Innholdsfortegnelse for May 15, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush Having devoured FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, I’m now obsessed with a lifeimitates- Hollywood-imitates-life conundrum: Who will take home the Emmy: Jessica Lange or Susan Sarandon? I’m sure they got along better than Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, but how to choose? —Victoria MATT ROUSH: A tough call, but odds favor Lange. The tragic arc of Crawford’s character, especially in the latter episodes, will resonate with voters. And while I never forgot I was watching Sarandon playing the part of Bette, Lange truly disappeared within the Joan persona. Reminiscent of the 1951 Oscars, when Davis competed against costar Anne Baxter for All About Eve, there’s a chance they’ll cancel each other out, in which case Nicole Kidman has a shot as the abused wife on HBO’s Big Little Lies.…

ALREADY RENEWED Arrow (The CW) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Blue Bloods (CBS) Bob’s Burgers (Fox) Bull (CBS) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Criminal Minds (CBS) DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW) Empire (Fox) The Flash (The CW) The Good Place (NBC) Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Jane the Virgin (The CW) Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Lethal Weapon (Fox) Life in Pieces (CBS) Lucifer (Fox) MacGyver (CBS) Madam Secretary (CBS) Man With a Plan (CBS) The Mick (Fox) The Middle (ABC) Mom (CBS) NCIS (CBS) NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) The 100 (The CW) Riverdale (The CW) Scandal (ABC) Scorpion (CBS) The Simpsons (Fox) Star (Fox) Supergirl (The CW) Superior Donuts (CBS) Supernatural (The CW) Superstore (NBC) This Is Us…

SUNDANCE NOW Sundance TV’s streaming offshoot features the network’s best shows, plus foreign imports, original programming and dozens of carefully curated independent movies. Don’t miss: Andrew Garfield’s (right) performance as an ambitious cub reporter trailing a serial killer in Britain’s Red Riding Trilogy miniseries. Where to Watch: On your computer, iPhone, iPad, Google Chromecast, Android phone and tablet, Apple TV or Roku. Amazon Fire TV owners with an Amazon Prime account can add it to their subscriptions for $7/month. Cost: $7/month or $60/year. BRITBOX The United Kingdom’s two oldest networks, the BBC and ITV, run this Anglophile’s dream, which offers English soaps (think: EastEnders and Emmerdale), talk shows and news programs the day after they air abroad. Its assortment of recent Britcoms, crime dramas and costume series is updated regularly.…

@TVGMMattRoush Master of None A delicious new season of the slice-of-life comedy COMEDY STREAMING NOW Netflix BON APPÉTIT! OR should we say “buon appetito.” In any language, it’s an enticement to feast on the marvelously filling second season of Aziz Ansari’s Emmy-winning Master of None. As Dev Shaw, a young man with boundless appetites—for food, for love, for family, for elusive and marginal success in show business—Ansari (Parks and Recreation) has crafted a quasi-autobiographical showcase so charming, delightful and surprising in its colors and flavors that you want to herald nearly every one of its 10 distinctly different episodes as a classic. The season begins in rustic and romantic Modena, Italy, where Dev has diverted a broken heart into an immersive crash course in pasta-making. The first episode, an artful…

1. KIMMY GOES ON A DATE! (103) Titus crashes a Korean funeral, Jacqueline taps into her Native American heritage and her stepdaughter, Xanthippe (Dylan Gelula), digs into Kimmy’s secret past. 2. KIMMY GOES TO A PARTY! (107) Jacqueline recruits Kimmy to help her expose her husband’s infidelity at a dinner soiree, where we first meet the robot Yuko. 3. KIMMY GIVES UP! (205) A Titus special, thanks to his street-piano performance of forgotten (and fake) show tunes from Alabama!, a Helen Keller musical and Stephen Sondheim’s Pinocchio. 4. KIMMY FINDS HER MOM! (213) Lisa Kudrow’s turn as Kimmy’s MIA mother was sweet, cathartic and strangely disturbing. There are roller-coaster fandoms?! 5. KIMMY’S ROOMMATE LEMONADES! (302) From this upcoming season, Titus give us the tribute to Beyoncé’s Lemonade we’ve always wanted,…

NCIS DRAMA SEASON FINALE Tuesday, May 16, 8/7c, CBS It’s cliffhanger time once again for Gibbs (Mark Harmon), Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) and McGee (Sean Murray, left, with Harmon) as they head to Paraguay in an effort to find a missing Navy SEAL whose detached arm has washed up on a South American beach. Can the SEAL once attached to said limb still be alive? “When they get to Paraguay, everything takes a horrible turn,” executive producer Frank Cardea says. “The situation is much more involved than the team had thought. The stakes are bigger. Fans won’t want to miss the last five minutes of this episode. There’s lots of suspense.” The genesis for the episode was the idea of a disembodied arm being discovered and identified. “Then we started building…

Weekdays, ABC THE VIEW SHE’S BEEN A federal prosecutor, a regular gabber on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, a coanchor of ABC’s World News Now and legal analyst for CNN. Now Sunny Hostin is taking a little time to enjoy The View. Meredith Vieira admits that when she went from 60 Minutes to The View she worried about her reputation as a serious journalist. Do you relate? I had the same concerns coming from CNN! I still do, because I’m also the senior legal correspondent for ABC News, and there’s a line you have to walk these days between being a reporter and letting your opinions and emotions be known. Viewers really want to know who you are, and that requires a bit of letting go. They know when you’re not…

@damianholbrook Cheers to Jimmy Kimmel for delivering the father of all monologues. Opening his May 1 show, the late-night host tearfully recounted his newborn’s terrifying health scare and raved about the medical staff (by name!) who saved the little guy’s life. If it didn’t touch your heart, you should probably contact them. Jeers to Phaedra Parks for being a phony. Good thing she’s a licensed funeral director, because we just about died when the Real Housewives of Atlanta pot-stirrer was finally exposed as the liar who fed Porsha all that false information about Kandi. Cheers to Dear White People for being a class act. Smart, confident and blessed with a stellar ensemble led by Logan Browning (left) and Brandon P. Bell, Netflix’s college dramedy is a lesson in how issues of identity…

SEEING RED In our May 1 issue, readers got a glimpse into The Blacklist’s season finale, which included Susan Blommaert— who plays the villainous Mr. Kaplan—stating, “Everybody will have to take a side” in the fight between Mr. Kaplan and Red. Shirley Baysinger wrote in to say who will be getting her vote. “I liked the write-up on the season finale of The Blacklist,” she wrote. “But Red has to be the winner. James Spader is such a great actor… without him, there couldn’t be a show. I pick his side!” SEACREST SURPLUS? After nearly a year without a cohost, Kelly Ripa announced on May 1 that Ryan Seacrest would be joining her on the daily talk show Live With Kelly. Jenny Gray was not impressed with the choice. “Come…

JULIANNE HOUGH Dancing With the Stars SEASON FINALE Tuesday, May 23, 8:30/7:30c, ABC My current favorite show It’s hard to choose because there are so many incredible shows on right now, but I’ll say This Is Us! The show I’d like to guest star on Law & Order: SVU. Mariska Hargitay is my idol! I could watch SVU all day. The show I miss most I’m super excited for Stranger Things and Westworld (above) to return. The last thing I watch before I go to bed Planet Earth My guilty pleasure The Bachelor. It’s just…amazing. What I eat while watching Pizza The funniest person on TV New Girl’s Max Greenfield. Schmidt is one of the funniest characters ever. My dream costar Jessica Chastain, although I would probably faint at first.…

ISN’T IT ILLEGAL to have this many jobs? After a yearlong star search, Hollywood golden boy Ryan Seacrest has moved to Manhattan to sit beside Kelly Ripa as cohost of the newly renamed Live With Kelly and Ryan. The nationally syndicated hit— daytime’s highest-rated entertainment talk show—took its sweet time finding a permanent bestie for Ripa (above, with Seacrest) after Michael Strahan left last May, with Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen and Mario Lopez said to have been on the list of top contenders. But it was the former American Idol host who triumphed in the end, making his official debut May 1 in a shockingly well-kept secret. “The only cloak-and-dagger stuff we did was to make Ryan wear a hoodie when we snuck him into the studio on his first…

WHEN DAVID LYNCH and Mark Frost’s surreal Twin Peaks debuted on ABC in April 1990, the nascent World Wide Web was not yet a delivery service for instant feedback—or spoilers. Audiences found themselves frustrated yet intrigued with having to wait, week after week, to learn clues about the trippy show’s central mystery: Who bumped off small-town bad girl Laura Palmer (played by Sheryl Lee)? But even in today’s era of information overload, Showtime has unveiled only the most cryptic of teasers about the much-anticipated 18-episode revival, leaving fans waiting yet again. Returning star Kyle MacLachlan, who revisits his lead role as unorthodox FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, also has remained mum on what Coop’s beat will be. Is there a new murder? Is java-loving Agent Cooper still seeing apparitions? Will…

Dirty Dancing MUSICAL MOVIE PREMIERE Wednesday, May 24, 8/7c, ABC @ABCNetwork THE THREE DECADES since Dirty Dancing premiered certainly haven’t done anything to diminish the movie’s popularity. Viewers still have the time of their lives watching (and rewatching) naive 17-yearold Baby (Jennifer Grey) fall for rebellious dance instructor Johnny (Patrick Swayze) while vacationing in the Catskills during the summer of 1963. The producers of ABC’s reboot knew they couldn’t improve upon the classic (they’re big fans). Instead, they decided to make it sing a little more by adding musical numbers. After all, the original had lots of music, but it wasn’t really a musical. “We were all weary of breaking its DNA,” says exec producer and choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton). “But we could play with the fact that music and…

Line of Duty CRIME Season 4, Available now, Hulu Each season of the BBC drama series about the London police’s anticorruption unit focuses on a new cop who could be dirty. This year’s suspect: ambitious Detective Chief Inspector Roseanne “Roz” Huntley (Westworld’s Thandie Newton, above), who is accused of mishandling evidence in a careermaking murder case. Casual COMEDY SEASON PREMIERE Season 3, Tuesday, May 23, Hulu Obviously the death of their decadent dad, Charles (Fred Melamed), in last season’s finale didn’t do anything to cheer up the preternaturally dour and snarky Cole siblings (Michaela Watkins and Tommy Dewey, above). But his demise does lead to a surprise that inspires them to start living life to the fullest—and take some interesting new lovers. Kedi DOCUMENTARY Available now, YouTube Cats rule, dogs…

NASCAR SHOWDOWN Saturday, May 20 Monster Energy Open 6/5c All-Star Race 8/7c Fox Sports 1 WHEN IT COMES to NASCAR’s All- Star Race formula, the only constant is change. It’s been 25 years since NASCAR’s nonpoints exhibition—dubbed “One Hot Night”—was run in the evening for the first time. NASCAR has tinkered with the All-Star Race format a lot since then, and this year’s event will add a new twist while also saluting the 1992 original. The Monster Energy Open (formerly the Sprint Showdown) precedes the All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Then fans will see NASCAR’s top drivers compete in three stages of 20 laps as a qualifier for the final 10-car, 10-lap stage, which carries a $1 million prize. The 70 total laps are a nod to the number…

IN LAST-MINUTE NEGOTIATIONS that stretched to the early hours of May 2, the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached what they are calling a “tentative” deal for a new three-year contract, narrowly avoiding a strike that would have shut down TV and film production. “Did we get everything we wanted? No. Everything we deserve? Certainly not,” the WGA said in a letter posted on its website. One of the major sticking points was how shorter seasons have resulted in writers being paid for fewer episodes while devoting more time to each script. In the new agreement, the AMPTP will now define each episode fee as equivalent to 2.4 weeks of work, requiring additional payment for any work beyond that time frame. With…

THERE’S PROBABLY NOBODY on the planet more uniquely qualified to discuss reality TV than Andy Cohen. After spending years as a superfan of the genre—he began his career as a producer at CBS News—he was tapped to be a programming executive at Bravo in 2004. Once Cohen got into the game, he promptly started changing it, helping to pioneer docuseries like Top Chef, Project Runway and the Real Housewives franchise. These days, he’s in front of the camera as host of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live and Then & Now. And on May 25, he kicks off his latest gig debriefing disillusioned singles on Fox’s newly revamped Love Connection. Here, Cohen offers his take on how far unscripted fare has come—and what its future looks like. The first true reality…

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt COMEDY SEASON PREMIERE Friday, May 19, Netflix @KimmySchmidt IT’S ABOUT FUDGING time. After an extended break to accommodate star Ellie Kemper’s pregnancy, everyone’s favorite Indiana Mole Woman is back in Season 3 of Netflix’s (literal) cult comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And having survived living in an underground bunker for 15 years, a reunion with her roller coaster–addicted mother and countless degrading nicknames from roomie Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess), Kimmy is taking charge of her life and becoming a college student. “She’s going to try it,” executive producer Tina Fey explains. “She’s seeing whether there is even time for that in a life that’s been on hold.” Helping her navigate the halls of higher learning— first at community college and then at Columbia University, where she receives the…

The Wizard of Lies DRAMA MOVIE PREMIERE May 20, 8/7c, HBO @HBO In a telling scene from HBO’s upcoming TV movie T he Wizard of Lies, Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff (Robert De Niro) and his wife, Ruth (Michelle Pfeiffer), are in the kitchen of their lush Manhattan apartment. They are in the same room, but emotionally miles apart. “You’ll always keep me in the dark,” she says, seething. Boy, did he ever. The film, based on New York Times financial journalist Diana B. Henriques’s book of the same name, chronicles the time around the famed financier’s arrest in 2008 for defrauding thousands of investors. Flashbacks reveal how Madoff managed to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes, including Ruth and their sons, Mark (Alessandro Nivola) and Andy (Nathan Darrow). What the…

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ACTION (2003) Thursday, May 25, 7:50/6:50c, Freeform The fifth and latest Pirates feature, Dead Men Tell No Tales, drops anchor in cinemas on May 26, and we have only one request: that it be loaded to the gunnels with fun. So far, the sequels haven’t quite measured up to the original Curse of the Black Pearl, which gifted us with Johnny Depp’s impish Captain Jack (right), Orlando Bloom’s blacksmith (who is crazy in love with Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann) and Geoffrey Rush’s cursed Captain Barbossa. Storks ANIMATION CABLE PREMIERE (2016) Saturday, May 27, 8/7c, HBO When babies aren’t keeping you in the black, pivot to package deliveries. Storks are now distributing shoes, phones—everything except babies. Andy Samberg, as top stork Junior, is a…

MAY 15, 2017 | PUZZLE #1310 ACROSS 1 Car 54, Where ____ You? 4 Mountaintop 8 Waterston and Jaffe 12 ____ About You 13 Oceanographer on Flipper 14 DuVall of Veep 15 Definite article 16 Bookish occupation 18 A Weeds son 20 Coming of ____ 21 Winter vehicles 24 ____, Indiana 28 Court records 30 Code Name: ____ 32 Garden weeder 33 Black ____ 34 ____ Detector 35 The Preston ____ 37 ____ Than Perfect 38 Dan Fogler sitcom (2 wds.) 39 Sweet companion 41 Moray, for one 43 Boss on Hey Dude 46 Tom’s first grandchild on Eight Is Enough (2 wds.) 51 Corn spike 52 Lee of Pushing Daisies 53 Weathers of Chicago Justice 54 Doctor on Doctor, Doctor 55 Sheriff Tupper of Cabot Cove on Murder, She…