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FALL TV 2026: ABC

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:18:00 +0000

FallTVLook 2026 ABC Upfronts

ABC also has decided to be consistent as the network didn't cancel one scripted program this season. They will be moving High Potential to midseason. Also of note, there will be no Bachelor based series in the fall line up either. For the fall line up, they will be including revival of Scrubs meaning Shifting Gears comes in the midseason. R,J Decker will be taking the fall slot. The Rookie returns in midseason with a new spin-off series, The Rookie North.

Here's the fall line up . all times are ET/PT, unless otherwise noted, there's no new series so no blue highlighting

Monday

8pm/5pt Monday Night Football

Tuesday

8pm Dancing with the Stars

10pm R.J Decker

Wednesday

8pm Scrubs

8:30pm Abbott Elementary

9pm Celebrity Jeopardy!

10pm Shark Tank

Thursday

8pm 9-1-1

9pm 9-1-1 Nashville

10pm Grey's Anatomy

Friday

8pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

9pm 20/20 (two hours)

Saturday

7:30pm/4:30pt College Football

Sunday

7pm America's Funniest Home Videos

8pm The Wonderful World of Disney

Press release after the jump

FALL TV 2026: FOX Fall Line Up

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:26:00 +0000

FOX Upfronts FallTV Look 2026

FOX is keeping it mostly consistent in their fall line up too. Like last year, most of the line up is unscripted, leaving only Sunday nights and Tuesdays with scripted series. The network will have three new series coming in the season with Baywatch and The Interrogator and reality series Marriage Market.

The network's lone live-action comedy series Animal Control is moving to Sunday nights part of the network's Animation Domination night. (yes) Bob's Burgers will not be on the fall line up.

The other scripted night is Tuesday with Best Medicine and Doc a perfect duo of shows.

The line up in the fall is all returning series. FOX will put new series in the midseason. instead. Murder in a Small Town also has been moved to midseason. Grimsburg is also coming to the fall season.

Here's a full look at the fall line up, all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted. (No new series in this one - no blue highlighting)

Monday

8-9pm Celebrity Name That Tune

9-10pm Celebrity Weakest Link

Tuesday

8-9pm Best Medicine

9-10pm Doc

Wednesday

8-9pm The Floor

9-10pm 99 To Beat

Thursday

8-9pm Hell's Kitchen

9-10pm Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

Friday

8pm ET/5PM PT FOX College Football Friday

Saturday

7-10:30pm ET/ 4-7:30pm PT Fox Sports Saturdays

Sunday

7-7:30pm NFL on Fox

7:30-8PM The OT/ FOX Animation Encores

8-8:30pm The Simpsons

8:30-9pm Animal Control

9-9:30pm Universal Basic Guys

9:30-10pm Grimsburg

Full press release after the jump

FALL TV 2026: NBC Fall Line Up

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:19:00 +0000

Fall TV Look 2026 NBC Upfronts

NBC is ready for fall. Even with the move to add Tuesday Nights sports with basketball and seceding the rest of the Sunday nights to sports like basketball and baseball. NBC has still decided to with scripted.

The network will have 4 new series, dramas The Rockford Files and Line of Fire and comedies Sunset PI and Newlyweds . There is also a new unscripted series based on the hit Peacock series The Traitors.

There's not a heavy change to the line up as consistency remains the focus. As before the One Night in Chicago with the three "Chicago" series still run on Wednesdays and Law & Order Thursdays still are in place. Fridays still have one hour of comedy with "Dateline" following.

Monday nights will have The Voice as normal with the show also airing on Tuesday nights before basketball season starts The new drama Line of Fire will air in NBC's traditional 10/9 central drama slot. Starting in November , NBC will bring back their comedies airing the return of St. Denis Medical and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. The new comedy Sunset P.I comes in the midseason taking the "Reggie Dinkins" slot.

Thursday nights are getting a slight tweak with Law & Order is moving from 8/7c to 10/9c. The show used to air at 10pm ET before it's original cancelation in 2010. The unscripted series Traitors is coming to Thursdays at 8/7c with a civilian version.

The Rockford Files remake is coming to 8pm/7c on Thursdays in the midseason.

Friday nights are still comedy for the first hour with the third season of Reba lead Happy's Place and a new comedy Newlyweds.

Here's the fall line up, all times ET/PT , unless otherwise noted, new series are highlighted in blue

Monday (September/October)

8-10pm The Voice

10-11pm Line of Fire

Monday (November)

8-8:30pm St. Denis Medical

8:30-9pm The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

9-10pm The Voice

10-11pm Line of Fire

Tuesday

8-11pm NBA

Wednesday

8-9pm Chicago Med

9-10pm Chicago Fire

10-11pm Chicago P.D.

Thursday

8-9pm The Traitors

9-10pm Law & Order :SVU

10-11pm Law & Order

Friday

8-8:30pm Happy's Place

8:30-9pm Newlyweds

9-11pm Dateline NBC

Saturday

7-7:30pm ET/ 4-4:30pm PT Big Ten Pregame/ Notre Dame Pregame (also live on Peacock )

7:30-11pm/ 4:30-8pm PT Big Ten Saturday Night/ Norte Dame Football (also live on Peacock)

Sunday

7-8:20pm ET/ 4-5:20 PM PT Football Night in America

8:20-11pm ET/ 5:20-8PM PT NBC Sunday Night Football

Full Press Release after the jump

Fall TV 2026: CBS Fall Line Up

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:55:00 +0000

CBS TVFall2026 Upfronts

CBS is usually a network where changes to their line up are minimal, but this year there are some notable changes. Their long running Monday night comedies , the night that was once home to shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and ,recently, The Neighborhood is going away. With The Neighborhood and DMV being canceled, they will not be replaced with new series. Instead, the network is moving up FBI and CIA. True crime series Harlen Coben's Final Twist will finish out the night.

Thursdays are also getting a shift. Long-running sitcom Ghosts will be moved to mid-season, the network says the show will still have a full 22-episode season and will have hour-long Halloween and Christmas specials. Matlock has also been pushed to mid-season. Following the new season of Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage is a new comedy, Eternally Yours, from the show runners of "Ghosts". Meanwhile, following Elsbeth is a new drama from the creators of that series, Cupertino.

Tuesday nights continue to be "NCIS" nights with a new installment joining the line up. NCIS: New York will air between NCIS and NCIS: Origins. NCIS: Sydney returns in the mid-season.

Other consistencies will be Wednesday night for "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race"; Fridays with Sheriff Country, Fire Country, and Boston Blue. Sundays are still 60 Minutes, Marshalls, and Tracker.

CBS will add in a new drama in mid-season with Einstein. In other notes for the network, they will be simulcasting the Nickelodeon "Kids' Choice Awards" (November 14) and for the first time, "The Price is Right' gets a live special. MTV Video Music Awards will air on the network on September 27.

Here's the full line up , all times ET/PT , subject to change, new series are highlighted in blue.

Monday

8pm FBI

9pm CIA

10pm Harlan Coben's Final Twist

Tuesday

8pm NCIS

9pm NCIS: New York

10pm NCIS: Origins

Wednesday

8pm Survivor

9:30pm The Amazing Race

Thursday

8pm Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage

8:30pm Eternally Yours

9pm Elsbeth

10pm Cupertino

Friday

8pm Sheriff Country

9pm Fire Country

10pm Boston Blue

Saturday

8pm Encores

9pm Encore

10pm 48 Hours

Sunday

7pm 60 Minutes

8pm Marshals

9pm Tracker

10pm Drama Encores

Press release after the jump

Fall TV Look 2026: What's New, What's Renewed, What's Ended?

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:20:00 +0000

Fall TV Look 2026 ABC CBS CW FOX NBC

This post was last updated on May8 at 2:00 pm MT

The decisions are being made about the fates of many different TV series. This is our annual list that will be updated frequently as news about different broadcast networks shows comes in and what their status is for the next season. This list primarily focuses on scripted series as those tend to get their announcements done in due time before the May upfronts. Though other non-scripted series due end up in the list eg: 60 Minutes, since they are centerpieces of a network's line up. I will include a list of unscripted series too, but in some cases they are either renewed at various times. summer series also aren't part of the main lists as that is out of the main seasonal part of the year.

ABC

Renewed

9-1-1

9-1-1 : Nashville

Abbott Elementary

Grey's Anatomy

High Potential

R.J Decker

The Rookie

Scrubs

Shifting Gears

Will Trent

Canceled

New Series

CBS

Renewed

Boston Blue

CIA

Elsbeth

Fire Country

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Ghosts

Marshals

Matlock

NCIS

NCIS: Origins

NCIS: Sydney

Sheriff Country

Survivor

The Amazing Race

Tracker

Canceled

DMV

The Neighborhood

Watson

New Series

NCIS: New York

Cupertino

Einstein

Eternally Yours

FOX

Renewed

American Dad

Animal Control

Best Medicine

Bob's Burgers (renewed for 4 seasons in 2025)

Doc

Family Guy (renewed for 4 seasons in 2025)

Krapoplis (renewed through season 5, currently on season 3)

Memory of a Killer

Murder in a Small Town

Universal Basic Guys (renewed through season 3, currently on season 2)

Canceled

Going Dutch

The Great North

To Be Determined

Grimsburg

New Series

NBC

Renewed

Chicago Fire

Chicago Med

Chicago P.D

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

Happy's Place

Law & Order

Law & Order : SVU

Saint Denis Medical

Canceled

Brilliant Minds

Stumble

To Be Determined

The Hunting Party

New Series

Line of Fire

The Rockford Files

Newlyweds

Sunset PI

The CW

Renewed

Canceled

All American

To Be Determined

New Series

2026 Oscar Nominations Announced

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:49:00 +0000

Oscars Award Shows

The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards are out. Sinners tops the list in oscar nominations with 16. We have the full list of the nominations here, Conan O' Brien is set to host the event that airs live on March 15 on ABC.

Best Picture

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle After Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Original Screenplay

Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler

Best International Feature

The Secret Agent, Brazil
It Was Just an Accident, France
Sentimental Value, Norway
Sirāt, Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

Best Documentary Feature

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Feature

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography

Frankenstein, Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme, Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another, Michael Bauman
Sinners, Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams, Adolpho Veloso

Best Editing

F1, Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen
Sentimental Value, Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners, Michael P. Shawver

Best Original Song

“Dear Me,” Diane Warren: Relentless
“Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You,” Sinners
“Sweet Dreams of Joy,” Viva Verdi!
“Train Dreams,” Train Dreams

Best Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash, Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein, Kate Hawley
Hamnet, Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme, Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners, Ruth E. Carter

Best Casting

Hamnet, Nina Gold
Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
Sinners, Francine Maisler

Best Original Score

Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet, Max Richter
One Battle After Another, Jonny Greenwood
Sinners, Ludwig Göransson

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Best Production Design

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Best Sound

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

Best Live-Action Short

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best Animated Short

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Documentary Short

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Christmas: The Christmas Orange

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:50:00 +0000

Christmas

There is a tradition for Christmas that some may know about already: getting an orange for Christmas. It's the idea of gifts of gold from St. Nicholas and the idea of an orange before they were so easy to get was a treat for some in the winter. The special we're looking at here is also randomly rare and wants to kind of get that message across too.

"The Christmas Orange" is a Canadian Christmas special from 2002. I remember it airing on ABC Family (now Freeform) but not sure, there was even a point I thought I made it up in my head. It's also based on a book of the same name by Don Gillmor.

The art style of the special does have a nice story book like feel, but also does feel very early 2000's the same way.

The special is about a boy named Anton Stingley who happens to be born on Christmas Day. The boy thought that Christmas was actually the entire town celebrating his birthday. (Does he Know?) That was until he turned 5 and realized that Christmas was why everyone was celebrating and nothing to do with him. He also becomes un happy that other kids get birthday and Christmas presents. He starts making a long massive list and he give his 92 page list to Santa Claus.

Dear Santa, I want my own country to rule

When Christmas day comes Anton goes to see what Santa has left him and that thing is apparently an orange. It was an orange. (an orange one) Anton looks around his house and notices he didn't get anything else. He even asks around to see if anyone got his gifts. Like the one episode of Rugrats, he sees a lawyer on TV and decides to take the advice of the ad and is going to sue the pants off a Santa.

He hires a lawyer named Wiley Studpustle (great name). The lawyer, instead of saying no, decides he'll take the case. 11 months later the case goes to court. I like how the judge is called Judge OldnGray. We get the part of a special everyone likes, a court room plot. Studpustle makes the case for Anton and is asking for $11,000,000 (11 million dollars) which I like for being not too oddly specific but slightly oddly specific.

The wig gives away that this is Canadian

Santa decides to be his own lawyer and cross examines the lawyer. He brings up that Wiley wanted to be a veterinarian not a lawyer. Santa even gave him a baby crocodile. (Santa why would you give a kid a croc?!) It seems Santa broke Wiley. Then he asks Anton, remember Anton?, to come up to the stand. He says that Anton has 2,749 toys , which I like is oddly specific. Santa says that Anton didn't need more toys. It seems Santa couldn't break Anton the same way. The crowd also seems to bring up that Santa doesn't always bring them things they want. Santa tries to make his case, but announces that he's quitting.

This makes everyone feel bad, including Anton, which causes everyone in the town to get mad at Anton. Anton works to talk to Santa out of this quitting business. Santa says no. Anton decides to find a replacement Santa, he tries the judge, but that doesn't work. He calls Santa's elf from before to help him. They turn his house into a Santa's workshop, but the boy can't have elves because he's not part of the elves union. (Anton should have thought ahead)

Wow an orange

Anton decides to take his 1806 un-opened gifts and gives them to the people of the town as gifts. He works hard all day to deliver and he sits next to a man who is obviously Santa Claus. Anton talks to him and realizes he's out of gifts. He gives the man the orange, which I am surprised as survived, as a gift. Oh the man was Santa. ( A twist) Then it ends with Anton working with Santa giving everyone oranges, except Wiley, he gets another croc.

It's a simple story, and charming fun. I like the art style. The message here is simple and fitting for Christmas. It has some funny moments too. It's a good younger kid special.

That's it for now, tune in next time when we give everyone an orange , but it's April, so they are confused and scared.

Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Christmas

We're back covering The Smurfs for Christmas. The last time we did, it was a special where the Smurfs take down possibly Satan. (read here) Here we are again with dip into one that came out around season 7's airings on NBC from December 13, 1987. "'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy" also did get reruns on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang since it's a special made by Hanna-Barbera, like the series.

This special focuses more on the Smurflings. Some might be asking , ok, what's a Smurfling? A) Thank you for being interested in a Smurf's post . (Yeah thank you!) B) There's lore. The Smurflings are a group of 4 young Smurfs. They are younger than the other Smurfs you know and love and yet older than Baby Smurf, yes there's a Baby Smurf. In season 5 of the 1980's series they added these characters to the series. Where did they come from? Did two Smurfs uhhh Smurf? (Oh?) No. (Well there's goes my day) To put a long story, less long, because we really need to get to the Christmas special. The male Smurflings were full adult Smurfs but then they got de-aged becuase a clock, there's also a girl who made by the same 3 boys because sure. Remember there are no naturally female Smurfs, so they can be made from magic instead.

Their names are Nat, Snappy, Slouchy, and Sassette. There's not much more you need to get into the Christmas special so let's go!

It starts with Wild Smurf, a Smurf who's like a Tarzan Smurf, being wild, I'm surprised Brainy and a few others got mad he's being wild while trying to help them put up Christmas stuff, his name is Wild. Also it's supposed to be Wild's first Christmas. Wild's backstory, not from this special, is that he's a Smurf that got lost from the others when he was born or whatever Smurfs do, and was raised by squirrels. (I guess the squirrels don't know what Christmas is.) Papa Smurf being himself, wants the others to be patient and understand.

He's Wild !/ Copyright Warner Bros. Discovery

Papa Smurf is going to give a gift and leave the special for a bit, but he has dropped something that our special will then focus on. Grandpa Smurf and Sassette, yes there's a Grandpa Smurf, have gone into the village to show her what Christmas Eve is like for humans. Why, just her? Nobody knows.

If I brought more, I'd have to share this apple/ Copyright Warner Discovery

There's an old man trying to sell toys and there's a thief with a British accent. The thief likes Christmas because people have money to steal. (Sometimes Christmas sales are already a thief) Grandpa is able to stop the thief with an apple. The old man isn't doing too well in sales. A little boy shows up and the man gives him one as a gift.

Looks oddly like you hmm/ Copyright Warner Discovery

The boy's father, the boy is named Hans and his father who is some rich guy is annoyed and grabs the boy and runs off. We also learn the old man's name is Gustav. Thankfully, Sassette is very interested in what's going and wants to follow him to find out more of the story. Gustav's wife , Elise, has random unnamed disease. The Doctor says she needs the power of Christmas can help her or she might die? ( Take two Christmas and call me in the morning)

That's nice, but I'm dying from the dreaded whatever this is and need Christmas/ Copyright Warner

Gustav gives Elise a toy and talks to her about Christmas elves. She's not doing too well and Gustav needs a bright Christmas eve to save her. Sassette goes to the other Smurfs to see if they will help, but the Smurfs are too busy to listen. Wild seems to want to help as well Papa Smurf comes back and finds that the other Smurfs weren't paying attention and he encourages them and they decide to help out.

Hey the thief from earlier is out looking to Christmas Eve rob. That tradition really never caught on. Grumpy rich guy from earlier also apparently has decided to walk through the village at night instead of taking a carriage like earlier. He's just asking to get ... oh hey the thief. The thief doesn't want the gifts he wants the money and has grabbed the money. The smurfs accidently knocked over the thief.

That's how you know he's a thief, the mustache/ Copyright Warner Discovery

Hefty wants to take down the thief. The other Smurfs go and decide to make a Christmas surprise for the couple who have gone to bed. Since the smurfs aren't very good at being quiet the man hears them and sees them and thinks they are elves. He gets his wife and they both are amazed to see elves. The smurfs go along with it since I guess Smurf knowledge is bad. Also random song.

They were very trusting of the Smurfs/ copyright Warner Discovery

The thief is counting the money he stole and the he sees the smurfs in shadows and they haunt him to tell him off. They tell him he has no Christmas spirit. They say others are celebrating Christmas, while he's alone. Meanwhile, the rich guy's purse gets found in front of the house of the old couple. The rich guy thinks that they stole because of the Christmas tree. The thief shows up and decides to confess. The rich guy decides to not charge the thief. The rich family decides to be with Gustav and Elise, and the smurfs take off before being seen. That's it.

This special for the Smurfs is not as interesting as the other one I covered, but that's because the other one had the Smurfs save Gargamel from Satan. That's hard to compete against. I don't think this one is bad, though. It's a simple special, the message is simple too, it's Christmas, be nice , care for others that's the spirit of the holiday. It shows the smurfs that aren't Grandpa and Sassette being too wrapped (heh) up into their Christmas they didn't want to listen to the duo. It happens to people where people do get wrapped into Christmas to notice that. The thief having a "Scrooge moment" and turning around quickly was pretty fun, glad the special decided to squash a misunderstanding quickly.

It's alright special, not robust but not bad, wish it was weirder, but that's fine. That's it for now, tune in next time when, after we ask the doctor for Christmas in pill form.

2026 Golden Globes Nominations

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:02:00 +0000

The Golden Globes

The nominations for the Golden Globes have been announced. This year, there's a new category for podcasts. The awards show airs on CBS and Paramount Plus on January 11 and Nikki Glaser will be the host again.

Here's a look at the full list of nominations.

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Frankenstein (Netflix)

Hamnet (Focus Features)

It Was Just an Accident (Neon)

The Secret Agent (Neon)

Sentimental Value (Neon)

Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)

Bugonia (Focus Features)

Marty Supreme (A24)

No Other Choice (Neon)

Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)

One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Animated

Arco (Neon)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (Aniplex, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Elio (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix)

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Gkids)

Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

F1 (Apple Original Films)

Kpop Demon Hunters (Netflix)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)

Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Weapons (Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema)

Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)

Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

It Was Just an Accident (Neon) – France

No Other Choice (Neon) – South Korea

The Secret Agent (Neon) – Brazil

Sentimental Value (Neon) – Norway

Sirāt (Neon) – Spain

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Willa) – Tunisia

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

Julia Roberts (After the Hunt)

Tessa Thompson (Hedda)

Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)

Oscar Isaac (Frankenstein)

Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good)

Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee)

Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

George Clooney (Jay Kelly)

Leonardo Dicaprio (One Battle After Another)

Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

Lee Byung-Hun (No Other Choice)

Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine)

Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)

Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)

Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

Best Director – Motion Picture

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Guillermo Del Toro (Frankenstein)

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)

Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)

Kangding Ray (Sirāt)

Max Richter (Hamnet)

Hans Zimmer (F1)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

“Dream as One” –– Avatar: Fire and Ash

Music By: Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen

Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Simon Franglen

“Golden” –– Kpop Demon Hunters

Music By: Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, Park Hong Jun

Lyrics By: Kim Eun-Jae (Ejae), Mark Sonnenblick

“I Lied To You” –– Sinners

Music By: Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson

Lyrics By: Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson

“No Place Like Home” –– Wicked: For Good

Music By: Stephen Schwartz

Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz

“The Girl in the Bubble” –– Wicked: For Good

Music By: Stephen Schwartz

Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz

“Train Dreams” –– Train Dreams

Music By: Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner

Lyrics By: Nick Cave

Best Television Series – Drama

The Diplomat (Netflix)

The Pitt (HBO Max)

Pluribus (Apple TV)

Severance (Apple TV)

Slow Horses (Apple TV)

The White Lotus (HBO Max)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

The Bear (FX on Hulu)

Hacks (HBO Max)

Nobody Wants This (Netflix)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

The Studio (Apple TV)

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Adolescence (Netflix)

All Her Fault (Peacock)

The Beast In Me (Netflix)

Black Mirror (Netflix)

Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu)

The Girlfriend (Prime Video)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Kathy Bates (Matlock)

Britt Lower (Severance)

Helen Mirren (Mobland)

Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us)

Keri Russell (The Diplomat)

Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Sterling K. Brown (Paradise)

Diego Luna (Andor)

Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)

Mark Ruffalo (Task)

Adam Scott (Severance)

Noah Wyle (The Pitt)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This)

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

Selena Gomez (Only Murders In the Building)

Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face)

Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)

Jean Smart (Hacks)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This)

Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)

Glen Powell (Chad Powers)

Seth Rogen (The Studio)

Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)

Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Claire Danes (The Beast in Me)

Rashida Jones (Black Mirror)

Amanda Seyfried (Long Bright River)

Sarah Snook (All Her Fault)

Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex)

Robin Wright (The Girlfriend)

Best Performance by a Male Actorin a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

Paul Giamatti (Black Mirror)

Stephen Graham (Adolescence)

Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story)

Jude Law (Black Rabbit)

Matthew Rhys (The Beast in Me)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Carrie Coon (The White Lotus)

Erin Doherty (Adolescence)

Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)

Catherine O’hara (The Studio)

Parker Posey (The White Lotus)

Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Owen Cooper (Adolescence)

Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)

Walton Goggins (The White Lotus)

Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus)

Tramell Tillman (Severance)

Ashley Walters (Adolescence)

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Bill Maher (Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?)

Brett Goldstein (Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life)

Kevin Hart (Kevin Hart: Acting My Age)

Kumail Nanjiani (Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts)

Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais: Mortality)

Sarah Silverman (Sarah Silverman: Postmortem)

Best Podcast

Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard (Wondery)

Call Her Daddy (SiriusXM)

Good Hang With Amy Poehler (Spotify)

The Mel Robbins Podcast (SiriusXM)

Smartless (SiriusXM)

Up First (NPR)

The CW Sets midseason Premiere dates for "WildCards" and Game Shows

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:21:00 +0000

The CW Midseason

The CW has renewed the series "Wild Cards" for a third season, the series was renewed by its home network in Canada, CBC, seasons 3 and 4 back in May. The new season will premiere on January 26 on a new Monday night slot.

Thursday nights will be game show night with the return of "Scrabble" and "Trivial Pursuit"

"Police 24/7" continues and moves to Wednesday nights.

There's no news yet on when "All American" returns for its eight and final season.

Here's the premiere dates all times ET/PT

Wednesday, January 21

8-9pm Police 24/7 (Original Episode)

9-10pm Police 24/7 (Encore Episode)

Thursday, January 22

8-9pm Scrabble (season 2 premiere)

9-10pm Trivial Pursuit (season 2 premiere)

Monday, January 26

8-9pm Wild Cards (Season 3 premiere)

9-10pm Sullivan's Crossing (encore episode)

Full Press release after the jump

CBS Releases Mid-Season 2026 Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:58:00 +0000

CBS Primetime Mid-Season 2026

CBS has released their midseason line up. Featured in the line up is the spin-off to "FBI" , called "CIA", A new Taylor Sheridan series a sequel to "Yellowstone" called "Y:Marshals" , "Harlan Coben's Final Twist" and "America's Culinary Cup". and the return of programming such as "Hollywood Squares".

CBS will also be airing "The Golden Globes" on January 11 and the network's final broadcast of "The Grammys" will air on February 1.

Here's a full look at details , all times at ET/PT , unless otherwise noted

Wednesday, January 7

8-9pm Hollywood Squares

9-10pm The Price is Right at Night

10-11pm Harlan Coben's Final Twist (series premiere)

Monday, February 23

8-8:30pm The Neighborhood

8:30-9pm DMV

9-10pm FBI

10-11pm CIA (series premiere)

Tuesday, February 24

8-9pm NCIS

9-10pm NCIS: Origins

10-11pm NCIS : Sydney

Wednesday, February 25

8-11pm Survivor 50 (new season premiere)

Thursday, February 26

8-8:30pm Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage

8:30-9pm Ghosts

9-10pm Matlock

10-11pm Elsbeth

Friday, February 27

8-9pm Sheriff Country

9-10pm Fire Country

10-11pm Boston Blue

Sunday, March 1

7-8pm 60 Minutes

8-9pm Y:Marshals (series premiere)

9-10pm Tracker (new time period)

10-11pm Watson (new night and time period)

Wednesday, March 4

8-9:30pm Survivor (regular time period)

9:30-10:30pm America's Culinary Cup (series premiere)

10:30-11pm Hollywood Squares

Special Events Programming

Thursday, January 8

8-9pm Golden Eve

Sunday, January 11

8-11pm/5-8pm pt The 83rd Annual Golden Globes (LIVE)

Friday, January 30

8-9pm Inside the 68th Annual Grammy Awards

Sunday, February 1

8-11:30pm ET/ 5-8:30pt The 68th Annual Grammy Awards

Monday, February 2

8-9pm 25th Annual Super Bowl Greatest Commercials Hall of Fame Countdown

Full Press Release after the jump

NBC Reveals Midseason 2026 Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:37:00 +0000

NBC Midseason 2026

NBC has released its midseason schedule. The network has a big winter with the Winter Olympics starting on February 6 and SuperBowl LX on February 8, and the NBA All Star game on February 15. The rest of the line up is built around these events.

"The Wall" is back and kicks off NBC's mid season. It premieres on January 5, taking the slot on Mondays. January also has the premiere of the second season of of "The Hunting Party" starting January 8, airing Thursday nights after the Law Order block.

The day after the Olympics end, February 23, a new comedy series "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" premieres with two episodes, followed by a new season of "The Voice" "St. Denis Medical" will be paired with the comedy on Monday nights.

NBC's Sunday Night NBA primetime games start on February 1. Here's the full line up all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted.

Saturday, January 3

8pm The Wall (R)

9pm Dateline Saturday

10pm SNL Vintage

Monday, January 5

8pm St. Denis Medical

8:30pm The Paper

9pm The Wall (Season Premiere)

10pm Brilliant Minds

Tuesday, January 6

8pm NBA Basketball

Wednesday, January 7

8pm Chicago Med

9pm Chicago Fire

10pm Chicago P.D.

Thursday, January 8

8pm Law & Order

9pm Law & Order :SVU

10pm The Hunting Party

Friday, January 16

8pm Happy's Place

8:30pm Stumble

9pm Dateline NBC

Sunday, February 1

8pm NBA Basketball

Friday, February 6

Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony

Sunday, February 8

6pm ET/3pm PT Super Bowl LX

Sunday, February 15

5pmET/ 2pmt PT NBA All-Star Game

Monday, February 23

8pm The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (two episodes) (series premiere)

9pm The Voice

Monday, March 2

8pm St. Denis Medical

8:30pm The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (regular time)

9pm The Voice

10pm Brilliant Minds

Full Press Release after the jump

FOX Sets winter 2026 Premiere Dates

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:41:00 +0000

FOX Winter Midseason

FOX has released it's winter schedule with premiere dates for new series like "Best Medicine", a reboot of "Fear Factor" , and "Memory of a Killer" . There's also the return of "The Masked Singer" , "Animal Control, "Going Dutch" and more.

"The Simpsons" will have its 800th episode and season finale episode in February. "Family Guy" returns on February with its season premiere which also is the series' 450th episode. The return of "American Dad" to FOX is also in February.

Here's a full look at the line up all times ET/PT , unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, January 1

8-9pm Hell's Kitchen (new episode)

Monday, January 5

8-9pm Celebrity Name that Tune (Season Finale)

Tuesday, January 6

8-9pm Best Medicine (Series Premiere)

9-10pm Doc (Winter Premiere)

Wednesday, January 7

8-10pm The Masked Singer (Special Two-Hour Season 14 Premiere)

Wednesday, January 14

8-9pm The Mask Singer (Time Period Premiere)

9-10pm Fear Factor :House of Fear (Series Premiere)

Thursday, January 15

8-9pm Hell's Kitchen (new episode)

9-9:30pm Animal Control (Season 4 premiere)

9:30-10pm Going Dutch (Season 2 Premiere)

Thursday, January 22

8-9pm Hell's Kitchen (Season 24 finale )

9-9:30pm Animal Control (new episode)

9:30-10pm Going Dutch (new episode)

Monday, January 26

8-9pm Extracted (Season 2 Premiere)

9-10pm Memory of a Killer (Series Premiere)

Thursday, January 29

8-9pm Next Level Chef (Season 5 Premiere)

9-9:30pm Animal Control (new episode)

9:30-10pm Going Dutch (new episode)

Fridays (on going)

8pm pm /5pm pt Fox Sports Friday

Saturdays (on Going)

8pm Fox Sports Saturday

Sunday, February 15

8:00-8:30 PM ”The Simpsons” (Special 800th Episode)
8:30-9:00 PM ”The Simpsons” (New Episode, Season Finale)
9:00-9:30 PM Universal Basic Guys (New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PM Family Guy (Season 24 Premiere, 450th Episode)

Sunday, February 22

8:00-8:30 PM Family Guy (Time Period Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM Universal Basic Guys (New Episode)
9:00-9:30 PM American Dad! (Season 20 Premiere)
9:30-10:00 PM Family Guy (New Episode)

Sundays, March 22, 29 and April 5

8-10pm The Faithful (New Event Series)

TBS and TNT Holiday Programming 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:06:00 +0000

TBS TNT Christmas New Year

TBS' All I Want for Christmas and TNT's Christmas Maximus programming starts Sunday, November 9. TBS and TNT will have 24 hour marathons of "Elf" , "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" , and a " Christmas Story". TNT will be airing the broadcast premiere of "Candy Cane Lane" on November 16. "Shrek the Halls" comes on December 16. "Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is part of the line as always.

Here's a full list and air dates/times of the programming.

A Christmas Story

on TNT

Friday December 19 at 4:45pnET/1:45pt
Saturday, December 20 at 12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT
24 hour marathon airs December 24 at 9pm ET to December 25 at 9pm ET

On TBS

Sunday, December 14 at 10:30am and 11pm ET
24 hour marathon airs December 24 at 8pm to December at 8pm ET

A Christmas Story Christmas

on TNT

Friday, December 19 at 6:45pm/3:45pt

on TBS

Sunday, December 14 at 12:30pm and 1am ET
Thursday, December 25 at 8pm and 12:45am ET/PT

A Christmas Carol (1999)

on TNT

Friday, December 19 at 12am ET/ 9pm PT

on TBS

Sunday, December 14 at 3:15am ET/PT

Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

on TNT

Monday, November 10 at 7:30pm ET/PT
Friday, November 21 at 7:30pm ET/PT
Sunday November 23 at 11am and 10:30pm ET/PT
Sunday, December 20 at 12pm ET/ 9am PT

on TBS

Saturday, November 15 at 11:30am ET/PT
Sunday, November 23 at 6:30pm ET/PT
Saturday, December 13 at 4pm ET/PT
Sunday, December 14 at 10am and 10:30pm ET/PT
Sunday, December 21 at 7:30pm and 10:30pm ET/PT

Full details in press release after the jump

Freeform's 25 Days of Christmas 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:32:00 +0000

Freeform Christmas

Freeform's annual 25 Days of Christmas is back and ready to bring viewers 25 days of Christmas fun. They'll continue to have "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , "Frosty the Snowman", "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" -which airs on Freeform in better quality than you'd find on sister network ABC, and "The Little Drummer Boy" They are running the same favorites that have mostly been staples of the network for the past few years.

In terms of premieres to the network, there's the 2005 film "The Legend of Frosty the Snowman" a special that is unrelated to the Rankin Bass specials but features the classic snowman in a town trying to fix things for kids. It previously aired on AMC, and will air 4 times in December. Freeform has been airing the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street and has now added the 1947, or the original movie to it's line up , it will air once. AMC had been airing the movie. and I'm assuming that FX will be airing it this year as well. The 1994 version airs 6 times. And finally, they'll be adding the new "Prep and Landing" special "Disney's "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol" which will also only air once. The special is on Disney Plus, and ran on Disney Channel first this year, and later ABC.

I will note that now, Freeform can stream the Frosty and Rudolph specials on things like Hulu Live TV and Sling TV, when they air live.

Here's the full line up all times ET/PT

Monday, December 1

7:00 AM Richie's Rich Christmas Wish
10:30 AM Cricket on the Hearth
11:30 AM The Santa Clause
1:35 PM The Santa Clause 2
4:00 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
6:00 PM Home Alone
8:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Jingle all the Way

Tuesday, December 2

7:00 AM I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
10:30 AM Love Actually
1:35 PM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Jingle All the Way 2

Wednesday, December 3

7:00 AM Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve
10:30 AM The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular (2025)
12:30 PM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (Freeform Premiere)
2:00 PM The Santa Clause
4:05 PM The Santa Clause 2
6:30 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
9:00 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
12:00 AM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Thursday, December 4

7:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Freeform Premiere)
10:30 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
12:00 PM Jingle All the Way
2:00 PM Jingle All the Way 2
4:00 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
6:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
9:00 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:00 AM Richie Rich's Christmas Wish

Friday, December 5

7:00 AM The Family Stone
9:30 AM I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998)
11:35 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
1:40 PM Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
3:10 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
5:10 PM The Santa Clause
7:20 PM The Santa Clause 2
9:50 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
11:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol

Saturday, December 6

7:00 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
8:35 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You
10:40 AM Arthur Christmas
12:45 PM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
3:25 PM Home Alone
5:55 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:35 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:10 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
10:15 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
12:55 AM Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Sunday, December 7

7:00 AM Arthur Christmas
9:05 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
11:45 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
1:50 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
2:55 PM Frosty the Snowman
3:30 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
4:35 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
7:15 PM Home Alone
9:45 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Monday, December 8

7:00 AM Home Alone 3
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:05 AM Home Alone
1:35 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
4:15 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
6:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
9:00 PM Dr Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:00 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws

Tuesday, December 9

7:00 AM Snow
10:30 AM Cricket on the Hearth
11:35 AM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
2:15 PM Dr Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
4:15 PM The Santa Clause
6:25 PM The Santa Clause 2
8:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
12:00 AM The Search for Santa Paws

Wednesday, December 10

7:00 AM Snow 2: Brain Freeze
10:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
11:00 AM Jingle All the Way
1:05 PM Jingle All the Way 2
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups

Thursday, December 11

7:00 AM Santa's Little Helper (2015)
10:30 AM The Family Man (2000)
1:25 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
3:25 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
6:00 PM Frozen (Disney Animation)
8:25 PM Frozen II (Disney Animation)
10:30 PM Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Disney Animation)
12:00 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
1:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)

Friday, December 12

7:00 AM Home Alone 3
9:00 AM Home Alone
11:25 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
2:00 PM Home Alone
4:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
7:00 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
9:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Home Alone 3

Saturday, December 13

7:00 AM Merry Madagascar
7:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
8:00 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
10:05 AM The Search for Santa Paws
12:10 PM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2:10 PM Disney's Prep & Landing
2:40 PM Disney's Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol (Freeform Premiere)
3:15 PM Toy Story (Disney-Pixar)
5:15 PM Toy Story 2 (Disney-Pixar)
7:20 PM Toy Story 3 (Disney-Pixar)
9:50 PM Toy Story 4 (Disney-Pixar)
12:00 AM Toy Story That Time Forgot (Disney-Pixar)
12:30 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman

Sunday, December 14

7:00 AM The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
8:30 AM Home Alone
10:55 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1:30 PM Arthur Christmas
3:30 PM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
5:10 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
7:15 PM The Santa Clause
9:25 PM The Santa Clause 2
11:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Monday, December 15

7:00 AM Jingle All the Way
10:30 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
1:05 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
3:10 PM Home Alone
5:40 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8:20 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:00 AM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)

Tuesday, December 16

7:00 AM Jingle All the Way 2
10:30 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
11:05 AM Arthur Christmas
1:10 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
3:50 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
5:50 PM Home Alone Freeform Pop'n Knowledge
8:20 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Santa's Little Helper (2015)

Wednesday, December 17

7:00 AM Arthur Christmas
10:30 AM Merry Madagascar
11:00 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:30 AM Home Alone
1:55 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
4:25 PM The Santa Clause
6:30 PM The Santa Clause 2
8:55 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
12:00 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You

Thursday, December 18

7:00 AM Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
1:30 PM The Santa Clause
3:40 PM The Santa Clause 2
6:10 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
8:15 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
9:20 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:55 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 AM Home Alone 3

Friday, December 19

7:00 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30 AM Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
10:30 AM The Search of Santa Paws
12:30 PM Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2:30 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
3:35 PM Frosty the Snowman
4:10 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
5:15 PM Home Alone
7:45 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
10:25 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Saturday, December 20

7:00 AM Cricket on the Hearth
8:00 AM Arthur Christmas
10:00 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
12:05 PM The Santa Clause
2:10 PM The Santa Clause 2
4:40 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
6:45 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
8:45 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
11:25 PM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Sunday, December 21

7:00 AM Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
9:30 AM Jingle All the Way
11:30 AM Jingle All the Way 2
1:30 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
4:05 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
5:10 PM Frosty the Snowman
5:45 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6:50 PM Home Alone
9:20 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Home Alone 3

Monday, December 22

7:00 AM Kung Fu Panda Holiday
7:30 AM Home Alone
9:55 AM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:30 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
1:35 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2:40 PM Frosty the Snowman
3:15 PM The Santa Clause
5:20 PM The Santa Clause 2
7:50 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
9:55 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
11:55 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol

Tuesday, December 23

7:00 AM Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
8:30 AM Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
10:00 AM Frozen (Disney Animation)
12:25 PM Frozen II (Disney Animation)
2:30 PM Olaf's Frozen Adventure (Disney Animation)
3:00 PM Disney's A Christmas Carol
5:05 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
7:45 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
9:45 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
12:25 AM Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Wednesday, December 24 Christmas Eve

7:00 AM Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
10:30 AM Disney's Prep & Landing
11:00 AM The Santa Clause
1:05 PM The Santa Clause 2
3:30 PM The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
5:35 PM Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
8:15 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
9:20 PM Frosty the Snowman
9:55 PM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 AM I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

Thursday, December 25 Christmas Day

7:00 AM Disney's A Christmas Carol
10:30 AM The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
11:00 AM Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
12:00 PM Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (2025)
2:00 PM Toy Story That Time Forgot (Disney-Pixar)
2:30 PM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
4:30 PM Frosty the Snowman
5:00 PM Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6:00 PM Home Alone
8:25 PM Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12:00 AM Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)

Full Press release after the jump

ABC Holiday Programming 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:39:00 +0000

ABC Christmas New Year Holiday

ABC is ready for the end of the year with their Christmas and New Year programming. ABC will airing returning favorites and the NBA on Christmas Day. ABC also has a new installment to their "Prep and Landing" specials with "Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol".

Here's there full line up , kicking off with a Thanksgiving night airing of "Mary Poppins". all times are ET/PT, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, November 27

8-11pm The Wonderful World of Disney Presents: Mary Poppins

Sunday, November 30

8:01-8:30pm Disney Prep & Landing

8:30-9pm Disney Prep & Landing : Naughty vs. Nice

9-9:30pm Disney Prep & Landing : The Snowball Protocol

9:31-10pm Olaf's Frozen Adventure

10-11pm Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Monday, December 1

8-10pm The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular

Tuesday, December 2

8-9:01pm Dancing the the Holidays

9:01-10:02pm CMA Country Christmas

10:02-11pm What Would You Do? Holiday Edition

Thursday, December 4

8-9pm Celebrity Family Feud: The Housemaid vs. the Housewives All Stars Holiday Special

9-10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : The Holiday Express (Season Premiere)

10-11pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : Santa's Making his List (new episode)

Sunday December 7

7-8:01pm America's Funniest Home Videos: Holiday Hoots, Santa Shenanigans and Festive Funnies

9-11pm he Wonderful World of Disney Presents: The Santa Clause

Tuesday, December 9

8-10pm Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas

Wednesday, December 10

8-8:30pm Shifting Gears (midseason finale)

8:30-9:02pm Abbot Elementary (midseason finale)

9:02-10:02pm Shark Tank

Thursday, December 11

8-9pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

9-10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : Christmas Vacation (new episode)

10-11pm The Great Christmas Light Fight : Holiday Igoomination

Wednesday, December 17

8-10pm iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2025

Thursday, December 18

9-10pm The Great Christmas Light Fight (new episode)

10-11pm The Great Christmas Light Fight (Season Finale)

Sunday , December 21

7-11pm The Wonderful World of Disney Presents “The Sound of Music”

Wednesday, December 24

8-10:30pm The Wonderful World of Disney Presents “Home Alone”

Thursday, December 25

10am ET/ 9am CT/ 5am MT/ 5am PT - 40th Anniversary Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade

12PM/9PT NBA Christmas Special : Cleveland Cavaliers at New York Knicks

2:30pm/11:30pt San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder

5PM /2pt Dallas Mavericks at Golden State Warriors

7:30pm Inside the NBA

8pm Houston Rockets at Los Angeles Lakers.

10:30pm ET Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets.

Wednesday, December 31

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025

Thursday, January 1

8-11pm 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Full press release after the jump

Halloween: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Trick or Treason

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:46:00 +0000

Halloween

We're dipping back into "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with a look at a Halloween special. (Yay were looking at them meeting Frankenstein!) That's right we are looking at a special that aired on USA Network in 1994 called "Trick or Treason" (nooooooooo) That other one is probably on the long list of things to get to.

Did you want to hear the Chimpunks do a cover of "The Monster Mash"? sure you did. The trio are getting ready for Halloween. Alvin talks about trying to impress a group called the Monster Club, a group that Alvin thinks is cool and Simon thinks is a group of bullies. Alvin wants to join their club. To get into the group someone must do three different things. The group also mentions that's a new kid who is part pumpkin and can do a lot of horrible things, like with one look makes your hair fall out. (He probably just ate that sundae from Spongebob)

They should be asking if he's actually a time traveler

Simon really doesn't Alvin to join this group, but has decided to help. Meanwhile the Pumpkin head kid shows up and finds Theodore and says he's taking Theodore to his lab. Really he just helps Theodore from his fall. Theodore finds out the kid helps animals and his name is Michael. Michael knows about the things people said about him because of his deformed face. He tells Theodore not to tell people they're friends or he fears they'll be mean to Theodore.

The Chipmunk world is like Goofy and Pluto, don't ask how it works

Super early 90's montage music. I like that Simon made Alvin do a bunch of things for him to help with his prank for Halloween. Michael uses his power to stop bully kids and stuff. Also there's not much Dave talking in this, he just kind of shows up. (not even an Alivinnnnnnn) Michael likes Halloween and being able to go as hisself since people can see him as not strange. Oh wait, David does say something, good. Theodore comes home and messes up Alvin's Halloween trick.

That being a mask of a kid makes it darker and messed up

The club isn't happy, so Alvin's new plan is to chase Pumpkinhead out of town. (The one from the 1988 movie? no.. oh he wants to chase a child out of town, that's mean) Did this special pay to use "Help I've Fallen and I can't get Up" or was this before it was trademarked or something? Anyway, he finds out that Theodore has been with Pumpkinhead and Theodore tells him that he's his friend. Alvin, after meeting him, is conflicted and tries to tell the monster club to call off the idea. But the club is too into their whatever to continue and Alvin decides to join them.

Alvin learned that in monster club, the real monsters are them

Theodore and Simon go to Michael's house to make sure he'll be alright before something stupid happens. The monster club is making my recipe for pumpkin soup, I see. I don't like the scene where Michael is happy with friendly animals, saying he doesn't want to go with his mom because he's fine and has friends now. I've seen this trick, then they kill off people, don't play with me. (I'm scared too)

Honestly, could have gone either way of killing him or killing the mom. this has happened.

Alvin and the leader of the Monster Club, uh who has no name; they didn't say it and I don't care, commit breaking and entering a house. (arrest them!) They get the boy to run out of his house and pour the whatever that liquid is on on him. Alvin actually decides that this is too far and tells the others to stop. Simon and Theodore call Alvin the right things. Wait, there's a twist! That's right, Michael is fine. Alvin actually did have an earlier turn of heart and made a Pumpkinhead mask and put it on a boy from the monster club named Butch. Michael doesn't even know what's going on. (Ha ha Butch is dead now)

Butch was never seen again

I like how there's a boy that's meeting Michael and is sad that the boy won't kill off his sister. They used real children voices for this special it seems. There we go special is over. The moral of the story is don't be mean.

This one is very simple, a very clear moral that one shouldn't judge some body by how they look. It's not a bad message, but it's clear that this a very young person special, though adults need that message sometimes too. Though, don't question this world where people accept talking humanoid chipmunks, but are like woah that kid is freaky.

The special itself, looks alright, standard television Chipmunks stuff, but fun 90's cartoon animation look. I also liked how it really had a nice Halloween feel to it. It actually doesn't feel too sugary sweet either and that's good. Yeah, it's a fun little special.

That's it for now, tune in next time, when Butch sues everyone.

NBC announces Holiday programming for 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:00 +0000

NBC Thanksgiving Christmas New Year

It's almost Thanksgiving and Christmas and NBC is back with their holiday programming. NBC has returning staples of the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" , "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" , "Frosty the Snowman" , "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , and more.

Here's the full list of programming details, all times are ET/PT, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, November 6

8-10pm Wicked :One Wonderful Night

Wednesday, November 26

8pm Countdown to the 99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

9-11pm A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 27

8:30-12pm 99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Encore at 2pm)

12-2PM National Dog Show

Wednesday, December 3

8-10pm Christmas in Rockefeller Center

10-11pm Christmas in Nashville

Thursday, December 4

8-8:30pm How The Grinch Stole Christmas

8:30-9pm Frosty the Snowman

Friday, December 5,

8-9:15pm Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Monday, December 8

10-11pm Password Holiday Special

Tuesday, December 9

8pm Frosty the Snowman

8:30pm Shrek the Halls

9-11pm A Motown Christmas

December 11

8pm Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

9:15pm NBC 2025 Year in Review by Access Hollywood

December 17

8-8:30pm Shrek the Halls

9-10pm Jimmy Fallon's Holiday Seasoning Spectacular

10-11pm NBC 2025 Year in Review by Access Hollywood

December 18

8pm Password Holiday Special

9pm A Saturday Night Live Christmas

December 22

9pm A Saturday Night Live Christmas

December 24

8-11pm It's a Wonderful Life

11:30-1am Christmas Eve Mass

December 25

8pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas

8:30-11pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas

January 1

11-1pm/ 8-10am PT Rose Parade Presented by Honda

More after the Jump

DCOM Goes to Boogie Wonderland (Don't Look Under the Bed)

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:32:00 +0000

Disney Halloween

Don't Look Under the Bed is another older Disney Channel original movie. It premiered on Disney Channel on October 9, 1999. There's a fun note of this being a TV-PG original movie, instead of the typical TV-G on Disney Channel, because it was scary. This is also when PG meant something.

The movie was directed by Kenneth Johnson who also created "The Bionic Woman", "The Incredible Hulk" TV show , produced shows like the TV version of "Alien Nation" and worked in films, he also directed the first "Zenon" movie.

The movie starts with narration by main character Frances Bacon McCausland (someone was having fun, right Ferdinand Magellan Jones?) she lives in a town called Middleberg which is supposed to be like a normal boring town you see in movies and think of with America. But guess what? It's not! (I hope nothing spooky happens)

Frances is the middle child of her family and everyone seems to waking up early because the clocks for some reason say it's 7:23am, but it's 4:23am. In fact everyone's clocks were wrong, which is strange. There are dogs on the roof. Frances is starting high school a year early, that's important. Anyway, she sees a guy sitting on a rock, one of those other people can't see people things going on. The missing eggs thing comes into play as eggs are being dropped on one car. The guy also shows up a few times make us wonder who he is.

When Disney Channel chose to rerun the movie 3am/ Copyright Disney

Frances is able to see him and he's surprised. I like how this movie uses it's camera angles to really make you feel confused and disoriented. It's also holding the tension well as we don't see much of the creature that's doing the strange things around the town. There's also the mystery of the other guy who it is. I don't know why the dad looks one step from murdering his family, the town, and then taking out himself, it's kind of strange. Then there seems to be things that make it look like Frances is behind the strangeness.

I don't know why you screenshotted this. There's no one there, Frances! / Copyright Disney

The story is forcing Frances' character who is grounded in science and in logic to have to accept strangeness and the lack of logic. It's taking its time well to build up the tension and does it well. Finally, Frances is able to talk to the guy that's been hanging around. His name is Larry Houdini. He's played by Ty Hodges who would later play Larry Beale on Even Stevens. [Strange he played a guy named Larry in two different Disney things] He's a good contrast to Frances as he's wild and silly, and says he's an imaginary friend. He says the one that's doing all the strange things is the Boogieman, which she finds really outlandish.

The real horror of this movie is people accusing her for stuff she didn't do and thinking she's losing her sanity. It does bug me when a character figured out that no one can see someone still tries to show people, try a new strategy. Larry says he's sent there to help her. Odd Barry Manilow joke. Her mother was called in and they just drop a line that her younger brother, Darwin, had cancer but is in remission. (He got off lucky, in other Disney movies he'd be dead or their mom would be dead, or everyone is dead)

Would be more interesting if the kids were actually the adults imginary friends/ Copyright Disney

I love how this movie feels like a horror film in theory. The mom thinking that mind control is a reason why strange things are happening is not something you'd expect. Darwin mentions something about the boogieman and says a guy named Larry told some kids. There's a lot of jump scares in this too as we get monster build up. It's also interesting that young children can see him, but Darwin can't. (hmm, I wonder) I also like that Larry acts like a kid at times since he is a childhood imaginary friend.

Also, I'm once again asking Frances that if no one can see and hear him then stop thinking people will hear him. There's also a parallel of a the young children listening to the Peter Pan story and talking about believing in something. That's right movie, I see what you are doing. I don't know the librarian is mad, she doesn't know that the library put on a story for kids that also has interaction in it?

I don't know why these kids are so happy, there's no one there/ Copyright Disney

In this movie called "Don't Look Under the Bed" Frances goes to look under her bed. I think the creepy doll moving her head is a bad sign. Larry jump scare. Darwin comes into the room to for the movie to do a lost your marbles misdirection statement joke. This is where Larry and Frances figure out that, that younger boy can't see him. Frances says he doesn't believe in things like imaginary friends, then Larry turns scary after she says that she's the reason Darwin doesn't believe in him. Frances says that she was helping him. Then Larry asks why didn't she give Darwin some of her bone marrow , as earlier it was said that the older brother, and Larry leaves. Like, I said the cancer thing came up.

The movie was doing a good job of doing the "Jaws" thing of making sure we don't see the monster. The boogieman is putting Christmas lights up? This is a Christmas movie. (Change the labels) Then we see him, he's dressed in Victorian style. I like his design, I can see how this is movie is seen as scary by kids or people who were kids when they saw it.

Let us thou boogie/ Copyright Disney

Boogie makes the power go out except at the house here where he turns on the Christmas lights because uhhhhhh reasons? The house has ended up on the newspaper. It's funny because somehow the paper had the time to do this story as their front page news, the TV news is there too, and the story is about the house being the only one with power, so who's watching that? Also, the dad is one step from snapping and killing everyone on Earth and then himself.

This is Christmas movie then/ Copyright Disney

Larry was Darwin's old imaginary friend and Larry says that Darwin still needed him. Interesting. Keep that note. The movie shifts to back and white for a Frankenstein homage. Larry's nails are getting long like a boogie man. (hmmm) There's also a misdirection bust joke, I see what you are doing movie. The school phycologist is over at the house for a family dinner and probably because the dad thinks his daughter is losing her mind. Larry is making boogie goo at the wrong time because of course he is. The mother finds out and explains she's concerned about Frances. Frances wonders if there's something wrong with Larry. He's turning into a boogieman.

I don't feel so un boogie/ copyright Disney

Frances finds out that if a child stops believing in an imaginary friend too early then they turn into a boogieman. He's looking very boogie. (I'm scared) There are shots in the movie that are one step removed from being a slasher film. Under the bed in Frances' room is glowing as something grabs Darwin. One step from being a slasher film, indeed. Darwin is under the bed, he's in the boogie world, which is different than boogie wonderland. (and way different than Funky Town)

I do like how Larry is concerned about Darwin even as he changes is amazing, I love that touch. I think it's ironic that this movie was actually not liked by some parents groups for being too scary, when one of the messages of the movie is that people get scared and that fear should be confronted. She tries to go Boogie World, but we get a father jump scare and thankfully her story made him leave to give her time to go the the world.

She ends up what would be a cool screen saver on Windows 95. I like how it looks it's kind of like a dreamscape with a sense no logic and random assortments of whatever. It's good contrast to the more normal world of Frances, though her world isn't that much normal, and her sense of wanting logic. She is able to find her bother and oh it's the boogie man. Larry is turning into one even more. I love their designs. Frances convinces Darwin to believe in Larry the movie does some of that Peter Pan stuff and gets Larry to turn back to normal. He's missing most of this fun though.

Larry and the boogieman fight each other and fight is kind of silly, there's a man with pointy nails fighting a man with a big pen for a moment. Frances uses jumper cables attached to the boogie man's nails and we get a fake out of him being defeated. She tells him she's not afraid of him anymore. Then we get a twist that this boggieman was also her imaginary friend named Zoey. They make it back home and the boogie man is back to her woman non scary form.

We boogied too hard/ copyright Disney

The parents apologize to Frances for thinking she was doing the strange things and there's apparently a town called Centerville. (I'm not moving there) Frances explains that she gave up on Zoey when Darwin got sick and that's why Zoey was turning. Larry and Zoey both go to Centerville to help fix the problem there, which would be a good spinoff series. Where's that? Frances finds out that she won't see Larry and Zoey anymore because it's not her time anymore. Also a kiss, they really went hard on the Peter Pan allegory. It ends with a nice scene with Darwin and Frances.

This is the only Disney Channel movie to end with Boogie Wonderland.

I can see why this movie would be scary to children and it has some feelings of the real TV PG and rated PG movies when that meant something. I'm not sure if I would have been scared of it, but I can see how. This movie has some good layers to it. The main idea I saw was that it was about letting fear not be in control. Frances, rightfully, felt fear for her little brother when he had cancer and her best way to push aside her fear was to help her brother not be in fear. There's also a slight message of letting time hit right, not try to grow up too fast. There was the idea that she and Darwin tried to push away childhood things too early.

The movie has interesting shots and a look to it, I liked how it made everything feel a little off kilter. It's also a movie that doesn't seem to waste anything that it brings up, though you could say if there's one thing it doesn't use much is Frances being moved a grade up. I think the only thing that fits with that into the story is the concept of Frances trying to be mature or more disconnected from childhood things in awkward times, but that's only tangential.

I do like how the movie knew to use quiet moments as effective and it was used. The other parts of the movie is that it's mostly Frances point of view, so we don't really know much about how Darwin was effected by having cancer and he's well and seems to be alright by the time this movie happens. I think there was way too much Frances doesn't believe that Larry is real or that other people can't see him, where even if she's trying logic it, there's a point and point earlier that she would accepted it more. I'm also a little lost on the whole thing about Frances feeling bad about not being able to give marrow but her older brother was, it's brought up twice and it's kind of random. They slightly try to tie it to her fears at the time, but yeah.

It's a good movie, but it does have some pieces that kind of feel a little lost or had good ideas not explored. I did enjoy it, there was some fun charm to it and some moments felt almost slasher and horror like.

That it's for now, tune in next time when we come up from the bed to scare you.

The CW'S Holiday Programming 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:05:00 +0000

The CW Thanksgiving Christmas Holidays

The CW is ready for the holidays with a slate of holiday movies and specials. There's their annual broadcast of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", their Waltons specials and the Christmas parade. Also of note, the network will be airing Yogi's First Christmas. Here's a full detailed look at their line up, all times are ET/PT/Denver Saint Louis.

Saturday, November 22

8-10pm A Waltons Thanksgiving

Friday, November 28

8-9pm Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

9-10pm A Totally Funny Animals Holiday

Thursday, December 4

8-10pm Best Christmas Movies Ever!

Monday, December 8

8-10pm The Waltons' Homecoming

Wednesday, December 10

8-9pm Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer

9-10pm Penn & Teller: Merry Fool US

Thursday, December 11

8-10pm Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors

Friday, December 12

8-10pm The 93rd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade

Monday, December 15

8-10pm A California Christmas

Wednesday, December 17

9-10pm Best Christmas Movies Ever!

Friday, December 19

8-10pm Yogi's First Christmas

Monday, December 22

8-10pm A California Christmas :City Lights

Friday, December 26

8-9pm PopStar! Best of 2025

Full Press Release after the Jump

CBS Announces Holiday Programming

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:25:00 +0000

CBS Holidays Thanksgiving Christmas

CBS has released its holiday programming line up for the season of 2025. This includes special episodes in primetime and daytime, specials, and more.

"Ghosts" gets a special Thanksgiving based episode on November 20. "Everybody Loves Raymond" celebrates its 30th anniversary with a reunion special on November 24.

"Paw Patrol" Christmas special will air November 28, and Reindeer in Here will air on December 6.

Here's the full line up all times ET/PT unless otherwise noted, and subject to change.

Thursday, November 20

8:30pm Ghosts- New Thanksgiving episode

Monday, November 24

8pm Everybody Loves Raymond : 30th Anniversary Reunion

Wednesday, November 26

Daytime : The Prices Right Thanksgiving

Daytime: The Bold and the Beautiful

Friday, November 28

8pm Paw Patrol Christmas

Saturday, December 6

8pm Reindeer in Here

Monday, December 8

8pm The Neighborhood

8:30pm DMV

Thursday, December 11

9pm Matlock

Saturday, December 13

8pm Family, Film and TV Awards

Monday, December 15

8pm FBI

Tuesday, December 16

8pm NCIS Tuesday

Thursday, December 18

9pm Ghosts

10pm Elsbeth

Sunday, December 21

8:30-9:30pm ET/ 8-9pm PT Hollywood Squares

December 22-24

Daytime: Let's Make a Deal

Daytime: The Price is Right

Tuesday, December 23

8pm Kennedy Center Honors

December 24 and December 30

Daytime: Beyond the Gates

Friday, December 26

8pm A Grammy (R) Celebration of Latin Music

Wednesday, December 31

8-10pm ET/PT and 10:30-1:30am ET/PT New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash

Full Press Release after the Jump

Into the Twilight: You Drive (Car Drives You... Straight to Jail)

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:34:00 +0000

The Twilight Zone

This is another morality story from the original "Twilight Zone" series coming in during the final/ 5th season of the series. (Season 5 , Episode 14) It's written by Earl Hamner Jr. but does take place more in the contemporary urban/suburban world.

The main character is a man named Oliver Pope who is introduced as a man who is part of the modern world absorbed by it and the fallings of it. He's a man who works at an office job and wants to get ahead and not focused on anything else, this will be his undoing. It's a setup that also fits with many parts of the series as a whole, the idea that the present's problems are that it's moving too fast, that people get wrapped up in things that might otherwise not really be worth it, and that the too present mindedness makes us forget the impact of our actions.

I like how the episode begins with Oliver driving his car in the rain and he hits a paper boy on a bike, gets out of the car to look around, and decides to just get in his car and run. [Also this is like one of those things where you go people looked older in the past, even the kids.] They are getting this out of the way first, we are getting no background of his day or anything he's just a man decided to just leave a kid he hit because he didn't have time to deal with this. A woman shows up and is like hey stop but she doesn't see him and he's gone.

Hmm, I hate the newspaper anyway/ Copyright CBS

Oliver comes home and his primary concern is... a co-worker might be gunning for his job. He also gets mad at his wife because I think running over someone would probably sour my mood too. The wife isn't one of the Twilight Zone mean wives so that's good, because I don't think we are supposed to feel for Ollie. His wife notices that someone has fooled in garage and he sees that the car's headlights are going on and off by themselves. And the way the music goes off when he touches inside the car, makes me think the car was on like Spooky Music Radio.

I'm going to eat you, yeah I eat/ Copyright CBS

Mrs. Pope notices the paper is late. (It's going to be late, it's currently black and white and red all over) Oliver has some guilt as he calls to find out how the boy is doing in the hospital. Apparently, you could just call the hospital and get info like that. It's good that Oliver feels some guilt. The car honks in the garage at night, by itself. (I wonder)

The next day, the wife says that the boy is near death and that she hopes they catch the man. (I hope they do too) Oliver has decided to not go to work. I do think it's interesting that they made the episode have the wife hear the car too, I kind of think the "Tell- Tale Heart" idea here would have been somewhat more interesting if it was just him hearing the honks. Mrs. Pope decides to drive the car and when it gets to the spot where he hit the boy, it just kind of stops. I'm not sure why the car is mad at the wife, though. But it's at the shop now.

I'm not moving... you can't make me/ Copyright CBS

The honking shows up again and the car is in the garage. Nobody knows how the car got back there. Pete, the man he thinks is trying to take his job, shows up at the house. Oliver tells him straight the man should back off trying to take his job. He's also here where Oliver finds out the news that boy is dead now. That's right Oliver committed manslaughter. A woman sees a car whom she thinks is driving by the hit and run guy.

Oliver finds out that the man is Pete. Oliver's partial relief at letting a man take the fall for him is being disturbed by the car making noise in the garage, and apparently deciding to break itself. Later at night, the car starts playing the radio. Oliver goes to stop the car and news comes to make sure he hears it. (The news just tells people the address of the suspect and quick funeral too hmmm) The car has the power to rewind the radio too, it seems. Oliver decides to start smashing the car's radio and lights. (He's going to have a hard time explaining that one) Then he tries to break the horn too.

This is how I fix my car/ Copyright CBS

He decides to go to work by bus since he's not trusting the car. The car is like "no you ain't" , opens the garage, backs out, freaks the wife out, and drives better than people. The car decides to chase Oliver which makes a different meaning to car chase. Earlier the wife said it's going to rain, he said no it's not and well the weather decided it didn't like him either. The car had a chance to run him over but tells him to get in loser, instead.

Hop in , loser/ Copyright CBS

The car drove him to the police station and he walks in to face his justice.

Oliver is not a character they want us to root for or feel for at all, he starts with a callous disregard for the boy and it never stopped. His guilt is mostly the worry that he'll be caught and how things get worse when the boy dies because he knows it will be worse for him. The storyline with him thinking about getting ahead in work, thinking that Pete is trying to steal his job is interesting as it places the idea of modern times getting in the way and that he wasn't thinking about what was important or owning up to his own mistakes.

I like how the episode looks, the shots being really done outside give it realistic feel and a movie like tone. The shots are perfection. Oliver's actor, who returns from a previous episode, Edward Andrews plays a man who isn't even in malice he's just so self-absorbed and worried about his stuff that nothing else matters to him. The moment it starts and he sees that he hit a boy, he has no emotion but not robotic, he treats hitting a boy on a bike like someone would treat tripping over a bit. His reactions aren't over the top. I love how the car operating by itself was done where you can't see a driver. There's sense of thriller and suspense to this episode, yet we're kind of not rooting for the the guy.

Oliver being mostly a normal guy plays well , because it shows that it could really be anyone. He's not villain in the sense of ruthless and evil, but that he decided to make a terrible decision that he could have avoided. He was so raptured into what his own advancement was that he made things tragic for a lot of people.

I do think it would have been more interesting in a few spots. I think having the car only be heard by Ollie and only doing weird stuff around him, without the wife noticing, would have made this slightly better as it would be a good way to show that the conscience in him was trying to get him to confess. Same with the ending where he just walks up in the police station seems kind of weak, when it should have been more somehow forcing him or that his guilt was triggered better, or the car did something to have him end up being spotting by the police. That's minor though.

This episode is fun, I liked it. It's not the top tier but still good. Interesting concept and pretty fun.

That's it for now, tune in next time, when a car gives you a ride. Don't ask where you're going.

So Weird: Drive

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:51:00 +0000

Disney So Weird

This time in "So Weird" I jump into the second episode of season two. The concept of a car being alive isn't new and was also a book and movie, plus a non-Christine related thing in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and the sitcom "My Mother the Car" where Dick Van Dyke's brother's character buys an old car that happens to be his dead mother who came back as a car.

So the episode we are looking at today called "Drive" has something do to with that idea. There's a man he hears a noise at night and decides to get up with baseball bat and hope they aren't a random pitcher ready with a ball. (Or a guy with a gun) He sees a car , A For d Mustang, and it seems to be moving by itself hitting the garage door. The man pulls the keys and nothing happens. I feel like I have been baited by a TV show. If this was any other show that car would have killed that man.

I'm part actual mustang / Copyright Disney

Back to the characters, Jack and Clu tell Molly , Jack's Mom, that they have money to buy a [used] car. I wonder what car that could be.... Season 2 of "So Weird" has a difference where the group is on the road less as Molly is busy recording. This anchored the show more to a location, seems this is a thing in many shows that start with traveling. I thought I mention that here. Anyway back to the episode. I wonder what car, hey it's a blue Mustang. That man wants to sell it, but he wonders if he should, but agrees to the money.

People always sell their cars in robes right? right? / Copyright Disney

Molly is right to be worried about Jack driving a car, but not for the reasons she's thinking. He's trying to get ready for his test and the car seems to be doing some strange things. Fi notices that the turn signal lever by itself, and it moves by itself. Fi wonders about the car as she always thinks the strange things are strange out of the realm. She goes to talk to the man who sold the car.

This doesn't say anything about the car being alive/ copyright Disney

The man explains that he worked hard on the car, it was a wreck when he bought it. He doesn't mention the whole moving by itself thing. Jack doesn't want to hear anything about and he's very tense. Fi talks to her mom to help with figuring out the car's history. They find out it was in an accident a man died in a crash he was taking his wife to hospital because of a heart attack. She looks up on the internet and talks to Clu and notices that the car started acting strange around the hospital route. The idea is the car feels guilty feels about not making the trip.

I do feel guilty, that was truly Chevy behavior / Copyright Disney

Hey the show seems to be taking place in Colorado, neat! Jack is on his driver's test and the poor guy is tense. He also doesn't know he's a in a possessed car. The car messes with Jack's test as it has decided to take over the driving. (In "So Weird" car drives you) Fiona ends up as she rides with Clu to tell Jack to let the car drive itself. It stops at the hospital where it seems to be the final goal the car wanted to make in the first place.

Me at the end of episode/ Copyright Disney

Jack did fail his test, sadly. But Fiona says that the car feels better now. There's also the background that Clu is leaving for college soon. Which will be a season set up thing for a while.

I think it's interesting the episode didn't take the creepier approach with the car. I think "Goosebumps" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark" , or especially "The Haunting Hour" would have gone for the creepier approach. I like the idea of the car being guilty because the brakes being broken and killing a man and his wife because of that and wants to complete the mission to atone. I think it would have been slightly better if the car ended up helping someone who needed to go the hospital, instead. Like Jack and Clu had to help a pregnant woman [Children's show, so something that's not gruesome] to get there and the car drives itself there, it'd be kind of a full circle thing helping bring life in the world. It went for a slightly comedic thing with goofy things making a driving instructor question his life decisions.

The episode is pretty fun and I did enjoy it. The episode was lighter than expected , especially for the season known as the darker season. It did play with the expectation like the car not being evil and/or possessed by like the original driver or something. Jack's story fit in well as it was about him trying to reach this milestone with some worry, and fitting with his mom's worries too, after her husband died in a car accident.

That's it for now, tune in next time, when a Chevy drives us into a levy.

Freeform Sets 30 Days of Disney Programming for November 2025

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:35:00 +0000

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Freeform's November version of 30 Days of Disney is back this year. There will be a selection of Disney movies and some Christmas movies dashed in. Freeform will also be premiering on their network "The Sword and the Stone". The event starts on November 1.

Here's the full line up, all times ET/PT and subject to change.

Saturday, November 1

7:00 AM ET – “Fantasia” (1940) (Disney Animated)

10:00 AM ET – “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Pocahontas” (Disney Animated)

1:55 PM ET – “Mulan” (1998) (Disney Animated)

3:55 PM ET – “Aladdin” (1992) (Disney Animated)

6:00 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) (Disney Animated)

8:00 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (1989) (Disney Animated)

10:00 PM ET – “The Lion King” (1994) (Disney Animated)

12:05 AM ET – “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride” (Disney Animated)

Sunday, November 2

7:00 AM ET – “Mary Poppins” (1964)

10:05 AM ET – “Toy Story” (Disney-Pixar)

12:05 PM ET – “Toy Story 2” (Disney-Pixar)

2:10 PM ET – “Toy Story 3” (Disney-Pixar)

4:40 PM ET – “Toy Story 4” (Disney-Pixar)

6:50 PM ET – “Home Alone”

9:20 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”

12:00 AM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

Monday, November 3

10:30 AM ET – “101 Dalmatians” (1996)

12:55 PM ET – “Oliver & Company” (Disney Animated)

2:25 PM ET – “Tarzan” (Disney Animated)

4:25 PM ET – “A Bug’s Life” (Disney-Pixar)

6:30 PM ET – “Zootopia” (Disney Animated)

9:00 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

Tuesday, November 4

11:30 AM ET – “The Sword and the Stone” (Disney Animated) – Freeform Premiere

1:30 PM ET – “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996) (Disney Animated)

3:35 PM ET – “Hercules” (Disney Animated)

5:40 PM ET – “The Incredibles” (Disney-Pixar)

8:20 PM ET – “Incredibles 2” (Disney-Pixar)

Wednesday, November 5

11:30 AM ET – “Ferdinand”

1:55 PM ET – “WALL-E” (Disney-Pixar)

4:00 PM ET – “Up” (Disney-Pixar)

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

Thursday, November 6

11:00 AM ET – “Bedtime Stories”

1:00 PM ET – “The Princess Bride”

3:25 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (2023) (Live Action)

6:30 PM ET – “Finding Nemo” (Disney-Pixar)

8:55 PM ET – “Finding Dory” (Disney-Pixar)

Friday, November 7

12:00 PM ET – “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”

2:30 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (2017)

5:30 PM ET – “Cruella”

8:30 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

12:00 AM ET – “Strange World” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 8

7:00 AM ET – “The Pacifier”

9:00 AM ET – “The Game Plan”

11:30 AM ET – “Home Alone”

2:00 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

4:35 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

7:15 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

9:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

11:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Sunday, November 9

7:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (2007)

9:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”

11:00 AM ET – “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”

1:00 PM ET – “Brother Bear” (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Elemental” (Disney-Pixar)

5:10 PM ET – “Tangled” (Disney Animated)

7:20 PM ET – “Moana” (Disney Animated)

9:50 PM ET – “Brave” (Disney-Pixar)

11:55 PM ET – “Turning Red” (Disney-Pixar)

Monday, November 10

10:30 AM ET – “Tooth Fairy”

12:30 PM ET – “Mulan” (2020) (Live Action)

3:00 PM ET – “Enchanted”

5:30 PM ET – “Cinderella: (2015) (Live Action)

8:00 PM ET – “Aladdin” (2019) (Live Action)

Tuesday, November 11

10:30 AM ET – “Rio”

12:30 PM ET – “Rio 2”

2:30 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

4:30 PM ET – “Soul” (Disney-Pixar)

6:30 PM ET – “Encanto” (Disney Animated)

8:35 PM ET – “Coco” (Disney-Pixar)

Wednesday, November 12

11:00 AM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

1:00 PM ET – “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) (Live Action)

3:30 PM ET – “Raya and the Last Dragon” (Disney Animated)

6:00 PM ET – “Frozen” (Disney Animated)

8:25 PM ET – “Frozen II” (Disney Animated)

10:30 PM ET – “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure” (Disney Animated)

Thursday, November 13

10:30 AM ET – “The Pacifier”

12:35 PM ET – “The Princess Diaries”

3:15 PM ET – “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement”

5:55 PM ET – “Freaky Friday” (2003)

8:00 PM ET – “The Parent Trap” (1998)

Friday, November 14

10:30 AM ET – “Bambi” (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Lady and the Tramp” (1955) (Disney Animated)

1:35 PM ET – “101 Dalmatians” (1996) (Live Action)

4:00 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”

12:00 AM ET – “The Aristocats” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 15

7:00 AM ET – “Garfield: The Movie” (2004)

8:55 AM ET – “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties”

10:30 AM ET – “Bolt” (Disney Animated)

12:40 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

2:40 PM ET – “Wreck-It Ralph” (Disney Animated)

4:45 PM ET – ”Ralph Breaks the Internet” (Disney Animated)

7:20 PM ET – ”Monsters, Inc.” (Disney-Pixar)

9:25 PM ET – ”Monsters University” (Disney-Pixar)

11:55 PM ET – “Luca” (Disney-Pixar)

Sunday, November 16

7:00 AM ET – “The Jungle Book” (2016) (Live Action)

9:30 AM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”

12:45 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”

4:00 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”

7:45 PM ET – ”Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”

11:00 PM ET – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”

Monday, November 17

11:30 AM ET – “Night at the Museum”

2:00 PM ET – “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”

4:05 PM ET – “The Lion King” (2019) (Live Action)

6:45 PM ET – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”

8:20 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

Tuesday, November 18

10:30 AM ET – “Mary Poppins Returns”

1:40 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

4:20 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

6:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

8:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Wednesday, November 19

12:00 PM ET – “Dumbo” (2019) (Live Action)

2:30 PM ET – “National Treasure”

5:30 PM ET – “National Treasure: Book of Secrets”

8:05 PM ET – “Jungle Cruise”

Thursday, November 20

11:00 AM ET – “Cinderella” (1950) (Disney Animated)

1:00 PM ET – “Sleeping Beauty” (1959) (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Pocahontas” (Disney Animated)

5:00 PM ET – “Brave” (Disney-Pixar)

7:05 PM ET – “Mulan” (1998) (Disney Animated)

9:05 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (1989) (Disney Animated)

Friday, November 21

11:00 AM ET – “Robin Hood” (1973) (Disney Animated)

1:00 PM ET – “The Jungle Book” (1967) (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “Tarzan” (Disney Animated)

5:00 PM ET – “Aladdin” (1992) (Disney Animated)

7:00 PM ET – “Tangled” (Disney Animated)

9:00 PM ET – “The Princess and the Frog” (Disney Animated)

12:00 AM ET – “Alice in Wonderland” (1951) (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 22

7:00 AM ET – “Oz the Great and Powerful”

10:00 AM ET – “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996) (Disney Animated)

12:00 PM ET – “Hotel Transylvania”

2:05 PM ET – “Hotel Transylvania 2”

4:05 PM ET – “Big Hero 6” (Disney Animated)

6:15 PM ET – “The Incredibles” (Disney-Pixar)

8:55 PM ET – “Incredibles 2” (Disney-Pixar)

11:35 PM ET – “Lightyear” (Disney-Pixar)

Sunday, November 23

7:00 AM ET – “Hotel Transylvania”

9:05 AM ET – “Hotel Transylvania 2”

11:10 AM ET – “The Rescuers” (Disney Animated)

1:10 PM ET – “The Rescuers Down Under” (Disney Animated)

3:10 PM ET – “Hercules” (Disney Animated)

5:15 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

7:15 PM ET – “The Santa Clause”

9:25 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 2”

11:55 PM ET – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Monday, November 24

10:30 AM ET – “Gnomeo & Juliet” (2011)

12:30 PM ET – “Peter Pan” (1953) (Disney Animated)

2:25 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

4:25 PM ET – “Lilo & Stitch” (2002) (Disney Animated)

6:25 PM ET – “Encanto” (Disney Animated)

8:30 PM ET – “Moana” (Disney Animated)

Tuesday, November 25

10:30 AM ET – “The Princess Bride”

12:50 PM ET – “Aladdin” (2019) (Live Action)

3:50 PM ET – “The Little Mermaid” (2023) (Live Action)

6:55 PM ET – “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) (Disney Animated)

8:55 PM ET – “The Lion King” (1994) (Disney Animated)

Wednesday, November 26

11:00 AM ET – “Herbie: Fully Loaded”

1:05 PM ET – “The Parent Trap” (1998)

4:15 PM ET – “Inside Out” (Disney-Pixar)

6:20 PM ET – “Elemental” (Disney-Pixar)

8:30 PM ET – “Zootopia” (Disney Animated)

Thursday, November 27

11:00 AM ET – “Jingle All the Way”

1:00 PM ET – “Jingle All the Way 2”

3:00 PM ET – “Cruella”

6:00 PM ET – “Home Alone”

8:25 PM ET – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”

Friday, November 28

10:30 AM ET – “Onward”

12:35 PM ET – “Cars” (Disney-Pixar)

3:15 PM ET – “Cars 2” (Disney-Pixar)

5:50 PM ET – “Cars 3” (Disney-Pixar)

8:20 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

12:00 AM ET – “The Emperor’s New Groove” (Disney Animated)

Saturday, November 29

7:00 AM ET – “Ice Age”

9:00 AM ET – “Ice Age: The Meltdown”

11:00 AM ET – “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”

1:05 PM ET – “Meet the Robinsons” (Disney Animated)

3:10 PM ET – “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”

5:15 PM ET – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000)

7:55 PM ET – “Finding Nemo” (Disney-Pixar)

10:25 PM ET – “Finding Dory” (Disney-Pixar)

12:30 AM ET – “Dumbo” (1941) (Disney Animated)

Sunday, November 30

7:00 AM ET – “Air Bud”

9:05 AM ET – “Air Bud: Golden Receiver”

11:05 AM ET – “The Fox and the Hound” (Disney Animated)

1:05 PM ET – “Chicken Little” (Disney Animated)

3:00 PM ET – “A Bug’s Life” (Disney-Pixar)

5:10 PM ET – “Ratatouille” (Disney-Pixar)

7:50 PM ET – “Coco” (Disney-Pixar)

10:20 PM ET – “Up” (Disney-Pixar)

12:25 AM ET – “The Great Mouse Detective” (Disney Animated)

Press release after the jump

It's A Charlie Brown Lookback: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (Rewrite Edition)

noreply@blogger.com (Skyler M) — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:57:00 +0000

Peanuts

Rewrite edition time, where I feel an older post can be re-done for different reasons In this case, I want to re-do "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" to flesh out my old thoughts, add some more things, and because the other old one has dead videos.

It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown came out on CBS (Columbia Beagle System) on April 16, 1984. This has to be the most 80's Peanuts special to exist. It's a good example of Peanuts dipping into current things in some way. Charles Schulz had seen the movie Flashdance and apparently liked it and he decided to dress Snoopy up like Jennifer Beals from that movie in a comic strip from 1983. (November 29, 1983)

Flashbeagle doesn't have a plot, per say, this in the era of Peanuts specials and the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show going with vignettes instead of a full plot. We're going to be looking at things by segment. (wonderful)

The special has the tone of an episode of "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show" as well as using a piece of music that would was used for the theme song of that show. The music is also on the album also called "FlashBeagle" called "Let's have a party". The first segment has Marcie and Peppermint Patty school stuff based on strips where Peppermint Patty sleeps in class and some of Marcie's sarcastic humor. Peppermint Patty making the teacher question her life decisions. The song segway is wild. It's odd to hear Peppermint Patty say she's dumb.

The song is "She's in Shape" which is sung by Peppermint Patty. Everyone is wearing the most 80's exercise wear worn. The moves were apparently inspired by Charles Schulz then 12-year-old daughter. It's an alright song, I like the part that sounds like it's inspired by "Hey Mickey". You will know that Peppermint Patty is in shape.

The next segment is a short bump, it has Snoopy brushing his fur and Sally talking to Charlie Brown and pretending that Linus did anything with her a party , like he would. Charlie Brown didn't even believe her. (He's right) There's a party and Simon says is played by Lucy takes over and there's a song where Lucy's the boss. The song is like a mash where it looks like Lucy has a cult, but it's a fun a song. Very catchy.

Lucy, please don't kill our families/ Copyright Peanuts

The party continues with the running gag of Sally wanting some "Sweet Baboo". Then a little segment where Charlie Brown notices that Snoopy and Woodstock were drinking a little bit of juice of each cup and Woodstock kind of swam in it. Lucy who doesn't like dog lips wouldn't be happy to find out this news, Charlie Brown just lets it happen. (Revenge?)

There's a country themed song with Pig Pen's hoedown. Pig Pen doing line dancing means there's dust clouds.

I like the backgrounds for outside in this special, they went to work on those clouds. The next song, I really like, it's called "Snoopy". I also like the mention of Lassie and Rin Tin-Tin. Finally, the big sequence, the title song and there's strange Adult peanuts bodies. The Flashbeagle dance was done by rotoscoping. The person they used was "Flashdance" stunt dancer Marine Jahan. It's pretty fun, it's well done 80's song and like they went the extra mile to have real dance moves.

Snoopy comes home "not hung over" but Sally needs something for show 'n tell and brings Snoopy. At first, it does not well for Sally, but a kid apparently brought a boombox and plays music because sure, and it's the Flashbeagle song and Snoopy is up and ready to groove. This feel like they wanted to reprise to fill out the time. Also I never knew the concept of being graded for show 'n tell.

Because 80's .. also the girl in the dress seems confused by this machine and the girl in the back seems impressed. Copyright Peanuts.

It's a light special , again with no plot, but is pretty fun in terms of being a collection of mini music videos. The Flashbeagle song is really the best one of these. The songs were written by Ed Bogas, one of the people who worked on Peanuts music after the death of Vince Guaraldi, and also worked on Garfield specials music, which ties in well with.... Desirée Goyette who not only wrote, but performed a few of the songs. She also worked on a few other Peanuts specials. Joey Scarbury, who is known for the song "Believe it or Not" also worked on the music here. There was also an album called "Flashbeagle" that came out with full versions of the songs featured in this and some extras.

I enjoyed how this special is an 80's capsule. There's a very randomness to the idea of Charles Schulz watching "Flashdance" and thinking sure, let's go. It's not even a film with good reception. It's also rated R, which means it's not even Schulz thinking kids watched it and enjoyed it. Maybe he started the 80's trend of taking R-rated movies and kids shows, not that Peanuts is for kids only. (It's for manly men)

The special is very much a collection of things, instead of being a story and enjoyment of that can depend on your mood. I enjoyed it, because the songs were fun and it's Peanuts, which is a comic strip and known for having pass by moments. Besides the Flashbeagle song, my favorite has to be "Lucy's the Boss", which will please her. It's a fun song, fits Lucy's vibe and just dang catchy.

It's not the best Peanuts special in terms of being a good story or something, but it is fun to see Peanuts characters doing some 80's things and music. That's it for now, tune in next time, when Peanuts was inspired by Die Hard.