Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robin Miller Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Selected programming for March 20-22, 2024 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:52:56 -0400 Lines: 392 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vRkreG3Y7Gk1M9Lw1JnAmwVGvKZId+lkiB0SdTQh+QIDbdfPSv Cancel-Lock: sha1:X0HZvvN9VwQhyjliPkVNSsHTLfA= sha256:9KGotb9YzqLTITPU69N6QFCfsVGUwllg0yOmpZvAeD4= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.individual.net:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.1 Bytes: 14399 RM: The second half of the week. Wednesday, March 20 Streaming: Palm Royale [new] (12:01 am, Apple TV+) Apple's new 1969-set comedy about a woman (Kristen Wiig) striving to gain entrance into Palm Beach high society is based on the book Mr. and Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. Along with Wiig, cast regulars include Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Leslie Bibb, and Josh Lucas, while guest stars include Carol Burnett and Bruce Dern. 10 episodes; the first three are available today, while the rest follow once weekly through May 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mbE660duGQ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8888540/ Homicide: New York [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Netflix) Homicide: New York, a new Netflix documentary series from Wolf Entertainment: Real cops, real crimes. 5 episodes. 5 different crimes. The same group of detectives and prosecutors revisit their most challenging homicide cases in this chilling true-crime documentary series. A second installment, Homicide: Los Angeles, follows later in 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsL7lWz1Jbo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31556143/ https://www.netflix.com/title/81562383 X-Men '97 [new] (3:01 am, Disney+) Disney's latest Marvel title offers comic book fans something a bit different than the streamer's somewhat lackluster recent MCU entries. In fact, it's not part of the MCU at all but instead a revival of Fox's 1990s cartoon X-Men: The Animated Series, picking up right where that series ended in 1997—with the death of Professor X—and returning some of the original voice cast. Season 1 will run for 10 episodes, and a second season has already been ordered, though series creator Beau DeMayo was fired earlier this month after completing scripts for the second season. The original series is also streaming on Disney+. Two episodes are released today, with the rest following once weekly through May 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3Ss8o9gGQ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16026746/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103584/ [original series; rating 8.4] Murdered in Paradise: Bludgeoned in Bali (documentary) (3:01 am, Tubi) A daughter and her boyfriend plot a gruesome murder against her mother, Shelia von Wiese-Mak, on a luxury vacation in Bali. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31456985/ [series] Murdered in Paradise: Killing in the Caribbean (documentary) (3:01 am, Tubi) Three couples’ Caribbean getaway turns ugly when childhood friends, Casey MacPherson-Pomeroy and Caleb Guillroy, die under mysterious circumstances. Murdered in Paradise: Mystery in Mexico (documentary) (3:01 am, Tubi) A couple’s reconciliation trip to Cancún, Mexico, turns deadly when Monica Beresford-Redmond is found murdered, unraveling a complex investigation. Broadcast and cable: Danger on Party Island (movie) (8 pm, LMN) When an introverted lawyer travels to an infamous party island to collect her estranged sister’s body, she becomes suspicious of foul play. With reluctant help from a local bar owner, she begins to unravel the circumstances of her sister’s accident and starts to believe she could be next. Stars Lindsey Dresbach, Adam Harper, James Bobo, and Kate Dailey. [A rare Wednesday night premiere on LMN. The LMN schedule lists several other premieres this week, but only this movie and "My Father's Murder in Greece" on Thursday night are true premieres; the others have appeared on the Lifetime Channel.] https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/danger-on-party-island https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26455960/ Wild Cards (season 1 finale) (8 pm, CW) Family law (season 3 finale) (9 pm, CW) ***************************************************************************************** Thursday, March 21 Streaming: Road House (movie) (12:01 am, Prime Video) Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity) directs a streaming-only remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze-starring cult classic. The new film, which deviates a bit from the first one, has been in development for over a decade. Jake Gyllenhaal essentially takes over the Swayze role and plays a former UFC fighter now working as a bouncer at a Florida Keys dive bar. Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Darren Barnet, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, and actual UFC champion Conor McGregor (in his film debut) also star. 2h 1m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLn0qFdvfM4 https://www.metacritic.com/movie/road-house-2024/ [score 60] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3359350/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/ [1989 film; rating 6.7] Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told (documentary) (12:01 am, Hulu) A "celebratory exploration of the boisterous times of Freaknik, the iconic Atlanta street party that drew hundreds of thousands of people in the 80s and 90s, helping put Atlanta on the map culturally." 1h 22m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jmE2J05OY https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27447224/ 3 Body Problem [new; complete season 1] (3:01 am, Netflix) The new series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss—here teaming with writer Alexander Woo (True Blood, The Terror)—is an adaptation of the wildly popular sci-fi book series Remembrance of Earth's Past by Chinese author Cixin Liu that traces events following mankind's first communications with extraterrestrial intelligence. How will this English-language adaptation tackle a story that features mostly Chinese characters and eventually spans many centuries? The latter question remains to be seen—Season 1 looks like it is sticking with the Hugo Award-winning first book, which begins in the 1960s and doesn't head too far into the future. But casting appears to have an international emphasis, with stars including Rosalind Chao, Benedict Wong, John Bradley, Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Saamer Usmani, and Jonathan Pryce. Eight episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogSbMD6EcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvzhCL7vIA ("final trailer") ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========