Innholdsfortegnelse for March 6, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush I enjoyed the premiere of The Good Fight very much, and I am sad that I will not be able to see future episodes. I have no intention of subscribing to CBS All Access just to see that program. First they foist Bull on us, then tease us with The Good Fight. What are they thinking? —Schatzi MATT ROUSH: Obviously, the intent is to drive traffic to and build awareness of CBS’s streaming service, but you’re hardly alone (judging from my mailbag) in complaining that CBS has put this blue-chip series behind a paywall, so it’s possible it could backfire. On the other hand, for all of its acclaim, The Good Wife was never exactly a ratings sensation. The spinoffmight never have happened without this option of turning it…

THE RESISTANCE CONTINUES. WGN America’s Underground—an epic saga of pre–Civil War slavery and the secret escape network known as the Underground Railroad—is back for its second season with several historical figures in on the action. Among them: freedom fighter Harriet Tubman (Aisha Hinds), slave trader Patty Cannon (Sadie Stratton) and writer and businessman William Still (Chris Chalk), widely considered the father of the Underground Railroad. Plus, Underground’s best-known executive producer, Oscar and Grammy winner John Legend, will make a guest appearance as Frederick Douglass, the self-taught slave who went on to become one of our nation’s most revered statesmen. Legend spoke with us about this landmark program and taking on the weighty role of Douglass, who—despite what you may have heard—is no longer with us. Could the timing for Underground…

Greenleaf SEASON PREMIERE Wednesday, March 15, 10/9c, OWN @GreenleafOWN ALL HELL IS breaking loose in the house of the Lord! OWN’s flagship series, Greenleaf—a glamorous, sin-packed melodrama about a black megachurch in Memphis—ended its premiere season with family pedophile Uncle Mac (GregAlan Williams) getting out of jail by incriminating his revered brother-inlaw, Bishop Greenleaf (Keith David), for arson and manslaughter. Now the dominoes fall. When the show returns, three months have passed and the bishop is enmeshed in scandal, church profits are plummeting, and sister-in-law Mavis (Oprah Winfrey) has become a pill-popping drunk. But the bishop’s highfalutin wife, Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield), remains in deep denial, refusing to acknowledge that she knew Mac molested her daughter Faith— a horrifying situation that led to the girl’s suicide. Then there’s eldest daughter…

NCIS Tuesdays, 8/7, CBS @NCIS_CBS “What I love about McGee is that, as he grew up, he didn’t stop being McGee”—Murray It’s Friday afternoon on the Southern California set of CBS’s megahit NCIS, and star Sean Murray is the picture of politeness. The 39-year-old, who’s played agent Timothy McGee on the drama for 14 seasons, is all “pleases” and “thank yous.” He apologizes profusely for the tiniest slight. And he chats excitedly about his rescue kitty, a calico named after costar Pauley Perrette’s character, Abby. “I’ve always been a cat guy,” he says, “which is funny because growing up we had tons of dogs. At one time, we had eight Rottweilers!” You know what they say: Real men love cats. This father of two (with wife Carrie James) is clearly…

Love SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, March 10, Netflix Oddball Southern California couple Mike (Paul Rust) and Mickey (Gillian Jacobs, left, with Rust) return in this comedy from Judd Apatow. He’s still the dorky nice guy. She’s still the loud wild child. They’re still in blossoming young love. Not that they’ve gotten any better at it, or at navigating life’s trials and tribulations in general. This season, their big obstacle is commitment, which can be as nerve-racking as it is reassuring. Hand of God SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, March 10, Amazon The final chapter of this religious psychological thriller begins with corrupt judge Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman) and his wife, Crystal (Dana Delany, right, with Perlman), paying for last season’s sins. His penance: being on trial for a murder…

Blood Father (2016) Saturday, March 11, 9/8c, Starz Mel Gibson (left) is surely having a moment. Twenty-one years after winning the Best Director Oscar for Braveheart, he’s back on the Academy Awards circuit with his latest war drama, Hacksaw Ridge, which snagged several nominations, including Best Picture. And he’s also starring in this thriller, where he plays an ex-con protecting his ne’er-do-well daughter from a vengeful drug gang, led by Diego Luna (best known as hero Cassian from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) Saturday, March 11, 8:25/7:25c, HBO The Delta Psi Beta fraternity has moved on and sorority Kappa Nu, led by Chloë Grace Moretz, has moved in. And now it’s the girls’ turn to ruin the lives and livelihood of the middle-aged parents next door.…

ACROSS 1 Grant’s boss on Lou Grant 5 Bray of Riptide 9 Hartman of Dan August 12 Fashion designer Cassini 13 Turturro of The Sopranos 14 Joan Van Ark on Dallas 15 An alien on Alien Nation 16 Shop ’til You ____ 17 Coming of ____ 18 Retail clerk 21 Diamond ____ 22 Ames of Life With Father 25 Ted of That Girl 29 Anne of Archie Bunker’s Place 30 Chopper ____ 31 Mother of mythical king of Ulster 33 Lamb Chop’s dad 34 Jam’s mom on African Skies 36 Jamie’s maiden name on Mad About You 38 Hurry through 39 13th director DuVernay 40 Grandfather Twilight author Barbara (2 wds.) 47 Dined at Jack’s Place 49 The ____ Office 50 Johnny ____ 51 Bachelor Father actor Moore 52 Nothing Sacred ceremony 53 Ben’s buddy on Cracking Up…

LOVE STINKS Several readers were unhappy with ABC for spoiling The Bachelor after the upcoming Bachelorette was named early. “As a member of Bachelor Nation, I have been a loyal fan,” Lori Slead wrote. “Then I see it was already announced that one of the four remaining women, Rachel Lindsay, was picked to be the next Bachelorette. Why would ABC allow that to happen?” she wrote. “I guess all the other reality shows should just tell us who doesn’t win so we can choose to invest in it or not.” Donna Domin agreed. “Jeers to The Bachelor for revealing who the new Bachelorette would be while she was still on,” she wrote. “It swiped a quarter of the fun right out of it.” DAYTIME’S DUE Geoffrey-Martin Cyr thought NBC’s recent…

I love to watch My dream costar The show that always makes me laugh The show I’d most like to guest star on SOPHIA BUSH Chicago P.D. Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC The show I miss most My guilty pleasure The funniest person on TV is What I hate-watch…

ONE DAY IN 2010, I was watching AMC and I saw a promo of a sheriffon a horse riding into a horde of dead people. In my memory, this image was in black and white. I don’t know if it really was. Something about that image—a lone man against a horde of darkness—made me feel like he was going to prevail, and I wanted to see him prevail. The show was The Walking Dead and I was hooked from Episode 1. But get this: The Walking Dead is so the opposite of what I would choose to watch! I’m not the typical horror fan. I’m not a horror fan—period. I don’t like gore. I’m squeamish at the sight of blood. Apocalyptic stories give me the willies. The things that I’ve…

Trial & Error SERIES PREMIERE Tuesday, March 14, 10/9c, NBC @trialanderror “The real fun of acting is changing gears and upending people’s expectations”—Lithgow AFTER HIS SCREEN Actors Guild Award–winning turn as Winston Churchill in Netflix’s The Crown, John Lithgow ventures back to the half-hour format with Trial & Error, a fish-out-of-water comedy employing the mockumentary style that ignited NBC hits like The Office and Parks and Recreation. This time, though, there’s an intriguing twist: The show is a send-up of red-hot true-crime series (think HBO’s The Jinx and SundanceTV’s The Staircase) and will focus on a different murder case each season for maximum comic effect. For its inaugural go-round, Lithgow plays Larry Henderson, an eccentric, roller-skating small-town poet accused of murdering his wife. In this exclusive interview, the indefatigable 71-year-old…

This Is Us SEASON FINALE Tuesday, March 14, 9/8c, NBC @NBCThisisUs “T With the final two episodes of This Is Us fast approaching, let’s begin by stating the obvious: We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex. After all, NBC’s breakout freshman dramedy—which chronicles the highs and lows of the Pearson family using a time-bending narrative that alternates between past and present—is notorious for reducing its 10 million devotees to helpless puddles on a weekly basis. So it should come as no surprise that Season 1 is poised to sign off with a crescendo of emotional pyrotechnics. “Viewers’ heads are going to pop off their bodies,” confirms Chrissy Metz, who plays Kate, one member of the show’s sibling trio. “Nobody is ready for what’s about to happen. I know I…

Weekdays, ABC @TheView THE VIEW ABC’S THE VIEW heads to Walt Disney World March 6 for a week of live shows—and you’ll get no complaints from Whoopi Goldberg! You turn into an 8-year-old at the mere mention of the Disney parks. What’s that about? Every Sunday growing up, my brother and I watched The Wonderful World of Disney. We were insane Disney fans and it was our dream to go to Disneyland in California, but because we lived on the East Coast my mom would always say, “One day. One day.” Well, it took until the early 1980s, but finally I was able to take them and we ran amok. The Enchanted Tiki Room, the Country Bear Jamboree, Tom Sawyer Island, we did it all. My mom was so happy she was…

COMPLETE MADNESS NCAA Tournament Schedule First Four March 14–15 (truTV) First/Second Rounds March 16–19 (CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV) Regionals March 23–26 (CBS and TBS) Final Four/ Championship April 1 and 3 (CBS) @NCAA LAST YEAR’S NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament championship game between North Carolina and Villanova reminded everyone why they call this March Madness. With the game tied at 74 and seemingly headed to overtime, Villanova’s Kris Jenkins (right) released a three-point shot with half a second on the clock. The buzzer sounded, the shot hit its mark and Villanova won the national championship in a dramatic frenzy. “We’ll be talking about that and showing that every March for many years to come,” says Turner Sports NCAA analyst Grant Hill, who knows something about spectacular finishes, being the former…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! HATE IT! Cheers to New Girl for figuring out what to do with Winston (Lamorne Morris, far left, with Nasim Pedrad). After seasons of uneven storylines, Girl has finally tapped into Morris’s goofiness and found him a perfectly weird partner in Pedrad’s Aly. Cheers to Legion for giving us a Marvel-ous twist on the superhero genre. Trippy, stylish and still exciting as hell, FX’s drama starring Dan Stevens (far right, with Aubrey Plaza) as the mutant son of the X-Men’s Professor Xavier feels like a classic comic book on mindaltering meds. And we’re completely addicted. Cheers to Days of Our Lives for living another day. NBC has re-upped its last soap standing for its 52nd year, which means even more afternoon delights for diehard fans of Marlena…

NEWS, VIEWS, TRENDS AND INDUSTRY SCOOP Call it the Trump bump. Turn on a cable news network or a late-night comedy/talk show and you’re guaranteed to see coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s no surprise since his polarizing administration continues to boost ratings that began surging during the campaign. “If you’re in the cable news business, he’s been great,” says Billie Gold, vice president and director of programming research at AmplifiUS. Indeed, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC have all seen ratings jumps of close to 50 percent in their core audience of viewers age 25–54 compared to last season. While right-leaning Fox News Channel still leads the way, liberal MSNBC beats the centrist CNN in total viewers year to date. Hosts with partisan opinions have done particularly well. MSNBC’s Rachel…

The Catch SEASON PREMIERE Thursday, March 9, 10/9c, ABC He’s in the slammer. She’s dead broke. But it’s a match made in heaven! The Catch is back for its sophomore season, with glamour-puss Alice Vaughan (Mireille Enos) trying to save her floundering private-eye business while her lover, Benjamin Jones (Peter Krause, right, with Enos), is in hot water with the feds and rethinking his life as a world-class con man. Enos breaks it down. Alice and Benjamin are in love and fully committed to each other this season. What does that do to the romantic cat-and-mousecapades that this show was built on? Instead of conspiring against each other, Alice and Benjamin now find that the world is conspiring against them, so it’s still hard for them to live life as…

Weeknights 11:35/10:35c,NBC @FallonTonight THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON THE BEST LATE-NIGHT talk shows don’t become the best without having an invaluable component—the sidekick. “Hosts need a reactor,” says Bill Carter, author of The Late Shift and The War for Late Night. And in the latest incarnation of The Tonight Show, that job has been in the reliable hands of Steve Higgins. “I think he’s a cut above the normal sidekick,” Carter says of Higgins, who has been the yin to Jimmy Fallon’s yang since 2009. “He was a writer and a performer early in his career, and he’s had so much experience on Saturday Night Live, which he still writes for, that dealing with this sort of live comedy is really comfortable for Steve.” The formula seems to be…