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TV Media Weekly | June 2 - 8, 2018 By Adam Thomlison TV Media Q: When is "The Wall" com- ing back? It's fun and exciting. I've not seen it being promoted as a summer replacement and hope it hasn't been dropped. A: I'm going to assume your use of "dropped" was an intentional pun, and I love it. And so, you've earned the good news you're about to receive: the show, in which contestants' success is mea- sured in balls being dropped down a towering wall, has been renewed for another season. The problem is, the return date might well be as hard to predict as the game itself. NBC announced the renewal in March without giving a date. The last season was already airing by this point last year, so the network isn't following a pattern at which we can guess. Indeed, when the renewal was announced, the Hollywood Report- er said this ability to be moved around the schedule is what makes the show valuable to NBC: "Unlike flagship alternative se- ries 'The Voice' and 'America's Got Talent,' 'The Wall' has done NBC a service in its ability to fill schedul- ing holes where needed." It was first needed in the winter of 2017, which is when the fresh- man season aired. The second was split between the summer of 2017 and the winter of 2018, and it has switched nights repeatedly over that time as well. All that means it could pop up pretty well any time. It'll likely hap- pen sometime this summer, though — they started casting for the new season at the beginning of April. Q: Are they going to do "Grimm" again? A: You can never say never to these things, but the 2017 series fi- nale of "Grimm" gave a pretty de- finitive end to the show. The writers were fortunate to know well ahead of time that the show's sixth season would be its last, and so they wrote a proper ending for the show's complicated overarching storyline and its many characters. The end was maybe a bit too de- finitive for some characters — without giving away too much, quite a few major characters died at the end of the series. "We really wanted to close the book on it," creator/writer Jim Kouf told Deadline.com. That said, the world they creat- ed was pretty rich and wide — the sort of mythology-building that lends itself to spinoffs. And while nothing like that is being planned, Kouf wouldn't rule it out in the fu- ture: "We leave all our options open. You just never know." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Hollywood Q&A By Andrew Warren TV Media O K, so summer may not officially start for a cou- ple of weeks yet, but let's face it, the sizzling season is unofficially here. With the sun high in the sky and the mercury rising, nothing says "summer" better than a day at the beach. Of course, even just lounging next to the surf will work up an appetite, and chef Katie Lee con- tinues her search for the tastiest seaside nibbles in the new sea- son of "Beach Bites with Katie Lee," which premieres Thursday, June 7, on Cooking Channel. Each episode finds the host of "The Kitchen" heading to a dif- ferent oceanfront destination, where she tracks down some of the most delectable spots to stop by after a day in the sun. In the premiere, Katie visits Mississippi's Gulf Coast, where she discovers that the region has become a hot spot for diverse and eclectic restaurants. Her first stop is in Biloxi, a historic town with incredible beaches where she gushes over gumbo made with crab fished right out of the nearby waters. She even gets the chance to head out and fish for her own seafood — you can't get any fresher than that! A little further east, in beauti- ful Ocean Springs, Katie tries an- other local specialty that isn't plucked from the sea: some of the best barbecue ribs that she's ever had below the Mason Dixon line. High praise, that! Her tour of the Mississippi coast is topped off with some fall-apart homemade buttery biscuits, cooling ice pops and a rich cup of chicory coffee. In later episodes this season, Katie heads out to California's Catalina Island for Mexican-in- spired carnitas nachos, digs into succulent fried chicken and shrimp off the coast of South Carolina, and even takes a trip to the Bahamas where she tastes the freshest conch salad imaginable. Wherever she ends up, Katie finds the best beach-side food — and always makes time for some sweet treats and tasty cocktails, of course. Catch the best grub that seaside destina- tions have to offer in the new season of "Beach Eats with Katie Lee," premiering Thursday, June 7, on Cooking Channel. 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