You have questions. I have some answers.
Q: What happened to the show “Code Black”? I hope it’s not cancelled; love that show.
A: CBS held back the medical drama starring Marcia Gay Harden and Boris Kodjoe from its fall lineup for use later in the season. Later in this case will be May 2. After “Criminal Minds” finishes its current season on April 25, “Code Black” will get the time slot.
Q: I watched the first season of “Agatha Raisin” on Acorn TV in 2016. PBS ran the series in the winter of 2016-17. Is there a season 2? If so when will it be released?
A: Acorn TV has commissioned new episodes for telecast late in 2018; production begins in April. The program stars Ashley Jensen (“Ugly Betty,” “Extras”) as a public-relations whiz who retires to a small village and turns amateur detective when crimes pop up around her. Based on novels by M.C. Beaton, the new series will adapt three of them: “The Wizard of Evesham,” “The Curious Curate” and “The Fairies of Fryham.”
Q: Is “Elementary” coming back?
A: Yes, it will get “Scorpion’s” time slot after that adventure series completes its current season on April 23. New episodes of “Elementary,” the present-day interpretation of Sherlock Holmes with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, arrive on April 30.
Q: There was a show on last year about a father, his three sons and daughter. They all worked together as blacksmiths. Will it be coming back?
A: You are remembering a show called “Milwaukee Blacksmith,” which aired on the History Channel and showed the Knapp family’s blacksmith-made artworks. Kent Knapp, the father on the reality series, told me History did not renew the series because, he said, they had unrealistic expectations about the time projects took. And even if History had wanted more, the Knapps would have turned down another season because “we did not feel we were accurately represented and didn’t care for the direction they took us. ... I harbor no ill will toward History or the production company, but wish the world to see us as we are.”
The company will now do its own videos about some large sculpture projects and see if another programmer is interested. At the very least, those will end up on YouTube, Knapp said.
Q: I have a question about the show “My Five Wives.” It was on TLC for two seasons. Recently TLC showed some reruns, and I am hoping it will come back.
A: I do not know of any new telecasts for TLC. When the show ended there in 2015, the family of Brady Williams and his wives continued on other platforms. There is a “Brady and Wives” YouTube channel (though it has not been updated in about a year), and relatively new posts on the “Brady and Wives” Facebook page.
Q: I would like to know if the series “Shots Fired” with Stephan James will be available for purchase as a Blu-ray or DVD. Please tell me it is available, because I will buy so many copies to give to everyone I know.
A: The series dealing with race and law enforcement is not on DVD yet; Amazon is taking orders but lists no release date. There are other ways to revisit the series. Amazon.com and iTunes both have all the episodes available for download. At this writing, the 10 episodes are also streaming via Fox.com and the Fox Now app.
