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From Variety: The 2nd Season of Salvation, Ian Anthony Dale (Adam Noshimuri, Kono's Husband)'s CBS Summer Series, Premieres June 25th at 9PM Eastern Look under where it says DATES.

From EW.com: Original Format Iron Chef America Returns Tonight, May 20, to Food Network Trailer Included at Linked Article It's a 10-episode season. Premieres at 10PM Eastern on Food Network. The first battle is between Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli & Chef Brittany Anderson ("Richmond, Virginia's Schnitzel Queen"). Chef Jet Tila is the new floor reporter. Marc Dacascos Returns as The Chairman. Sorry if the news is a bit late. I just found out.

Yeah. Candice Bergen has even said, in real life & in character as Murphy in the trailer, that the results of our last election, in particular, were pretty much why they decided to bring the show back. I'm glad they did. I'm just sorry we didn't hear from grown-up Avery in the trailer (though I can probably see why they thought putting the Social Media person for the new FYI in the trailer was more important than putting in Murphy's adult son). Social Media & smartphones (or cell phones more technologically-advanced than Murphy's flip phone in the trailer) have come up in the interim between versions. They can mine that premise--apparently techno/social media phobic Murphy--for better jokes than they probably can Murphy & Avery's relationship, considering how it seemed the last time we saw them vs. how it's described in the revival trailer. Avery's pretty much following in Murphy's footsteps professionally, so there's probably no real conflict there that you could show in the trailer. I'm hoping adult Avery has remained a die-hard, now hopefully card-carrying, Barry Manilow fan, who's not only seen him live a bazillion times, but maybe/hopefully gotten to meet him, &/or interview him, too. Like maybe when/after he came out last year, although it wasn't really news, or a huge deal, to a lot of his fans/the general public at that point. I'm hoping he's still a die-hard Manilow fan (I hesitate to use the nickname "Fanilow", because people in the fandom have mixed feelings about it; sort of like at least some Star Trek fans do, apparently, about the nickname "Trekkie" vs the nickname "Trekker"), since I'm sure Murphy's still an equally die-hard Motown fan & I think it was the only bone of contention between them that ever existed--although at least baby Avery never really understood it. I can't remember how much the Manilow fan thing came up once Haley Joel Osment was playing older Avery. But, as a die-hard, card-carrying, Manilow fan herself, I was thrilled he was in the baby/motherhood storyline, even though, in real life & on the show--as usual at the time, he/appreciating him was a big joke to the world, though most people's real-life impressions of him/his talent have, thankfully, vastly improved since Avery's first birthday was depicted on the show. I know it tends to happen to people as they get older, but I'm sorry Candice Bergen has either gained some weight since the original show ended or she's been put on medication(s) for some health problem(s) that have caused her to look like she's gained weight in her face. I figured she wouldn't look exactly the same, but I thought the difference in Murphy's face between the old clips & the new was pretty apparent. I suppose they may mine her change in appearance for jokes though.

Watching the trailer for the Murphy Brown revival, & among the highlights they bring up from the original version, under the heading 1 pissed-off Vice President, is the whole thing about former Vice President Quayle using a fictional character, Murphy Brown, as though she was a real person (& not using a real person as most people would), as an example in a speech about how unwed pregnancy isn't the best choice for a woman (if she were real, Murphy wouldn't have married Avery's father--which Quayle, et al, would've preferred--she probably would've had an abortion, which would've pissed off Quayle, et al, worse) After which they show a title card that now says 2 pissed-off Vice Presidents. I'm almost positive the revival will piss off our current White House occupants of the "running the country" type at some point. I also think it's ironic that the second pissed off Vice President they're referring to is also from Indiana, from my Congressional District, or somewhere near it, & I never voted for either of them for anything.

From Variety: CBS Primetime Schedule 2018-19

CBS' Schedule for 2018-19 has been announced. Lenkov's new Magnum PI reboot takes the 9-10PM Eastern timeslot on Mondays that was originally held by the first 2 seasons of his Hawaii Five-0 reboot. CBS' Friday night schedule remains the same as the 2 seasons before this: Lenkov's MacGyver & Hawaii Five-0 reboots air from 8-9PM & 9-10PM Eastern; Tom Selleck's current series, Blue Bloods, continues to close out the CBS Friday night schedule, airing from 10-11PM Eastern. Here's CBS' Complete 2018-19 Schedule, From Variety

Yeah. I don't watch NCIS (my Mom at least used to), but I saw the scene where Abby/Pauley said goodbye to Gibbs/Mark either online or somewhere else (without having to see the whole ep). They were physically so far apart (or looked it) in their goodbye scene, you'd have thought Gibbs was either under house arrest with an electronic monitor attached to his ankle, & a warning it would go off if he went much farther than that doorway he was standing in; or he couldn't leave where he was standing in his doorway, & Abby couldn't get any closer, because Gibbs was quarantined at home for some really bad communicable disease. It made me think of what people said about Archie Panjabi & Julianna Margulies' last scene together in The Good Wife, which I didn't watch either (by the time that show ended, the actresses supposedly weren't getting along). Their last scene together was a phone call between their characters, apparently done with each actress' part filmed separately, I guess with a crew member reading the other actress' dialogue (or they at least filmed it in some way they don't normally film a phone call scene) & then they edited the parts together. I remember a lotta people saying that scene looked weird when it aired, like it had been done in pieces & edited together to make a whole. That's what I thought about the last scene between Abby & Gibbs. I thought they looked like they were standing way too far apart for people who'd been friends & co-workers, & who always seemed to have a good relationship, for 15 years. To me, the only reason for all the distance between them was because Pauley & Mark filmed their halves of the scene separately, reacting to a crew member, something that was put in their sight line for them to react to, or maybe even nothing, & they needed all the blank space between them for editing reasons when they put the pieces together (only they still had too much blank space between them, in my opinion, in the scene as it aired). I don't think I've ever heard anyone say a bad word about Mark Harmon, but I also realize that sometimes, even if the rest of the world thinks you're the nicest person in the world, there either might be or will be that (at least) 1 person who you just don't gel with, & they don't gel with you, & maybe you're the only people who know that. I'm assuming Mark & Pauley had a good working relationship for at least some of the last 15 years (though I could be wrong). Maybe, over time, they just stopped gelling with each other (like married couples who love each other like crazy at first, then eventually grow apart... though Mark doesn't seem to have that problem in real life; his current, & only, marriage [to Pam Dawber from Mork & Mindy] has lasted somewhere between 25-30 years now, I think). Anyway...

I'm from Indiana too, but I'm more like a "plain, with ketchup" girl when it comes to my pork tenderloin sandwiches. Maybe because I was actually born in Alabama (shrugs). I can't even remember if they have pork tenderloin sandwiches in Alabama, but they definitely have BBQ pork there.

Has he been doing anything since he got fired, or has he been laying low, or will nobody hire him, for anything now, after he got himself fired?

With all due respect, what you called "the National Baseball League" is actually called "Major League Baseball"; the teams are separated into the National League & the American League.

From ET Online: Project Runway Returns to Bravo After 10 Years on Lifetime From TV Line: Hap and Leonard Canceled After 3 Seasons on Sundance TV

Yes, the pissed off Navy officer said what you said to/about Steve after he was captured & almost beheaded by the Taliban when he went to Afghanistan to help Catherine try to find the son of the local family who helped her when she needed it after being injured during a tour of duty. But... This time, as I remember from the episode promo, Junior told Steve Joe (& whomever else was involved) was being held in Nigeria. Nigeria & Afghanistan/the Middle East aren't the same place, let alone in the same continent. So... loophole to make the story work; probably especially since the idea for the story was Alex O'Loughlin's & he's the male lead (with a contract that was supposed to have ended with this season, thinking it would likely be the last, but the show got renewed &, apparently Alex's contract did too), as well as #1 on the call sheet for production. So you really wanna try not to piss him (Alex... or probably Scott, for that matter) off while filming if you want the show to continue. While you're talking about Steve doing a bunch of things he wouldn't have been able to get away with, in real life, in the name of being a former SEAL/retired Navy Officer, let's not forget Joe has also done some things to help Steve (as I can remember) after Joe himself was discharged from the Navy for his participation in the clandestine mission involving himself, the Five-0 members at the time besides Steve, & the members of SEAL team 9 (who felt they owed Steve for saving 1 of their own, in a case involving a serial killer of members of the same SEAL team) to rescue Steve from Wo Fat's clutches in North Korea, after he was lured there by Jenna Kaye who, herself, was lured there, to help rescue Jenna's fiancé because he was supposedly alive & being held captive in a small town just on the other (bad) side of the border between North & South Korea. Among the things Joe did to help Steve after, I'm pretty sure, Joe had been discharged from the Navy, was he helped Steve & Catherine by pulling some strings & getting extra time for them to stay in North Korea on a body repatriation mission, hopefully without interference from the NK government, & find the real body of Steve's BFF before Danny, & fellow SEAL team member, Freddie Hart, once Steve realized the body they'd been given to repatriate wasn't Freddie's; which he noticed when he checked the remains to identify the body the best that he could before it was supposed to have been loaded into the military plane that was supposed to bring everyone back from Korea. It was important to Steve to make sure this repatriation mission was done right because Steve & Freddie were best friends at the time of the mission & Steve (I think/am pretty sure) felt guilty about a). Freddie getting killed under his watch; especially since Freddie had told Steve, on the way to the drop zone, he had recently been secretly married & he & his wife were expecting a baby daughter & b). Having to leave a dying Freddie in North Korea after their mission went south, badly, in order to save himself; even though Steve had been told, while being briefed about the mission when he was chosen for it, that if either he or the person he chose to do the mission with him--or both of them--were injured or killed during it, & couldn't exfiltrate under their own power, there would be no rescue by our military. And Freddie, when he realized he'd sustained a probably fatal wound, tried to remind Steve of that & told him not to worry about him (Freddie); he wanted & needed Steve to get his ass back to safety because now Freddie needed Steve to be there for his soon-to-be widow & the daughter who would now grow up without knowing her father. Steve reluctantly left Freddie before he took his last breath. I'm actually happy Steve finally, apparently, completely retired from the Navy/Reserves. Maybe they decided they'd run out of Naval/SEAL stories they could tell from Steve's point of view, or they decided to start telling them from former SEAL Junior's point of view because both his character & the actor are younger than Alex O'Loughlin & the Steve McGarrett character, & hopefully not as easily injured/beaten up doing a stunt as apparently happened with Alex over the years, before Beulah Koale & Junior Reigns came on the scene, because there were times Alex probably got unnecessarily injured, because he liked doing his own stunts & there were times when he took on stunts that he should've left to his stunt double to do. But that's not why I'm happy Steve's apparently left the Navy; I'm happy he apparently finally did that, because people said he actually should've retired completely from the Navy sometime in S7, after having the liver transplant from Danny at the end of S6 because, apparently, in the real world Steve would've been, basically, forced to retire on a medically-related discharge as a result of the transplant. I just figured maybe Steve had taken the medical discharge, but it was done offscreen.

From The Hollywood Reporter: Fox Renews Lethal Weapon for Season 3 Following Departure of Original Riggs Actor, Clayne Crawford Seann William Scott joins the show for S3, apparently playing a brother to the Original Riggs character, so the Murtaugh-Riggs partnership name from the movie franchise can be maintained.

From TMZ: Superman Actress Margot Kidder Dead at Age 69 Cause(s) of death is (are) not known at this time; however, she did have a battle with Bipolar Disorder which left her homeless in the '90's. She died at her home in Livingston, Montana.

I don't know if it helped the writers or not, but CBS announced it was the final season of The Good Wife, on promos & stuff, once they made that decision--& they did it during the Super Bowl that season/year, which it was CBS' turn to host. And doing it then took people by surprise; that they were announcing the show's end was less of a surprise (that had been rumored for awhile). Presumably they announced it then because it greatly increased the number of people/regular viewers & fans of the show who got the news simultaneously (& then at least some of them presumably got online &/or on non-electronic forms of communication & told others they knew who watched the show but weren't watching the Super Bowl). I know they've done it with other shows too, both past & present. Like, this season I'm pretty sure they also did it with Once Upon a Time. I think I remember it because I'm pretty sure I posted the cancellation notice. Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the specific shows from the past which got "final season" notices mentioned in their cancellation/renewal notice, just that there were some.

I was just reading that apparently Scorpion had the same thing happen to their show as happened to Las Vegas, Lucifer, & who knows how many other TV shows before them: They put a cliffhanger in what is now Scorpion's series, not just season, finale, thinking they were gonna be back this coming season to resolve it (though I don't know if it's as big as it sounds like the 1 in Lucifer supposedly is)... & now we have another TV series cliffhanger which looks like it will never be resolved for the fans/viewers to see thanks to the CBS network cancellation ax. So yeah, season ending cliffhangers aren't all they're cracked up to be anymore because now, more than ever, it seems like there's a better chance your cliffhanger will never be resolved to the fans'/viewer's satisfaction because your ratings over that most recent season were just low enough that the network decided to pull the plug on your show instead of another show, perhaps equally deserving of the ax as yours.

From USA Today: ABC Cancels Quantico, Among Other Shows; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Could Resurface Apparently (according to the article) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is awaiting a new deal with Marvel, which is the hitch in whether they're on the canceled or renewed list for 2018-2019. From USA Today: NBC Renews Blacklist; Fate of Timeless Still Uncertain From USA Today: Among Others, CBS Renews Criminal Minds, Elementary; Cancels Scorpion, Kevin Can Wait From USA Today: Current List of TV Shows That Are Renewed, Dead or Nearly Dead, or Still on the Bubble for 2018-2019

From USA Today: Fans Raise Hell Over Lucifer Cancellation; Rallying to Get It Saved by Another Network Part of the situation here is that the producers included a big cliffhanger in the (so far, series) finale, thinking Fox would never cancel the show & leave the cliffhanger unresolved. Apparently the showrunners never heard about, or don't remember, what happened to NBC's Las Vegas a few seasons ago; they did the same thing--put a big cliffhanger, involving an at least double wedding among the resort casino's staff members & a pregnancy with unexpected complications, in what they expected would be their 5th (I think) season finale--then NBC canceled the show & left fans & other viewers hanging, & hanging forever because the producers weren't able to get the show picked up by another network & NBC wouldn't even let them do a 1-off episode to resolve the cliffhanger. It's like I said before, if your show's been on anywhere near long enough to be canceled at your network's whim & without advance warning to the showrunners & other "creatives", don't even think about putting a major cliffhanger, which is possibly never to be resolved, in the last show of a season. All it'll do is piss off at least some of the loyal viewers, if not the showrunners & "creatives" as well.

According to his IMDb filmography, Will Yun Lee, the actor who plays Sang Min, has apparently done a few (I think it said 4) episodes of a show called Altered Carbon, which apparently debuted in February, on Netflix as near as I can figure. He was also in USA Cable's series Falling Water from 2016-2018; he was a doctor in 5 episodes this season of ABC's first-year hit, The Good Doctor, the show about the underage autism & savant syndrome-affected medical/surgical resident, played by Freddie Highmore, which is co-executive produced by Daniel Dae Kim's production company & the production company belonging to the executive producer who did Fox's long-running medical show, House, MD with Hugh Laurie. So hopefully you can see the Good Doctor eps before they start S2. If ABC doesn't run repeats over the summer, then you should be able to watch the eps on iTunes or Amazon Prime Video. Will's IMDb filmography, from which I got this information as I said, looks like he also did parts in a few movies too--I don't know how big they were, but it looked like 2 of the movies were connected/part of a series/part of a franchise. So it looks like the issue with Will this season may have been his availability. Since Sang Min's only a recurring H50 character, unless there's a clause in his contract with the show stating otherwise, Will can go up for, & take, other jobs when he's not needed on H50. He needs more work than a few eps of H50 per season to support himself & his family, after all, unless he's been making wise investments with the money he's earned from acting & whatever else he makes a salary from.

This From the Honolulu Star Advertiser: CBS Picks Up Peter Lenkov's Magnum PI Reboot; the Article's Unclear If It'll Air in the Fall or Midseason

From the Honolulu Star Advertiser: CBS Picked Up Lenkov's Magnum PI Reboot, But the Article Seems Unclear If It's for Fall or Midseason

Peter Lenkov's Magnum PI Reboot Was Picked Up By CBS--But the Article Seems to Be Unclear If It's for Fall or Midseason

At least 1 promo for the episode showed the phone call between Junior & Steve, & Steve does try to keep Junior from telling him anything about the mission, but then Junior says something about how the terrorists had been holding an American for (over) a year, which piques Steve's interest, & then Junior says the American was apparently someone Steve knew, Joe White. Once Steve knew that bit of info, no matter that his & Joe's relationship runs cold because of Joe's complicity in helping Steve's mom Doris' hide out in Japan, & wherever, for so long, Steve was gonna be in on that mission. I think he also might've felt he still owed Joe for setting up the clandestine op that rescued Steve, battered but alive, after Jenna Kaye, a supposed friend of Five-0 who ended up giving her life to save Steve's, lured Steve into captivity at Wo Fat's mercy in North Korea. Steve's rescue party was Joe; the Five-0 team members at the time--the Core 4 plus Lori Weston; the members of SEAL team 9 (who felt they owed Steve for saving 1 of their teammates from a serial killer), & Frank Bama, an American expatriate helicopter pilot who knew Joe from when they were apparently in the Vietnam war (or some other war) together; who was still living, mostly undetected, in Southeast Asia somewhere near the Korean DMZ; & who became a part of Five-0's extended ʻohana for his part in helping rescue Steve. I think Steve might've felt he still owed Joe for his live rescue from Wo Fat's clutches in North Korea because Joe's involvement in the rescue cost him his Naval career & that has never really sat well with Steve, that Joe's Naval career ended because he was trying to help get Steve out of life-threatening trouble. If the members of SEAL team 9 could tag along when Joe rescued Steve from North Korea (they were supposed to be on a brief leave & sightseeing in the area), then I'm wanking that Steve could tag along & help rescue Joe; especially if his active duty Naval career had been stellar. (Shrugs) Yes, Alex had the idea for the story, & was credited as such. Whomever had a credit like "Teleplay by" turned Alex's idea into a fully fleshed-out script that could be produced as an episode.

I can believe that, at least some cancellations were as a result of Fox having to make room for the football games since you normally have to lose at least 3-4 hours of programming time to air NFL games & other sporting events. NBC had to do the same thing on Sunday nights when they got the rights to those games (which at least partly resulted in the cancellation--though it was at the end of a 7-year run by that time--of the acclaimed, politically-oriented, now considered classic TV drama The West Wing). I really didn't watch Fox much except when American Idol was on there; I still don't watch much on Fox, unless it's, like, the Super Bowl or some other major national sports championship; or it's their turn to broadcast the Primetime Emmys or another major awards show which rotates its broadcasts among the major networks; or they're airing Miss USA &/or Miss Universe (the Daytime Emmys & Miss Teen USA [the 3rd of the 3 beauty pageants in the Miss Universe pageant "system" that used to air, for years, on CBS when I was growing up], by the way, apparently got such abysmal ratings on broadcast TV they each got relegated to online/streaming a few years ago, unlike their related shows, the Primetime Emmys & the Miss USA & Miss Universe pageants. I recently watched this year's Daytime Emmys on YouTube; I'm pretty sure they were posted there intentionally, by either the TV Academy, someone else who oversees the Daytime Emmys in their current state of broadcasting ability, or the network which streamed them, & not illegally. They were like I remembered from when they were on the major networks, but the words being spoken by whomever was presenting (or whatever) never completely matched the lip movements of that person; it was like there was a brief delay between the words & the lips saying them. It was also cool watching Days of Our Lives' Bill & Susan Seaforth Hayes, a (very nice, by the way) couple I worked with on some of the March of Dimes telethons I did, back in the day, get a shared Lifetime Achievement Award for their lengthy careers. Bill is now almost 93 (in June), Susan is almost 75 (in July), their 44th wedding anniversary is (or was) sometime this year (married in 1974, no month given) & I'm happy to say both are still going very strong. Except for Bill's now-totally white hair, I don't think at least some people would know they're a ninetysomething & a seventysomething, by the way they act. They both still seem to be "all there", as it were.

And here is 1 of the many news reports--this 1 from CNN--about Brooklyn 99's resurrection for a 6th season.