Innholdsfortegnelse for September 18, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine What was CBS thinking when it cast the new sitcom Me, Myself & I? It’s possible for people to lose weight when they age, but they never increase in height as adults! Bobby Moynihan is 5'8" and Larroquette is nearly 6'5"! —Emma MATT ROUSH: When this issue was raised during the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, the show’s executive producer Dan Kopelman admitted concessions had to be made in casting a role played by three disparate actors at different stages in life. “John’s obviously much taller than Bobby. So, in the future scenes, we’ve tried to surround him with taller people so that he’s not just towering over his costars,” Kopelman explained. With a straight face, if I remember correctly. During reality-competition shows…

BILLY EICHNER Difficult People, Tuesdays, Hulu American Horror Story, Tuesdays, 10/9c, FX My current favorite show In terms of scripted series, mine was Feud. The funniest person on TV Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Julia Louis-Dreyfus or Chris Rock (above) in one of his stand-up specials. The show that always makes me laugh Nathan for You, The Comeback and The Golden Girls (above). The show I miss most The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow. Kudrow’s performance as Valerie Cherish is one for the ages. What I eat while watching I almost always eat dinner while watching TV. Lots of chicken! The show I’d like to guest star on Will & Grace would be a blast. We’ve had Debra Messing and Sean Hayes on Billy on the Street and I met Megan Mullally…

@TVGMMattRoush War stories staggering in their scope, wrenching in emotional detail DOCUMENTARY Sunday–Thursday, Sept. 17–28, 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) KEN BURNS, TV’S most compassionate historian, established his reputation more than a quarter century ago with The Civil War and comes full circle in yet another devastating epic. Over 10 nights and 18 hours, The Vietnam War relives the brutality, futility and anguished humanity of a conflict that divided the nation in ways still being felt. Alongside longtime collaborators Lynn Novick and writer Geoffrey C. Ward, Burns enlists a wide range of haunted eyewitnesses to history—U.S. veterans and military family members, Vietnamese soldiers and civilians from North and South, reporters and photographers and antiwar activists—to cover this complex and controversial story with a staggering breadth and depth. It’s…

LEAH REMINI JOINS THE CAST COMEDY RETURNS Monday, Sept. 25, 9/8c, CBS (moves to 8/7c on Oct. 30) @KevinCanWaitCBS YOU CERTAINLY CAN’T accuse Kevin Can Wait of being predictable. The CBS sitcom starring Kevin James as Kevin Gable, a family man who couldn’t quite get used to his retirement from the police department, was last year’s highest-rated new comedy. The season ended with a bang: the two-part finale featuring Leah Remini (James’s better half for nine years on The King of Queens) playing Vanessa Cellucci, Kevin’s former colleague from the force. Just weeks later it was announced that Gable’s wife, Donna (Erinn Hayes), would be killed off and Remini was coming on board full-time. We visited James and Remini on Kevin Can Wait’s Long Island set to investigate. First, the…

SEPTEMBER 10 Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) Outlander (Starz) Top of the Lake: China Girl (SundanceTV) 12 Chrisley Knows Best (USA) The Mindy Project (Hulu) 13 Broad City (Comedy Central) Comedy Knockout (TruTV) South Park (Comedy Central) 14 Better Things (FX) Bong Appétit (Viceland) 15 Kindred Spirits (TLC) 17 Beachfront Bargain Hunt (HGTV) El Chapo (Univision) My Giant Life (TLC) Vice Principals (HBO) 18 Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 19 Adam Ruins Everything (TruTV) If Loving You Is Wrong (OWN) The Little Couple (TLC) Tosh.0 (Comedy Central) 20 Are You the One? (MTV) Channel Zero (Syfy) The Good Place (NBC) 21 Gotham (Fox) 22 Fuller House (Netflix) Transparent (Amazon) 23 Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel) 24 60 Minutes (CBS) 25 The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Halloween Baking Championship (Food Network) Hip Hop Squares (VH1) Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Scorpion (CBS) Tiny Luxury (HGTV) The Voice (NBC) 26 Big Bad BBQ Brawl (Cooking Channel) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) Bull (CBS) Lethal Weapon (Fox) The Mick (Fox) NCIS (CBS) NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) Steve Austin’s Broken Skull…

Weekdays, NBC DAYS OF OUR LIVES IS IT A ghost or a figment of his liquored-up imagination? Days of Our Lives’ Lucas Horton (Bryan Dattilo) gets soused and takes his one-man pity party to church, where—on September 18—he has an encounter with his son Will (Chandler Massey, left, with Dattilo). But wasn’t Will slain in 2015 by Salem’s notorious Necktie Killer? Dattilo gave us the scoop. There’s been much excitement about Massey’s return, and fans are assuming that Will isn’t really dead. So what’s with this spectral visitation? Explain! We keep it mysterious. It’s all shot very cinematically, so you’re not quite sure what’s really going on. Lucas doesn’t want to believe he’s talking to Will’s ghost. In fact, he rejects the idea. He thinks it’s all in his mind…

SERIES PREMIERE Monday, Sept. 25, 9am, NBC Megyn Kelly is ready to begin her quest for morning glory. It’s been a long time coming: Last January, the Fox News darling was successfully wooed over to NBC, where she was handed a reported $17.5 million annual salary and two of her own shows. The first, newsmagazine Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, had an initial eight-week run over the summer and will return next spring despite lower-than-expected ratings—an average of around 3.7 million viewers, three million less than what powerhouse 60 Minutes was doing in reruns—and controversy over an interview with far-right media personality and Sandy Hook school massacre denier Alex Jones. On September 25, Kelly kicks off her second venture, Megyn Kelly Today, and the new program, considered a part of…

SEASON PREMIERE Monday, Sept. 18, 8/7c, ABC ON SEASON 25 of Dancing With the Stars, the latest motley crew includes a Property Brother (Drew Scott), an ’80s pop sensation (Debbie Gibson) and a Shark Tank boss (Barbara Corcoran). But who will prove most formidable? Of course, 98 Degrees’ Nick Lachey (below, with pro partner Peta Murgatroyd) gets a leg up thanks to his boy-band background—although he will have to overcome the mental hurdle of competing against wife/TV personality Vanessa Lachey. “They may require some marriage counseling,” jokes host Tom Bergeron. Then there are the jocks: Ex-NFLwide receiver Terrell Owens, former NBA star Derek Fisher, Paralympic swimmer Victoria Arlen and WWE pro Nikki Bella. “You’d be hardpressed to say that any category outside of athletes has done better on our show,”…

ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, E! will debut its Keeping Up With the Kardashians 10-Year Anniversary Special, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the 90-minute celebration of the reality-TV family’s past decade on the airwaves. And frankly, that’s about a decade more than I would have expected the show to last. As a brand, they haven’t just managed to survive; they’ve also thrived. Make that dominated. Their flagship series has been E!’s top-rated program for seven years straight. They have 11 spinoffs. And with business-savvy momager Kris Jenner, now 61, at the helm, they’ve amassed astonishing fortunes by selling themselves and their array of products. Today, when you hear the phrase “famous for being famous,” the name that instantly comes to mind—regardless of who you are— is “Kardashian.” Based on the episode that…

Returning Favorites Outlander DRAMA SUNDAYS, 8/7c, STARZ @Outlander_ STARZ Flames leap up into the dark winter sky above a narrow cobblestone street in Old Town Edinburgh, Scotland. An out-of-breath Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) burst through the crowd of terrified onlookers and rush toward the burning building. Yes, fans, the sexy soulmates reunite—setting off serious sparks of their own—in Season 3 of Outlander. Then, of course, they get swept right back into danger. “Their reunion is big, but so much happens to them even before that,” says a soot-smudged Heughan on set during a break in filming. The buildup is indeed as good as the super steamy payoff. So far, the time-traveling nurse and her beloved Highland warrior have tried and failed to change history, repeatedly rescued…

FANTASY RETURNS Oct. 6, 8/7c, ABC @OnceABC CURSED AGAIN! THE fairy-tale characters of Once Upon a Time have bid goodbye to their quaint and timeless little town of Storybrooke, Maine, and will relocate to modern-day Seattle, where Cinderella’s evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine (Gabrielle Anwar), seems to have stolen their memories and given them new identities. For example, Mayor Regina (Lana Parrilla) has become a bar owner named Roni and has no idea she once knew Hook (Colin O’Donoghue), who is now keeping the peace as police officer Rogers. But everyone still wants their happy endings! “We remain the same unapologetically hopeful and sentimental show we’ve always been, so we consider this new season a ‘requel’—half reboot, half sequel,” executive producer Edward Kitsis says. “By setting our story in an actual…

Monster Trucks SCI-FI (2017) Saturday, Sept. 23, 8/7c, Epix This kid-friendly, effects-laden film finds North Dakota high school senior Tripp Coley (MacGyver star Lucas Till, left, also seen on page 52) building his own truck so he can eventually visit his estranged father. But first he’ll encounter a creepy-yet-friendly octopus-like creature (he nicknames him “Creech,” get it?) that takes a shine to living under the hood of Tripp’s pickup. Turns out Creech has been displaced by some environmentally unfriendly drilling ordered by an evil oil-company exec (Code Black’s Rob Lowe), and it’s up to Creech, Tripp and some other pals—Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Thomas Lennon, Danny Glover and Barry Pepper all make appearances—to stop him. Assassin’s Creed ACTION (2016) Saturday, Sept. 23, 8/7c, HBO In this flick inspired by the video…

GREENS & GRIDIRON Fore! A premier international golf tournament provides some relief from the fall football frenzy: Presidents Cup Golf Held every other year, the Presidents Cup is a match-play tournament pitting the U.S. Team against the International Team consisting of the world’s best non-European players. This year’s tournament will be held from Sept. 28–Oct. 1 at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, with Golf Channel and NBC pairing up to air the tournament beginning Sept. 28, 1/noon c, on Golf Channel. Steve Stricker is the U.S. captain, and he’ll have Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Brooks Koepka among the top players in his lineup. For the International Team, captain Nick Price’s group will include Hideki Matsuyama, Jason Day, Adam Scott, Louis Oosthuizen,…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to To Tell the Truth for keeping it in the family. As much as we love host Anthony Anderson, we cannot lie: The best thing about ABC’s reboot is his mama Doris’s hilariously honest asides as the show’s scorekeeper. Cheers to Andrea Martin for finally getting the work she deserves. The Second City vet has always been second to none, so it’s awesome to see her scoring big laughs as TV’s most maternal intern on Great News and as the vainest mother ever on Difficult People. Now where is her damn trophy, Emmy voters?! Cheers to the Networks for staging the ultimate crossover. ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS and CMT banded together to simulcast Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Relief, an all-star telethon featuring…

THE HEIR APPARENT to The Colbert Report may have arrived. Premiering on September 25 at 11:30pm/10:30c—following Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show—The Opposition With Jordan Klepper aims to skewer today’s frantic and wildly oppositional 24/7 alt-news cycle. “We are building this out of the alt-media sources who see any kind of mainstream news, or any thought that comes out of those elitist pie holes, as something to be against,” says Klepper (right), a former Daily Show contributor best known for his straight-faced interrogations of Trump rally attendees. Like Stephen Colbert, Klepper has created an alter ego bearing his own name, whom he describes as a hyperbolic and paranoid conspiracy theorist. Imagine the conviction of Infowars’ Alex Jones minus the bombast—the delivery is more akin to soulful NPR icon Garrison Keillor. “Keillor…

PREMIERES Star Trek: Discovery Sept. 24, 8:30/7:30c, CBS and CBS All Access Young Sheldon Sept. 25, 8:30/7:30c, CBS Me, Myself & I Sept. 25, 9:30/8:30c, CBS The Brave Sept. 25, 10/9c, NBC The Good Doctor Sept. 25, 10/9c, ABC Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders Sept. 26, 10/9c, NBC SEAL Team Sept. 27, 9/8c, CBS Will & Grace Sept. 28, 9/8c, NBC Big Mouth Sept. 29, Netflix Tin Star Sept. 29, Amazon Marvel’s Inhumans Sept. 29, 8/7c, ABC Ghosted Oct. 1, 8:30/7:30c, Fox Wisdom of the Crowd Oct. 1, 8:30/7:30c, CBS Ten Days in the Valley Oct. 1, 10/9c, ABC FINALES American Ninja Warrior Sept. 18, 8/7c, NBC Midnight, Texas Sept. 18, 10/9c, NBC Somewhere Between Sept. 19, 10/9c, ABC America’s Got Talent Sept. 20, 8/7c, NBC Big…

AT CHIC NEW Hollywood hot spot Tao on September 16, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE and The Creative Coalition will host the third annual Television Industry Advocacy Awards, honoring TV actors and producers who go above and beyond to make a difference. The event—in a partnership with The Creative Coalition, a national nonprofit organization that brings together artists and entertainers to lend their voices to inform and influence the world—is being held with support from BBVA Compass, a top U.S. bank committed to creating opportunities for people to fulfill their dreams. “We’re celebrating those who have the unique platform of the entertainment industry and how they use it to change the world,” says Robin Bronk, CEO of The Creative Coalition, which this year started a new program, #RightToBearArts, to ensure every child…

DRAMA RETURNS Sept. 27, 10/9c, ABC @ABCDesignated POTUS IS TESTED “Is this president capable of maintaining his core sense of values?” —Sutherland WHEN ABC’S POLITICAL thriller debuted last year, it was instantly identifiable by its compelling premise: What would happen if the U.S. government as we know it was wiped out by a terrorist attack and a low-level cabinet member was suddenly thrust into the highest position in the land? Well, we got our answer in the form of President Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland)—an unapologetic idealist who spent Season 1 navigating threats and conspiracies stemming from both inside and outside his White House. But here’s the catch to starting off with such a nifty central idea: You’ve gotta figure out what the heck happens next. That’s where the series finds…

Fuller House COMEDY SEASON PREMIERE Season 3, Friday, Sept. 22, Netflix Get out your pink party dress. It’s been exactly 30 years since Full House debuted on ABC, and spinoff series Fuller House is celebrating with nine new episodes. There’s even a theme for this batch: summer fun. At press time, the only guest star confirmed to be joining regulars Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber (left) was Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball. They’re going to have to work a little harder than that if they want to top last season’s New Kids on the Block cameo.… Gerald’s Game DRAMA MOVIE PREMIERE Friday, Sept. 29, Netflix A safe word won’t be enough to help Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) after her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood, left, with Gugino), dies during…

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 | PUZZLE #1319 ACROSS 1 Against All _____ 5 John of Difficult People 8 Like Felix Unger 12 King of beasts 13 Wet _____ American Summer 14 Jack’s partner on Brooklyn South 15 Colored like Hulk’s skin 17 _____ The Brooklyn Bridge 18 Bewildered (2 wds.) 19 Played Blossom’s dad (2 wds.) 21 Actor Omar 23 Highway nuisance (2 wds.) 27 Tessa’s rival at school on Suburgatory 31 Beverly Archer on Mama’s Family 32 Horror director Craven 3 4 Quantum _____ 35 Emerald _____ N.A.S. 37 Evans of Evans & Novak’s first name 39 Knots Landing heroine 41 A military branch 44 Christine of The Blacklist 49 Military absence (abbr.) 50 Hazardous downfall (2 wds.) 52 Emergency _____ 53 3rd Rock From the _____ 54 Guardado of The Goldbergs 55 Chandler of Bloodline 56…