MSNBC makes some Weekend Changes and 1 Early Morning Show Change

MSNBC  Cable TV News 

             MSNBC is adding programs to the weekend primetime with Alica Mendez and Joshua Johnson hosting weekend shows.   Also, the name "Way too Early" Returns with  Kasie Hunt, with her show on Sunday Evening ending this Sunday.   Also, current "First Look" anchor  Yasmin Vossoughian is moving to weekends. 

     Starting September 19th, MSNBC's new weekend afternoon and prime time line up starts. 

        Yasmin Vossoughian will anchor two hours of "MSNBC Live" on Weekends from 3-5PMET. 

     

Vossoughian will deliver sharp reporting and analysis from years of international journalism taking a no-nonsense look at the day’s important stories and focusing on solution-based conversations.

                                                                        -via press release

            "American Voices with Alicia Mendez" will air on Saturdays and Sundays from 6-8PMET.

                 MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez will focus on the biggest political stories of the week while elevating news on under-reported issues with under-represented voices that require a national platform.

                                                                      -via press release

          "The Week with Joshua Johnson"  will air Saturdays and Sundays  8-10pmet .

               MSNBC anchor Joshua Johnson will connect everyday people, newsmakers and trailblazers for candid conversations about each week’s big stories, thinking through the challenges we all face and prepping viewers for the days ahead.

                                                              -via press release

              MSNBC is also bringing back the name of the program "Way Too Early" the original program replaced the repeat of "First Look" at 5:30amet, in 2009  and ran until 2016 when they replaced it and merged it with "First Look" to create "Morning Joe First Look" from 5-6amet.   Kasie Hunt  will be the new anchor of the program, this launches on September 21st.




Press release after the jump

Dcom Uses AI to make music : Pixel Prefect

Disney 

         You know about those concerts where they have now passed singer doing holographic shows which seems to be the weirdest thing ever? I think this movie is the reason why those things exists, at least in theory?   "Pixel Perfect"  is a Disney Channel original movie (duh) from 2004.  The fun thing there's also an "Arthur" episode where Arthur and friends find out that a band they like is all holograms, meaning the tech was so good that they were able to fake solidness. (That episode came out before this movie way before)   It is kind of strange that the concept of having musicians that aren't human be used.   We also can talk about Vocaloids but, we really should talk about this movie.

         It starts Ricky Ulluam , who at the time was also on Disney Channel's (probably second to last male leading star original series , yeah)  "Phil of the Future".   This is his only DCOM (Usually when I've talked about DComs they've had leading actors be in more than one film)   Ricky plays a teenager named Roscoe who can work computer  SCIENCE. He shows his friend , Sam, (played by Leah Pipes) a cat he made out of pixels (get it?!)  He's right his father isn't impressed by the fact he made a holographic cat.

                                          Woah man , what did I eat? / Copyright Disney


           Remember the Honda Element? This movie does, that's Roscoe's car. (Not really important to the movie just wanted to mention it) Also this movie takes place in Colorado because Colorado plates? (hmmm)  Sam has a band called the Zeta Bytes (get IT!) Sam is good at singing but not at singing and dancing therefore she's not good apparently.  The music guy says that people don't care about the sound they care about the image.  (MTV ruined everything)  Sam likes
Avril Lavigne because yes.   Also, there's a sub plot of Ricky and his father seem to be far detached from each other. 

          Ricky then gets an idea  where he creates a holographic girl named Loretta. He doesn't tell them about their band that she's not a hologram and they can't tell because that's how science works.  Lorretta is played by Spencer Redford. 

That's the power of  Gatorade/ Copyright Disney  

  

   I do like to talk about the music in these movies and this time a lot of the music was made for this movie.  Loretta Modern is a hologram, what?  They found out the fun way when Sam tripped and went right through Loretta.  We get this line later on , "You're in my liver".    Sam doesn't seem to like this idea much also, here's another important thing, they can't do outdoor concerts, because holograms don't work outdoors. (It's a union thing) 

          

                Why does Roscoe's dad park his car on a hill, what madness is this? There's a school dance  and it's time for Zeta Bytes to star and see if Loretta can pass the test. I think they got an A.  I think the A I model wants to be free and play in the radio.  I think Roscoe is falling in love with Loretta. There's a very awkward double date with Sam, Roscoe, some guy I don't care about, and Loretta.  Then the movie gets goofy for a second because it's also supposed to be a comedy.

people will do anything for social media clicks/ Copyright Disney 

 
               Roscoe asks Sam if he could keep Loretta because he's afraid his father will find out and bad things will happen or something.  Sam and Loretta don't seem to get along which is how most people feel about their Windows Vista computers. (yes we did a very out dated joke)  Later on Sam finds out that Roscoe used some of her features for Loretta , either that or he's going to kill her and is planning to use her body parts for something.  Meanwhile, people find out that Loretta is a hologram and they don't mind , in fact they are impressed!  Woah. 

               Now the Zeta Bytes are famous or something.  well mostly Loretta because yes.  This movie is actually better without trying to be comedy , as it does a good job with it's story message. Like how show that the music industry might care about the image more than the music (uhh Disney might be un self aware with that), if you create a holographic person are they a person? Especially, when Loretta wants to be more than a hologram and has emotions. 

     There's this scene that shows the internet in a fun way like a search engine being a guy driving a vehicle. It's really fun interpretation of the internet.  Sam figured out that Roscoe is in love with Loretta because yes and Sam states the obvious that she likes Roscoe.  Now it's time for Roscoe and his father to talk out stuff.


      Later, woah the music industry people want to work with the company Roscoe's dad works for to make more holographic singers  because they don't have to be paid ,fed , and stuff. (OOOH)  Loretta has also been purchased because as they said she's property not a person , in their words. Roscoe doesn't like that.  His father actually stands up for him as well.  The former rapper who works with the record company lets Loretta run through his phone to the internet. 

 Later  on Sam decides to pretend to be Loretta and falls over and injuries herself, and this movie has really gotten dark.  Loretta shows up at the hospital then she scarifies herself and goes inside Samantha's brain because that's how science works.    Then  movie turns into album covers.  Loretta works to convince the Sam in Sam's mind to come back to earth. Loretta decides to be creepy and take over Sam's body, but only to feel that rain. (I'm not taking back my creepy statement)  I mean the parents are confused and horrified.  Then She leaves Sam's body allowing Sam to come back and  Loretta is dead now. Yep.  Sam lives and it seems her band has become a slow jams group.


          I think Roscoe and Sam are together now or something.  Also Loretta became a ghost or something ? What?  Help! 

                    This movie is very good, for the most part it doesn't even feel like a standard Disney Channel movie or at least are more modern one.  I think it has a lot of questions that makes a viewer think about things. One of the things that makes a great contrast of how humans strive to be perfect but the thing that was prefect wanted to have imperfections and feel things.  The story is more dramatic but doesn't feel moody like I'm watching a Wb network show from the same time period.   Infact, that part where it gets goofy on the double date felt the most of place for the movie. 

First Watch: WGN America does News in Primetime

WGN America News Nation  Cable TV News  Opinion 

     From 1978 to 2014,  WGN America (known of a few years as Superstation WGN) beamed WGN TV channel 9 from Chicago to America.  It aired Chicago sports and WGN News. During the last decade of that time it aired WGN's  last hour of Midday news and the nine pm news. You even got the lottery.  WGN America pulled that in 2014.   Viewers who missed WGN Chicago news could watch online as modern world had allowed for that, but it was a change.

    In 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN, the first 24 hour cable news channel, over time though the idea of a cable news channel being there just for the news has kind of died.  In 2014,  Al Jazeera America tried and put on a good product , but it had low  ratings and when oil prices dropped AJ thought it would be better to cut loses and give up in 2016.  (AJ is owned by the Qatari government)   Most  American cable news is more about how to keep viewers watching with excessive use of breaking news, debates and annoyance.   MSNBC started as a news channel with NBC News and Mircosoft found success in not doing that and instead having opinion shows that lean politically left, doing the mirror of FOX News leaning to the right. 

              Cable news has  an average of 700,000 viewers watching their daily prime time programming, FOX news leans towards the 2 million mark, MSNBC in the 1 million. CNN tried middle of the road and doing the news, but their prime time has filled with panels or the anchors being talking heads themselves.    The prime time programming has become more join a camp you like and get daily affirmation.  It does make the country look more divided and like Twitter, doesn't offer a full picture of society because  they are fighting for a small amount of viewers compared to the population.  Most Americans trust local news over any  other media, with The Weather Channel  being the highest in trust for a national news channel.

       In 2019, Nexstar, a large local media conglomerate, bought the Tribune Company, which owned WGN and WGN America.  Nexstar owns mostly local TV stations whose main thing is local news. They have alot of them, the largest owner in the country. They have reporters at stations who work in the television markets  most national stories are someone's local story.

more after the jump

Freeform Announces 31 Nights of Halloween 2020 Programming

Freeform Halloween 

        It's that time of year again, and Freeform has announced their October 2020 "31 Night of Halloween" programming.
  They will have network premieres of "Hotel Transylvania 2" and "Hotel Transylvania 3"  , "The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" , "The Scorpion King"  and 2016 version  of "Ghostbusters" .  The programming event runs between October 1st and 31st on Freeform.


Thursday, Oct. 1
12:30p/11:30    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
3p/2c            Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
5p/4c              Casper (1995)
7p/6c            Hotel Transylvania
9p/8c            Hocus Pocus
12a/11c         Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Friday, Oct. 2
11a/10c                          The Goonies
1:30p/12:30c                  Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
3:05p/2:05c                    Casper (1995)
5:10p/4:10c                    Hotel Transylvania
7:15p/6:15c                    Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
8:55p/7:55c                    Beetlejuice
12-2a / 11-1c                  The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Saturday, Oct. 3
7a/6c                              Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins
7:30a/6:30c                    The Goonies
10a/9c                            Ghostbusters (1984)
12:30p/11:30c                Ghostbusters II
3:05p/2:05c                    Beetlejuice
5:10p/4:10c                    Hocus Pocus
7:20p/6:20c                    The Addams Family (1991)
9:25p/8:25c                    Addams Family Values
11:30p/10:30c                The Craft

Sunday, Oct. 4

7a/6c                              Ghostbusters (1984)
9:30a/8:30c                    Ghostbusters II
12p/11c                           Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2:05p/1:05c                     Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
3:05p/2:05c                     Casper (1995)
5:10p/4:10c                     The Addams Family (1991)
7:15p/6:15c                     Addams Family Values
9:20p/8:20c                     Hocus Pocus
11:30p/10:30c                 Sleepy Hollow (1999)


Monday, Oct. 5
11:30a/10:30c                 Casper (1995)
1:30p/12:30c                   Sleepy Hollow (1999)
4p/3c                               Ghostbusters (1984)
6:30p/5:30c                     Ghostbusters II
9p/8c                                Beetlejuice
12a/11c                            Boxtrolls

Tuesday, Oct. 6
11a/10c                             Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1:30p/12:30c                     Ghostbusters (1984)
4p/3c                                 Ghostbusters II
6:30p/5:30c                       Beetlejuice
8:30p/7:30c                       Hotel Transylvania
12a/11c                             Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Wednesday, Oct. 7
11a/10c                             Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
12p/11c                             Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
2p/1c                                 Matilda
4p/3c                                 Hotel Transylvania
6p-11p / 5-10c                   The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon
12a/11c                             Jumanji (1995)

Thursday, Oct. 8
12p/11c                             Matilda
2p/1c                                 Jumanji (1995)
4:30p/3:30c                       Goosebumps (2015)
7p/6c                                 The Addams Family (1991)
9p/8c                                 Addams Family Values
12a/11c                             Warm Bodies

Friday, Oct. 9
11:30a/10:30c                   The Mummy (1999)
2:20p/1:20c                       Goosebumps (2015)
4:45p/3:45c                       The Addams Family (1991)
6:50p/5:50c                       Addams Family Values
8:55p/7:55c                       Hocus Pocus
12-2a / 11-1c                     The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Saturday, Oct. 10
7a/6c                                  The Mummy (1999)
10a/9c                                The Mummy Returns
1:05-3:35p / 12:05-2:35c    The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon
3:35p/2:35c                         Casper (1995)
5:40p/4:40c                         Hotel Transylvania
7:45p/6:45c                         Freeform Premiere Hotel Transylvania 2
9:50p/8:50c                         Freeform Premiere Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
12a/11c                               Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Sunday, Oct. 11
7a/6c                                   The Mummy Returns
10:05a/9:05c                       Casper (1995)
12:10p/11:10c                      Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
1:50p/12:50c                        Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
3:30p/2:30c                          Hotel Transylvania
5:35p/4:35c                          Hotel Transylvania 2
7:40p/6:40c                          Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
9:50p/8:50c                          Twitches
11:55p/10:55c                      Twitches Too



Monday, Oct. 12
7a/6c                                     Freeform Premiere The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
12:30p/11:30c                      Halloweentown
2:30p/1:30c                          Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
4:30p/3:30c                          Scared Shrekless
5p/4c                                    Shrek
7p/6c                                    The Addams Family (1991)
9p/8c                                    Addams Family Values
12a/11c                                Freeform Premiere The Scorpion King

Tuesday, Oct. 13
11a/10c                                 The Goonies
1:35p/12:35c                         Scared Shrekless
2:05p/1:05c                           Shrek
4:10p/3:10c                           The Addams Family (1991)
6:15p/5:15c                            Addams Family Values
8:20p/7:20c                           Hocus Pocus
12a/11c                                 Casper (1995)

Wednesday, Oct. 14
1p/12c                                  Casper (1995)
3-9p / 2-8c                            The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon
9p/8c                                     Beetlejuice
12a/11c                                 Boxtrolls
7a/6c                                     Scream 3

Thursday, Oct. 15
7a/6c                                     Scream 3
11a/10c                                 Jumanji (1995)
1:30p/12:30c                         Beetlejuice
3:30p/2:30c                           Scream
6p/5c                                     Scream 2
8:30p/7:30c                           The Craft
12a/11c                                  Jumanji (1995)

Friday, Oct. 16
11:30a/10:30c                      The Craft
2p/1c                                    Matilda
4p/3c                                    Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
6p/5c                                    Disney and Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
6:30p/5:30c                          Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
8:30p/7:30c                          Disney and Pixar's Monsters University
12a/11c                                Disney and Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
12:30-2a / 11:30-1c              The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Saturday, Oct. 17
7a/6c                                     Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
8:55a/7:55c                           Matilda
10:55a/9:55c                        Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
12:35p/11:35c                       Ghostbusters (1984)
3:05p/2:05c                           Ghostbusters II
5:40p/4:40c                           Beetlejuice
7:45p/6:45c                           Hocus Pocus
9:55p/8:55c                           Halloweentown
12a/11c                                 Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge

Sunday, Oct. 18
7a/6c                                   Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
9:30-11a / 8:30-10c             The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon
11a/10c                                Twitches
1:05p/12:05c                        Twitches Too
3:05p/2:05c                          Beetlejuice
5:10p/4:10c                          Hocus Pocus
7:20p/6:20c                          The Addams Family (1991)
9:25p/8:25c                          Addams Family Values
11:30p/10:30c                      Gremlins




Monday, Oct. 19
11a/10c                                  Matilda
1p/12c                                   Gremlins
3:30p/2:30c                           Casper (1995)
5:30p/4:30c                           The Addams Family (1991)
7:30p/6:30c                           Addams Family Values
9:30p/8:30c                           Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
12a/11c                                  Matilda

Tuesday, Oct. 20
11a/10c                                  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1p/12c                                    Casper (1995)
3p/2c                                      Sleepy Hollow (1999)
5:30p/4:30c                            Ghostbusters (1984)
8p/7c                                      Ghostbusters II
12a/11c                                  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Wednesday, Oct. 21
11a/10c                                   Sleepy Hollow (1999)
1:30p/12:30c                           Ghostbusters (1984)
4p/3c                                       Ghostbusters II
6:30-11p / 5:30-10c                 The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon
12-2a / 11-1c                           The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Thursday, Oct. 22
11a/10c                                   Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
12:35p/11:35c                         Jumanji (1995)
2:35p/1:35c                             The Mummy (1999)
5:45p/4:45c                             The Mummy Returns
8:55p/7:55c                             Hocus Pocus
12a/11c                                   Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Friday, Oct. 23
11a/10c                                   Jumanji (1995)
1:30p/12:30c                           Scream
4p/3c                                       Scream 2
6:30p/5:30c                             Beetlejuice
8:30p/7:30c                             Sleepy Hollow (1999)
12-2a / 11-1c                           The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Saturday, Oct. 24
7a/6c                                        Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
8a/7c                                        Halloweentown
10:05a/9:05c                            Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
12:05p/11:05c                          Beetlejuice
2:10p/1:10c                              Sleepy Hollow (1999)
4:40p/3:40c                              Hocus Pocus
6:50p/5:50c                              The Addams Family (1991)
8:55p/7:55c                              Addams Family Values
11p/10c                                    Freeform Premiere Ghostbusters (2016)

Sunday, Oct. 25
7a/6c                                        Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
9a/8c                                        Ghostbusters (1984)
11:30a/10:30c                          The Craft
2p/1c                                        The Addams Family (1991)
4:05p/3:05c                              Addams Family Values
6:10p/5:10c                              Ghostbusters (2016)
9:20p/8:20c                              Hocus Pocus
11:30p/10:30c                          The Craft


Monday, Oct. 26
11a/10c                               Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
1p/12c                                Casper (1995)
3p/2c                                   Twitches
5p/4c                                   Twitches Too
7p/6c                                   Hotel Transylvania 2
9p/8c                                   Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
12-2a / 11-1c                       The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Tuesday, Oct. 27
11a/10c                               Casper (1995)
1p/12c                                 Scared Shrekless
1:30p/12:30c                       Jumanji (1995)
4p/3c                                   Hotel Transylvania 2
6p/5c                                   Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
8p/7c                                   Hocus Pocus
12-2a / 11-1c                       The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Wednesday, Oct. 28
12p/11c                               Jumanji (1995)
2:30p/1:30c                         Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
4:30p/3:30c                         Matilda
6:30p/5:30c                         Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
8:30p/7:30c                         Disney and Pixar's Monsters University
12-2a / 11-1c                       The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Thursday, Oct. 29

12p/11c                              Ghostbusters (1984)
2:30p/1:30c                        Ghostbusters II
5p/4c                                  Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
6:30p/5:30c                        Sleepy Hollow (1999)
9p/8c                                  Beetlejuice
12-2a / 11-1c                      The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Friday, Oct. 30

11a/10c                               Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
12:05p/11:05c                     Sleepy Hollow (1999)
2:35p/1:35c                         Beetlejuice
4:40p/3:40c                         Hocus Pocus
6:50p/5:50c                         The Addams Family (1991)
8:55p/7:55c                         Addams Family Values
12-2a / 11-1c                       The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror-thon

Saturday, Oct. 31

7a/6c                                   Twitches
9a/8c                                   Twitches Too
11a/10c                                Halloweentown
1p/12c                                  Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
3p/2c                                    Hocus Pocus
5:10p/4:10c                          The Addams Family (1991)
7:15p/6:15c                          Addams Family Values
9:20p/8:20c                          Hocus Pocus
11:30p/10:30c                      Ghostbusters (1984)

Press Release after the jump

NBC Tweaks Fall Premiere line up

NBC TV Look Fall 2020  Primetime 

   NBC like ,CBS and ABC,announced a full fall line up in the hopes that filming episodes could begin. They now have adjusted their premieres to adjust to delayed filming, due to Covid-19.  The plan is to have some series come back in October and November.   Comedy series, "Superstore" is set for October 22nd.  Dramas in November starting with the new season of "This is US" on November 10th. The Chicago series, Law and Order SVU, and Blacklist the same week starting November 11th.

 New Amsterdam, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Manifest and the new Law & Order: SVU spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime, are hoping to start January 1st, 2021.  Other series planned have been held to  2021, with those dates even more unknown. 

    They, previously announced that a series from Canada, "Transplant" , "American Ninja Warrior", "Ellen's Games of Games".  "The Voice" is hoping to get back on October 19th.  "Weakest Link"  and "Connecting..." also take up spots.

       
Details (all times ET)

SEPTEMBER
“Transplant” (Tuesday, 9/1, 10-11 p.m.)
“American Ninja Warrior” (Monday, 9/7, 8-10 p.m.)
“NBC Sunday Night Football” (Thursday, 9/10 and Sunday, 9/13, 8:20 p.m. ET)
“Weakest Link” (Monday, 9/28, 10-11 p.m.)
“Dateline NBC” (Friday, 9/25, 10-11 p.m.)

OCTOBER
“Connecting …” (Thursday, 10/1, 8:30-9 p.m.)
“Ellen’s Game of Games” (Tuesday, 10/6, 8-10 p.m., then shifting to 9-10 p.m. on 10/13)
“The Voice” (Monday, 10/19, 8-10 p.m., Tuesday, 10/20, 8-10 p.m. then switches to 8-9 p.m. on 10/27)
“Superstore” (Thursday, 10/22, 8-8:30 p.m.)

NOVEMBER
“This Is Us” (Tuesday, 11/10, 9-11 p.m.; returns to 9-10 p.m. on 11/17)
“Chicago Med” (Wednesday, 11/11, 8-9 p.m.)
“Chicago Fire” (Wednesday, 11/11, 9-10 p.m.)
“Chicago P.D.” (Wednesday, 11/11, 10-11 p.m.)
“Law & Order: SVU” (Thursday, 11/12, 9-10 p.m.)
“The Blacklist” (Friday, 11/13, 8-9 p.m.)

Press release after the Jump

ABC announces Unscripted Series premiere dates

ABC Primetime TVLookFall2020

   Much like CBS, ABC has had to find a way to get some fall programming, while slower filming happens due to the affects of the Covid-19 restrictions.   They have gone with their un scripted programming to fill in the gap.  They are hoping to get their scripted fall line up by November.

        "Dancing with the Stars" gets the first return starting on September 14th, with a new host ,Tyra Banks. 
 
        Thursday, September 24th, they launch an evening of game shows with "Family Feud" , "Press Your Luck", " and "Match Game"

       

       "The Bachelorette" which was moved from summer will make will be airing starting October 13th. 
   
       "Shark Tank" returns on October 16th.

       The new version  of "Supermarket Sweep" starts Sunday October 18th,surrounded by America's Funniest Home Videos,Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and  Card Sharks. 

Here's that in detail  (all times ET)


MONDAY, SEPT. 14
8:00-10:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”

THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Celebrity Family Feud”
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Press Your Luck”
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Match Game”



TUESDAY, OCT. 13
8:00-10:01 p.m. “The Bachelorette”



FRIDAY, OCT. 16
8:00-9:01 p.m. “Shark Tank”

SUNDAY, OCT. 18
7:00-8:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00-9:00 p.m. “Supermarket Sweep” (Series Premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
10:00-11:00 p.m. “Card Sharks”

Press release after the Jump

The Lookback: ABC Afterschool Special: Rookie of the Year

The Flashback 

           We dip into the ABC Afterschool  specials because we can and since we really love baseball here, might as well talk about a special that talks about baseball.  From 1973 we  have "Rookie of the Year" starring Jodie Foster.  This the first episode of the 2nd season of specials that first aired on October 3rd 1973.  

       For those that don't know, ABC After school Specials was an anthology series  that would air a few episodes a season on ABC in the afternoon. (Before broadcast TV went down hill).  The series ran from 1972 to 1997.   The idea was to present stories to children and teenagers to present stories that would be of interest to them.  The afternoon special became a joke line in TV series for series because of the note for dramatic and controversial story lines.               

      The episode we are looking is presented, in the scope of time, when girls were just started to be allowed to play little league baseball by 1974.  Many of these plotlines were based off books, in this case "Not Bad for a Girl" by Isabella Taves from 1972. The plot being an eleven-year old girl plays little league experiences hatred  for being a girl and playing baseball. 

             As I mentioned, this came out the same time as girls were allowed into little league.  From our wheelhouse talking about Peanuts, people would see girls on Charlie Brown's team and later with Peppermint Patty, as  well, having girls play sports like baseball way before 1974. In 1950, there was a girl named Kay Johnston who wanted to  play baseball.  She faked being a boy and played in little league, but told her coach later on that she was a girl, he liked how she played  and kept her on the team. Though, he wasn't the complete thought as many were angered that she was playing baseball.  Eventually, Little League officials said she couldn't play.  They named a rule of the nick name she used and for nearly 25 years that rule was place.  (source)  Lawsuits were coming into play by the late 60's and early 70's as new wave feminism had become the way of the times  and by 1974 things had buckled. (source)  I'm keeping that simplified as I want to go the special now, but wanted to provide historical context. 

      more after the jump 

CBS announces their plans for September and October 2020

TV News TVLookFall2020  CBS Primetime 

       With Covid-19 restrictions still affecting filming , CBS has found that they needed to do a plan b as programming for fall will be delayed , for some time.     They are tapping into programs they've held over, or from CBS All Access, expect other networks like NBC and ABC to figure out their crumbs as well.  Their hopes are for regular series to able to air starting in November.


      Their crime investigation news magazine, "48 Hours" will have a special Wednesday edition on September 9th at 10pm/9c and its new season starts on September 12th at 10pmet.


   "60 Minutes" returns on September 20th airing at its normal 7pmet, or after football.   Also from CBS News, there's  "The FBI Declassified" which premieres October 13th at  10/9c. 

      Series from CBS All Access make their way to CBS, to fill in gaps as well.  This includes, "Manhunt: Deadly Games", makes it's broadcast premiere on September 21st at 10/9c, airing Mondays.  the first season of "Star Trek : Discovery" airing  Thursdays at 10/9c  starting  September 24th. 

   "Love Island" has its 2nd season finale on September 29th.   The 22nd Season Finale of  "Big Brother" will air on October 28th.   "The Amazing Race" which was a holdover from airing last season, will start on on Wednesday, October 14th  at 9pmet ; with a it's new time slot of 8pmet, Starting October 28th.

    The series that ran on sister network, Pop TV, "One Day at Time" will re air it's 4th season on CBS starting  October 12th in an hour long slot from 9-10pmet.

 
Full details in Press release, after the Jump