Innholdsfortegnelse for October 30, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

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PREMIERES Superior Donuts Oct. 30, 9:30/8:30c, CBS Major Crimes Oct. 31, 9/8c, TNT Total Divas Nov. 1, 9/8c, E! Flip or Flop Fort Worth Nov. 2, 9/8c, HGTV Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Nov. 2, 9/8c, Bravo Mom Nov. 2, 9/8c, CBS Life in Pieces Nov. 2, 9:30/8:30c, CBS S.W.A.T. Nov. 2, 10/9c, CBS Alias Grace Nov. 3, Netflix The Real Housewives of Atlanta Nov. 5, 8/7c, Bravo The Girlfriend Experience Nov. 5, 9/8c, Starz Shameless Nov. 5, 9/8c, Showtime Xscape Still Kickin’ It Nov. 5, 9/8c, Bravo SMILF Nov. 5, 10/9c, Showtime Holiday Baking Championship Nov. 6, 9/8c, Food Network Damnation Nov. 7, 10/9c, USA Teachers Nov. 7, 10/9c, TV Land Iron Chef Showdown Nov. 8, 9/8c, Food Network Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour Nov. 8, 10/9c, A&E The…

Zeta-Jones’s Scary Godmother She certainly wasn’t the bibbidi-bobbidi-boo type. Ruthless Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco (Catherine Zeta- Jones), the real-life subject of Lifetime’s biopic Cocaine Godmother (coming in January 2018), earned her nickname through a reign of terror in the 1970s and ’80s. She even allegedly killed her second husband, Alberto Bravo (Juan Pablo Espinosa, right, with Zeta-Jones), in a parking lot gunfight. But Blanco was also a loving mom of four—a contradiction that made her a dream role for the Oscar winner. “Catherine didn’t want to sugarcoat Griselda’s behavior,” says Lisa Hamilton-Daly, Lifetime’s vice president of original movies. “She was fiercely devoted to her kids, even as she was willing to use violence against other people’s children. Catherine gives her that emotional depth.” —Aubry D’Arminio Scorpion Goes Back in…

Blue Bloods Fridays, 10/9c, CBS THOSE WERE REAL tears Donnie Wahlberg spilled on Blue Bloods’ Season 8 premiere. In that shocking scene when fans learned his character’s wife, Linda (Amy Carlson), had died in a helicopter crash, Wahlberg’s tireless detective, Danny Reagan, broke down while talking to his shrink. “I didn’t have to use eyedrops,” Wahlberg recalls. “I just talked about my friend Amy being gone and let those emotions flow.” His costar’s departure hit Wahlberg hard. The onscreen couple had become friends over the seven seasons she played his better half. “When the therapist said Danny hadn’t acknowledged that Linda was gone,” Wahlberg continues, “I realized that I was in denial about Amy being gone.” Viewers can certainly relate. After the episode aired on September 29, they took to…

Major Crimes SEASON PREMIERE Tuesday, Oct. 31, 9/8c, TNT Here’s one way to go out with a bang: For its sixth and final season, the procedural drama is bringing back its biggest, nastiest villain, defense lawyer turned serial rapist and murderer Phillip Stroh (Zoo’s Billy Burke) for a multiepisode arc. Stroh, who debuted on The Closer before it spun off into Major Crimes in 2012, harbors a grudge against former male prostitute Rusty Beck (Graham Patrick Martin) for helping the cops. And he’s got a crazy new sidekick (Will Attenborough) eager to help him get revenge. Fortunately, Rusty’s adoptive mom, LAPD Major Crimes commander Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell, above, with Phillip P. Keane), and her entire unit have his back. In short, this means war. “It’s Major Crimes versus Philip…

DAYS OF OUR LIVES Weekdays, NBC YOU SITTING DOWN? Daytime überdiva Eileen Davidson will make her much-buzzed-about return to Days of Our Lives on November 2, but she will not— as is widely assumed—be playing her long-running character, Kristen DiMera. Instead, Davidson will arrive in Salem as Kristen’s bucktoothed hillbilly look-alike, Susan Banks, whom she played to uproarious success in the late 1990s. But that’s not to say Kristen—that dazzlingly demented priest rapist—won’t be popping up as well. Davidson drops some juicy hints. Word is, Susan is central to the mystery of Will (Chandler Massey) coming back from the dead. How’s that even possible? They connect the characters in a very cool and unforeseen way that’s both funny and tragic. But in order to bring Susan back, she needed to…

@TVGMMattRoush What happened to Mom? It seems like it’s turned into the Anna Faris and Allison Janney show without Christy’s (Faris) kids. Also, when you’re in AA, I thought you were supposed to stay away from people who could influence you—and Bonnie’s boyfriend is always drinking. —Sandy MATT ROUSH: Mom, which returns November 2 on CBS, has always focused on the fraught mother-daughter relationship between Bonnie (Janney) and Christy, and their comic chemistry is the show’s greatest asset. But as the series evolved, it has become about a new family: their AA support group of Marjorie (Mimi Kennedy), Jill (Jaime Pressly) and Wendy (Beth Hall). Christy’s kids are still recurring characters who return when the story calls for it—and their absence illuminates Christy’s failings as a parent, not unlike Bonnie’s. Mom…

TOM KIRKMAN (Designated Survivor, Wednesdays, 10/9c, ABC) POTUS MO Earnest and honest, Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland)—an independent who was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before being thrust into the Oval Office following a terrorist attack—is now a year into his first term. But can his idealism remain intact? “Kirkman’s greatest challenge is staying grounded,” Sutherland says. “It’ll be interesting to see if he’s capable of maintaining his values.” STATE OF THE UNION Just because the country has gotten used to Kirkman doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods. He still faces foreign and domestic threats— including from within his own family. (Secretive mother-in-law, we’re looking at you.) Confirms Sutherland, “In politics, you always have to watch your back.” CONRAD DALTON Madam Secretary, Sundays, 10/9c, CBS) POTUS MO They don’t…

Watched Live 1 Sunday Night Football Giants vs. Broncos NBC 16.2 2 Thursday Night Football Eagles vs. Panthers CBS 14.6 3 NCIS CBS 13.6 4 60 Minutes CBS 13.3 This headline-making installment— featuring an investigation of our nation’s opioid crisis—drew three million more eyeballs than the newsmagazine’s broadcast did at the same time last year. 5 The Big Bang Theory (Monday) CBS 13.1 6 Bull CBS 11.3 7 The Voice (Tuesday) NBC 11.1 8 This Is Us NBC 11.0 9 The Voice NBC 10.9 Although the singing competition’s overall average has dropped slightly from its standing last fall (11.1 million), the Monday episode still beat out Dancing With the Stars. 10 The Good Doctor ABC 10.7 11 Monday Night Football Vikings vs. Bears ESPN 10.4 12 NCIS: New Orleans CBS 9.5 13 Dancing With the Stars ABC 9.2 14 Football Night in America, Pt. 3 NBC 9.1 15 Blue Bloods CBS 9.0 16 NCIS: Los Angeles CBS 8.7 17 Hawaii…

TV SHOWS DON’T last for decades— and certainly not for generations—without doing something very right. CBS’s 60 Minutes collects kudos, and rightfully so, for being the longest-running series in primetime. But it’s NBC’s Meet the Press, which made its debut more than 20 years before 60 Minutes, that takes the prize for the longest-running show overall. It’s a wellearned honor: At 70 and counting, the program remains a force and guiding light. Meet the Press aired its first episode on November 6, 1947. To put that into context, its peers were Kraft Television Theatre—the granddaddy of TV anthology dramas—and Puppet Playhouse Presents, a hit children’s program that was quickly renamed The Howdy Doody Show. Those others are long gone, but Meet the Press—featuring interviews with newsmakers as well as analysis…

Outlander Sundays, 8/7c, Starz TV’s HOTTEST COUPLES When long-lost lovers Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) finally reunited on the October 22 episode of Outlander, the release of nearly 20 years of pent-up passion required a supersized 74-minute episode. Fans swooned over the romance—and the duo’s seemingly superhuman stamina in the bedroom. “I assure you that Sam and Caitriona perform all their own sex scenes,” executive producer Maril Davis says with a laugh. “No stunt doubles are used.” But lust is not all that defines this relationship, says Balfe: “Everyone talks about Jamie and Claire’s sexual chemistry, and yes, that is a strong part of their relationship. But their emotional and spiritual connection is what keeps them together through all the craziness.” That craziness is about to go off…

Star Moore gets strapped in for a helicopter stunt at Santa Clarita’s Sable Ranch on August 4. “I was pooping my pants,” he says of taking flight. “Not literally, but it was pretty close for the first hour!” S.W.A.T. SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Nov. 2, 10/9c, CBS SURE, IT TAKES guts to reboot S.W.A.T., a short-lived 1970s police procedural that’s known primarily for its catchy theme song (and also a ho-hum 2003 Colin Farrell movie adaptation). But you’ve got to have real grit just to be on S.W.A.T.’s set, where the cast and crew (including the pilot’s director, Fast and the Furious auteur Justin Lin) are pushing TV action to daredevil heights. Seriously. Lead Shemar Moore, who plays newly promoted LAPD S.W.A.T. boss Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, has already spent multiple hours…

The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Saturday, Nov. 11, 8/7c, HBO If you think superhero movies have gotten way too dark these days, here’s the alternative you’ve been hoping for: a hilariously fun Batman movie that still manages to take the Dark Knight seriously. Will Arnett voices the Caped Crusader, who busts crime by night and lives a solitary life in his mansion by day. With the help of some friends—like Commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) and Boy Wonder Robin (Michael Cera)—and even his archvillain, the Joker (Zach Galifianakis), Batman will open up to becoming a little less of a loner. Hey, stranger things have happened in Gotham City. Get Out (2017) Saturday, Nov. 4, 8/7c, HBO He’s in “the sunken place”— and you’re on the edge of your seat. Writer-director Jordan Peele’s…

COLLEGE HOOPS TIP-OFF NCAA basketball season is here, and 50,000 runners take on 26.2 miles of the Big Apple. College Basketball It’s been a tumultuous offseason in college basketball, with 2017 NCAA champion North Carolina barely escaping sanctions for academic fraud and Louisville head coach Rick Pitino getting fired in the aftermath of an FBI investigation into a bribery scandal. While institutions wrangle with the integrity of the game, student athletes will settle things on the basketball court. Early season matchups on November 10 include Texas A&M vs. West Virginia at the Armed Forces Classic from Ramstein Air Base in Germany (6/5c, ESPN), Northern Iowa in Chapel Hill to face Joel Berry II and North Carolina (7/6c, ESPNU), Tennessee State at Kansas (9/8c, ESPNU) and Georgia Tech vs. UCLA in…

OCTOBER 30, 2017 | PUZZLE #1322 ACROSS 1 Campus ____ 5 Furry ET 8 Actor Pitt 12 Animated canine 13 Constrictor type 14 The ____ Show 14 The ____ Show 15 Played Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction (2 wds.) 18 Just ____ Julie 19 Alexander on NCIS 20 Head of the Class nerd 23 Mister Ed headgear 26 Over My ____ Body 27 Victory Garden buzzers 30 Actress Dennings 31 Piper Perabo on Covert Affairs (2 wds.) 3 4 Weather Channel prop 35 Jack of Easy Street 36 ____ a Hero 37 A very slow pacer 39 Cheers beverage 40 Enterprise’s chief engineer 42 Architect on How I Met Your Mother 43 “Golden Boy” on Gossip Girl (2 wds.) 49 Prayer ender 50 Zeltzer of Joe’s World 51 Gross of Free Spirit 52 Daly…

@damianholbrook Cheers to The Mayor for its winning representative. Not since Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope has TV had a local politician as plucky, lovable and worthy of multiple terms as the unimpeachably charming Brandon Micheal Hall’s (left) Courtney Rose. We’re with him! Cheers to DC’s Legends of Tomorrow for being the Arrowverse’s secret weapon. While Supergirl, The Flash and Arrow get all the attention, The CW’s superteam (led by the A-plus Caity Lotz, right) has heroically morphed into a full-on comic book joyride through time more folks should be strapping in for. LOVE IT! HATE IT! Cheers to Brooklyn Nine-Nine for giving us police squad goals. Five seasons in and the cop-com’s ensemble is still killer, as evidenced by the Halloween Heist episode that gave everyone a chance to…

Tuesdays, 10/9c, ABC My current favorite show Homeland. I know I’m late to the party, but I’m here now! The funniest person on TV Julia Louis-Dreyfus is amazing, but I also have a major girl crush on The Mick’s Kaitlin Olson (above). My dream costar I must say, Jason Ritter is a total dreamboat. His endless supply of corny dad jokes always makes me laugh. The show I miss most Friends! It was lightning in a bottle. The show that always makes me laugh The Office. Their chemistry just worked. My guilty-pleasure show My love for The Bachelorette isn’t really a guilty pleasure, but I’m guilty of having strict rules for watching: Commentary is reserved for after the episode, and I don’t want to hear predictions! The show I’d like…

FROM OCTOBER 11 TO 15, the annual Independent Television Festival—sponsored in part by TV GUIDE MAGAZINE— brought together industry pros and emerging talent in Manchester, Vermont. Since it launched in 2006, ITVFest has been offering writers, editors, producers and directors a chance to connect with the folks who could get their shows on the air. “There needs to be a place where television executives can find the best new independently created stories,” says Philip Gilpin Jr., ITVFest’s executive director. Original series submitted at previous ITVFests have been optioned by major studios, and some are currently being shopped around to networks and streaming platforms. This year, for the first time, the creators of the festival’s winning shows were granted a sit-down with programming and development honchos from HBO (another ITVFest sponsor).…

Archie and Veronica RIVERDALE, Wednesdays, 8/7c, The CW Talk about red-hot. After 75 years as a squeaky-clean comic book kid, the beloved ginger (KJ Apa) has been getting down and dirty with wealthy, wily transfer student Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes). Their steamy Season 2 premiere shower scene definitely raised temps, but it was Ronnie’s support while Archie’s dad fought for his life that really had our hearts aflutter. —Damian Holbrook Connor and Oliver HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, Thursdays, 10/9c, ABC Were we rabidly rooting for Connor (Jack Falahee) to accept that marriage proposal from Oliver (Conrad Ricamora)? Hell, yeah! And when Connor nixed the nuptials— at least until they stop living crazy, dangerous lives—we were bummed but still blissfully encouraged. True love and common sense? No crime in…

Fearless Season 1, Available now, Amazon Go ahead, do a good deed. Just recognize that you’re gonna get punished! Helen McCrory (aka Harry Potter’s Mama Malfoy) leads this U.K. drama as human rights lawyer Emma Banville, whose efforts to prove a man’s innocence tick off the police, MI-5 and MI-6. Jonathan Forbes (above, with McCrory)—hilarious as prodigal son Fergal on Catastrophe—does sexy-serious equally well here, playing Emma’s ex-cop sidekick, Dominic Truelove. Try not to read too much into his surname. Wanted Seasons 1–2, Available now, Netflix What’s that we said about good deeds? After attempting to stop a fatal carjacking in front of their Sydney bus stop, supermarket clerk Lola Buckley (Rebecca Gibney) and office worker Chelsea Babbage (Geraldine Hakewill, above right, with Gibney) are kidnapped by the assailants. The…