It’s another year of change at The CW, which was sold to Nexstar and is cutting programming costs in a bid for more profitability. Monday starts off with All American, the only returning scripted show, followed by 61st Street., starring Courtney B. Vance and previously airing on AMC. Tuesday is all “new” comedy night, with three imported Canadian series, Son of a Critch, Run the Burbs, and Children Ruin Everything, followed by Everyone Else Burns, a British comedy.
Canada provides more content for Wednesday night, with Sullivan’s Crossing, starring Chad Michael Murray, followed by The Spencer Sisters, starring Lea Thompson. Thursdays goes all-reality, with two episodes of the Nikki Glaser-helmed FBoy Island, recently dumped by HBO Max. Friday remains the same, with Penn & Teller: Fool Us followed by an hour of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Saturday goes back-to-back with two episodes each of Masters of Illusion and World’s Funniest Animals. The Sunday night offering is I Am, a collection of documentary features.
Waiting in the wings for midseason are the fourth season of Walker and FGirl Island, which, ok. Whatever.
Lost to the sands of time are DC’s Stargirl, The Flash, Kung Fu, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Walker Independence, and The Winchesters. The fates of Superman & Lois and Gotham Knights are undecided at this point.
Many years ago, using the weekly TV guide that came with the Sunday Chicago Tribune, I started keeping track of all of the movies I had seen over the course of my lifetime. The guide would list the two main stars for each movie, and that is a tradition that I’ve carried on in my database ever since. So, given those guidelines, it is time to look at the most prolific actors that have starred in the movies that I have seen in the second half of the decade of the 1980s.