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NCIS: Origins – Fools Rush In

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Fools Rush In
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NCIS: Origins returns from mid-season hiatus, as “Fools Rush In” forces chaaracters to deal with the fallout of decisions and actions made the first-half of the show’s Second Season. For Wheeler (Patrick Fischler) that means dealing with the departure of his secret lover to greener pastures, for Gibbs (Austin Stowell) that means waking up hungover to the reality of a new marriage, and, following the discovery of the identity of the man who bombed the theater, Franks (Kyle Schmid) must deal with the decision he made to introduce his brother to the commune which now puts him under the crosshairs of Oakley’s replacement (Hannah Barefoot) who riles Franks up for the entire episode.

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Excalibur

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  • Title: Excalibur
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For a long time co-writer/director John Boorman‘s 1981 film was, for many, the definitive take of Arthurian legend on film. In the four plus decades since, Excalibur feels a bit forgotten. Shot entirely on location in Ireland, the film won immediate acclaim for its viaual style, costume design, and cinematography. Cast with mostly unknowns (with a couple of notable exceptions) the film adapts Thomas Malory‘s Le Morte d’Arthur covering Arthur from conception through death.

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Will Trent – We’re Looking for a Vampire

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  • Title: Will Trent – We’re Looking for a Vampire
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After having his car break down while visiting Caleb (Yul Vazquez), Will (Ramón Rodríguez) insinuates himself into an odd case where the victim was exsanguinated, with a pair of marks on her neck, and left in the middle of a giant pentagram with the leading suspect being her coworker who happens to identify as a vampire (Devin Druid). Certain the young man is being set up, Will sets out to find out who really killed the young woman.

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The Wrong House

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  • Title: The Wrong House
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to the Milano restaurant located in Midtown Manhattan where a group of six friends, a waiter, and one guest, would gather once a month for an exclusive dinner and a mystery to be solved. Sometimes the guest is calm and sometimes quite anxious, but he always has something on his mind. Christopher Levan is decidedly the latter, haunted by a drunken mistake and a mystery he can’t unravel.

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Soul Power – Change is Coming

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  • Title: Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association – Change is Coming
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The new docuseries Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association examines the cultural and historical context of the American Basketball Association. Featuring interviews from former players, historians, coaches, and pundits, (including George Gervin, Larry Brown, Willie Wise, Tom Hoover, Bobby Jones, Spencer Haywood, George Karl, Dan Issel, Bob Costas, Jim Eakins, Bob Ryan, Pat Boone, Theresa Runstedtler, Julius Erving and so many more). The first episode of the series looks at the launch of of the ABA in 1967, seeing the success of the AFL, and the league’s drive to innovate and to breathe new life in a dying sport that was a distant third behind baseball and football for the American audience.

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