Worth Watching: Lucy Lawless in ‘Murder,’ getTV Gets ‘Hot,’ ‘Grand Hotel’
A selective critical checklist of notable Monday TV:
My Life Is Murder (streaming on Acorn TV): With a swagger that would make even a warrior princess like Xena proud, Lucy Lawless seems to be having a ball in this light mystery from Australia, solving crimes that wouldn’t make Columbo break a sweat. A sparkling Melbourne looks like heaven on earth in a show that doesn’t so much ask whodunit but how’s she going to solve it. The “she” is widow and retired detective Alexa Crowe (Lawless), consulting on off-the-book cases to help out a former colleague (Bernard Curry) when she isn’t busy trying to master a German food processor, wrangle a stubborn stray cat or mentor the millennial tech whiz (Ebony Vagulans) who worships her. Mind candy for sure, but tasty enough for a midsummer lark.
Hot in Cleveland (6/5c, getTV): The nostalgia channel revives TV Land’s hit sitcom (2010-2015) with four back-to-back episodes. Cleveland was a merry showcase for four beloved sitcom veterans: Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves and living legend Betty White, as three L.A. transplants and their cagey caretaker. Along the way, the show welcomed several of the leading ladies’ former co-stars who are no longer with us, including Frasier‘s John Mahoney, One Day at a Time‘s Bonnie Franklin and The Mary Tyler Moore Show‘s Mary Tyler Moore.
Grand Hotel (10/9c, ABC): An accident brings more turmoil to the Mendozas and their Miami hotel in the latest chapter of the guilty-pleasure soap. In staff news, Danny (Lincoln Younes) makes a discovery that could wreck his relationship with favorite daughter Alicia (Denyse Tontz) — but that’s what one gets for snooping.
Inside Monday TV: Losing out on a rose on The Bachelor and Bachelorette means never having to give up your dreams for TV exposure, as a new season of ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise (8/7c) brings nine men and 11 women veterans of Bachelor Nation to a Mexican resort for another chance at a facsimile of love… Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance (9/8c) gets closer to its final roster of dancers, as the Top Ten men compete, each paired with a female All-Star for a dance outside their own style before a final cut… British comedian Clive Anderson enlists anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota on a road trip through Mystic Britain in a new Smithsonian Channel series (9/8c) that explores the isle’s most ancient mysteries and rituals. First stop: a church whose walls are marked with mysterious medieval demonic symbols.
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Grand Hotel!! After last weeks shocker ending, I must watch this in real time.
Anybody watch the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season six , 2-hour finale? Not just among the best episodes of the series, but probably the top episodes of any Marvel show and better than many Marvel movies. It was THAT epic.
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Nothing new on my schedule tonight.
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Not mentioned: Pat Harrington Jr. from "One Day at a Time" was another guest star in "Hot In Cleveland" that has passed on...
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Don and Jena...
"nothing new"...
Yunz are, obviously, forgetting Legion...(at 10PM on FX)...
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I've already explained several times why I don't watch it.
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I'm really trying not to get hooked on any new shows, so that's why I'm not watching a lot of shows over the summer. At least not ones I didn't watch last summer or the summer before.
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Did you watch the big season finale of AoS?! Won't divulge any spoilers, but I will admit my jaw dropped several times within the 2-hours.
Can't wait for the season 7 premiere next year!
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Hot in Cleveland doesn't seem like a good choice for GetTV. At least they don't seem to be displacing All in the Family for it.
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I just watched the "Laugh-In" ep that aired during Nixon's first inauguration. Dan Rowan & Dick Martin showed film of them with the then-candidate when he was in "beautiful, downtown Burbank". Also appearing on that ep was The Smothers Brothers whose own show would soon be cancelled by CBS after they became too controversial for the network to handle...
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Bleah, nothing new tonight.
Why is GetTV airing Hot in Cleveland? It's less than a decade old. (And not very good, either, probably.) They should go back to running The Equalizer.
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Stick to criticizing the shows you do watch and leave the ones you've never watched alone.
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Right back at'cha, bud! 😉
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