A little of this and a little of that

Hollywood is mourning the loss of actor Chadwick Boseman, 43, this morning. Boseman had not disclosed that he had been battling colon cancer for the last four years, while working on Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" and subsequently, "Avengers: Infinity War" & "Avengers: Endgame". Boseman also headlined feature film biographies of singer James Brown and baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
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As the traditional fall television season is being delayed due to COVID-19, the networks are, gradually, rolling out temporary schedules.

The CW was the first to do so, largely because most of their programming (i.e. Supergirl, Riverdale, The Flash), under the aegis of producer Greg Berlanti, films in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will not be ready until January at the earliest (Supergirl, due to star Melissa Benoist's pregnancy, is set for a spring '21 return). As a result, the network will bring up a sanitized Swamp Thing to fill time in a few weeks.

Half-sister network CBS has acquired the Latino-flavored remake of one of their classic sitcoms of the 70's & 80's, One Day at a Time, from Netflix, and will, to the delight of Trekkers everywhere, repurpose first season episodes of Star Trek: Discovery for those viewers who don't have CBS All Access. CBS has also acquired Spectrum's Manhunt: Deadly Game.
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Is the world ready for Snoop Dogg, action hero?

Snoop has gotten pretty comfy doing television these days, co-hosting a cooking show with Martha Stewart (the two also do ads for Doritos), doing commercials for any number of other advertisers (i.e. Dunkin), and it appears his remake of The Joker's Wild, which shifted from TBS to TNT for season 3, has ended.

So next up for the rapper-turned-multi-tasker is a crime drama from producer Jerry Bruckheimer for CBS. Game will pair Snoop with Martin Lawrence, making his return to series television. Lawrence, of course, co-starred with Will Smith in Bruckheimer's "Bad Boys" trilogy.

Snoop knows crime drama, having played Huggy Bear in Ben Stiller's spoof of Starsky & Hutch, and also headlined the horror movie, "Bones". This will be interesting.
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America's Oldest Baby is at it again.

President Trump, ignorant of the fact that coronavirus concerns have forced some college football leagues to shut down fall sports (i.e. Big 10), tweeted that he wants the Big 10 to start play "now".

               

                           "WAAAAAHH! I want them playing! WAAAAAHHHH!!!"

Of course, he's blaming the Democrats, who have nothing to do with the issue at hand, but that's a case of Trump misreading the room, if you will. He's treated coronavirus as if it has a natural cycle, like most common diseases, but is ignoring the fact that this is not the case at all.

And it's not going to help reverse the tide of poor ratings for the GOP Genuflection Circus, which only saw temporary spikes for certain networks over the four nights. The fact that some of the brainwashed masses showed up in Washington without masks and refusing to employ social distancing Thursday will only lead to more cases of coronavirus, and the blame will be placed on Trump, who violated the Hatch Act by holding his acceptance speech, and other convention activities, at the White House, which is not allowed. This is the result of poor planning for the convention due to the pandemic and Trump's massive ego.
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At least one baseball game was postponed Friday to protest racial injustice, as the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics decided not to play. They'll make it up with a doubleheader this weekend. The NBA, WNBA, and NHL will be back in action today.