J.K. Rowling Goes Magic-Free With ‘C.B. Strike,’ Deion Sanders Transforms on ‘Undercover Boss’
Undercover Boss (CBS, 8/7c): Will two-time Super Bowl champ and NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders have better luck finding some next great football coaches if he disguises himself with a potbelly, glasses, and gray hair? Apparently so, as the celebrity-edition season continues.
C.B. Strike (Cinemax, 10/9c): Don’t expect any hocus-pocus in the series premiere of this miniseries based on J.K. Rowling’s three bestselling detective novels (written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith). When a supermodel plunges to her death, her brother hires war veteran turned London private eye C.B. Strike (Tom Burke) to prove it wasn’t suicide.
Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack (truTV, 11:30/10:30c): Hungry? Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch is cooking up more bite-size entertainment to satisfy your late-night cravings in this anthology series. In Friday’s season premiere, Broad City‘s Arturo Castro gives creepy campfire stories a hilarious twist, and NBA vet Kenny Smith presents an animated true tale.
Dean (9/8c, Showtime): In the mood for a movie night? Comedian Demetri Martin wrote, directed, and starred in this tenderhearted 2017 offering. Dean (Martin) is bereft after his mother’s death, especially since his dad (Kevin Kline) plans to sell the family house. Two women (Gillian Jacobs and Mary Steenburgen) inspire each man to move on in different ways.
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Tonight...will check out the Premier episode of C.B.Strike…(why NOT???)...
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NO...I didn't see that...YEA!!!
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Nothing new for me, just repeats.
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I usually find some good movies during the weekends.
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I can check out Hawaii Five-O and Blue Bloods, which are reruns, or MASH, or movies, as you suggest. Heck, even Ancient Aliens on History. 😀 Just something to have on in the background while I do some work.
Sadly, I think my cable provider just dropped the Decades Channel, which sometimes airs good vintage shows during the week, and has mini-marathons on weekends. Darn.
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Seems like cable companies are dropping the smaller channels at a rapid pace lately. The only small networks that seem to survive are the ones that are owned by the big entities such as Disney/ABC, Comcast Universal/NBC.....
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I have an indoor antenna, luckily I get many channels over the air, including Decades. All free, of course.
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I've mostly been watching "The Love Boat" and "The Wild, Wild West" on MeTV during my lunch breaks at work on the weekends...
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I live way too far from the big cities (NYC and PHILADELPHIA) for an indoor antenna to be even close to watchable. We used to have an outdoor antenna on our roof and even that was not sufficient. So we had cable since the very early 80s (when it became available in our area). I had some friends that lived elsewhere that had cable since the late 70's, I used to watch movies with them at their homes when I was a little kid.
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We used to get about 20 channels with an outdoor antenna. Since they went to digital, we can't get any. Digital only reaches about 35 miles, and we're 50-60 miles from the cities with TV stations.
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I only know I get Bounce, MeTV, Antenna TV, and Heroes & Icons. They haven't sent us a list of the channels we get for years.
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Our "background channel" is the Food Network...(although we often have to back it up 5"-10" when they have a segment we actually want to WATCH)...
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Mine was once Food then HGTV and now mostly Animal Planet...except when those fish tank guys are on. They're too annoying.
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They used to have a lot of decorating shows which is what I liked best...especially ones where they had a limited budget (like $1,000.00) to redo a room with.
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I honestly don't get why people watch some of those cooking and "home and garden" shows. I think watching people renovate a house is dull and uninteresting (no matter how much manufactured, false drama the show tries to inject into it). Same with cooking or home-buying. I just don't get it.
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In my case, I've bought, sold, remodeled, and redecorated lots of homes. I like to watch the shows for tips and ideas and to see what the latest trends are. I have to redecorate the house I'm in to sell, and I'm sure I'll have to redecorate and possibly remodel the next one I buy.
I've pretty much taught myself to cook by reading books and watching cooking shows. I didn't know how to do a lot of basic things until I started watching cooking shows on TV. I get a lot of ideas from them too.
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The final episode of iZombie was great. I still have to watch the Cameron series. I've only seen parts of all of the episodes. Thankfully, there are only five of them!
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Oh, that's right. Because they ran the last 2 together, I was only counting them as one episode.
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My GF and I don't really "watch" the cooking shows...but...we have the Food Network channel and Cooking Channel on as "background" when we're doing other things...
(I could never understand spending multiple $'s on a TV...then letting it sit there as a big BLACK rectangle.)
She LOVES to cook and has run across many NEW...and delicious...things to try!!!
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ABC's Quantico tonight! Such an exciting show especially for this time of the year.
Its a time when there is so few scripted programing of interest for me. So I especially appreciate Quantico now..
Movies for the remainder of the weekend.
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Nothing for me in prime time tonight. Graham Norton at 11:00. Have to rest up for Sunday when there's a lot on I want to watch. Talk about that tomorrow!
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Yes, the Lucifer episodes were fun.
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I couldn't choose between the two.
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