On this day in television history - Life After Life (2022 TV mini-series & novels):

Life After Life

directed by John Crowley,

written by Bathsheba/Bash Doran, Jessi Drewett,

based on the novel by Kate Atkinson,

released on the internet on April 19, 2022.

Music by Volker Bertelmann.

Cast: Isla Johnston, Thomasin McKenzie, Eliza Riley, Lesley Manville, Sian Clifford, Sean Delaney, Maria Laird, James McArdle, Nancy Rumball, Nelly Rumball, Harry Michell, Jessica Hynes, Joshua Hill, Patsy Ferran, Jack Forsyth-Noble, Sadie Byron, Oscar Eskinazi, John Hodgkinson, Ron Cook, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laurie Kynaston, James George Williams, Gus Turner, Anders Hayward, Matthew Pidgeon, Alfie Harrison, Joe Black, Matilda Stafford, Kelsey Balla, Pamela Stafford, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel, Ralph Davis, Harry Cadby, River Caddle, Zara Gormley, Mhairi Gayer, Louis Hofmann, Matthew Cottle, James Chadburn, Andy Membury, Kai Membury, Helena Albright, Aron von Andrian, Archie O'Callaghan, Arthur McGirr, Zee Asha, Matthew Sim, Syreeta Kumar, Ian Saynor, Odimegwu Okoye, Hope Delaney, Dominic Hodson, Paul Lancaster, Anna Lavrenteva, Callum Coates, Aiden Lewis-Quilter, Liam Lewis-Quilter, Freddy Sawyer, Lacey Dempsey-Ball, Sarah Daniela Seggari, Muki Zubis, Leo Rait, Xavier Edmead, Suzanne Bertish, Tachia Newall, Wyatt Wilfort, Finley Wilfort, Ray MacAllan, Declan Miele-Howell, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Emma Beattie, Daniel Boys, Zac Pile, Rose Riley, Kieran Brunt, Cameron Ralph, Audrey Hart, Clara Graham, Matilda Humphrey, Gilian Cally, Jude Humphrey, Evie Templeton, Edward Green, Martin Oelbermann, Lily Claudia Eustace, Stuart Cooke, Hannah Colby, Andreas Bedorf.

Recommended reading:

Life After Life

By Kate Atkinson.

Published by Back Bay Books.

Published 2013.

ISBN-10: 0316176494

ISBN-13: 978-0316176491

Description:

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can – will she?

Named a New York Times Best Book of the Century, Life After Life is darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.

A God in Ruins

By Kate Atkinson.

Published by Back Bay Books.

Published 2015.

ISBN-10: 0316176508

ISBN-13: 978-0316176507

Description:

His stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.

"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."

Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world.

After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.

On this day in movie history - Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011):

Street Kings 2: Motor City

directed by Chris Fisher,

written by Ed Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft,

was released in the United States on April 19, 2011.

Music by Jon Sadoff.

Cast:

Ray Liotta, Shawn Hatosy, Scott Norman, Clifton Powell, Kevin Chapman, Inbar Lavi, Charlotte Ross, Stephanie Cotton, Linda Boston, Corey Emanuel Wilson, Jack Moore, Tiren Jhames, Tim Holmes, Joe Tinpan, Sidi Henderson, Otis Youngsmith, Ele Bardha, Lauren LaStrada (credited as Lisa Lauren Smith), Julia Ho, Gordon Michaels, Tia Fletcher, Christopher L. Dixon, Ron Causey, Nesti Gee, Roland Matthews, Joey Naber, Terrence c Ward, Wendy Aaron, John P. Chittick, Alex Cohen, Tim Craiger, John Dezsi, Isaac Ellis, Steven Hauptman, Chancler Haynes, Elisabeth Hoekstra, Jason W. Lee, Amanda Lewan, Dervis Lici, Runako Marshall, Noli McCool, Ralph H. Meyer, Victor Pytko, Ralph A. Recchia, Maria Lucia Safi, Morris Lee Sullivan, Amanda Wright.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Live Fast and Prosper.

Released April 19, 2000.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robin Bernheim/Burger, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Kaitlin Hopkins, Gregg Daniel, Francis Guinan, Ted Rooney, Scott Lincoln, Dennis Cockrum, Timothy McNeil, Majel Barrett, Marvin De Baca, Tarik Ergin, Peter Scott Harmyk, Irving E. Lewis, Nichole McAuley, Joey Sakata.

On this day in movie history - Razorback (1984):

Razorback

directed by Russell Mulcahy,

written by Everett De Roche,

based on the novel by Peter Brennan,

was released in Australia on April 19, 1984.
Music by Iva Davies.

Cast:

Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue, Judy Morris, John Howard, John Ewart, Don Smith, Mervyn Drake, Redmond Phillips, Alan Becher, Peter Schwarz, Beth Child, Rick Kennedy, Chris Hession, Brian Adams, Jinx Lootens, Angus Malone, Peter Boswell, Don Lane.

On this day in music history:

Magazine by Heart (1977)

Hang Cool Teddy Bear by Meat Loaf (2010)

Magazine

Album by Heart,

released April 19, 1977.

Track list: Heartless; Devil Delight; Just The Wine; Without You; Magazine; Here Song; Mother Earth Blues; I've Got The Music In Me.

Hang Cool Teddy Bear

Album by Meat Loaf,

released April 19, 2010.

Track list – includes songs on bonus disc & other editions:

Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Los Angeloser; If I Can't Have You; Love Is Not Real/Next Time You Stab Me in the Back; Like a Rose; Song of Madness; Did You Ever Love Somebody; California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl); Running Away from Me; Let's Be in Love; If It Rains; Elvis in Vegas; Boneyard; Prize Fight Lover; Don't Get Me Going; I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News); If It Ain't Broke, Break It; Blind as a Bat; Amnesty Is Granted; Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through; I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That); Two Out of Three Ain't Bad; Bat Out of Hell; Roadhouse Blues/Why Don't We Do It in the Road?; Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire); Peace on Earth; Living on the Outside; Song of Madness; Los Angeloser.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 31.
Episode entitled: Man with the Ice.
Released April 19, 1960.
Directed by Marc Lawrence.
Written by Kevin Thomas.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jean Willes, Stan Irwin, Linda Lawson, Joe Flynn, Jimmy Cross, Al Hodge, Roxane Brooks.

On this day in movie history - Star of Midnight (1935 movie & novel):

Star of Midnight

directed by Stephen Roberts,

written by Howard J. Green, Anthony Veiller and Edward Kaufman,

based on the novel by Arthur Somers Roche,

was released in the United States on April 19, 1935.
Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Morgan, Leslie Fenton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Russell Hopton, Vivien Oakland, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Bess Flowers, George Chandler.

Recommended reading:

The Star of Midnight

By Arthur Somers Roche.

Filmed as Star of Midnight (1935), directed by Stephen Roberts.

Hardcover.

Published by Dodd, Mead and Company.

Published 1935.

ASIN: B0DM1RR9L9

Description:

After his girlfriend, Alice, goes missing, young Tim Winthrop consults with his friend, criminal lawyer Clay Dalzell. Clay, joined by his fiancée, Donna Mantin, agrees to help -- only to get involved with the simultaneous disappearance of stage actress Mary Smith, and the shocking murder of a gossip columnist poised to provide vital information about Mary. An unsolved gangster murder and the reappearance of an old flame lead Clay further into the puzzling maze.