     Liz arrives at the house and Garfield tricks her and she recommends that he can get off his diet and  do some exercises instead.  Jon's dinner is ruined and he so under Garfield's recommendation calls his Grandma to fix it.  (that works )   Jon tries to entertain Liz by talking with her about Thanksgiving  while Grandma does her magic on the food. Jon finds it interesting that  Canada celebrates Thanksgiving in October.(shout out to Joshuaonline CA)   Dinner's done and she slips quietly out the door.
                           

'll carve Justice!/ Copyright Film Roman 

      Liz, Jon, Garfield  ,and Odie have their meal.   Liz seemed to enjoy it.   Odie has to go on the diet.
   
                                     

Nice spread / Copyright Film Roman 

       Garfield brings a great Thanksgiving special , and one thing I can say about Thanksgiving specials is that they seem a little harder to write.  I like how paced it is and brings a lot of good laughs.  The music is good.    I say this is a Thankgiving classic much like the "Peanuts" and its kind of sad none of the networks air it annually.

 Tune in Next time when we fund out Garfield has a cross over with the Peanuts for Thanksgiving.

But First These Messages : Cereal 2

But First These Messages

       We've done Cereal before , this is Cereal 2 : Part of your balanced breakfasto   ,because there is so much in the world of cereal commercials why not do more more more ?
So We will return  our episode of  Herman Munster vs Darth Vader  but first these messages...

     
   
   How are Lucky Charms made you ask?  Well magic!  Unlike other cereal made in some factory or something , Lucky Charms are made by magic and apparently  Lucky screwed up , but good thing the kids happen to be there to help.     All the colors got mixed up so they had to bring order with why ever balloons have to be red.

They would then use their color calling powers for evil. 

   

Did you know Lucky Charms are older than history? 

     
   This one gave me questions , first did those kids have their own portal? , second if so , how? , if not  how did they get a head of him?  Third, if they aren't the same kids , are they great times whatever grandparents, if so how'd they get glasses?  Also why did Lucky not just magic away the kids?

The kids , the dinosaurs, the leprechaun all of them who is delicious? 

  It's the Lucky Charms cross over I asked for! 

    
  Those kids decided to bother an innocent  Lucky he was just minding his own business.  He magics up a cottage and ends up with 3 bears, deal he steal a cottage?   Then he gives away lucky charms, what?

   We need to balance this breakfast out a little so..

 Poor rabbit he just wanted some Trix, give him some! Also how does cartoon milk taste?

This is a strange world 

   Trix are for painters 

So trix are for adults too then, because painters are usually adults, but not for rabbits?    Also how'd he do that with the pain. Also he didn't paint the house right.  So the rabbit doesn't have a name?

Don't cross us again rabbit!

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ABC's 25 Days of Christmas

ABC  Christmas 

EDIT : This was updated on December 6th to  add the announced encore of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" date and time. 
 Edit 2 : This was updated on December 8th to odd the announced broadcast of "Olaf's Frozen Adventure"

   This year the Walt Disney Company has decided to make the famous "25 Days of Christmas" event a company wide thing, so ABC will also use the branding.  We have the schedule for you.

Wednesday, November 22nd
10PMET  "Lights , Camera, Christmas!  Inside Holiday Movie  Classics"  (A 20/20 Special)

Friday, November 24th
8PMET  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town


Monday, November 27th
8PMET  CMA Country  Christmas

Thursday, November 30th
8PMET A Charlie Brown Christmas
9PMET  The Wonderful World of  Disney : Magical Holiday Celebration

Monday, December 4th
8PM-10PMET  The Great Christmas Light  Fight ( Season Premiere)  airing Mondays at 8/7c


Thursday, December 7th
8PMET  Shrek the Halls
8:30ET   Toy Story That Time Forgot
9PMET  The Great American Baking Show (Season Premiere)
(airs Thursdays 9pmet)

Saturday, December 9th
8PMET  Mary Poppins

Sunday, December 10th
7PMET  America's Funniest Home Videos
8PMET  The Wonderful World of Disney - Frozen


Tuesday, December 12th
8PMET The Middle (new Holiday episode)
8:30PM  Fresh Off the Boat  (New Holiday episode)
9PMET   Black-ish (New Holiday Episode)
9:30pm  The Mayor (New Holiday Episode)

Wednesday, December 13th
8:30PMET Speechless (New Holiday Episode)
9:31 PM  American Housewife (New Holiday Episode)

Thursday, December 14th
8PMET    Wonderful World of Disney Special : Olaf's Frozen Adventure
8:30PMET   Disney Prep and Landing

Saturday, December 16th
8PMET  I want a  Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown

Sunday, December 17th
7PMET The Sound of Music

Tuesday, December 19th
8:30pmet  PREP & LANDING 2: NAUGHTY VS. NICE

Wednesday, December 20th
10PMET A Special Edition of 20/20 : Christmas Cribs

Thursday, December 21st
8PMET  A Charlie Brown Christmas

Monday, December 25th
10AM ET Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration

Tuesday, December 26th
8PMET  Happy New Year, Charlie Brown
9PMET  Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Sunday, December 31st
8PMET  Dick Clark's  New Years Rockin' Eve


(all subject to change)

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The Lookback : Thanksgiving Dad

Disney Thanksgiving The Flashback 

     There aren't many Thanksgiving specials ,as I have  said before, but I always try to find something of interest  in television or other  media for the holiday. This time I delve in personally one of my favorite Disney animated series, Pepper Ann.  It's time to take a look at "Thanksgiving Dad"

   The episode is the tenth from season 1 in 1997 (so it's 20 years old)  and starts with Halloween. (Sure why not?)   Moose  and Pepper Ann get a call from their dad  and he says he has something planned for them on Thanksgiving. Meanwhile her and mother and her aunt are preparing for Thanksgiving. (That's hardcore planning there) 
         

You should see when they plan for Christmas/ Copyright Disney 

   It skips to November 11th where Lydia (Pepper Ann's mother) and her Aunt Janie are shopping for Thanksgiving. while Pepper Ann tells her sister that she thinks that their father is coming for Thanksgiving instead of calling as normal.    Then it skips to Thanksgiving Day. Pepper Ann is happy expecting her father's surprise.  She begins to expect that her father is coming to Thanksgiving.

This magazine told me.. don't look at me like that/ Copyright Disney 

    Pepper Ann counts the chairs around the table and sees there's an extra one thinking that  her mother is on  it - her father coming to dinner. Also there's a few Pepper Ann's father scenes where she imagines him doing a bunch of random things to get to her.  Meanwhile , Janie has to go out looking for more yams , but there are no yams.   Milo, Pepper Ann's Friend, tries to help her get over it and tells he's not coming. Though he's not helpful.
                       

I wear the same thing when I go shopping/ Copyright Disney 

   Lydia tells her what that extra place is for  that it's for her to join the adult table, but she isn't happy that her father is happy.  The turkey's burnt.  PepperAnn's dad calls and tells her and Moose to turn on the TV.  To find out that he is flying the Thanksgiving  Day parade blimp.

 Dad o vision /Copyright Disney

       That's the episode.   Some clean up notes : A lot of the episode has scenes where Pepper Ann imagines her father either at a diner, talking about her, or in the desert trying to contact her, or sky driving to their house. When watching the episode you can feel some of Pepper Ann's tension  as she waits for her father to show up. It's a feeling  I think many can feel when they are expecting someone or something to come but at the same time they don't know if they really are.  

     Of course since it's a comedy there are some funny moments.  I like the pacing of the episode it feels like a Thanksgiving Day. That's our lookback , tune in next time when we report from a blimp. 

CBS Holiday Specials

CBS  Holidays Christmas 

   CBS has released their holiday programming scheduling , of classic Christmas specials and more. Of course they also have the annual Thanksgiving parade as well.

Here's the full schedule

  Thanksgiving November 23rd:
  9AMET-12PMET / 8:00-11AMET CT/ 7-10AM MT / 9-12pmet delayed PT) 
  The Thanksgiving Day Parade

Friday, November 24th
8PM ET  Frosty the Snowman
8:30  ET  Frosty Returns
9PM ET  Grammy's  Greatest Stories : 60th Anniversary Specials

Saturday, November 25th
8PMET  Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
8:30 ET  Robbie the Reindeer :Legend of the Lost Tribe
9PM ET  The Story of  Santa Claus

Tuesday, November 28th
8PMET  Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
10PMET  The Victoria Secret Fashion Show

Wednesday, November 29th
10PMET  Bruno Mars :24 K Magic Live at the Apollo

Sunday, December 3rd
8PMET  Carol Burnett 50Th Anniversary Special

Friday, December 22nd
8PMET I love Lucy Christmas Special
9PMET  The  Dick Van Dyke show - Now in Living Color!

Tuesday, December 26th
9PMET  The 40th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

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Antenna TV Holiday Schedule

Antenna  TV  Classics  Thanksgiving Christmas 

     Antenna TV has released their holidays schedule.  Starting with Thanksgiving Weekend.  Antenna TV will be airing every single episode of "All in the Family" starting at 5AMET  on November 22nd running through November 26th. 

 Merry and  Bright Saturday Night 

For 3 Saturdays in December they will be having Christmas programming  from 7-10PMET on December 2nd, 9th, and 16th.  Programming will include holiday themed episodes of  Antenna TV series and some  holiday episodes of shows  joining the network in 2018 , like "Alice",  "Growing Pains", "The Hogan Family" , "Head of the Class" ,and "Murphy Brown".

From December 23rd to 25th  Christmas Through the  Years , Classic Christmas Collection, Scrooge : A Christmas Carol , and The Yule Log.

Starting at 1pmet  on Decmber 23rd  "Christmas Through the Years" a holiday episode from Antenna TV's shows  from 1954 to 2002 in order.  2:30PMET starting Decmber 24th  "Classic Christmas Collection"  with more classic holiday episodes also the 1951 movie "A Christmas Carol " at 12amet, and the  Yule Log Christmas morning. 

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But First These Messages: Power us Up

But First These Messages 


    Without batteries we wouldn't have anything portable really, and they really provide us a service that we take for granted. It's interesting . even though batteries are so big in our world, they still have to be advertised to us.

         Batteries ... But First these, messages.

 
    In the 1990's  Duracell envisioned a world  where plastic people obviously killed off all the humans and took over the world, but they had to be powered by batteries.  The Puttermans  appared in  Duracell ads between 1994 to 1996.

     

           I have some questions , how do they put the batteries in, or does someone have to put hte batteries in for them?
                Also batteries are their life force , yet the have to buy them?
                 Also did they kill that woman , or will they give her a new battery later?
          So many questions!

Hmm I think they killed her

                 

     

     In this world, even the pets are battery operated.  This is the future folks! Wake up ! (bonk on the head )

This bird later got a sitcom called Everybody loves Birdy. 

      That bird is annoying, was anyone else expecting one of them to take the battery out , I was kind of thinking that, maybe I have dark thoughts, it's that last commercial's fault!


       
 
      This commercial again makes me ask so many questions , like they can go in the water? Also the fish are battery powered , when they eat "meat" does that mean the batteries are taken and then they eat the food?

That's the face that's seen things 

                                 
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