Into the Twilight: A Nice Place to Visit ( From The Original Series)

Twilight Zone  The Flashback 

        Back to the original series for our "Into the Twilight" series, this is an episode coming from season 1 it's episode 28 called "A  Nice Place to Visit".    This happens to be our second look at the something from the original series, and we really should dip into it more.  

         This episode about a man named Henry Francis Valentine but goes by the name Rocky.  He was robbing a pawn shop and when he's running from police he gets cornered and lets out a shot and starts to climb away and gets shot.  Anyway later on, he gets woken up by a man named Pip.  Pip is a man in an all white suit (played by Sebastian Cabot). Now Rocky is a little confused because he does remember getting shot and etc. (Fun thing to remember)  He also wonders how Pip knows his name and stuff about him like his likes.   Pip says his job is to give Rocky anything he wants  and Rocky is of course suspicious because this doesn't happen.  Rocky asks for Pip's wallet and Pip gives him $700 in cash. ( I said wallet!, oh well anyway) 

Money? I wanted your wallet!/Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Pip takes him to a fancy home and says that it's Rocky's house.  Rocky is a little suspicious since people don't normally get free fancy houses with fancy stuff. (Usually) The episode wants to make us invested by also making us wonder what's going on here, when saw this guy get shot and now he's getting these rewards. We can already infer some things that could have happened, but the episode is not showing its hand too much to give us a conclusion yet.   When the food comes Rocky gets suspicious again and wants Pip to eat it, but Pip says that he hasn't eaten in centuries,  Rocky decides to start shooting Pip but nothing happens to the guy  and he figures out that Pip isn't of this Earth.  

In heaven, you have guns some how/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Rocky figures out that he's dead and figures out the place he is in heaven. He thinks Pip is an angel and this makes him happy and starts asking for stuff.  He starts to have fun and goes to casino (they have guns and casinos in heaven? Interesting)  

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My Network TV Line Up for the 2021-22 Season

My Network TV 

        My Network TV is coming up to its 15 year on the air and has revealed its 2021-22 TV schedule.  This season they are adding "Chicago Fire" which includes other series from Dick Wolf and Universal TV.    

           The  My Network TV schedule starts on September 13.  Chicago Fire will be airing Tuesday Nights replacing  Law & Order: Criminal Intent.   

    Here is the line up (note: in some markets My Network TV stations air programming at different times than here, some stations air programming later in the evening and or overnight) 

     Monday 

    8pm  Law &Order: SVU

    9pm  Law& Order : SVU 

      Tuesday

     8pm  Chicago Fire  (new addition) 

     9pm  Chicago Fire  (new addition) 

    Wednesday 

    8pm  Dateline 

    9pm  Dateline 

     Thursday

   8pm  Dateline 

   9pm Chicago P.D  (new night) 

  Friday 

8pm  Chicago P.D.   (new night) 

9pm  Chicago P.D    (new night) 

    

2021 Primetime Emmys Nominations

Emmys  Awards

    The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy award nominations have been announced. The Award Show airs on CBS on Sunday, September 19 at 8pmet /5pm pt. 

 Here are the nominations 

Comedy

Lead Actress, Comedy

Aidy Bryant, "Shrill"

Kaley Cuoco, "The Flight Attendant"

Allison Janney, "Mom"

Tracee Ellis Ross, "Black-ish"

Jean Smart, "Hacks"

Lead Actor, Comedy

Anthony Anderson, "Black-ish"

Michael Douglas, "The Kominsky Method"

William H. Macy, "Shameless"

Jason Sudeikis, "Ted Lasso"

Kenan Thompson, "Kenan"

Supporting Actress, Comedy

Hannah Einbinder, "Hacks"

Aidy Bryant, "SNL"

Kate McKinnon, "SNL"

Cecily Strong, "SNL"

Juno Temple, "Ted Lasso"

Hannah Waddingham, "Ted Lasso"

Rosie Perez, "The Flight Attendant"

Supporting Actor, Comedy

Carl Clemons-Hopkins, "Hacks"

Kenan Thompson, "SNL"

Bowen Yang, "SNL"

Brett Goldstein, "Ted Lasso"

Brendan Hunt, "Ted Lasso"

Nick Mohammed, "Ted Lasso"

Jeremy Swift, "Ted Lasso"

Paul Reiser, "The Kominsky Method"


Guest Actress, Comedy

Jane Adams, "Hacks"

Yvette Nicole Brown, "A Black Lady Sketch Show"

Bernadette Peters, "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist"

Issa Rae, "A Black Lady Sketch Show"

Maya Rudolph, "SNL"

Kristen Wiig, "SNL"

Guest Actor, Comedy

Alec Baldwin, "SNL"

Dave Chappelle, "SNL"

Morgan Freeman, "The Kominsky Method"

Daniel Kaluuya, "SNL"

Daniel Levy, "SNL"

Comedy Series

"Black-ish" (ABC)

"Cobra Kai" (Netflix)

"Emily in Paris" (Netflix)

"Hacks" (HBO Max)

"The Flight Attendant" (HBO Max)

"The Kominsky Method" (Netflix)

"Pen15" (Hulu)

"Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Lead Actress, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Michaela Coel, "I May Destroy You"

Cynthia Erivo, "Genius: Aretha"

Elizabeth Olsen, "WandaVision"

Anya Taylor-Joy, "The Queen's Gambit"

Kate Winslet, "Mare of Easttown"

Lead Actor, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Paul Bettany, "WandaVision"

Hugh Grant, "The Undoing"

Ewan McGregor, "Halston"

Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Hamilton"

Leslie Odom, Jr., "Hamilton"

Supporting Actress, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Phillipa Soo, "Hamilton"

Renee Elise Goldsberry, "Hamilton"

Jean Smart, "Mare of Easttown"

Julianne Nicholson, "Mare of Easttown"

Moses Ingram, "The Queen's Gambit"

Kathryn Hahn, "WandaVision"

Supporting Actor, Limited Series, Movie or Anthology

Daveed Diggs, "Hamilton"

Jonathan Groff, "Hamilton"

Anthony Ramos, "Hamilton"

Paapa Essiedu, "I May Destroy You"

Evan Peters, "Mare of Easttown"

Thomas Brodie-Sangster, "The Queen's Gambit"

Limited Series

"I May Destroy You" (HBO)

"Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

"The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

"The Underground Railroad" (Amazon Prime)

"WandaVision" (Disney+)

Made-For-Television Movie

"Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square" (Netflix)

"Oslo" (HBO)

"Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia" (Lifetime)

"Sylvie's Love" (Amazon Prime)

"Uncle Frank" (Amazon Prime)

CBS Announces Premiere Dates

CBS  TVLookFall2021  Premiere Dates 

        

        CBS has released premiere dates for the fall season.  With a note they will be a airing the first four episodes of SEAL Team's 5th season before it moves to Paramount Plus.   

  Here's a full listings (reminder all times ET unless otherwise stated) 

Sunday, September 12 

7:30-8:30pm  60 Minutes (Season Premiere) 

Saturday, September 18

10pm 48 Hours (35th Season Premiere) 

Sunday, September 19

5-8pmpt/ 8-11pm et   73rd Annual Emmy Awards 

Monday, September 20

8pm  The Neighborhood (4th Season Premiere) 

8:30pm Bob ♥ Abishola (3rd Season Premiere) 

9pm  NCIS  (19th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

10pm  NCIS : Hawai'i (Series premiere) 

Tuesday, September 21 

8pm  FBI (4th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

9pm  FBI: Most Wanted ( 3rd Season Premiere;  special time) 

10pm  FBI : International (Series Premiere; special time) 

Wednesday,  September 22

8-10pm   Survivor ( 2 Hour Season 41 Premiere) 

10-11pm  Big Brother

Sunday, September 26

7-8pm 60 Minutes (regular time slot) 

8-9pm Big Brother 

9-11pm   The Tony Awards Present : Broadway's Back!

 Tuesday, September 28

8pm  FBI 

9PM FBI: International  ( regular time slot ) 

10pm  FBI : Most Wanted  (regular time slot) 

Wednesday, September 29

8pm Survivor (regular time slot)  

9pm Big Brother  (Live Season Finale) 

Friday, October 1

8pm S.W.A.T (5th Season premiere; new time slot) 

9pm  Magnum P.I (4th Season premiere) 

10pm  Blue Bloods  (12th Season premiere) 

Wednesday, October 6

8pm  Survivor 

9pm Tough As Nails  (3rd Season premiere; new time slot) 

10pm  CSI: Vegas (series premiere) 

Thursday, October 7

8pm  Young Sheldon (5th Season Premiere) 

8:30pm  United States of Al (2nd Season Premiere) 

9pm  Ghosts (Series Premiere) 

9:30pm B Positive (2nd Season Premiere) 

10pm  Bull (6th Season Premiere; new time slot) 

Sunday, October 10

7pm  60 Minutes 

8pm  The Equalizer (2nd Season premiere) 

9pm  NCIS : Los Angeles (13th Season premiere) 

10pm  SEAL Team (5th Season premiere; new time slot) 

Friday, October 22

8pm  The Activist (Series Premiere) 

Friday, December 3 

8pm  S.W.A.T (Continues season 5) 

Press Release after the jump 

A Brief Moment In to the Twilight: Ye Gods

The Flashback 

    

        Previously, we looked at a 1985 "Twilight Zone" episode "If she Dies" since the 1985 series episodes have segments, that means we have the other segment in that episode to cover.  This is from episode 5,the other segment  "Ye Gods" this episode is from October 25,1985.

Not love at First Sight/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

           Our main character is named Todd Ettinger (played by actor David Dukes) and he bumps into a woman and apparently  thinks that these two should be a couple and sprinkles magic love dust on them. (The eighties dust?)   They awkwardly share an exchange  but they don't start just making out and cupid follows him and wonders why they didn't fall in love. He's mad at yuppies. Cupid meets with Todd and wants to know why he doesn't fall in love.  At first, Todd doesn't think this man is cupid but he proves that he his at least magic by melting his phone. (that's a mess) 

No, I guess I don't want to change long distance carriers/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

        Cupid gets mad and shoots three love arrows into Todd and walks away. Todd sees the woman again and starts to give chase to her (that's how love works in the 80's ) but he can't get to her.  Todd wants to talk to her.  Todd talks to his co worker that he feels hollow even with all the nice stuff he has, he wants love. (those arrows have side effects) 

What's the point of wanting a yacht if I can't marry it?/ Copyright Viacom CBS

            Todd can't sleep because he keeps having sexy 80's music dreams about her.  So he decides the next day to find  Bacchus, the god of wine making, because Cupid mentioned him earlier. Thankfully, he finds the god in the phone book.  (You can't do that on Bing)  He finds Bacchus and Cupid at a fancy dinner party.  He finds out that Cupid is depressed because he and a fury named Megaera (because we going Greek here) had split up and decides to help Cupid get back with her. 

I'm the god of business and wine/ Copyright ViacomCBS

             Todd the logical thing of using an incantation to get Megaera to show up. (She's not in the phone book, apparently)  She does (played by Carolyn Seymour)  and she seems angry. Anyway she's mad because she thinks Cupid wants to be with mortals (in the loving way). She was angry enough to turn the woman she thought Cupid wanted into a tree frog.   Anyway, Todd plays fix it by calling Bacchus to help him get Cupid and Megaera together to talk it out. (Inviting two gods into his office might be a bad idea) 

We're going to tear this office down/ Copyright Viacom CBS

         Cupid and Megaera after some yelling seem to make up (The little heart effect graphic helps)   and they stare into each other eyes for a long time then a long kiss.  After leaving them alone for awhile, he finds out they left out the window with the window washers.  Todd is annoyed  that he still has unrequited love.  Todd decides to do some comfort shopping and gets rear ended  and finds out that woman was the lady he met before and the sexy 80's music is back and loving happens.  The episode ends with these two kissing in the middle of the street. 

Here on Chopper5 we are showing you this couple kissing in the road, expect delays/ Copyright ViacomCBS 

            

        It's a pretty quirky and weird episode, but I do like how the main character kind of learned the point Cupid was giving him that he should try to maybe focus on things more than just his working life and fancy stuff that's a nice little touch.  The idea to have the Greek gods be modernized was pretty interesting, this segment had some charm to it and it was pretty entertaining for what it was.  

     That does it for now, tune in next time, when we try match making two strangers only to find out  that we shouldn't use arrows. 

            

The Lookback: Disney's One Saturday Morning / ABC Kids (Rewrite Edition)

The Flashback  ABC  Children's TV 

      Another one of our rewrites of a previously done post, continues with us looking at Disney's One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids once again. You can read our original post here.     So let's see if we can improve upon that one  and see what happens. 

        Disney's One Saturday Morning in sense starts the final trend of Saturday morning network kids programming.  This is also an example of how media was changing and ownerships were part of that.  On July 31, 1995, The Walt Disney Company announced it wanted to buy Capital Cities/ABC. (In hindsight, this may have been a bad idea)   Thus this eventually allowed in early 1996. I'm going to keep this to the block's relvantacy, or we'd be here all day. (Yes, thankyou)  Disney's children's tv focus was  The Disney Afternoon, but that block was dying. It had everything going against it in 1995, that would now both the WB and UPN having a kids block in the afternoon. These were stations that used to air the Disney afternoon; Fox Kids was also running.  It was dying, first the name then later the whole block. Meanwhile, Disney was also offering its programming on ABC and CBS already, along with The Disney Chanel, which comes into our story soon.  

     1996 was the setting year, like Disney bought ABC and was trying to figure out things. The Fall 1996 line up on ABC Sat AM was including some Disney made stuff, already. They had plans in the works. Enter, Peter Hastings, he had left Warner Bros and came to Disney and one of the things to bring in was  a new concept of a Saturday Morning block. 

“Disney and ABC had been looking for a way to frame Saturday morning to make it look different and set it apart from programming on other networks,” explains Hastings. “I thought of basing the show on the concept that Saturday mornings were different from the rest of the week, with each day represented by a special building...

                      ----Peter Hastings, 1997

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CW Fall Premiere Dates

The CW Primetime TVLOOKFall2021

 

      The CW returns to form with their fall 2021 fall premiere dates, after a pandemic set up last year, this season they hope to return to normal that means the CW tradition of starting their new seasons in October.   The CW fall starts on October 1st, and this season has Saturday nights. Some notciable missing shows  like " The Outpost"  "Stargirl" ,"Roswell", "Charmed","Dynasty" , and "In the Dark" which are coming in 2022 instead. 

 Here's the premiere dates all time ET (and things can change between now and then so be aware, we'll try to update anything we can) 

     Friday, October 1

 8pm  Penn & Teller : Fool Us (Season Premiere) 

Friday, October 8

8pm  Penn & Teller : Fool Us ( Original Episode) 

9pm  Nancy Drew (Season Premiere) 

Saturday, October 9

8pm  Whose Line is it Anyway? (Season Premiere) 

8:30pm  Whose Line is it Anyway? (Original Episode) 

9pm  World's Funniest Animals (Season Premiere) 

9:30pm  World's Funniest  Animals (Season Premiere) 

Sunday, October 10 

8pm  Legends of The Hidden Temple (New Series Premiere) 

9pm  Killer Camp (Season Premiere) 

Wednesday, October 13 

8pm  DC'S Legends of Tomorrow (Season Premiere) 

9pm  Batwoman (Season Premiere) 

Thursday, October 14

8pm Coroner (Original Episode) 

9pm Legacies (Season Premiere) 

Monday, October 25 

8pm All American (Season Premiere) 

9pm  4000 (New Series Premiere) 

Thursday, October 28 

8pm  Walker (Season Premiere) 

9pm Legacies (Original Episode) 

Tuesday, November 16

8pm The Flash (Season Premiere) 

9pm  Riverdale (Season Premiere) 

Press release after the Jump

One Shot Posts: Rugrats: Chuckie Loses His Glasses

Rugrats Nickelodeon One Shot Posts 

         So, Rugrats, as of this writing, is returning with a new remade series that's done in 3D animation because reasons and coming to the streaming service number 9,425 or Paramount Plus (formerly known as CBS All Access) ." Rugrats" is my favorite Nickelodeon animated series of all time, and I thought this would be a good time do a One Shot Post about an episode. 

     So today, we are looking at Season 2 Episode 16a: "Chuckie Loses His Glasses"/ 

   Since the first thing you notice about Chuckie is wild red hair... oh ok the second thing you notice about Chuckie is that he wears a glasses. (Fun fact: Chuckie is my favorite Rugrat) This episode revolves around the idea of  "What if Chuckie cant' see?" (What?)  The episode  sets up stuff that a) it's raining and b) Chuckie is worried that Angelia might be mad at him for eating two of her crayons. (eww) They get the parents out of the way because we need this plot to plot. (yeah!) 

         Since it's raining (no government today, because it's raining) they have to be trapped inside, so they need a game to do and Angelica decides to do hide-n-seek (or hide and go seek). Angelica being Angelica and she likes to pick on Chuckie so she decides to make Chuckie "it" because she's mad. Also Angelica tells Chuckie to take off his eyes. (what?)  Good thing she means the glasses (his extras eyes or this would be a dark episode)  Angelica uses the moment of him counting to take his glasses.  So apparently, thanks to Chuckie's vision being not good, he sees strange shapes and thinks they are monsters and junk. The episode's music and visuals are on great display as always. The friends think Chuckie is just trying to get them to stop hiding by faking he's needing help. (Uhh, guys I'm being mauled by a bear! Help !  Nice Try!) 

   

          If this is how Chuckie sees the world without his glasses, he's more scared than he is when he can see clearly. (Now the rain is gone)  Chuckies maunders the house and finally gets Spike to be his seeing eye dog.( I wish we could ride dogs)  He wants Spike to find Tommy for him, inspeaking of Tommy, he thinks Chuckie is in trouble.  Meanwhile, Angelica  continues her chaos reign.  He puts Chuckie's glasses on and gets dizzy then tells everyone that Chuckie is dead. (what?)  She literally says dead , that's not one of my jokes. 

          Back to her being dizzy,  Tommy says they need to keep looking, and now Tommy has the glasses. Chuckie and Spike are outside because that's where Spike too him, because he's a dog and doing dog things.  Tommy gets the idea to "wear Chuckie's eyes) and he thinks that's how Chuckie sees the world (top joke, this episode) Poor Chuckie gives up and just swings in the rain.   I like the parallel of Tommy finding a bag of vegetables and thinking they are Chuckie  and Chuckie thinking a bush is his friends. 

    

         Chuckie steps on glasses that are outside, thinks that they are his and starts to cry, thankfully Tommy hears him and finds him.  Chuckie can see again (it's  a miracle!)  Now that's fine, Angelica was feeling bad from the glasses and throws up on her dad's sweater.  Also the glasses that were broken were Grandpa Lou's. It ends with the young mocking the old.  

       

     Pretty fun episode, good jokes and humor, shows the show's strength of great visuals to make the world look distorted to Chuckie, Angelica, and Tommy's vision.   Episode is pretty fun to watch, I love its atmosphere and set up to get things going. This is a  premium Rugrats episode.  

  

  Anyway, that's it for now, tune in next time, when we take someone's eyes. (wait noooo) 

[POST SCRIPT :  If  you are reading this in May of 2021, the remake series comes out on May 27th on Paramount Plus, I'm not too sure if I'm going to like it, the animation style kind of throws me off, I may or may not write about something from it.  You can watch the original series currently on Hulu and Paramount Plus ]