Here is a wrap-up of all of the information it’s good to know from Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
MGM+ has unveiled the official trailer for its highly-anticipated collection, Beacon 23.
The sci-fi drama will debut on Sunday, November 12, on MGM+ at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT with the primary two of eight episodes.
Zak Penn (Ready Player One, Free Guy) created the collection and govt produced together with Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead, The Shield).
It relies on the bestselling novel of the identical title by High Powey.
“Beacon 23 takes place in the farthest reaches of the Milky Way and follows Aster (Lena Headey), a government agent, and Halan (Stephan James), a stoic ex-military man, whose fates become entangled after they find themselves trapped together inside one of many Beacons that serve as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers,” in line with the logline.
“Every Beacon is run by one highly trained human and a specialized Artificial Intelligence. Aster mysteriously finds her way to the lonely Beacon-keeper Halan, and a tense battle of wills unfolds.”
“Halan begins to question whether Aster is friend or foe, as her ability to disguise her agenda and motives could make her a formidable opponent.”
Check out the promo under.
Meanwhile, CBS has introduced premiere dates for its vacation programming, which incorporates loads of returning favorites.
Check out the checklist of premieres under.
Thursday, November 23, 2023
The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS – 9 a.m. ET.
Friday, November 24, 2023
The Greatest @HomeMovies: Hosted by Cedric The Entertainer – 8 p.m.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer – 9 p.m.
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Reindeer In Here – 8 p.m.
Robbie The Reindeer – 9 p.m.
Monday, December 4, 2023
The Price Is Right At Night Christmas Week: Office Holiday Party – 8 p.m.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Price Is Right At Night Christmas Week: College Students Home For The Holidays – 9 p.m.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
The Price Is Right At Night Christmas Week: Blind Holidate – 8 p.m.
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Friday, December 8, 2023
The Price Is Right At Night Christmas Week Holiday Heroes – 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Byron Allen Presents A Merry Soulful Christmas – 8 p.m.
Friday, December 15, 2023
National Christmas Tree Lighting – 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Frosty The Snowman – 9 p.m.
Frosty Returns – 9:30 p.m.
Monday, December 18, 2023
The Price Is Right At Night Christmas Week: Holidays With The Family – 8 p.m.
Friday, December 22, 2023
The twenty fifth Annual A Home For The Holidays – 8 p.m.
Fit For Christmas – 9 p.m.
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
When Christmas Was Young – 9 p.m.
Monday, December 25, 2023
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas To All! – 9 p.m.
Friday, December 29, 2023
Must Love Christmas – 9 p.m.
Saturday, December 31, 2023
New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash – 7:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, Amazon Freevee has unveiled the trailer and key artwork for the third and closing season of Pretty Hard Cases.
In Season Three, feminine detectives Samantha Wazowski (Meredith MacNeill, Baroness Von Sketch Show) and Kelly Duff (Adrienne C. Moore, Orange Is the New Black) come again with much more explosive instances that push each their private {and professional} lives like by no means earlier than.
All 10 episodes of the brand new season might be accessible to stream completely on Amazon Freevee within the U.S. on Wednesday, November 29.
“The new season finds detectives Wazowski and Duff finally reuniting as partners in Guns and Gangs after eight long months apart,” the logline from Freevee teases.
“Although their private {and professional} relationships have by no means been stronger, they might want to work as onerous as they’ll to show to their new and exacting unit commander that they’re worthy of their division’s prime instances.
Wazowski and Duff discover themselves navigating massive adjustments of their private lives: Wazowski revisits a previous romance, whereas Duff is taking the following step in her relationship.
But when a lethal new artificial drug seems throughout Toronto, they need to danger their lives, as they combat to take down a harmful gang and cease the drug at its supply.”
Check out the TV clip under.
Over on Lifetime, the cabler has dropped trailers for 2 extra Ripped From the Headlines motion pictures.
Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story – October 23
Based on a real story, the film follows Vicky White (Wendi McLendon-Covey), a lonely corrections officer who falls for a prisoner (Rossif Sutherland), however earlier than she will guarantee their fortunately ever after, she should firstbreak him out of jail.
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Every day for divorced jail corrections officer Vicky White (McLendon-Covey) is just like the film Groundhog Day – mundane and every single day identical to the earlier.
But when new prisoner Casey White (Sutherland) is dropped at her facility, the 2 develop a secret infatuation. Vicky offers Casey particular consideration, believing he is the one man to see her the way in which she needs to be seen.
But when Casey’s inevitable switch to a prolonged jail sentence approaches, Vicky decides to take determined motion. Risking every thing, Vicky manages to interrupt Casey out of jail and takes him on the run, eluding authorities on an eleven-day sprint for freedom.
For Vicky, even the possible tragedy forward of them is well worth the likelihood to reside life absolutely as soon as extra.
Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story is govt produced for Lifetime by Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tom Patricia, Gladys Gonzalez of John Carrabino Management, and Howard Braunstein, with Stan Brooks directing from a script by Gregory Small and Richard Blaney with Juliette Hagoplan producing the film.
Wendi is repped by UTA supervisor Gladys Gonzalez and lawyer David Krintzman.
Check out the trailer.
Would You Kill For Me: The Mary Bailey Story – Premieres October 28
Told by three totally different views, Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story follows the risky relationship between three generations of ladies – Ella (Melissa Joan Hart), her daughter Veronica (Olivia Scriven), and her granddaughter Mary (Presley Allard), whom she raises for Veronica.
After Veronica turns into deeply entangled with Willard (Connor McMahon) and later marries him, the lives of all three girls take a flip for the more serious when Willard turns into more and more abusive.
Veronica suffers a deep betrayal when her greatest pal, Susan (Celina “Spookyboo” Myers), turns into pregnant with Willard’s baby, additional complicating their poisonous relationship, leaving Ella, Mary, and her half-brother Sammy on the mercy of Willard’s alcoholic rampages.
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The household fears for his or her lives, culminating in a single horrific night time when Willard is shot useless…however the id of who pulled the set off is just not revealed till the tip.
The Mary Bailey Story, based mostly on the real-life experiences of Mary Elizabeth Bailey, creator of “My Mother’s Soldier,” who, at 11 years outdated, was pressured to do the unthinkable.
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