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Look for ‘Under the Dome’ return this summer

The Columbian
Published: March 27, 2015, 12:00am

I was just wondering if we’ll ever see the completion of Stephen King’s “Under the Dome.” The end of the second season left us hanging.

I don’t know about a completion. But the fantasy series will continue on CBS this summer. According to the network, a two-hour third-season premiere is scheduled for 9 p.m. June 26. The show will then settle into its regular time slot, 10 p.m. Thursdays.

I like Doris Day’s movies from the ’60s. For the past year, TCM has shown three to four in a row with co-stars including Rock Hudson, James Garner and David Niven, and repeated same movies. I would like to see again the one with Cary Grant, “That Touch of Mink.” Why are they not showing it?

While it may seem that TCM owns every vintage movie out there, it does not. There are quite a few movie services, each with its own properties. “That Touch of Mink” is in the rotation on Retroplex, an all-movie service focusing on older films. Retroplex carriers include Dish Network and Comcast xfinity.

I have enjoyed watching “Stalker” on CBS. On March 4, CBS began running “CSI: Cyber” in that time slot. “Stalker” was getting interesting. When “Stalker” will return and finish the season?

CBS reports that “Stalker” will return later this season, although the return date has not been set. Series’ production companies do not make enough episodes to fill every week of a TV season and, in most cases, reruns do not fare well. As a result, you see more series on hiatus, with other shows filling those slots.

“Beggars & Choosers” was on cable around 2000. I have searched for a DVD on the Internet without success. Any suggestions on where I might find it?

For those of you tuning in late, the series about life and work at a struggling TV network aired on Showtime for 42 episodes between 1999 and 2001. The series was inspired in part by the career of Brandon Tartikoff, a successful executive at NBC, who helped “Beggars.” Tartikoff died of cancer in 1997, before the series premiered. As far as I can determine, there has been no authorized release on DVD or Blu-ray.

There was a plan to release the first season in 2006, but that fell apart. Series co-creator Peter Lefcourt said on his website that “the DVD market for TV episodes is both a little saturated and a little soft at the moment: Those shelves at Target are sagging under the weight of unsold episodes of old TV shows. So we have to wait until someone deems it financially advantageous to spend the money to release the DVDs.” I did not see it on streaming services either.

Do you think A&E will bring back “Nero Wolfe”? That was a superior show. I own both seasons on DVD and would love some new episodes.

The “Nero Wolfe” novels by Rex Stout have been adapted many times, including in the A&E series starring Maury Chaykin as Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as his associate, Archie Goodwin. But a revival of the A&E show won’t happen; Chaykin died in 2010.

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