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The hologram at the tribute concert was so over the top bad. But I did like the performance with Albie and his grandson(?) Like I said with the pilot, Sarandon was the center of the show and killing her off throws the show out of balance. The rest of these folks can’t hold enough interest to hold the show together. And it doesn’t help that they are constantly talking about Sarandon’s character and how great she was or showing her in cameos. It probably would have been better to have her fully in the first season, then kill her off The ratings for the episode were awful, dropping from an already bad number, so I don’t see this lasting even a full first season much less getting renewed And I agree about the decision not to do very many original numbers (for a musical show!) because “it’s too hard”. If showrunners want to do it, then you make the effort. I guess they just didn’t want to and the decision won’t help them stand out, which given how the ratings are diving and them killing off Sarandon’s character in the pilot, they really, really needed to do

Programming highlights for October (barring preemptions): "Lucy Worsley Investigates" will end its first season with "The Witch Hunts" on Oct 2 POV: "The Last Out" (about Cuban baseball players' harrowing journey to the US), Oct 3; "Accepted" (abt controversial prep school), Oct 10; "An Act of Worship" (looks at the diverse range of American Muslims), Oct 17 Dr. Henry Louis Gates' 4-part series "Making Black America: Through the Grapevine", about Black America's social networks, premieres October 4 and continues Oct 11, 18 and 25 "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" (doc on former slave turned freedom fighter who conducted the Underground Railroad), Oct 4 "Rivers of Life" season 2 continues with episode 2 about the Danube on Oct 5 and the Yukon October 12 Nova: "Ending HIV in America" is rescheduled for October 5; "Computer vs Crime" (Is AI making policing fairer or increasing bias?), Oct 12; "Can Psychedelics Cure?", Oct 19; "Ocean Invaders" (looks at invasive lungfish), Oct 26 "PBS Newshour: Ricochet: An American Trauma" (the US's gun violence crisis), Oct 5 Secrets of the Dead (new season): "Archeology at Althorp (excavating millennial old Anglo-Saxon village), Oct 9 (special Sunday premiere and repeated Wed Oct 12); "Last Days of Pompeii", Oct 19; "The End of the Romans" (clues to the collapse of the Roman Empire), Oct 26 "Becoming Fredrick Douglass" (doc on former slave who became a prominent statesman and speaker and worked to end slavery), Oct 11 "Next at the Kennedy Center" is a multi-season exploration of cultural changemakers in the arts. The first season is 5 episodes spread throughout this TV season. The first episode celebrates late composer and musician Charles Mingus with "Let My Children Hear Mingus" on October 14 Scripted Masterpiece series "Magpie Murders" and "Annika", each composed of 6 episodes, premiere Oct 16 back-to-back Frontline: "Michael Flynn's Holy War" (how General Flynn became a leading conspiracy theorist"), Oct 18; "Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes", Oct 25 Nature (new season): "Running with the Beest" (East Africa's annual wildebeest migration), Oct 19; "Canada: Surviving the Wild North", Oct 26 Independent Lens: "TikTok, Boom" (about the controversial app), Oct 24 As usual, please check your local listings for exact dates and times

A programming FYI for September. If you were planning on watching certain shows and missed them, it's likely due to the preemption of regular programming to show the UK Queen's funeral and programming getting shifted around as a result, especially "The US and the Holocaust". Look for the programming you missed to repeat in the early or late hours of the days following. This especially affected the Holocaust 3-parter and the Wednesday science programs, like Season 2 of "Rivers of Life" and Nova's "Ending HIV in America". The January 6 Committee hearings will resume this coming Wednesday, September 28 at 1pm ET. If your PBS channel repeats the hearing in the evening like one of mine will do, then look for repeats of the "Rivers of Life" 2nd episode and Nova's "Saving Venice" in the early morning hours of the next day and hopefully more repeats over the next few days. Depending on your station, it looks like Nova's preempted "Ending HIV in America" will be shown on October 5. It's not clear when Nova's "Rebuilding Notre Dame" will be shown

I do not like this show with a live audience. Way too much noise and craziness and Sharks clearly playing to the audience at times

Brando died by poisoning, which I’m assuming for now was done by the Hooker. So the Hooker could have included the poison on their hook when attacking Diane. If the Hooker isn’t also the poisoner, then she has a chance to survive

Not Diane! She annoys me at times, but I also kind of like her, so if she’s killed off I’ll miss her

Note that the episode is set to end 5 minutes later than normal so check your DVRs

About him suing the Justice Department or something like that?

Perhaps you are referring to her Mushroom Lasagna dish? https://www.rachaelrayshow.com/recipes/cast-iron-mushroom-lasagna-rachael-ray

Definitely one or more interviews with Nance Press release http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/09/22/hbo-original-documentary-series-the-vow-part-two-debuts-october-17-144111/20220922hbo02/ Official trailer for Part 2

The next January 6 committee hearing will be next Wednesday, September 28 at 1pm ET. Since these go at least a couple of hours, GH will very likely be preempted.

More promo pics

Unexpected

Totally unexpected on both. I liked Dylan, he was a great addition to the show. Is he really gone?

No surprise

Another picture. I believe all 3 pictures were previously exclusive to Doctor Who Magazine's most recent issue

The Doctor Who Twitter account finally started tweeting again after the Queen's 10 day mourning period and had a couple of nice posts

One of the things I have liked about Brando and Sasha is how well Sonny acts around them in a positive way, especially trying to make sure Sasha is ok. It’s similar to how much better he is with Nina than he was before Nixon Falls

I’m actually a bit aggravated they killed off Brando. One, because it’s a further pile on for Sasha and two because he was a nice enough guy and who, so far, resisted being part of Sonny’s mob business

Note that with coverage of the UK Queen’s funeral on Monday, Part 2 and 3 have been pushed a day each, to Tuesday and Wednesday The 3 episodes are titled “The Golden Door (Beginnings - 1938)”, “Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)” and “The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942- )”

Read Hitler's entry in Wikipedia, especially the sections on The Reichstag Act, The Enabling Act and Dictatorship. He arrested a bunch of anti-Nazi Communist deputies and other folks in Parliament in order to have enough support to pass the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler and his party the power to pass laws without consent of the Reichstag for a certain period, which basically made him a dictator. Too many people went along with Hitler and the Nazi Party because they thought they could control him. There's a great PBS doc series called "The Rise of the Nazis". The first season is a great primer on how Hitler and the Nazis rose to power. Season 2 is on their downfall

Definitely interesting. Will Gladys take over or will Sonny? Does Sasha have a choice in the matter? Can it easily be moved to someone else? Can there be an emergency hearing to slide it to someone or is Sasha currently in limbo with no one being the conservator person since her husband is now dead? Sasha is definitely the current Perils of Pauline person in the cast