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SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION PANELS, LOS ANGELES TV GUIDE MAGAZINE West Coast Bureau Chief Jim Halterman moderated two SAG-AFTRA Foundation panels with Netflix’s biggest stars. 1. Grace and Frankie’s Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are all smiles after their January 19 panel at ArcLight Hollywood. 2. Halterman with Black Mirror’s Bryce Dallas Howard on January 11 as a part of the SAGAFTRA Foundation’s Conversations series at the organization’s screening room in L.A. 24: LEGACY FACEBOOK LIVE, NEW YORK CITY 24: Legacy costars Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits stopped by our New York City office for a Facebook Live chat with TVGM Senior Critic Matt Roush. Fox’s highly anticipated reboot premiered February 5 after Super Bowl LI. You can watch their chat at Facebook.com/TVGuideMagazine/videos and see the stars discuss their show, the new characters…

EMERALD CITY THERE’S EPIC, AND then there’s Emerald City (Fridays, 9/8c, NBC). The rowdy, radical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books dazzles with majestic sets and jaw-dropping vistas, very little of it enhanced by CGI. Who could pull this off in an age of shrinking budgets and micromanagement? Executive producer Shaun Cassidy. Yep, the former teen idol! You’ve brought Game of Thrones— level production values to network TV. How did you get away with this? I think Emerald City is the most expensive series NBC has ever done. The network said, “Make it as good as you can.” You don’t often get that mandate. The TV bar is now set remarkably high, and if we were going to take on Baum’s books, we knew we had to take viewers to…

Schitt’s Creek Wednesdays, 8/7c, Pop @SchittsCreekPop ACTOR AND WRITER Daniel Levy always resisted the advantages that came with being the son of comedy icon Eugene Levy. But after finding success as a host on MTV Canada, the younger Levy was finally ready to collaborate with his famous father. The result: the sitcom they created and act in together, Pop’s Schitt’s Creek. Now in its third season, the show stars the Levys—alongside Catherine O’Hara and Chris Elliott—as father and son Johnny and David Rose, who have to rebuild their lives in a small town after losing their fortune. When I first approached my dad about the beginning stages of Schitt’s Creek, I felt like the idea was something that was my own but that it could also benefit from his sensibility.…

1. Today premieres on January 14. (1952) 2. Barbara Walters becomes the first female coanchor on a major network news program. (1974) 3. Al Roker interviews Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz. “To be able to interview my idol was amazing,” says Roker. (1999) 4. Lauer and Roker dress up for Halloween as Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy. “It’s important not to take yourself too seriously,” says Lauer. (2000) 5. Katie Couric undergoes a colonoscopy on live TV following her husband’s death from colon cancer. (2000) 6. Lauer and Couric take live calls from distressed witnesses as they watch the Twin Towers burn on 9/11. (2001) 7. Lauer visits Easter Island for a “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” segment. “It’s still one of my favorite locations on Earth,” he says. (2005)…

In the Mood for Love Available now, FilmStruck Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s moody movie masterpiece— about a man (Tony Leung) and a woman (Maggie Cheung, above) who fall in love after learning their spouses are having an affair—hits Turner Classic Movies’ streaming site just in time for Valentine’s Day. Need more convincing? It’s No. on the BBC’s list of the best films of the 21st century. The Mindy Project MIDSEASON PREMIERE Season 5, Tuesday, Feb. 14, Hulu In a dream episode/homage to Groundhog Day (or, if you prefer, Hot Tub Time Machine), Mindy (Mindy Kaling, right) finds herself reliving the day Ben (Bryan Greenberg) split with her over and over again. The only way to break the cycle: make things right with him. And be nicer to Ned Ryerson.…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) Sunday, Feb. 19, 8/7c, Epix This is the sixth Ninja Turtles movie in a franchise you might not have even noticed was a franchise. Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Laura Linney are some of the humans who share the screen with the greenshelled superheroes in a half shell. 31 Days of Oscar Saturday, Feb. 25, 6am/5c, TCM We’re in the middle of Turner Classic Movies’ annual monthlong salute to film’s most prestigious award, but this Saturday lineup stands out among all the glittering gold. Start with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in 1961’s Splendor in the Grass, and make time for John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to a new Who Peter Capaldi announced he’s packing up the TARDIS and leaving his role as the 12th Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who revival’s 10th season. Could this means it’s finally time, Lord, to cast a more colorful incarnation? Cheers to General Hospital for admitting a daytime legend. ABC’s last soap standing revealed that double Emmy winner Hillary B. Smith would be coming to Port Charles as her former One Life to Live lawyer, Nora Buchanan. Just what the doctor ordered! Cheers to the joy of Six History’s SEAL Team Six drama about a band of brothers led by Barry Sloane (Revenge) has big-screen action galore, as well as smaller emotional moments that reveal the heartbreaking cost of their heroics. Cheers to…

America’s top TV critic Matt Roush answers your burning questions TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine I’m wondering if you feel, as I do, that the whimsical, creative and original Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is similar to La La Land. With the movie getting so much Oscar buzz, I hope some of those fans will check out The CW’s underrated musical comedy. Rachel Bloom is a funny and talented powerhouse. The musical numbers are just brilliant. —Laurie MATT ROUSH: Can’t say Crazy came to mind while watching that dazzling movie, but I can see the comparison in the magical surrealism of their fantasy musical numbers. The big difference being that La La is grounded in a much more realistic world than the kooky, recklessly madcap universe of Bloom’s fabulously warped imagination. Good news is that The CW…

Outlander’s Claire Moves On Outlander fans eager for a reunion of soulmates Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) will get their wish—but they may have to wait awhile. Claire’s story in Season 3 of the Starz drama (premiering later this year) begins in 1950s Boston when the time-traveling nurse resumes her married life with Frank (Tobias Menzies, left, with Balfe) while mourning her 18th-century Highlander husband. “At this point in Claire’s life, Jamie’s dead. She’s trying to build a life after him, but once you’ve experienced a love so all-consuming, nothing can live up to it,” Balfe says. “Claire decides to focus on her career and tries to slot Frank in. That leads to disappointment and resentment. It’s a broken marriage.” A bright spot is baby Brianna, whom Frank…

@TVGMMattRoush Big Little Lies These gossip gals mean business SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Feb. 19, 9/8c, HBO @HBO AN IRRESISTIBLE SOCIAL satire with a fabulous cast and a killer hook—which kamikaze helicopter parent will meet their maker at a swank fundraiser?—Big Little Lies at first might look like another indulgent wallow in pretty rich people’s problems. It soon goes and cuts deeper, able to switch from slick to dangerously raw in the blink of an eye or the flash of a fist. (See page 26.) Amid the glossy and gossipy comedy of crass class warfare by David E. Kelley, adapting Liane Moriarty’s delicious beach read, there’s a sinister undercurrent of violence, with troubling accusations of grade school bullying and frightening scenes of domestic abuse within stunning oceanfront homes. The catalyst for…

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Weekdays, CBS @BoldInsider PREPARE FOR gang warfare! The Bold and the Beautiful has revived one of its most popular families from the 1980s and ’90s—the hilarious and underhanded Spectra clan—and that means trouble for the world-famous House of Forrester. This new generation of connivers, headed by Days of Our Lives vet Patrika Darbo as down-and-out Shirley Spectra, is determined to get a foothold in the fashion biz and will crash the Valentine’s Day wedding of Zende Forrester (Rome Flynn) and Nicole Avant (Reign Edwards) in hopes of making a big publicity splash. Here’s the dish from the Emmy-winning Darbo. Shirley is the sister of Sally, the original Spectra matriarch played by the late and oh-so-amazing Darlene Conley (see “A Spectra-Cular Re-Creation,” below). Big shoes to…

Daytona 500 Sunday, Feb. 26, 2/1c, Fox @NASCAR A NEW TITLE SPONSOR? A new points format? A renewed (and recovered) Dale Earnhardt Jr. heading into Daytona? The NASCAR off-season certainly dealt fans any number of surprises, some confusing, some exciting. And with drivers in the now–Monster Energy Cup Series preparing to line up for the start of the sport’s Super Bowl, Fox analyst Mike Joy believes the end result will be something else new: more eyeballs. “[NASCAR CEO Brian France] said we need more Game 7 moments,” Joy says. The hope, of course, is that the points system will keep fans tuned in throughout. Races will now be broken up into three segments, with leaders at the end of each gaining some points and the winner still getting the most…

From Lucy onward, we have always loved the ladies who make us laugh. But Mary Tyler Moore was different. We adored Mary. It’s rare for anyone to create a role that defines an era. Mary Tyler Moore had two. As the winsomely dithery Laura Petrie to Dick Van Dyke’s affable Rob on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66), which first famously endeared the world to her ingenuous charms, she was “the Grace Kelly of comediennes,” according to the show’s creator, Carl Reiner. The actors’ easy rapport and fresh, youthful sensuality reflected the Camelot era of the Kennedy years. They were the Jack and Jackie of New Rochelle. “We brought romance to comedy, and yes, Rob and Laura had sex!” Moore insisted in a 2004 TV GUIDE MAGAZINE interview, belying CBS’s…

Today Weekdays, 7am, NBC @TODAYshow DURING A BREAK between the 9am Today show sign-off and the 10am West Coast news update, Matt Lauer settles into his office in New York’s Rockefeller Center, where photos of Muhammad Ali and Bruce Springsteen share space with family portraits. It’s a few days after the lavish on-air toasts to the morning show’s 65th anniversary and Lauer’s 20th as a coanchor. That’s not all there is to celebrate: Today just scored its 57th week as the No. 1 morning show among viewers 25–54 and its largest lead over Good Morning America in more than five years in that coveted demo. As for 59-year-old Lauer, he still beams as he talks about landing his “dream job.” He speaks of his team over the years as “a…

The Blacklist: Redemption SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Feb. 23, 10/9c, NBC @RedemptionNBC t’s safe to say that NBC knows a thing or two about spinoffs. The network has had massive success with both its Law & Order and Chicago franchises. But when the idea for an offshoot of the hit crime drama The Blacklist was first floated, creator and executive producer Jon Bokenkamp knew he wanted to break the mold. “We never wanted to do something that was just a duplicate of The Blacklist,” he explains. “Blacklist: St. Louis or Blacklist: Ft. Lauderdale would be ridiculous. We wanted to do something very different.” The seed for the spinoff, featuring Ryan Eggold’s undercover operative Tom Keen, was planted in a Season 2 episode of The Blacklist. “There was a moment where he…

black-ish Wednesday, Feb. 15, 9:30/8:30c, ABC SCENE STEALER MILES BROWN HE PLAYS Jack Johnson, the vibrant 10- year-old son of Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) and Dre (Anthony Anderson) on ABC’s hit black-ish, now in Season 3. “He’s a lot like me—we both like to dance, play basketball and have fun,” says Brown, 12. “Except I think I’m a little smarter!” During this week’s episode, Jack will have to put his considerable charms to use when Grandma Ruby (Jenifer Lewis) is asked to make the kids’ favorite pie for the school bake sale—causing Bow to question her own domestic prowess. WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HIM BEFORE Busting hip-hop moves at the age of 5—and making it to the semifinals—on America’s Got Talent in 2010. WHY WE LOVE HIM Sure, his sitcom siblings—…

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Wednesdays, 10:30/9:30c, TBS @FullFrontalSamB JOHNNY CARSON had Ed McMahon. For Conan O’Brien, backup came in the form of mischievous sidekick Andy Richter. And David Letterman regularly used band leader Paul Shaffer as a foil. But for Samantha Bee, feisty host of the TBS satirical late-night news show Full Frontal, it’s her best friend who has stepped out of the shadows to steal some of the limelight—and kudos. Allana Harkin (left, with Bee) has been close to Bee since the two women toured their native Canada as part of a comedy troupe called The Atomic Fireballs in the late 1990s. After Bee departed Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show to helm her self-titled gig, she called on her old buddy Harkin to join her as a correspondent—…

FEBRUARY 13, 2017 | PUZZLE #1303 ACROSS 1 Selleck of Blue Bloods 4 Mediocre (2 wds.) 8 Sugar cube 12 Boxing champ 13 Gross of Walter & Emily 14 Daughter on Almost Grown 15 Music maker (2 wds.) 18 Fairy-tale meanies 19 Atmospheres 20 Fixed look 22 Home of the Great Sphinx 24 Weeding tools 25 Social worker on Bustin’ Loose 26 Frozen water 29 Dallas commodity 30 Palindrome within a palindrome 31 Raven’s cry 32 Added wing 33 The first garden 34 Immaculate 35 Do a tailor’s job 37 Double agents 38 Highcliffe ____ 40 Courtroom sitcom that starred Scott Foley 41 Felicity recorded letters on one on Felicity 46 Ripley’s Believe ____ Not! (2 wds.) 47 Wagon Train tracks 48 Corn spike 49 The ____ Gunmen 50 Affirmative 51 John of Jack’s Place…