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GORDON RAMSAY COVER PARTY, LOS ANGELES TV GUIDE MAGAZINE celebrated Gordon Ramsay and his latest Fox cooking competition series, The F Word, on May 22 at the W Hollywood with sponsors Tito’s Vodka, Peroni, Patricius Tokaj and Vivanco.…

The Blacklist (NBC) Red’s former colleague Mr. Kaplan jumped off a bridge to her death, setting a plan in motion for Liz to learn a major truth about Red—that he is indeed her father—and put in play a new mystery centered around a suitcase holding a human skeleton and a possible connection to Liz’s mom. Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital went up in flames, and though no one died, the drama did suffer casualties. Dr. Edwards quit after saving herself and a young girl from the blaze, and controversial Dr. Minnick was finally fired. Also likely up in smoke? Meredith and Nathan’s budding romance now that he knows his presumed-dead fiancée, Megan, is still alive NCIS (CBS) Gibbs, Torres and McGee went on a mission to Paraguay to…

DRAMA PREMIERES Friday, July 28 @LastTycoonTV AMAZON WHEN POWERFUL FILM executive Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer) walks across a studio lot in 1930s Hollywood, he’s the envy of men and women alike. Under his polished surface, however, Stahr is not who he seems, and keeping his secrets safe will prove one of many challenges in The Last Tycoon, Amazon’s new drama based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel of the same name. Bomer—in his first lead TV series role since White Collar wrapped in 2014—goes toe to toe with five-time Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer, whose manipulative studio head Pat Brady holds Monroe’s puppet strings both professionally and personally. Monroe, keeping his Jewish heritage close to the vest at a time when Nazi influence in Hollywood is very present, “reinvented himself into…

NETFLIX DRAMEDY PREMIERES Friday, July 14 @friendsfcollege NOBODY KNOWS YOU better than your old pals—and that can be a blessing and a curse. Therein lies the premise of Friends From College, Netflix’s new eight-episode dramedy—cocreated by husband-andwife team Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco— about a close-knit sextet of Harvard alums. Nearly 20 years have passed since graduation, and they’re facing down their forties and their dysfunctional group dynamics. “Friendships with a lot of history are extremely comforting, but they can also cause a regression,” Delbanco says. “It’s like you act the age you were when you first met.” Case in point: Sam (Annie Parisse) and Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key) have been “casually” fooling around for decades despite the fact that they’re married to other people. The situation gets stickier when Ethan…

TASHA (Naturi Naughton) “Her husband going to prison is probably the scariest time in Tasha’s life, but it also empowers her,” says Naughton (below). “She’s going to step into a leadership position and start taking over.” KANAN (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) Kanan will continue to manipulate Ghost’s teenage son, Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.), in an ongoing effort to bring down his nemesis. “Kanan is so happy to see Ghost living out his worst nightmare,” Kemp says of the drugdealing baddie played by 50 Cent, who is also an executive producer. TOMMY (Joseph Sikora) Now that Ghost is no longer his partner in the drug game, “Tommy has become hugely powerful,” says Sikora. “He’s more feared than Ghost ever was, and that helps him retain a hold over people.” —IR “For…

DAYS OF OUR LIVES Weekdays, NBC HE’S GOT SO much talent and charm, two soaps are sharing him. Longtime fan fave Wally Kurth is currently juggling patriarchal gigs on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, where he plays Justin Kiriakis, and ABC’s General Hospital, where he’s Ned Quartermaine. What’s his secret? He’s working without contracts. There are days when you’re needed at both soaps. How are you making this happen? Astral projection? My hat’s off to the producers, who make phone calls to one another and work it out. Sometimes I’m at Days in the morning then zip over to GH in the afternoon, but it’s all good. I’m so grateful. I gobble up every script that comes to my door. I’m like, “Thank you! Thank you! You really like me!”…

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine Downward Dog is the brilliant, funny, fresh show I’ve been waiting for. Allison Tolman and Ned (as Martin the dog) shine in this mellow comedy. I would be thrilled if it was renewed for a second season, but I don’t think ABC has confidence in the show, considering they held it until the end of the broadcast television season. Does it have a chance? —Michelle MATT ROUSH: You never know when or where the next keeper will emerge. Remember that a show as offbeat as CBS’s Northern Exposure started in midsummer 1990 and ran for six seasons. So, given that this show received some decent early sampling, critical acclaim and viewer buzz such as yours may help ABC regard this very special Dog as…

This week, four competition series return to showcase the impressive feats that humans are capable of—from superstrength to mind-boggling skills. Why are viewers so captivated by such extreme talent? American Ninja Warrior host Matt Iseman, whose show is the granddaddy of the genre, with Season 9 now underway, says it’s the connection between viewers and participants. “People respond to the contestants’ stories,” he says. “I love watching [basketball player] LeBron James, but when I see a mother of two with a full-time job as a firefighter get up the Warped Wall, it’s a different kind of remarkable. Viewers like seeing people push themselves beyond their physical and emotional limits. It makes it so easy to cheer for them.” We break down the different shows. —Emily Aslanian AMERICAN GRIT (Sundays, 9/8c,…

@TVGMMattRoush Even during the lulls of the riot standoff , you fear the worst for these characters DRAMA STREAMING NOW Netflix Orange Is the New Black In a riotous season, the women are no longer behind bars THE INMATES ARE running the asylum in this excellent prison drama’s turbulent fifth season, but freedom has a hollow ring when the jailed reveal their darkest sides after becoming jailers. The action picks up immediately after last season’s riveting cliffhanger, with Daya (Dascha Polanco) pointing a gun at the cretin guard who brought the forbidden weapon into the women’s prison, while her emboldened fellow inmates scream for vengeance for a tragically fallen comrade. The sudden power shift escalates into an all-out riot—“It’s like a party, except terrifying!” crows an insurgent—leading to an interminable…

Fargo DRAMA SEASON FINALE Wednesday, June 21, 10/9c, FX @FargoFX HUNDREDS OF ACTORS have gained weight for lots of reasons. Typically, it’s for a career-changing movie or multiple episodes of a big TV show or a season on Broadway. They often don’t get hefty for a very short nude scene. Unless they happen to be Ewan McGregor. The Scottish thesp, 46, put on an estimated 20 pounds this year to play the pudgy Ray Stussy, one of his two roles in the heralded (and just as deliriously wild) third season of FX’s Fargo. “I had to gain the weight!” the actor says. “Ray needed to look real when he was naked. It needed to justify the padding I wore on my stomach and chest for the rest of the series.”…

Better Call Saul DRAMA Monday, June 12, 10/9c, AMC Throughout Season 3 of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul, we’ve seen Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) battle brother Chuck (Michael McKean) over taping him confessing to tampering with legal documents; get suspended from practicing law; and finally bring his Bad alter ego, Saul Goodman, to life in a local commercial. As the season winds down (the finale airs June 19), can the McGill brothers get their relationship back on track, or is the damage permanent? “There’s always hope [for reconciliation], especially between family,” says executive producer Gennifer Hutchison, who wrote the season ender. Still, don’t be surprised at how many lines Jimmy crosses. “Any time we think Jimmy’s going to zig,” Hutchison teases, “he zags.” But the brothers aren’t the only…

ON COURSE FOR DRAMA The U.S. Open tops the leaderboard of big sporting events: U.S. Open Golf (June 15–18, 11am/10c, Fox Sports 1 and Fox) After losing the 2015 U.S. Open by missing a 4-foot putt on the final hole, Dustin Johnson finally broke through with his first win in a major tournament at last year’s U.S. Open. A controversial penalty stroke assessed on the fifth green in the final round couldn’t derail him, and he won by three strokes. Johnson will defend his title against Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Hideki Matsuyama, Henrik Stenson and 2017 Masters champion Sergio GarcÍa at the 117th U.S. Open, held at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. NBA Finals (Game 5 if necessary, June 12, 9/8c, ABC) The Golden State Warriors swept their way…

BLINDSPOT (NBC) After defeating the Sandstorm terror group’s plot to blow up the White House, Jane (Jaimie Alexander) and fellow FBI agent Weller (Sullivan Stapleton) finally hit the sheets. Then the action jumped two years ahead, with half the team kidnapped and Jane in hiding…with a group of monks! “She’s obviously been missing for a bit,” executive producer Martin Gero says. The finale’s last scene—which saw Weller locating Jane and lighting her up (literally) with a metal object—sets up Season 3. “That was a bioluminescent top layer of tattoos,” Gero says of the glowing body art. “Those tats will start us on a fresh adventure with new bad guys and another sinister plan to unveil.” —Damian Holbrook CHICAGO FIRE (NBC) In 2014, Chicago Fire’s finale left fans not knowing who…

CHUCK TODD Meet the Press Sundays, check local listings, NBC MTP Daily 5/4c, MSNBC My current favorite show The funniest person on TV What I hate-watch What I eat while watching The show I miss most The show I’d like to guest star on The first thing I watch when I wake up The last thing I watch before I go to bed…

HOW DOES AMC’S The Walking Dead manage to draw millions of viewers more than most weekly series on broadcast TV? How does CBS’s upcoming Young Sheldon, its spinoff prequel to The Big Bang Theory, compare to other spinoffs in TV history? And what do modern TV classics like HBO’s The Sopranos and AMC’s Breaking Bad owe to a 50-year-old episode of ABC’s The Fugitive? Good questions. And they all have to do with good TV. This new column will identify and explore the best that television has to offer, present as well as past, and connect the dots between the TV of yesterday and today. I’ll be reflecting on certain TV milestones— the 70th anniversary of television’s longest-running program, NBC’s Meet the Press, for example, and another news-division giant sequoia, CBS’s…

The Ranch COMEDY SEASON PREMIERE Friday, June 16 @theranchnetflix COLORADO’S BENNETT BROTHERS— comprised of ex-football star Colt (Ashton Kutcher) and semi-screwup Rooster (Danny Masterson)— were grappling with a whole new herd of issues (pun intended) when we last saw them in Netflix’s The Ranch. Colt’s plan to propose to high school sweetheart Abby (Elisha Cuthbert) was derailed by the fallout from a one-night stand; Rooster had abandoned the family’s failing farm for a more corporate outlet elsewhere; and their parents, Beau and Maggie (Sam Elliott and Debra Winger), had finally, painfully signed their divorce papers after a valiant attempt to mend fences. Not exactly typical sitcom fare, but The Ranch is not a typical sitcom. With salty language abounding and the show shot in multicamera format before a studio audience,…

NETFLIX DRAMA Now streaming @Bloodline DEADLY SECRETS BIND Bloodline’s Rayburn family—but in the drama’s third and final season, the consequences of “good son” John’s (Kyle Chandler) murder of dangerous black sheep brother Danny (Emmy winner Ben Mendelsohn) tear them apart. We talked to Linda Cardellini, who plays youngest sibling Meg, to see how her character can escape the deeply troubled clan. Season 2 ended with third Rayburn brother Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) killing John’s detective partner—and Meg’s ex-fiancé — Marco (Enrique Murciano), who was about to reveal John’s crime and his siblings’ cover-up. How does that change Meg? It officially drives her away from her family. With Danny, John lost control. What Kevin did was not an accident. Marco didn’t deserve to be bludgeoned to death! Meg really loved him. So…

Inferno DRAMA (2016) Saturday, June 17, 8/7c, Starz Who would expect a professor of religious symbology to lead such an exciting life of adventure and intrigue? Author Dan Brown would, and his Robert Langdon book series has been adapted into a trio of successful films ($1.5 billion and counting). Inferno is the third Langdon movie, after The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, all starring Tom Hanks as the in-too-deep Harvard prof. This time he teams with Felicity Jones (left, with Hanks) as a doctor helping Langdon through his amnesia—and then through Europe to stop the spread of a deadly virus. Transformers Mini-Marathon ACTION Wednesday, June 21, 3/2c, FX The fifth Transformers film, The Last Knight, opens this same night in cinemas. If you want to remind yourself who the good…

JUNE 12, 2017 | PUZZLE #1312 ACROSS 1 _____ and the Real Girl 5 Tornquist on Hec Ramsey 9 McBride of Boston Public 12 Animated K-9 13 _____ of appro 14 Director Wiseman 15 The _____ Show 16 Football position 18 Aviator Earhart 20 _____ , Liar 21 Koteas of Chicago P.D. 23 Andersson of Persona 26 Sports team members 29 Ed of Lou Grant 30 _____ Tin Tin: K-9 Cop 3 1 Susan of To Rome With Love 33 Erica of RoboCop, The Series 34 Green hue 36 Carmen of Baywatch 38 Kennedy of Mom 39 Rodney’s wife 40 Stake for Maverick 42 Maggart of The Sentinel 46 Buck James’s ranch foreman 49 Ames of Dolphin Cove 50 Best practitioner 51 Kind of hygiene 52 Superboy’s Earth father 53 Beatty of Homicide: Life on…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to The Bachelorette for keeping it real. No wonder so many guys are smitten with the franchise’s newest catch. Rachel Lindsay is not only gorgeous, smart and funny—she’s devoted to her dog and determined not to be dawged. See ya, DeMario! Cheers to Game of Thrones for a trailer that makes the wait worth it. Winter won’t be coming until later this summer, but we are just fine rewatching HBO’s gorgeous, detailed and intriguing promo for Season 7 over and over until Jon Snow (Kit Harington, right) and company return. Cheers to Iliza Shlesinger for quietly killing it in late night. Like the sassy little sister of Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee, the Truth & Iliza host has turned her Freeform chatfest into an under-theradar hoot brimming with sly…