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Agent Elvis

A lot of premieres this week.  Amazon alone has four new series and the second season of another one debuting today.  That's a pretty normal Netflix load, but we usually only get one or two things from Amazon.  I had assumed this would be a light weekend for releases what with March Madness and all, but the streamers seem to have no fear of the college basketball slugfest.  

There were a couple contenders for Top Pick today.  One of those aforementioned Amazon shows is an Australian comedy series called Class of 07 about a ten-year reunion at an all-girls school that gets interrupted, and prolonged, by the apocalypse.  It looks hilarious and I will definitely be checking that out.

But, NO.  Top Pick today is going to the new Netfix animated series, Agent Elvis.  Look at the freakin' voice cast for this thing!  Matthew McConaughey playing Elvis?  Priscilla Presley playing herself?  Gary Cole?  Kaitlin Olson?  Simon Pegg?  This thing is the murders' row that murdered the previous murders' row (case unsolved).  I didn't GIVE Agent Elvis Top Pick, I BEGGED Agent Elvis to accept this small token of our gratitude for its mere existence, and Agent Elvis accepted it graciously.  Why?  Because he is a CLASS. FUCKING. ACT.

⭐🔔 Agent Elvis (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Elvis trades in his jumpsuit for a jetpack when he joins a secret government spy program to help battle the dark forces that threaten the country.  Featuring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Kaitlin Olson, Don Cheadle, Niecy Nash, Johhny Knoxville, Tom Kenny and Priscilla Presley.'

Elsewhere...

*THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL NOTICE: The new Sky High: The Series has nothing to do with the beloved (BELOVED, GODDAMNIT!) Disney film of the same name.  I don't know what these shenanigans are about, but shenanigans they are.

 *One of the series debuting on Amazon, Swarm, was co-created by Donald Glover and Janine Nabers.  It looks dark and weird.  As much as I like Glover, dark and weird just isn't what I'm looking for right now, but I'm sure someone out there must be interested.

Watched the first three episodes of The Mandalorian this week.  No spoilers from me, but it was an odd three episodes to start with.  Feels like there was a lot of editing together scenes that were originally part of other episodes.  This second one is easily my favorite of the three, which seems to be the general opinion.  I'm not sure what to think yet of the third one but the bookend scenes definitely felt like they should have been at the end of the pervious episode, which itself felt like it should have been combined with the first episode to make one relatively big episode.  The rest of it was weird, and I'm not certain it worked.  I'll probably give it another shot if I find other people like it more than I did, but I'll be happy to get back to the main storyline next week.

PREMIERES

Angel Flight

🔔 Angel Flight (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Ryoko Yonekura stars in this series about specialists who transport the deceased back home.  A drama that portrays love between the deceased and the bereaved.'

🔔 Sin Huellas (No Footprints) (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Desi and Cata are employees of a cleaning company. Well, they used to be. They were fired overnight. Stressed about money and barely scraping by, they receive a miracle in the form of a phone call: They have been asked to clean the mansion of the Rosellós, one of the most powerful families in Alicante. Everything is going well until they find a woman's dead body.'

🔔 Swarm (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Tells the story of Dre, a young woman who is obsessed with a fictional pop star (whose oeuvre and aesthetic are very similar to that of American singer Beyoncé), with a fanbase known as "The Swarm". The show is a dive into Dre's life, her fandom, and how it takes her to dark, unexpected places.'

🔔 Class of '07 (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A comedy about a never-ending high school reunion with life-and-death stakes. When an apocalyptic tidal wave hits during the 10-year reunion of an all-girls high school, a group of women must find a way to survive atop the island peak of their high school campus. Now freshly entangled in decade-old drama, their greatest threat to survival isn't the end of the world, but each other.'

🔔 Extrapolations (Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A bracing drama that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population.'

🤼‍♂️ Monster Factory (Apple, 12:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'The story of misfit dreamers at a wrestling school on the outskirts of a gritty New Jersey factory town who, with the help of their tough yet loving coach, fight for their big break as professional wrestlers.'

🎥 Boston Strangler (Hulu, 12:01 AM) 'A true-crime thriller about the reporters, Loretta Mclaughlin and Jean Cole, who broke the story of the Boston Strangler murders. As the killer claims more victims, the two pursue the investigation, putting their own lives at risk to uncover the truth.  Starring Keria Knightley.'

Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman

🎵 Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman (Disney+, 3:01 AM) 'Follows David Letterman as he joins U2 musicians Bono and The Edge for a concert performance during his first visit to Dublin.'

🎵 Dance 100 (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'To win $100,000, eight choreographers must create increasingly complex routines for an ever-growing number of elite dancers — who are also the judges.'

🎥 In His Shadow (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.'

🔔 Maestro in Blue (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A musician goes to lead a festival on a scenic island, where he begins an unexpected romance and finds himself entwined in other people's problems.'

🎥 The Magician's Elephant (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A determined boy accepts a king's challenge to perform three impossible tasks in exchange for a magical elephant — and the chance to chase his destiny.  Featuring voice work by Mandy Patinkin and Benedict Wong.'

🎥 Noise (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A search for her missing daughter leads a mother to a support network, where she bonds with other women whose lives have been destroyed by violence.'

🔔 Sky High: The Series (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'To remain independent of her father, who's a stolen-goods trafficker, a newly widowed single mom joins her late husband's gang of smash-and-grab thieves.'

🎥 Leave (Shudder, 3:01 AM) 'A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.'

🎥 Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'When the infamous Butch Cassidy and his deadly band of outlaws pull off a high-dollar train robbery, the legendary Pinkertons raise a deadly posse to hunt them down.  Starring Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Dern.'

🎥 Nanny Dearest (Lifetime, 8:00 PM) 'After receiving fertile eggs from a donor, Rebecca and Caleb are finally able to have a child and start a family. Four years later, a strange woman appears in their life and becomes oddly drawn to their daughter.'

Class of '07

RETURNING SHOWS

 🔔 Dom (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🏠 Beach Cottage Chronicles (Discovery+ & HBO Max, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

🔔 Power Book 2: Ghost (Starz, 9:00 PM) SEASON THREE PREMIERE.

💖 Put a Ring on It (OWN, 9:00 PM) SEASON FOUR PREMIERE.

💀 The Real Murders of Atlanta (Oxygen, 9:00 PM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

STREAMING

🧚‍♀️ Carnival Row (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SERIES FINALE. 

🎵 Daisy Jones & the Six (Amazon, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 Dear Edward (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Paper Covers Rock" 

🔔 Hello Tomorrow! (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Another Day, Another Apocalypse" 

🔔 Liaison (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Carnage" 

🔔 The Problem with Jon Stweart (Apple, 12:01 AM) "The Inflation Blame Game" 

🔔 Servant (Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES FINALE. "Fallen" 

🔔 Shrinking (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Moving Forward" 

🔔 Truth Be Told (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Only Little Secrets" 

⚖ Judy Justice (Freevee, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

💖 Love Island (UK) (Hulu, 3:01 AM) 

Monster Factory

🏀2023 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - First Round🏀

USC vs. Michigan State (CBS, 12:00 PM); Kennesaw State vs. Xavier (TruTV, 12:30 PM); UC Santa Barbara vs. Baylor (TNT, 1:20 PM); VCU vs. Saint Mary's (TBS, 1:50 PM); Vermont vs. Marquette (CBS. 2:30 PM); Pittsburgh vs. Iowa State (TruTV, 3:00 PM); NC State vs. Creighton (TNT, 3:50 PM); Iona vs. Connecticut (TBS, 4:20 PM); Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Purdue (TNT, 6:50 PM); Providence vs. Kentucky (CBS, 7:00 PM); Drake vs. Miami (TBS, 7:15 PM); Grand Canyon vs. Gonzaga (TruTV, 7:30 PM); Florida Atlantic vs. Memphis (TNT, 9:20 PM); Montana State vs. Kansas State (CBS, 9:30 PM); Kent State vs. Indiana (TBS, 9:45 PM); Arizona State vs. TCU (TruTV, 10:00 PM); 

🏀2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament - First Round🏀

Marquette vs. South Florida (ESPN2, 11:30 AM); West Virginia vs. Arizona (ESPN, 12:00 PM); Georgia vs. Florida State (ESPN2, 1:30 PM); Norfolk State vs. South Carolina (ESPN, 2:00 PM); Holy Cross vs. Maryland (ESPNews, 2:30 PM); UNLV vs. Michigan (ESPNU, 3:00 PM); Utah vs. Notre Dame (ESPN2, 3:30 PM); Southeastern Louisiana vs. Iowa (ESPN, 4:00 PM); Hawaii vs. LSU (ESPN2, 5:30 PM); UT-Chattanooga vs. Virginia Tech (ESPNU, 5:30 PM); Mississippi State vs. Creighton (ESPNews, 6:00 PM); Sacred Heart vs. Stanford (ESPN2, 7:30 PM); Gardner-Webb vs. Utah (ESPNU, 7:30 PM); South Dakota State vs. USC (ESPNews, 8:00 PM); Princeton vs. NC State (ESPN2, 10:00 PM); Gonzaga vs. Ole Miss (ESPNU, 10:00 PM); 

NON-COLLEGE-BASKETBALL SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌️‍♂️ PGA Tour Golf: Valspar Championship, Second Round (Golf, 2:00 PM)

⚽ Premier League Golf: Nottingham Forest vs. Newcastle United (USA, 4:00 PM)

🏒 College Hockey: NCHC Tournament, Semifinal: Teams TBA (CBSSN, 5:00 PM)

🏌️‍♂️ PGA Tour Champions Golf: Hoag Classic, First Round (Golf, 6:00 PM)

🏀 NBA Basketball: Golden State Warriors vs. Atlanta Hawks (NBA TV, 7:30 PM)

🤼‍♂️ Men's College Wrestling: NCAA Championships (ESPN, 8:00 PM)

🏒 College Hockey: NCHC Tournament, Semifinal: Teams TBA (CBSSN, 8:30 PM)

🏌️‍♀️ Ladies Euro Tour Golf: Aramco Team Series - Singapore, Final Round (Golf, 1:00 PM)

Extrapolations

EARLY PRIMETIME

🧽 Spongebob Squarepants (Nickelodeon, 7:00 PM) 'Getting a boating license.'

🧛‍♀️ Monster High (Nickelodeon, 7:30 PM) 'Frankie bottles up their feelings after not making the fearleading team and causes unintended electrical outbursts; after misguided efforts, Clawd learns that being a good, older brother means more than just protecting his sister.'

🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🦈 Shark Tank (ABC, 8:00 PM) 'Pitches include a twist on the traditional ice cream cone, a gadget to help control a cellphone safely while on the move, an app for travel enthusiasts and innovative winter equipment; update on Bee Sweet Lemonade.'

🔔 Lopez vs. Lopez (NBC, 8:00 PM) 'When her primos visit, Mayan and Quinten get a taste of what life could have been like had they made different choices; Rosie enlists the help of Oscar to help sell life insurance policies to her machista Latinx male clients.'

🔔 BMF (Starz, 8:03 PM) SEASON FINALE. 'Meech and Terry finally handle Detective Bryant, Lamar and B-Mickie before charting the next big step for BMF's expansion, which will change the course of their relationship forever.'

🔔 WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (Fox, 8:00 PM) 
💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 Nanny Dearest (Lifetime, 8:00 PM) 
🔨 First Time Fixer (Magnolia, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV, 8:00 PM) 
💖 Ready to Love (OWN, 8:00 PM) 
👮‍♂️ On Patrol: First Shift (Reelz, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Grand Crew (NBC, 8:30 PM) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🎭 Great Performances (PBS, 9:00 PM) "The Hours" - 'Inspired by Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," a new opera tells the story of three women from different eras; host Christine Baranski.'

😂 Whose Line is it Anyway? (CW, 9:00 PM) 'Guest appearance by Kearran Giovanni; guest comic Jonathan Mangum.'

🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food, 9:00 PM) 'Guy Fieri's piling up the meat with a little sweet; in Santa Barbara, Calif., a hidden gem is putting out funky fusion like Korean paella; in Florida, a Boynton Beach butcher is elevating porchetta; a Boca Raton food truck is cooking cheesecake.'

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Butchers of the Bayou (A&E, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 My Lottery Dream Home (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 
👽 Ancient Aliens (History, 9:00 PM) SEASON FINALE. 
💖 Put a Ring on It (OWN, 9:00 PM) 
💀 The Real Murders of Atlanta (Oxygen, 9:00 PM) 
👮‍♂️ On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 Power Book 2: Ghost (Starz, 9:00 PM) 
👻 Kindred Spirits (Travel, 9:00 PM) 
💖 Love After Lockup (WE, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:01 PM) 
🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (MTV, 9:30 PM) 

The Magician's Elephant

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🔔 Party Down (Starz, 10:06 PM) 'The gang gets hired to work a laid-back radio promotion luau in Malibu, Calif.; things get weird as they decide to take mushrooms together.'

🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) 
🎨 The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist (MTV, 10:00 PM) 
💀 Butchers of the Bayou (A&E, 10:01 PM) SEASON FINALE. 

LATE NIGHT

🔔 The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM) 'Actors Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell; TV personality Padma Lakshmi.

🔔 Late Night with Seth Myers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Actor Paul Rudd; Zoë Brecher sits in with the 8G Band.'

🔔 Game Theory with Bomani Jones (HBO, 11:00 PM) X
🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime (CNN. 11:30 PM) X
🤼‍♂️ All Elite Wrestling: Rampage (TNT, 11:30 PM) X
🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 
🔔 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS, 12:35 PM)
🔔 Nightline (ABC, 12:37 AM) 
🔔 Late Night with Seth Myers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 
🔔 The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS, 1:37 AM) 

Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO BINGE

The Andy Griffith Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 1:00 PM); Brooklyn 99 (Comedy Central, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Roseanne (CMT, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM); Living Single (TVOne, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Hawaii Five-0 (Ion, 10:00 AM - 2:00 AM); ER (Pop, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM); Gunsmoke (TVLand, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM); Law & Order (Sundance, 1:00 PM - 1:00 AM); Seinfeld (Comedy Central, 2:00 - 5:00 PM); The Office (Comedy Central, 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM); Family Ties (Antenna, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM); One Day at a Time (Antenna, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Three's Company (Antenna, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 8:00 PM -9:00 PM); Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Land, 8:00 PM - 11:05 PM); Barney Miller (Antennae, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM); King of Queens (TV Land, 11:05 PM - 2:00 AM); Designing Women (Antenna, 11:30 PM); Becker (Antenna, 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM); Wings (Antennae, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM); Alice (Antenna, 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM); Benson (Antenna, 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM); Mom (TV Land, 3:00 AM - 5:00 AM)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) 'Lucille Ball; Dom DeLuise; Charlton Heston; Ace Trucking Company.'

Sin Huellas

Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Zap2it; Netflix; Wikipedia; Horrornews.net; Sysfy.com; hollywoodreporter.com

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