Innholdsfortegnelse for November 27, 2017 i TV Guide Magazine

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@TVGMMattRoush We hang on every irreverent word from this quick-witted cutup The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel From 1950s housewife to stand-up sensation SERIES PREMIERE Wednesday, Nov. 29, Amazon CAN SHE TALK? Just try stopping her. From the moment we first meet Miriam (call her “Midge”) Maisel causing a panic at her own wedding with an off-color toast, we know we’ll be hanging on every irreverent word from this Upper West Side cutup. As the latest glib, quick-witted muse of Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, Rachel Brosnahan brings a pert, madcap intelligence to this decidedly unorthodox late-1950s Jewish housewife. We instantly get why she’s chagrined when she discovers that her husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), a working stiff who aspires to a stand-up comedy career, has “borrowed” his material. Because Midge is, first…

NETFLIX Glitch SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Tuesday, Nov. 28 New season, new problem. Provincial Aussie police officer James Hayes (Patrick Brammall) still hasn’t figured out why several people buried in the local cemetery (including his wife) came back to life. But he’s 100 percent sure that there’s a killer in town who wants them dead again. A Christmas Prince NEW MOVIE Available now A wannabe investigative journalist (iZombie’s Rose McIver, above, with Ben Lamb) thinks she’s getting her big break in this romantic comedy when she’s sent abroad to write an exposé on a soon-tobe European king. But from the look of those stairs, she’s more likely to break her neck. The Crown SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, Dec. 8 Speaking of new problems…Queen Elizabeth (Claire Foy, above center) will…

Sunday, Dec. 17, 7/6c, Fox You’ll shoot your eye out, kid! And that’s not the only thing that could go haywire when the rowdy and irreverent classic A Christmas Story comes to TV as a live musical. Set in blue-collar Indiana circa 1940, this nostalgic saga—about young Ralphie Parker and his desperate wish for a Red Ryder BB gun—requires a large company of child actors, plus real dogs (those dreaded Bumpus hounds!) who must ruin the Parker family’s turkey dinner precisely on cue. Oh, and snow. Tons and tons of snow. But hey, if you can’t show off when you’re flying without a net, then what’s the point? “We have two big goals here,” says executive producer Marc Platt (La La Land) during a rehearsal break. “We want to delight…

PICK OF THE WEEK! This Is Us Tuesday, Nov. 28, 9/8c, NBC We laughed, we cried, we watched a beloved character pop pills. As This Is Us airs its final episode of the year—the NBC dramedy returns in January—we have a heart-to-heart with star Justin Hartley (right) about how his alter ego, Kevin, is faring in light of a recent opioid addiction, and what’s next for the Pearsons. At the beginning of Season 2, Kevin was on top of the world: He was starring in a Ron Howard movie, and he’d reunited with his first love, Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge). How did it all go awry? We wanted to do a really deep dive into Kevin’s soul. He started using pills as a way to mask his emotional pain, and when…

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS LOOKING KNIGHTY FINE Vikings SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, History Jonathan Rhys Meyers officially joins the cast of Vikings in the two-hour Season 5 premiere as the real-life historical figure Bishop Heahmund and, well, he’s not exactly your father’s bishop. (Whether he was literally your great-great-great-greatgreat- great…great-grandfather’s bishop is anybody’s guess.) Heahmund was first glimpsed in last season’s finale making quite the entrance: He presided over a funeral and then provided some lessthan- gallant comfort to the widow. “Heahmund is a warrior bishop, which was a precursor to the Knights Templar,” explains creator Michael Hirst. “They were truly religious people with high positions in the church, but they were also soldiers. Heahmund was one of the greatest.” Heahmund quickly becomes the nemesis of Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen),…

Christmas in Evergreen ★HOLIDAY PREVIEW★ 8/7c, Hallmark A woman (Ashley Williams) wishes upon a magic snow globe for a romantic Christmas— and ends up stranded at the airport with a hot businessman and his precocious daughter. We know where this is heading: Concourse D’s Wetzel’s Pretzels, duh! The Essentials: Colin Clive 8/7c, TCM Sick of holiday schmaltz? Then a block of the British horror star’s classics may be your cup of tea. It starts with Bride of Frankenstein, where Clive plays the titular doctor, who builds a mate for his monster. Later, in Mad Love (11:15/10:15c), the actor is a pianist whose hands get amputated and replaced with a murderer’s. Remember: Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings ripped off. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 9/8c, BBC…

95th Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting 7/6c, Hallmark Channel The tree is trimmed. Now it’s time to turn it on! Country star Craig Campbell, Mannheim Steamroller and the U.S. Navy Band perform in the White House’s Presidents Park against the backdrop of the majestic evergreen. NOT FAKE NEWS The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE 8/7c, HBO Dubbed America’s “most dangerous editor,” Washington Post honcho Ben Bradlee, who died in 2014, never flinched in the face of power. This intimate portrait charts his life, from a boyhood battle with polio to his paper’s groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal. Vanderpump Rules SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Bravo Now serving (Sur-ving?) more drama! Season 6 of the reality hit finds nononsense restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump determined to open another eatery,…

Psych: The Movie MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, USA Network Three years after the cult-favorite comedy wrapped up, detective/faux-psychic Shawn (James Roday) and his partner in solving crime, Burton (Dulé Hill), are back on the case in this movie. Zachary Levi costars as a ruthless villain. The Great American Baking Show SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC Season 3 of the British hit’s Stateside version begins with U.K. favorite Paul Hollywood joining pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As judges, they turn the heat up on a batch of bakers for a series of challenges. Life in Pieces 9:30/8:30c, CBS At last! Jen and Greg (Zoe Lister-Jones and Colin Hanks, above) finally get a night away from their daughter on tonight’s episode of the family comedy. Somehow, they wind up babysitting for a kid that’s not…

ACROSS 1 In-____ 5 ____ the Sheriff 9 Weather channel prop 12 Balfour of Haven 13 The Kids in the ____ 14 Eldest son on The Middle 15 Horsford of Amen (2 wds.) 17 Peggy of Grace Under Fire 18 Burn rubber (2 wds.) 19 Bob’s wife on The Bob Newhart Show 21 Overman of Love, Inc. 22 ____ All Night 23 Job on Law & Order (abbr.) 26 Trailblazer 29 Lynette Peeler on City of Angels (2 wds.) 33 Four bagger (2 wds.) 34 ____ Game 35 Summer of Problem Child 36 NCIS: ____ Angeles 39 Quick correspondence 41 Nikki’s neighbor on The Parkers 45 Sportscaster Berman 46 Fish star (2 wds.) 48 Presidio ____ 49 Hawaii’s state bird 50 Angela’s ____ 51 ____ Doky Ranch 52 Big ____ 53 The ____ Ranger DOWN 1 Quantum ____ 2…

House of Cards Now that Frank Underwood, and Kevin Spacey, have been vetoed, Netflix is considering two potential projects set in the same Beltway pressure cooker. Grey’s Anatomy ABC is in production on a Seattlebased firefighter drama with Grey’s regular Dr. Ben Warren (Jason George), who’ll swap his scalpel for a big hose. Supernatural The CW staple’s first episode of 2018 was conceived as a backdoor pilot for Wayward Sisters, the planned spinoff about female demon-hunters. Game of Thrones Hold the door! HBO plans to usher in at least one prequel series from the five proposed ideas in the pipeline. Sons of Anarchy JD Pardo (Revolution) has been tapped to headline FX’s follow-up about a motorcycle club on the Mexican border. Suits The Season 7 finale on USA will serve…

PSYCH: THE MOVIE’s JAMES RODAY AND DULÉ HILL MY CURRENT FAVORITE SHOW HILL: Stranger Things. I need to know what happens next. RODAY: Twin Peaks is my favorite show of all time. The new Peaks is a slow burn, but I enjoy it whenever I have an hour to kill and mind-meat to spare. MY GUILTYPLEASURE SHOW HILL: American Greed. It amazes me what people try to get away with. RODAY: WWE Raw. That’s the kid in me not wanting to grow up. THE FUNNIEST PERSON ON TV HILL: Ellie Kemper. She’s Unbreakable… duh! RODAY: The work Sam Richardson has done as Splett on Veep is inspired, and everyone should know this dude. WHAT I WATCH CHRISTMAS MORNING HILL: Nothing. I wait for basketball in the afternoon! RODAY: My dog Franc opening his gifts.…

FEATURE PRESENTATION (NOV. 27–DEC. 3) Kicks (2016) Sunday, Dec. 3, 7:30am/6:30c, Cinemax DRAMA Tense, violent and at times difficult to watch—yet hard to turn away from—Kicks is a compelling coming-of-age film from first-time director Justin Tipping (who also co wrote). Fifteen-year-old Brandon (Jahking Guillory) dreams of one day going into space, far from the rough Bay Area suburb where he lives. In reality, though, he and his two best friends (Christopher Meyer and Christopher Jordan Wallace) are facing tough challenges, especially when Brandon acquires a status-bestowing pair of sneakers that are soon stolen by Flaco (KofiSiriboe, far right, with Guillory) and his gang. In increasingly unnerving scenes, Brandon vows to get his shoes back at any cost. Woman on Fire (2016) Monday, Nov. 27, 8/7c, Starz DOCUMENTARY This intriguing doc profiles New…

SHOWS YOU CAN’T WATCH ANY OTHER TIME OF THE YEAR Angry Angel 9/8c, Freeform Brenda Song stars in Freeform’s first original holiday movie as an Earth-bound angel who needs a little help from a celestial mentor (Jason Biggs) when she gets caught up in a Christmas triangle with her true love (Preacher’s Ricky Mabe) and a guy on the side (Andy Favreau of The Mick). Holiday Baking Championship 9/8c, Food Network No boring fruitcakes here. Pastry makers put together elaborate desserts in an attempt to impress a panel of judges (and Santa?). The victor gets one step closer to a $50,000 grand prize at the season’s end. Christmas Cookie Challenge 10/9c, Food Network Which way will the cookie crumble? Five bakers face off to prove their treats are as tasty…

The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special 8/7c, CBS IT’S A LOVEFEST half a century in the making! The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special—honoring the comedy icon’s 1967–78 CBS variety series—will boast a busload of famous fans, including Jim Carrey, Stephen Colbert, Martin Short, Jane Lynch, Maya Rudolph, Jay Leno and Bill Hader. Original cast members Vicki Lawrence (above left, with Jim Nabors, Burnett and Harvey Korman) and Lyle Waggoner are also in the house. How’s the 84-year-old Burnett handling the milestone? With utter disbelief. What’s the very best part of this celebration? That our sketches still get belly laughs. We filmed it in front of an audience in our old CBS studio, Stage 33, and when we played the vintage clips the crowd was in hysterics! Harvey Korman and Tim…

DAYTIME PICK General Hospital Weekdays, ABC IT SURE PAYS to be a mem ber of the world’s oldest profession. Jacklyn Zeman joined ABC’s General Hospital 40 years ago this December as teen hooker turned supernurse Barbara Jean Spencer—and, to this day, she’s just what the doctor ordered! Why, after all this time, are we still so nuts about Nurse Bobbie? Because she’s been through hell and came out the other side. She and her brother Luke [Anthony Geary] were raised in a whorehouse by their aunt, the madam, who one day said to Bobbie: “It’s time to sing for your supper!” And then Bobbie got pregnant—at age 14! She has survived a lot of crap, but she faces her fears. And now she’s wise and the salt of the earth.…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to The Mindy Project for its happily-ever-aftereffects. In the days since we watched the series finale, we’re still smiling at how Mindy Kaling’s (left) rom-com ended with a sweetly nostalgic callback to the pilot and a reunion with Danny (Chris Messina)—on her terms. Cheers to Tiffany Haddish for elevating Saturday Night Live’s worth. The relatively uneven season got a much-needed boost from the Girls Trip breakout (right), who brought a spark to even the weakest skits. Extra credit for being able to deliver an LOL-loaded monologue free from castmember intrusions. Cheers to Sofia Black-D’Elia for making The Mick her bitchy best. Turns out what we hated about her entitled teen Sage on Gossip Girl is what we love so much about the Night Of vet’s (far…

@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine America’s top TV critic Matt Roush answers your burning questions What happened to ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley? I am really into that show and want to see how it ends. Will the network bring it back at a different day and time, or are viewers going to be cheated out of the conclusion of this intriguing mystery? —Colleen MATT ROUSH: The good news is that because the entire show was filmed before the season began airing, ABC will play out the remaining episodes on Saturdays starting December 16 (ending January 6). The bad news is, like CBS’s Doubt earlier in the year, network TV still has more trouble than cable and streaming at sustaining heavily serialized mystery dramas, especially when the characters…

Steven Weber: Hot for Mom The sitcom keeps it all in the family on the December 7 episode (9/8c, CBS) as Christy (Anna Faris) finds love with the newly divorced Patrick (Steven Weber, right, with Faris)… who just happens to be her mother’s boyfriend’s brother. Reactions to the new coupling are mixed—Christy’s mom, Bonnie (Allison Janney), is amused, while Patrick’s sibling Adam (William Fichtner) is appalled—but the connection is legit. “In Christy, Patrick sees somebody who has been through a lot of challenges,” Weber says. “They try to take it easy, but it’s impossible to keep their hands offeach other.” There’s more chemistry to come: The Wings alum says he will appear in a multiepisode arc, pointing out that this role was written specifically for him after Mom cocreator Eddie…

AT THE RISK of sounding a tad grinch-like, I’ll just come right out with it: Holiday specials on TV aren’t what they used to be. And that’s a shame, because during my childhood, they were a staple of the season—a tradition I looked forward to almost as much as finding out what Santa had left under the tree. I can still vividly remember watching actress Nanette Fabray frantically sing and leap her way through a 1967 rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Or what it felt like to witness Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s duet of “The Little Drummer Boy” in 1977—an event made all the more surreal and beautiful by the fact that the 74-year-old Crosby had passed away shortly after filming.…

3 MARVEL-OUS FACTS ABOUT… Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, ABC Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is getting lost…in space. Season 5 of the action series kicks off with the group of super agents—team leader Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, right), Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet), Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) and Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie (Henry Simmons)— kidnapped and aboard a mysterious spaceship, trying to figure out where they are and what the heck happened to them. S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producers Jeffrey Bell, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen preview what to know before liftoff. 1 The storyline has energized the cast and crew. Venturing out to the final frontier “is the show’s biggest reinvention to date,” Tancharoen says. Whedon adds that, after four seasons, “it was time to mix things…

PICK OF THE WEEK! Knightfall SERIES PREMIERE Wednesday, Dec. 6, 10/9c, History Oh, Lord. Imagine being sworn to protect the most coveted item in the world…and losing it. That’s the conundrum medieval warrior monk Landry (Downton Abbey’s Tom Cullen, left) and his fellow Knights Templar find themselves in when the Holy Grail—the cup that Christians believe Jesus Christ used at the Last Supper—disappears at sea during a bloody battle. “Landry’s whole life is turned on its head,” Cullen says. “He thinks that God has deserted him, and so he questions his very existence.” That identity crisis stands at the center of History’s 10-episode drama about the famed Catholic military order of the 13th and 14th centuries. “Knightfall has the fun of sword fighting and battles, but they’re not fictional fantasy…

CHRISTOPHER MELONI’S BACK! Happy! SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, Syfy “ROGER RABBIT MEETS Quentin Tarantino.” That’s how Christopher Meloni sums up his bonkers new series based on a graphic novel by legendary comic book writer Grant Morrison. Nick Sax (Meloni, above) is a corrupt cop who becomes a hit man fueled by drink, drugs and self-pity. Following a near-death experience, he begins to see the titular flying blue horse (voiced by Patton Oswalt), an imaginary friend of Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), a young girl who’s been kidnapped by a very bad Santa (Joseph Reitman). She has sent Happy to recruit Nick to find her, and the resulting action can only be described as Law & Order: WTF?! Meloni reveals more about the show, which he promises is “unlike anything you have ever seen.”…