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I thought Two Tickets to Paradise was cute.
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3 hours ago, bankerchick said:
Yet none of them said, 'well, it's a steady paycheque.' Let's face it, if it weren't for Hallmark, most of these actors would not be working. And I say this as someone who loves many of the actors who need never worry about making any type of acting awards acceptance speech.
Don’t most of us work for the paycheck?
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I kinda thought when Rebecca said to Kevin while thinking he was Jack, that Kevin and Sophie would would work things out (or however it was phrased) was a huge hint that Kevin would end up with Sophie.
That pic that was posted - neither Kate or Miguel are in it, right?
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48 minutes ago, Kemper said:
At the end of the day, I don’t care who they cast in these movies. As long as they are the escapist, sappy fluff - I am there. What I find the most shocking in all of this …. Is that so many people can take offense and take these movies so seriously. But I get it, I guess. If they are offended or uncomfortable they have an alternative network. As for actors jumping ship - no one is irreplaceable. For me, some were so overused, I shed no tears.
Same.
Crown Media /Hallmark has signed Andrew Walker, Lacey, Holly Robinson Peete, Brennan Elliott, Taylor Cole, and Heather Hemmens to contracts.
Brittany Bristow was on DTH the other day - she seems like a fun person with a super personality. She’s talented - she has been one of my favorite supporting actors in these movies, so I’m happy to see her be the lead and I’m looking forward to her movie with McNally on Saturday.
Hallmark and Crown Media will be fine.
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Brittany Bristow is talented, and from her interview with the DTH guys, has loads of personality and is fun.
There are plenty of young actresses that can act. Put them in these movies and they’ll be known to the audience too. There are a lot of viewers who know these actors & actresses from seeing them on Hallmark, and that’s the only reason they know them. Danica and CCB are 47 & 46, so they can’t play 30 year-olds for much longer without it looking like when Joan Crawford was on The Secret Storm taking over her daughter’s role.
IMO, Aurora Teagarden was played out and got boring. They should have stopped making them 3 episodes ago, so I won’t miss that one a bit.
Crown Media /Hallmark has signed Andrew Walker, Lacey, Holly Robinson Peete, Brennan Elliott, Taylor Cole, and Heather Hemmens to contracts.
From what Andrew said in an interview he is guaranteed 2 movies a year, not including any additional Curious Caterer mysteries, and could always include more movies. He & Nikki both, to me, sounded like there would probably be more episodes, but maybe I was reading more into it than I should have.
Hallmark and Crown Media will be fine.
9 hours ago, KAOS Agent said:I think this is going to be a wait since Brennan Elliott's wife is battling stage IV metastatic gastric cancer. It doesn't sound good and they have two young children. However, both Lacey Chabert and Elliott signed deals with Hallmark, so I expect they do plan on more movies in the future, but I suspect it might be awhile.
Brennan mentioned in DTH a few months ago that he and Lacey wanted to do more of these, but wasn’t sure they would or not. He also said Lacey had a lot of ideas for future projects. IIRC, that interview was before he and Lacey signed their contracts with Hallmark, so maybe Lacey made some requests and got some promises.
From some of the feedback I’ve seen and read, the move from fewer mysteries to more dramatic movies is not very popular with viewers, so I would not be surprised to see more mysteries.
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Wrong thread. Sorry
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46 minutes ago, statsgirl said:
Canada tends to be pretty liberal The only religious group I can think of that were persecuted were the Doukhobors a hundred years ago (although they were committing a lot of arson at the time) and pockets of anti-Muslim sentiment in this century. People are however, to quote Gore Vidal, prevented from persecuting others. (I enjoyed the book The Rebel Christ by Rev. Michael Coren, an examination of Christ's values in the Bible.)
I was looking forward to Dying for Chocolate since it was written by the writer of the Mystery 101 series but I was disappointed. The mystery was okay but the relationship was too rushed, they were in a stage mid-movie that should have been in a third movie. It didn't help that on my station it was followed by Cut, Color, Murder which did not just the meet cute but the whole antagonism/attraction much better.
It’s funny because in the books Tom was all into Goldy in book 1. She didn’t really fall for him until late into the 2nd or maybe the 3rd book. They changed the storyline from the book quite a bit though.
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I hope they do more Curious Caterer Mysteries! I loved Dying for Chocolate!
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9 hours ago, AAEBoiler said:
What does every think these contracts do to the showing of their older movies in the future? Hallmark pulled Lori Laughlin's movies out of the rotation when her legal troubles occurred. Will they pull CCB's or others' movies from the rotation due to their now exclusive contracts with GAC?
Her stuff was pulled because of her criminal activity, not because someone else signed her to a contract.
Paul Campbell as the bartender in “Love, Classified” was a hoot! I thought it was the best of 2022 so far!-
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I love Paul Campbell. He has my vote!
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8 minutes ago, MerBearHou said:
Well, then. That sure sounds like a goodbye from Jill. Darn, I loved that Mystery 101 series. And Kristoffer is one of my faves. They were a great duo together and the background cast was fantastic too. Boooooo.
Yep. The network ordered the cliffhanger. The writer has the script ready for the next episode. Kris is ready. Whoever is advising JW is giving her bad advice. Real bad.
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2 hours ago, mikeb said:
Even though Jill Wagner was in a GAC Christmas movie, I have not read that she signed an exclusive deal with GAC. I think there is still hope that there may a new HMM Mystery 101 movie at some point. The delay may be that she is producing and starring in a new Paramount Network series "Lioness".
From what I’ve heard from people who are in the know - re: her little Instagram post, it’s a good thing a liar’s pants do not catch on fire, or her ass would have 3rd degree burns from the lies told & the bridges she set on fire.
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Other than the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, CCB has only made Christmas movies for Hallmark. Her last non-AT and non-Christmas movie, was 5-7 years ago.
I don’t think she’ll be missed as much as she thinks she’ll be missed.
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Y’all, if you can handle the vocal fry, you need to listen to Matney’s episode on Hakeem Pinckney. She doesn’t really talk that much, it is mostly Hakeem’s mom and her new attorney.
Murdaugh and his cronies stole money from a deaf, quadriplegic man who was living in a crappy rehab place and was on a ventilator. A few days after a settlement from the car accident that left him a quadriplegic, his ventilator was mysteriously turned off, and he died. -
1 hour ago, mtlchick said:
First the Crock Pot that “killed” Jack. And now the Big Green Egg breaks up Toby and Kate. Man the product placement on this show sometimes isn’t worth it for the collateral damage.
I’m hoping this makes the price of the Big Green Egg to drop.
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8 hours ago, Peace 47 said:
I haven’t watched 20/20 in about 20 years, but a lot of family and friends have been very interested in the Murdaugh case (due to living in and around the general area). So we all made a point of watching the Murdaugh episode. I totally agree with this comment above about the format of 20/20 (versus what I remember it being) and thought that the show did a really poor job with this story. I didn’t learn anything new from the broadcast because I didn’t get the impression that 20/20 did any original reporting for it: they just relied on talking head interviews with (mostly third party) reporters whose work we already knew of: I thought one purpose of 20/20 was investigative journalism? But my bigger complaint is that they didn’t really clearly explain all the already known facts, either, other than the exhaustive detail about that boat crash.
They spent 1 hour on the boat crash, and then jammed all the other craziness into the second hour. Although they did mention it, they kind of flew over that Paul Murdaugh and Maggie Murdaugh were killed with 2 different weapons, even though they were killed around the same time. They also didn’t touch on the alleged marital troubles between Alex and Maggie, did they? She had hired a forensic accountant, speculated to be in preparation for making sure assets didn’t disappear in a divorce, and she had made some social media posts that indirectly insinuated that she was living apart from Alex. The Murdaugh Murders (Mandy Matney) podcast delved into that much more clearly. And that podcast also had some indirect implications about how Paul may have been involved in Gloria Satterfield’s “accident,” because although this show mentioned Alex arranging to scam Gloria’s sons out of the insurance payment, there are also questions about exactly what happened to her in the first place.
If law enforcement hasn’t charged Alex Murdaugh with involvement in his son’s and wife’s deaths by now, I don’t have a ton of confidence that they are ever going to charge him. It’s been so long now. But maybe they are still unwinding all the alleged potential law enforcement corruption when it comes to dealing with the Murdaugh family.
The Murdaugh Murders podcast was good in the early episodes for laying out all of the inconsistencies in Alex’s behavior after the murders (including pointing out that after he called 911 months later to say he had been shot in the head, there was oddness about whether he even went to a hospital, and where). Mandy Matney’s voice doesn’t bother me like it seems to bother some other people, and she did a much better job of reporting what happened, although what I do find annoying (and didn’t come across in her 20/20 talking heads) is how many digs she takes at Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys in the later episodes. Every sentence has some snide comment about how bad/ presumptuous/ haughty they are, and it does get old.
Thank you! Her comments are what annoy me. Her voice isn’t the most pleasant but I didn’t really notice it until she commented on it in the “leave a review,” part.
On 1/15/2022 at 11:32 PM, LittleIggy said:Why do people believe the Murdaugh boys were involved in Steve’s death? I was out of the room and missed some of that part.
That was one of rumors around the town after Smith was killed - several people told investigators about that rumor. There are several episodes of both podcasts that cover his death. One of the uncles - Randy called the Smith family right after they found out he died to offer to take the case for free, which the family found odd. Buster and Stephen were classmates but not close friends. Buster was the one mentioned in most of the rumors about the Smith case. Nobody seems to know why the rumors started.
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On 1/15/2022 at 1:00 PM, Melina22 said:
Is there a podcast about this case that you can recommend?
The Murdaugh Family Murders: Impact of Influence
Murdaugh Murders this one is hosted by Mandy Matney who was interviewed on 20/20. Some do not like this one as much because Matney annoys them.
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On 4/2/2021 at 7:38 PM, mikeb said:
It looks like the purses, big coats, and ponchos might be making a comeback as Jill Wagner announced she is expecting her second child in August. Although the article also mentions she is preparing for a role in a new series on Paramount+, so not clear when they might be filming the next Mystery 101.
https://people.com/parents/jill-wagner-pregnant-expecting-second-baby-exclusive/
I think both she and Polaha mentioned they would begin filming Mystery 101 in April.
She and her family left their farm in Tennessee a few days ago, and are driving (RV) to Vancouver to quarantine before filming according to her Instagram posts & stories.They did the same thing last fall when she needed to go up to film the Christmas movie and the last 101. They were nervous about flying with the baby during a pandemic so they bought an RV.
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10 hours ago, Lovecat said:
THANK you! Between that huge inaccuracy and the fast and loose geography and travel times on this show, this here Pennsylvanian’s head is going to explode some day...ETA: Sorry for the strikeout, I’m recovering from shoulder surgery and am typing one-handed on an iPad that is being a pain in the ass...!!!!!!
I hope you’re recovering, but this strikeout thing made me laugh.
I really thought the dude taking Kevin’s pic when he was putting the car seats in was going to end up being the paparazzi following him, glad I was wrong. I think maybe there would have been more because I would ha e thought between Kevin walking out on DeNiro and saving Josh Malina from a burning car (once Malina had recovered enough to tell that story), Kevin would be trending on Twitter. I could see a film maker begging him to come back to film. No way does DeNiro get mad because another actor wanted to be there when his twins wee born 6-weeks early.
I know nothing about the entertainment industry, but given all of their shutdowns over the past year, I would think they would, for the most part have a “Plan Rest of the Alphabet, plus Doubling Up Letters and Adding Numbers,” in case of shutdowns or an actor testing positive and/or having to quarantine.
Kevin having a family that he wants to be there for might make him want another series. But, with a lot of films shooting in places that are not LA, and actor who wants to, could live elsewhere and fly in to audition.I’m thinking too much about this fictional family.
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S02.E02: Staring at the Devil
in Mayor Of Kingstown
I could watch hours of Mike & Bunny talking. “Sweden, Switzerland, Crackerland.”
I don’t trust Iris.
Poor Kyle.