Miss Anne Thrope

I'm going to give the trivia movie a look because Liz Keifer (a Guiding Light alum) is in a supporting role, and it turns out it was shot semi-locally -- so I want to check out the scenery, etc. Hope I can make it past the 15-minute mark!

I enjoyed Holiday Crashers for the most part. As someone who grew up at Compo Beach, it was a little jarring to hear it specifically mentioned in the first 5 minutes (especially knowing Hallmark usually films in Vancouver). That being said, the formula was different enough (from the tiny, strangely specific family business in peril plot) that it seemed refreshing, and I loved the chemistry between Lyndsy Fonseca and Daniella Monet. I'd watch them together again in a heartbeat. The male leads were perfectly fine too, though I wanted to trim Chris McNally's hair just a little.

Ooh, thanks for the heads up. I'm not a fan of the game, but do like that writer. She lives in CT and often works our town names or combinations of them into her scripts. It's probaly unlikely in this case given the Kansas City setting, but I still like her writing and the cast looks fun (and star-studded by Hallmark's standards).

Cocker spaniels were immensely popular in the 1940s, well into the '50s. Perhaps she just named the breed because chances are if a movie star was to do a photo shoot with a dog at the time -- particularly if it was one of those "Teresa Wright at home" pieces -- odds are that dog would be a Cocker. Cockers were still popular in 1952, when Richard Nixon made the famous Checkers speech about a Cocker Spaniel that had been gifted to his family. Just a thought. https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-dog-breeds-by-decade/mariel-loveland

Nice, thanks for sharing! Some of the stuff looks actually do-able with my meager skills. Gotta try the Founder's Day Punch for sure, and I think the Bananas Foster Waffles may haunt me forever.

I'd pick up Sookie's cookbook for the entertainment value and beloved moments pictures, but not necessarily as a bona fide cookbook. If it's written in Sookie's voice, I'd likely go nuts trying to follow the recipe. For example, 2 and 1/4 cups (280g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled) 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 and 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch* 1/2 teaspoon ... It’s that tart, kind of spicy, white - SALT! The word is ‘salt’!

On that note, if anyone gets the Catchy Comedy channel (I get it via Frndly TV), they're showing The Bob Newhart Show through tomorrow morning, and then Newhart from 9am for the rest of the day. And it looks like a handful of Bob episodes overnight Sunday to Monday morning.

IIRC, Costner took some beatings for Waterworld and The Postman and survived, so this might just be another stumble, not a complete roadblock career-wise. Western-ish works have always been his strong suit, though.

Wikipedi has Ms Krakow turning 40 in September (and she went to Juilliard? huh), and McGarry turning 39 last March. Polaha and Ayres are 47 per Wikipedia. And my personal fave Bethany Joy Lenz is 43. So yeah, it's like they put no thought into creating a system to keep things going. (Sorry, just an obsessed completionist.)

True, but to be fair, they were 94, 89, and 85.

She was also memorable in The Conversation. I remember I was a little flipped when I saw her in it because I'd only known her to that point as Lou-Ann and the voice of Ladyfish in The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Thank you and RIP, Ms MacCrae.

I encountered a similar issue with Hulu + Live; they sent me channels based on the location of my internet address. My internet provider at the time did not provide a static IP address; so often the IP address would shift to Fairfield County, and I'd get the NYC channels. After many hours on the phone with a Hulu engineer -- a lovely, patient, and determined man -- we agreed that my best option was to drop Hulu. YouTube TV was the answer, as you manually enter the ZIP code for your area. I know Roku is a device (which I've used) and Hulu is an app, so they are different things, but they may use the same information, eg your IP address, to provide services. Just dropping this all here in case it's useful, should you try dealing with Roku. Wishing you luck, I know it's a pain in the butt to get channels (for me, it was basically the traffic and weather reports) that are useless to you.

It does as part of the basic channel lineup.

Thank you for the clarification, and that's interesting -- at least I find it interesting, for lack of a better word, for TCM to have the same glitch happen a couple of times within a month or so in a prime slot when I don't recall this occurring much at all in the past. Maybe I just watch the wrong stuff and it's been happening all along. Specific movies (Little Shop of Horrors, for example) are regularly not available to me on TCM, I believe because I don't get the channel from a traditional cable outlet, so I was beginning to think this might be more of the same. (At least in those cases, the circle/line symbol shows on the schedule so we know the score.) Thank you for setting me straight!

I wonder how/why this happens -- I mean, if TCM doesn't have the rights to show something, presumably they'd ask the guest programmer to select something else, wouldn't they? I get TCM via YouTubeTV, and a handful of films have the not available sign shows on my schedule (but there was no such notation in the Forty Guns slot). Did viewers who get TCM through a cable system get to see the flick? Does Spielberg, as one of the three quasi-saviors of TCM, have a reaction to one of his personal film choices being scrubbed? (I'd pitch a fit, FWIW.) I don't have answers, don't exepect anyone else to have them, just ranting away, I guess. Thank you, and stepping gingerly off the soapbox.