Innholdsfortegnelse for April 3, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine Syfy’s decision to air Season 3 of 12 Monkeys as a linear binge from May 19 to 21—four episodes Friday, three each on Saturday and Sunday—has me wondering if this is the first broadcast or cable show released as a whole season in one shot. Do you think this is a new model for TV series now that binge-watching has become the norm? The viewing public seems to have embraced how Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and the rest have changed the way we watch shows. —Caryle MATT ROUSH: It’s a good question, and certainly a sign of the times. There are rare examples of broadcast and cable networks releasing an entire season for digital binge-watching at the launch (NBC’s Aquarius, Freeform’s Beyond and Famous in…

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NCIS: Los Angeles DRAMA Sunday, April 9, 8/7c, CBS Fun fact: Three years before joining the cast of NCIS: Los Angeles, Daniela Ruah won Dancing With the Stars in Portugal, where she grew up. In this week’s episode, she shows off her salsa skills when her character, agent Kensi Blye, goes undercover in a nightclub following a deadly shooting. We talked to the actress—who gave birth to her second child in September—about getting back on her dancing feet. Did you know you were ready to boogie again? I was very much in the dancing mood. Last year, they told me there was a salsa episode coming up for me. I’d just found out that I was pregnant, but it was too early to tell anyone. So I was like, “Oh…

Weekdays, CBS THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS MURDER MOST FOUL? The Young and the Restless’s Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow) doesn’t believe his brother Adam (last played by This Is Us star Justin Hartley) died in that exploding cabin last year by accident. In fact, he’s certain that sperm thief Chloe (Elizabeth Hendrickson) is responsible. On April 4, Nick will make sure Chloe gets stinko drunk at her bachelorette party and then confront her. Morrow gives us the intel. What a mess! Chloe is BFFs with Nick’s girlfriend, Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan, left, with Morrow), and Chelsea is Adam’s widow. How’s this going down? Chelsea doesn’t want to hear Nick’s suspicions. She doesn’t believe Chloe is capable of murder. Chloe was a godsend to her, pulling her through some very dark times…

NEWS, VIEWS, TRENDS AND INDUSTRY SCOOP Dancing With the Stars has successfully waltzed, foxtrotted and tangoed for more than 400 live episodes. With the four judges—Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Julianne Hough— set to be on every episode and the competition’s first MLB player (the Chicago Cubs’ David Ross) on the roster, executive producers Joe Sungkur and Ashley Edens-Shaffer anticipate big things for Season 24. “We want viewers to feel that they’re seeing something new,” Sungkur says. “Watching [gold-medal gymnast] Simone Biles learn a new skill, you’ll see a completely different side of her,” Edens-Shaffer says. “Pro Peta Murgatroyd just had a baby and is starting to lose the baby weight. It’s a very real show.” “It’ll be an interesting season,” agrees former pro Louis Van Amstel,…

Abigail Breslin had the time of her life filming the final song-and-dance number of ABC’s upcoming musical remake of Dirty Dancing (Wednesday, May 24, 8/7c, ABC). She plays the Jennifer Grey role of Baby opposite Colt Prattes’s Johnny (above). However, she says preparing for it was one of the hardest things she’s ever done. Breslin took extra care mastering the iconic moves to the Oscar-winning song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” “There was this weight of everyone loving it so much,” says the actress. She and Prattes spent days practicing the scene’s famous lift. “Just being graceful is a big enough feat for me,” Breslin says, “but being graceful while in the air? It was terrifying. Yet we pulled it off—partially due to Colt’s talent, but also due…

1929–2017 THE CRASS CLOWN of game shows, an impish prince of the TV guilty pleasure who took delight in stoking our appetite for memorably giddy schlock, Chuck Barris was a master salesman of a form of entertainment he described to TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in 1975 as “the bargain basement of the arts. Daytime television does not make meaningful statements. You begin and end with the banal.” And yet, after Barris died March 21 at age 87 in his Palisades, New York, home, a generation flocked to YouTube to relive the ignominious glory of his signature creation, The Gong Show, which gleefully presented acts so bad they were almost terribly enjoyable. A fabled producer and former TV executive who once characterized the perfect game-show host as “any good, wholesome American type…

Mystery Science Theater 3000 COMEDY SERIES RETURN Season 11, Friday, April 14, Netflix How many bad movies does it take to drive a person mad? Heckling robots Tom Servo (Baron Vaughn) and Crow (Hampton Yount) return with a new human test subject (Jonah Ray, center, with Yount and Vaughn) and different overlords (Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt). Louis C.K.: 2017 COMEDY STAND-UP PREMIERE Tuesday, April 4, Netflix The first of the Emmywinning comedian’s two streaming specials riffs on naps, race, relationships, terrorism, baldness, parenthood and a lot more. Fans of his famous bit about Ewan McGregor’s undeniable attractiveness will be pleased to know there’s a sequel, this time starring the cast of Magic Mike. Fortitude CRIME DRAMA SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, April 14, Amazon Yay, Amazon, for bringing this…

PIRATE RADIO COMEDY (2009) Sunday April 16, 1am/midnight c, Universal HD It’s 1966 and London is swinging—except for the BBC. The Brits’ official radio still played jazz when both the mods and the rockers wanted to hear The Who and The Stones. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an American DJ who joins a boat-based pirate radio station anchored in the North Sea. UNCLE BUCK COMEDY (1989) Thursday, April 6, Midnight /11c, Freeform The Canadian sketch comedy SCTV gifted us with the late, great John Candy. Here he plays reluctant chaperone to nieces and a nephew in a John Hughes–directed, Chicagoset crowd-pleaser. DIE HARD ACTION (1988) Saturday, April 8, 12:30am/11:30c, TNT Yes, John McClane and Hans Gruber are the best cop-villain pairing ever. And yes, Die Hard is one of the best action movies ever…

APRIL 3, 2017 | PUZZLE #1307 ACROSS 1 Family dog on The Wonder Years 7 It makes a racket 13 Accessible via a computer network 14 Cook too long 15 Bestows 16 Kellerman’s on Dirty Dancing was one 17 Antler point 18 A Year at the ____ 20 Loretta of M*A*S*H 21 Bar 23 ____ La La 25 Adam’s former girlfriend on Inside Schwartz 26 Not connected with what precedes 28 Buttons of Knots Landing 29 ____ and feather 30 Contented sigh 32 A decree that prohibits something 35 Blab (2 wds.) 40 Aranha of Married People 41 ____ Doky Ranch 42 Make a shambles of 43 Sheriff Lobo’s Georgia county 45 Jennifer Lien on Star Trek: Voyager 47 South American monkey 48 Goldberg of Bagdad Cafe 50 The Wizard of Oz…

BACK IN 2012, producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) were determined to make a modern-era prequel to Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film about our favorite mother-obsessed killer. They had the script, the title—Bates Motel—and the network (A&E had signed on). All they needed was Norman Bates: an actor to believably move from a socially awkward, seemingly innocent high school kid (he’d murdered his abusive father but repressed the memory) to the young man who ultimately kills his mother, but in high delusion believes she’s still alive. Cuse and Ehrin found their Norman in Brit Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). “We looked at a lot of actors,” Cuse says, “but we were completely charmed by Freddie.” Highmore’s casting was a popular choice. “When I learned…

1. LONESOME DOVE (1989, CBS) Reminiscent of the greatest movie Westerns, the sweeping miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel features career-high work by Robert Duvall (right) and Tommy Lee Jones as Gus and Woodrow, ex–Texas Rangers leading an eventful cattle drive with such wit and heart that the story’s tragic twists made armchair cowboys weep. Where to watch: Amazon and iTunes 2. GUNSMOKE (1955–75, CBS) Dodge City, a frontier town kept in check by quick-drawing iconic Marshal Matt Dillon (the towering James Arness), was destination TV for two decades. With its adult morality plays, Gunsmoke defined the TV Western at its height—peaking in 1958 and 1959 with 31 series in primetime—and endured to become the longestrunning drama in TV history. Where to watch: Not available to stream 3. DEADWOOD (2004–06,…

A TRUE CRIME that stuns the nation. The royal wedding. Celebrity scandals and practically every other form of watercooler-worthy fare. For an elite club of journalists, standing on the front lines of pop culture is just another day at the office. And few reporters have managed to stake out their positions there quite like Natalie Morales (West Coast anchor of Today), Nancy O’Dell (coanchor of Entertainment Tonight) and Deborah Norville (anchor of Inside Edition). So it’s only fitting that the three powerhouses are finally converging under one roof, with each now at the helm of her own program for the premium cable network Reelz. (Behind Closed Doors, Morales’s docuseries, has been on the air since 2015, while Nancy O’Dell Remembers and Exposed With Deborah Norville will premiere on April 3…

Our Kind of Traitor THRILLER (2016) Sunday, April 9, 8/7c, Epix Novelist John le Carré became a bestseller in 1963 with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and he is still filmmakers’ go-to espionage writer when they want to get their spy jones going. (That includes AMC’s 2016 Emmy and Golden Globe winner The Night Manager, with Hugh Laurie.) In this adaptation of le Carré’s 2010 bestseller, Ewan McGregor (soon to be seen in Season 3 of FX’s Fargo) and Naomie Harris (Moonlight) play a married poet and a lawyer who get mixed up with a Russian oligarch (Stellan Skarsgård). Equity DRAMA (2016) Monday, April 3, 9:19am/8:19c, Starz Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn trades in the ruthless world of meth dealing for the ruthless world of investment banking. While handling an…

April 6–7, 3/2c, ESPN April 8, 3/2c, CBS April 9, 2/1c, CBS IN GOLF, SOMETIMES the losses are more astounding than the victories. In the 2016 Masters Tournament, reigning champion Jordan Spieth (right) enjoyed a five-stroke lead as he took to the 10th tee in the final round at Augusta National. Seemingly headed for his second straight Masters title at only 22 years old, Spieth imploded with a quadruple bogey on the par-3 12th hole. His lead quickly evaporated, and the door opened for England’s Danny Willett to win his first major championship. “Every single one of us who’ve ever played professionally has done that at some point in time,” says ESPN golf analyst Andy North, a former pro. “He just happened to do it at the absolute worst time.”…

Cheers to   American Crime for its arresting cast. From staples like Felicity Huffman (above) and Regina King to newbie Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Season 3’s indictment of human trafficking and worker exploitation is filled with as much talent as it is terrifying truths. Cheers to  The Flash and  Supergirl for hitting the right notes. The musical crossover episodes soared and scored as Glee grads Melissa Benoist and Grant Gustin (right) got to pipe up with their gifted costars and right some romantic missteps on each of their shows. Encore! Cheers to  The Magicians for staging their own musical coup. The same week as The CW’s #SuperFlash extravaganza, Syfy’s fabulous drama dropped in a Les Misérables ditty as Eliot (Hale Appleman, center) headed into battle with the kingdom next door. And it…