A Marlene Dietrich Marathon, 2018 NBA Finals Tip Off, ‘Flip or Flop’ Returns
Marlene Dietrich Marathon (TCM, 8/7c): Stay up all night with five of the glamorous icon’s later films, starting with 1958’s A Touch of Evil, a noir classic starring Orson Welles as a corrupt cop going up against Charlton Heston. Dietrich stars as fortune-telling madam Tanya. The marathon continues with Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957), followed by Alfred Hitchcock thriller Stage Fright (1950) at 12:15am/11:15c. Fritz Lang’s western Rancho Notorious (1952) kicks off at 2:15am/1:15c, and the night closes out with The Monte Carlo Story (1957) at 4am/3c.
2018 NBA Finals (ABC, 9/8c): Game 1 kicks off in Oakland with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers facing off against the Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry. The Cavs are the big underdogs going into the finals, as the Warriors are favored by 12 points, but there’s always a chance for an upset!
Flip or Flop (HGTV, 9/8c): In Season 7’s midseason premiere, Christina and Tarek El Moussa — who are in the midst of a divorce — continue on with their renovating (and bickering). Prior to the new episode, catch an eight-hour marathon of house renos with the former couple, starting at 1/noon c.
Nobodies (TV Land, 10/9c): In the season finale, the fame-hungry comedy writers of the title might be one step closer to their big break — in other words, somebodies! In tonight’s back-to-back episodes, Larry (Larry Dorf) and Rachel (Rachel Ramras) nervously gear up for a game-changing meeting with Steven Spielberg, while Hugh (Hugh Davidson) heads to… Phoenix, of all places.
Citizen Rose (E!, 10/9c): In the first season finale, Rose McGowan travels to Italy to spend time with actress (and Harvey Weinstein victim) Asia Argento and other activists at the International Women’s March. She also returns to the area where she was raised in the Children of God cult.
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Attention TV Insider people: This article isn't showing up on the Worth Watching page. I found it by doing a search.
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This article states that it is written by the TV INSIDER staff. I haven't seen that before, have you?
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It's in the right place now. 🙂
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Not on this column, but I remember another name on the column for just one day once. It was on yesterday's column too. Remember, I was told Matt would be doing the daily column while on vacation. I think whoever said it meant it would be covered.
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Yes, it is. I had a terrible time trying to find it this morning.
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Another Thursday with only Imposters on my schedule. I fell asleep and missed most of MasterChef last night, so maybe I can catch that on demand tonight.
Reverie didn't impress me very much. It was just ok. I'll watch it again, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone.
If you get TCM (I don't), I recommend Witness for the Prosecution which is mostly a courtroom drama but has some of the best twists and turns of any movie I've seen.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'll watch it, DVR since it comes on late.
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Yeah, Reverie wasn't all that impressive for me, either. Although if there's nothing else on at that time, I might watch it again. The only two reasons I even gave it a chance are 1) interesting to see Sarah Shahi as someone other than an emotionless, cold-blooded killing/fighting machine, and 2) the premise of the show is sort of similar to an idea I have for a possible book. Not exactly the same, but there is a bit of similarity.
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Many of these TCM movies I watched in high school We would need to write a report about them after viewing. Courtroom dramas were among the most common genres. Witness for Prosecution, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Wrong Man , 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird were definitely all shown.
Also lots of Alfred Hitchcock and other classics.
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Last season Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. featured the team trapped in the Framework (another term for virtual reality). But of course it was filled with action/adventure and was far more nuanced.
Matrix, Inception and an even an episode of Lois and Clark-The New Adventures of Superman successfully utilized the virtual reality concept .
I doubt Reverie will make it past this season, but it's diverting enough for me so far this summer.
I'm really excited about Salvation. Now that was a superior summer show. Probably better than many regular season shows.
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I'm looking forward to Salvation also. Like Designated Survivor, there were some plot-holes and inconsistencies, but it was exciting and moved quickly. I just hope it doesn't suffer from a "sophomore slump." Again, I'm also looking forward to The Last Ship later this summer.
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Salvation would have to significantly drop in quality this season for me to complain much. I liked it THAT much last season.
As for plot holes and inconsistencies (almost every show I watch suffers from these), I dismiss them for the most part if I really enjoy the show. But you will still hear me ask questions and complain a bit when the answers don't compute with me. And then I go back and watch the very next episode. Lol
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Me too. People sometimes ask me, If you complain about this show so much, why do you watch? Because nitpicking is half the fun. 😀
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We never got to see real movies in school...only educational films which were boring as hell.
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Exactly!
I'm still hoping somebody picks it up.
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In the mid 80's I had a wonderful journalism teacher (no recollection of her name ) allow us to select any movie we wanted. My class overwhelmingly chose Trading Places . That was a fun day!
A year later:
There was one particular history teacher (Mr Leidy) that recorded 20/20 every week and would play that weeks segment for us every Friday. At the time it aired Thursday nights. Sometimes he would record 60 Minutes on Sunday and play it back for us on Monday or Tuesday, but far less often. I guess because Friday was more or less a "free day".
That same school year I had elderly literature teacher (Mrs Stansbury)that was a huge soap opera fan. She recorded Dynasty, Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest every week. She would let us vote every week what show we preferred watching. Dynasty usually won (at the time it was even more popular than Dallas) but sometimes Dallas would win out. Very rarely Knots Landing and Falcon Crest, but I watched all of them at home anyway. This teacher also would play movies that were inspired by novels such as Gone With The Wind, Godfather, Of Mice and Men and others. If she's still alive she would be well over 100 for sure. She was practically senile in the 80s.
High school for me brings back mostly great memories.
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Some of the summer series have been my favorites over the years. There may not be as much to watch, but what there is can be entertaining.
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I liked it too. I'll be watching again this year.
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Mon. June 25
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Salvation is worth watching ASAP. I watched pretty much every episode live last summer. I recall while watching it that is was even more entertaining than many of the regular season shows.
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Reverie wasn't great, but it was entertaining enough for me at this time. I don't really have many scripted shows right now. ABC's The Crossing and Quantico are just about it so far this summer. I'm awaiting CBS's Salvation and CMT's Nashville.
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