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new and noteworthy tv: 11/22-12/5

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Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas

I finally caught up and wrapped Ted Lasso. A very good Apple+ TV show. And I am now free to cancel my subscription that I was paying for after my free trial to wrap that up. The only two shows that I let myself get hooked on were this and Mythic Quest which is also very good. I just can’t pay for another subscription. I’m debating getting a plan in place to pay for various services for a month at a time to just binge shows. I particularly am missing a few shows that moved to Paramount+, The Good Fight, Evil, and reportedly InkMaster is on its way. And since I don’t do HBO there’s a pretty good backlog there. I also still have an endless debt of tv to catch up on from the avenues I do get, normal cable (not premium), Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.

And so now on to yet more shows becoming available. It is a holiday week so the strat of some holiday specials and some things will be light. I will check out It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returning for its 15th season on Fxx and looking forward to the Zoey movie.

  • Hawkeye (Dis+) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/24 – Jeremy Renner gets his small screen focus in this continued expansion of the Marvel universe.
  • True Stories (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/24 – A limited crime series about a comedian and his brother with Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes.
  • Parade and Dog Show (NBC) Thursday 11/25 – Happy Thanksgiving.
  • Super Crooks (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/25 – Anime based on a comic book, small time crook gets his gang together for one last heist.
  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (Roku) Wednesday 12/1 – This follow up film to the series is supposedly available without Roku service which I think means I can just catch it on roku.com.
  • The Pact (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/2 – An unexpected death puts employees into a position of hiding secrets at a brewery in this Welsh thriller.
  • Harlem (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 12/3 – Four girlfriends look to level up in their lives in this comedy.

More streaming:

  • Light the Night (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 11/26 – Drama set in ’80s Taipei following women at a popular night club.
  • Elves (Net) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/28 – A family on vacation finds bloodthirsty elves keeping locals in fear in this Danish fantasy.
  • The Coyotes (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/2 – A group of summer campers find diamonds and put their lives in danger in this Belgian thriller.

Returning streaming: Holly Hobbie (Hulu, 11/23), Mary McCartney Serves it Up (Disc+, 11, 23), Masters of the Universe (Net, 11/23), Hanna (Am, 11/24), The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles (Para+, 11/24), Saved by the Bell (Pea, 11/24), Selling Sunset (Net, 11/24), 12 Dates of Christmas (HBOM, 11/25), F is for Family (Net, 11/25), Ruthless (BET+, 11/25), Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Net, 12/1), Lost in Space (Net, 12/1), Vida Perfecta (HBOM, 12/2), Alex Roder (IMDB, 12/3), Pen15 (Hulu, 12/3), The Great British Baking Show: The Holidays (Net, 12/3), Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (Net, 12/3), Money Heist (Net, 12/3).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season-pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

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midseason fun

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Naomi

The seasons are a little less significant now that we’re seeing shows year-round. But the networks still have a nice midseason outing that is worth pondering. NBC will have the Olympics going (omg already!) so their schedule is a little off but otherwise NBC, CBS, ABC, CW, and Fox have some new items on the horizon.

  • Abbott Elementary (ABC, 12/7) – A comedy of dedicated teachers thrown together in Philadelphia public school.
  • All American: Homecoming (CW, 2/21) – A spinoff from the All American series, so you know.
  • American Auto (NBC, 1/4) – A workplace comedy about making an auto company in Detroit work.
  • American Song Contest (NBC, 2/21) – A music competition for the best song.
  • The Cleaning Lady (Fox, 1/3) – Based on an Argentinian series this crime drama where a Cambodian doctor ends up working for organized crime.
  • The Endgame (NBC, 2/21) – Bank heist drama with Morena Baccarin, sure I’ll check it out.
  • Good Sam (CBS, 1/5) – Sophia Bush stars as a new surgeon and complications ensue.
  • Grand Crew (NBC, 1/4) – A comedy with a group of yound professionals meeting up for wine and life.
  • Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer (Fox, 1/6) – A rich guy and a, not rich guy, meet twenty women in this latest spin on reality dating.
  • Law & Order (NBC, 2/24) – A reboot of the original in the franchise, picking up where things left off?
  • Monarch (Fox, 1/30) – A multigenerationsal musical drama about a country music family.
  • Naomi (CW, 1/11) – A superhero drama from Ava DuVernay based on the comic.
  • Next Level Chef (Fox, 1/2) – Gordon Ramsay is back with another cooking competition looking for a new superstar.
  • Pivoting (Fox, 1/9) – Three women cope with the death of a friend by pivoting in this comedy with Eliza Coupe, Maggie Q and Ginnifer Goodwin.
  • Promised Land (ABC, 1/24) – A generational family drama about two Latinx families vying for power in Sonoma, so wine.
  • That’s My Jam (NBC, 11/29) – Jimmy Fallon host celebs competing in music and dance games.
  • The Thing About Pam (NBC, 3/8) – A crime drama starring Renee Zellweger about the conviction of Pam Hupp for murder.
  • Women of the Movement (ABC, 1/6) – A limited series based on the true story of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

Midseason returning shows I’m still checking out: 911: Lone Star (Fox, 1/3), Bob’s Burgers (Fox, 1/9), Call Me Cat (Fox, 1/9), Kenan (NBC, 1/3), Mr. Mayor (NBC, 3/15).

As always check your local listings.

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new and noteworthy tv: 11/8-11/21

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The Shrink Next Door

It may not look like it but there’s kind of a lull before some more midseason stuff gets going. I’ll see what I can highlight on that next week. Until then I’ll probably check out Cowboy Bebop on Netflix and the second season of The Great on Hulu.

  • The Game (Para+) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/11- A reboot of the 2006 Girlfriends spinoff, a look at Black culture through the prism of pro football.
  • Ragdoll (AMC+) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/11 – A trio of detectives look to stop a serial killer who stitches together multipe victims and could one of them be next?
  • The Shrink Next Door (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 11/12 – Dark comedy led by Wil Ferrell and Paul Rudd and including Casey Wilson and Kathryn Hahn as a doctor patient relationship morphs into a dysfunctional one.
  • The Freak Brothers (Tubi) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/14 – An adult animated series following a trio of stoners who wake in the present after sleeping for 50 years from a magical strain of weed.
  • Mayor of Kingstown (Para+) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/14 – A power cast including Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest and Kyle Chandler look at the managing of prisons in a small Michigan town.
  • Yellowjackets (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/14, 10pm – Another power cast including Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Melanie Lynskey looks at a group of soccer players who survive a plane crash and their lives 25 years later, early reviews look favorable.
  • The Madame Blanc Mysteries (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 11/15 – An antiques dealer most come to terms with the death of her husband and loss of money.
  • Hollington Drive (SundN, 11/18) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/18 – British crime thriller about two sisters whose children may or may not be involved in the disappearance of a neighborhood child.
  • Partners in Rhyme (AllBlk) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/18 – A sitcom following the life of a high school rapper and the executive in charge of her career.
  • The Sex Lives of College Girls (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/18 – A new comedy from Mindy Kaling following new college roomates.
  • Sort Of (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/18 – The coming-of-age story of a gender fluid millennial and their various identities in this partnership with the CBC.
  • The Wheel of Time (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 11/19 – Fantasy series based on books, a journey with someone foretold to either save or destroy humanity.
  • Cowboy Bebop (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 11/19 – Bounty hunters across the galaxy, sounds like Killjoys no, this one is based on an anime series, sure I’m in.

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  • Kamikaze (HBOM) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/14 – A dramatic story following an 18-year-old girl who loses her parents and brother and embarks on a journey to find value beyond the material possesions.
  • Lies and Deceit (Net) Series Premiere, Monday 11/15 – A lit teacher seeks justice against her accused rapist.
  • Christmas Flow (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/17 – A holiday romance between rapper and journalist in this French rom-com.
  • Anna (AMC+) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/18 – A girl trying to stay alive after a virus has killed all adults in this Italian drama.
  • Hellbound (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 11/19 – Unearthly beings dragging people to Hell in this Korean suspense show.

Returning streaming: Gentefied (Net, 11/10), Madagascar (Hulu, 11/11), The Challenge: All-Stars (Para+, 11/11), My Sesame Street Friends (HBOM, 11/11), South Side (HBOM, 11/11), Stella Blomkvist (SundN, 11/11), Snoopy in Space (App+, 11/12), 90 Day: The Single Life (Disc+, 11/12), The World According to Jeff Goldblum (Dis+, 11/12), Well Done with Sebastian Maniscalco (Disc+, 11/16), The Queen of Flow (Net, 11/17), Tiger King (Net, 11/17), Craftopia (HBOM, 11/18), Star Trek: Discovery (Para+, 11/18), Texas 6 (Para+, 11/18), Tom and Jerry in New York (HBOM, 11/18), The Great (Hulu, 11/19), The Mind, Explained (Net, 11/19), Stath Lets Flats (HBOM, 11/19).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season-pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.

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