Upfronts 2019: FOX

FOX  TVLookFall2019  Upfronts

            Fox has released its fall schedule and we have the details.   But first, some notes.

• WWE Smackdown moves from USA Network to FOX also returning back to it's classic Friday night slot, meaning FOX had to clear some room for it. 
• FOX has bet animation some more with a sort of return to "Animation Domination" on Sunday Nights 
• There will be no live-action sitcoms on the line up in the fall ; a first in FOX history 
• "Empire" has been renewed for it's final season 
• "Masked Singer" the hit from this winter gets Fall pick up along with it's mid-season pick up
• New Series :  911: Lone Star,  Deputy, Filthy Rich, Next, Ducanville, Outmatched, The Great North come to mid season 
• The Orville and Last Man Standing wait for mid season. 

      Here's the schedule  all times ET , new series highlighted in blue
 Monday

   8PM   911
   9PM   Prodigal Son 
 

Tuesday
 
     8PM  The Resident
     9PM    Empire  (new night/time)


Wednesday
 
     8PM  The Masked Singer
     9PM      Not Just Me 
 


Thursday
   7:30p/ 4:30pm Thursday Night Football Pregame show
   8pm/ 5pt   Thursday Night Football

Friday

8pm  WWE Smakdown
 

Saturday

  8PM  College Football

Sunday

   7PM      NFL on FOX
    7:30pm  The OT
    8PM The Simpsons
    8:30PM  Bless the Harts 
    9PM      Bob's Burgers  (new time)
    9:30PM   Family Guy (new time)

Press release after the jump

Upfront 2019: NBC

NBC  TVLookFall2019  Upfronts 

        

            NBC released their fall schedule  for the 2019-2020 season.

•    More stable line up with not many changes 
• "This is Us" has been renewed for three more seasons 
• Fall has only 3 new series 
• More of the new series and others come after mid season 
• "Will and Grace" and "Manifest" series held for mid-season

  Full schedule below  (new shows highlighted in blue) 

  All times ET

Monday

8-10PM  The Voice

10PM   Bluff City Law 

Tuesday

8PM The Voice

9PM  This is Us

10PM  New Amsterdam

Wednesday

8PM  Chicago Med

9PM   Chicago Fire

10PM  Chicago PD 

Thursday

8PM   Superstore

8:30pm  Perfect Harmony

9PM   The Good Place

9:30pm  SunnySide 

Friday

8PM The Blacklist

9-11  Dateline NBC

Saturday
8-10pm  Dateline Saturday Night Mystery
10-11pm  Saturday Night Live (Encores) 

Sunday 

7PM   Football Night in America 

8:20   NBC Sunday Night Football 

press release after the jump

One Shot Posts: Dragon Pilot

Anime 

     One Shot Posts time!  A segment on the blog here where we find something to talk about that might not fit into other categories and spaces or lets us be more free wheeling.

  This time we are talking about  "Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan" an Anime series from 2018 (because that's how we roll) and for the first time on here a look at a series that was only on Netflix so our first Netflix series ever to be talked about this blog this is big day.  Now, there are reasons why we kind of  stay away from Netflix talking and other things but I don't want to bog down this post.
     

          The series is a quite interesting one. The main character ,a woman named Hisone Amakasu, has recently joined the Japan Air-Self Defense Force ends up going to a secret hangar and finds a dragon. The defense force is using dragons for military stuff  because, of course.  Anyway, she was made a dragon pilot (roll credits).  Since the dragon likes Amakasu she ends up becoming his pilot. (how sweet)
             

aww he likes her / Copyright Netflix I guess probably them 

                     

        There's another pilot we meet in the first episode named  Nao Kaizaki who seems to be a little aggressive.  The OTF (Organic transformed flyer) /Dragons are  disguised as fighter planes (because of course) and Hisone has to now has to teach it to how to be a fighter plane.  Oh, and the way this works is the pilot has to be inside the dragon's mouth.  She gets mad and storms off after letting out steam.  She has habit of saying  things that are on her mind.  Later on, she goes to the dragon after trying to connect with him and he ingests her.
                           

 It's that kind of show/ Netflix 

        Because of this they are flying around. With some help Amakasu seems to get some understanding of how to work with this.  The first episode was fun and pretty good and entertaining.   Now to episode two.

                Now there's a a character named Hiroki Ikushima who is tasked with making Amakasu's flight suit.  Nao doesn't like Hisone very much and her plans to mess with her doesn't work.  Hisone tries to think of a name for the OTF   and she also learns that Nao was in line to be a dragon pilot because her mother was one and follow in that line. Hisone tries to ask the dragon to take Nao as a pilot  but that doesn't work.   Nao runs off and Hisone asks if she  she go find her  but first she asks for the dragon's forgiveness after she hurt his feelings earlier too.  Nao ends up being a dragon pilot too now!  Oh the dragon has a name - Masotan.
                     

                   Copyright Netflix 

     The first two episodes are pretty fun and this series has a nice mixture of comedy, slice of life, action scenes, and drama to work out well. I really like the main character her personality is interesting since she tries to restrain herself from saying whats on her mind showing a stark contrast to how she is when she talks.

  The animation and designs are nice I like the styling of the animation and characters and Mastotan's design really nice and distinct.   From the first two episodes it was very fun to watch and if you can handle a lot of dragon barfing up people scenes (its not graphic).  I  may come back to this show on the blog in the future. So check it out on Netflix if you have it it's both subbed and dubbed.

  That's it for us now, tune in next time when we get outside of this bear, uh send help!

The Loud House : Cooked!

The Loud House Nickelodeon 

 Previously on Joshuaonline:  Lincoln Loud Quantum Leaped back home after all.  Now on Joshuaonline:


     Now it's time for me to dip into a Loud House special , this is one is not a holiday special. This episode was also the season finale of season 3 of the series but aired before they finished the season because Presidents' Day.   Let's a take  a look at Cooked!

        Lincoln tell us (yes us) that it's the grand opening of his father's new restaurant called Lynn's Table. (That's because it has one table?)  So flashback,warm nights  we are shown how the family took an old sea food place and turned it into a new restaurant.

Sadly his insurance didn't cover this because he didn't have Farmers'/ Copyright Viacom

The montage goes through the demolition and remodeling, inspection that Lisa apparently is one of those inspectors you can't bribe. (joking , we know real inspectors don't take bribes and are upstanding in their job. Psst here's your twenty) Also this show has a character named after a former voice actor of Lincoln ,Grant Palmer, who is voiced by that former voice actor. (Not inception)  After Lynn Sr. hires his friend and Grant there's more restaurant stuff to do in the montage taste the food. Now back to the current time and Leni hits Lincoln with a door by accident. (Maybe?)                    

Great, Now Lincoln is dead/ copyright Viacom 

Lynn wants them to promote the opening but there's a typo and says Gland Opening (laughs). The Loud kids decide to take the job of publicity.   Lincoln's idea is to do a TV commercial. Lisa is bottomless fries (she's not wrong), Lori says photo booth (it's not like teens have phones or something), Luan is birthdays, Lucy has something, Leni has bingo. With 11 options it's 11 way tie. (Democracy is a failure)    

                                      

Math for fries apparently/ Copyright Viacom. But she's not wrong fries work! 

        They get into a fight and and break up and Lincoln goes ahead to film his commercial. Which, consists of him going all undercover to other restaurants.   Lincoln and Clyde show Lynn the commercial. 

Darn sensationalist lying media /Copyright Viacom 

     The commercial is very entertaining it's better than have those bland forced commercials we really get on TV. It feels like a true quirky local business ad that we need more of on TV. (ppst what are you doing? You need to stay on track on our topic at hand). Yeah whatever, anyway it seems that the other Louds  have also done their own promos , what could go wrong?  More after the break. 

         Introducing the Wifi couch there's no point to have a wifi couch it's really stupid idea but you know , oh wait got distracted by the commercial break. 

WWE Smackdown coming to FOX this FALL /Copyright Viacom 

     Lynn Sr. waits for the g(l)(r)and opening of his restaurant. It seems Lincoln and Clyde's commercial worked.  People have begun pouring in like beer at a (insert sport here later and make it look like we forgot to add the sport in when we publish it). Lisa comes offering her promo and tells her father that bottomless fries is her idea and people have poured in because Lisa isn't wrong I'd go to a restaurant for bottomless fries.   Now what could go wrong? Hello Luan let me guess you have a promotion too, uh oh.  Her idea is birthday fun and her plan works too.  That's 3 kids ,so what about 4th?  Hey Lori, nice photo booth. More teens did show up because of course.  Lana's idea was bring your pet. Some has a pet Eagle (I'm the calling the police)  Lynn Jr's promo was free food if it's not done in 15 minutes and it's been 8 minutes. (Good work) 

Luna's plan was to traumatize small children/Copyright Viacom

                      Leni does bingo. (Hey Bingo and Fries , this my kind of place)   Lynn tries to stop the craziness and then Leni kills him. Now he's knocked out cold and the Louds fell bad that he's having a bad opening day (and also dead now).  They decide to work together run it while he's out.  First Lincoln stops all promos but people decide to stay. Also 95 Lynn food name puns.

That's it I'm calling the police and the health inspector, this place is going down/ Copyright Viacom 

          Lucy ,who has been barley in this episode, shows up not knowing what happened and says she got the local news lady, Kathrine Mulligan to come and do an interview.  So, they do what normal people do, they "Weekend at Bernie's" this interview.

This works. She's not a very good reporter/ Copyright Viacom

      Lynn Sr. watches his interview on TV and is impressed and the special ends with the Louds doing name pun foods.

       I really really enjoyed this special , where as when it first premiered  they were doing this airing with it every 2 hours like 4  times and I watched each showing. I think it's my favorite non-holiday special for the show so far. The comedy was high tier and so was it's heart. The promotions fit the Loud characters very well and were creative. It was really nice to a culminating of events go so well with a happy ending. The pacing of the special was nothing dragged out to long to be annoying like the fight or the promotions.  It's really fun special that if you haven't seen you should see.  

 We will return to Loud House specials and other episodes in the future. (There's going to be a fifth season so, I  better hurry up on writing about seasons 1-3 then get to four at some point) 

 Tune in Next time when have to bribe inspectors to be happy with us after saying inspectors like bribes. We are are really making this worse for ourselves. 

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But First These Messages: C.A.R.S (CARS Automobiles Road-masters Sudans?)

But First These Messages 

       "I'm Sorry, Mrs. Patrick but your husband is now  a, a , Clown!"
       
         More "Days of My Children's Light" will be back after these messages.


             Probaly the  prevalent product sold through television is the automobile.  There are car commercials during the news, during sports, during soaps, during re runs of King of the Hill, during cartoons, during that show where people talk about people murdering people, and so on and so forth.  So, it's our time to take a look at these machines and how they are hawked to us.

 But First These Messages..

       First off, I  decided to have rock drive way but what kind of car should I get to park on it?

   

      They said I was crazy for having a driveway that looks like a rock slide hit it but, it's more secure than their stupid gates are.

             

Pfft yeah that's good if you want your to get easily stolen.

Yeah there's only Jeep and I'm so rich I bought it! 

        I'm so rich I have recently acquired a time machine and have gone back to the 1960's (I'm also so rich I have the internet in the 1960's to write this blog post on) anyway, I need a car for my 1960's family that I also somehow acquired.  

     

  

            
             A yes a station wagon prefect for me and my 1960's family of 60's wife and 60's daughters and 60's son.

                     

 We packed too much! Can't close trunk! 

It also doubles a bed? Nice! 

           You know what ? If want a car to have a bed then I should get a truck! 

   Yep that's more my style! I take a green one please!

                 

 Great for those tight fit roads! 

                *Whispers* am I still playing the rich guy? I don't even remember anymore Time to look at the average American family and their average American car. 

                        

      
       Well dang 1990 animation was amazing those two cars look almost real, it's amazing, modern animation can't even do that!  Look at that wonderful drawing work it's great!
 
                 

           He got a Corolla wagon, you can't beat the pinnacle of cars 

 Lisa doesn't want to be there at all 

  More after the jump

One Shot Posts: Mirai

Anime Movies Reviews 

  Yes, Yes TV focused blog is doing a movie because why not?  This is one of our One Shot Posts, for things that don't fit with our normal posts or series of posts.


   The 2018 film Mirai  is  directed and written by Mamoru Hosoda  the man who  worked the "Digimon Movie" also created films like "The Girl Who Leap Through Time", "Summer Wars" , "Wolf Children", and "The Boy and The Beast"  This movie was his latest one. 

        Mirai is a movie about a little boy at the age of 4  who's life gets changed with the birth of his little sister named Mirai.    Mirai means future.  This movie starts with showing us Kun (the boy) and how is first happy then turns against the baby because of all the attention she's getting from the parents as newborns tend to get by necessity.  While the audience gets Kun's perspective primarily, we also see that those of his parents with their everyday lives shown maybe a little more naturally. The father character has decided to be a stay at home while working from home while the mother has gone back to work.

          Since Kun is a 4-year-old boy he has has the tendency to go into tantrums when he is un-happy. He lashes at his sister, mother, and father at different parts of the movie. The house they live in is pretty much the main setting it's a unique house built around a tree which personally, I like the design of the house, I'd love to live there. The center part provides a place for plot to work out.   It's kind of a spot where Kun goes to let off some steam.

      Gonna do this part mostly spoiler free.  This movie is very much a slice-of-life style of movie where the added element is Kun's immigration when he's in that middle part of the house.  For the first time he meets a man who says he was the prince of the house , which turns out to be his dog Yukko.  Yukko was in the same position as Kun when Kun was born. Kun steals the dog's tail and turns  into a dog boy.  Later Kun, tells his parents  that the dog prefers the better dog food.   The rest of the movie goes into different little stories  where Kun helps his sister by meeting his sister older from the future, learns a little more about his mother by meeting with her as a child,   and learns how to ride a bike with help from his younger grandpa  Each time from going to the middle of the house the imagination scenes helps Kun learn more about life.

   The last  part of the movie,all I will say is kind of the unsettling part of the movie where it doesn't even feel like the rest of the movie, all I will say I was surprised.  I enjoyed this movie  while slow in pace it had a great mark to it and very engaging where it never felt too slow or wandering. The imagination sciences are creative and kind  of above maybe what a 4-year-old would think but, that's not a bad thing. The most tedious part would be Kun's tantrums because tanturms are uncomfortable to be around in the first place so those are hard to watch.  Otherwise, I think it was a strong and entertaining movie that had a good mixture of heart, comedy, drama, imagination, and realism that I think makes it well done.  Mostly, it's a movie about the main character trying to figure out life still and understand new things that are happening that is a message that I think any age can understand as new things and concepts are being added to life. You see that in the movie with the parents as well as  Mom tires to figure out her job and her family and Dad tries to bond with the new baby while also taking care of Kun.  It's also a very family movie meaning that it's focused on family and learning about the family and how things from the past can be passed down to the future. (Wait a minute) 

    The animation is really great as well, the details were strong. They had an actual architect design the home and it shows well to make a unique home that also fits will with the story. I also like use of paper animation in the end of the film and the details used for the trains.

   I do recommend this movie and you can get it on DVD/Blu Ray, currently. It was a worthy movie to be nominated for awards this year and enjoyed it.

  If you have an idea for the blog you can email it to mychiller@gmx.com

CBS Makes Anchor Changes For CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News

CBS NEWS  TV News

      After months of speculation , CBS News has announced changes to their "CBS This Morning" and "CBS Evening News" broadcasts. 

    Currently, CBS This Morning is hosted by John Dickerson, Norah O' Donnell, and Gayle King that will be changing. Along with CBS Evening News which is currently anchored by Jeff Glor.  The only non-change will be Gayle King, who will be staying at "CBS This Morning".  Current"CBS This Morning Saturday" Co-host Anthony Mason will be moving to the weekday show along with Tony Dokoupil. 

     Meanwhile, Norah  O' Donnell leaves the program to anchor the "CBS Evening News"replacing Jeff Glor who has been anchoring the program for nearly 18 months after replacing Scott Pelley.  O'Donell had been with CBS This Morning since it's first year in 2012 she replaced Erica Hill, a holdover from "The Early Show".   John Dickerson, who joined the program in 2018 replacing Charlie Rose after his firing for sexual misconduct, will be leaving the program for a role on  "60 Minutes" 

          Jeff Glor's status with CBS after stepping down from the evening broadcast is currently unknown.  Norah O' Donnell is expected to take the Evening News in summer then in fall the program moves to Washington D.C making it the only of the big 3 network national evening newscasts to be done not from New York City. 

        In the past year CBS News management has changed including a new president of CBS News,  Susan Zirinsky, who took the realm in March. This is her first big move as president of the news division.     This is hoped to give some real stability to CBS News which has had a rough year in both ratings and behind the scenes.    The new "CBS This Morning" team is expected to start on May 20th. 

      Press release after the jump

DCOMs get Ready for Horse racing

Disney  

     Disney Channel went heavy on the original movies in 2000, where for the only time they had new original movie for each month that year, that's 12 movies. (math)  So, of course, some of them slip through the cracks, and luckily that fits our blog well. (Joshuaonline: We catch things that slip under the cracks, wait no that's bad).   This movie came out in July of 2000 it's called "Ready To Run" it's about horse racing because yes, Disney Channel has a movie about horse racing.
             
   The movie starts with horse racing and I guess what will later be our main horse, Thunder Jam. (Played by an actual horse) Our main character is named Corrie Oritz (played by a human).  So the first scene in the movie is a horse race this is to show us (the viewers) that Thunder Jam is kind of a  difficult horse. (Maybe the horse doesn't want to race, he wants to sing, Mom!) Corrie wants to be a jockey.  She brings up her idea of being a jockey with her mother who is not on board with this idea.

No/ Copyright Disney 

                 
       
       She has a reason she doesn't want Corrie to be a jockey, her husband was one and was killed as one.  The grandmother tries to help by asking what if she has "the gift".   Then she starts thinking that Thunder Jam can talk (voiced by Paul Rodriguez) she takes it as the fumes getting to her. Meanwhile, her boss, Hector, is offered a jockey because there has been a slump going on for his training and horses plus, giving us what will come into play later. Her grandmother tells her that yes horses can talk to people.  We also have Sinbad in this movie, yes, Sinbad he is doing a voice for a horse so, well then.  In fact, yes this movie will have voices.

Girl and Her Horse/ Copyright Disney 

       


      After the man who owns, ThunderJam doesn't want the horse anymore,  Corrie decides to take him off his hands for the price of a bag of peanuts.  Though her mother doesn't want her to have a horse, thankfully  Hector decides to help out.  Her mother says that if she catches her daughter riding a horse in a raise ThunderJam is out.   Corrie hears Thunder Jam talk again (now this movie has gone all WildThornberrys on us)  and she starts talking to him and goes weird.


     Remember that jockey I mentioned earlier? Well, he's now in the film his name is B. Moody.  He was a circus performer.  Seems like a nice guy.   They try to figure out how to make TJ a racehorse. I also think that Hector and Corrie's mom has a thing for each other. Corrie's threat of making TJ a birthday party horse helps them get him to become a racehorse.   He also got a spot in a race.

 Jockeying for points/ Copyright Disney 

                 Corrie finds out that TJ gets worked up during the races because the other horses make him lose his edge so she quickly takes  Moody's headphones and sticks them TJ's not ears (?) and he relaxes and runs like a horse.  Also, this movie got Blues Traveler music in the background and they played "Last Night I Dreamed" so I'm amazed at this.  Thunder Jam almost got really hurt but it's a slight sprain and has to get his rest. Meanwhile, her mother notices that Corrie has "the gift" mentioned before.

4 out of 5 stars on the outfit/ Copyright Disney 

             

    More Hector and Mom flirting going on in this movie, they are going to be a pair at the end of this, aren't they? Meanwhile, TJ is going to be in a derby. Moody says he thinks that Corrie is a really good rider.  TJ's previous owner, Max Garris, stops by and I think tries to mess with TJ then leaves but drops his cigar which causes a fire.  Moddy recuses TJ but ends up with severe burns on his hands.  Now it's time to convince the mother to let Corrie ride in the race because Moody's hands have to heal, she refuses still.

Hey No smoking around the horses!/ Copyright Disney 

     It's time for the mother and daughter to talk it out,  and pretty quickly from saying no in the last scene changed her mind to say yes here. Anyway, it's derby day!  Now it's time to add some drama to the race and movie because officials said that Thunder Jam can't ride with his headphones because we needed some drama and suspense.  But the rules don't say you can't play music through the speakers and this resolves that problem.  (yay)  TJ wins!  The movie finishes up with the dream house being built

Yay!/ Copyright Disney

It's a good movie, It's kind of slow at points but it's not a bad movie in the slightest. It's a simple plot but an effective one. The mother is justified in her reason of not wanting Corrie in riding as a jockey. The "villain" isn't over the top and yes he is mean to horses but wasn't over the top to be like "I'm evil ha ha ha" and he didn't mean to start that fire, I guess. I  like Moody he's a fun character and Hector is also very earnest and a good character as well. Corrie, the main character, is played very realistically.  

      This movie does play with some of the things I was expecting to happen but didn't. It was kind of fun that it didn't do things I was expecting. Anyway, It is kind of sad that this gets lost in the talk of Disney Channel Original Movies and I think it needs a little more praise.  

       Tune in next time after we lose $554 on a horse race.