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AppleTV+ dropped the first trailer for limited series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” on Friday, in which Samuel L. Jackson is aged 20 years to play the dementia-ridden 90-plus-year-old title character. He agrees to an experimental medical treatment to regain all his memories, but the effect is only temporary. He’s now in a race against time to solve the murder of his nephew before his restored memory fades.

The six-episode series premieres globally Friday, March 11 on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode each Friday. It’s based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Walter Mosley, who also wrote the script and serves as executive producer.

Logline: “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” stars Jackson as Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man forgotten by his family, by his friends, and by even himself. Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker and on the brink...

Over the weekend, we reported that the cult classic series The Tick, which only ran for nine episodes before it was cancelled in early 2002, may be coming back as a pilot for Amazon Studios. Ben Edlund, who created the series, revealed on Twitter that the reports are true, and a reboot is being "pursued with vigor."

Yes for now suffice it to say the dream of a new live-action Tick is being pursued with vigor #bringbackTheTick

— ben_edlund (@ben_edlund) August 31, 2014

Series star Patrick Warburton worked out a deal with Sony Pictures Television, who has controlled the rights to The Tick ever since its cancellation, to move forward with an Amazon Studios pilot. While it remains to be seen whether or not the show will be picked up, longtime fans of The Tick will at least get one new episode to watch.

Amazon Studios always makes their pilot episodes available...

The personal and the professional have a way of merging for the Reagans of "Blue Bloods."

Such was the case again in "Lost and Found," Friday's (Oct. 25) episode of the CBS police drama written by co-executive producer Daniel Truly. Frank (Tom Selleck) was alarmed to learn Father Markhum (Frank Wood, "The Newsroom"), the NYPD's chaplain, had been stopped for driving while intoxicated ... "the fourth time in two months," police chief Dino (John Ventimiglia) revealed.

The clergyman had rear-ended another car, and Frank worried that intervening would appear to be favored treatment -- something the arresting officer already had furnished by letting the priest sleep off his condition. And Frank realized such handling was "the reason I never heard about the other three Dwi's."

Later, Frank entered a confessional to talk to the chaplain, and told him to turn himself in: "Even priests do penance, Jerry."

While eating out with Erin...