With Aisha Tyler, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady. Guests: comedian Brad Sherwood, plus actress Carmen Electra. Games performed: Let's Make a Date, Duet, Scenes from a Hat, Living Scenery, Hoedown.
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📺 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Wanya Morris | CW
With Aisha Tyler, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady. Games Performed: Hollywood Director, Duet, Themed Restaurant, Scenes from a Hat, Helping Hands.
📺 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Chip Esten | Netflix
With Aisha Tyler, Wayne Brady, Jeff Bryan Davis, Charles Esten. Games Performed: Let's Make a Date, Props, Hoedown, Scenes from a Hat, Greatest Hits.
📺 “Kids Baking Championship” Bite-Sized Birthday Party | Food Network
Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman love birthday parties at the park so they're taking this inspiration to the Big Bake Challenge. The kid bakers are tasked with creating bite-sized birthday party desserts for an outdoor birthday party and serving them on mini picnic tables!
📺 “Kids Baking Championship” You’re in the Ballpark | Food Network
With Duff Goldman, Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Azuma, Darci Lynne Farmer.
While the kids look a bit talented and sophisticated as cooks, I’m painfully disappointed that only one tried (and failed miserably) to pop their own popcorn. Not a single one used the two hours to make their own caramel sauce and instead they all used the same canned dulce de leche. Even worse, one of the kids that actually incorporated popcorn into their dish natively didn’t win the challenge. Where is the humanity?
📺 “Reign” Snakes in the Garden | CW via Netflix
Directed by Matthew Hastings. With Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo. When Simon, an English envoy, tells Mary that the English are aware of her fragile engagement to Francis, Mary and Francis put on a show to protect their alliance.
📺 “Reign” Pilot | CW via Netflix
Directed by Brad Silberling. With Adelaide Kane, Megan Follows, Torrance Coombs, Toby Regbo. After spending a childhood safely hidden away in a monastery, a teenage Mary Stuart arrives in France where she has been sent to secure Scotland's strategic alliance by formalizing her arranged engagement to the French King's dashing son, Prince Francis. Further complicating things is Bash, Francis' handsome, roguish half-brother and Francis' mother, Queen Catherine.
I was a bit impressed to recognize and correctly place the name of Megan Follows in the opening credits from having watched Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea in my youth.
I’ll give this a second episode, but I don’t know if I’ll have the stomach for any more.
📺 “North & South” Episode #1.4 | Netflix
Directed by Brian Percival. With Brendan Coyle, Tom Charnock, Richard Armitage, Daniela Denby-Ashe. Frederick safely reaches Spain. After her father's death, Margaret leaves Milton to live with her aunt in London. Thornton learns that Frederick is Margaret's brother. With the money that she inherited from Mr. Bell, her godfather, she decides to help Mr. Thornton's mill from closing.
Brendan Coyle was excellent here and it’s relatively obvious that the prototype of this character was likely a solid reason to have cast him in as Bates in Downton Abbey later on. Sinéad Cusack was spectacular in a great but limited role–we’ll have to watch more of her earlier work. Daniela Denby-Ashe was well cast and spot on for the careful threading of this progressive, strong, and direct role. The true standout to me was Richard Armitage who does dark and brooding as well as anyone; I’d love to see more of his work.
📺 “North & South” Episode #1.3 | Netflix
Directed by Brian Percival. With Richard Armitage, Daniela Denby-Ashe, William Houston, Brian Protheroe. Deeply hurt at the refusal of his marriage proposal, Thornton and Margaret's relationship becomes more tense and difficult. Just in time, Frederick comes home to visit his dying mother. Thornton mistakes him for Margaret's lover. As Margaret realizes that she might have been mistaken in her harsh and hasty criticism of Thornton, she has to sadly observe his opinion of her altering. Shortly after ...
📺 “North & South” Episode #1.2 | Netflix
Directed by Brian Percival. With Sinéad Cusack, Simon Cassidy, Elianne Byrne, Emma Ashton. Maria Hale's health ceases and her daughter Margaret decides to contact her brother Frederick - who had to leave England years earlier due to a wrongful court decision. The mill workers in Milton go on strike. In order to get his orders done in time, Thornton hires Irish workers. The angry strikers hear of this and in an attempt to threaten Thornton they hurt Margaret. Overwhelmed by Margaret's ...
📺 “North & South” Episode #1.1 | Netflix
Directed by Brian Percival. With Daniela Denby-Ashe, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Ferguson, Travis Oliver. Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the North. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby ...
📺 “Worst Cooks in America” Piece of Cake | Food Network
Chefs Robert Irvine and Anne Burrell leave the recruits to their own devices, asking them to work in teams to recreate a dish by taste alone. Unbeknownst to the recruits, the chefs secretly watch their every move and are shocked by what they see. For the main dish challenge, the recruits have to bake a tiered cake to suit two special guest judges, Food Network's Gesine Prado and Jason Smith. In the end, Anne and Robert decide which recruits satisfy their sweet tooth and which ones leave them with a toothache.
📺 “Crimson Tide (1995) | Hollywood Pictures
Directed by Tony Scott. With Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza. On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.
📺 Michigan vs. Notre Dame – September 1, 2018 | NBC
Michigan Wolverines vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish football game.
📺 UCLA vs. Oklahoma – September 8, 2018 | ESPN
UCLA Bruins vs. Oklahoma Sooners football game