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FOLLOW US> TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine Write to us: Letters, TV Guide Magazine, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10020, or email letters@tvgm.com Hollywood East Willie Holmes liked our map of television shows that shoot around the Windy City area [“Chicago Television Authority,” February 15]. But he thought we forgot to mention one classic series. “Though Hill Street Blues never said what city it was set in, the police cars were based off of those of our fair city,” he wrote. “And the exteriors of the Hill Street Precinct were filmed at the Maxwell Street Station that was across the street from the University of Illinois at Chicago.” Laurie Andrews also enjoyed our “nostalgic” map but wondered why The Good Wife was excluded from it. That’s simple:…

MAD DOGS Amazon Prime Video SHAWN RYAN, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER And you thought The Shield’s Vic Mackey was bad. Shawn Ryan, who created that gritty cop drama, would now like to introduce you to some Mad Dogs. The dramedy follows a group of buddies who travel to Belize for a vacation that turns into deception and murder. Steve Zahn, Michael Imperioli, Billy Zane, Romany Malco and Ben Chaplin play the pals, who find themselves over their heads in a foreign land. Ryan explains why we’ll be Mad for these Dogs. I have time to watch one more show. Why should it be yours? You’re obviously in need of something that can be suspenseful, scary, funny, demented, dramatic, absurd and unpredictable at once so you have the bases covered. That’s us. Who…

Stephanie Pasicov, Makeup Artist As makeup artist on NBC’s Blindspot, Stephanie Pasicov has one of the show’s most crucial jobs. She draws and/or applies the full-body tattoos—each teasing a yet-to-becommitted crime—that cover Jane Doe’s (Jaimie Alexander) body. Pasicov explains her process. How are the tattoos applied? We have a number of methods. For the most part, it’s a transfer, sort of a backward sticker. It has adhesive on it, and you apply it with water. We also have been working with a fruit-based ink from Peruvian jungles—those are hand-drawn on and 100 percent natural. We use that for the bird on her neck. Is applying them like a puzzle? The show’s creator [Martin Gero] worked with a puzzle maker to design each tattoo. They cast Jaimie’s body and designed the…

Now that Downton Abbey is over, “I miss the circus ride,” says creator Julian Fellowes, who wrote every episode. He ended the series with the story set on the eve of 1926, “mostly because I didn’t want to have to age the characters too much.” Fellowes says he’s particularly pleased that he gave a happy ending to the beleaguered Edith (Laura Carmichael), a character he identifies with. (“I was the plain one nobody wanted to dance with.”) And it’s no surprise that many of his favorite scenes involved bantering frenemies Violet (Maggie Smith) and Isobel (Penelope Wilton). “It’s very nice when you’re the writer and they do it so well that you feel like Oscar Wilde,” he says. The only moment in the whole series that made him cringe? “When…

Toks Olagundoye didn’t exactly get a warm welcome when she joined ABC’s Castle last fall: The show’s passionate fanbase was too busy worrying that the leggy new series regular would come between beloved couple Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic). “I got a lot of nasty stuff on Twitter,” remembers the actress, who previously starred as an alien on The Neighbors, with a laugh. “It was like, ‘So an attractive woman gets brought on the show and her only function could be for a guy to fall in love with her? Come on!’ I was especially irked by the female viewers who thought that. I was like, ‘Have a little more pride in your sex!’ ” The Nigeria native has brought that same spunky sense of humor and independent…

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Nature abhors a vacuum. So do ruthless killers. Marvel’s Daredevil ended its premiere season last year with blind superhero Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), taking down Hell’s Kitchen crime lord Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). But the peace will be brief. When the Netflix series returns, a gang of Irish mobsters has stepped in to claim Fisk’s territory, only to be snuffed out in one manic attack by a shadowy figure with SEAL Team 6 capabilities and militarygrade firepower. Meet Frank Castle (The Walking Dead vet Jon Bernthal)—code name the Punisher—a deeply disturbed Iraq war vet who wants to rid the neighborhood of vice and corruption. Hey, isn’t that Daredevil’s job? “Frank Castle will question Matt’s entire worldview,” says executive producer Marco Ramirez. “While both are vigilantes, Frank is a…

ACROSS 1 The New ____ Family 7 Heather of Profiler 13 Run for cover (2 wds.) 14 Thorne of Rescue Me 15 Michael of Broken Arrow 16 The ____ Match 17 Iguana on Dora the Explorer 18 Princess headwear 20 Cheers, for one 21 Abram of This Old House 23 Professional hoops group 24 One ____ Hill 25 Doctor Arcane on Swamp Thing 27 Breathing area for an arctic whale (2 wds.) 29 Logan’s Run android 31 ____ Detector 32 Secondary wager (2 wds.) 36 Dawson’s ____ 40 Business group 41 FBI analyst on Standof 43 Singer Fitzgerald 44 Norm’s job on Cheers (abbr.) 45 Cohn of The Facts of Life 47 Trekker, for one 48 Brothers boy band 50 Todd Bridges on Fish 52 Tom of Roseanne 53 Tropical American lizard 54 Mac’s partner…

THEY’RE BACK! Brennan and Booth will get to solve a few more cases. Fox’s Bones, starring Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, will conclude next year after a 12-episode season. New episodes of Season 11 resume April 14. * After being canceled by The CW, America’s Next Top Model will soon walk the catwalk for 14 episodes on VH1. Tyra Banks (right) returns as executive producer, but the show will have a new host and judges. PREGNANT JoAnna Garcia Swisher (The Astronaut Wives Club) and her Atlanta Braves right-fielder husband, Nick Swisher, are expecting a sister for daughter Emerson Jay, 2, later this year. SPLIT Blindspot’s Jaimie Alexander and her Supergirl fiancé, Peter Facinelli, called off their engagement. The amicable split is due to “conflicting family and work commitments on opposite…

@TVGMLogan THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS Weekdays, CBS TIME TO PAY the piper. Victor Newman, the Machiavellian menace played on The Young and the Restless by Eric Braeden, is about to get ousted—by his own daughter!—as CEO of Newman Enterprises. And that’s not the worst of it. Victor’s 36 years of unlawful activity will come to an abrupt end when he’s charged with kidnapping and fraud, and his wife and children testify against him in court. Hmmm…wonder how the Mustache will look in an orange jumpsuit? The Emmywinning Braeden breaks it down. Victor is guilty as hell of these charges. Can we safely assume there will be no mea culpa? He doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong, so he’s furious! Everything he’s done has been to protect his family and…

KUNAL NAYYAR “Suspicion” (Season 4, Episode 12) The future Big Bang Theory actor earned his SAG card for this guest part as an Iraqi terrorist. He also got a punch in the face from Gibbs. BELLAMY YOUNG “Split Decision” (Season 1, Episode 21) Scandal’s scheming First Lady got some early practice playing an ATF agent who made extra green as an illegal arms dealer. ERIC STONESTREET “Silent Night” (Season 6, Episode 11) Forget holiday cheer. The Modern Family Emmy winner guest starred as a security guard who killed an entire family in this special yuletide episode. EMILE DE RAVIN “Seadog” (Season 1, Episode 3) The Lost and Once Upon a Time actress’s bikini-clad traveler and her pal grilled DiNozzo up some “shrimp on the barbie” during their hilarious interrogation. JOSH HOLLOWAY…

THEY HELPED PUT Cooking Channel on the map in 2011 with their lusty, Tuscanybased food show Extra Virgin. Now actress Debi Mazar (Younger) and her chef hubby, Gabriele Corcos, are back in the U.S.A. with Extra Virgin Americana. Your show was so wildly Italian. What’s with the change in locales? Mazar: After five seasons, the network wanted to shake things up and have us travel the United States with our daughters, cooking with the locals and checking out the customs. We should know all about our own country, right? I’m one of those native New Yorkers who has yet to get to the top of the Statue of Liberty. So this is huge for me. Corcos: We do the Grand Canyon, the Smoky Mountains, Seattle, Napa Valley, Detroit, Cape Cod.…

IT’S NO SURPRISE that the OMG contents of the How to Get Away With Murder finale script are on lockdown. Still, in honor of the embattled Keating Five, creator and exec producer Peter Nowalk agreed to give us a quintet of clues for how he’ll get away with a killer end to Season 2. 1. Why Frank (Charlie Weber) murdered Lila (Megan West) for Sam (Tom Verica) will finally be revealed—and it’s a heartbreaker tied to troubled lawyer Annalise Keating (Viola Davis, right). “What’s exciting,” Nowalk says, “is we answer it in a way that really connects a lot of our storylines.” 2. The mystery of who killed the Hapstall parents also gets solved. “By the end of the season, Annalise will have put that to bed,” promises Nowalk, who…

Houston, we have a problem. As March Madness looms, no clear-cut favorites have emerged on the road to the NCAA Men’s Final Four in the Texas city. At press time, six teams have been ranked No. 1 and the top contenders are saddled with more losses—at least three apiece— than in previous years at this juncture. “That lends itself to thinking that we might have some craziness,” says CBS analyst Clark Kellogg. “There was a pretty good consensus about the best teams last year, and we don’t have that this year. There are about a dozen teams that look like they have what it takes to win six in a row.” Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan State and Xavier “have perhaps the best offensive balance of the teams in the field…

AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED Source: Nielsen Media Research, week of February 15–21, 2016, in millions. THE NEW COMEDY You Me Her (March 22, 9/8c, DirecTV’s Audience Network) explores a blossoming three-way romance between married Jack and Emma (Greg Poehler and Rachel Blanchard, bottom photo) and escort Izzy (Priscilla Faia, with Poehler, top). While Jack may seem to be getting the better end of the deal, he’s uneasy with the situation. “Traditionally, such relationships have negative connotations, with the man in the dominant role and the women subservient, perhaps unhappy,” Poehler says. “Here, it’s the women who are the most willing and the most consenting. It certainly doesn’t play out like it’s every guy’s fantasy.”…

@TVGMMattRoush Series premiere Wednesday, March 9, 10/9c, WGN America To their owners, they’re property. To those risking everything to secure their freedom, they’re codenamed “cargo”: precious, to be sure, but perilous in a pre–Civil War America polarized over the slave trade. Underground, a stirringly earnest historical drama, depicts the desperation that fueled the need for an Underground Railroad, emphasizing the dangers awaiting those brave enough to attempt or even aid in such a journey. In recent episodes of PBS’s genealogy series Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., once criticized for whitewashing Ben Affleck’s slave-holding heritage, celebrated African-Americans, including Shonda Rhimes, Maya Rudolph and Keenen Ivory Wayans, have traced their family lineages to a grim past, when ancestors often were listed as mere marks on a ledger, rarely including…

WHEN PRODUCER GARETH Neame urged Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes to cocreate a series for Britain’s ITV network about an early-20th-century aristocratic English family and its staff, Fellowes was so unsure of its commercial success he wrote the first season’s finale as a possible series ender. He needn’t have worried. An instant hit overseas, the drama came to the United States via PBS’s Masterpiece in 2011. Over six seasons, Downton Abbey earned bookshelves of awards, smashed Masterpiece’s ratings records and made Highclere Castle, which serves as Downton’s stand-in, a major tourist site. “A big appeal of the show was that even though the characters had very different backgrounds and expectations of life, on the whole they were a pretty decent lot, worthy of respect below stairs as much as above,” Fellowes…

THE AMERICANS, Season premiere Wednesday, March 16, 10/9c, FX HOME IS THE overriding theme of The Americans’ fourth season. But just where or what home is can be tricky when the family at the heart of FX’s Cold War thriller is led by two KGB spies, Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), passing as the ultimate all-American family, along with their two teens: the ever-curious, now fully briefed Paige (Holly Taylor) and oftneglected Henry (Keidrich Sellati). “From the beginning, we’ve thought of The Americans as an immigrant story,” creator Joe Weisberg says. “This is the season where those immigrant parents start really thinking about the old country, and that impacts their parenting and their marriage.” Explains executive producer Joel Fields: “It’s Philip and Elizabeth against Paige. It’s Elizabeth…

Hello, Mother. Last season’s heartbreaking finale of Bates Motel revealed that Norman (Freddie Highmore) had killed his onetime crush Bradley (Nicola Peltz) after taking on the persona of “Mother,” a jealous, murderous version of his ever-loving mama, Norma (Vera Farmiga). “I’ve always found it relatively easy to go home and not dwell on Norman’s problems,” says the 24-year-old British actor, who plays the teenage version of the iconic killer. This season, that might not be so easy, because the show is digging much deeper into Norman’s increasingly psycho psyche. “We see the start of the relationship between Norman and this fictional Mother who he believes killed the women that he actually murdered,” Highmore says. As for his real mom, “she will finally get outside help for Norman,” says Highmore, who…

SHE PLAYS Tina Morris, an overtly sexy, free-spirited fortysomething—and champion self-saboteur—on Togetherness, HBO’s dark comedy about a quartet of married and single folks grappling with early midlife tedium in East L.A. “She’s a train wreck, and I love it!” Peet says. In Season 2, Tina has been flirting with adulthood—helping out her previously more responsible sister, Michelle (Melanie Lynskey), and brother-in-law, Brett (Mark Duplass)—while grappling with unresolved feelings for her estranged buddy Alex (Steve Zissis). WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE In scores of movie roles, including The Whole Nine Yards and Something’s Gotta Give, and TV gigs like The Good Wife. Since 2006, she’s been married to Game of Thrones cocreator David Benioff, and they have three kids. For the record, the couple is careful about swapping career input: “We…

After 75 episodes of boot-rocking chemistry, wedding bells are finally ringing for Nashville’s Rayna James (Connie Britton) and Deacon Claybourne (Charles Esten). Following the long-awaited proposal in the midseason finale (and a short time jump), the drama returns tonight with the country crooners tying the knot. “I’ve always been a big advocate for the two of them getting together,” Britton says. “Instead of just seeing them struggling with their past, it would be interesting to see them struggling with their present a little bit.” But don’t expect an event the size of Kim’s Fairytale Wedding. “I would say there’s probably not a lot of similarities between Rayna and Kim Kardashian!” Britton quips. Instead, the ceremony will be an intimate affair. “It feels like the wedding Rayna has always wanted. She…

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@damianholbrook CHEERS TO CONNOR JESSUP for killing it on American Crime. As rape victim turned school shooter Taylor Blaine, the Falling Skies alum offers a devastating portrait of a young man’s bone-deep grief, shame and, now, terror at what he’s become. It’ll be a real Crime if the Emmy voters ignore his astounding turn. CHEERS TO RITA WILSON for her Girls power. While Hannah and friends whined through Marnie’s wedding day, it was Wilson’s hilarious pop-in as the brash, unfiltered mother of the bride that made the return of HBO’s comedy such a blessed event. CHEERS TO BLACK-ISH for tackling gray matters. The A+ comedy earned extra points with an episode about police brutality and race that was emotional, balanced, informed and, best of all, brimming with standout performances from…