Shark Tank, on ABC
Business moguls decide whether or not to invest their own money in new products and companies in a rebroadcast of the critically acclaimed reality TV series. Entrepreneurs pitch their ideas for products and business in the hopes that the Sharks will work with them.
Q: Do you have any idea when "Bible Challenge" will be coming back on TV?
I do, but you're not going to like the answer.
Despite being the biggest original hit in Game Show Network's history, and despite earning two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way (a rarity for GSN), "The American Bible Challenge" ended after its third season.
It was, of course, rerun for a while afterwards (GSN is, after all, based on reruns), but the last new episode was released back in 2014.
Zoo, on CBS
As the future of humankind hangs in the balance, a team of heroes races to stop dangerous lab-made hybrids in this new episode. Based on the bestselling novel by James Patterson, the drama stars James Wolk, Kristen Connolly, Billy Burke and Nonso Anozie.
Worthy 'Endeavour': 2017 marks 30 years on the screen for Endeavour Morse
Shaun Evans stars in "Endeavour"
We certainly do love our British TV detectives. From "Sherlock" to "Midsomer Murders," "Father Brown" to "Grantchester," and "Broadchurch" to "Wallander," British crime shows prove just as wildly popular with audiences on this side of the Atlantic as they do with our British counterparts.
The Lowe Files, on A&E
The three Lowe men are in search of the fabled Sasquatch in this new episode. Rob and his sons Matthew and John Owen travel to the Redwood Forest and explore a hotspot for Sasquatch sightings. They're joined by legendary Bigfoot hunter Matt Moneymaker.
Q: Can you please tell me why Alex Price and Nancy Carroll have left "Father Brown"?
Neither actor has given reasons for leaving "Father Brown," but it seems to boil down to a desire for change. Both have simply moved on to new roles.
Alex Price, who played the petty criminal-turned-chauffeur Sid, has a pretty high-profile stage gig, playing an aged Draco Malfoy in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." While plays are often seen as a step down from film and TV work, starring in anything Potter-related, particularly in London, will always be a special case.
Face Off, on Syfy
McKenzie Westmore hosts as special effects makeup artists go head to head in challenges designed to test their creativity and technical skills in this new episode. Ve Neill, Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page serve as judges in this reality TV series.
Bachelor in Paradise, on ABC
Fan favorites and controversial suitors from past seasons of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" travel to paradise in the hopes of finding love in this season premiere. Chris Harrison is back to host the fourth season of the popular reality TV series.
Q: Is there going to be another season of "Berlin Station"?
It's fair to wonder. "Berlin Station," starring Leland Orser ("Ray Donovan"), Rhys Ifans ("Elementary"), Richard Armitage ("MI-5") and Michelle Forbes ("True Blood"), told a (more or less) complete story in its first season on Epix, and these days all sorts of networks are playing the "limited series" trick, where they produce a season of TV that comes to some sort of conclusion, and, if it's not a hit, just drop the show at the end and say that was the plan all along. If it is a hit, they renew it.
New Releases for the week of August 13-19
Alien: Covenant
In the future, the colonization spaceship Covenant picks up a strange radio transmission from a previously unknown planet. When some of the Covenant's crew members descend to the planet's surface to investigate, they find a crashed alien spacecraft, along with David (Fassbender), an android from the earlier Prometheus mission, who crashed there many years prior. When some members of the crew begin coming down with an unknown illness, they are put in quarantine, but that won't be enough to stop the alien menace that is unleashed upon the unsuspecting colonists.
Director: Ridley Scott. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Carmen Ejogo, Demián Bichir. 2017. 122 min. Sci-fi.
Everything, Everything
When a new family moves into the house next door, 18-year-old Maddy (Stenberg) catches the eye of the family's handsome son, Olly (Robinson), and it doesn't take long before he shows up on Maddy's doorstep offering a neighborly greeting. Maddy's mother, Pauline (Rose), turns Olly away due to Maddy's severe immunodeficiency disease, an illness that's kept her indoors her entire life and allowed her only minimal contact with people outside of her immediate family. The two young lovers, however, won't let the disease get in the way of their romance, no matter the consequences to Maddy's health or life.
Director: Stella Meghie. Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de la Reguera, Taylor Hickson. 2017. 96 min. Drama.
How to Be a Latin Lover
Twenty-five years after he married a rich woman more than twice his age, Maximo (Derbez) is thrown out of her opulent mansion when she takes a new, younger lover. Although he was once a womanizer who made a career out of seducing rich older women, in his many years of marriage Maximo let himself get out of shape and out of practice and finds it a struggle to return to his old lifestyle. Luckily, his nephew's (Alejandro) crush has a wealthy grandmother (Welch), upon whom Maximo sets his sights as he tries to get back to his old tricks.
Director: Ken Marino. Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Raphael Alejandro, Raquel Welch, Michael Cera, Rob Riggle, Rob Huebel. 2017. 115 min. Comedy.
