Double Feature: The Night Shift "Get Busy Livin'" & "Hot in the City"

"Get Busy Livin'"

In the first episode of a double-feature event, one doctor will learn from one of the patients that saving lives isn't the most important thing.

Shannon rides with the paramedics to a call of an overdose college student. Hearing his story gave her a sick reason not to feel bad for him. As they take the guy in the ambulance, someone else needs help, and she goes while the paramedics head off.

 Another student had jumped off the second floor, bleeding and with a broken bone sticking out of her leg. TC gets there and takes them back to Memorial. As soon as Scott sees her, they take her to the OR. The student's friend returns with her purse, hands it to TC, and finds a bottle of pills. After looking up the drug, a side effect causes suicidal thoughts. That pissed him off to talk to the pharmaceutical rep, Jessica Sanders, who is in the hospital to give Scott the heart veil that helps heart patients recover in half the time.

He should probably waited til talking with the patient before going after her because after a complication (puffing up like a balloon), he talked to her about the pills. She told him that she hadn't taken any, and she jumped off because she was just stressed out from college work. Later, after Sanders has been trying to sucker Topher and Jordan to switch drug reps to her company, TC apologizes to her on the spot. And there might be something with the way they looked at each other.

But the central part of this episode was about Jordan, who takes care of a cancer patient. The patient has spent most of her helping others and studying and has never been on a date. When Jordan tries to help her, she doesn't want any help but to die with dignity. Of course, Jordan can't take that and tries to get her to try a trial that Sanders' company had, but she tells her she'll do it unless Jordan talks to her about her.

Jordan opens up about her life, how after her dad died, she closed relationships and focused on work more and more. After opening up to her, Jordan talks to Sanders, and she's got the trial, but soon, her patient takes a turn for the worst. Jordan tries to save her, but when Topher comes in telling her that she's a DNR and the patient telling her to let her die, Jordan breaks down in tears and makes her comfortable with pain meds, and she dies.

Other things in this episode dealt with a lot of humor, from Sanders getting Topher the deal of a lifetime, a paid vacation away from his mother and kids. But also Drew and Kenny at Syd's kid karate tournament, which got weird looks from other parents as they cheered her on. And not to mention that Drew fell on her when showing her a move after a win and had broken her arm.

 Reflection will be below.

"Hot in the City"

The second episode of the double feature deals with the heat and relationships in a way.

The heat is on, and so are the relationships with some characters from Kenny and the nurse, TC and Sanders, Jordan and Sam, and Scott and TC's sister. 

TC and Topher take a female patient who seems to suffer from heat exhaustion. But when TC sees a rash on her chest and does some more tests, the diagnosis jumps to meningitis. But when her breathing became more and more of an issue, and at one point, she had a heart attack too. 

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As Topher and TC gathered their thoughts, TC rechecked her and found sink pealing on her hands and strawberry-looking tongue and came up with the diagnosis it was an infection in the heart and had to be operated on.

Jordan and Shannon had their hands full on their off day and out at a wrestling match. Jordan meets Victor and talks to her about his cousin, one of the masked wrestlers. But when a fight goes too far, things fly around, and it gets wild. Victor saves Jordan but gets hurt. And one of the ring ladies got injured, too.

As they get to the hospital, Jordan and Shannon take care of Victor as Drew takes the female who flew onto a chair and can't feel her legs.

Victor became the second biggest medical mystery of the episode as things kept getting worse for him. At one point, he was coughing blood and had to be rushed to the OR. There, they took out a tumor from his liver, but the patient kept getting worse after. Paul, Scott, and Jordan tried to figure it out before Victor died until Jordan figured out that it was parasites from the pork that he had eaten in Mexico.

On the other hand, with Drew, he had the most problematic case out of all. First, he promises the girl she'll walk again (big mistake!). After trying one thing that didn't turn out to work, they had to go into surgery. With no spinal cord specialist coming, Drew was the only one who had worked on the spinal cord back in Afghanistan.

Scott was a bit worried, but Topher trusted Drew to do it. After they went in, things became problematic from the back of the patient. Drew takes the risk to another level as he performs the surgery from her mouth. Yes, you heard me correctly, from the patient's mouth. HOLY CRAP!!

The kicker for this episode was that as soon as Jordan and Shannon get to the ER, the air conditioner shuts off on the hottest day of the year.  The episode ends with at least someone figuring out that one is dating someone. And Scott opens up to TC about dating his sister, which looks awkward!! Jordan seems to have broken up with Sam and is taking the dating world slow and social, too. TC and Jordan are on good terms, but I think they'll be back.

Reflection: 

For "Get Busy Livin'" I thought it was an excellent episode. I enjoyed Jordan's storyline in this one a lot more. She cares for her patients and tries to save them all, but for this one, she takes it very hard that she can't keep a patient. It's Flint's best performance. I also enjoyed the Kenny and Drew Odd Couple moment with Syd's daughter. That had me laughing and smiling. 

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

For "Hot in the City," I thought that it was good as this one brought the heat. When I say heat, I mean the medical problems for the characters to solve. It is challenging for the characters of Jordan and TC but also us. I felt like each character brought in an excellent performance. I can't name a single person. It had an outstanding balance of humor and drama. 

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Night Shift on Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Syfy Renews 12 Monkeys for a Third Season

Great news for us fans of the hit Syfy series 12 Monkeys.

It was announced Wednesday that the time travel series is getting renewed for a third season containing 10 episodes. It's set to debut in 2017.

Based on the 1995 film of the same name, the Syfy series follows weary time traveler Jame Cole (Aaron Standford) and virologist Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull) as they attempt to save the world from the Army of the 12 monkeys, who release a plague that kills off most of humanity. In the current second season, the show has moved past the plague storyline and developed deeper into the true motivations of the Army and to destroy time by killing of Primaries under orders from the Witness.

The show also stars Barbra Sukowa, Kirk Acevedo, Todd Stashwick and Emily Hampshire, who's been receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Jennifer Gomnes. The series is shipped by executive producers Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett.

"Syfy and UCP have been incredible creative partners, and I'm thrilled that we are going to tell the next- even more twisty and emotional-chapter of this time travel adventure," Matalas tells Entertainment Weekly.

"This season of 12 Monkeys has proven to be a breakthrough," Says Jeff Wachtel, chief content officer of Universal Cable Production (that produces the series). "From its epic storytelling to its grand aesthetic, Terry and the cast and crew have invested boundless energy and passion, and it showed. New legions of fans will discover what devoted viewers already know: It's one of the best shows on television."

You can catch 12 Monkeys Monday nights at 9/8c on Syfy. New episodes will return July 11.

Spire Headed Discussion: The Night Shift "Three-Two-One"

It's one of The Night Shift's best episode of the season so far. So I'll just leave it like that and get down to the recapping.

It's the trail of the year in San Antonio, as a white man will get the verdict of whether he is guilty or not guilty in a shooting of a black man. Chaos as ruled the city with people on different sides. When the verdict gets to be announced the  suspect collapses in front of the judge and jury and soon taken to the Medical Center.

Topher, in a bit of a bad mood due to this event, has everyone on deck to help out. Kenny comes in late due to a cop pulling him over for speeding. He takes it out on mostly Paul, who doesn't see his point of view.

When the suspect gets to the hospital, Jordan and Kenny are assigned to treat him. Jordan tries to find the cause of his collapsing. After finding nothing wrong from the test that they perform, there is still something that Jordan thinks is wrong. When the suspect goes into a seizure. Topher comes in and ask about blood sugar and when he tested it it came up undetected. It turns out that the patient has a tumor in his pancreas, not cancer, but he wishes it was.

Meanwhile, TC is out in the field with the police, being the medical adviser if someone gets shot or injured. Soon, a white cop and a black kid both get shot and TC being the only one needs some help. Topher sends Scott and Paul out in he field. TC takes care of the cop while Paul and Scott treat the black kid. At one point a decision was made on which had to go first to the Medical Center. TC's went first, which didn't quite go well with Paul who thinks the kid deserves to go.

TC and the cop head towards the Medical Center and there Drew helps him in surgery. There they find three bullets in the chest and soon after the cop goes cardiac arrest and never recovers. But the bullets left TC wondering that the gun the kid had was a .38 but the bullets he found were from a .40. He talks with the cop's partner about it and she admitted to shooting him.

Back on the streets, Paul and Scott have their hands full with their patient. The crowds deserved the ambulance so they had to move the kid into a closed jewelry shop where Scott had to clap an artery. Soon the crowds get closer and causes a scene. This upset Paul even more along side that the kid should have gone first. After a trash can break the window, Paul goes out and ask for help. At first it didn't go well but than Paul really stepped up made the leader of the group help them make room for the chopper to land.

While this was all going on, Topher wasn't much having fun at all. Dealing with reporters isn't his thing and when they kept asking about the cop and kid situation, he tries to clear it up but doesn't. Shannon comes up with a perfect plan to shine the spotlight on a little boy who was separated from his mother and saved Topher from more embarrassment.

Paul and Scott gets to Medical Center, but can't go upstairs to surgery so they did it in the ER. Soon the kid seems that he will make it but needed more surgery when he had to go upstairs.

After that he tells Jordan that he doesn't regret shooting the guy, that he says was coming at him violently, that happen to be black. He tells her that he had not trouble talking to Kenny. But as he's released from the hospital and taken back to jail, someone comes up to him and starts shooting him in the chest and head. Jordan and Kenny rush him back to the ER but there was nothing that they could do as brain matter was on the bed.

I'll say this again, this happen to be one of the best episodes of the season so far. We got to see Kenny and Paul deal with this issue that were both in the opposite opinions until they realized what they have saw. This was Robert Bailey, Jr and JR Lemon's best performance. It really felt like one of those TV movie of the week kind of thing.

Overall,  I give this episode a 9.5/10.

NOTE: June 29th will be a special event episode at a special time 9/8c.

You can catch The Night Shift Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

Stranger Things - Trailer 1 - Netflix [HD]

On June 9th, Netflix released the trailer of their upcoming new sci-fi drama series, Stranger Things.

When a young boy disappears in Indiana in the 1980's, his mother must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.

The series stars Winona Ryder, DAvid Harbour, Cara Buono, Charlie Heaton and Matthew Modine. The show's created by executive producers Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer and also wrote and directed all of the eight, hour long episodes. Also Shawn Levy serves as executive producer.

The trailer looks really creepy and mysterious. It shows a real supernatural element that really has me wanting to check this series out. I'm a HUGE fan of Ryder from films like Beetlejuice to Mr. Deeds. My only question (for now) is what in the hell did this boy saw that has him disappear?

Here's the trailer:


You can catch Stranger Things on Netflix July 15th.

Mr. Robot Gets Upgraded for Season 2 Premiere

With only a couple of weeks away from it's season 2, Mr. Robot is getting some upgrades before
it's premiere.

USA Network announced on Thursday that the Golden Globe winning drama's second season has bee expanded from 10 episodes to 12. Along with that, Season 2 will open with back to back episodes on Wednesday, July 13 at 10/9c and will be presented with limited commercial breaks.

After the supersized premiere at 11:30pm, USA Network will debut Hacking Robot, a live, hour-long after show that promises a "behind the scenes looks at the breakout drama. It could've gone with Talking Robot or Speaking Robot.

All episodes of Mr. Robot Season 2 will be directed by series creator Sam Esmail.

Here's a quick recap of Season 1.
Here's the trailer for Season 2.

You can catch Mr. Robot Wednesday, July 13th at 10/9c on USA Network.

Parenthood: The Night Shift "The Way Back"

Before tonight's new episode of The Night Shift, here's a recap of last week's episode.

Drew has finally made it home from his short service but before he goes to back to work, he makes a phone call to his mother that he won't be back til October and he'll have to miss their anniversary. He's hiding from something from them.

As soon as he walks in the ER, Kenny welcomes him back but ask why he's back a week early. Drew just wanted to get back to work and he did just that as a bride and her dad come to the ER. The bride comes in after falling in the pond while they say her dad was drunk.

Jordan took the bride as Drew took the father. As soon as Drew understand the father he tries to get his patient to talk to Jordan's patient. Jordan doesn't want that to happen right now and told him not to take on family situations.

After awhile in the ER, Jordan sees that her patient didn't have anything wrong in her head but when Shannon found a photo of her just before she fell. They get a consult from Paul, who gets all the details and figures out that it's a cardiac problem. And it sure was, it's a genetic condition, on which she got it from her father.

The bride really doesn't love her father, as he has never been around her life. He was in the army and did a lot of touring. She doesn't quiet understand what he has gone through but after her diagnosis she still blames her dad.

Meanwhile, as the bride's father was being treated with a cut and a fracture. They took his blood and tested. Kenny tells him that there was no alcohol detected in his blood. After listening to Kenny, he freaks out and starts throwing around a blade. Drew tries to take him down after he slash Kenny in the shoulder.

Drew takes him to get a scan, Scott meets him along the way until the dad starts freaking out again and than coughs out blood on Drew and Scott. They rush him to scope him and found out that he hasn't had any alcohol. He's suffering from alcohol withdraws and needs surgery.

Both father and bride go in, the bride wanted to talk to him but was out. When the bride comes out of surgery, everything was good. Unfortunately for her father, came the bad news that the alcohol had damaged his heart and while in surgery, he died on the table.

Jordan talk to Drew and tells him about how he and his dad was best friends. They went to ball parks and watch the game and played ball. But after he told him that he came out, he said that his dad didn't know who he was anymore and they drew apart more and more. He's afraid to tell him and his mother that he got married.

Drew did talk to his dad but what he got at the end wasn't what he was hoping for and Jordan helped calm him down.

Let's not forget about TC, Topher and Topher's mom's trip to the Casino. Trying to spend sometime with his mom before she heads back. Topher gives her to TC and have a good time until they're at the craps table and Topher's mom talks trash to a guy that's winning. Soon, the guy falls and suffers from a heart attack. Topher and TC get the guy back with ice water to wake him up. TC takes him to the hospital and left Topher with his mother.

Topher takes the chance and talks to her. After given her motherly advise, he goes after her on her rude remarks. She leaves and he falls her to the bathroom where she opens up to him about how she had a high paying job until she gave it up for him and his sister and moved to the United States. The only reason why she's tough on him is because she wants him to have all the opportunities. It was pretty good watching them settle their differences.

But she did give one hell of a surprise on him when she announced that she's staying with him and his family.

This was a very good episode, about family and reconnecting. I was impressed with Brendan Fehr as Drew and Jill Flint as Jordan with them two dealing the situation. Not to mention Ken Leung as Topher and his mother was really good too.

This episode had a lot of good laughs and broken some hearts as well.

Tonight's episode has the doctors and nurses dealing with a social issue that has been going on for awhile now. Here's a promo.

You can catch The Night Shift tonight at 10/9c on NBC.

Side note: Due to tonight's severe weather coming in my area, I may or may not get to see tonight's new episode of The Night Shift.

CBS Announces Premiere Dates

On Tuesday, CBS became the fourth broadcasting network to announce their premiere plan for the 2016-2017 season. As NBC, FOX and The CW did last week and it looks like the eye network will once again kicks things off with Thursday Night Football on Sept. 15.

The network announces it's new six-hour douc-series Case Closed, which examines the unsolved JonBenet Ramsay murder, which will air over three nights beginning on Sunday, Sept 18, Monday Sept. 19 and Sunday, Sept. 25 during premiere week.

Also for fans of Scorpion and Two Broke Girls, they'll return with a super-sized episodes.

Here's what the CBS Schedule looks like:

Thursday, Sept. 15
7:30pm Thursday Night Football Pre-Game Show
8:25pm Thursday Night Football (Denver @ Kansas City)

Sunday, Sept. 18
8:30pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 1)

Monday, Sept. 19
8pm The Big Bang Theory (Season 10)
8:30pm Kevin Can Wait (premiere)
9pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 2)

Tuesday, Sept. 20
8pm NCIS (Season 14)
9pm Bull (premiere)
10pm NCIS: New Orleans (Season 3)

Wednesday, Sept. 21
8pm Survivor (Season 33)
9:30pm Big Bother Finale

Friday, Sept. 23
8pm MacGyver (premiere)
9pm Hawaii Five-O (Season 7)
10pm Blue Bloods (Season 7)

Saturday, Sept. 24
10pm 48 Hours (Season 29)

Sunday, Sept. 25
7pm 60 Minutes (Season 49)
9pm Case Closed (JonBenet Ramsey, Part 3)

Monday, Sept. 26
9pm Presidental Debate

Wednesday, Sept. 28
9pm Criminal Minds (Season 12)
10pm Code Black (Season 2)

Sunday, Oct. 2
8pm NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 8)
9pm Madam Secretary (Season 3)
10pm Elementary (Season 5)

Monday, Oct. 3
9pm Scorpion (Season 3; two hour premiere)

Monday, Oct. 10
9pm Two Broke Girls (Season 6, one hour premiere)

Monday, Oct. 17
9:30pm The Odd Couple (Season 3)

Monday, Oct. 24 (Regular post-football lineup)
8pm Kevin Can Wait
8:30pm Man with a Plan (premiere)
9pm Two Broke Girls
9:30pm The Odd Couple
10pm Scorpion

Thursday, Oct. 27 (post-football lineup)
8pm The Big Bang Theory
8:30pm The Great Indoor (premiere)
9pm Mom (Season 4)
9:30pm Life in Pieces (Season 2)
10pm Pure Genius (premiere)

Mid-season: Return shows: The Amazing Race, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Undercover Boss. New: Training Day and Doubt.

Westworld: Teaser Trailer (HBO)

Coming to HBO this October comes a science fiction thriller series Westworld. The series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the re imagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

The cast of the 10 episode series included Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffery Wright, Tessa Thompson, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jimmi Simpson and Clifton Collins, Jr.

Inspired by the motion picture "Westworld" written and directed by Michael Crichton (ER & Jurassic Park). Production companies includes Bad Robot Production, Jerry Weintraub Productions and Kilter Films in association with Warner Bros. Television. Executive producer/writer/director, Jonathan Nolan, executive producer/writer Lisa Joy along with executive producers JJ Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk.

From the trailer teaser, they have really improved of Crichton's vision for this film. I loved the film and so far I can't wait to see how this series will turn out. I'm always nervous on how people take Crchton's work and either putting it in the big screen or small that's wither new or revised.

Here's the trailer:

Queen of the South: A New Series on USA

A new series will debuting this week on the USA Network. Queen of the South tells a powerful story of Teresa Mendoza, a woman who is forced to run and seek refuge in America after her drug-dealing boyfriend is unexpectedly murdered in Mexico. In the process, she teams with an unlikely figure from her past to bring down the leader of the very drug trafficking ring that has her on the run.

Alice Braga ("City of God") stars as Teresa, this original series is based on the global best selling novel "La Reina Del Sur," by internationally-acclaimed author Arturo Perez-Reverte. This literary page-turner also was one of the most popular series of all time for USA's sister network, Telemundo.

Also staring, Veronnica Falcon ("Besos de Azucar") as Camila Vargas, Justina Machado ("Six Feet Under") as Brenda Parra, Peter Gadiot ("Tut") as James Valdez, Hemky Madera ("Weeds") as Pote Galvez and Gerardo Taracena ("Apocalypto") as Cesar "Batman" Guemes. Guest stars includes Joaquim de Almeida ("Our Brand is Crisis"), Jon Ecker ("Narcos") and James Martinez ("Breaking Bad").

The drama is executive produced by David T. Friendly ("Little Miss Sunshine" & "Courage Under Fire"), along with M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller ("The Final Girls"). Scott Roseenbaum ("Gang Related") will serve as showrunner. The pilot was written by Fortin and Miller, directed by Charlotte Sieling and executive produced by Pancho Mansfield ("Damien").

From the trailer the series looks like a female version of Scarface just a bit. But will there be a fall for this character? Who knows. The series looks really good and with what the trailer shows, could be summer's best show yet.

Here's the trailer

"Queen of the South" debuts Thursday, June 23 as 10/9c on USA Network.

The CW Releases Fall Premiere Dates

On Friday, The CW become the third broadcasting network this week to announce it's Fall TV premiere plan and seems they're starting off quick.

The Flash is first out of the gate on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 8/7c, leading into the launh of the new dramaedy No Tomorrow. With the post-Flash time slot, it doesn't guarantee No Tomorrow a generous sampling as the network will air an encore the pilot after the Season 2 premiere of Supergirl on Oct. 10 (which bumps the returns of Jane the Virgin to Oct. 17th).

The CW's new Vampire Diaries/Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Friday combo, menawhile, rounds out the network's fall rollout on Oct. 21.

All in all here's what The CW's premiere dates look like.

Tuesday, Oct. 4
8pm The Flash
9pm No Tomorrow

Wednesday, Oct. 5
8pm Arrow
9pm Frequency

Thursday, Oct. 6
8pm iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 1

Friday, Oct. 7
8pm iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 2

Monday, Oct. 10
8pm Supergirl
9pm No Tomorrow (special encore)

Thursday, Oct. 13
8pm DC's Legends of Tomorrow
9pm Supernatural

Monday, Oct. 17
9pm Jane the Virgin

Friday, Oct. 21
8pm The Vampire Diaries
9pm Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Shows on tap for mid-season: Return shows: The Originals, iZombie, The 100 and Reign. As well as new entry Reiverdale.

Fox's Releases Fall Schedule

On Wednesday, Fox announces their Fall schedule for the 2016-2017 TV season. It's reviled that the network will kick off the season the week of Sept. 19 with a one-two punch Monday night with Gotham and Lucifer.

For Fox's biggest hit, Empire, will kick off it's third season Wednesday, Sept. 21. It follows the premiere of Lethal Weapon.

The network's press release included the following spoiler about Season 3: "Lucious sets his sights on a new streaming service and Cookie purses a new romantic interest."

As it's been reported previously, the buzzed new baseball drama, Pitch, will now debut this fall, Thursday, Sept. 22. It's pushed the final season of Bones to early 2017.



Here's the Fox's Fall Schedule

Monday, Sept 19
8pm Gotham
9pm Lucifer

Tuesday, Sept. 20
8pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine
8:30pm New Girl
9pm Scream Queens

Wednesday, Sept. 21
8pm Lethal Weapon
9pm Empire

Thursday, Sept. 22
8pm Rosewood
9pm Pitch

Friday, Sept. 23
8pm Hell's Kitchen
9pm The Exorcist

Sunday, Sept. 25
7:30pm Bob's Burgers
8pm The Simpsons
8:30pm Son of Zron
9pm Family Guy
9;30pm The Last Man on Earth

Here's shows set for mid-season: Bones, 24: Legacy, Prison Break, Sleepy Hollow, as well as new dramas as Shots Fired and APB and rookie comedies Making History and The Mick.

Victoria | First Look | ITV

Jenna Coleman returns in a new role as Queen Victoria. The former Doctor Who actress is in this eight part mini series that will debut on PBS in 2017 on Sunday, the same time slot that Downton Abby occupied for the last six years.

This mini-series follows the early life of Queen Victoria, from her accession to the throne at the age of 18 through to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert. It stars Coleman, Tom Hughes, Eve Myles, Tommy Knight and Rufus Sewell. The series was created by Daisy Goodwin.


Here's a first look teaser from ITV.

NBC Announces Fall Schedule

On Wednesday, NBC has become the first broadcasting network to announce their Fall TV premiere dates, for which will kick off on Sept. 14 with Blindspot's Season 2 opener following the America's Got Talent finale. Chicago Fire will in the meantime will be bring up the rear as they won't launch their Fifth season until mid-October.

Also to note, the new Kristen Bell/Ted Danson comedy, The Good Place, is getting a very good spot to air a sneak preview after The Voice's Season 11 premiere before moving to it's regular Thursday home. While the new buzzy drama This is Us will start off airing Tuesday at 10, after The Voice, before moving it's regular time 9pm.

Here's NBC Fall Schedule:

Thursday, Sept. 8th
8:30pm Sunday Night Football

Sunday, Sept. 11
8:30pm Sunday Night Football (time slot premiere)

Wednesday, Sept. 14th
8pm America's Got Talent season finale (two hour)
10pm Blindspot

Monday, Sept. 19th
8pm The Voice
10pm The Good Place (preview two episodes)

Tuesday, Sept. 20th
8pm The Voice
10pm This Is Us

Wednesday, Sept. 21st
8pm Blindspot (time slot premiere)
9pm Law & Order SVU
10pm Chicago PD

Thursday, Sept. 22nd
8pm Superstore
8:30pm The Good Place (time slot premiere)
9pm Chicago Med
10pm The Blacklist

Friday, Sept. 23
8pm Caught On Camera with Nick Cannon
9pm Dateline

Monday, Oct. 3
10pm Timeless

Tuesday, Oct. 11
9pm This Is Us (time slot premiere)
10pm Chicago Fire

Here are shows that are tap for midseason or later: The Blacklist: Redemption, The Carmichael Show, Celebrity Apprentice, Chicago Justice, Emerald City, Great News, Marlon, Midnight Texas, Powerless, Shades of Blue, Taken and Trail & Error.

I think that Grimm will get the late October premiere like they always get before Halloween.

Aquarius Returns

David Duchovny returns this Thursday in last summer's hit show with a two hour, commercial free movie premiere event.

If you haven't seen Aquarius, the series takes place in America in the 1960s that's was a land of tumult and transformation.

Around the country institutions were rocked by protests both violent and peaceful, assassinations became an all-too common occurrence and each day brought a new headline that spoke to the painful process that the country was going through: revolution. No city felt this pain more than Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Police Department Det. Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny, "The X-Files" and "Californication") had served his country in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and now protects his city in the late 60's. When an old flame tells him that her daughter Emma Karn (Emma Dumont, "Salvation") has gone missing, he jumps to action . His search leads him to find Emma living with a group of hippies led by a dirty, slight but violent figure named Charlie Manson (Gethin Anthony, "Game of Thrones"). As he digs deeper to try and pull her out, Hodiak's suit and tie worldview is attacked by the same peace-and-love mantra that is challenging institution across America.

Hodiak enlists the help of undercover vice Officer Brian Shafe (Grey Damon, "True Blood" and "Friday Night Lights"). A Vietnam veteran, Shafe has seen war in a much different light than Hodiak. Even though Shafe is a rookie, he has things to teach Hodiak, such as the bran new Miranda Rights, that are indicative of an emerging style of policing that doesn't turn a blind eye to abuses of power.

As Hodiak and Shafe become further entwined with Manson, and as the country slides deeper into its metamorphosis, the world Hodiak knows begins to disappear before his eyes. This same shifting landscape emboldens Manson to thrust his perverted philosophies upon the world. When the doors of the music industry are closed to him, however, Mason seeks a different way to broadcast his apocalyptic message that will end with one of the most infamous homicides in America history, the Tate-LaBiance murders.

The two men are on a crashing course that will ultimately lead to the gruesome, bloody end of the hippie era and leave America shaken, and once again, changed.

Ringing with the unparalleled music of the era, "Aquarius" is a sprawling work of historical fiction with nuanced characters whose actions in a time of national transformation.

From writer John McNamara ("Trumbo" and "The Magicians") serves as executive producer with Marty Adelstein ("Prison Break"), Becky Clements ("Last Man Standing"), David Duchovny and Melanie Greene, "Aquarius" is a production of Tomorrow Studios.

Season one was the introduction of the characters and how they met, now Season two will be the beginning of Charlie Manson as his name will be known to others. This series does show some really gritty scenes on network television since Hannibal.

In ways, Duchovny performance is nothing but fantastic, with humor and dramatic side. There are times I see Mulder in some scenes but that doesn't really take away the show itself that also shows how Charlie Manson rises but also how America was changing.

If you haven't seen season one, don't worry as season one is streaming on Netflix right now. Also you can catch episodes on NBC.com. 

Here's a promo for Season Two:

You can catch the two hour commercial free movie premiere of Aquarius this Thursday at 9/8c on NBC.

Life Changes: The Night Shift: "The Thing with Feathers"

In part two of this two part episode, lives will change for better or for worst.

We picked off right where the previous episode left off, we see Drew on the floor and as he moves we see blood on his gloved up hands. But not to worry he wasn't shot, but the General was and he soon is taken into the other room as Jennings tells Drew to help him.

Meanwhile, as TC and Jordan pick up the missing kid and tries to get him back to the hospital. With the winds being dangerous for the chopper to go, Jordan performs a chest tube that turned out to be successful and soon the chopper moves.

Scott is waiting for the kid and takes him to the OR, but before that the mother had complications as she was a bit panicky of the news of her son. TC comes in during surgery later on and there seems to be an infection. The only way for the kid to fight the infection is for a blood transfusion, but the parents aren't his parents, adopted parents.

TC later talks to the mother, alone and she tells him a story that came to a surprising twist. Her husband and her stole the kid at the mall. That left TC upset but soon find the parents but won't get on time for transfusion. That lead up to the umbilical cord from the kid, which he found and was on it's way to the hospital.

Jordan has her hands full with a patient and teaching Shannon. When an patient who comes in with nothing wrong with him, but somehow keeps going into cardiac arrest,  Jordan figures out that a fracture in the neck has caused his thyroid issues. But not only did Jordan help the patient, but help him and his daughter become close again.

And as Kenny tries to help Topher get in shape (ha! that was something!), he gets news from Gwen that she got accepted to Georgetown University but she has to leave the next day. Seems like these two are another broken up couple.

As for Drew and Jennings, they helped the brother and his sister and his nephew to escape from the compound. After what had happen, their Captain is not to pleased but he also thought it was a good thing (he gives the high and low of the situation). For the two's punishment, Drew is relieved from duty, even thought he had three months to go. That leads Jennings to stay for another three months as she was about to go home in nine days.

At the end, TC and Topher go for a run, which was fun seeing TC shirtless and Topher wearing running outfit. Jordan and Shannon have breakfast and talk about how Jordan will help her stay calm while Shannon will help Jordan with her outside life and would you know it that the paramedic shows up with his friend and the four have breakfast together...shots.

I enjoyed this episode very much. It picked up quickly and never lost interest at all. Shannon and Jordan have a good intern-doctor chemistry. It had such a good twist, that had me hating her but also feel bad for her too (I know I'm a softy).

It's gonna be awhile for TC and Jordan to get things going I think. Will they get back together, I hope but this could be a break. I couldn't get enough of Paul and his big head attitude towards the nurses and doctors in the ER.

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Night Shift Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Waiting is Over: The Night Shift "The Times They Are A-Changin" Season Premiere

The season premiere of The Night Shift aired Wednesday night and it kicks off pretty fast. Let's get started.

The show jumps a few months after the season two finale, TC and Jordan are trying not to work on the same shift, after we see that TC proposed to Jordan moments after she awoke from her coma in the finale but she declined. But avoiding each other won't last when Topher has them working the same shift.

A call of an accident on the highway gets Topher and TC on the chopper to go, seek and bring back. There seems to be one small problem, it's during a lighting storm, how fun right? Hell yeah!!

A woman is found on the edge of a highway sign as Topher takes care of her, TC provides the supple to him and gets her on the chopper. She's suffering from a cut in the artery with a huge piece of glass that TC takes out with night-vision goggles.

Back at the hospital, Kenny shows the new doctor, Dr. Shannon Rivera, the ropes and has her pronounce a dead body for the funeral home. When Jordan steps out, she knows what he's doing to her, as it's always a tradition for a newbie...scary them. As Shannon lifts the sheet, Paul screams at her and she punches him in the face. That's what I call a setback, my friend and a very good one.

After that we see Paul and Shannon get into it during traumas and such. She really gets under his skin and he shows a bit of romantic interest for her just a bit. But watching those two be the comic relief in this episode was amazing.

Jordan gets a patient, one from the accident that TC was at, that suffers from unstable blood pressure along with the heart stopping and going. Scott comes in and soon they spot a massive in her kidney that explains the what she's been ding through. In surgery, Scott finds the tumor but than her pressure drops again and Jordan thinks there's another tumor. Scott searches and finds it but finds something even more graving, turns out to be cancer and they tell the patient's partner of the news. She tells Jordan that she feels responsible for this as they were fighting, but she tells her that it's not, that the accident has given her a second shot of telling her how much she cares for her.

TC and Jordan do chat for a bit but it's a start. But soon, the man comes in the ER asking about his son, because his wife called him that she was taking him to the hospital. Topher and Kenny check but no one came in with a fever. But than he tells them that she drove a truck to get here and it hits Topher in shock. He treated his wife and gets TC and Jordan to find the son, which they do as they find the kid in it's car seat high up.

Meanwhile, while all of this was going on, Drew was sent to Afghanistan and teams up with Dr. Syd Jennings (Jennifer Beals). As soon as they have some fun, bombs and guns go off. They treat a 15 year old pregnant girl, who happens to be a wife of the Afghan general. Causing problems internationally, Drew does what he does best, save the girl as she need surgery for a tear in the womb. Causing the top officer to really get on him, but as they perform the surgery, the General comes in and points a gun demanding her release to him. Drew calmly fights back, holding the gun away until it goes off and we are left with a "To Be Continued...."

This part one of a two part episode was amazing. They really have you caught up about the characters. The show hasn't lost any step and has gotten better. There wasn't one specific person, but the whole cast was amazing. Will TC and Jordan find a way to work it out and possibly get back together? And what the hell happen with Drew, is he shot or is the General shot?

I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Night Shift Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC,

Homeland nearing a Two season Renewal

Alright take a nice deep breath, Carrie Mathison and fans of Homeland....you've got a long road ahead of you.

Showtime's CEO David Nevins has announced Wednesday that the network is nearing a deal to renew Homeland for Season 7 and 8.

Nevins has also confirmed that the show's upcoming sixth season will not premiere in the fall, like it has in the past five seasons of the show. Instead, it will premiere in January 2017, while Shameless Season 7 will take over Homeland's fall spot.

"Homeland is a show that is constantly reinventing itself...since it's very much about this Intelligence world," Nevins said to reporters during a conference call. "More than most, this is a show that has an open-ended expiration date, just because of the subject matter."

Homeland's sixth season will be set and shot n New York City, and will take place during the two month period between Election Day and the swearing in of the new POTUS.

"There is this strange period in America where there are 72 days when it's not exactly clear who's in charge, and there is a new president that needs to be educated on what it means to be president," Gansa recently told EW.com. "That is a very complex transfer of power filled with all kinds of anxiety and different competing interests....it's a dangerous time in our democracy."