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After Murder Below Deck, Lifetime's weekly Sunday night thriller this time around has given us the aptly titled Nightmare in the Desert, although the nightmare may actually be for viewers settling in to watch this flaccid thriller. On the plus ...
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The Fall Season premieres continue in earnest this week with many classic and long-running series making their debuts. We won't belabor the teasing this week so you can get to it, but of note are two shows premiering a decade ...
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Hallmark Channel's latest original movie is new to the channel but has been available to stream on Hallmark Movies Now (now renamed Hallmark+) since the end of August. So if you're subscribed, you may have already seen it but for ...
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Everyone is probably familiar with The Addams Family, whether it be from the comics drawn by Charles Addams, the 1960s TV series, an animated series, two live-action feature films and two animated feature films. And ... the Broadway musical. Yes, ...
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The Autumn movie season is in full swing but we didn't get many memorable films until later in the century. This week in 1964 saw the release of two major production, one that launched its lead into stardom, and another ...
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The Lifetime network has a new original movie every Saturday night, presumably to compete and contrast with the Hallmark Channel's decidedly different Saturday night movies, but apparently the network also has a Sunday night original movie as demonstrated recently with ...
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As a newbie to the Hallmark Channel movies, what I've seen so far has followed the same basic template -- attractive woman with some business aspirations meets attractive man from a large corporation who can help her, but the interference ...
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The Lifetime network's original movies are generally the polar opposite of what you get from Hallmark. Instead of light romantic comedies, Lifetime's films are overly dramatic, usually involving infidelity, stalking or murder, often billed as 'Ripped from the Headlines'. They ...
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It's Premiere Week -- Part 1 -- with dozens of new series making their debuts across all decades. One notable 1954 series about a lovable dog went on to become one of the longest running series in TV history. A ...
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Think about your favorite musical artist still rocking in their twilight years. Maybe it's AC/DC or the Stones or Aerosmith. For example purposes, I'll say mine is Paul McCartney. I liked his last record, 2020's self-titled McCartney III. It's got ...
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The Fall movie season has arrived and this week includes the Labor Day weekend in the US, resulting in far fewer than usual new film premieres. Of those that did premiere, many of them fall into the unmemorable category but ...
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Summer is over and the new Fall series are beginning to roll out, and this week it's mostly new Saturday morning kids shows, including one cult series from 1974 that remains popular today. 1954 also saw a new game show ...
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