Alison Sweeney Talks Time for You to Come Home for Christmas [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] When Alison Sweeney and I chatted for the fourth Chronicle Mysteries in August, she hadn’t yet booked a Christmas movie for this year. Lucky for us, that changed, and she’s back on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Sunday night starring opposite our Lucas Bryant (interview here) in...
Previewing Hallmark Channel’s All Summer Long
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Channel rolls out another first-time Hallmarkies favorite pairing Saturday night when it teams Brennan Elliott and Autumn Reeser in All Summer Long, a romance set against the backdrop of cooking and sailing. Reeser plays Tia, a rising lawyer at the law firm run by her...
Chronicle Mysteries “Vines That Bind” Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Sunday night, in the final installment of the first three Chronicle Mysteries movies, Alex and her team of intrepid reports venture to wine country to help Eileen solve the murder of a friend. It’s another solid outing, three for three, which I love. Eileen, Alex, Drew,...
Alison Sweeney Talks The Joys of Producing and Casting Chronicle Mysteries [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ newest franchise, Chronicle Mysteries, continues Sunday night with The Wrong Man. Similar to last week’s Recovered, the second film is a fun who’s who with Hallmark players Peter Benson (Aurora Teagarden) and Jesse Moss (Murder She Baked) guesting alongside Marco Soriano, who...
Alison Sweeney Previews Chronicle Mysteries [Exclusive]
We’re two years past the last Murder She Baked installment, and Sunday night Alison Sweeney returns to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries with another franchise that’s a worthy successor to her five-film run as Hannah Swensen. Chronicle Mysteries is 100% Sweeney’s baby, developed alongside her writing partner, Melissa Salmons. The first...
Valentine in the Vineyard Preview
Rachael Leigh Cook and Brendan Penny are back in the vines Saturday night on Hallmark Channel for their third pairing in Valentine in the Vineyard. A follow-up to 2017’s Summer in the Vineyard and 2016’s Autumn in the Vineyard, the latest installment is a bit of a romantic quartet filled...
Jennifer Finnigan Talks Welcome to Christmas [Exclusive]
Jennifer Finnigan marks her second Christmas movie for Hallmark Sunday night with Welcome to Christmas, starring opposite Eric Mabius in a romantic comedy about a development executive for a chain of high-end vacation resorts who is sent to scope out the town of Christmas, Colorado. I chatted with Finnigan last...
Summer in the Vineyard Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] One of the tenets of romantic comedies is that fans often clamor for what happens “after.” Hallmark Channel has started answering that with a series of sequel movies (Wedding March 2 and the upcoming All of My Heart 2), not to be confused with the sequential...
Previewing Hailey Dean Mystery: Murder, With Love
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Back when Hallmark Channel was a wee baby network, they had a series of franchise films that included Mystery Woman, which starred Kellie Martin. She did a staggering 11 installments, playing a bookstore owner with a flair for solving mysteries, from 2003 to 2007, and then...
Supernatural “Heaven Can’t Wait”
Human Cas now has a human job. He’s living in Rexford, Idaho and is an employee at the Gas-n-Sip. He takes pride in his work and he’s doing real well, impressing his female boss and everything. The one thing he can’t quite master is the slushie machine. But there’s time...
Let’s Talk About Will Trent
[Spoilers for “The Blank Expanse of Nothing”] It’s been a minute since I’ve had a good, old-fashioned rant about a TV series, so I’m overdue. If you’ve followed me on IG the last few years (hi!), you know that I yell often and loud about my love for Will Trent....
Tim Rozon Looks Back on SurrealEstate
[Warning: All the spoilers ahead.] To close out our SurrealEstate coverage (for now), I chatted with Tim Rozon about Season 3 and getting the band back together. For the third season, production moved from Newfoundland to Ottawa, and Rozon was ready to dive back in. “We were in a...
George R. Olson Unpacks SurrealEstate Season 3
[Warning: ALL the spoilers ahead.] In case you missed the news last week, SurrealEstate has concluded with its third season, which aired last summer. On Friday, I spoke with series creator George R. Olson and series star Tim Rozon about saying goodbye to the show. You can read that piece...
George R. Olson and Tim Rozon Share Their Gratitude for SurrealEstate’s Run
Since SurrealEstate wrapped its third season six months ago, I’ve checked about once a week to see whether there was any news on cancelled or renewed. As long as there was no decision, there was still hope for a fourth season. This week, series creator George R. Olson let the...
Hulu’s Paradise S1 Weaves Past and Present to Unravel a Murder
One of the nice things about the symbiosis of the entertainment conglomerates is that sometimes streaming shows make their way over to linear outlets. Case in point: ABC has given Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building a primetime slot (after of course tweaking the language for FCC regs) during its...
Scott McCord Talks About Victor’s Expanding World in From Season 3
Closing out our From Season 3 coverage (which you can find here), in the second part of my conversation with Scott McCord, we talk about Victor’s new friendship with Sara, reconnecting with Tabitha, and what might be next for Victor when Season 4 returns in 2026. As we’ve talked about...
Dennis Heaton Talks Murder in a Small Town
Murder in a Small Town wraps its first season Tuesday night on FOX in the US and Wednesday night on Global TV in Canada. For US viewers, it’s been a neat addition to the usual FOX fare to have a slower-paced, small-town murder mystery with a parade of CdnTV peeps...
Harold Perrineau Talks From Season 3
[Warning: Includes spoilers for the Season 3 finale.] How are you doing, FROMily? That finale was A LOT. Thankfully we know we’re going to get more of this story, and you have a year and change to work on your Venn diagram deciphering the OMG WTFery of it all. Last...
Scott McCord Talks From Season 3
From the jump (pun intended), I’ve been a staunch advocate of Victor (and Scott McCord, who plays him), and this season, he’s been put through it. On the heels of sending Tabitha off into the unknown and having her return with his father, he unearths the long-suppressed memory that as...
Corteon Moore Talks From Season 3
From has always been really good about delighting us with mix-and-match character pairings, and this season, we’ve seen Jade and Tabitha, Sara and Victor, Henry and Victor, and Kenny and Acosta team up. As Ellis, Corteon Moore has spent a chunk of time this season paired up with Pegah Ghafoori...
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: 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 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: Favorite Quotes from Supernatural “Angel Heart”
Okay, that was my favorite of all the Claire episodes. In the beginning I think this arc was a bit shaky, to be honest. But I think it ended strong and that’s thanks to the chemistry between the actors as well as the strength of the writing, courtesy of Robbie...
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from The Vampire Diaries “I’ll Remember”
Season 5 Episode 1: “I’ll Remember” Writer: Caroline Dries This is odd. It’s an episode of The Vampire Diaries and there’s only one favorite quote from Damon. Of course, he was only in one scene. There are a few Hallucination!Damon quotes included though. What were some of your favorite quotes...
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