The first official renewal of the season is … unexpected.

by Therese Odell, posted in Uncategorized

We have our first official renewal of the season and the second probable — but it hasn’t happened yet —– cancelation. Fox has renewed the animated series Bless the Harts for a second season, but Bluff City Law over on NBC is probably doomed. While NBC hasn’t axed Bluff City Law, they aren’t making any more episodes after the 10th episode wraps production next week. It’s not all terrible news: they aren’t destroying the sets or soundstages in Memphis, because the plan is to see if the ratings improve. But the bad news is that NBC bought 16 scripts — and they’re only making 10. So, don’t get too attached, is what I’m saying. ANYWAY, at that link is my updated renew/cancel gallery with my best guesses as for the rest of the schedule’s chances if you’re curious.

Emilia Clarke remains sad about the ending of Game of Thrones: “Everyone is going to have their own opinion and they’re fully entitled to them. It’s art and it’s to be dissected and taken on in whatever individual way you wish. And if you’re sad that the show is done and you’re sad because you enjoyed watching it, then that’s sad. It sucks this wasn’t the perfect ending that people were hoping for, but I truly believe we would never have made everyone happy.”

That all said, playing Daenerys did give Clarke one thing: LADY BALLS. Indeed.

The streaming wars are about to begin, and it’s looking like Disney+ will have the upper hand thanks to their enormous library. Stay tuned.

Aw, Busy Tonight was resurrected on The Affair last night. R.I.P., Busy Tonight.

Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston were arrested together at a climate change protest. This season of Grace & Frankie is going in an interesting direction …

Pro-Hong Kong and Tibet protestors attended the Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors preseason game this weekend. GOOD. KEEP IT IN THEIR FACES, Y’ALL.

Megyn Kelly and Matthew Dowd had a Twitter slap fight when Dowd suggested that Kelly and Lauer should go away and never come back. (He’s not wrong.)

Oh no, John Cho! Get better soon!

Impeachment Corner!

Just a couple of stories from over the weekend while we wait for the deposition machine to fire up again (Bill Taylor, the ambassador in those texts who was all, “HOLD UP WHAT THE QUID PRO QUO IS GOING ON IN HERE?” he is going to testify tomorrow and I’m not saying that I think the fact that one of my husband’s law partners is representing him is the coolest thing happening in this whole impeachment business, but I’m not saying that it ISN’T cool, either):

After the White House via Mick Mulvaney announced that the only hotel in the whole entire country that was suitable to host the G7 just happened to be Trump’s Miami Airport bedbug-riddled resort, Republicans told President Emoluments that they couldn’t possibly defend this flagrant shitting upon the Constitution. As a result, President Petulant Baby tweeted out that they weren’t going to host the summit there, after all. THANKS FOR NOTHING, CRAZY DEMOCRATS AND FAKE NEWS MEDIA.

He’s still whining about it as of this morning:

Of course, maybe his tantrum shouldn’t be so surprising. Mick “Cannon Fodder” Mulvaney went on Chris Wallace’s show on Fox News yesterday where he said that everyone was SO SHOCKED that the announcement of the G7 summit at the Miami Airport Hotel didn’t go over well because President Bedbug, “still considers himself in the hospitality business.”

I mean. You guys.

Speaking of that Chris Wallace interview, the other hilarious story from this weekend is that even his closest lackeys, they are struggling to defend all of this bullshit.

Mulvaney, you’ll remember, dropped not only the news about the G7 Emoluments Party in a press conference on Thursday, but he also announced that they TOTALLY did a quid pro quo with Ukraine, before shouting at the press, “GET OVER IT.” Well, he would like you to know, Chris Wallace of Fox News, that you did not hear him say the things you heard him say. But Chris Wallace is all, “ROLL THE TAPE.”

Also not doing great on the Sunday political shows, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who got rolled by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos when asked about Mick Mulvaney’s admission that they committed a quid pro quo.

You’re out of your depth, Mike.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are planning to vote on a resolution to censure Adam Schiff for his handling of the impeachment inquiry because they don’t know what else to do.

bless your heart real housewives of dallas

President Doofus is threatening to sue CNN for biased reporting of its impeachment coverage. Even more hilariously, he’s aligning himself with that fraudster James O’Keefe’s Veritas Project who filmed some supposed CNN employees talking about how Don Lemon is “blatantly left.” LOLOLOL OK. Good luck with all of that. 

And then there’s this. ARE YOU LISTENING, GOP?:

Renewals

Cancellations

  • Bluff City Law is ending production after 10 episodes. It’s not canceled… yet.

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

  • Making It will return on NBC on December 2. (Yay!)
  • Dickinson will debut on Apple TV+ on November 1.
  • Into the Dark: Pilgrim will debut on Hulu on November 1.
  • We Are the Wave will premiere on Netflix on November 1.

R.I.P.

David Weisman, Producer

Nick Tosches, Writer and rock critic

WATCH THIS

Catherine the Great: Helen Mirren plays another bad bitch.  9 p.m., HBO

The River and the Wall: The description of this documentary: “Five friends journey from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes to document the borderlands and explore the potential impacts of a border wall on the natural environment.” 8 p.m., Starz

2019 Humane Hero Dog Awards: SO MANY GOOD GIRLS AND GOOD BOYS! 7 p.m., Hallmark

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Scarlett Johansson, Pete Buttigieg, Jim James, Teddy Abrams & the Louisville Orchestra
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Mariska Hargitay, Lizzy Caplan, Sam Fender, Terence Higgins
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Julie Andrews, Jonathan Groff, YUNGBLUD featuring Dan Reynolds
  • The Late Late Show with James Corden: Paul Rudd, Hasan Minhaj, Anthony Ramos
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys
  • Conan: Rosario Dawson, Dulcé Sloan
  • Watch What Happens Live: Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rachael Ray
  • A Little Late with Lily Singh: Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger

 

MON. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC Dancing with the Stars
(new)		 The Good Doctor
(new)
CBS The Neighborhood
(new)		 Bob Hearts Abishola
(new)		 All Rise
(new)		 Bull
(new)
CW All American
(new)		 Black Lightning
(new)		 Local
FOX 9-1-1
(new)		 Prodigal Son
(new)		 News/Local
NBC The Voice
(new)		 Bluff City Law
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2 thoughts on “The first official renewal of the season is … unexpected.”

  1. I don’t know if this is your area or if you have already touched on this, but what’s going on with Xfinity and Starz? Do you think they are both blustering and something gets worked out or is this another Cinemax situation where Xfinity drops the service and we get some knockoff TV station like Hitz?

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    1. “Hitz” HA!
      From just an initial looksee, this seems like just another carrier/network slapfight that will end either right before the December deadline or maybe a few days after, as these things usually do. THAT SAID, there is a chance that this might end differently. For starters, Xfinity has already annouced that starting in December, Epix will be part of the premium cable package (which isn’t a bad thing — Epix has a lot of interesting offerings, including originals); but also Xfinity is objecting to the fact that Starz is selling some of its content to Amazon and on its own streaming service, and Xfinity might want to send a message to both Starz and other networks that it’s going to play hardball in a changing marketplace. So who knows! I’d put my money on them making a deal, but then I’m not good at gambling.

      -T

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