Miss Anne Thrope

Similarly, the St Louis Blues adopted Laura Brannigan's Gloria as a good luck song a few years back (2019). (They won the cup, so it worked.) At some point during the run, the Blues front office contacted Ms Brannigan's management to see if they could set up some kind of live event, and Brannigan's management had to tell them she'd passed in 2004.

Agree, it's relatively inexpensive and growing (slowly).

My thoughts exactly re Donna Lynn Champlin. What a waste of her talents.

John Clarence Stewart was very good in Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist a few years ago; I didn't realize he was in this. Will have to check this out on tonight's repeat. Thanks for the tip!

Maybe Crazy House (1930)? https://www.tcm.com/schedule (scroll down for later in the day) Crazy House (1930) at IMDB The Lame Brain Sanitarium is managed by Dr. E.D. Smith, who spells his last name J-O-N-E-S. Benny Rubin, believing he may have problems - the primary one being that he spends more money than he makes - is thinking about checking himself in. As he tours the sanitarium, he meets some of the other patients, including a fiddle destroyer, a man who believes he's developed an unbreakable plate, a dancer with elastic legs, and a Danish opera singer and his colleague (old friends of Rubin's) with a poor sense of geography. But the craziest people in Rubin's mind may be the staff, especially Dr. Smith, who believes he can cure Rubin by operating. In the end, is Rubin really crazy or are the crazy ones the writers?

That's funny -- we in Connecticut have a thing where we swallow our t in certain words. New Britain becomes New Bri-uhn, for example. The lead actress is from New Jersey, but I wonder if there's a similar dialect there. In either case, yeah -- maybe someone should have taken speech / dialect classes as part of their drama education. Disclaimer: I'm not saying every single person in Connecticut speaks this way. However, it's prevalent enough that it's regularly commented on by those who live here, pass through, or move in for school or other reasons.

Starting Monday, May 12, it turns out. (I can only get the calendar up to May 5, so can't get the time yet, it looks like.) Thanks for the heads up! https://starttv.com/

Love Mr Uecker and wish him great seats wherever he may be.

A lot of those shows are currently available on Apple TV, Prime, Catchy, maybe MeTV, and other channels and may not be available at this time. But yes, there are probably some other shows Hallmark could acquire.

If this hasn't been answered already -- my Peacock email for January says WCtH Season 12 will be available January 6. So I guess there's a one-day delay from each episode's premier?

Very bummed to learn that Michael Cole of The Mod Squad (and Celebrity Bowling at my house) has passed at 84. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/michael-cole-dead-mod-squad-1236083123/

I actually started watching Psych because of Hallmark -- they ran it on the mystery channel before the holiday takeover took place. So I'm definitely in the intersecting set of that Venn diagram. It's fun to do the 'Hey, that's a young XYZ actor" when they pop up. It seems like Lochlyn Munro shows up in every Canadian production; there might be a law or something.

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).