Innholdsfortegnelse for June 26, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush Like others, I was enthralled with the first season of Twin Peaks, disenchanted by the second and looked forward to the sequel. After five hours of The Return, I have some recurring thoughts: What on Earth was that? Should I be drinking alcohol while watching? I don’t remember the second season being that bad. If I keep watching, do you recommend a red or white wine, or should I go straight for the hard stuff? —Sara Anne MATT ROUSH: Is there a liquor strong enough to make this epic indulgence palatable? I championed the original series, which took a while to go off the deep end. That’s where Showtime’s version started, with precious little time even spent in Twin Peaks while Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), stuck in a doppelgänger’s…

PREMIERES Big Brother June 28, 8/7c, CBS Broadchurch June 28, 10/9c, BBC America Cleverman June 28, 10/9c, Sundance Jay Leno’s Garage June 28, 9/8c, CNBC Younger June 28, 10/9c, TV Land Battle of the Network Stars June 29, 9/8c, ABC Zoo June 29, 10/9c, CBS Gypsy June 30, Netflix Killjoys June 30, 8/7, Syfy Masters of Illusion June 30, 8/7c, The CW Snowfall July 5, 10/9c, FX Life of Kylie July 6, 10/9c, E! Real Estate Wars July 6, 10/9c, Bravo Candy Crush July 9, 9/8c, CBS The Defiant Ones July 9, 9/8c, HBO FINALES Southern Charm June 26, 9/8c, Bravo Southern Charm Savannah June 26, 10/9c, Bravo Pretty Little Liars June 27, 8/7c, Freeform iZombie June 27, 9/8c, The CW Big Star Little Star July 5, 9/8c, USA RENEWALS…

AFTER MINING COMIC book pages and the bestseller lists for story ideas, TV producers are now turning to the internet for source material. A wave of hit podcasts has recently been turned into TV shows, including TV Land’s Throwing Shade and Seeso’s My Brother, My Brother & Me. Here’s the skinny on the latest batch of pods turned series to watch for. ALEX INC. ABC’s midseason comedy is based on Gimlet Media’s hit StartUp. Zach Braff (above) stars in the sitcom as Alex, a radio journalist trying to launch his own media company. He’s loosely based on Gimlet CEO and cofounder Alex Blumberg, whose podcast chronicled his and others’ efforts to launch successful businesses. LORE Author Aaron Mahnke’s award-winning podcast explores the history behind myths and folklore, presenting details of…

ANIMAL KINGDOM’S CRAIG Cody (Ben Robson) has made his share of mistakes—like setting fire to his apartment and stealing his nephew’s girl. In Season 2 of TNT’s hit heist drama, Craig is hoping to finally break away from his crime boss mama, Smurf (Ellen Barkin). “Craig has to prove to himself, and his family, that he can step up,” Robson explains. That may be tough once he and his thieving brothers realize family ties bind for a reason. “They’re so locked in,” Robson says. “Family is their addiction.” Soon, Smurf will take advantage of that fact to draw her boys back under her wing. All this drama, though, gets left behind when the cameras stop. Robson took pics to prove it. Animal Kingdom DRAMA Tuesdays, 9/8c, TNT @AnimalKingdom The Cody…

JULY 4 MOVIE MARATHONS Military Dramas on FXM Tuesday, July 4, 3/2c, FXM Ten-hut! These soldiers are ready to impress you with their bravery and gumption this Independence Day. All three films in FXM’s marathon are based on real-life American heroes from World War II to the present. Start with Red Tails, screenwriter John Ridley’s (American Crime) tribute to the fighter pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen, who blazed trails on the ground and in dogfights over Italy and Germany. Tristan Wilds, Michael B. Jordan, Nate Parker, Ne-Yo and David Oyelowo (above, from left) star. Next up, Lone Survivor, the harrowing story of Operation Red Wings, in which a team of Navy SEALs unsuccessfully attempted to take out Taliban leader Ahmad Shah in Afghanistan in 2005. Mark Wahlberg leads a firstrate…

(1928–2017) NEWS, VIEWS, TRENDS AND INDUSTRY SCOOP I WISH I still had my Batman Utility Belt from 1966, complete with batarang and batcuffs— not because it would be worth a small fortune on eBay, but because the memory illustrates just how devoted a child of the ’60s was to the coolest TV superhero of his time, and perhaps of all time: Adam West’s Batman. Take it from one who’s donned the cape and suffered critical brickbats for it: “Adam West exemplified heroism,” tweeted Ben Affleck (Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice) following West’s June 9 death from leukemia at age 88. “Kind, funny and an all-around great guy. Thank you for showing us all how it’s done.” Megaproducer Greg Berlanti, who oversees an empire of TV superhero shows, also weighed…

One and done. Jennifer Esposito is leaving NCIS after a single season playing Special Agent Alexandra “Alex” Quinn. At press time, neither CBS nor the actress gave a reason for her departure, but reports attribute it to the producers’ decision to take the series in a new direction. (The procedural suffered a ratings drop after Michael Weatherly exited last year.) “It was a great experience,” Esposito said in a statement. “I could not have asked for a better opportunity.”…

VANESSA WILLIAMS Daytime Divas Mondays, 10/9c, VH1 My current favorite show Genius on NatGeo. This period piece is shot beautifully, and the cast is brilliant! I’m in love with the young Einstein. The funniest person on TV Dave Chappelle. In his Netflix stand-up specials, his take on his life and humanity is totally on point. The show I’d like to guest star on I would love to host Saturday Night Live. I was the special musical guest twice. The show I miss most The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore. It was my late-night go-to every week. Where else am I going to hear another black Catholic talk about mass? My guilty pleasure The Real Housewives of Atlanta. I’ve watched it from Season 1. No matter how many wig pulls or…

The Carmichael Show COMEDY Wednesdays, 9/8c, NBC @CarmichaelShow FOR THREE YEARS, Jerrod Carmichael’s The Carmichael Show has covered serious subjects with heart and humor, including depression, the Bill Cosby rape scandal and political protests. Already this season, an episode tackled death with dignity, and in the June 21 installment, characters will say the N-word—uncensored—six times. Of course, reflecting the real world can be a gamble: An episode about a mall shooting was pulled from the schedule following the June 14 shooting at an Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field. Carmichael reflects on being the face of a show that isn’t afraid to voice opinions while he plays a character who shares his name. With stand-up comedy, once the audience starts understanding your perspective and who you are as a person, a level…

1 The game changed for Kelly “the first time I ever anchored,” she says of subbing for Geraldo Rivera on Fox News’ At Large With Geraldo Rivera in 2006. “That thrill of anchoring a national broadcast has never left me. It was incredibly invigorating and uplifting.” 2 When college student and sex worker Crystal Mangum accused three members of the Duke University lacrosse team of rape in 2006, “MSNBC’s Dan Abrams and I were the only national news reporters who covered that story skeptically,” she recalls. 3 “The left in particular loves the Karl Rove moment during election night 2012,” when he kept predicting that Mitt Romney would win Ohio and the presidency, and Kelly confronted him. 4 Kelly was on air with her Fox News daytime show America Live…

JUNE 26–JULY 2 Wrecked COMEDY Tuesday, June 27, 10/9c, TBS Imagine this scenario: You’re stranded on a desert island with a bunch of hapless morons. You haven’t seen a TV in a while and the pirates holding you hostage offer to…spoil Game of Thrones! That’s the hardship the castaways on TBS’s Wrecked have to deal with in this week’s installment. Creators Jordan and Justin Shipley introduced said pirates to the cast of squabbling characters for their Lost parody at the end of Season 1, and they’re looking forward to working them into the Season 2 dynamic. “A good chunk of this season is about pirate rule,” Justin explains. “There’s this new outside antagonist force that drives a lot of the storylines. It was a bit of a change of pace.”…

Weekdays, CBS THE TALK SUMMER’S HERE AND that means Julie Chen is once again doing double duty as moderator of The Talk and host of Big Brother. We can never have too much of a good thing. You and your cohosts on The Talk clearly adore each other, yet some reporters still question whether you really get along. Isn’t this getting old? We don’t even think about it anymore. Listen, if we didn’t love each other, I guarantee it would be all over the gossip rags and you’d see it on screen. The camera doesn’t lie. You don’t even talk over each other, which other group gab shows can’t claim. What’s the secret to that? It’s a combination of good ol’-fashioned respect for one another and the fact that none…

ACROSS 1 Anna and the King of _____ 5 Judy Jetson’s name for her diary on The Jetsons 9 Lodge type 12 Like takeout orders (2 wds.) 13 _____ Stevens 14 The _____ Jakes 15 Widemouthed pitcher 16 Cooking measurement 18 Church job 20 One of Ben’s daughters on Matlock 21 Marriage vow (2 wds.) 22 David of Campus Cops 23 Newspaper type 27 _____ the Boys (2 wds.) 30 Under the weather 31 Selleck of Blue Bloods 33 Williams of Zorro 34 Greek philosopher 37 Watkins of Best of the West 40 Tina of My Three Sons 42 Issa of Insecure 43 Greg Evigan’s sci-fi TV series 45 Enemy robots on Battlestar Galactica 49 Old TV tuners 51 Reason to see Gunsmoke’s Doc Adams 52 Animals Are People _____ 53 Turn the…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Rachel Bloom for her award-worthy gig at the Tonys. The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star was such a hoot handling the backstage bits that we were secretly hoping she’d bump actual host Kevin Spacey before he stopped the show (in the worst way) with another one of his unnecessary impersonations. Cheers to Facebook for friending Nicole Byer (center). The social network plans to revive the Girl Code comic’s wrongfully ignored MTV series Loosely Exactly Nicole for a second season as part of their plan to bring original content to your feed. Almost makes up for all those years of FB superpokes. Cheers to Laura Dern for a cool hat trick. Between her riotously dim Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt guest spot, her Emmycaliber work on Big Little Lies and…

“In terms of actors who have played more than one role, Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany is the best ever” TELEVISION, FOR DECADES, has encouraged actors to showcase their versatility by playing look-alikes—a weird but persistent subgenre that was jumpstarted by ABC’s The Patty Duke Show. In that 1963–66 sitcom, the young actress played two roles, bookish British Cathy and brash Brooklynite Patty, often acting opposite herself on a split screen. These look-alikes, as the show’s themesong lyrics proclaimed proudly without explaining it genetically, were “identical cousins all the way.” And we’ve been seeing double, and more, ever since. The ultimate example, to date, of this alter-ego phenomenon is on view right now in BBC America’s Orphan Black. Star Tatiana Maslany is partway through her fifth and final season of the…

@TVGMMattRoush Broadchurch The detective drama goes out on an emotional high MYSTERY SEASON PREMIERE Wednesday, June 28, 10/9c, BBC America IT’S A RARE crime drama that makes you want to weep not only for the victims but with the survivors. Broadchurch, back in top form in its third and final season, works on so many levels. It’s a classic mystery, with writer Chris Chibnall introducing a surplus of deeply flawed suspects, each more convincingly culpable than the last. As a study of a prickly partnership, it’s hard to imagine one more entertaining than that of the explosively cranky outsider, Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant), once again teamed with the more empathetic local, Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), nagging at each other’s faults as they work toward a shocking…

Battle of the Network Stars REALITY COMPETITION SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, June 29, 9/8c, ABC @NetworkStarsABC AT THE PEPPERDINE University campus in Malibu, California, Taye Diggs nervously sits high above a pool, hoping he won’t get dunked by former Dallas star Charlene Tilton. Over on the campus tennis courts, The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams hustles to hit speeding tennis balls while ignoring trash talk by Melrose Place’s Thomas Calabro. No, this isn’t a flashback or tear in the space-time continuum but the revival of Battle of the Network Stars. The popular specials ran on ABC from 1976 to 1988 and featured ABC, NBC and CBS actors competing in everything from track and field to the iconic Tug of War challenge. Winners walked away with…a trophy. And bragging rights, of course. Revivals…

The Bureau DRAMA SEASON PREMIERE Season 3, Available now, Sundance Now Munich star (and French acting icon) Mathieu Kassovitz returns as spy Guillaume Debailly (code name: Malotru). Last season, he saved his lady love, Nadia (Zineb Triki), from Syrian prison. This year, it’s Debailly who needs to be rescued from ISIS, which took him hostage during a rogue operation in Raqqa. Danger & Eggs ANIMATION SERIES PREMIERE Friday, June 30, Amazon As educational as it is nuts, this children’s show follows thrill lover D.D. Danger (SNL’s Aidy Bryant) and her safety-obsessed best friend, talking egg Phillip (Eric Knobel). A must for kids who run with scissors. Oh, Hello on Broadway COMEDY Available now, Netflix Who knew? Funnymen (from left) Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s stage show Oh, Hello—based on sketches…

WIMBLEDON HOLDS SERVE It’s advantage England on the midsummer sports calendar: Wimbledon Tennis (Early rounds begin July 3, 7am/6c, ESPN) The most prestigious tournament in tennis’s Grand Slam returns to the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club. On the women’s side, Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova are among the favorites. Seven-time Wimbledon singles champion Serena Williams is expecting her first child and won’t defend her title. For the gentlemen, reigning singles champion Andy Murray will play for his third win on home soil. His stiffest competition includes Stan Wawrinka, Novak Djokovic, 2017 Australian Open champion Roger Federer and this year’s French Open winner, Rafael Nadal. ESPN and ESPN2 air the tournament through July 16. College World Series Baseball (Game 3, June 28, 8/7c, ESPN) The deciding game…