Murder, She Wrote – Paint Me a Murder

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  • Title: Murder, She Wrote – Paint Me a Murder
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Murder Mystery Monday takes us back to the most famous mystery writer of Cabot Cove. In an episode that has a strong Agatha Christie flavor with a group of people trapped together on a private island, and one of them almost certainly the killer, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) works to uncover the identity of the person who killed their host and friend, artist Diego Santana (Cesar Romero). Playing the role of Jessica’s more official assistant is another of the guests, and also a suspect, Inspector Henry Kyle (Ron Moody).

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Playdate

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  • Title: Playdate
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A braindead action comedy, Playdate stars Kevin James as stay-at-home stepdad Kevin struggling to make a connection with the awkward Lucas (Benjamin Pajak). Enter alpha dude Jeff (Alan Ritchson) and his even more awkward kid CJ (Banks Pierce). In the course of afternoon, Kevin’s interactions with Jeff lead him to be hunted by armed mercenaries and mistaken for a child abductor along with Jeff, who actually is one (hardy har har, ain’t child kidnapping hilarious?).

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Will Trent – …Speaking of Sharks

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  • Title: Will Trent – …Speaking of Sharks
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After last season ended with several core characters in the hospital, the Fourth Season premiere of Will Trent jumps forward five months. Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) is back at work, although saddled to a new desk assignment, but Amanda (Sonja Sohn) is still recovering from her shooting leaving a temporary replacement in charge who Will (Ramón Rodríguez) will butt heads with while ignoring orders to stay out of the investigation into James Ulster (Greg Germann) escape from prison.

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Labyrinth

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  • Title: Labyrinth
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Following the success of The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson turned his attention to bringing another dark fantasy to the big screen. Brian Froud, who provided the conceptual designs for the previous film was tasked with creating creatures for a new world within a labyrinth. And Monty Python’s Terry Jones signed on to write the screenplay based on a story from Henson and Dennis Lee heavily influenced by The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Maurice Sendak‘s Outside Over There. The film is so closely related to the latter, it nearly prevented Labyrinth‘s release until legal complaints were settled.

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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory

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Cheetahs Up Close with Bertie Gregory takes wildlife filmmaker and documentarian Bertie Gregory to the Serengeti where he focuses on two groups of cheetahs to highlight the struggles of the fastest land animal which finds itself stuck in the middle of the food chain. Bertie and his team spend time with both a mother and her two young cubs, noting that 95% of cheetahs don’t make it to adulthood, and a pack of three young males all struggling to survive.

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