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@damianholbrook Emmy Edition Cheers to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for winning the most popular vote. The Veep star sauntered off with her sixth consecutive Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy award, which now makes JLD the record-holder for most wins by an actor playing the same role. Cheers to Lena Waithe and Donald Glover for making history. Master of None’s Waithe became the first black woman to ever score Outstanding Writing for a Comedy, while Atlanta’s Lead Comedy Actor champ Glover (right) also became the first black man to win a directing statue in the category. Let’s say it together: It’s about time! Cheers to newbies for taking home hardware. The Handmaid’s Tale and its Emmy-ordained twosome of Ann Dowd and Elisabeth Moss (above, from left, with Alexis Bledel, who won earlier…

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine What do you make of the news that Jason George, who plays Ben on Grey’s Anatomy, is leaving to star in the show’s firefighter spinoff? It doesn’t make much sense from a character standpoint, and while I get that ABC would want to have a familiar character on the new series, I’m more worried this might cause Ben and Bailey (Chandra Wilson) to split, as they are one of the most adult, reasonable couples on Grey’s. —Jake MATT ROUSH: George has said the move may not affect the relationship, and I hope that’s the case, because who doesn’t love Bailey? Though I could see a scenario in which Ben finally gets fed up with the church/state conflicts of working for his wife. Also, by…

PREMIERES Lucifer Oct. 2, 8/7c, Fox 9JKL Oct. 2, 8:30/7:30c, CBS The Gifted Oct. 2, 9/8c, Fox The Middle Oct. 3, 8/7c, ABC Fresh Off the Boat Oct. 3, 8:30/7:30c, ABC black-ish Oct. 3, 9/8c, ABC The Mayor Oct. 3, 9:30/8:30c, ABC Kevin (Probably) Saves the World Oct. 3, 10/9c, ABC Queen Sugar Oct. 3, 10/9c, OWN The Real Housewives of New Jersey Oct. 4, 9/8c, Bravo Scandal Oct. 5, 9/8c, ABC Van Helsing Oct. 5, 9/8c, Syfy Once Upon a Time Oct. 6, 8/7c, ABC Superstition Oct. 6, 10/9c, Syfy America’s Funniest Home Videos Oct. 8, 8/7c, ABC Madam Secretary Oct. 8, 10/9c, CBS Supergirl Oct. 9, 8/7c, The CW Valor Oct. 9, 9/8c, The CW The Flash Oct. 10, 8/7c, The CW DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Oct. 10,…

AS A BABY BOOMER, I was fortunate enough to grow up during The Twilight Zone’s original five-season run on CBS. Back then, I thought the visionary anthology series created by Rod Serling (below) was one of the best shows ever made. Still do, actually—and I’m not alone. I recently interviewed dozens of TV’s biggest writer-producers about the programs that had influenced them most, and The Twilight Zone was the No. 1 answer. (Mel Brooks, James L. Brooks and Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan were among those superfans, to name a few.) The influence and impact of Serling’s show has, if anything, only increased since its premiere on October 2, 1959. Look no further than this year’s Emmys for proof: Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror anthology series, perhaps the closest approximation yet, scored…

1 Sunday Night Football Packers vs. Falcons NBC 20.2 2 America’s Got Talent (Wednesday) NBC 11.6 America’s Got Talent (Tuesday) NBC 11.6 4 Primetime Emmy Awards CBS 11.4 Sorry, Stephen Colbert, but it might be time to bring back Neil Patrick Harris. His 2013 hosting gig reeled in 17.6 million overall viewers—but that high has been eroding ever since. Monday Night Football (Game 1) Saints vs. Vikings ESPN 11.4 6 Monday Night Football (Game 2) Chargers vs. Broncos ESPN 9.9 7 Thursday Night Football Texans vs. Bengals NFLNetwork 8.1 8 60 Minutes (7:23–8pm) CBS 7.7 9 The Orville Fox 6.6 Seth MacFarlane’s space dramedy continued performing strong on Sundays. Its second episode landed in the Top 10, as the premiere did the week before. But will its move to Thursday nights help or hurt? 10 The Big Bang Theory (Thursday) CBS 6.4 Big Brother (Wednesday) CBS 6.4…

The Edge of Seventeen (2016) Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9/8c, Showtime Poor Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld, right). Forced to endure her awkward teen years as a high school outsider, she loses the one thing she can count on in life when her BFF, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), begins dating Nadine’s brother (Blake Jenner). What to do? Start a teen Cold War and freeze them both out of her life! Forever. This charming coming-of-age comedy has a ton of heart and soul, plus Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick in winning supporting performances as an acerbic, understanding teacher and Nadine’s troubled mother, respectively. Solace (2016) Monday, Oct. 2, 9/8c, Epix Anthony Hopkins plays John Clancy, a clairvoyant enlisted to help FBI agents Katherine Cowles and Joe Merriwether (Abbie Cornish and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, far left, with…

Weekdays, NBC DAYS OF OUR LIVES IT’S JUST NOT possible! Days of Our Lives fan favorite Alison Sweeney is returning October 13 for a two-month stint as hellcat Sami Brady. And she’s back for the soapiest of reasons: Sami has heard reports that her beloved son Will (Chandler Massey), who was killed in 2015 by a serial strangler, isn’t so dead after all. But she’s not buying it! Sweeney gave us a preview. Why is Sami so reluctant to believe Will’s alive? After all, this is Salem, where the nuttiest things happen. Because she’s been living in Europe and the gossip coming to her about Will is all third-party— and it’s coming from Ben [Will’s killer, played by Robert Scott Wilson] of all people! Plus, Sami doesn’t dare let herself…

RETURNING WOES Byron Nilsen wrote in with a few questions about our September 18 issue. “Loved your Returning Favorites Issue—it’s my favorite of the year—but no mention of Elementary?” he wrote. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? The Amazing Race? C’mon, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE, don’t leave us hanging on some of my mustsee shows!” We won’t! Like Chicago Med, these shows are slated for midseason, so they were not included in our Fall issue, but they’re coming back! DANCE ON So You Think You Can Dance named its Season 14 winner on September 25, but Lana Gillis’s enthusiasm for the reality competition is making us ready for Season 15! “This season was the best yet,” she wrote. “In a time when so much of TV is negative, dark or silly, SYTYCD is uplifting…

MEGAN BOONE The Blacklist Wednesdays, 8/7c, NBC My current favorite show The docuseries Years of Living Dangerously (featuring stars like David Letterman, above). Creators David Gelber and Joel Bach are great storytellers. The show I miss most The Wire. It was on when television started to really matter to me. The show that always makes me laugh Hulu’s Casual. They’re getting something just right over there that is really hard to get right. What I eat while watching Veggie pad thai. The classic I never finished I binged a few seasons of Cheers, but then I fell off when Shelley Long left. The funniest person on TV Tina Fey, if you’re reading this: I love you. The show I’d like to guest star on Master of None. Aziz Ansari is…

IF YOU WANT to make a long-running hit show, here’s a bit of advice: Cast David Boreanaz in it. On March 10, 1997, the actor made his TV debut on the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer—kicking off what would become a nonstop sweep of successful projects. His seven-year stint as Buffy’s brooding vampire beau secured his place in pop-culture history and led to the spinoff Angel, which lasted five seasons. Next: 12 (count ’em!) seasons as Special Agent Seeley Booth on Fox’s quirky crime procedural Bones. Now the 48-year-old has been recruited yet again to tackle the role of Navy SEAL Tier One leader Jason Hayes on CBS’s new fall drama SEAL Team. Oh, and did we mention that he’s a triple threat? He’s been directing since Angel…

SEPT. 21, 1998 Will & Grace premieres. (It eventually moves to NBC’s Must- See TV Thursday lineup on October 12, 2000.) FEB. 12, 2000 Will & Grace graces our cover! SEPT. 10, 2000 The show wins its first and only Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. NOV. 16, 2000 Cher guests as herself. (She returns in Jack’s dream as God for the 2002 season finale.) FEB. 7, 2002 Owen (guest star Matt Damon) and Jack vie for a spot in the worldtraveling Gay Men’s Chorus. NOV. 21, 2002 The 100th episode! Will gives away Grace at her wedding to Leo (Harry Connick Jr.), who will return briefly for the revival. APRIL 24, 2003 A newly single Karen wants to spend time with “real people” and moves in with Liz (played by…

Curb Your Enthusiasm Sundays, 10/9c, HBO YOU KNOW THAT hair above a bald man’s ears? Larry David is tugging at his. It’s grown even whiter and wispier since his semiautobiographical comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, last aired on HBO in 2011. “How do I look?” he asks, making it stick out. Honestly, mostly like a 70-year-old white guy who’s rich enough (he cocreated Seinfeld) to wear wrinkled khakis outside of the house and powerful enough to insist on doing this interview over FaceTime from his Los Angeles digs rather than on the phone. “I want to see people when I talk to them. Is that so bad?” he says. “I don’t FaceTime with my friends. I know what they look like. I have no idea what you look like.” Can’t argue…

NCIS: Los Angeles You’d have to work pretty hard to find a TV boss tougher than NCIS: Los Angeles’s Hetty Lange (Linda Hunt), who went mysteriously AWOL in the CBS hit’s Season 9 premiere. But her replacement, former Secret Service agent Shay Mosley (new cast regular Nia Long), is somehow even stricter. Just look at the suit! That doesn’t bode well for a team that follows only one rule, which is “don’t follow the rules.” But D.C. transplant Mosley could be a refreshing change. Besides, going rogue has become so cliché— and, according to Long, Mosley’s got moves we’ve never seen. Things are tense between Mosley and the L.A. NCIS gang from the start. What is her biggest beef with them? She came to Los Angeles to keep an eye…

Big Mouth SERIES PREMIERE Season 1, Available now, Netflix Puberty is the worst when you’re the one going through it. But when it’s happening to other people? Hilarious! Comedian Nick Kroll and Family Guy writer Andrew Goldberg teamed up for this psychedelic young-adult animated comedy about the horrors of early teenhood. Watch out for the Hormone Monster! (Seriously, that’s a character.) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) MOVIE PREMIERE Friday, Oct. 13, Netflix It’s a tale as old as time. In Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach’s latest, adult siblings Matthew (Ben Stiller), Jean (Elizabeth Marvel) and Danny (Adam Sandler, above right, with Grace Van Patten and Stiller) have long struggled in the shadow of their famous artist father (Dustin Hoffman). Now, they’re reuniting in New York for a celebration of his…

OCTOBER 2, 2017 | PUZZLE #1320 ACROSS 1 One of Spencer’s Pilots 5 The _____ Doctor 8 Mister Ed command 12 The Thin Man’s pooch 13 The best 14 Goldie of Laugh-In 15 Alaina _____ Hall of 227 16 Stimpy’s TV pal 17 _____ Stevens 18 Alison of Tom 20 Oliver _____ 21 Married…With Children mom 22 Jack’s daughter on Shannon’s Deal 24 Kelly of The West Wing 26 Animal store (2 wds.) 29 Lesley _____ Warren 30 Whitman of Parenthood 31 Gasteyer of SNL 32 Gas pump option 35 David of A Peaceable Kingdom 37 Slippery 38 Breaking Bad law enforcement org. (abbr.) 39 TV show’s name 41 Home of Puff the Magic Dragon 45 Williams of True Blue 46 Wheaton of Eureka 47 Ray of Bonanza 48 Jack’s partner on…