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The biggest insult was trying to make Christie and Billie the "Ultimate Power" and making the Charmed Ones afterthoughts in their own show! I wouldn't have minded if they had Chris and Wyatt get their spinoff and were essentially the equivalent to Melinda Warren and begin a new line of witches. Essentially, yet a new prophecy is born for their line. I do know that a production assistant who used to work closely with Constance and knew her plans DID say (after the airing of Morality Bites) that "Melinda" would be "special" but not as powerful as her mother. All that went out the window unfortunately. Come to think of it, If the actresses wanted to take a breather on Season 8, they could have just focused more on past Warrens and told their stories. Oh the possibilities!! Of course, Hollywood is full of idiots, so it didn't happen.

AWWW! I remember him best from Due South as Fraser's dad who appeared to him as a ghost periodically.

Wasn't bad and it's worth a watch. I remember when it was first released in theaters (along with Silverado) people thought perhaps it would be a return of the Western for the big screen. Didn't pan out.

True. Some shows I bypass entirely for one reason or another and catch them in syndication (if they make it that far). That's how I came to catch Chicago Fire (which runs on ION and a few other channels). Some shows don't age well but so much depends on the era it was written (like limits for primetime viewing) and what viewers presumably wanted at the time.

Sad to say that family is a bit dysfunctional. Hayden has been in a few abusive relationships and sad to hear her brother died so darn young.

Apparently someone didn't get the memo about how hard it is to find good workers lately. Would love to see the fool who placed that ad!

I also remember Bosson from Hooperman as his supervisor. I caught some Hill Street repeats last year and thought her character (Frank's ex-wife) was kinda sad. She had to deal with her husband's alcoholism, divorcing him, doing stuff on her own and him trying to hint that he was leading a new life with his new wife. She grew quite a bit towards the end of the show's run.

I first came to know of Belzer when he was doing a stand up routine on cable in the mid 80s. He was doing an imitation of how Bruce Springsteen hit those notes for "Born in the USA" (which was burning up the charts at the time). He'd start singing then when getting to the title, he'd pinch his butt to emphasize BORN in the USA... I was BORN in the USA!! Well, I thought it was hilarious. His imitation of Mick Jagger was pretty spot on too!

Curious. What did they have to say about Daisy?

The show wasn't so much renewed as already ordered in advance. Typically, most modern animated shows are given so many episodes to produce off the bat - say 20 episodes. Then the show can be split up into two "seasons" of 10 episodes each. While I don't doubt everyone involved in this show's development are going by the axiom of "there's no so thing as bad publicity", I am certain this show will be used in classrooms as how NOT to write a series (animated or otherwise) or how NOT to use a beloved and established IP.

Caught another episode of Highway to Heaven - and I'm annoyed at how the character of Mark Gordon was messed with in this episode. In "I Was A Middle Aged Werewolf" (1987), we get a combination Halloween episode and a nod to Michael Landon's early movie career in "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" (1957). We have a little boy named Alan who is bullied a bit by his older sister, Cindy. She decides while trick or treating to have it look like she was kidnapped by showing up at the door and someone yanking her inside! Naturally Alan is scared and tried to tell everyone about what he saw, but everyone is dismissive. Meanwhile, he is bedeviled by his fears and has trouble coping. Enter Jonathan who befriends him and tried to explain that while fear to a degree is healthy, it can't dominate your life. He also asks Jonathan to help him find his sister - and when Jonathan enters the house asking where the girl was, the older couple living there were unaware of the prank and thought Jonathan was an intruder! He apologizes and leaves. Meanwhile, Mark decides to eat a sandwich which Jonathan warns would cause him nightmares. He then settles down to watch a classic horror movie on TV (the film this episode is based on) and even tells Jonathan that the main character in the film looks kind of like him - only younger. Jonathan remarks he was never that young! All through the episode, we see Mark having what turns out to be a nightmare - he sees a monster breaking down the door of their room, he frantically trying to escape a werewolf (Jonathan) and trying to jump out of a painfully small window begging for help from police just arriving below. Each time waking up and realizing it was all a dream. Eventually, Jonathan tells Alan not to be afraid of monsters because he knew for a fact that God didn't make monsters (of course this is a show in which the Devil is real, so who's to say if monsters of other kinds aren't?). He "becomes" a werewolf to scare the pants of Cindy (who ditched her brother to hang out with a friend at her place to watch movies) while Alan "rescues her" by fighting off the werewolf that breaks in! At the end of the episode, Mark's nightmare starts again, then the police show up and come to the rescue - except the cop is a werewolf too! Then Jonathan (in full wolf makeup) breaks into the apartment, growls, then looks into the camera and says, "Happy Halloween!" to the viewers. OK - First I was annoyed at Cindy since she left her brother ALONE at night while trick or treating. Her parents tasked her to watch him and other than the trick that was played on her by Jonathan and Alan, she really didn't get much comeuppance. Second, her "joke" of being kidnapped was an understandably scary thing and she's lucky her brother or someone else didn't call the cops because kidnappings like that have been known to happen. Third, poor Mark! It was like someone thought it funny to keep giving him the same nightmare at least 3 times then making it real by having Jonathan burst in for real this time and make a cop one too!! Stuff like that could have given Mark a heart attack! I honestly felt bad for him being the butt monkey here.

Anyone ever see this? I found it by accident (I was watching this review of Pardon My Past in which it was mentioned). It's a shame it's just a fan made trailer and not for real. Even back in the day, it was definitely a spinoff that had potential and wouldn't have required the original actresses to appear as the cousins. The YT reviewer has done other Charmed episodes, so the channel is worth checking out.

Never seen any of those projects (and Rotten Tomatoes isn't the most reliable when it comes to scores), but there was a time when you screwed up a project and cost a studio tons of money and angered your potential customers, you didn't get promoted.

Not quite. In fact, the numbers are being manipulated a bit. A few YT reviewers have brought it up that Velma was NOT being hate watched as much as its backers claim it is. IMO, hate watching is a waste of time. Reviewers might because that's what they're paid to do, watch something and despite how much they may despise what they're watching, they're informing and entertaining their audience. Although there were a couple of reviewers who refused to watch after episode 2 because it was considered unwatchable! It's also rather telling that Mindy Kaling deleted a lot of tweets from her account over this and is currently in India for some reason (some have joked she was in self exile over Velma). The real mystery is when people like her and others keep falling upwards when they should be run out of the business.

This has been one helluva week! There was a water main break outside the station so toilets and sinks weren't functioning! They brought out port o' potties (ick!) until things were back up; until they went down again! I wasn't sure what I'd find each night in my email!! Then everything else just seemed to fall apart regarding a huge local news story caught on cellphone. It showed a kid getting thrown down by a school police officer. The night it ran, it was looped (shown over and over) and by the next morning, it was deemed our viewers needed to see this only once and to add file video of exteriors of the school near where this happened. Once again nightside showed it and looped it, but the AM show isn't allowed so heaven forbid a producer cues up that same video without checking guess who has to reedit everything? Nothing new, since we've been forbidden from showing stuff that they used to exploit (like gunshots at the One October shooting or 9/11 stuff). Then the producers kept falling behind on stacking the show. Don't know why. The 7am in particular seems to be a problem for them. I typically take my lunch break at 6am but often I have to work it just to keep my edit partner from falling behind because of their incompetence! I even heard from directors who tell me that some of these producers don't seem to know what they're doing and THEY have to guide them along!! This has been going on for months!! Then there's the producer who works from home - in Michigan! I mentioned here that over 2 years ago I lost my previous partner because the bosses insisted that everyone work in the office again and no more working from home and she was happy doing just that. When they refused, she quit. Now we have a producer who is in another state and half the time seems to have video problems! He would send me messages like the video isn't clear for him to see something, or he is assigned to write a script but waits forever to get to it (sometimes 10 minutes before air!!). I know he's on CST but he shouldn't be editing on it!! My partner and I have told our immediate supervisor about this but somehow WE are supposed to change how WE do our work!!! If I bothered to tell him about how late the bunch are in getting the 7am show ready in time so I can eat in peace, he'd probably tell me to eat earlier!! Why are these fools running things???? It's never good when fixed plumbing is the highlight of your week!

Just caught an episode of Highway to Heaven called "Heavy Date" (1987) which gives me pause for if the right thing really was the right thing. In the episode, we're introduced to Alice who's pregnant out of wedlock (sperm donor disappeared and is not involved). She decides to give the child up for adoption. She temporarily takes an apartment where she meets, Gary who is son of the building's owner. He's a bit hapless (his mother is a bit of a hypochondriac and prone to hysterics) and is still at that age in which he's trying to decide what to do in life. He lost his job but found another in construction. He takes a shine to her and they start dating rather quickly and fall in love. He still doesn't know she's pregnant (she barely shows) and by the 7th month, she finally tells him the truth. He walks out in shock and somewhat angry since she should have told him way earlier. When the adoption attorney contacts Alice asking for pictures of both her and the sperm donor she decides to send a picture she and Gary had taken together, figuring they'd be satisfied that the bio dad is handsome and healthy looking (she had no photos of bio dad). Eventually, the baby is born, and Jonathan asks Gary to go to maternity ward to see the baby (which isn't his). Alice chose not to see the baby since she will be giving it up and is staying on a different floor. The would be adoptive parents ask questions of Gary to make sure there are no "issues" to be concerned about in the future. Gary tells them that his mother is a loon who has been in an asylum for the past 8 years and her side of the family has a history of instability. They decide not to adopt the baby. He goes down to Alice and proposes marriage to her and will be a father to her newborn son. All's well that ends well I guess. Except was it really for the best to interfere with an adoption to a good couple who would have given the baby a good home? Was it really the right thing for Jonathan to get him to like another man's child that wasn't his responsibility? Was it really right for this girl who had been dating him for a few months to marry someone who has a mother who is a bit difficult (when Mark announces the marriage, she puts her head in the oven!) and who has been having some stability issues (although supposedly they've been worked out offscreen due to the power of love or some BS). A lot of things about this storyline and resolution just annoyed me!

For the record, that is obnoxious of your co-worker!! He had no right to rifle through your bag and help himself to your property without permission! That is not a good sign of character and quite frankly, he shouldn't be teaching children! Reporting it? They were just gummy bears not cash or something of value. I'd have chewed him out in private and warned him not to pull that again! He had no right to do it. Just consider this a learning experience to not leave anything out of your sight and certainly not wherever he happens to be. The nerve of some entitled creeps like him just astounds!

Pretty pathetic to be obsessed with HS after all those years!! These fools needs to grow up - Mindy first!! Just found out who the murderer is - and I was half right. I was correct in the reason for the murders involving Fred in some way. Let's hope Season 2 gets dumped before it goes into production. Even the reviewers can't take much more of this garbage!

We reported BB's passing as breaking news! Truly a long life lived! On the radio, it was mentioned his mom had him study three instruments: the cello, the piano and the drums. He definitely knew how to put it all together for some memorable tunes that survive today. Here is a parting shot of Bacharach singing Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head with Tom Jones.

Considering how this show has been treating men (white men in particular) I'm going with it being a white male. I wouldn't put it past them to make the killer Fred's dad or perhaps Norville's dad. Not even close.

I miss this show dearly! I noticed it's been turning up on the old channel again so I tuned in. It's still leagues ahead of a lot of crap that's we've been getting lately. Even Avengers Assemble is enjoyable considering. Make it two!! I really was looking forward to see what was coming next on that show.

One of my favorite Youtubers finally did this!! Usually he does films, but this show's recent notoriety really must have tested his resistance.

More on Nathan Chasing His Horse. Seems he was banished from one reservation in MT and my station did an interview with a girls he went to school with - he was doing stuff like this even then! Apparently he also wanted to create a last stand and ordered his "wives" to arm up and if they were to lose, to commit suicide.

Such a bummer losing two iconic TV characters! Cindy Williams had visited our station a few times in the past (and had an on cam reunion with another guest - Anson Williams!). Cindy was in "Menopause - The Musical" for three years and had been approached to do it again. The folks behind that show here said she always had a knack for connecting to the audience and everyone loved her - cast and crew alike!!   So surprised to hear about Lisa Loring's passing! She's still rather young considering she was only 6 when she played Wednesday. She too will always be my favorite Wednesday, even though she's a lot milder than her spiritual successors. RIP to both.

I remember the promos at the time the network was preparing to air the episode. They were hyping it at the time, particularly the scene in which his character tells Harry he was "Batman" when asked what his name was. I'd say it was a bit of stunt casting since Family Ties and Night Court shared time on NBC.