It’s been a while since Sherry Stringfield was on our TVs, but she’s back tonight in a new TV movie on Hallmark Channel. Beverly Lewis’ The Confession, premiering at 9/8c and repeating at 11/10c, is based on the book of the same name by Lewis and looks like a multi-hanky tale of mistaken identity.
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Happy Saturday, y’all! Lifetime is unspooling its latest cheesy woman-in-peril-with-a-touch-of-the-supernatural flick tonight. And I say that with genuine affection. I love these movies—and there have been several. Dangerous Intuition follows a jilted wife who has visions that make her fear for her daughter’s safety after her ex-husband remarries.
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Hallmark Channel mixes it up tonight with the U.S. network premiere of Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story, about the hockey legend’s decision to play alongside his sons when most players his age would’ve hung up their skates. Howe is 85 now, and the movie focuses on the period in the early 70s when he joined his sons on the World Hockey Association’s Houston Aeros. (Sidenote: the currentincarnation of that team just announced they’re moving to Des Moines.)
Lifetime returns to its successful anthology mode tonight with a follow on to its 2011 breast cancer-thermed Five with Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, premiering tonight at 8/7c. A series of short films, individually assigned a single name—“Grace,” Allison,” “Eddie,” Lucy,” and “Maggie”—and interconnected in unexpected ways which we won’t spoil here, each tells the story of someone struggling with mental illness or affected by someone struggling with mental illness. That in itself is not new territory for TV, or even for Lifetime, but the pedigree of these short films is impressive, and worth making time to watch.
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If you’re in the mood for something lighter for a Saturday night, Hot in Cleveland’s Wendy Malick comes to Hallmark Movie Channel in After All These Years, a semi-serious murder mystery about Audrey, a jilted wife turned murder suspect when her almost ex-husband turns up dead. She’s asissted in her defense by girlfriends, Phyllis and Anita (Martha Burns and Andrea Martin) and a potential new love interest, David (Gregory Harrison). It was filmed in British Columbia, so keep your eyes open for several familiar faces.
The Doctor and Clara think they’re off to Vegas for some sun and fun, but they land in a Russian submarine just after they’ve run a drill to launch their nuclear weapons. David Warner’s Professor Boffin has brought a specimen on board, so the captain thinks this expedition won’t be a total waste of time. They believe it’s a mammoth, when in actuality it’s an Ice Warrior. The creature attacks the crew and causes enough damage to the sub that it begins to sink. That’s when The Doctor suggests Liam Cunningham’s Captain Zhukov maneuver laterally. If they come to rest on an underwater ridge, they’ll stop sinking.
Luke Perry has worked out a nice niche for himself doing Westerns for Hallmark, and tonight, he’s back in his third outing as the 1880s Western territory Judge, John Goodnight, in Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts opposite Ricky Schroder and Katherine Isabelle.
After filling our heads with sugar plums for close to two months, Hallmark Channel is switching gears. Their newest movie is a romantic comedy confection called Nearlyweds, about three friends who find out their weddings have been undone by a clerical error and now have the opportunity to re-evaluate whether their marriages were a good idea in the first place. The cast is full of familiar faces, many of them Canadian (since it was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia).
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Michelle Nolden has recently been rocking roles on two of our favorite shows. She was the doomed Megan on Covert Affairs and now she’s the POTUS on Nikita, threatening at every turn to pull the plug on Division.
