Previewing the August Original Lineup for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] As the tandem Hollywood strikes roll on deep into summer, the trickle-down effect on sites like ours is that there’s a hiatus on talent being able to do press or discuss their projects on social media, which means we’ve pressed pause on doing new interviews for…
Previewing A Paris Proposal
[Warning: General spoilers ahead] Start your Valentine’s Day weekend in Paris Saturday night with Hallmark Channel’s next Loveuary premiere, A Paris Proposal, starring Alexa PenaVega and Nicholas Bishop, written by Andrea Canning, and directed by Jessica Harmon. PenaVega and Bishop play Anna and Sebastian, fractious advertising colleagues sent to Paris…
Alexa and Carlos PenaVega Preview Love in the Limelight
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] It’s been a minute since 2020’s third Picture Perfect Mystery installment, but this Saturday we get Alexa and Carlos PenaVega together again onscreen in Love in the Limelight. Based on the real-life love story of Willie Aames and his wife, Winnie Hung, who co-wrote the script…
Previewing Taking a Shot at Love
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] It’s only been two months since Luke Macfarlane was on our screens in Chateau Christmas, and this Saturday, he’s back to treat us again, in his first Winterfest entry since 2017’s Birthday Wish. Macfarlane co-stars with Alexa PenaVega in Taking a Shot at Love, the inaugural…
Picture Perfect Mysteries Preview: Dead Over Diamonds
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Alexa and Carlos PenaVega return to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Sunday night with the second installment of their Picture Perfect Mysteries series. Set three months after Newlywed and Dead, which aired last June, the new film, Dead Over Diamonds, finds the dynamic duo working a diamond…
Picture Perfect Mysteries Preview: Newlywed and Dead
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Movies & Mysteries test drives a potential new franchise this Sunday night with Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead, starring Hallmark’s real-life power couple, Alexa and Carlos PenaVega. Here’s the formal logline: Small-town wedding photographer Allie (Alexa PenaVega) finds herself in the middle of a…
2018 Holiday Movie Season Preview: Third Weekend in December
Christmas is next Tuesday, and there are still a handful of premieres rolling out for the long holiday weekend, beginning Thursday night on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries and including the annual When Calls the Heart Christmas film Christmas night. Check out the full lineup of seven new films coming to…
Dancing with the Stars “Season 21 Week 9” aka Showstopper Week
Wow, a very emotional night. Tamar was taken to the hospital during rehearsal. Would she make it back in time to dance? Who would go home? Busy schedules, pros doubting themselves…it’s the week of everyone at a high-stress level! Here’s the breakdown of the couples:
Dancing with the Stars “Season 21 Week 1”
It’s premiere week people! Let’s bow our heads and take a moment of silence for missing Len Goodman. Hopefully he will be back at some point because it’s not the same if there is no grumpy old man on the judging panel. Is there going to be a frontrunner this…
Dancing with the Stars Season 21 Preview
It’s a new season of Dancing with the Stars and there are a couple of changes that are kind of a bummer. First, Len Goodman will not be back as a judge and I think that is lousy. He is a purist and you have to respect it. I will…
George R. Olson, Tim Rozon, and Sarah Levy Talk the SurrealEstate S2 Finale
[Spoilers for the SurrealEstate Season 2 finale.] How’s everyone doing after the finale? As we close out the second season of SurrealEstate, some of our merry band of misfits are scattering to the winds–Zooey to law school, Phil to the Vatican, and Augie back to his think tank with Rochelle,…
Previewing SurrealEstate Season 2 Finale + Revisiting the Season with George R. Olson
[Warning; General spoilers ahead.] Strap in, SurrealEstate fam, because we’ve arrived at the Season 2 finale, and it’s a doozy. As we saw in the closing moments of last week’s episode, Susan is back. But because we have one more episode left, it’s not as simple as all that, as…
Tyler Hynes Talks Through His Eight-Film Hallmark Holiday Library
Things you realize when you have to re-record your shows on a new DVR – just how many Hallmark movies your people have done. Fan favorite – and one of ours – Tyler Hynes has done eight Christmas movies for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries since 2018. Alongside…
Spencer Creaghan Talks About Creating SurrealEstate’s Signature Sound
SurrealEstate is winding down its second season, with two episodes left, and just as in Season 1, Spencer Creaghan’s music continues to be a character unto itself. And every week, he shares tidbits with the fans via his s social media channels, something he started to help give them an…
Andrew Walker Talks Christmas Island and the Magical Hallmark Community
[Warning: Spoilers for Christmas Island.] Now that the Screen Actors Guild strike has been resolved, we’re able to resume regularly scheduled programming and interview our favorites and yours. Up first, earlier today, I spoke with Andrew Walker about Christmas Island, which premiered last weekend and encores tonight and through the…
George Olson and Danishka Esterhazy Talk SurrealEstate “I Put a Spell on You”
[Warning: Spoilers for the episode.] Tonight’s fun new SurrealEstate found Luke caught up in an especially bewitching woman, Kay, played by Tara Yelland, Susan trapped in her house, and Zooey learning the ropes. In the next part of my conversation with showrunner George R. Olson and producing director Danishka Esterhazy,…
Danishka Esterhazy Talks SurrealEstate: “The Butler Didn’t”
[Warning: General spoilers for the episode]. Tonight’s new SurrealEstate, “The Butler Didn’t,” follows the team as they investigate the years-earlier mysterious death of a woman whose ghost now reenacts her hanging by dropping over the banister from the second floor to terrify anyone on the landing or at the bottom…
Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders Talk the From Season 2 finale
[Warning: Spoilers for the season finale.] How’s everyone doing after that finale? While we wait and wonder and hope for a third season announcement, soon, here’s what Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders had to say about their parts of the finale, and where they hope they get to go next….
Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders Talk From Season 2 + A Season Finale Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] It all comes down this, #FROMily. As Sunday’s episode wraps up Season 2, we begin with the aftermath of the terrifying onset of seemingly simultaneous attacks on Julie, Marielle, and Randall, which accelerate the “We gotta get out of this place” of it all. Sara comes…
Alison Sweeney Talks About What’s Next for Hannah and Mike After Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
[Warning: Spoilers for Carrot Cake Murder.] Everybody OK after that Hannah Swensen Mystery twist? Thankfully, our favorite crime-solving couple is still on speaking term, even if they’re on a break (hopefully not that kind of break). Most importantly, we already know this isn’t the last film in the series. No…
What They Said: Three Revealing Conversations from Survivor’s Remorse “Closure”
WARNING: Spoilers for Survivor’s Remorse “Closure” The latest episode of Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse featured conversations that showed characters really digging deep into their thoughts, emotions and motivations.
Two Takes: The Catch “The Knock-Off”
Who can you trust? If this episode of The Catch was any indication, the answer is just about nobody. Betrayal was running rampant as Felicity (Shivani Ghai) arose from the dead to seduce-con Margot, Gretchen (Maria Thayer, Gotham, The Mindy Project) played gold-hearted Alice 2.0 before swindling Ethan, Tessa jumped…
What They Said: Top 3 Quotable Moments from Preacher “El Valero”
Both Quincannon and Jesse refuse to give up on what they each think is rightfully theirs. While Jesse is struggling to face the consequences of his actions, Quincannon has laid his past demons to rest and is hellbent on moving forward and putting Annville on the map again. Despite a…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Supergirl “Worlds Finest”
Oh, Supergirl. That ending was cold. But I can’t hate on you because the latest episode has quickly become one of my favorites.
What They Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Black Sails “XXIII”
The dialogue in “XXIII” is phenomenal. It’s always a fun ride when Black Sails carries its viewers along without giving them the chance to catch their breath. When an episode moves at this unforgiving pace, there is no chance for a breather nor is there a respite from the information…
What Lucifer Said: Favorite quotes from Supernatural “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Supernatural episodes are almost always funny but thanks to the dialogue and a certain man speaking said dialogue, I laughed a lot during “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” You know, when I wasn’t busy fearing for Sam’s life or wondering what in the world was going on with Dean and…
What They Said: The Flash, “Legends Of Today” and Arrow, “Legends Of Yesterday”
Two nights of Arrow + The Flash = what more could we ask for?! I don’t know what it is about blending these shows, but I can’t help but feel that every time they come together, they somehow become greater than the sum of their parts. And that’s saying a lot…
What they Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Graceland “Little Bo Bleep”
Shoot outs. Fake outs. And long-awaited revelations. “Little Bo Bleep” was a jam-packed episode that wrapped up some loose ends and totally frayed others. Â It finally gave us one Sarkissian in jail and pulled back the curtain on Briggs’ master plan, but it also set up Jakes for a world…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Poldark “Part 4”
“What have I told you, I don’t require my wife to crochet and sip tea, but I do require her to remember she’s not a beast of burden.†No, I’m not talking about The Rolling Stones! I have to admit though, just for a second, the lyrics popped into my…
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