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Q: I just finished the most recent, fifth season of “Slow Horses.” Are there any plans to show a Season 6 or is Apple TV going to shelve it?

A: The acclaimed series starring Gary Oldman as irascible spy Jackson Lamb has been renewed for sixth and seventh seasons.

Based on the novels by Mick Herron, the series as whole follows the adventures of a team of failed British agents known, unkindly, as the Slow Horses. According to Apple TV, the sixth season will adapt the books “Joe Country” and “Slough House,” and finds the team “in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.” The seventh season is based on Herron’s book “Bad Actors” with Lamb and the Slow Horses “on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state.”

Q: I believe it was the early 2000s when there were two sci-fi miniseries on competing networks. One was “Threshold.” The second title escapes my faltering memory; it concerned an invasion of extraterrestrial beings that lived in the water. We have been searching for these with no luck.

A: “Threshold,” an alien invasion series with an ensemble cast including Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage, premiered on CBS in September 2005; ratings were poor and it was pulled off the air nine episodes later. The other series you recall was “Invasion,” which premiered on ABC five days after “Threshold’s” premiere, and lasted until May 2006. Its cast included Eddie Cibrian, William Fichtner and Kari Matchett. Both series have been released on DVD. “Invasion” is also streaming, including on Tubi, and “Threshold” is on YouTube.

Q: I watch a lot of HGTV and the Food Network "on demand" and when streaming those shows there are so many commercials for other shows (“Seeking Sister Wife,” “90 Day Fiancé” and “90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way”) that I have grown really sick of seeing them. Those ads for other shows don't seem appropriate for HGTV but they are shown over and over ad nauseam.

Why can't HGTV and the Food Network get more appropriate sponsors?

A: That’s not a case of sponsorship; it’s about corporate cross-promotion. The shows you mentioned are on TLC, which is part of the same company as HGTV and Food Network (and OWN, Animal Planet, TBS and more). While you find the ads inappropriate, the company hopes that other HGTV and Food viewers will be intrigued enough to try the other channel’s fare.

Q: I am interested in the purchase of three movies on DVD: “The Great White Hope” (1970) with James Earl Jones; “The Harder They Fall” (1956), Humphrey Bogart’s last film appearance, and “Monkey on My Back” (1957), with Cameron Mitchell.

A: Three movies, all with boxing connections! And all three have been released on DVD. I saw them for sale on Amazon.

Q: Why is Tom Llamas’ name pronounced as Tom Yamas? It is spelled Llamas.

A: The “NBC Nightly News” anchor is the son of Cuban immigrants. While pronunciation of a double-L in Spanish can apparently vary by region, one common pronunciation is the Y sound — hence Tom “Yamas.”

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