The Briefcase, on CBS
Two more families face one of the biggest decisions they’ll ever have to make as they’re presented with a life-altering amount of money. Over the course of 72 hours, they’ll learn about the other family and will have to decide if they want to keep the cash for themselves, or share it.
Married at First Sight, on A&E
Catch up six months later with the people who participate in a unique social experiment that required them to marry complete strangers. Find out what happened to the couples, who were matched by four specialists using scientific matchmaking techniques.
Q: Catherine Bell has long been one of my favorite performers. I have enjoyed her TV work since the "JAG" days and especially in "Army Wives." When that show ended, I thought she had a contract for a new show. Did it ever get made?
It's fair that you missed Catherine Bell's new show -- it came and went very quickly, and with little fanfare, from Hallmark Channel's schedule. But it's coming back.
Bell stars in "Good Witch" as, well, a good witch. She lives in the small town (this is Hallmark Channel, after all) of Middleton with her daughter, who shares her mother's magical powers.
Major Crimes, on TNT
A dead body falls out of a trunk at the end of a car chase, leading the squad to a complex case. Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell) and her team must untangle a web of connections between a superstar chef, a pediatric psychiatrist and his second wife and a bankruptcy lawyer.
Welcome to the 'Club': ABC's 'The Astronaut Wives Club' rockets to the small screen
The cast of “The Astronaut Wives Club”
History in the making: Mob Mondays are coming to AMC
Ian Bell, John Stewart Jr., Rich Graff, Anthony DiCarlo and Craig Rivela star in “Making of the Mob”
History in the making: AMC is making TV watchers an offer they can't refuse.
Late Laughs for the week of June 14 - 20, 2015
Conan: Conan O'Brien
A federal appeals court has said the NSA's monitoring of Americans' landlines was illegal. Now the NSA has to settle with the five people who still use a landline.
Fox announced "American Idol" will be canceled next year. To add insult to injury, Ryan Seacrest was told the bad news by Fox executives who spun around in big red chairs.
New Releases for the week of June 14 - 20
Chappie
With crime rates out of control in Johannesburg, South Africa, the government purchases state-of-the-art robots to enforce the peace and fight crime. Vincent (Jackman), a competing engineer who's developed his own robotic soldiers, feels slighted that his weapons weren't given equal attention, and steals a damaged police robot, into which he plans to upload the new artificial intelligence that he's developed. However, he and the robot are kidnapped by a group of thugs who threaten to kill him unless he programs the robot to fight for them. He installs his artificial intelligence into the police robot and it gains a childlike sentience. The thugs begin to teach it to speak and name it "Chappie" (Copley).
Director: Neill Blomkamp. Stars: Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver. 2015. 120 min. Sci-Fi.
The Lazarus Effect
A pair of medical researchers, Frank (Duplass) and his fiancée Zoe (Wilde) develop a serum meant to assist coma patients, code-named "Lazarus." In tests, they administer the serum to a recently deceased dog, which brings it back to life. They run tests on the animal, which show that the drug is creating new synapses in its brain and giving it strange new abilities. During a later experiment, an accident causes Zoe to be fatally electrocuted. In his grief, Frank uses the serum on her to bring her back to life, and she reawakens with strange new powers of telepathy and telekinesis. With her rewired brain also causing aggression and rage, Zoe goes on a horrifying rampage, using her newfound powers to terrorize and kill anyone around her.
Director: David Gelb. Stars: Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, Donald Glover. 2015. 83 min. Horror.
Unfinished Business
Dan Trunkman (Vaughn) has started his own business after a falling out with his old boss, but is having trouble getting it off the ground. When an amazing business opportunity presents itself, he and his partners jet around the world trying to close the deal, but their old boss is hot on their heels trying to snatch the opportunity before they can.
Director: Ken Scott. Stars: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller. 2015. 91 min. Comedy.
A star is born: 'Food Network Star' kicks off
Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis in “Food Network Star”
If there's any doubt out there that we're a society with a love of food, the rise of culinary celebrities should prove otherwise.
Americans love celebrities and Americans love food, so when they're put together, something amazing happens.
Game of Thrones, on HBO
The battle for power in the Seven Kingdoms reaches another critical point in the season finale. The critically acclaimed drama is based on “A Song of Ice and Fire,” George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels.
