Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/9/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

YOU DON’T PLAY nice when global domination is your goal. On the May 20 two-hour season finale of NBC’s Grimm, Portland detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli, near left) is held hostage by the insanely powerful Conrad Bonaparte (Shaun Toub), leader of the terrorist Wesen group Black Claw. “Bonaparte will do anything to get hold of a valuable artifact—the Grimm lineage book—that’s in Nick’s possession,” says showrunner David Greenwalt. “This will give Black Claw the upper hand it needs for their revolution.” To secure the prize, Bonaparte gets inside Nick’s head, literally. “It’s an epic showdown,” Greenwalt adds. “Our fans are going to see Nick at his most vulnerable.”…

Over two seasons, NBC’s The Carmichael Show has proven that no subject is off limits: depression, gentrification, gun control, religion and more. As the comedy has established itself—and its handling of hot-button issues has drawn praise from critics—the show’s creative team and NBC brass have settled into an efficient working relationship. “We are an old married couple,” star and executive producer Jerrod Carmichael says. “We can disagree and still get something done. So I think the relationship has evolved in a healthy, fun way.” While preparing to take on Donald Trump and the election in its May 29 season finale, Carmichael looks back on some of the most memorable installments so far. “Protest” (Season 1, Episode 2): The series addressed the Black Lives Matter movement early in its run with…

WHEN STARZ HIT drama Power returns in July, Ghost (Omari Hardwick, far left) is attempting a do-over: He’s left his wife, Tasha (Naturi Naughton), and has committed himself to his first love, and former mistress, Angela (Lela Loren, near left), and to a life on the straight and narrow as legit club owner James St. Patrick. The Season 3 premiere—which has several nods to the pilot, executive producer Courtney Kemp Agboh teases—finds Ghost and Angela making their first public appearance at his club, Truth. “Ghost loves being the new version of himself with Angela, and Angela loves being on his arm—but each of them is holding a secret,” Agboh says. “It’s a hot night and a great moment between them, with an added twist of mystery because of all the…

Special Delivery THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Weekdays, CBS SPOILER ALERT! THE wildest pregnancy in daytime drama is about to get even wilder. On May 17, The Bold and the Beautiful’s young Nicole Avant (Reign Edwards) will give birth to a baby after being artificially inseminated with the sperm of her brother-in-law, Rick (Jacob Young), who is married to her transgender sister, Maya (Karla Mosley). But no good deed goes unpunished. Edwards gave us the lowdown on the anguish—and scandal—to come. In giving Maya the baby she so desperately wanted, Nicole lost Zende (Rome Flynn), the love of her life, who then went and slept with her sister Sasha (Felicia Cooper). So what is that cad doing in the delivery room? Zende is with Nicole when she starts having contractions…

God is among us. Seriously, he’s abandoned Heaven and is hiding out among us mortals in AMC’s latest comic book adaptation, Preacher. And there’s only one man who can find Him: Rev. Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), mixed-up minister of screwed-up Annville, Texas, where the folks are rich in poverty and poor on integrity. Jesse is possessed by a mysterious force (which is shaped like a comet and shrieks like a newborn) that came hurtling out of the sky and gave him the power to control others’ minds. At least he’s going to try to do some good with it. “Jesse, in his most simple form, is a terribly complex man,” Cooper says. “He’s fighting so many demons and trying his hardest to appease his guilt over the past—a past that…

NEARLY A YEAR to the day since its last episode aired, CBS’s conspiracy thriller Person of Interest finally returns for a fifth (and final) season. The action picks up shortly after the closing moments of Season 4, which saw clandestine crusaders Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), John Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Root (Amy Acker) making a hair’s-breadth escape from a siege by the sinister forces of Decima Technologies. Even worse, the Machine—the treasured all-seeing, artificially intelligent supercomputer that helps them save lives— has been put on ice and was literally downsized to fit inside a briefcase. As the show kicks off its 13-episode swan song, the stress of staying alive and unseen by Samaritan, the rival artificial intelligence operated by Decima, has worn on the team. “Our characters haven’t been living.…

I magine if Bigfoot emerged from the forest and turned out to be just a regular, though slightly hirsute, Joe with a wife and kids. That’s the basic premise of Sundance TV’s new Australiaset sci-fidrama Cleverman, premiering June 1. The series imagines life in the near future if the country’s “Hairypeople” (a mythological Aboriginal creature similar to Sasquatch) suddenly surfaced en masse. For the most part unwelcome by human society, they are forced to seek refuge in a liminal community called the Zone. And when a series of violent, unexplained murders occurs on its outskirts, guess who’s blamed? To create Cleverman’s furry new race, the show’s creature designer, Jacob Nash, and his team worked with artists from New Zealand’s Weta Workshop (the special-effects company behind all those hairy hobbit feet…

Sundays, 10/9c, Showtime @TVGMMattRoush Adark poetry infuses the terrors lurking in the seductive miasma of Penny Dreadful, a horror series unlike any other. Elegant and erotic in its savage yet sordid beauty, the third season of John Logan’s stylishly literate monster mashup never loses focus despite being, quite literally, all over the map—a condition also currently afflicting HBO’s sprawling masterpiece Game of Thrones. “Are there no fresh wonders left?” muses one of the show’s many troubled souls early on. Just wait. Expanding its scope from Victorian London to lawless 1892 New Mexico, the lush wilds of African Zanzibar and frigid Arctic wastes, Dreadful presents even its most fearsome ghouls through an enchanted prism of romantic imagination, as in a fever dream. “If only we would stop and look and wonder,”…

BLACK-ISH Season finale Wednesday, May 18, 9:30/8:30c, ABC THERE’S ONLY ONE way to describe the Season 2 finale of black-ish: dy-no-mite! The hit show honors the classic 1974–79 sitcom Good Times, transporting the L.A.-based Johnson clan back in time to inner-city Chicago via a trippy dream sequence. “Forty years ago, the Evans family was the black family on TV,” black-ish creator Kenya Barris says. “Creating this parallel was something I always wanted to do.” Dre (Anthony Anderson) and the rest of the family will don the requisite polyester finery to channel iconic Good Times characters, as real plot points from the vault dovetail with current storylines, like the unplanned pregnancy of Dre’s wife, Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross), and her Windy City alter ego, Thelma Evans. To get into a ’70s…

BONES Thursdays, 8/7c, Fox Over the past 11 seasons, Bones’ FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) and Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) have solved more than 220 homicides. When the couple isn’t out in the field together, Booth is busy tracking down suspects while forensic anthropologist Brennan works with her team at the Jeffersonian Institute to make sense of any remains or evidence. Built on the Fox lot in Century City, California, the Jeffersonian has become home to a number of extraordinary objects—both big and small—throughout the show’s tenure. (The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles and Wallis Annenberg Building at USC stand in for the institute’s facade.) “The lab set is a great space for bringing in very large pieces,” production designer Valdar Wilt says. “We’ve had a…

ALL-STAR REALITY CONTESTANTS from Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Race come on down for three primetime The Price Is Right specials airing May 23 to 25 on CBS. Nine former Big Brother houseguests partner with superfans to win cash and prizes, and host Julie Chen was on hand to spin the showcase showdown wheel and try her luck at a game of Plinko during breaks. “This is the closest I will get to experiencing the mayhem and craziness on the set of The Price Is Right,” says Chen, who appears on the May 24 installment. “It felt like a class reunion where I’m the principal!”…

Now that the backstage brouhaha at Live With Kelly and Michael has been settled-ish, it’s time to focus on the very real drama of finding someone to replace Strahan after his May 13 departure to Good Morning America. Here are some of our suggestions, but please, ABC, tell Kelly before you make any announcements. —Damian Holbrook The Jock: Hélio Castroneves With three Indy 500 titles under his belt, this charmer who also won the fifth season of Dancing With the Stars can handle live-TV pressure and could bring a whole new audience of race fans to the show. Plus, imagine all the “Ripa gets a Brazilian” jokes to be made! The Newsie: Anderson Cooper Cooper and Ripa are besties already, so their chemistry is set. And with his CNN background,…

NCIS, Season finale Tuesday, May 17, 8/7c, C BY THE TIME you read this, Michael Weatherly will have given away his last farewell gift (a Swiss Army knife engraved with BIG KISS) to the NCIS crew. His trailer will no longer be parked on the show’s lot in Santa Clarita, California. Tony DiNozzo, the role he inhabited for the last 13 years, won’t be on the series’ call sheet. The characters rumored to be replacing Tony, FBI vet Tess Monroe (Sarah Clarke) and British MI6 agent Clayton Reeves (Duane Henry), will be introduced in the May 10 episode. And Weatherly himself will soon know if his new CBS pilot, Bull, which is based on the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, has been picked up for the 2016–17 TV season.…

THE VOICE Mondays and Tuesdays, 8/7c, NBC “CAN I SIT DOWN before everyone starts busting my balls?” It’s shortly after two in the afternoon, and Adam Levine, The Voice coach and Maroon 5 frontman, has just arrived at an L.A. recording studio, where his bandmates seem determined to give him a goodnatured hard time. Which, as the Grammy-winning rocker acknowledges, makes giving this interview a challenge. “Sorry,” he says. “What were you asking?” Quiet downtime isn’t something Levine has much of these days. Besides working on his band’s next album and finishing up his 10th straight season on NBC’s singing competition, which airs its finale on May 24, he’ll welcome his first child, with model wife Behati Prinsloo, later this year. Still, we managed to pin Levine down long enough…