Innholdsfortegnelse for July 10, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush I’m over the moon about AMC’s renewal of The Son, starring Pierce Brosnan. But why don’t broadcast or cable networks develop more Westerns? It seems to me that this could be a very lucrative untapped market. Do you think it’s just a matter of the Western genre having been in limbo for so long that they can’t break the habit of sticking to what’s familiar? —Mary MATT ROUSH: Pretty much. Even in recent years, there have been waves of development where it looked like we might have a rebirth of a genre that once dominated TV. But programmers rarely seem willing to pull the trigger, and my belief is that it’s a demographic issue and the networks are convinced that shows set in this period won’t cross over to…

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS’ showrunner I. Marlene King and star Troian Bellisario had a secret and knew how to keep it. In the Freeform hit’s June series finale, it was revealed that the show’s resident baddie “A.D.” was Alex Drake, the Britishraised, never-before-seen twin of Rosewood brainiac Spencer Hastings (both played by Bellisario). Here, the ladies explain why this doozy—a nod to a twin shocker featured in Sara Shepard’s YA books, on which the series is based— made the most sense. Is it true you knew about Alex for two years? Troian Bellisario: Yeah. I love to know what’s going on, so I said, “Just tell me who A.D. is.” And Marlene laid out her plan for Alex Drake. Then she told me I was going to have to hold this…

PRODUCER-WRITER CARLTON CUSE “likes to make shows with big stakes,” he says. “And I really like cross-genre storytelling.” Cuse has stayed true to that course throughout his TV career. He describes his first series, 1993’s The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., as “an irreverent Western with science-fiction elements.” Lost, which made him a household name, “was an adventure show with science fiction.” And The Strain, returning to FX on July 16 (10/9c), “is an epidemiological thriller mixed with horror.” Here, he reminisces about some of his favorite projects. COLONY (2016–PRESENT) Cuse reunited with Lost’s Josh Holloway for USA’s dystopian thriller, which returns next year. “When you think of an alieninvasion show, you expect to see aliens and humans fighting. We wanted the drama to be about the propensity of humans…

@TVGMMattRoush This Will is a starving artist thirsting for attention amid the chaos of 1500s London Will The bawdy adventures of a young Shakespeare DRAMA SERIES PREMIERE Monday, July 10, 9/8c, TNT FIVE CENTURIES LATER, William Shakespeare’s plays are still making noise. Doubt it? Just look up Julius Caesar. Shakespeare’s staying power, enduring appeal and ability to generate headlines that stir emotions and controversy would no doubt thrill the young hero of Will. But don’t tune in expecting a stuffy museum piece. This is a colorfully exuberant imagining of the budding playwright as a starving artist thirsting for attention and opportunity amid the pungently chaotic bustle of 16th-century London. More brat than Bard of Avon as this fast-paced series commences, Will (a rakishly appealing Laurie Davidson) leaves his family behind…

MEET THE CAST Midnight, Texas SERIES PREMIERE Monday, July 24, 10/9c, NBC @NBCMidnightTX IN MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, you never know who— or what—your neighbor may be. The population of the small Western town in NBC’s new fantasy thriller, based on novels by Charlaine Harris (True Blood), includes a vampire, a weretiger, an ancient angel, a witch and a medium. Midnight is a safe haven for these so-called freaks who come to hang with—and protect—other misfits. The story begins with psychic and medium Manfred Bernardo (Francois Arnaud). He really does see dead people, but he’s also scammed tons of clients—and now one is out to make him pay. Manfred decides to hide out in Midnight, but demons, newly unleashed from hell, are on their way, and it’s up to him and the…

Will DRAMA SERIES PREMIERE Monday, July 10, 9/8c, TNT Young William Shakespeare as a wannabe rock star in 1589’s boisterous London theater scene? That’s the raucous world evoked—with the help of a modern rock score— in TNT’s new series Will from creator Craig Pearce, a screenwriter on Baz Luhrmann’s equally bold and anachronistic hits Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge. “I want to strip away any pretensions around Shakespeare,” Pearce says. “I think if he were alive today, he’d be a rapper—or on television.” For starters, Pearce needed an actor who could play the future Bard as “a man of the people: charismatic, attractive, romantic and able to go to dark places.” British newcomer Laurie Davidson (above) won the role of the 25-year-old, who leaves his wife and children behind…

Weekdays, CBS THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS DO YOU HAVE your tickets to the concert from hell? On CBS’s The Young and the Restless, multiple sclerosis survivor Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott) has been pushed by her control-freak megamogul hubby Victor (Eric Braeden) into performing a classical piano recital for Genoa City high society (July 13–14). Nikki’s stress level is off the charts. So are her MS flare-ups. Why on earth would she go ahead with this? Thomas Scott explains. Nikki pretty much hates Victor’s guts at this point. Why doesn’t she just bail on him? It even pisses me off. The gall of that guy! If somebody did this to me in real life I’d be so mad I’d be doing everything possible to get out of it. But…

THE TRUTH IS still out there. While The X-Files is returning to TV for 10 more episodes on Fox in 2018, fans don’t have to wait that long to get another dose of FBI Special Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they unravel government conspiracies and investigate the unknown. The X-Files: Cold Cases, an audiobook adaptation of select stories from the 2013–2015 IDW “Season 10” comic run (available via Audible.com on July 18), picks up shortly after the events of the 2008 film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Mulder and Scully are living together under assumed names but then find themselves pulled back into their old world when a mysterious hack threatens their safety. Not only do Duchovny and Anderson voice their parts, but several other…

“CBS is making us pay for its best show rather than proudly sharing it with its national broadcast audience” THE GOOD FIGHT, the excellent spinoff to the equally outstanding CBS legal drama The Good Wife, will be back for a second season in 2018. That’s the good news, because The Good Fight is the best new series CBS has presented all year. The bad news is that—as with all but the first of Season 1’s 10 stellar episodes, which continued the legal and personal travails of Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart and Co.—The Good Fight on the CBS broadcast network isn’t a show. It’s a no-show. If you want to watch it (and you should), you have to pay When CBS unveiled The Good Fight, the premiere aired free on CBS.…

A Story of Children and Film DOCUMENTARY NEW MOVIE Available now, FilmStruck TCM’s streaming site gets in the originalfilm business with this doc about the magic and the madness of childhood as depicted in movies. Director Mark Cousins (who was also behind the network’s exhaustive film history miniseries The Story of Film: An Odyssey) touches on more than 50 movies from all over the world, including masterpieces like E.T. (left) and The Red Balloon. The Salesman DRAMA Available now, Amazon The Oscar-winning Iranian film follows a married couple who are forced to move into a new apartment after their own collapses. Everything is hunky-dory, until the wife (Taraneh Alidoosti) is violently attacked in their bathroom. Turns out the previous tenant was a hooker with a lot of unhappy clients. Enraged,…

ACROSS 1 Hi Honey, I’m ____! 5 Baldwin of SNL 9 Did nothing 12 Andrew’s kid sister on My Secret Identity 13 Remini of Kevin Can Wait 14 Coffee brewer 15 Spout 16 Sara’s pet on Happy Family 18 The ____ Brothers 20 That Good ____ Nashville Music 21 Bob’s daughter on Bob 25 Singer Fitzgerald 28 Dancing bird on The Muppet Show 30 Fruit 31 Brian of All My Children 32 Aforetime 33 Hatcher of Sunday Dinner 34 Part of a court game name 35 Harry of 60 Minutes 37 Keenan of Call to Glory 38 Take for granted 39 So-so grade 41 Handled roughly 44 Flora’s granddaughter on Harper Valley P.T.A. 49 Brood of pheasants 50 Barking sound 51 Mets’ former stadium 52 Swenson of Benson 53 The Simpsons bartender 54 Sherman…

My current favorite show The Handmaid’s Tale. It is wildly entertaining yet also makes you think about the complicated political world we live in, especially for women. The show that always makes me laugh Friends. Reruns are somehow even better than the first time. The funniest person on TV Ellen DeGeneres. She is an incredible host, and every single show she does is hilarious The show I miss most Girls. It had fresh acting and addictive writing. JENNA DEWAN TATUM World of Dance Tuesdays, 10/9c, NBC My guilty pleasure Outlander. Time-traveling romance— need I say more? What I eat while watching Wine and snacks My dream costar Game of Thrones’ Khaleesi, because of the dragons! The last thing I watch before I go to bed Whatever I’m binge-watching: Big Little…

Friends From College COMEDY SERIES PREMIERE Friday, July 14, Netflix @friendsfcollege COBIE SMULDERS HAS proven she’s good company. For nine seasons on CBS’s hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother, viewers watched her quip, drink and date her way through Manhattan in lockstep with her closest pals as Robin Scherbatsky. Now, she’s suiting up for another tight-knit circle on the Netflix series Friends From College. The dark comedy centers around a group of six Harvard grads on the brink of 40: Smulders’s character, Lisa; her frustrated novelist husband, Ethan (Keegan- Michael Key); sexy overachiever Sam (Annie Parisse); juvenile trust-fundee Nick (Nat Faxon); flighty actress Marianne (Jae Suh Park); and tightly wound gay book agent Max (Fred Savage). But rolling with this particular squad could bring as much heartache as it…

Hacksaw Ridge ACTION (2016) Saturday, July 22, 8/7c, HBO Despite refusing to carry a gun, Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector in American history to win the Medal of Honor. Andrew Garfield plays the real-life war hero, who carried 75 of his fellow wounded soldiers to safety as heavy enemy fire blazed during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. Teresa Palmer (above, with Garfield) plays Doss’s future wife, Dorothy, in this Mel Gibson–directed biopic, which won two Academy Awards earlier this year. 50 Years of Hitchcock THRILLERS Wednesday, July 12, 8/7c, TCM We all go a little mad for Hitchcock sometimes, especially when TCM is spending every Wednesday and Friday evening in July spanning a half century of the Master of Suspense’s work, beginning with 1927’s The Ring…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to GLOW for bringing girl power. Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin (near left, with Brie) join the ranks of wonder women we’re loving this summer as the hard-hitting stars of Netflix’s fun, feisty and so-smart ode to the ’80s TV oddity that was the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Cheers to iZombie for unleashing the beasts. Season 3 of The CW’s fabulous zom-com ended with Liv (Rose McIver, right) and Co. facing the fallout from the entire world learning the truth about Seattle’s undead issue. That epic, showchanging twist took some serious guts…and braaaaains. Cheers to Syfy for rebooting Tremors. Honestly, with Kevin Bacon on board to reprise his role in the cult-fave horror comedy about killer worms, we’re basically shaking with excitement. Cheers to The Carmichael Show for mining…