The 51st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, on CBS
Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley take the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to honor their peers as they co-host The 51st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Performers include Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood and Tim McGraw, who is set to debut his new single.
Back to the past: Hit drama 'Outlander' traverses time again
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan star in "Outlander"
Rules are rules: Nancy Fuller's family joins her in the kitchen
Nancy Fuller as seen in "Farmhouse Rules"
With six kids, 13 grandkids and her own farm, it's easy to see why Nancy Fuller has had to lay down a few rules in her house. Oh right, and she also happens to run a multimillion-dollar business.
Q: What ever happened to the series "Covert Affairs"? Did I miss that it was canceled?
Unfortunately, yes. About a year ago, the USA Network announced that it would not be renewing "Covert Affairs" for a sixth season.
That was a pretty tough pill for fans to swallow, since the fifth season ended on a pretty serious double-cliffhanger: Lead character Annie (Piper Perabo, "The Prestige," 2006) was about to decide both whether to marry Ryan (Nic Bishop, "Home and Away") and whether to take a new job on a CIA task force.
Life without limits: CBS goes above and beyond with 'Limitless'
Jake McDorman stars in "Limitless"
Q: While watching reruns of "The Big Valley," we noticed there was a fourth son, younger than Jarrod, Nick and Heath. He was only in a few episodes. Can you give any information as to who played this character and what the character's name was?
The character Eugene Barkley, fourth son of the Barkley clan whose lives formed the basis of the classic western series "The Big Valley," left the ranch to go to college. That's the easy part.
As for the man who played him, Charles Briles, that's a little trickier.
He only appeared in the first season, which aired on ABC in 1965. He was drafted by the U.S. Army, also in 1965. This much we know. What we don't know is if these two facts are related.
Q: Has "Devious Maids" been canceled? Also, I caught a couple episodes of a show last year about a doctor who kept coming back to life. I can't remember the show's name but liked it. Has it been canceled?
Considering the fact that you hardly got to know it, it shouldn't come as too much of a blow that "Forever," about a centuries-old doctor who is trying to cure his own immortality, is dead for good. The network canceled it after its first and only season.
But "Devious Maids," which you're clearly more familiar with, is coming back.
That show was less of a risk, though -- "Devious Maids" is going into its fourth season later this year, and its previous three had all been hits.
Cashing in: CBS reimagines the Rush Hour franchise for TV
Justin Hires stars in "Rush Hour"
Reboots, reboots and more reboots. They're the biggest fad for networks these days, but if you've got a successful product, why not milk it for a bit more story (and money, of course)?
New Releases for the week of March 27 - April 2
The Hateful Eight
A few years after the end of the Civil War, two bounty hunters, Marquis Warren (Jackson) and John Ruth (Russell), have a chance meeting in rural Wyoming. Ruth has handcuffed himself to his latest bounty, the notorious fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), and expresses paranoia that someone might try to steal his bounty and take the payment that he's expecting for her capture. With a brutal blizzard fast approaching, the trio takes shelter in a roadside lodge where a group of suspicious men is also hoping to wait out the storm. As the weather intensifies, the cast of nefarious characters becomes increasingly suspicious of each other and blood begins to spill.
Director: Quentin Tarantino. Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen. 2015. 187 min. Crime.
Concussion
While performing an autopsy on a deceased former NFL player, forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu (Smith) discovers that he had suffered from severe brain damage and died from the long-term effects of several blows to the head, a disorder that he calls chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). With the help of other doctors, he publishes a paper on his findings, but the NFL dismisses it. When, over the next few years, he discovers that three more former NFL players died after suffering almost identical symptoms, he runs headlong into the powerful football league that dismissed his concerns. Based on true events.
Director: Peter Landesman. Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. 2015. 123 min. Biography.
Point Break
After a series of daring heists, FBI recruit and former extreme sports athlete Utah (Bracey) suspects that the culprits are combining their robberies with eight of the most dangerous forces of nature that tempt extreme sports enthusiasts. The young agent goes undercover to where he suspects the next crime will happen: a massive ocean wave off the coast of France. There, he succeeds in finding and infiltrating the band led by Bodhi (Ramirez).
Director: Ericson Core. Stars: Luke Bracey, Edgar Ramirez, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, Matias Varela, Clemens Schick. 2015. 114 min. Action.
'Empire' strikes back: Fox's hit musical drama returns from hiatus
Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Bryshere Gray and Trai Byers star in "Empire"
Carrying on the family business just doesn’t have the same wholesome feel that it used to. At least, not when the whole family is prepared to drop the gloves and fight tooth and nail to be the one wearing the company’s crown.