Previewing A World Record Christmas
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Nikki DeLoach and Lucas Bryant have been regulars on the Christmas circuit the last several years and this season, the duo are paired in a lovely film inspired by the true story of Auldin Maxwell. A World Record Christmas is as much a family story as…
Author Barbara Hinske Talks Guiding Emily
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] This Friday, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is making fast work of the heartstrings with Guiding Emily, a dual-track story of Emily (Sarah Drew), a woman who has to reclaim her independence and determine a path forward after an accident leaves her blind, and the spunky young…
Kimberley Sustad Previews Game of Love
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Board games got a new lease during the pandemic so it was only a matter of time before they factored into a romcom, and this Saturday, it arrives on Hallmark Channel in the form of Game of Love. Pairing Kimberley Sustad and Brooks Darnell as game…
Previewing Coyote Creek Christmas
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Channel continues its Countdown to Christmas for Halloween weekend (because, you know), and Saturday night, Ryan Paevey is back for his fourth consecutive holiday title, Coyote Creek Christmas, which pairs him with Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) in her second, after last year’s Holly &…
Tori Anderson and Benjamin Hollingsworth Talk Love Under the Olive Tree [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Channel takes a page out of Romeo and Juliet (minus the poisoning and death, of course) Saturday night with Love Under the Olive Tree, a romcom set against warring families who run neighboring olive oil farms. Nicole (Tori Anderson) is a lifer who stayed in…
Previewing Garage Sale Mysteries Month
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] After the success of last August’s month of Garage Sale Mystery premieres, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is doing it again. Beginning Sunday night and airing every Sunday through the end of the month, the network will roll out four brand new movies featuring Jennifer Shannon and…
Beaches Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Full disclosure: I didn’t really have any interest in seeing the 1988 weepie Beaches (adapted from Iris R. Dart’s novel) redone, mostly because I have the original locked in my brain from when I saw it in a theater at 17, and now, almost 30 years (yikes) later, I’m a…
The Music in Me Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] After a stretch of Easter-related programming, UP TV returns to its original movies Sunday night with The Music in Me, starring Debbie Gibson, Gloria Reuben, Bomb Girls‘ Antonio Cupo, and Defiance‘s Amy Forsyth.
Previewing Hallmark Channel’s Wedding-Filled Weekend
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Channel is knee-deep in their Countdown to Valentine’s Day, putting romantic fan favorites back in rotation and debuting a handful of new films. This weekend, the network has a wedding twofer.
TV Movie Goodness Preview: Hallmark Channel’s For Better or For Worse [VIDEO and PHOTOS]
The Facts of Life was a seminal series of my 70s and 80s childhood, and thanks to cable TV, it’s lived on for successive generations (although, somehow, all nine seasons are not on DVD–somebody get on that). Two of its leading ladies, Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields, reunite onscreen for the…
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…
Counting Down to From Season 2
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] We’re just shy of two weeks away from Season 2 of last spring’s obsession, From, which premieres at 9 pm/8c, Sunday, April 23rd, on MGM+ (formerly EPIX). If you never picked it up last year, now’s your chance, and you can do it for free, catching…
Thank Me Later: Will Trent
[Warning: spoilers ahead.] I’m on record as loving and losing shows over at ABC so I’m usually very reticent to pick something up on the network until it’s been renewed, and I seriously hope I’m not jinxing it, but I took a chance on the deeply odd and very sweet…
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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