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UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT PANEL, NEW YORK TV GUIDE MAGAZINE senior writer Damian Holbrook moderated “A Conversation With the Writers of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” as part of the New York Comedy Festival at the 92nd Street Y on November 5. 1.Creator Tina Fey and writer Leila Strachan. 2. Back row: Holbrook, Sam Means, creator Robert Carlock, Fey, Dan Rubin and New York Comedy Festival founder Caroline Hirsch. Front row: Strachan, Meredith Scardino, Lauren Gurganous and Azie Dungey. 3. Holbrook leads the discussion on the hit Netflix comedy. THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL PANEL, BEVERLY HILLS On November 3, TVGM writer at large Michael Logan (right) led a panel for daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. The chat, part of CBS’s celebration…

LIKE ANY GOOD team, Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein each bring something different to the table: he’s an Academy Award–winning film producer (Rain Man) and she started in documentary television. Their combined synergy gels when producing for TV— Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Halt and Catch Fire and Rectify (which wraps its four-season run December 14 on SundanceTV). Next up, Johnson and Bernstein explore the worlds of psychics and streaming platforms with Hulu’s Shut Eye (Season 1 drops December 7). The duo explains how their partnership works and why Shut Eye, starring Jeffrey Donovan, KaDee Strickland and Isabella Rossellini, is so fascinating to them. You have multiple film and TV projects happening simultaneously. How do you keep in touch? Johnson: This year in particular we have not been in the…

WHILE SOME ROLES may be far removed from an actor’s real life, Colin Hanks has more than enough to draw upon to play youngest son Greg Short on the hit CBS family comedy Life in Pieces. The oldest son of actor Tom Hanks has three siblings and, like his alter ego, is also a parent (Olivia, 5, and Charlotte, 3, with wife Samantha Bryant). With a busy home and professional life, Hanks, 39, should be able to relate to the December 15 holiday episode when Greg and wife Jen (Zoe Lister-Jones) try to stay awake long enough to have a romantic date night away from their toddler. Here, Hanks shares his thoughts on directing, the advice he got from his dad when he was starting out and why he doesn’t…

SCENE STEALER MALCOLM BARRETT  HE PLAYS Rufus Carlin, a mild-mannered government engineer thrust into a hero’s role when he’s ordered to pilot a time machine to help stop bad guy Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnjic), who keeps visiting the past to change America’s history. Rufus has also been forced by secret government operatives to spy on his fellow travelers, historian Lucy (Abigail Spencer) and soldier Wyatt (Matt Lanter). In tonight’s episode, the group meets up with Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s. WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HIM Mostly in sitcoms and sketch comedies (Better Off Ted, Key & Peele). But Barrett is also an experienced stage actor and was devastating in Southland as a crime witness who doesn’t realize he’s been mortally wounded. “It was really good to be able to exercise…

CATHOLICS VS. CONVICTS EVEN PEOPLE WHO don’t remember the score remember the T-shirt. On October 15, 1988, the No. 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish hosted the No. 1 Miami Hurricanes in a college football game that is legendary for its loathing. Filmmaker Patrick Creadon says choosing the title Catholics vs. Convicts for his chronicle of the game (the latest movie in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series) “was very difficult, because I wasn’t sure that I wanted to stir up that hatred again. But with a documentary you have an opportunity to really talk about the things in the story that are uncomfortable.” What happened on the field—and in a pregame fight (right) is recounted by players and coaches, including Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz and Miami’s Jimmy Johnson, whose athletes had…

Cheers to Good Behavior for its bad girl. We always knew Lady Mary had a wild side, and now Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery is letting it rip as an amoral addict caught up with a contract killer (Juan Diego Botto) in this sexy, sinister new thriller. Cheers to The Flash for fleshing out its leading ladies. By bringing Candice Patton’s Iris to the forefront with West family drama and giving Danielle Panabaker’s (far right, with Patton) Caitlin some chilling superpowers as Killer Frost, Season 3 has set our hearts racing. LOVE IT! HATE IT! Cheers to Saturday Night Live for winning our vote again. After a dreadful preelection show, the sketch series redeemed itself with Kate McKinnon’s (above) “Hillary singing ‘Hallelujah’” cold open, host Dave Chappelle’s poignant monologue and some…

@TVGMMattRoush TVGuideMagazine @TV Guide Magazine @tvguidemagazine Will Crazy Ex-Girlfriend be OK without Greg [Santino Fontana, above, with Rachel Bloom]? He was such a large part of the show and had some of my favorite songs! I can’t imagine the show without him. I understand Crazy isn’t your typical rom-com and completely get why they didn’t end up together (at least for now), but he’s such an interesting character! —Melissa MATT ROUSH: To paraphrase his Emmy-nominated song from last season, we’ll have to settle for this one-of-a-kind show without Fontana, a real loss. But at least they gave Greg a memorable sendoff in that hilarious duet with Rebecca’s other ex, Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III). Like Rebecca, the show may not instantly rebound from his departure, but Crazy revels in subverting romantic-comedy conventions,…

DRUNK HISTORY “WOULD I EVER believe I’d be in TV GUIDE MAGAZINE with an episode called ‘S**t Shows’? No!” shouts Drunk History cocreator and host Derek Waters. The Season 4 finale of the Emmywinning Comedy Central series—which features super-tipsy narrators telling true historical tales performed and lip-synched by super-game actors— is particularly close to Waters’s heart. His pal and frequent collaborator Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) narrates the “Disco Demolition Night” segment about a disastrous evening at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1979. The tale is personally meaningful to both men. “The main reason that I know Bob Odenkirk and his wife is [because of] where this story comes from—which is through a mutual friend, Jim Zulevic, who passed a couple years ago,” Waters explains. “He wrote this movie Disco Demolition…

Gingerbread Neighborhood Be the hit of your “ginger-hood” when you sweeten the landscape. Place a store-bought, predecorated ginger house on a platter covered with coconut flakes for snow. Create Christmas trees with green frosting piped from a star tip and top them with sprinkle ornaments. Mini pretzels placed on top of white frosting become a shoveled cobblestone path, and blue sparkle gel is your frozen pond. Surround it all with a white-sugar-cube picket fence. Cookie Cupcakes Using a favorite mix, bake a batch of vanilla cupcakes. Let cool completely. Spoon some white frosting into a pastry bag and pipe a large swirl of frosting on each cupcake, then securely press a decorated, bakerybought sugar cookie on top. Transfer the decorated cupcakes into colored paper liners. Make Spirits Bright (With a…

The Man in the High Castle SEASON PREMIERE Friday, Dec. 16, Amazon The Philip K. Dick adaptation returns with Third Reich top dog John Smith (Rufus Sewell, above) struggling to reconcile the fact that by hiding his ailing son from authorities, he’s breaking one of the 5,000 horrible, inhumane Nazi rules he’s supposed to be enforcing. So, wait, does this make him a bad good boy, or a good bad boy? Samuel Fuller Collection Friday, Dec. 16, FilmStruck Turner Classic Movies’ new streaming service continues to add to its impressive offerings (among other things, they’ve acquired the entire Criterion Collection) with several more films from crime writer turned low-budget auteur Samuel Fuller. War movie Fixed Bayonets! and Westerns The Baron of Arizona and I Shot Jesse James join the previously…

Self/less (2015) Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8/7c, HBO Without the benefit of his green or red protective superhero suit, Ryan Reynolds (above) goes full sci-fi in this thriller, costarring Ben Kingsley as a dying billionaire who spends a big chunk of his kid’s inheritance on a medical procedure to transfer his consciousness to a younger, healthier and better dressed Reynolds. Star Wars Marathon  Saturday, Dec. 10, 5:18am/4:18c, TNT The first stand-alone Star Wars universe film, Rogue One, opens on December 16. Plotwise, it takes place after Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith. Start your weekend early and catch up on all six original pictures, in chronological order, including the best entry, The Empire Strikes Back (above). The Family Fang (2016) Saturday, Dec. 10, 9/8c, Starz Jason Bateman long ago graduated from teen…

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