Weekendering: The Weekenders : Season 2: Episode 1: Radio Drama/ The Tradition

The Weekenders Disney 

    Previously  on Joshuaonline, we looked at the series "The Weekenders" through the entirety of Season 1.   Which you can read starting from here . Then there was a backlog and a mess and some other stuff, so ooh... anyway. 

   

     We are starting our look at season 2. This season was longer than season 1 so it had 13 episodes with 25 segments.  This season started on ABC on September 9, 2000.  

   

  Basic premise of the show in case you want to jump into season 2 without reading about season 1 is 4 friends  hanging out and doing things on the weekend. The show mostly takes place from Friday afternoon to Sunday night.  The episodes are about  middle schoolers named Tino Tonitini,  Lor McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Tish Katsufrakis  who hang out and life lessons on the best days of kid life.  

   

          What makes this show fun is that it can do that, whilst making fun stories that happen only on a certain part of time, it's like how Recess can do that with well, recess. 

    Let's get started...  

 Episode 1a: Radio Drama 

  

          Tino, Lor, and Carver want to spend a nice do nothing weekend but since that won't be interesting to the viewers, Tish comes in with the plot: she wants her friends to join her in working on a radio play for a contest. She just signed her friends up to work on a radio play and well the other three aren't as interested as say Tish. 

   

          Tish wants to do it because of college stuff. (yes) She convinces her friends to decide to do a play.  Well kind of, they don't want to do hard work and let Tish do everything, which might be a mistake. (If you've been paying attention, it will be)  Tish's play is about a story from her parents' homeland, she changed the setting to the pre Civil War south , because what Californians know best is the period of America in the South before 1861. (Also all the kids love that time period, they won't shut up about it) 

         The episode does show that Tish kind of went overboard on this play like making them wear costumes (for a radio play, which makes it funnier when after that question is asked, they are back to their normal clothes.) Later at the pizza shop, the friends tell Tish they are quitting because Tish is being too controlling. 

  

        This fight doesn't last long because they to have Tish maybe try something else.  She comes back later and changes the play to a story about Minnesota, zombies and marriage and something.  It sounds more insane now.  This goes badly.  So Thankfully, they decide this isn't working and make a fun play instead.  It skips to next Friday, where they won with their fun play.   

    

      A simple episode with some fun to it. The episode doesn't hamper down with it's conflicts it and does a way to show that there's no direct wrong and right persons, but that they were all kind of a mess not understanding each other and also not having fun.  A  good episode and a good start to the new season.  7/10 

 We continue after the jump

2022 Primetime Emmy's Nominations

Emmys  Primetime 

        The 74th  Emmy Awards take place on September 12 on NBC, and today the nominations are out. 

Outstanding comedy series

“Abbott Elementary”

“Barry”

“Curb Your Enthusiasm”

“Hacks”

“Only Murders in the Building”

“Ted Lasso”

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

“What We Do in the Shadows”


Lead actor in a comedy series

Donald Glover, “Atlanta”

Bill Hader, “Barry”

Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”

Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”

Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”

Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”

Lead actress in a comedy series

Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”

Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”

Elle Fanning, “The Great”

Issa Rae, “Insecure”

Jean Smart, “Hacks”

Supporting actor in a comedy series

Anthony Carrigan, “Barry”

Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso”

Toheed Jimoh, “Ted Lasso”

Nick Mohammed, “Ted Lasso”

Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary”

Henry Winkler, “Barry”

Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live”

Supporting actress in a comedy series

Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”

Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”

Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”

Sarah Niles, “Ted Lasso”

Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”

Juno Temple, “Ted Lasso”

Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso”

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The CW Announces Fall Premiere Dates

TVLookFall 2022   The CW 

        The newer leaner uncertain future CW has released it's fall premiere dates.  In true CW fashion they will premiere their fall in October, minus DC's StarGirl which starts August 31.  

   

      The CW line up has debuts of new legal drama Family Law, A Walker spinoff prequel : Walker Independence, and a Supernatural prequel The Winchesters. 

  

 Here's the line up all  times ET/PT/ Denver and Saint Louis (unless other wise noted) 

       

Wednesday, August 31 

8pm DC's Stargirl 

9pm Wellington Paranormal (Original Episode) 

9:30  Wellington Paranormal (Encore Episode)

Sunday, October 2

8pm  Family Law (Series Premiere) 

9pm Coroner (Series Premiere) 

Wednesday, October 5

8pm DC'S Stargirl (Original Episode) 

9pm  Kung Fu (Season Premiere) 

Thursday, October 6 

8pm  Walker (Season Premiere) 

9pm  Walker : Independence (Series Premiere) 

Friday,  October  7

8-10pm  I heartradio Music Festival (night one) 

Saturday,  October 8 

8-10pm  I heartradio Music Festival (night two)

Monday,  October  10 

8pm  All American (Season Premiere) 

9pm All American : Homecoming (Season Premiere) 

Tuesday, October 11

8pm The Winchesters (Series Premiere) 

9pm Professionals (Series Premiere) 

Friday,  October  14 

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

9pm  Whose Line is it Anyway? (Season Premiere) 

9:30pm Whose Line is Anyway? (Encore Episode)  

Saturday,  October  22

8pm   Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars (Series Premiere) 

9pm World's Funniest Animals (Season Premiere) 

9:30pm World's Funniest Animals (Original episode) 

Press Release after the Jump

The Lookback: The Kids of Degrassi Street: Irene Moves In

Degrassi 

         

       Previously on Joshuaonline, we've looked at The Kids of Degrassi Street  both the pilot and second special  , now we take a look at the third  special, we've not reached the when it became a series status yet.  

  

    This is from 1981, we look  at "Irene Move  In".  

         It's fall (yay) and we get two plots this time: there's talk that BigFoot as been spotted and a new family is moving on to Degrassi Street (roll those credits).   

Irene moves in on to our turf/ Copyright Degrassi 

  

   Going with the second plot and the plot the episode is named after , Ida is not happy that another person has moved into the neighborhood, her brother, Fred, is like no what are you doing? You're judging before you her. Ida's mother says the same thing later when Ida mentions that she can tell someone's personality from one glance. Her mother says that she should visit her.  Irene meets Cookie, Ida, and Noel.  Yeah the third special has the same cast as the first two. 

Reoccurring huh?

        You can feel the awkwardness between Ida and Irene mostly, especially when Irene asks her about her dad. (oops) He's away in the west and this implies the parents are divorced. Irene asks if they would like to play with her and Cookie goes with her  tomorrow.  Irene thinks that Ida is mean, and Cookie explains that sometimes she's bossy, but they are friends, and Ida can be good friend.

            Ida shows up trying to get Cookie to come to their club (see episode 2)and well everything she tires to not have Irene join backfires because yes. (she's 9)  Cookie decides to avoid the club that day and Ida joins her.  Ida tells Noel what Irene is bossy and is trying to take Cookie way from being their friend (oooh)  and something has to be done about it. (uhh murder?) 

I'm going to make Irene move out...permanently 

            It's not just fall, it's almost Halloween.  Ida keeps watching Cookie and Irene having a good time each other, well kind of, because it becomes  a mess when she hears Cookie doesn't want stars on her hat , and Irene insists.  Ida comes over it gets into a mess and Irene ends up with paint on her. The shot looks like she got shot, but with yellow paint blood.  Irene accuses her of doing it on purpose. (It's washable paint, right?) 

                                                              Ida makes a murder.. 

            Later, Ida tries to ask Cookie if she's going to the club , then Irene shows up in the same Cookie house (odd way to say that) and Irene tells her Cookie can't come because she's going to a movie.  The Big Foot plot comes back too as Noel goes to tell Irene and Cookie that he found a Big Foot foot print. (It's a big foot) Ida dressed up in a Noel's Halloween mask and a fur coat? I think. 

        Then Ida tells Irene that Big Foot wouldn't eat her anyway since she stinks. (which is a choice) Irene yells at her that she'll never like her and runs off.  Then, Cookie gets mad at Ida because of that and they she decides to stop being friends too.  Noel walks off too.   

        Ida is adamite that she doesn't want Irene to join the club. She's bored and asks her brother to hang out with him. She tells him she doesn't have friends and more and Fred says that if she wasn't so bossy she wouldn't have lost them. 

        Ida's mother says that Irene is coming over the next evening because  she and Irene's mother are working on the election.  So, it becomes an "I'm not talking to you think" which annoys Fred (same) who's watching them. (poor guy)   Fred walks away for his sanity. Cookie is staying there too because we need someone to fix this monotony. 

Fred realized he has lost control of his life 

    The Bigfoot thing really is being driven into this plot, that night they hear noise. (Oh no it's Santa! yay!)  Ida and Irene get up from the bed see a dog, but think it's Big Foot (same difference?)  They all go downstairs to take a picture of the beast, from a safe distance.  Fred wakes up when he hears the noise and wonders why the freaked out. (not a dog) 

        They have a blurry picture because that's what happens.  Anyway it seems the Irene and Ida have forgiven each other and things seem to be a thing now and Irene is allowed to join the club.  The special ends with a  Halloween party. 

      This one is straight forward in what story it's telling. Someone new moves in and Ida is worried that things might not go well and ends up causing the problem she thought would happen by nature.  Showing the nature of what Degrassi would be trying to go for through it's entirety - simple realistic issues being brought to a forefront. It's simply explained, why does Ida not like Irene, she just doesn't it's not grand it's not a long story it's trying to figure out why, it's just is, and sometimes that happens. Also, it's cool to see how the opening minute sets up everything, even the dog. 

    You can see that Irene figured it out early that Ida doesn't like her and tries to channel it her own way.  I like how this one and the last one both involve the club in someway where last time Cookie wanted to join and this time Irene wanted to join. 

    

    The episode also shows that Irene is new and wanted to be fitting in with the neighborhood any you understand her motivations as well. That's what drives the tension. The Big Foot story also blends in well, it fits with childhood stories and it works to drive the plot and give a good resolution.   It takes a good use of a simple stories and does it well to make investment in watching it worth it.  It plays it realistically but not boring. 

    That's it for now, tune in next time, when Ida judges you. 

         

NBC Announces Fall Premiere Dates

NBC TVLookFall 2022 

 NBC has released it's fall premiere schedule .  Most of the line up will come start during the first two weeks of the fall 2022-23 season. Which starts September 19.  That's the night  The Voice and the Quantum Leap sequel will debut.  The Friday block with comedies won't be starting until November 4.   NBC's Chicago night has it's premieres on September 21, Law and Order series, the next night.  La Brea returns on September 27.   Sunday Night Football stars on September 11, the annual opening game is on  September 8.   

     Anyway, here's the full dates, all times are ET/PT unless otherwise noted 

Thursday September 8

8:15pm ET/ 5:15pm PT   NFL Kickoff Game 

Friday, September 9

8pm  College Bowl 

Sunday, September 11

7pm ET/4PM PT : Football Night in America 

8:15p/5:15pm PT  Sunday Night Football 

Friday, September 16

9pm  Dateline 

Monday, September 19

8pm The Voice

10pm Quantum Leap 

Tuesday, September 20 

8pm The Voice 

10pm  New Amsterdam 

Wednesday, September 21 

8pm Chicago Med

9pm  Chicago Fire

10pm  Chicago PD 

Thursday, September 22 

8pm Law & Order 

9pm  Law & Order: SVU

10pm Law & Order : Organized Crime 

Saturday, September 24

9pm  Dateline Mystery 

Tuesday, September 27

9pm  La Brea 

Friday, November 4

8pm Lopez vs. Lopez 

8:30pm Young Rock 

Press Release after the jump

CBS Announces Fall 2022 Premiere Dates

TVLOOKFALL 2022   CBS 

     

CBS has released it's fall premiere dates.  The network will start it's premieres during "premiere week" from Monday, September 19.   There is one change from the upfront line up  : new dating series The Real Love Boat moves from 10pm to 9pm with a swap with "The Amazing Race"  The line up otherwise, is stable in CBS fashion. 

Here are the premiere dates , all times ET/Pt (unless otherwise noted) 

Saturday, September 17

10pm  48 Hours  (Season Premiere) 

Sunday, September 18 

7:30pm 60 minutes (55th Season Premiere) 

 

Monday, September 19  

8pm The Neighborhood  (Season Premiere)

8:30 Bob ♥  Abishola      (Season Premiere)

9pm  NCIS                      (Season Premiere)

10PM   NCIS: Hawai'i   (Season Premiere)

Tuesday, September 20

8pm  FBI                           (Season Premiere)

9pm FBI: International      (Season Premiere)

10PM FBI: Most Wanted  (Season Premiere)

Wednesday, September 21 

8-10pm  Survivor                   (Season Premiere)

10pm   The Amazing Race   (Season Premiere)

Sunday, September 25

8-10pm Big Brother (season finale) 

Wednesday, September 28

8-9:30pm  Survivor 

9:30-11pm  The Amazing Race

Thursday, September 29 

8pm  Young Sheldon     (Season Premiere)

8:30  Ghosts                   (Season Premiere) (New Time Period)

9pm  So Help Me Todd  (Series Premiere)

10plm  CSI: Vegas          (Season Premiere)

Sunday, October 2 

7:30pm  60 Minutes 

8:30pm  The Equalizer   (Season Premiere)

9:30pm East New York  (Series Premiere) 

Wednesday, October 5

8pm Survivor (Regular Time Period) 

9pm The Real Love Boat (Series Premiere ) 

10pm   The Amazing Race 

Friday, October 7

8pm S.W.A.T  (Season Premiere) (New Time Period) 

9pm Fire Country (Series Premiere) 

10pm Blue Bloods (Season Premiere)

Sunday, October 9

7pm 60 Minutes

8pm The Equalizer (Regular Time Period) 

9pm  East New York (Regular Time Period) 

10pm NCIS :LA (Season Premiere))  (New Time Period) 

Press Release after the Jump

The Lookback: The Henry and June Show

The Flashback  Nickelodeon 

     No, I'm not talking about "KaBlam!" which did star these two cartoon characters as hosts, but no I'm talking about a special that might have been a failed pilot for a spinoff series to "KaBlam!"  that's right that's something that could have happened.   

   

       There was a time Nickelodeon used Henry and June beyond "KaBlam!" essentially making them a type of mascots for the channel to use them in away they probably couldn't use any other Nicktoons characters around them at the time, in fact this same year they hosted an afternoon block called "Henry and June's Nicktoons Summer Jam" which later would have their jobs stolen by Spongebob. (Good, you are keeping attentive to this post)  They also hosted a block where you, the viewer, could pick shows. (We have to go back) It's kind of sad we don't get fun blocks on TV anymore. boo! 

        "The Henry and June Show" was created by the team who made "KaBlam!" like the main part of the show not the shorts inside the series. That would be Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb, and Chris Viscardi.   With many of the people who worked the series coming here to work on this as well.  This specials decides instead of just having our hosting duo  introducing segments for various cartoon shorts and maybe having their own little fun, they would have their own focused series. 

    

     This special is broken up into to halves, the first half is called "A Show of their Own" which was written by  Jay Martel.  

        What can be noticed is that the special doesn't look different from the original series it's keeping it's style and look familiar. The only difference is that this is the show completely so it won't be changing to other cartoons and styles.  The main idea is can Henry and June hold a show as characters  beyond what was seen in "KaBlam!" ? 

             The plot of the first half is the duo are set to host their own show called "The Henry and June Show" (roll credits?) and Henry bought a fancy car with all the money they both got from this show. Which is too young to drive. (oops) This makes June rage and we get to see Emeril LeGasse, Al Roker,  "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and The Undertaker; which is interesting cast of characters together in one show, no other show can say that can they? (That's right CatDog,  you have to sit down, you can't brag Spongebob!)  The fight doesn't mean too much as it stops because the show is about to start. (Just like how the people of "Good Morning America" get ready for their show, don't quote this as fact)  

  

     A few more reoccurring characters from "KaBlam!" show up that's Fred Stockdale, the network executive, and Mr. Foot, a Big Foot. Henry is convinced by  Stockdale to act like star and boss Mr. Foot to get him a breath mint, which he does do by taking the red car that Henry bought. 

    

This is June and Henry, they are standing in the wrong order/ Copyright Paramount, I guess

     How 90's is this special?  Besides the starts I mentioned before , they also mention the Olsen Twins are showing up  and not Jack Hanna. (Did he not sign himself to be used, was he going to sue? I need to know!) "The Henry and June Show" ,the show inside this show, is like a late night talk show. (Henry is funnier than ALL of the current hosts too!)  The audience seems to rather wanting to see "Wheel of Fortune" which  I understand.  

    

      The Olsen twins don't want to come out of their dressing room because they aren't pleased with how they ware drawn.  So Zoo guy comes out and Henry accidently kills an endangered hamster with his bad breath. (oops)  I thought the snake was going to eat it , but nice use of having that be subverted and making the breath mints play into it.  

     Mr. Foot driving the car and the REO Speedwagon song "Roll with the Changes" is playing so, they paid some money for this. (cool)  Henry and June have to find some way to keep the show going so Henry does a magic act which makes the audience not happy. Mr. Foot driving the car becomes a show interrupting news break and Stockdale tells them they've been replaced with static. (I like that show) The Olsen Twins show up, along with Al Roker, Steve Austin and The Undertaker, which makes the show great and work for them,

I'd watch this sitcom/ Copyright Paramount 

    

     They remembered the running gag from the original series where Mr. Foot and Henry sometimes would get into a fight. 

   

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TVLookfall2022: ABC 2022 Fall Premiere Dates

ABC TVLookFall 2021 Primetime 

        

      ABC has announced it's fall premiere dates for the 2022 season.   The network is launching a premiere week  on September 21.   From ABC's fall line up,  ABC sets off their premiere week on Wednesday, September 21st with the new night for Abbott Elementary and Big Sky.   The first ever live episode of Shark Tank will air on September 23.  The new Hilary Swank series, Alaska Daily will premiere on  October 6 and its plum post "Grey's" slot.  

Here's the premeire dates in detail ;all times are ET/PT unless otherwise noted. 

Wednesday, September 21

8pm The Conners 

8:30pm The Goldbergs

9pm  Abbott Elementary (new night) 

9:31  Home Economics 

10pm   Big Sky  (new night) 

Friday, September 23

8pm Shark Tank 

9:01 20/20 

Sunday, September 25

8pm Celebrity Jeopardy! 

9pm  Celebrity  Wheel of Fortune

10pm The Rookie 

Tuesday, September 27

8pm Bachelor in Paradise

10pm  The Rookie :Feds

Sunday, October 2 

7pm America's Funniest Home Videos 

Monday, October 3 

8pm Bachelor in Paradise

10pm The Good Doctor

Thursday, October 6

8pm Station 19

9pm Grey's Anatomy 

10:01pm Alaska Daily 

Details about shows with press release after the jump