Innholdsfortegnelse for October 16, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine Why in the world did CBS decide to show one episode of Young Sheldon and then not air another for more than a month? My family and I loved the premiere and we were looking forward to Episode 2 the following week, but seeing it won’t be on for a month just makes us angry and not care as much. —Melissa MATT ROUSH: Sounds to me like you care quite a bit. And I can’t blame you. The idea behind the September 25 “preview” of Young Sheldon, after the heavily promoted proposalpayoff premiere of The Big Bang Theory, was to whet your appetite and expose the spinoff to the widest possible audience. In that regard, the strategy paid off handsomely, and I’m betting when…

Monty Hall 1921–2017 IN THE GAUDY circus of daytime TV game play, Monty Hall was the consummate ringmaster. He kept his dapper cool while suffering costumed fools so gladly on Let’s Make a Deal that we gleefully played along, hanging on each reveal of the show’s tempting curtains. Even a “zonk” could feel like a blessing in the company of the charismatic Hall, who died September 30 of heart failure at 96. Born Monte Halparin in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Hall cocreated Deal in 1963 and presided over the frenzied bargaining for thousands of episodes on NBC, ABC and in syndication through 1976. “You know what it’s like doing this madness?” he posed to TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in 1973. “Like a Broadway opening, like Sugar Ray Robinson going into the ring defending…

Lore Available now, Amazon Writer Aaron Mahnke’s popular podcast is adapted for the small screen with six episodes that explore the real-life roots of legendary tales (Werewolves! Mad scientists! Plague!) using dramatic reenactments and archival footage. The Exorcist Friday, Oct. 20, 9/8c, Fox As if widowed foster father Andy (John Cho) doesn’t have enough to worry about now that demons are targeting his orphans, Marcus (Ben Daniels) notices that something is wreaking havoc with the island’s wildlife as well. Definitely not the place to go trick-or-treating. Superstition Premieres Friday, Oct. 20, 10/9c, Syfy Baadassssss Mario Van Peebles produces and stars in this creep show about a family- run funeral home that gets a lot of business from the supernatural forces taking over its small Southern town. Scared Famous Premieres Monday,…

AND THEY’RE OFF! The fall season is getting into full swing, and the people have already spoken. Which freshman shows have struck a chord with viewers—and which are striking out? We break down the early ratings, and what’s driving them, with this handy scorecard. HITS Comfort-Coms: Young Sheldon, Will & Grace These two sitcoms might be best described as newish. From the jump, audiences had a sense of what they’d be getting—which goes a long way. CBS’s Young Sheldon, the spinoff prequel featuring the childhood version of Jim Parsons’s beloved character from The Big Bang Theory, oozes warmth, and 17.2 million viewers felt it. Enlisting Parsons to narrate further upped the familiarity factor. For the revival of Will & Grace, nostalgia was front and center. After 11 years, who wanted…

HIT SHOWS, the kind that manage to capture the zeitgeist, dominate watercooler conversations and secure a lasting position in the TV lexicon, are pretty few and far between. Even rarer is finding one that pulls this off without any of the expected bells and whistles (think: superheroes, special effects, snuffed torches, murder mysteries or a teeming hospital). At the moment, This Is Us—NBC’s sophomore dramedy— is enjoying precisely that status, using emotional pyrotechnics alone to explore the extended Pearson family’s evolving relationships with themselves and others. Their stories are relatable, and not unlike the issues that were once addressed on another fan favorite, thirtysomething. Airing from 1987–91, the ABC drama collected 13 Emmys as it followed the ups and downs of seven interlinked characters, triggering countless tears along the way.…

Emerald Point, N.A.S. (1983–84) The CBS naval soap lasted only one season. But playing conniving Hilary Adams opened doors for Ward. “I couldn’t get arrested in TV until I did Emerald Point,” she says. “Then once I did a drama, I could never convince anybody that I could do comedy.” Sisters (1991–96) “This show was like going to school for me,” the actress says of playing free-spirited sister Teddy Reed alongside Julianne Phillips, Swoosie Kurtz and Patricia Kalember. “Everything Teddy did she did with great passion. More people stop me for Sisters than anything else.” Once and Again (1999–2002) Ward holds the family drama, created by thirtysomething vets Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, near and dear. “I loved it,” she says. “I won an Emmy the first season, but ABC…

MACGYVER Friday, Oct. 27, 8/7c, CBS Gadgets wizard Mac (Lucas Till) and his special-ops team play undead versions of the beloved Wizard of Oz characters to entertain—or terrify?—trick-or-treating kids in the hit series’ special Halloween episode. “The cast was excited to dress up, but Justin Hires was plucking loose hairs out of his eyeballs all day!” costar Meredith Eaton recalls. “His costume was so hairy.” Sadly, the gang’s holiday plans are interrupted. Executive producer Peter Lenkov teases: “They’ll head into the Bermuda Triangle to retrieve the vice president’s son, whose plane disappeared.” Now that’s scary! —Ileane Rudolph THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS Saturday, Oct. 21, 8/7c, Lifetime Oscar winner Anjelica Huston stars as Mrs. Aylwood, the mysterious owner of an ominous English manor in Melissa Joan Hart’s remake of the…

NCIS Tuesday, Oct. 17, 8/7c, CBS Meet NCIS’s new secret weapon: Jacqueline “Jack” Sloane (Maria Bello). The former Army psyops officer and close friend of director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll, above, with Bello) joins the team in this week’s episode as its first forensic psychologist. Her expertise? Knowing exactly what you’re thinking. “Jack can look at you and tell from the way you move your hands and eyes if you’re telling the truth or not,” Bello explains. “And she’s very good at putting puzzle pieces together to solve crimes.” That will come in handy as she immediately jumps in to assist the crew in tackling the case of a kidnapped sailor. Bello helps us get further into Jack’s head. Is it true you wanted your character to have a man’s…

OCTOBER 16, 2017 | PUZZLE #1321 ACROSS 1 Striped or largemouth 5 Bachelor ____ 8 Carl of The Donna Reed Show 12 Ron Howard TV role 13 Plumb of The Brady Bunch 14 Gunny on Major Dad 15 Like an overdone piece of toast (4 wds.) 18 George ____ Jr. of The Nancy Drew Mysteries 19 Wren of The Young Riders 22 Equally distant (2 wds.) 26 Actor Chaney 27 The ____ and the Papas 31 Iguana on Dora the Explorer 32 Breakfast food 33 Siskel & ____ 34 ____ Doky Ranch 35 Sara of Malibu Country 36 George of Just Shoot Me! 37 ____ Tin Tin K-9 Cop 38 Scrubs chief of medicine 40 Graff of Mr. Belvedere 42 Hoosier state 46 Carroll O’Connor on In the Heat of the Night (2…

@TVGMMattRoush Ten Days in the Valley Getting hooked on a nail-biter that would feel at home on cable Sundays, 10/9c, ABC Lying to cops and abusing drugs, Jane is far from a typical TV heroine AN AWFUL LOT can happen in a week and a half. We’re not even at the midpoint of Jane Sadler’s worst-case nightmare, and by the end of Day 4 (airing October 22), the puzzle surrounding the kidnapping of her beloved daughter spirals into even more bloody and treacherous new directions. Telling its entire heavily serialized story within 10 taut hours of red herrings and dead ends, Ten Days in the Valley is not a typical network mystery series, and as the self-destructive and recklessly impulsive Jane, the electrifying Kyra Sedgwick is far from an everyday…

The Walking Dead SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, Oct. 22, 9/8c,AMC War is hell, or so they say. But on a May morning on the set of The Walking Dead in Senoia, Georgia, war kind of feels like a little slice of heaven. Some 200 actors and extras are in various stages of prep for a Season 8 blockbuster battle between the forces of good, led by lionhearted sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), and the dominion of evil that is Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Saviors. Heroes will fall, and no matter which side triumphs, there’s still that damn zombie apocalypse to contend with. So why is everyone in such a fine and frisky mood? “It’s relief—pure, sweet, joyous relief,” Lincoln says with a laugh. “We started Season 7 with Negan…

Monster Sundays and Classic Horror Tuesdays Sundays and Tuesdays, beginning at 8/7c, TCM Count on Sunday-night salutes to Dracula, including 1931’s Bela Lugosi gem and 1966’s trippy Billy the Kid vs. Dracula. And on Tuesdays, look for OG scares from the likes of Frankenstein and The Mummy. Freeform’s “13 Nights of Halloween” Begins Thursday, Oct. 19, 7:30am/6:30c, Freeform The network has curated a family-friendly schedule (Hocus Pocus, Spooky Buddies, The Addams Family flicks, The Haunted Mansion) capped off by a daylong Pocus-thon on Halloween. The Sanderson Sisters must be so proud! Rob Zombie’s 13 Nights of Halloween Begins Thursday, Oct. 19, 9/8c, HDNET The rocker turned auteur kicks off a nightly filmfest with his own 2005 shocker, The Devil’s Rejects. Also on the bill: The Silence of the Lambs, 1972’s…

Rock Dog (2016) Saturday, Oct. 28, 10am/9c, HBO Bodi (Luke Wilson) is a naive pooch living in the mountains—but what he really wants is to jam! He’ll get his chance upon meeting his musical hero—a crooning cat voiced by Eddie Izzard— in this kids’ flick featuring the vocal stylings of Matt Dillon, Sam Elliott and Kenan Thompson. We Love the ’80s Two- Day Marathon Monday–Tuesday, Oct. 16–17, 6/5c, SundanceTV Happy 30th birthday to The Lost Boys! That trendsetting flick (sexy vampires with good hair!) is one of the Reagan-era films being saluted in this marathon. The others: Real Genius, Beetlejuice, Back to School, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, St. Elmo’s Fire and The Karate Kid (right). American Ultra (2015) Tuesday, Oct. 24, 12:35/11:35am c, Epix Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) thinks he’s a run-of-the-mill slacker…

Weekdays, CBS THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS SHE’S KICKING ASS—at the tender age of 79! Marla Adams has triumphantly returned to CBS’s The Young and the Restless as Madame Dina Mergeron, the man-hungry jillionairess who merrily abandoned her three young children decades ago in pursuit of more sensual pleasures. Now Dina is in the early stages of dementia and under the spell of heartthrob scam artist Graham Bloodworth (Max Shippee, left, with Adams). Will those kids she once dumped be able to step in and save her? Adams breaks it down. On the October 16 episode, Dina collapses in her hotel room after a fight with Graham, and he just leaves her there. Why does she put up with this creep? Not only does he leave her for dead, he…

@damianholbrook Cheers to John Stamos for using his past to improve our future. The former General Hospital stud (above) has teamed with Smash exec producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan to develop a drama set in the world of 1980s soap operas for Amazon. Somewhere, Susan Lucci had better be on the phone with her agent. Cheers to NBC for making us thirsty for Thursdays. Thanks to the combined comedy powers of Superstore, The Good Place, the revived Will & Grace (with Megan Mullally, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Sean Hayes, above) and the finally appreciated Great News, the former home of hilarity has put together a sharply smart lineup that’s must-see instead of musty. LOVE IT! Cheers to Freakish for giving the zombie genre a lively twist. Like The Walking Dead…