ABC releases Fall Premiere Dates for 2018 Fall Season

ABC  Primetime TVLookFall2018 

  ABC has released it's fall programming premiere dates  with , of course, some changes from their upfront in May.   First, the replacement for Roseanne with "The Conners" will start in the fall  on October 16th.   That same night the rest of ABC's Tuesday night line up starts as well. after  the first couple weeks are extra episodes of "Dancing With the Stars"  and The "American Music Awards" on October 9th.   

  Here's the premiere dates in full , all times ET 

Monday, September 24th 

8PM  Dancing With the Stars (Season Premiere) 

10PM  The Good Doctor (Season Premiere) 

Wednesday, September 26th 

8PM The Goldbergs (season premiere) 

8:30  American Housewife  (season premiere , new time) 

9PM  Modern Family (season premiere) 

9:30PM  Single Parents (series premiere) 

10PM   A Million Little Things (series premiere) 

Thursday, September 27th 

8-10PM  Grey's Anatomy (2 hour season premiere)  

10PM   How to Get Away with Murder (season premiere) 

Sunday, September 30th 

7PM  America's Funniest Home Videos (season premiere) 

Thursday, October 4th 

9PM  Station 19 (Season Premiere) 

Friday, October 5th 

8PM  Fresh off the Boat (season premiere, new day and time ) 

8:30PM Speechless  (season premiere) 

9PM Child Support (season premiere, new time) 

Sunday, October 7th 

8PM  Dancing with the Stars :Juniors (series premiere; 2 hours) 

10PM  Shark Tank (Season Premiere) 

Sunday ,October 14th 

10PM  The Alec Baldwin Show (Series premiere) 

Tuesday, October 16th 

8PM The Conners  (Series Premiere) 

8:30PM The Kids are Alright (series premiere) 

9PM  Black-ish (Season Premiere) 

9:30PM  Splitting up Together (season premiere) 

10PM The Rookie (series premiere) 

Press release after the jump

One Shot Posts: Girls Last Tour Episode 5

One Shot Posts   Anime 

   Some things don't fit into anywhere else  on this blog or we don't have enough to talk about a whole series or whatever. This is One Shot Posts were we can talk about an episode of something random , aspects of a show even a random detail we notice, or something like that. Or just a chance to be off the cuff and try something new. 

     We look at an anime called "Girls' Last Tour" it came out in 2017 and boiled down to three sentences.  It's a show takes place during an apparently  post-apocalyptic world where most of the people are gone. Instead of show about our main characters trying to fight off monsters,zombies, or other people because the world ended, they have are focused on getting around and finding food and surviving.   Yuuri and Chito are the main (only) characters of all the episodes, sometimes they run into other people but mostly it's just them.  

     I decided to talk about episode 5 because it  looks at things we kind of take for granted. Episodes in this series are divided into 2 or 3 segments  that may or may not connect.  In this episode we have three : "House" , "Nap", and 'Sound of Rain.   

      In House  Yuuri and Chito are traveling  past some houses where people used to live but don't now.  In this series if you choose to watch the whole thing, the two girls don't know a lot about things we know because they've not experienced them or have a remembrance of them , themselves. So  Yuuri or Yuu (the blonde girl ) wonders what houses were used for and Chito or Chi (pronounced chee) (the dark haired girl) explains that people couldn't live without a house. They find a room and enter it.   Chi remarks that it's nice to have an actual room and four walls surrounding you.  Then they imagine stuff in the room like a bunk bed, bookshelf, a pantry, and more until the room looks very nice. 

      It gives a beautiful feeling of warmth and happiness  that many do experience at home the room they imagine isn't too grand or nothing too out of place but it is something they don't have.  Most people don't think about this because of what we have now , that see these sort of things all the time in our own homes with tables, chairs, beds, and etc.  Sadly, the images were just in their heads and the room returns to its more bairn state.  The next day they get back on their Kattenrad and travel on.   Yuu remakes that road is their house  and she imagines a roof on the Kattenrad but Chi, kills this. 

  

      Does make one thing about our characters as Chi remarked about how they can't stay there anyway because they'd run out of food, that the whole focus for them is their survival. They have to move on  even if they didn't want to.  

        In Nap   it gets surreal.  Since Yuu and Chi have had a long night they end up taking a nap. Chito has some strange dream, One where Yuu grows huge but still herself and makes her fall into the water because why not?  Then she imagines Yuuri as a giant fish who wants to eat her. She wakes up from that strangeness before she gets eaten.  She looks at Yuu dreaming of eating food because she really likes food and Chi stuffs a rock in Yuu's mouth.   Not much to opine on in the segment but it was fun and surreal.

    

    In Sound of Rain   I love how the show looks in general great imagery and sound usage  this segment uses that to the fullest. It's raining and the duo take cover to let the storm pass.  Yuu finds a metal stick and decides to hit it against a beam to hear its sound.  Yuu takes collects some water and hears the sound of the dripping on the floor and decides to see what happens when it hits her helmet. They take some other objects and position it around dripping spots. They enjoy the sounds it makes.  Chito says this is maybe what is called music, Yuu wonders what music is.    The credits play with the music made and some singing to give it a nice effect.  It comes back to them when the rain stops which also ends the music.

   

       The simplicity of the rain even it can make something grand like music. It was calm relaxing segment that kind of just takes a breath and shows the simplicity of what's around us.

 I picked this episode to show how well even something simple can be a fun and well done story and how a show can get to feel into its emotions very well.  I say give the whole series a chance if you haven't seen it already.. You can stream in the US on Amazon Prime streaming.   

2018 Primetime Emmy Nominations

Awards  Emmys 

   The 70th Prime time Emmy Awards  nominations have been announced.  The Awards show airs on NBC on Monday, September 17th at 8pmet/ 5pt

Outstanding  Drama Series 

The Americans
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman
Sterling K. Brown
Ed Harris
Matthew Rhys
Milo Ventimiglia
Jeffrey Wright

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Claire Foy
Tatiana Maslany
Elisabeth Moss
Sandra Oh
Kerri Russell
Evan Rachel Wood

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson
Ted Danson
Larry David
Donald Glover
Bill Hader
William H. Macy

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon
Lily Tomlin
Allison Janney
Tracee Ellis Ross
Issa Rae
Rachel Brosnahan

Outstanding Children's Program

Alexa and Katie 

Fuller House 

The Magical Wand Chase : A Sesame Street Special 

A Series of Unfortunate Events 

Star Wars Rebels 

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Project Runway
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice

Outstanding  Animated Program

Baymax Returns  : Big Hero 6: The Series) 

V For Valentine-detta: Bob's Burgers 

Pickle Rick :  Rick and Morty 

Gone Boy : The Simpsons 

Put It Down : South Park 

Outstanding Short Form Animated Program 

Ring of Fire : Adventure Time 

Freshly Baked : The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special :Special Edition: Robot Chicken 

Jungle Moon : Steven Universe 

The Self Indulgent 200th Episode spectacular!: Teen Tians Go! 

Hurricane Hal : We Bare Bears 

Outstanding Variety Talk Series
The Daily Show
Full Frontal
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight
The Late Late Show
The Late Show

Outstanding Comedy Series
Atlanta
Barry
Black-ish
Curb Your Enthusiasm
GLOW
The Marvelous Ms. Maisel
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Outstanding Limited Series
Genius: Picasso
Godless
Patrick Melrose
The Alienist
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie
Jessica Biel
Laura Dern
Michelle Dockery
Edie Falco
Regina King
Sarah Paulson

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie
Antonio Banderas
Darren Criss
Benedict Cumberbatch
Jeff Daniels
John Legend
Jesse Plemons

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
At Home with Amy Sedaris
Drunk History
I Love You, America
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
The Tracey Ullman show

 full list of nominees here. (pdf) 

My NetworkTV's fall schedule 2018

My Network TV  TVLookFall2018

       The Fox owned programming service , My Network TV,  has released its  schedule  for the 2018-19 season.  It continues its model of syndicated shows in prime time with new additions of  "Chicago P.D , CSI : Miami, and "The Good Wife" , while "Dateline" and "Law and Order CI" continue in the new season.  Shows leaving are : "Law and Order SVU", "American Ninja Warrior" , and "The X Files".

 Here's the new schedule premiere dates  all times ET

Monday, September 24th
8PM  Law and Order CI
9PM   Law and Order CI

Tuesday, September 25th
8PM  Chicago P.D
9PM  Chicago P.D

Wednesday, September 26th
8PM   Dateline
9PM   Dateline

Thursday, September 27th
8PM  The Good Wife
9PM  The Good Wife

Friday, September 28th
8PM   CSI: Miami
9PM  CSI: Miami


also note: many My Network TV stations airs  My Network TV programming at a different time place, for  example : KRON-TV in  the Bay Area airs it from 11pm -1am PT. So check your listings.

CBS Release Fall 2018 Premiere Dates

CBS TVLookFall2018 

   CBS has released their fall schedule.   CBS will start  their new season on September 24th but with the premieres of "The Big Bang Theory" and "Young Sheldon" which is unexpected since Thursday Night Football is gone. (On CBS)   They will air that Monday Night at 8pmet  for that hour.  Following that they are airing the premiere of the remake of "Magnum P.I"  at 9PMET..  With "Bull" will premiere at 10pmet.

     Do you like "Big Bang Theory" and "Young Sheldon" a lot?  Well CBS will air new episodes the same week on their normal Thursday Night slots.  They will also start airing the new season of Mom and the new season of "Murphy Brown" during that 9pmet Hour.

Here's the full details with slots, all times ET
Monday, September 24th
8PM  The Big Bang Theory (season premiere)
8:30   Young Sheldon (season premiere)
9PM    Magnum P.I (series premiere)
10PM   Bull (Season premiere/ New Time period)

Tuesday, September 25th
8PM  NCIS (season premiere)
9PM   FBI (series premiere)
10PM  NCIS :New Orleans (Season Premiere)

Wednesday, September 26th
8-9:30PM  Survivor (season premiere)
9:30-11pm   Big Brother (season fianle)

Thursday, September 27th
8PM   The Big Bang Theory (new episode/regular time)
8:30   Young Sheldon  (new episode/ regular time)
9PM  Mom (season premiere)
9:30pm Murphy Brown (season Premiere)
10pm  S.W.A.T (Season premiere)

Friday, September 28th
8PM Macgyver (Season Premiere)
9PM  Hawaii Five-O (season premiere)
10PM   Blue Bloods  (season premiere)

Saturday, September 29th
8PM  Crimetime Saturday
9PM    48 Hours (2 hour premiere)

Sunday, September 30th
7:30PM- 60 Minutes (season premiere)
8:30PM  God Friended Me (series premiere)
9:30PM   NCIS: Los Angeles (season premiere)
   (these times are mostly ET/CT usage due to NFL Doubleheader  may start at top of the hour in the MT and PT time zones)

Monday, October 1st
8PM  The Neighborhood (Series Premiere)
8:30   Happy Together (Series premiere)
9PM   Magnum P.I (new episode)
10PM  Bull (new episode)

Wednesday, October 3rd
8PM  Survivor (Regular Time Period )
9PM   Seal Team (Season Premiere)
10PM  Criminal Minds (season premiere)

Saturday, October 6th
8PM  Crimetime Saturday (new)
9PM  Crimetime  Saturday (new)
10pm  48 Hour (regular time)

Sunday, October 7th
7PM  60 Minutes (regular time period )
8PM  God Friended Me (Regular Time Period)
9PM   NCIS: LA (Regular Time Period)
10PM Madam Secretary (season premiere)


note: all times subject to change.

Press release after the jump

We look at Stitch.

Anime  Lilo and Stitch 

       Flashing back to my Powerpuff Girls Z  lookback , I ended it with this line
             

         That's our lookback and tune  in next time when we find out that Lilo has left Stitch and now Stitch has  moved on to a different country and a new girl.

                       I knew what I was doing there, and was actually planning this much sooner than over 2 years later, but better late and well thought out then early and messy.  So the theme of this is related to that Powerpuff Girls Z  in that we are looking a another  American cartoon series being made into an anime.  I did like Powerpuff Girls Z  and think it was  a fun adaptation series , will this be the same?  (Who Knows?)

        "Lilo and Stitch" is a popular Disney movie that came and 2002 and it was popular and then spawned sequels and a television series.  So after the final episode and TV movie came out in 2006 , Lilo and Stitch kind of just stopped , but still popular there was nothing more the whole thing, then again that's not a bad thing.  But apparently, there were other plans.

       Walt Disney Television  International (so at least, someone didn't just try to make an anime knock off) , TV Tokyo , and Madhouse (For those that aren't anime inclined they are a major studio in the anime business)  all go together to create "Stitch!".  This series ran from 2008 to 2011 with 83 episodes and 3 specials.

       Going back to "Powerpuff Girls Z" a second, that series took the American show and aged up the characters, made them not sisters, not related to the professor, and normal girls that happened to get hit with 'z-rays'.  That's a change , now back to my line from the end that started this, "Lilo has left Stitch and has moved to a different country and a new girl.", that's what this anime is in a short amount of words. 

    In episode 1   this whole series kind of wipes out the whole thing "Lilo and Stitch" was about , family, even as the series showed a weird family like Lilo's with her sister being her parental figure, and also having 3 aliens in the family. That  they are family and always stick together. This episode  obliterates that.    In fact that means the whole series obliterates that. It's not an alternate take of L&S it's like a continuation. Jumba mentions that Stitch is running away because as he says, "...just because little girl,Lilo, has new boyfriend now and is all washed up with 6-2-6 is no reason to act bad. "   So yes Stitch left Lilo because Lilo has a new boyfriend and isn't paying attention to Stitch. (What?)  That's what I got from that part , but  I'll say something else down later on that frames this differently. (so stick with us , please)

Yuna and Stitch / Copyright Disney and Madhouse 

          Now that new girl part.  There's a girl named Yuna  who lives In Japan or close enough to it  and who is 10 years old (ages up to 11 in one of the seasons) and likes karate.  She's an alright and actually a good character.   So Stitch crashes into her Island part of Japan  and eventually the end up meeting in this episode.  She tries to "arrest" Stitch  then they fall in the water. This series does remember that Stitch can't swim and of course Yuna saves him.  Later there's a thunderstorm and the find a shelter and she's afraid of thunder. Stitch shows once again how sweet he is and comforts her. ( awww)  After the storm , Yuna's grandmother finds them and there's a stone that can grant wishes and Stitch wants to be ruler of the universe. ( Ehhh I wouldn't mind that) The grandmother tells Stitch that he has to prove he is worthy by doing good deeds.  Stitch decides he will stay them and Yuna is going to help  They are also going with the dog cover story thing.  We got a new phrase to replace Ohana  , it's  Ichariba Choodee  as Yuna says it means "Meet ones cousins forever". Also poor Ghantu doesn't get a break , at the end of "Leroy and Stitch" he gets to become part of the Galactic Federation but apparently he gets dishonorably discharged before this series starts and he's back to working for Hamsterveil.


     Episode 2: Are Jumba and Pleakly in this series  ?   I am not going to give everything that happens in an episode just to make this easier. But yes Jumba and Pleakly are in this series.  But first, Yuna does start her helping Stitch with his good deeds.  Yuna does stay with her grandma but that's because her father is away she gets a postcard from him and he won't be coming home when he planned because he got a new job.  Jumba and Pleakly are tasked with spying on Stitch to make sure he acts correctly.  As I said before, this series has this it's "arc" like Lilo and Stitch the Series' task was for them to find the other experiments made by Jumba.  Jumba made Stitch a  good deeds counter. (We are getting our 100 deeds for Eddie McDowd mixed up  in our Lilo Yuno and Stitch)  I am watching the dub for reference but Stitch has really upped his English speaking  (or Japanese in the other version) or something.  They didn't get the same voice actor of Stitch to speak in this series for the dub, but he did sound close. (Still minus 5 pts for not getting the original voice)  Jumba and Pleakly decide to stay and make their own guest house to work with Stitch and help him too. (Got most of the old gang back together)  Also, the voices for these characters are different than their movie series counterparts.

Yes they are. / Copyright Disney/ Madhouse

     Random line: Yuna's Grandmother doesn't seemed phased by all this E.T stuff


more after the jump

But First These Messages: The Sun is out to get you

But First These Messages 


   So it's summer and that means the sun is out to get you with heat and burning and everything. If people chose to go in  that, there's one important thing to use , sunscreen.  We look at summer-y things as well.   So take a break from what you are doing and be back later , but first, these messages.

      Hey kids like do you like the Powerpuff Girls? Good.

   Wait, does Bubbles think that dangerous thing is that cat that seems to be stuck in that tree or is it because that cat is stuck in the tree that the tree is dangerous, or is the cat dangerous to the tree?

Yes, fear the sun.

    Also, hey you get a free toy (well I mean you pay for the sunscreen) with it yay sunblock! 

   Hey Sunblock isn't easy to tell that it's on your body! So let's make it colorful to umm what? 

        
     Why is that lady excited that kids are turning purple and blue?

 

Hey, that's not real, that water is fake. 

  

     There was a color sunblock war apparently,  and  both lost,  Banana Boat decided to also get into this idea of color sunscreen.  

 Not to be out done , they have 3 colors vs Coppertone's   2 colors.  Also they have flavor names I can eat this ?

Legend has it , that if you are in the sun too long you will see late 90's CGI sunblock figures in your madness. 

    Alright, forget this kiddie stuff  it's time for a little simple sunblock ad instead. 

  This comes from the Australia . It's simple but effective.

It's color coded (sorry Colour coded) 

    You know that song "Here Comes the Sun"? Yeah I found a use for it. 

 Humans 3  , Sun 0

The sun is not happy good thing we don't know what's saying there. 

It's kind of quirky as a commercial and a little simple not bad though.

  More after the jump 

The CW announces fall 2018 premiere dates

The CW  TVLookfall2018 

    The CW has announced their fall premiere dates.  Of note, this is the first season since 2009 to have Sundays on the CW but with that change, they still save their start of fall for October.  They kick off their fall Tuesday, October 9th and continue through the month.  "The Flash" and "Black Lightning".  There's also been a change to the schedule from previously announced : "Arrow" moves up to 8pmet while with it's premiere on October 15th  and "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" now at 9PMET with its premiere the week after.   Here's the fall premiere dates below:

 All times ET (subject to change)

Tuesday, October 9
8PM  The Flash (season premiere)
9PM  Black Lightning (season premiere)

Wednesday, October 10
8PM  Riverdale (season premiere)
9PM   All American (series premiere)

Thursday, October 11
8PM Supernatural (season premiere)
9PM    All American ( Encore of premiere)

Friday, October 12
8PM  Dynasty (season premiere)
9PM   Crazy- Ex Girlfriend (season premiere)

Sunday, October 14
8PM  Supergirl (season premiere )
9PM   Charmed (series premiere)

Monday, October 15
8PM  Arrow (season premiere)

Thursday, October 18
8PM  Supernatural (original episode)
9PM  Charmed (Encore)

Monday, October 22
8pm  Arrow (Original Episode )
9pm   DC's Legends of Tomorrow (season premiere)

Thursday, October 25
8PM  Supernatural (Original Episode)
9PM   Legacies (series premiere)

Press release after the jump