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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Selected programming for Jan. 11-13, 2025
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:04:51 -0800
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On 1/11/25 1:54 PM, Robin Miller wrote:

>          Saturday, Jan. 11
> 
> 
> Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story        (8 pm, Lifetime 
> Channel)
> 
> Marcela Borges and her growing family’s idyllic weekend quickly turn 
> into every family’s worst nightmare when masked gunmen barge into their 
> Florida suburban home. With gunshots piercing their walls, a newly 
> pregnant Marcela, her husband, and their young son are left with no 
> choice but to comply with their captors’ demands: surrender $200,000 or 
> their lives. But with no means of accessing that sort of money, Marcela 
> faces insurmountable odds to protect her family from their violent 
> captors and must make the life and death decisions to keep her family 
> safe. Stars Dascha Polanco, Johnathan Souza, Nisa Gunduz, Alessio 
> Andrada, Ivan Lopez, Marito Lopez, and Mitchell Jaramillo.
> 
> https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/terror-comes-knocking-the-marcela- 
> borges-story
> 
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34601141/

While I think my fever may have finally broken, I am giving this a pass. 
I just don't feel like this tonight.

> Polar Opposites        (movie)         (8 pm, Hallmark Channel)
> 
> Emma needs to get to Antarctica to reach her father and travels to South 
> America but can't get on a boat for the last leg. She sneaks onto a 
> cruise ship and meets engineer Andy. Stars Rhiannon Fish and Markian 
> Tarasiuk.

Fish - zzzzzz....

> A Snapshot of Forever      (movie; US linear premiere)       (8 pm, 
> Great American Family)
> 
> Wedding photographer Jessie Brooke’s happy small-town life is turned 
> upside-down when a famous Hollywood actor shows up at her parents’ 
> lakeside vineyard for his sister’s wedding. Stars Natalie Dreyfuss and 
> Anthony Konechny. 2022 Canadian film that is available on several 
> streaming services, including Freevee, Roku and Plex.

Yeah, because I don't think Dreyfuss has actually done anything new 
since about 2022.


>          Sunday, Jan. 12
> 
> 
> The Bear Lake Murders     (movie)        (8 pm, Lifetime Channel)
> 
> The local sheriff of a picturesque mountain lake resort town partners 
> with a burnt-out big-city female detective to help uncover the sinister 
> truth behind a series of annual “accidental” deaths, leading them to 
> believe that a serial killer, hidden among the tourists and residents, 
> may be preying on vacationers each year. Stars Mercedes de la Zerda and 
> Tom Stevens.
> 
> https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-bear-lake-murders
> 
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33338927/

This sounds promising. I just wish it had a stronger cast.

> Miss Scarlet      (season 5 premiere)     (8 pm, PBS)
> 
> There's no more "and the Duke" 

BBOOOOOOOOOOOO!

> following the departure of series regular 
> Stuart Martin, but the cozy Victorian-era mystery series continues for a 
> 5th season with Tom Durant Pritchard joining the cast as DI Alexander 
> Blake, a new foil for Kate Phillips' Eliza Scarlet.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-DHDeJ1G5c
> 
> 
> 
> Rogue Heroes       (season 2 premiere)      (9 pm, MGM+)
> 
> During World War II in 1941, Lt. David Stirling (Connor Swindells), Lt. 
> Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne (Jack O’Connell) and Lt. John ‘Jock’ Lewes 
> (Alfie Allen) are some of the soldiers who formed the British Army's 
> Special Air Service (SAS) in Steven Knight's adaptation of Ben 
> McIntyre's book "SAS: Rogue Heroes." Six episodes running through Feb. 
> 23. Season one ran in Nov.-Dec. 2022.

So, it's all the same cast in season #2 as well?...


>          Monday, Jan. 13
> 
> 
> None.

Great...