Chris Wood Joins ‘Supergirl’ in Mystery Role

Chris Wood in Containment.

Chris Wood joins the cast of Supergirl as a series regular in season 2, however, any details about the ‘surprise DC character’ he is playing are being kept under wraps. Some are speculating that he may be the one in the crashed Kryptonian pod from the season 1 finale. Chris has previously starred in ‘The Vampire Diaries’, ‘The Carrie Diaries‘ and most recently ‘Containment’.

He isn’t the only new addition to the season, since the Supergirl’s move from CBS to The CW, they have announced a significant number of new characters. Most notably, Tyler Hoechlin (Teen Wolf) has been cast as Superman and Lynda Carter (Wonder Women) as the President of the United States. Also joining Wood, is Ian Gomez (Cougar Town) as Snapper Carr and Floriana Lima (The Family) as Maggie Sawyer.

Supergirl season 2 begins in the fall.

CBS Line-up Announced For SDCC 2016

CBS have a 3 hour block of panels from 12pm-3pm in Ballroom 20 on Thursday July 21^st, it will feature:

Scorpion

The Fan Favourite show returns to SDCC for its 3^rd consecutive year, revealing the next seasons plot details, story arcs and what’s next for #Waige and #Quintis. The panel will be moderated by Patrick Gomez, with panellists Elyes Gabel, Robert Patrick, Katherine McPhee, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jadyn Wong, Ari Stidham and Executive Producer Nicholas Wootton.

American Gothic

A panel for the new murder mystery series, with an exclusive sneak peek at what’s behind closed doors at the Hawthorne estate. Stars Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Virginia Madisen, Justin Chatwin, Megan Ketch, Elliot Knight, Stephanie Leonidas and Gabriel Bateman.

Fan Favourites

A panel of your favourite CBS stars, Eric Christian Olsen (NCIS:LA), Daniela Ruah (NCIS:LA), Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS), Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds), Daniel Henney (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders) and James Wolk (Zoo) discussing their most memorable moments on set and a fan Q&A with Kevin Frazier as moderator.

MacGyver

The MacGyver reboot will begin in the fall, a reimagining of the classic series and the panel will include a sneak peek. Michael Yo moderates the panel alongside series stars Lucas Till, George Eads and Executive Producers Peter Lenkov (Hawaii 5-0)and James Wan (F+F 7). Check out the trailer below.

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory will get its own separate panel on Thursday July 22^nd in Ballroom 20 at 10.00am – 11.00am. With the shows season 10 beginning in September, the writers and producers look back on season 9 with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look.

Star Trek: Celebrating 50 years

On Thursday July 22^nd in Hall H at 2.00pm – 3.00pm, they will be celebrating 50 years of Star Trek. The panel will look back on the best moments and why it was so popular with fans, original series star Wiliiam Shatner is a guest panellist alongside Scott Bakula, Michael Dorn, Jeri Ryan and Brett Spiner. The panel will be moderated by Bryan Fuller, who is Executive Producer on the new upcoming Star Trek, he teased that some details will be revealed, maybe casting news, plot details or timeline specifics.

CBS will also offer free rides in electric cars to promote MacGyver, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Kevin Can Wait, The Great Indoors and Man with a Plan. There will be exclusive giveaways including a ‘MacGyver’ multitool and ‘Scorpion’ button pins.

 Skatronixxx will keep you updated on all he latest SDCC news.

 

‘Survivor’ Season 34 Title & Theme Revealed

It has been rumoured for some time that the 34th season of CBS’ hit reality-gameshow Survivor would feature another batch of familiar faces after the huge success of Survivor Second Chances.

With a Two-Time Winner, numerous Council Jury members and a Perfect Game winner amongst the rumoured cast. The theme for the upcoming All-Star season has been something of a mystery, until now.

Sources out of Inside Survivor have revealed that season 34 will be known as Survivor: Game Changers – The Mamanuca Islands, indicating that the theme will focus on players that have “changed the game” in some way or another.

With the recent era of the long-running show dominated by “Big Move” players – often at the behest of host Jeff Probst – it seems reasonable that such a theme would arise sooner or later. Even if the moniker might not necessarily apply to a majority of the cast.

But I’ll let you decide with the full cast list below:

(Note: I have not listed the two members from the upcoming Survivor: Millennials Vs Gen X to avoid spoilers)

• Andrea Boehlke (26) Redemption Island, Caramoan (5th, 7th Place)
• Brad Culpepper (46) Blood Vs. Water (15th Place)
• Aubrey Bracco (29) Kaoh Rong (Runner-Up)
• Caleb Reynolds (28) Kaoh Rong (Medevac – 15th Place)
• Ciera Eastin (27) Blood Vs. Water, Cambodia (5th, 10th Place)
• Jeff Varner (50) Australian Outback, Cambodia (10th, 17th Place)
• Cirie Fields (45) Panama, Micronesia, Heroes Vs. Villains (4th, 3rd, 17th Place)
• JT Thomas (31) Tocantins, Heroes Vs. Villains (Winner, 10th Place)
• Debbie Wanner (50) Kaoh Rong (9th Place)
• Malcolm Freberg (29) Philippines, Caramoan (4th, 9th Place)
• Hali Ford (26) Worlds Apart (11th Place)
• Ozzy Lusth (34) Cook Islands, Micronesia, South Pacific (Runner-Up, 9th, 4th Place)
• Tai Trang (52) Kaoh Rong (2nd Runner-Up)
• Sandra Diaz-Twine (41) Pearl Islands, Heroes Vs. Villains (Winner, Winner)
• Tony Vlachos (42) Cagayan (Winner)
• Sarah Lacine (32) Cagayan (11th Place)
• Troyzan Robertson (54) One World (8th Place)
• Sierra Dawn-Thomas (29) Worlds Apart (5th)

For all your Survivor News & Reviews, stick with @mitch_rated only on Skatronixxx

The Complete 2016 Fall TV Schedule For The US

It’s that time of the season when the networks release their TV line-up for 2016/17, below I have a complied the complete line-up for the following American networks: ABC, CBS, CW, FOX and NBC.

Some shows have made a move to new nights while others have moved networks, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is now on Fridays and Supergirl has moved from CBS to CW.

Shows in bold = New shows

MONDAY

8pm

Dancing With The Stars (ABC)

The Big Bang Theory  (CBS) (* moves back to Thursdays at 8pm in October; Kevin Can Wait will take over the timeslot

Supergirl (CW)

Gotham  (FOX)

The Voice (NBC)

8:30pm

Kevin Can Wait (CBS) (* Man With a Plan takes over timeslot in October)

9pm

2 Broke Girls (CBS)

Jane the Virgin (CW)

Lucifer (FOX)

9:30pm

The Odd Couple (CBS)

10pm

Conviction (ABC)

Scorpion (CBS)

Timeless (NBC)

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TUESDAY

8pm

The Middle (ABC)

NCIS (CBS)

The Flash (CW)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine  (FOX)

The Voice (NBC)

8:30pm

American Housewife (ABC)

New Girl (FOX)

9pm

Fresh Off The Boat (ABC)

Bull (CBS)

No Tomorrow (CBS)

Scream Queens (FOX)

This Is Us (NBC)

9:30pm

The Real O’Neals  (ABC)

10pm

Agents of  S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC)

NCIS: New Orleans (CBS)

Chicago Fire (NBC)

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WEDNESDAY

8pm

The Goldbergs (ABC)

Survivor (CBS)

Arrow (CW)

Lethal Weapon (FOX)

Blindspot (NBC)

8:30pm

Speechless (ABC)

9pm

Modern Family (ABC)

Criminal Minds (CBS)

Frequency (CW)

Empire (FOX)

Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

9:30pm

Black-ish (ABC)

10pm

Designated Survivor (ABC)

Code Black (CBS)

Chicago P.D. (NBC)

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THURSDAY

8pm

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

Thursday Night Football (CBS) (8pm-10:30) (* The Big Bang Theory, The Great Indoors, Mom, Life in Pieces and Pure Genius will all join CBS’ schedule on October 27, once Thursday Night Football is over)

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW)

Rosewood (FOX)

Superstore (NBC)

8:30pm

The Good Place (NBC) 

9pm

Notorious (NBC)

Supernatural (CW)

Pitch (FOX) (* Bones will air here in winter now and Prision Break will air here in spring now)

Chicago Med (NBC)

10pm

How to Get Away With Murder (ABC)

The Blacklist (NBC)

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FRIDAY

8pm

Last Man Standing (ABC)

MacGyver (CBS)

The Vampire Diaries (CW)

Hell’s Kitchen (FOX)

Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon (NBC)

8:30pm

Dr. Ken (ABC)

9pm

Shark Tank (ABC)

Hawaii Five-0 (CBS)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW)

The Exorcist (FOX)

Grimm (NBC)

10pm

20/20 (ABC)

Blue Bloods (CBS)

Dateline (NBC)

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SUNDAY

8pm

Once Upon a Time (ABC)

NCIS: LA (CBS)

The Simpsons (FOX)

Sunday Night Football (NBC) (*8pm-10:30pm)

8:30pm

Son of Zorn (FOX)

9pm

Secrets and Lies (ABC)

Madam Secretary (CBS)

Family Guy (FOX)

9:30pm

The Last Man on Earth (FOX)

10pm

Quantico (ABC)

Elementary  (CBS)

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Cancelled, Renewed & New Shows for 2016-17

So the other day while doing my article on Elementary, I got to thinking about how many shows are being cancelled and the fact that I was struggling to keep up with what was going on, so I have scoured the Internet and have for you that latest on the cancelled,  Renewed and for good measure a few of the new shows coming up. I think I have them all covered but you know how quickly stuff changes on the Internet but tis is the complete list as of today.

ABC

Renewed Shows 2016

● American Crime
● black-ish
● Dr Ken
● The Catch
● Fresh Off The Boat
● The Goldbergs
● Grey’s Anatomy
● How To Get Away With Murder
● Last Man Standing
● Marvel’s Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D
● The Middle
● Modern Family
● Once Upon A time
● The Real O’Neals
● Secrets and Lies Season 2 premieres this fall
● Scandal
● Quantico

Cancelled Shows

● Blood & Oil
● Castle
● The Family
● Galavant
● Marvel’s Agent Carter
● Wicked City
● The Whispers
● Nashville
● Rookie Blue

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CBS

Renewed Shows

● 2 Broke Girls
● The Big Bang Theory
● Blue Bloods
● Code Black
● Criminal Minds
● Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
● Elementary
● Hawaii Five-O
● Madam Secretary
● Mom
● NCIS Renewed for Seasons 14 and 15
● NCIS: Los Angeles
● NCIS: New Orleans
● The Odd Couple
● Scorpion
● Supergirl Renewed for Season 2 – on The CW.
● Survivor
● Undercover Boss
● Zoo

Cancelled Shows

● Angel From Hell
● CSI Cyber
● Extant
● The Good Wife
● Limitless
● Mike & Molly
● Person of Interest
● Rush Hour
● Under The Dome

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FOX

Renewed Shows

● American Idol
● Bob’s Burgers
● Bones: Renewed for 12th and final season
● Brooklyn Nine-Nine
● Empire
● Family Guy
● Gotham
● Hell’s Kitchen
● The Last Man on Earth
● Lucifer
● New Girl
● Rosewood
● Scream Queens
● The Simpsons
● Sleepy Hollow
● Wayward Pines

Long-Shot For Renewal

● Houdini & Doyle – Limited series finale airs June 27th

Possible Renewal

● The X Files Season 11

Cancelled Shows

● Boom
● Bordertown
● Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life
● Grandfathered
● The Grinder
● Minority Report
● Second Chance

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NBC

Renewed Shows

●Aquarius
● The Blacklist
● Blindspot
● Chicago Fire – Through Season 5
● Chicago Med
● Chicago P.D – Through Season 4
● Grimm
● Law & Order: SVU
● Little Big Shots
● The Night Shift: Season 3
● Shades of Blue
● Superstore
● The Voice
● The Carmichael Show

Cancelled Shows

● Crowded
● Game of Silence
● Hannibal
● Heartbeat
● Heroes Reborn
● Mr Roberson
● The Mysteries of Laura
● The Player
● Telenovela
● Truth Be Told
● Undateable

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CW

Renewed Shows

● The 100
● Arrow
● Beauty and the Beast – Forth and Final season airs in Summer 2016
● Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
● DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
● The Flash
● iZombie
● Jane the Virgin
● The Originals
● Reign
● Supernatural
● The Vampire Diaries

Cancelled Shows

● Containment – Premieres at midseason
● The Messengers
● Significant Mother

Moved Network
● Americas Next Top Model – Revived on Vh1 with new host

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FX

Renewed Shows

● American Horror Story
● Archer
● Baskets
● Fargo
● Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
● The Americans
● The Strain
● Tyrant

Shows Still To Air

● Atlanta
● Better Things
● Feud
● Taboo
● Trust – Limited Series

Cancelled Shows

● The Bastard Executioner
● The Comedians

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SyFy

Renewed Shows

● 12 Monkeys
● Continuum
● Dark Matter
● The Expance
● Killjoys
● The Magicians
● Z Nation

Cancelled Shows

● Defiance
● Dominion

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A&E

Renewed Shows

● Bates Motel – For 5th season

Cancelled Shows

● Damien
● Longmire (moved to netflix)

Obviously I have had a bit of trouble finding info on A&E shows.

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SHOWTIME

Renewed Shows

● The Affair
● Billions
● Dark Net
● Homeland
● Penny Dreadful
● Shameless

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TNT

Renewed Shows

● Falling Skies – Through 5th/finale Season
● The Last Ship
● The Libraries
● Major Crimes
● Murder In the First
● Rizzoli & Isles

Cancelled Shows

● Agent X
● Legends
● Public Morals

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BBC AMERICA

Renewed Shows

● Almost Royal
● Doctor Who
● Orphan Black

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TBS

Renewed Shows

● American Dad
● The Detour

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HBO

Renewed Shows

● Ballers – Through Season 2
● Game of Thrones – Through Season 7
● Getting On – Through 3rd/final Season
● Girls – Through Season 6
● The Leftovers (final season)
● Silicon Valley
● Veep
● Vinyl

Cancelled Shows

● Togetherness

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Better Call Saul
● Into the Badlands

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STARZ

Renewed Shows

● Black Sails
● The Missing
● Outlander
● Power
● Survivor’s Remorse

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NETFLIX

Renewed Shows

● Bloodline – Through Season 2
● Bojack Horseman – Through Season 3
● Daredevil – Through Season 2
● Hemlock Grove
● Narcos
● Orange is the New Black

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AMAZON/AMAZON PRIME

Renewed Shows

● Bosch
● The Man in the High Castle
● Transparent

Cancelled Shows

● Mad Dogs

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COMEDY CENTRAL

Renewed Shows

● Broad City – Through Season 5
● South Park

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PBS

Renewed Shows

● Call The Midwife
● Grantchester
● Sherlock

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HULU

Renewed Shows

● Casual
● Difficult People
● The Mindy Project
● The Path

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USA

Renewed Shows

● Colony
● Graceland
● Mr Robot
● Playing House
● Royal Pains

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LIFETIME

Renewed Shows

● Devious Maids – Through Season 3

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RENEWED SHOWS  (Not sure of network home)

● Fear the Walking Dead
● The Fosters
● From Dusk Till Dawn
● Fuller House
● The Game
● Portlandia
● The Royals
● Salem
● Schitt’s Creek
● Scream
● Shadowhunters
● Spotless
● Star Wars: Rebels
● Teacher
● Teen Wolf
● Turn: Washington’s Spies
● Underground
● UnReal
● Vikings
● Younger
● Young & Hungry

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PIVOT

Renewed Shows

● Fortitude

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AMC

Renewed Shows

● Halt and Catch Fire
● Hell on Wheels
● The Walking Dead

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FXX

Renewed Shows

● Always Sunny in Philadelphia
● The League
● Man Seeking Woman
● You’re the Worst

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BBC

Renewed Shows

● Peaky Blinders
● Top of The Lake

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Below is everything I could find on new shows for the 2016-17 season. Don’t hold out a lot of hope for them, seems to be a lot of remakes instead of being creative and giving us some original content…Its getting boring with constant remakes of shows.

NBC’s  NEW SHOWS

●The Good Place

Staring: Kristin Bell & Ted Danson. Creator Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine) making this a much-watch series. When Eleanor Shellstrop (Bell) arrives at titular Good Place after being hit by a truck her mentor Michael (Danson) tell her she made it there because she helped innocent people get off death row. Only one problem: She didn’t actually do that. Comedy gold? Maybe.

● Timeless

Staring: Abigail Spencer
In Timeless, a criminal steals a secret government time machine, and Homeland Security seeks out a history professor (Abigail Spencer) to lead a team that will travel back to restore the timeline and save history of America.

●Marlon

Staring: Marlon Wayans, Essence Atkins, Notlim Taylor, Amir O’Neil, Bresha Webb and Diallo Riddle
“Marlon” is inspired by the real life of the titular comedian, Marlon Wayans, who plays a loving but immature father committed to co-parenting his two kids with his ex-wife.

●Great News

Staring: Briga Heelan, Andera Martin, Adam Campbell, John Michael Higgins and Kimrie Lewis-Davis
Briga is an up-and-coming news producer whose overbearing mother (Martin) re-enters the workforce with a job as an intern at the station where Katie works.

●Trial and Error

Staring: Nichols D’Agosto, John Lithgow, Krysta Rodriguez, Steven Boyer and Sherri Shepherd
In this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy, bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (D’Agosto) heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric, “rollercizing” poetry professor Larry (Lithgow), accused of the bizarre murder of his beloved wife.

●Powerless

Staring: Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi and Christina Hudgens
Emily (Hudgens), a spunky young insurance adjuster specializing in regular-people coverage against damage caused by crime-fighting superheroes.

●Chicago Justice

Staring: Philip Winchester, Carl Weathers, Nazneen Contractor and Marina Squerciati
Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit “Chicago” franchise. Just like their brethren in the Chicago P.D., the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law.

●Taken

Staring: Clive Standen
Is a modern-day, edege-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin story of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Standen) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.

●The Blacklist: Redemption

In this new spinoff of NBC’s hit series, undercover operative Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins forces with Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen), the brilliant and cunning chief of Grey Matters, a covert mercenary organization that solves problems governments don’t dare touch. While on the hunt for Liz’s attacker, Tom secretly discovered that Scottie is actually his biological mother. Now, as they team up to employ their unique skills and resources in a dangerous world of deadly criminals, Tom begins his own covert mission to find out more about his shadowy past.

●Midnight, Texas

Staring: François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Ramos, Peter Mensah, Yul Vazquez and Sean Bridgers
Based on the hit book series from author Charlaine Harris (“True Blood”), comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops and their own dangerous pasts,they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

●This Is Us

Staring: Manny Moore, Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown
The series follows a unique ensemble whose paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways. We find several of them share the same birthday, and so much more then anyone would expect

● Emerald City

Staring: Adria Arjona and Vincent D’Onofrio
In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale (Arjona) and a K9 police dog are swept into a world far removed from our own – mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. Vincent D’Onofrio as the guileful Wizard and directed by the visionary Tarsem Singh across three European countries, this is Oz completely re-imagined.

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FOX’s NEW SHOWS

● Son of Zorn

Staring: Jason Sudekis, Johnny Pemberton, Cheryl Hines, Tim Meadows.
The latest show from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Zorn (Jason Sudekis) is an animated warrior in the style of He-Man who rules an isolated kingdom in the Pacific Ocean. He leaves that world behind and makes the journey to Orange County to reunite with his son Alan (Johnny Pemberton) and ex-wife (Cheryl Hines), who’s now engaged to Craig (Tim Meadows).

● Star

Staring: Jude Demorest, Brittany O’Grady, Ryan Destiny.
Featuring: Queen Latifah, Lenny Kravitz and Benjamin Bratt
Star (Jude Demorest) is an 18-year-old gifted singer who spent much of her life in the foster system. She takes her sister Simone (Brittany O’Grady) and moves to Atlanta to meet their godmother Carlotta (Latifah), and start a girl group with Alexandra (Ryan Destiny).

●Pitch

Staring: Kylie Bunbury, Mo McRae
Pitch is a combination of the real-life story of Little League pitcher Mo’ne Davis, who captivated baseball fans in 2014, and something like Rookie if the Year. Ginny (Kylie Bunbury) is the first woman to play in Major League Baseball, a pitcher called up by San Diego Padres. But instead of an injury granting her magical throwing powers, she’s developed a mean screwball, a pitch built after years of practice with her father Blip (Mo McRae).

●Making History

Staring: Adam Pally
Making History centers on Dan (Adam Pally), a sad sack computer science professor who invents a time machine and uses it to spend his weekends exploiting his knowledge of the future to make friends and become popular in colonial America.

●A.P.B

Staring: Justin Kirk
A tech billionaire (Kirk) who purchases a struggling police precinct after a loved one is killed. His hope is to use innovative tech to stop criminals.

●Prison Break

Staring: Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies and Wentworth Miller
The revival centers around Lincoln (Purcell) and Sara (Callies) as they learn Michael (Miller) isn’t dead, but rather stuck in a Yemeni.

●The Exorcist

Staring: Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera
Another TV reboot of a classic film, it will be more of a modern take on the novel and 70’s movie

●Lethal Weapon

Staring: Damon Wayans and Clayne Crawford
Yep you guessed it another reboot of a classic film

●24: Legacy

Staring: Corey Hawkins
The saga continues with Eric Carter (Hawkins), a man who turn to CTU to help him save his life while also working to stop a terror threat.

●Shots Fired

Staring: Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfus and Stephen Moyer.
A compelling event series examining the dangerous aftermath of racially charged shootings in a small Southern town

●The Mick

Staring: Kaitlin Olson
From producers of “its Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, “The Mick” is a no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that follows Mackenzie, aka “Mickey” (Olson), a brash, two-bit hustler for Rhode Island who must assume guardianship of her sister’s three high-maintenance children. As irresponsible as Mickey has been her entire life, she may discover that responsibility isn’t the buzzkill she always thought it would be.

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ABC’s NEW SHOWS

● Conviction

Staring: Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell is Hayes Morrison, a former First Daughter who has a drug problems, among others, that are getting in the way of her mother’s Senate campaign. To keep from going to prison, Morrison accepts a jobs the head of a Conviction Integrity Unit in New York City, tasked with re-examining cases to determine wrongful conviction.

●Designated Survivor

Staring: Kiefer Sutherland
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman (Sutherland) is the titular designee, who gets sequestered during the State of the Union. When an explosion destroys the Capitol Building, Kirkman is the next in line for the presidency.

●Still Star-crossed

Based on the novel by Melinda Taub, and created by Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal writer Heather Mitchell, the fifth ABC show from Shonda Rhimes uses the ends of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as its starting point. It’s hammy in the way CW’s historical romance Reign and Starz’s Outlander, but this genre has a dedicated following, and Rhimes has displayed a golden touch that dewarfs other major executive producers.

●American Housewife

Staring: Katy Mixon
Katie Otto (Katy Mixon), a confident, unapologetic wife and mother of three, raises her flawed family in the wealthy town of Wesport, Connecticut, filled with “perfect” mommies and their “perfect” offspring.

●Imaginary Mary

Staring: Jenna Elfman
Alice (Elfman) is fiercely independent career woman whose life is turned upside-down when she meets the love of her life – a divorced father with three kids. The triggers even more upheaval when she slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as a child suddenly reappears to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.

●Notorious

Staring: Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata
Is inspired by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, who serve as executive producers. The series is a provocative look at the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media

●Downward Dog

Staring: Allison Tolman
Is a comedy that follows a lovelorn woman through the eyes of her dog.

●Time After Time

Staring: Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman
Follows the story of a young H.G. Wells as he attempts to track Jack the Ripper through time.

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CBS’s NEW SHOWS

● The Great Indoors

Staring: Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an outdoorsman returning to a magazine where he’s now the sole Gen Xer in a sea of Millennials might just work.

●Bull

Staring: Michael Weatherly, Freddy Rodriguez, Geneva Carr
Weatherly stars as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all times. Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation, including his quick-witted brother-in-law, Benny Colón (Rodriguez) who plays a defense attorney in mock trials; Marissa Morgan (Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security.
●Kevin Can Wait

Staring: Kevin James and Erinn Hayes
A newly retired police officer looking forward to spending carefree, quality time with his wife (Hayes) and three kids, only to discover he faces tougher challenges at home then he ever did on the streets.

●Man with a Plan

Staring: Matt LeBlanc
A comedy about a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife returns to work, and he discovers the truth every parent eventually realizes: their little angels are maniacs.

●MacGyver

Staring: Lucas Till and George Eads
A  re-imagining of the classic series, is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus “Mac” MacGyver who creates a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Joining his team on high-risk missions around the globe is maverick former CIA agent Lincoln (Eads).
Under the aegis of the Department of External Affairs, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip.

●Pure Genius

Staring: Augustus Prew and Dermot Mulroney
A cutting-edge medical drama about James Bell (Prew), a young Silicon Valley tech titan, who enlists Walter Wallace (Mulroney), a brilliant veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run a state-of-the-art hospital with an ultramodern approach to medicine.

●Training Day

Staring: Bill Paxton and Justin Cornwall
A crime drama that begins 15 years after the events of the feature film, starring Paxton as Frank Rourke, a hardened morally ambiguous detective for the LAPD, and Cornwell as Kyle Craig, a young, idealistic officer tapped to go undercover as his trainee and spy on him.

● Doubt

Staring: Katherine Heigl, Laverne Cox, Dreama Walker
Sadie Ellis (Heigl), a brilliant attorney at a boutique firm who starts to fall for her charismatic client, an altruistic pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering his girlfriend 24 years ago. Sadie’s colleagues include Cameron Wirth (Cox), a transgender Ivy League graduate who fights passionately for her clients since she’s experienced injustice first hand, and Tiffany Simon (Walker), a second-year associate who is quickly learning the ropes.

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CW’s NEW SHOWS

●Frequency

Staring: Peyton List and Riley Smith
This drama reimagines the 2000 film of the same name, following a female police detective (List) in 2016 who discovers she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father (Smith) who died in 1996. The forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, but unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect” wreak havoc in the present day.

●No Tomorrow

Staring: Tori Anderson and Joshua Sasse
When a risk-averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager (Anderson) at an Amazon-like distribution center falls in love with a freewheeling man who lives life to the fullest (Sasse) because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, they embark on a quest together to fulfill their individual bucket lists, to comedic and poignant results.

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There you have it guys, the list of what is happening in the TV world for 2016-17.

‘Survivor: Millennials Vs Gen-X’ Preview

With Survivor Koah-Rong in the can (congrats Michelle “malarkey” Fitzgerald) and the celebration for my first Win with the Survivor Draft (Nailed It!) dying down. Its time to look forward to the Fall, when Survivor returns to Fiji for the first time since 2007 with their 33rd season Survivor: Millennials Vs Gen-x.

In a season that nobody asked for and nobody wanted, CBS has returned to Old Vs Young format that has graced – let’s be honest – some of the least popular seasons like Survivor Exile Island and Nicaragua. But while Panama gave us a 4-way split of Old Men Vs Young Men Vs Old Women Vs Young Women. Season 33 has made use of that buzzword that will plague my generation for years to come … The Millennials.

Yes, unlike the hard-working and perseverance observed by the Generation-X’ers. Survivors take on The Millennials looks to demonize the younger Tribe with Selfie-Obsessed misnomer and stereotypes lobbied at the ‘inevitable’ laziness that the young up-starts are sure to display.

They might as well subtitled the season Heroes Vs Villains 2 and have done with it.

But while Koah-Rong has amassed a league of Aubrey Bracco–loving de-tractors since that Michelle win. The 32nd season gave us a plethora of characters such as the multi-job-titled Debbie to the “love every creature” Tai Trang, which judging by the preview-video is set to continue.

First the stereotypes. In the Gen-X corner we have Chris who – with the help of Inside Survivor – we learn is a Trial Attorney at a firm he founded in 2009, epitomises the work ethic and hard work which the Gen-X’ers are famed for. A factor which Chris references to the game, saying that Survivor “is hard work” and won’t be easy as “how fast you can type it into Google to find the answer.“

With Technology at the forefront of The Millennials identity, it doesn’t take this years compulsory long-haired-lothario Taylor to get the first Twitter trend in with “#SoleSurvivor“.

Let me back that up with “#FacePalm”.

Mari on the other hand doesn’t help matters either. As a Pro-Gammer, she is prime cannon fodder for parents around the world to lament the wasted time a career such as hers can be. Not that Mari cares, rather calling-out the fact that as a Millennial, she is able to make a profession out of what she loves to do.

But Survivor wouldn’t be the show we have loved for so long without some Outcasts thrown into the mix. No, not that terrible twist from Pearl Island. I’m talking about David and Zeke, Tribal opponents in the game with an affinity one another’s ideologies.

I mean, they ain’t no Tai but Zeke’s Hipster-Tache is a marvel. #10thWonderoftheWorld if you will (Damn You Taylor!)

David however is already as endearing as the aforementioned Mr. Trang. His confession that he could have done with “a dozen” participation awards back in his day, gives him a Charlie Brown underdog quality that rivals Spencer Bledsoe himself. Hyperbolic maybe, but like the Second Chancer runner-up, David too has a Chess background that would have him on the Brains Tribe in a heartbeat.

Zeke though, maybe not so much. In what could be a completely inaccurate read, his assertion that he can “hack it” living in the great out-doors, seems at-odds with his high maintenance or ‘well-groomed’ appearance. That tache … Mucho wax needed me thinks.

And like Cydney found out, no branch-chain-amino-acids out there me’lad.

As Survivor fans we have had to grin and bear these gimmicks that Mark Burnett and the team seem to be doubling down on of late.  But to be honest – when paired with a stellar cast – they truly knock it out of the park. I mean after all, both seasons of Brawn Vs Brains Vs Beauty offered up a cacophony of Alpha-players that are sure to return in future seasons and could work in-spite of any gimmick their season is given.

So while the idea of Millennials Hash-tagging every damn ‘Big-Move’ they make (and the Gen-X’ers condemning every minute of it). After the first swap, we will have to learn the Tribe’s actual names anyway and the big characters will get their chance to shine, regardless of the stereotype thrust upon them in the first half of the game.

And after all is said and done, it isn’t the format that makes the show but the Players themselves. And I for one can’t wait to meet all 20 Castaways when Survivor: Millennials Vs Gen-X returns to CBS this Fall.

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CBS Plans ‘MacGyver’ Reboot For Fall

I learned about this on Thursday, and I’ve been silently fuming ever since.  If you haven’t watched the trailer for the new show yet, you can watch it below.  Go ahead… go watch it and come back.  I’ll wait.

Waiting…

OK, now that we’re all on the same page… What in the hell is CBS smoking?  I watched the original series when I was a kid.  I loved it!  I had a huge crush on Richard Dean Anderson… so much so that when he played Col. Jack O’Neill on Stargate: SG1, I watched it too.  I recently binged watched them both again on Hulu.  Ya know, just for nostalgia reasons.  Yeah, that’s totally why.

Why mess with a good thing?

And, why in the hell can’t anyone in the entertainment business come up with an original idea now days?  It’s all reboot this and remake that.  Oh, and when they do have a new and original idea they all suck!

If you’re going to reboot a series that deserved better than what it got, then d@mmit give us that Firefly reboot that we’ve been begging for since 2003!

The premise of this story is that a young MacGyver (played by Lucas Till, X-Men franchise) joins his deceased father’s best friend and partner, Lincoln (played by George Eads, CSI) and they form the Phoenix Foundation.  If you’ll remember from the original series, that’s the place that MacGyver worked.  However, what the makers of this reboot forgot is that the show didn’t start out with Mac working for Phoenix.  He originally worked for some unknown agency that they hinted was the CIA or some other acronym agency… then Pete Thornton (his friend) talked him into going to work for the Phoenix Foundation.  Mac didn’t start it… he just worked there. (I only remember all of this from my recent binge watching activity that was all for science.  Honest.)  Maybe the big wigs at CBS should’ve done some binge watching of their own.

Worst of all?  Richard Dean Anderson isn’t even involved in this one.  He IS MacGyver.

I can see a slight resemblance, but the kid is still no RDA.  The only thing that might save this version is that Executive Producer, Henry Winkler (who was also the EP on the original)… yes, The Fonz… is going to be steering the ship.

A Look At The New Star Trek Show

The characters from Star Trek have been portrayed in many different movies and TV shows. The original Star Trek TV shows and many other TV shows and movies. In 2009, director J.J Abrams gave Star Trek a new look with Star Trek, and shortly after, Star Trek: Into Darkness. Now, in the year 2016, not only is Star Trek: Beyond coming out soon, recently a new Star Trek TV show was announced!

To die hard fans who love Star Trek, this trailer is probably a disappointment. It gives almost no indication if the show is going to be as good (or better) than the originals. But this trailer is only a teaser, and hopefully later in the year, we will see more. The show will premiere in 2016 on CBS.

I will stay posted and hopefully write a blog when we see more. Also, be sure to check out the other blogs on skatronixxx, all of them are awesome. Well, until next time, set your phasers to stun.

-Cole @TheNicolasTweet

‘CBS’ Casts Their ‘Nancy Drew’

CBS already have a super-sleuth in the form of Jonny Lee Miller’s Sherlock Holmes in Elementary, but that hasn’t stopped the Network from bringing everyones favourite girl Detective Nancy Drew to the small screen.

A source out of Entertainment Weekly revealed that the CBS series – simply titled Drew – will offer a grown-up take on the teenage investigator, with the popular long-running series of novels serving as inspiration.

Persons of Interest star Sarah Shahi will play the 30-something Drew, now a hard-nosed NYPD detective, who “investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.“

Shahi will star alongside Vanessa Ferlito as Drew’s former partner, Anthony Edwards as Nancy’s father and Felix Solis, a lieutenant at the NYPD.

The Pilot is yet to shoot but should the series get pick up, it may be only matter of time before we see a crossover with Miller’s Holmes.

Well … we can only hope, right?

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‘Hannibal’ Creator Named Showrunner For CBS ‘Star Trek’ Tv Show

Bryan Fuller, the man behind critically acclaimed shows Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, has been named show runner for CBS’s forthcoming Star Trek Tv series. Which will mark a homecoming for the Producer and screenwriter who cut his teeth writing for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

CBS also announced that Alex Kurtzman, who has worked as a writer and producer on the recent Star Trek movies, will serve as Executive-Producer and Co-Creator alongside Fuller. Little detail is known as to whether the series will take place within the Tv continuity established by the original series in 1966 or if it will serve as a spin-off for the alternate timeline of the Kurtzman films.

In a statement released by Fuller, the show runner confirmed his love for the Star Trek universe revealing that his “very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls. Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire.”

He continued to express that “It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”

Kurtzman also reciprocated the sentiments shared, remarking that “bringing Star Trek back to television means returning it to its roots, and for years those roots flourished under Bryan’s devoted care. His encyclopedic knowledge of Trek canon is surpassed only by his love for Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic future, a vision that continues to guide us as we explore strange new worlds.”

The new series will be the first show made for CBS All Access, the networks Video on demand and live streaming service, and will air in early  2017. The show will have a special preview event on the Network with the rest of the episode being exclusive the VOD service with international markets receiving the show via traditional Tv services and other streaming services around the world.

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