ABC’s primetime drama A Million Little Things will be moving from its Thursday spot to the Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT timeslot beginning with season three episode nine. Directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado, episode nine – “the lost sheep” – airs on April 7, 2021.
The cast of season three includes David Giuntoli as Eddie Saville, Romany Malco as Rome Howard, Allison Miller as Maggie Bloom, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, Grace Park as Katherine Saville, and James Roday Rodriguez as Gary Mendez. Stephanie Szostak is Delilah Dixon, Floriana Lima is Darcy Cooper, Tristan Byon is Theo Saville, Lizzy Greene as Sophie Dixon, and Chance Hurstfield as Danny Dixon.
Chris Geere, Terry Chen, Adam Swain, Lou Betty Jr, Bobbi Charlton, and Andrea Savage guest star.
“the lost sheep” Plot: When Eddie reveals his truth, Katherine suffers the consequences … again. Rome and Regina offer support to Tyrell and his mother, and Maggie and Jamie are forced to address their relationship status.
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of ABC:
Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things. Our gang ended last season with many challenges in front of them. In season three, we’ll see our group of friends once again lean on each other in ways that are both moving and aspirational—something we could all use right now.
David Giuntoli, Grace Park, and Tristan Byon in ‘A Million Little Things’ season 3 episode 9 (ABC/Jack Rowand)Adam Swain in season 3 episode 9 (ABC/Jack Rowand)Christina Moses in season 3 episode 9 (ABC/Jack Rowand)James Roday Rodriguez in season 3 episode 9 (ABC/Jack Rowand)Grace Park in season 3 episode 9 (ABC/Jack Rowand)
Melissa Roxburgh as Michaela Stone and Matt Long as Zeke Landon in ‘Manifest’ season 3 episode 1 (Photo by: NBC)
NBC’s mystery drama Manifest began its third season picking up three months after the shocking season two finale which found fisherman discovering what looks to be the tailfin of Flight 828. Season three episode one, “Tailfin,” kicks off with Ben Stone (Josh Dallas) in Havana searching for the fishing boat and the crew who found the tailfin. He finds the boat by using a drawing by his son, Cal (Jack Messina) and starts to snoop around when he has a ‘calling’ and sees himself, Michaela (Melissa Roxburgh), Cal, and a young woman in pain covering their ears.
Seconds after the calling, Ben receives a phone call from Cal who also experienced it and they’re quickly joined on the call by Michaela who saw it, too. They decide that the mystery woman they saw needs help and Michaela and Cal confirm they’ll try to figure out who she is.
Michaela hangs up, returns to Zeke (Matt Long), and informs him she thinks their honeymoon in Costa Rica is over.
The episode cuts to a scene of the woman lying on the ground in the dark in a small room, crying.
At the Stone home, Cal tells his sister, Olive (Luna Blaise), and mother, Grace (Athena Karkanis), that he had another calling. He thinks he saw Ben, Michaela, and himself before they were about to die.
Meanwhile, Dr. Saanvi Bahl (Parveen Kaur) is treating patients at a clinic while also trying to keep tabs on Ben in Havana.
Ben meets the fishermen on the boat and after briefly talking to them confirms they did find something unusual. He bribes them to show him what they found, and they take him to a storage area and unveil the tailfin of Flight 828. Ben slowly walks over to the tailfin and touches it. He immediately receives a powerful calling of Flight 828 exploding and is thrown back by an unseen force.
Unbeknownst to Ben and the fishermen, a local boy recorded the event on an iPhone.
Back in New York, a woman shows up at Michaela’s precinct looking for her to try to get Michaela to investigate the disappearance of her mother. Michaela’s partner tells her she’s not in and doesn’t usually work missing persons cases. Jared (J.R. Ramirez) notices the conversation and after the woman leaves, he asks Michaela’s partner about it.
Cal and Olive go over Ben’s information, timeline, and the list of passengers in an attempt to find the identity of the woman in the calling. They discover her name is Angelina Meyer (Holly Taylor). Cal calls Michaela and lets her know what he’s found, but is worried because he can’t get a hold of Ben.
Back in Havana, Ben wakes up with a slight head bleed but is otherwise okay after the tailfin calling. Just as he and the fishermen are about to do business on the tailfin, police enter the storage facility. It seems a local cop saw the video of Ben being thrown back on the kid’s phone and wants Ben to touch the tailfin again.
Fortunately, Vance (Daryl Edwards) is monitoring the situation and watching Ben’s back. He bursts in with backup and gets the local cops to stand down. Ben and Vance then get ready to drive the tailfin to a cargo plane they have waiting to fly them home.
Over in Costa Rica, Michaela and Zeke track down Angelina’s parents and ask them questions about their daughter. The deeply religious parents tell Michaela and Zeke that after returning from Flight 828 Angelina seemed to be going insane and lost her faith. They believe she went to New York.
A little later Michaela checks in with her partner and finds out that Angelina never returned to the States. A friend of Angelina’s has information to share and Michaela and Zeke pay her a visit. She reveals the last time she saw Angelina, she was acting paranoid.
In the dark room where Angelina is lying, she reaches for a knife that was slipped to her under the door along with a meal.
Grace takes Cal to be checked out by Saanvi and she tells him he’s fine. During the exam, Cal lets her in on his latest calling. Saanvi then checks in with Vance and he brings her up to speed about the tailfin.
Jack Messina as Cal Stone and Luna Blaise as Olive Stone in the “Tailfin” episode (Photo by: NBC)
Back at the Stone house, Cal tells Grace and Olive they need to make room for a guest Ben’s going to be bringing home.
In Costa Rica, Michaela and Zeke return to question Angelina’s parents again and Michaela has another calling. She claims she’s feeling a little dizzy and asks to use their restroom. Michaela goes snooping around the house and keeps seeing a bright white light leading her on which way to go. To buy her time, Zeke fakes being dizzy and having a calling. Finally, Michaela finds Angelina locked in a cellar closet and takes her out.
Back in Havana, Vance and Ben are on a truck with the tailfin loaded in it racing to the airstrip where their cargo plane is waiting. Vance notices they’re being chased by the local police who want the tailfin. He realizes they’re gaining too quickly and they won’t have time to load the tailfin, so he tells Ben to go home and not to try to help him. Ben protests but Vance takes off in the truck with the tailfin to lead the local cops away. Reluctantly, Ben boards the plane without Vance.
Michaela and Zeke reach out to Saanvi and Alonso, an ally who works for Vance, to get themselves and Angelina back to New York. Alonso contacts Ben on the cargo plane and they re-route their flight plan to pick up Michaela, Zeke, and Angelina.
Ben, Zeke, and Michaela arrive home with Angelina and when Cal sees Angelina, he says, “I’ve been waiting for you.”
At the precinct, the woman who was there hours earlier comes back and talks to Jared about her case. She claims her mother who works for the government always sent her a rose from her travels but for three months she hasn’t received a rose. She knows her mother’s work somehow involved Flight 828 so she was hoping that Michaela would look into it. Jared looks at the file the woman has with her and sees that her mother is Major Catherine Fitz.
A little later at the Stone home, Michaela and Ben discuss the tailfin. Ben thinks it could change everything and tells Michaela he believes they died on Flight 828 and have been resurrected.
The final scene of season three episode one shows the lake where the three men who kidnapped Cal took him last season. The bodies of the men resurface and one opens his eyes and takes a big breath of air.
Game of Thrones‘ Emilia Clarke stars in Lionsgate’s new trailer for the thriller Above Suspicion. The trailer introduces Clarke as a small town woman looking to leave a life of crime behind. Fargo‘s Jack Huston co-stars as an FBI agent who dramatically alters the course of Clarke’s character’s life.
The cast also includes Johnny Knoxville, Sophie Lowe, Austin Hébert, Karl Glusman, Chris Mulkey, Omar Miller, Kevin Dunn, and Thora Birch. Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American, Salt) directed from a screenplay by Chris Gerolmo.
Lionsgate has set a May 14, 2021 release date in select theaters. The film will arrive on May 18th on DVD and Blu-ray.
The Plot, Courtesy of Lionsgate:
Based on the true story of one of the most notorious crimes in FBI history, this gritty crime-thriller stars Emilia Clarke as Susan Smith, a young woman desperate to escape a seedy life of crime and drugs in a Kentucky coal-mining town. When a newly minted FBI agent named Mark Putnam (Huston) recruits Susan as his informant for a high-profile case, she believes her bad luck may finally be changing. But as Susan and Putnam’s relationship deepens, so does the danger, setting them both on a collision course with deadly consequences.
After a very emotional episode that brought back Griffin Dunne as Nicky Pearson, NBC’s This Is Us season five episode 12 turns the focus on the Big Three once again. Episode 12, “Both Things Can Be True,” will air on April 6, 2021.
The season five cast includes Mandy Moore as Rebecca, Milo Ventimiglia as Jack, Justin Hartley as Kevin, Sterling K. Brown as Randall, and Chrissy Metz as Kate. Susan Kelechi Watson plays Beth, Chris Sullivan stars as Toby, and Caitlin Thompson is Madison.
“Both Things Can Be True” Plot: Jack and Miguel bond. Kevin and Madison navigate challenges. Randall seeks out a new kind of support network.
This Is Us Series Description, Courtesy of NBC:
Everyone has a family. And every family has a story. This Is Us chronicles the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack (Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Moore) as young parents in the 1980s to their kids (the big three), Kevin (Hartley), Kate (Metz) and Randall (Brown) searching for love and fulfillment in the present day along with Toby (Sullivan) and Beth (Kelechi Watson). This grounded, life-affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in our lives impact who we become, and how the connections we share with each other can transcend time, distance, and even death.
Sterling K. Brown as Randall and Justin Hartley as Kevin in ‘This Is Us’ season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth and Phylicia Rashad as Carol in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Chris Geere as Phillip in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Chrissy Metz as Kate and Chris Geere as Phillip in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Caitlin Thompson as Madison and Justin Hartley as Kevin in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Sterling K. Brown as Randall and Justin Hartley as Kevin in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Chris Sullivan as Toby with Baby Jack in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)Milo Ventimiglia as Jack in season 5 episode 12 (Photo by: NBC)
ABC’s popular primetime drama Big Sky will return from a two-month mid-season break on April 13, 2021 with two new episodes airing back-to-back. The network’s just released the official synopsis of season one episode 10 and episode 11, with the description confirming three months will have passed by since the events of episode nine.
Episode 10, “Catastrophic Thinking,” will air at 9pm ET/PT followed by episode 11, “All Kinds of Snakes,” at 10pm ET/PT. Episode 10 was directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton from a script by Annakate Chappell and Mathew Tinker. Stephen Kay directed episode 11 from a script by Elwood Reid and Maria Sten.
The season one cast includes Katheryn Winnick as Jenny Hoyt, Kylie Bunbury as Cassie Dewell, and Brian Geraghty as Ronald Pergman. Dedee Pfeiffer plays Denise Brisbane, Natalie Alyn Lind is Danielle Sullivan, Jade Pettyjohn is Grace Sullivan, Jesse James Keitel is Jerrie Kennedy, John Carroll Lynch plays Rick Legarski, and Ryan Phillippe as Cody Hoyt.
ABC’s laid out the following basic plot details for episode 10 and 11:
“Catastrophic Thinking/All Kinds of Snakes” – Three months after Ronald’s escape, Cassie and Jenny have officially partnered up to take down a fresh slew of troublemakers, but all isn’t coming up roses; Ronald is still on the loose, a domestic case takes a macabre and deadly turn, and a U.S. Marshall is sticking his nose in their case files. Right as the women of Dewell & Hoyt seem to be getting used to the new normal, Jenny gets an alarming call from an old flame leading her and Cassie headfirst into a new case.
Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick in ‘Big Sky’ season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Darko Sikman)Kylie Bunbury in season 1 episode 10/11 (ABC/Darko Sikman)Omar Metwally in season 1 (ABC/Darko Sikman)Michael Raymond-James in season 1 of ‘Big Sky’ (ABC/Darko Sikman)Brian Geraghty in season 1 episode 10/11 (ABC/Darko Sikman)Katheryn Winnick in season 1 (ABC/Darko Sikman)
Netflix has released an incredibly intense trailer for Things Heard & Seen, an upcoming horror film adapted from All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. The film stars Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank) as a young wife who discovers the home she’s just moved into has a horrifying history her husband’s kept hidden from her.
The cast also includes James Norton (The Nevers), Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Alex Neustaedter (Colony), Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), Michael O’Keefe (City on a Hill), and Karen Allen (Year By the Sea). Jack Gore (Billions), F. Murray Abraham (Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet), James Urbaniak (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Ana Sophia Heger (Life in Pieces) also star.
Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor) adapted Brundage’s book for the screen and directed. Pulcini and Berman also executive produce with Peter Pastorelli and Stephen Lippross. Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu, Peter Cron, and Julie Cohen served as producers.
Netflix has set an April 29, 2021 release date.
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Catherine Clare (Seyfried) reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George (Norton) lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property-and in her marriage to George.
Bebe Neuwirth’s set to star in AMC Studios’ ‘Ultra City Smiths’ (Photo Courtesy of AMC Studios)
Bebe Neuwirth, John C. Reilly, Melissa Villaseñor, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jason Mantzoukas, and Jimmi Simpson have signed on to voice characters in AMC Studios’ Ultra City Smiths. The stop-motion, animated baby doll series was created by Steve Conrad and is expected to premiere this summer.
The half-hour series is a Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords) production. Conrad is the showrunner and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios’ Seth Green, John Harvatine IV, Matthew Senreich, Eric Towner, and Chris Waters executive produce. Jennifer Scher, Jeff Dieter, and Thomas J. Glynn also executive produce.
“We have been very grateful to partner with actors whose talents are as unique, expressive, and affecting as the world we all hope to have created in Ultra City and the stories that are found there,” stated Conrad
In addition to announcing the cast of season one, AMC also released a brief plot description along with who each actor will be playing:
The Ultra City Smiths (formerly Mega City Smiths) story unfolds via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters. The series hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City’s most famous magnate (Smith). Two intrepid detectives (Simpson and Randolph) follow the case, rallying to fight against their city’s dangerous corruption at a high cost to themselves and their families, all in pursuit of a gentler place to call home.
The series will star Jimmi Simpson (Westworld) as Detective David Mills, Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite Is My Name) as Detective Gail Johnson, John C. Reilly (Ralph Breaks the Internet) as Donovan Smith, Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago) as Lady Andrea The Giant, Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth) as Tim the TMZ reporter, and Damon Herriman (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) as Street Hustler Boy. Melissa Villaseñor (Saturday Night Live) voices Sister Mary Margaret, Kurtwood Smith (That 70’s Show) is Carpenter K. Smith, Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric Awesome Show) is Mayor Kevin de Maximum, Chris Conrad (Perpetual Grace) as Nico Onasis, and Hana Mae Lee (The Babysitter: Killer Queen) voices Christina.
Wynonna Earp‘s Tim Rozon stars in Syfy’s upcoming supernatural drama, SurrealEstate. Rozon stars as a realtor who specializes in properties with disturbing histories, and the short teaser finds him introducing himself to a homeowner in need of help.
In addition to unveiling the 15-second teaser, the network released the first four photos from episode one. Syfy’s targeting a summer 2021 premiere.
Rozon reunites with his Wynonna Earp co-star Melanie Scrofano for the series’ first two episodes. After making her directorial debut with Wynonna Earp, Scrofano directs episodes one and two of SurrealEstate‘s 10 episode first season. Paul Fox, Danishka Esterhazy and Paolo Barzman also direct SurrealEstate episodes.
Joining Rozon in season one are Sarah Levy, Adam Korson, Maurice Dean Wint, and Tennille Read. George R. Olson is the showrunner and executive produces along with Lance Samuels, Daniel Iron, Armand Leo, and Danishka Esterhazy. The series is a Blue Ice Pictures production.
The Plot, Courtesy of Syfy:
In the season premiere of SurrealEstate, a team of eclectic real estate specialists handle the cases no one else can: haunted and possessed houses that literally scare would-be buyers away. Researching, investigating and “fixing” the things that go bump in the night, the team works to create closure—and closings — even as they struggle with demons of their own.
Tim Rozon in ‘SurrealEstate’ season 1 episode 1 (Photo by: Derm Carberry/Blue Ice Pictures/SYFY)Tim Rozon in season 1 episode 1 (Photo by: Duncan De Young/Blue Ice Pictures/SYFY)A scene from episode 1 (Photo by: Duncan De Young/Blue Ice Pictures/SYFY)A scene from season 1 episode 1 (Photo by: Derm Carberry/Blue Ice Pictures/SYFY)
What begins as just another horror film trailer filled with creepy creatures, ends with an “April Fools!” tag that reveals this El Chupacabras isn’t in fact the next Blumhouse production. Instead, the April Fools’ Day joke features footage from Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island, Insidious: The Last Key, The Lords of Salem, and Dark Skies, as well as stock footage from Shutterstock.
The press release accompanying the well done April Fools’ Day (I actually want to see this film!) claimed El Chupacabras was written, directed, and executive produced by Issa López, the filmmaker behind the supernatural film Tigers Are Not Afraid. The film’s described as a “secret project” with Blumhouse that’s targeting a summer 2021 release.
“As a Mexican filmmaker, I’m a firm believer there can never be enough movies about El Chupacabras,” said Issa Lopez, “and I’m here to deliver on that promise.”
“Just when you thought there was a movie I wouldn’t make — I present, El Chupacabras,” said Jason Blum.
William Petersen and Jorja Fox will be reprising their roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation sequel, CSI: Vegas. CBS just announced they’ve ordered CSI: Vegas to series and are expecting it to be added to their primetime lineup during the ucpoming 2021-2022 season.
CSI‘s Wallace Langham is also confirmed to return as David Hodges. Petersen, Fox, and Langham will be joined by Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria, Mel Rodriguez, and Mandeep Dhillon.
The original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, created by Anthony Zuiker, premiered in October 2000 and ranked as the top-rated dramatic series for seven years (between 2006-2016). CSI ran for 15 seasons and spawned spin-offs CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, and CSI: Cyber.
“Twenty-one years ago, we launched CSI and watched in awe as this new cinematic series launched an entire genre and became a groundbreaking juggernaut that still has global resonance today,” stated Kelly Kahl, President, CBS Entertainment. “We are thrilled to welcome the next generation of forensic criminalists to the CSI brand and unite them with the legendary characters from the past who we still love, including the extraordinary Billy Petersen and Jorja Fox. Crimefighting technology has advanced dramatically over the last several years, and combined with classic CSI storytelling, we can’t wait to watch this new CSI team do what they do best: follow the evidence.”
CSI: Vegas will be a CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television production. Jason Tracey is the showrunner and executive produces with Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Anthony Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, Craig O’Neill, William Petersen, and Cindy Chvatal. Episode one will be directed by Uta Briesewitz.
“I’m excited to be bringing back the CSI franchise to all our fans who have been so loyal to us for all these years,” said Jerry Bruckheimer. “And to be back in Las Vegas where it all started over 20 years ago makes it even more special. We’ve enjoyed working on this project with CBS and look forward to welcoming back Billy, Jorja and Wallace as they join a new group of talented actors in CSI: Vegas.”
CBS offered this brief description of the upcoming new CSI series:
“CSI: Vegas opens a brand new chapter in Las Vegas, the city where it all began. Facing an existential threat that could bring down the Crime Lab, a brilliant new team of forensic investigators must welcome back old friends and deploy new techniques to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.”
