CBS Fall 2019 season Premiere Dates announced

CBS TVLookFall2019  Primetime

    CBS has released their fall premiere dates  from their 2019 fall line up.

              The week of September 23rd is a big one for CBS all five of it's new shows will be making their starts that week.   Along with the majority of their line up. 

  Here's the dates all times ET unless, otherwise denoted


Monday, September 23rd
8PM  The Neighborhood (2nd Season Premiere)
8:30pm  Bob Hearts Abishola (series Premiere)
9PM    All Rise (Series Premiere)
10PM  Bull (Season Premiere)


Tuesday, September 24th
8PM  NCIS  (Season Premiere)
9PM  FBI (season premiere)
10PM  NCIS :New Oreleans (season premiere)

Wednesday, September 25th
8pm  Survivor  (90 Minute season premiere)
9:30pm  Big Brother (Live Season Finale)

Thursday , September 26th
8PM Young Sheldon  (Season Premiere)
8:30PM The Unicorn (Series Premiere)
9PM    Mom (Season Premiere)
9:30pm Carol's Second Act (Series Premiere)
10PM   EVIL (Series Premiere)

Friday, September 27th
8PM Hawaii FIVE-O (Season Premiere )
9PM   Magnum P.I  (Season Premiere)
10PM  Blue Bloods (Season Premiere)

Saturday ,September 28th
8-10PM  Crime Time Saturday
10PM   48 Hours (Season Premiere)

Sunday, September 29th (Times may start later due to NFL Football)
7:30PM  60 Minutes  (Season Premiere)
8:30PM  God Friended Me (Season Premiere)
9:30PM  NCIS: Los Angeles (Season Premiere)


Wednesday, October 2nd
8PM Survivor (Time Period Premiere)
9PM  SEAL Team (Season Premiere)
10PM S.W.A.T (Season Premiere)

Sunday, October 6th
7PM  60 Minutes (Regular Time Period)
8PM  God Friended Me (Regular Time Period)
9PM  NCIS: Los Angeles  (Regular Time Period)
10PM Madam Secretary (Season Premiere)


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Weekendering: The Weekenders: Season 1: Home @Work To Be or Not To Be

The Weekenders   Disney


        Our Journey through the "The Weekenders" season 1 continues with episode 4's pair of segments.  [ If you want to read Episode 3 Click Here]

       
   Episode 4a : Home@Work

                   The Gang has plans for the weekend as normal but Lor has a problem if she fails her history test on Monday then her father will send her to military school. (harsh) The friends want to get out of it but, guess what they will be doing?  (Going to jail?) So they ditch her but of they do end up help her and actually it falls on Tino to help her.   Meanwhile, Tish and Carver try to make tempoary friends because that makes sense.

                 Lor gets distracted by playing a video game and Tino thinks that she gets bored by things and that's why she doesn't want to study.  Tish decides to cut and help Lor as well. Carver feels bad for not helping Lor in her time of need and goes to Tino's house with a video game for Lor to learn about the Civil War.   They even add a little thing to show that Lor did well  on her test.


    It's an alright episode  I do like Tino and later Tish's attempts to help Lor with studying and it was nice that Carver did come in the end to help her after the people he joined to be their temp. friend made him feel bad indirectly. I like that he came with the idea to help Lor with the video game as well.  I give this one a 7/10.


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Weekendering: The Weekenders: Season 1: The Perfect Weekend/ Throwing Carver

The Weekenders  Disney 

 Previously, on Joshuaonline : We started our look at the Disney animated TV series, "The Weekenders" now we move on to another pair with episode 3. 

  

                                    [If you Want to Read the Previous Post Click Here ]

Episode 3a : The Perfect Weekend 

           
                   I've seen something that fits this from "Hey Arnold" where Arnold does a list for the prefect Saturday but it doesn't seem to fall into place and he learns that a day doesn't have to follow some list to be perfect. I wonder if this episode will be like that.

      Tino has planned a perfect weekend for him and his friends. First of, we see more of Lor's  mutiple brothers and her grandmother has shown up and Lor can't spend time for the perfect weekend with Tino.  They go to Carver's house and now Carver has to do something for his parents since they have to go away. It's Tish and Tino to be together that was until Tish finds out about a contest and she enters so it's just Tino.

                 He tries to see if his friends could maybe do something on Saturday. So, he visits Lor who with  her grandmother and trying to fix a lawnmower. Meanwhile, Carver is having a pretty good time volunteering after all. Tish is still practicing.   His mother tells him he needs to be flexible but takes that to mean that he could just do his plans  by himself.    This episode also add something else you'll see in this series : the museum serving random food.  Tino tries but it seems nothing is going as well he wanted it to at all.  Tino decides to go Tish's contest to watch her play the dulcimer.  His friends seemed to have a good weekend.


               Tino states the lesson at the end  with how it is good to have a plan but sometimes you do have to be flexible and who knows how much fun you might have. It shows like with Carver's thing where he thought it was going to be some boring thing but ended up some great fun. It was kind of quick how Tino learned the moral just by getting a Sunday newspaper tossed him with the convenient  headline to make him go to Tish's contest and inviting the others to see it too but, fine.  A good episode : 8/10.


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The Flashback: Dr. Seuss' look : The Butter Battle Book the TV special.

The Flashback

  What is something that this blog hasn't really done in something? Yes, Dr. Seuss!  Guess it's time to rectify that.  (That and the title of the post gives it away)  This time we look at special based off the good doctor's  1984 book of the same name ,"The Butter Battle Book".    I'll get to what the book and the special  are about soon, but keep the Cold War in the back of your mind there.  In 1989, TNT (Turner Network TV)  aired this special.  November 13th ,1989, also something else important coming up, also later.   This special was animated by Ralph Bakshi (yes that one)  the narrator is Charles Durning.    This was the last special with any Seuss media made while he was still alive. (He died in 1991) 

       Let's get started.   The special starts with showing a long wide wall that seems be separating something.   A child and his grandfather are standing near the wall and the grandfather explains that they are the Yooks (pronounced Yukes ) and on the other side are the Zooks (pronounced Zukes, hey that rhymes with oh) he goes on to explain the Zooks like to eat their bread with the butter side down. (What? ) Then he explains that they Yooks eat their bread with the butter side up.  Infact, they go to bread buttering school. (What?)  Grandfather explains that Zooks must be watched in fact, his job is watch for Zooks.  Then he explains everything was going fine until a Zook named Van Itch (don't question it)   disarmed Grandfather. (which seemed to have ruined his whole day)

Keep on the butter side of life./ Copyright Turner 

    Editor's note: I am just gonna call him Grandfather , even though it's past events in the story being told by him in present since he doesn't have any name. 

       So the grandfather goes to the chief Yookaroo  who explains that the switch wasn't modern compared to their sling shots. So, a newer more modern weapon must be made and used. That being a "triple sling-jigger" (three slingshots put together on some poll thing).  Grandfather goes back to the wall and threatens the Zooks and machine scares them away.  But, the Zooks have found a new more modern weapon called,  Jigger Rock Snatchem, that will catch the rocks from the sling thing and send them back.

                                            This is why Dumbo quit/ Copyright Turner

    You know the Yooks need a even even more modern weapon. This was called the "Kick-A-Poo Kid" which looks like a gun that is propped on a dog named Daniel who is a spaniel. (that was unnecessary)  That works until guess what? It doesn't.  The Zooks created an" Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz" it shoots cherry stone pits. Time for a even even even more more modern weapon. They made Grandfather a general and a new weapon that's a vechile called the  "Utterly Sputter". It drops blue goo.    Oh yeah, the Zooks have another weapon to stymie the Yooks weapon.
           

Mutually assured destruction /Copyright Turner 

      They need something even more more even modern as a weapon. So there's a song never heard a song for a weapon being created before.  This weapon is a bomb called  "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo",which looks like a small red ball with electrical noises coming from it.  The chief tells Grandfather to drop the bomb on the Zooks while the Yooks hide underground.  The Zooks also are going underground, I wonder why. It leads up to Grandfather with the grandson as he is about to drop the bomb.  Van Itch  has the same bomb too. The grandchild wonders who will drop the bomb first and the special zooms over the Grandfather and Van Itch standing on the wall , he says "we'll see" then it cuts to saying "The End (maybe)"  or a cliff hanger. 

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Weekendering: The Weekenders : Season 1 :Shoes of Destiny/ Sense and Sensitivity

The Weekenders  Disney 

   Previously, on Joshuaonline : We started our look at the Disney animated TV series, "The Weekenders" now we move on to another pair with episode 2.  

  

      [If you Want to Read the Previous Post Click Here]

             Episode 2a:  Shoes of Destiny  

                   Tino does his thing where talk to the audience this time about his friend, Carver, and his goals on being cool.  They also show us more about the characters like how Tish is interested in Shakespeare  and Tino seems to like science fiction comic books.  Carver tells his friends that he is going to be standing with the cool kids in the class picture which is impressive or something.  Carver wants to become C.A.R.P (Cool and Radically Popular). They also manage to thrown in a line where Tino says "Good thing you don't want to be Cool Rich And Popular". (Oh wow!) 

             There are two characters are called "the cool kids" who Tino explains have the ability not block out anyone who's not cool.  Carver sees shoes that he thinks will make him C.A.R.P and buys them and the cool kids apparently noticed him.  Tino imagines that Carver gets really cool and has him made into boots. (What?) 

             Tino goes to his mom for some advice and she tells him don't worry because their friendship  is strong.  The next day, Carver  tries to dress like the cool kids and they apparently like this because well of course. Meanwhile, Tish and Lor worry that Carver won't  want to be their friend anymore. Carver hangs out with the cool kids who pretty much spend their time leaning against things because that works.  They also make fun of people who are beneath them, which means they can see them ruining what was said before. (Don't you start)  Carver doesn't want to say anything mean about his friends so he lost his cool spot.   

               This episode's moral because yes each episode has one or something is that sometimes something you wish for might not be all that great.  I really like that Carver at the first time he was tpld to make fun of his friends he didn't want to instead of doing it then maybe asking forgiveness later like this plot could have gone.  It does show how great this group's friendship bond is with each other.    It was pretty entertaining episode as well and there are some good jokes in this one.  So this opne I give 7.5/10. 

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Weekendering: The Weekenders : Season 1 :Crush Test Dummies/ Grow up.

The Weekenders Disney 

        As mentioned when I talked about Disney's One Saturday Morning , and Disney' One Too on UPN there was program called "The Weekenders". "The Weekenders" is a slice of life/comedy from 2000 that ran on both the ABC and UPN blocks. 
 
    The basic premise of the show  is about the weekend (Friday after school, Saturday, Sunday) adventures  of four middle schoolers named Tino Tonitini,  Lor McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Tish Katsufrakis as friends who deal with life but on the weekend. 

  It rain for 4 seasons with 39 episodes, and this month (June 2019) we will be looking at the entirety  of season 1.  And Yes, this is one of those I really like this show series of posts that I want to do for that reason.

   Episode 1a  :Crush Test Dummies 
       
                The main idea of this episode is misunderstandings.  In this episode Lor has a crush on a boy named Thompson ( I don't know if that's his first name, last name, or some sort of Cher thing going on there) and shew wants him to notice her.  Tish suggests a love poem and a make over which leads into Lor  thinking about asking their friend Carver for fashion advice since he knows fashion. This causes him to overhear something out of context and thinks the Lor has a crush on him.  Carver is worried because he doesn't like her like that and doesn't want everyone's friendships and weekends messed up.

      One of the best characters in this series you will find is Tino's mother she is the person he ends up going to for advice in episodes. She also has this running gag where she makes the strangest foods that ever exist.  Her advice is for Carver to tell Lor how he feels but Tino shoots this down because "guys don't that".  He does end up passing the advice on to Carver anyway.  Carver shoots it down and thinks they have to find someone else to replace Lor. (Makes sense)

          Meanwhile, Tish's mother is not the best at make overs and Tish picks out the same thing she's wearing for Lor. Evenutally, Thompson talks to Lor and tells her she's a good soccer player.   Tino's mom' s outburst at Carver was funny, and Tino tells Carver maybe they should talk to Lor since not having her as a friend wouldn't be a good change.


       Carver starts telling Lor how he feels but, she is confused about what he is even talking about.  He finds out that she's not in love with him.  Tino finishes out the episode as customary in this series he starts and ends the episodes talking to us the viewers. 
   
           It's a misunderstanding episode that could have been solved by Carver doing what Tino's mom suggested in the first place. I think the comedy in the episode while sparse is fun.  It's a good message for people, even males, to talk about how they feel and  that it' s better for a friendship to do so.

           Since this was the first episode it does feel like a first episode of a show getting it's barrings but it's not a bad one in the slightest.  I also like the interactions between Tino and his mom because it feels slightly more realistic than alot of media, even at the time, did and it's really nice touch.  I give it 7/10.


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DCOM's :You Wish!

Disney Channel The Flashback 

          If you remember "Even Stevens" the Disney Channel Original series from the early 2000's you'll remember  A.J. Trauth who played Louis' (Shia LaBeouf) friend, Twitty.  Disney Channel give him a starring role in an Original Movie based off a 1991 book called "If I Had One Wish". This movie from January of 2003 is called "You Wish".    He's not the only Disney Channel star in this movie either more on that soon.

               The premise of this movie is that our main Character named Alex Lansing (A.J Trauth) is annoyed by his younger brother Stevie.  Stevie for note is played by Spencer Breslin who was part of Disney projects in the past few years in that time span including being in "Santa Clause 2" (Santa Clause 2: the Disney cash grab, nothing against him though). That annoyance leads him to not want him to exist.    This movie also stars, if you watched "Lizzie McGuire", the other hit Disney Channel series, you know her from that- Lalaine, who played Miranda on that show.

          It starts with war! Hold on it's a slime war, so it's a war on clothes.  Then there's a pet adoption day and Alex wants a dog and Stevie wants a turkey, which they got. (Because the parents are insane people) Some jocks make fun of Alex having a turkey because jocks in a move. Then the jocks waste a pizza by slamming on Alex because they're jocks in a movie.  Now there's narration from Alex. (You can't just enter like that? What are you doing?)

 Wasting Pizza, darn jocks/ Copyright Disney 

              Alex talks about how his brother messes up his life over time because he always takes center stage. Alex has a plot device  for this movie, his coin collection. He tells Stevie leave his stuff alone and bars him from the room for 2 weeks. (We also need a plot catalyst wonder what that will be?) He does relent and let's the boy watch a movie with him. Seems like a happy ending, well movie over. Oh wait no.

Brother Bonding but I got shot at a random time so it looks like this / Copyright Disney 

          This part of the movie is setting up how much Alex gets annoyed by his brother  and that his life isn't perfect because yeah. Also in this movie is Tim Reid as Larry  the coin shop owner, who gets saved by Stevie from falling down.  He gives the movie our plot device, a good for one wish.  Stevi leaves a bench that Alex had him stay and after a search and Stevie asks a guard for help, Alex gets punished. Alex is not happy and Stevie tries to make it up to him by giving him the wish coin.

This man had a magic coin and just gave it away/ Copyright Disney 

        Alex makes a  wish that he didn't have a brother kind of in a off handed way and goes to sleep.  The next morning Alex finds out that he has an alarm clock, and there' that dog he wanted.  His room is different too even trophies. (well then)  The house is completely different  oh, there's no Stevie , well kind of, his brother is now some boy named Terrence Russell McCormack who plays on a TV show called "Where's Stevie" (He did wish that he didn't have a brother, not that Stevie never existed.)  Also, there's this drawn out sequence that goes around for too long it gets annoying.

His parents also are in the X-Files in this universe/  Copyright Disney

       This movie also mentions a Dodge Viper, so there's that.  At school, he's a star jock and the head cheerleader is his girlfriend because movie.  Meanwhile his friends from before like Abby (Lalaine) aren't his friends anymore because of course.   Things are going well but he seems to miss his things. Also, jocks waste more pizza.

WHY DO THEY WASTE SO MUCH PIZZA?/ Copyright Disney 

     Since of alot of this movie is montages or not heavy in events I'm going to talk a little about the music. It has some early 2000's hit songs  in it like during one of the montages it has "World of Our Own"  by Westlife. "Life is Good" by Junk. I do find it interesting again, that these early Disney Channel movies do have more popular songs in them and not pulling from their own resources like later movies end up doing. 


     Anyway, Alex starts talking to Abby and he starts missing his brother.  He has now decided that he wants his  brother back. So of course, the logical thing to do is find the 10-year-old actor to help him? (You know instead of trying make another wish)  Alex for some reason thought that the boy would know who he was, like he apparently forgot how the wish worked.  He does find out that Terrance/Stevie is unhappy with his life.  Also, we have the song "A Thousand Miles"by Vanessa Carlton used as he remembers the good times he had with Stevie plus some scenes reused from the movie.

He's not pushing that van or is he?/Copyright Disney 

        Terrance/Stevie decides to hang out with Alex for the afternoon. Alex finally does some math in his head and has figures out that he has to get the coin from earlier back, but since Stevie didn't save Larry (Tim Reid) they have to find him.  He goes to Abby to get  Larry's address from a raffle ticket. Abby starts to believe his story  because he knows things about her that she hasn't told anybody in this parallel time.   They go looking for  Larry.   I like the scenes in this movie when they go looking for him it has some sweet moments and really is touching.  Sadly, Larry doesn't have the coin anymore he sold it to dealer with a bunch of other coins.


                 He apparently had the coin in his room so, he makes a wish and things are back to normal.

      I sound like  I rushed it but really he pretty much goes home after the agent takes Stevie back to his days  and sits in his room depressed and flings a box of coins and ends up finding the coin.

         I think it was alright movie that has it's basic message of "be careful what you wish for" or it  might just happen and you might not want it to. It's pacing does feel dragged out to the point where it feels like they forgot they only had 80-something minutes and spend up the ending to get everything back to normal but our main character learning his lesson.  It's basic movie but I don't think it's awful but it isn't one of their best either it's middle of the range .

   Tune in next time after you wish for a better blog , that's mean I'm hurt.
     

The Flashback : The Other Music Channel

The Lookback 

     Ted Turner was on somewhat of a golden touch streak with WTBS Atlanta being made into one of the first cable channels, showing that basic cable channels were just former non affiliated stations 4.without the FCC lisence. He later started the first cable news network, called Cable News Network and a second one called Headline news. Our story takes us to 1984. 

    MTV (or Music Television) had launched in 1981 and had taken the television cable world by storm.  For every i-pod there was the Zune so for MTV there was going to be a competitor.  It's not like others didn't start jumping into the compete with MTV game in the first place  You had TNN : The Nashville Network (now co-owned with MTV as the Paramount Network)  which was the country music television network not to be confused with CMT the Country Music Television network. Which like TNN launched in 1983, and is now also co-owned with MTV.  

   Ted Turner wanted the big prize, to compete with MTV head on like two top-40 stations on the FM dial fighting for supremacy even they both lose to the AC station but that's not important.  So this enters the Cable Music Channel or CMC for shot.  Cable Music Channel was not going to be like MTV completely.      

        CMC was going to have the Disc Jockeys not be video Jockeys meaning you won't be seeing them on the air, they were going to do that thing you hear on the radio, more music less talk. Also less commercials than MTV.  They were also going to have artists that aren't featured on MTV like Dolly Parton and Diana Ross.  MTV networks did get a little nervous and they announced the launch of VH1 which was like AC radio on TV for 1985.  Turner was also trying to get around the powerful exclusivity that MTV had gained at the time with music videos.  

 ( our source :https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/25/arts/turner-s-cable-music-channel-starts-tomorrow.html )

           MTV did have people who didn't like it for it's content and Mr.Turner had their back he wanted CMC to be more "wholesome" compared to MTV.  MTV was pretty tame back then mostly they had strict guidelines too but whatever makes CMC look it works.   He said they were not going to excessively violent, woman degrading stuff that MTV airs.

             So Cable Music Channel launched on October 26th 1984 , remember that date there will be quiz.  After Ted Turner hid the big red button the channel started.   It had computer generated graphic design that was probably very innovative in its day but doesn't look amazing today because we have better tech or something.  It also had two DJ introduce the channel over the graphics (again out of vision)    Their first music video was Randy Newman's "I love LA", the channel was based in LA not in Ted Turner's Atlanta.  Then they aired Olympia from Sergio Mendes.

     The first commercial was from Double mint gum.

           It was basic music channel.   CMC died. I mean died quickly, it's final broadcast date was November  30th 1984.  Now it wasn't because it had no viewers. Some Cable Companies didn't want to or couldn't air it, MTV had a lot of exclusives that CMC couldn't access. It's not like radio stations with the same format in the same market able to air the same artists at all.  So it was sold to Warner-Amex who owned MTV.   The space was used to help launch VH1, the channel Warner was planning to use to compete against CMC.  Also, ironic that all of Ted's channels would end up being owned by Warner in 1996.

      With that life span it's hard to predict if CMC would have been the MTV killer at least on par with it. It's seemed like a good idea that just didn't have the money for it to be well. We might have had people who would have CMC people and others being MTV people. It's hard to tell.


  That ends this post, yeah there's big story there's no fall apart, there's no MTV and Ted Turner going to court it just a short lived network that existed. 

 That's our look back, tune in next time when we launch our own music channel , then lose money because it's not 1984 anymore.