Innholdsfortegnelse for 12/19/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

FACEBOOK LIVE WITH BEN MCKENZIE, NEW YORK Gotham star Ben McKenzie, who plays the heroic Jim Gordon, visited TV GUIDE MAGAZINE’s Manhattan office on November 21 for a Facebook Live chat with senior writer Damian Holbrook (far right). Watch at Facebook.com/TVGuideMagazine/videos. CONVERSATIONS WITH ERINN HAYES, LOS ANGELES TVGM West Coast Bureau Chief Jim Halterman hosted the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s “Conversations” series with Erinn Hayes, who is currently starring opposite Kevin James in the CBS hit Kevin Can Wait. The event, held on November 21 at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Screening Room in L.A., featured a talk with the star about her career and the comedy.…

TWINS MATT DUFFER AND ROSS DUFFER (known professionally as the Duffer Brothers) had a 2016 that most writer-producers only dream of: The first TV show they created, Netflix’s Stranger Things— the ’80s-set story about the mysterious disappearance of a young boy and the supernatural-tinged search to save him—quickly became one of the most buzzed about series of the year. Though Netflix doesn’t release ratings, the show permeated the cultural discussion enough that it was parodied on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show, inspired a slew of cosplay and Halloween costumes and picked up two Grammy nominations (for the soundtrack) and a pair of Writers Guild Awards nominations. The brothers, who also wrote and produced for Fox’s Wayward Pines, reflect on their whirlwind year. What was the first project you…

DAYTIME #8226; LATE NIGHT #8226; SPORTS #8226; STREAMING #8226; MOVIES DICK CLARK’S NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN’ EVE WITH RYAN SEACREST Saturday, Dec. 31, 8/7c, ABC A CHRISTMAS STORY Saturday, Dec. 24, 8/7c, TNT COLLEGE BOWL GAMES Saturday, Dec. 31, 3/2c and 7/6c, ESPN KENNEDY CENTER HONORS Tuesday, Dec. 27, 9/8c, CBS PLUS 28 PAGES OF PRIMETIME LISTINGS…

College Football Playoff Saturday, Dec. 31, 3/2c, ESPN, Washington vs. Alabama (Peach Bowl) Saturday, Dec. 31, 7/6c, ESPN, Ohio State vs. Clemson (Fiesta Bowl) Monday, Jan. 9. 8/7c, ESPN, National Championship @CFBPlayoff OLD ACQUAINTANCES WON’T be forgotten New Year’s Eve in the College Football Playoff semifinals. If the topranked Alabama Crimson Tide defeat the Washington Huskies and the Clemson Tigers beat the Ohio State Buckeyes, we’ll see a replay of last season’s title game in Tampa on January 9. Alabama prevailed 45–40 in that game, and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit says of Clemson, “There’s no question that’s been driving them from the time they walked off the field last year.” Going back two years, Ohio State toppled the Tide en route to the first playoff crown, so that’s another potential…

@TVGMMattRoush My reaction to Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival was mixed. On the one hand, it was pure Gilmore, but it felt to me like they didn’t adapt Rory’s (Alexis Bledel) character to adjust for the passage of time. I found her to be whiny and self-involved, not giving two thoughts to her boyfriend’s feelings and not preparing for a job interview.(That said, any chance for more new episodes? I’m still all in.) —Kristen MATT ROUSH: I’ve heard about the Rory backlash, but these have always been flawed characters, and watching her stumble and flail to find a purpose even in her 30s doesn’t seem so out of character. (And I loved the purpose she ultimately found.) There was also an outcry over the “final four words” ending—Mimi wrote in to wail, “Why?…

LIFE IS SUCH a strange journey for pretty much all of us. It is a book being written every day, each new chapter unknown to the reader, who is experiencing a path that could turn at any moment. My life has been like that. I was born in Louisiana and raised all over the South, with my home base being the woods in Alabama. It was a very conservative environment of church, food, family and questions. Always a curious child, and now adult, there were so many things I wanted to know, understand and experience. High school wasn’t great for me and I’m surprised I even got through it. When I went to college in south Georgia and studied sociology, psychology and criminal science, I was completely absorbed in my…

TONY BENNETT MAY not dig contemporary music, but the venerable crooner, whose multiple awards include 19 Grammys and two Emmys, can still rock the joint. When he stepped on the Radio City Music Hall stage and sang several of his favorite tunes to cap NBC’s star-studded tribute concert, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come, he more than held his own in a company that included such musical luminaries as Michael Bublé, Elton John, k.d. lang, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga. A few weeks later, in his airy Manhattan artist’s studio facing Central Park—he lives in the stately building next door with his third wife, Susan—Bennett shared highlights of his extraordinary career of nearly 70 years and the concert he dubbed “One of the greatest things that…

ACROSS Answers to puzzle of Dec. 5 1 Strike down 5 Ely of Tarzan fame 8 Type of arch 12 Ramona’s best friend on Fuller House 13 An orchid genus 14 Nothing (Sp.) 15 Double ____ 16 _____ and Stacey 17 Arab ruler 18 Put away 20 The Portrait of a Lady hero 22 Green of Penny Dreadful 23 Pittsburgh Steelers coach 24 Bloom of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 27 Store on a farm 30 Iguana on Dora the Explorer 31 Bill ____, the Science Guy 32 The Dark Knight 36 Debra of The Ranch 39 Leslie Caron starrer 40 Actress Sue ____ Langdon 41 Call to Glory family 43 Small canine (2 wds.) 47 Man With a ____ 48 Odd Mom ____ 50 Whisker 51 “Pretty please?” (2 wds.) 52 New Guinea…

CHEERS TO MICHAEL WEATHERLY for his quick TV turnaround. Before we could complain about the NCIS favorite’s exit, Weatherly went and did us a solid by promptly bringing his infectious charm to the Dr. Phil–inspired Bull. CHEERS TO JAMES CORDEN for being Uber to the arts. Whether he’s hosting the Tonys or strapping in Broadway’s best for “Carpool Karaoke,” nobody drives attention to the theater like the Late Late Show star. CHEERS TO MUSICALS ON TV Hairspray Live!, Grease: Live and Rocky Horror all earned standing Os for their lively jumps to the small screen that showcased the often-unsung gifts of stars like Vanessa Hudgens and Laverne Cox. Brava! JEERS TO SHOWTIME for Penny Dreadful’s dreadful ending. It’s scary how we got no warning from the network that the sexy…

Travelers SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Dec. 23, Netflix Hundreds of years from now, the only surviving humans make a last-ditch effort to save mankind by zapping an FBI agent (Eric McCormack, above left, with Arnold Pinnock) and other “travelers” back in time and into the minds of people living in the 21st century, Quantum Leap– style! Their goal: to figure out what went wrong and stop it. Trollhunters SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Dec. 23, Netflix High school is hard enough for Jim Lake Jr. (voiced by the late Anton Yelchin). Then he finds a strange amulet that leads him to a secret society of trolls, gnomes and other magical sprites living beneath his small town. There, he becomes the first human Trollhunter, whose duty it is to protect good trolls from baddies…