Innholdsfortegnelse for March 19, 2018 i TV Guide Magazine

It’s been three decades since we met the Conners, a working-class family from fictional Lanford, Illinois, headed up by parents Roseanne, a factory line worker, and Dan, a contractor. Few shows since the ’70s had focused on characters struggling with the money problems that come with blue-collar jobs. And with the notable exception of the Hecks on The Middle, not many since Roseanne have really been about the stresses and strains of just getting by in America. Thanks to Roseanne Barr, the real-life stand-up comedian (above, with costar John Goodman), Roseanne was also a fantastic comedy, consistently ranked in the Top 20 during its nine-season run that started in 1988. (Though being rated as one of TV GUIDE MAGAZINE’s “Greatest TV Shows of All Time” is even more notable to…

Valerie’s Home Cooking Saturdays, Noon/11am c, Food Network FROM TEEN STAR of the original One Day at a Time to rock ’n’ roll wife of Eddie Van Halen to TV star again on Hot in Cleveland, two-time Golden Globe winner Valerie Bertinelli is no stranger to the spotlight. And she knows how to keep the home fires burning. She’s the author of two bestselling cookbooks, One Dish at a Time (2012) and Valerie’s Home Cooking (2017)—which is also the name of her Food Network show. She loves guiding viewers on how to make flavorful, uncomplicated comfort food. We dished. Why do you love cooking so much? I love bringing old-fashioned recipes back to life. They’re a touchstone and they bring me joy, knowing my grandmother made this and now I’m…

Premieres Thursday, March 22, 9/8c, ABC MUCH LIKE FELLOW first-responder series Chicago Fire and 9-1-1, this Grey’s Anatomy spinoff focuses on a self-made family of heroes. “The action grabs you, but it’s also coupled with the heart and humor of these characters,” creator Stacy McKee explains. “I was interested in doing a show about a firehouse because Seattle has one of the highest percentages of women in their fire department in the country.” At the top of Station 19’s roster: Andy Herrera (Rosewood’s Jaina Lee Ortiz), who was introduced on the March 1 episode of Grey’s. “Andy grew up the daughter of the longtime station captain. She’s very strong, dynamic and driven,” McKee says. Another familiar face is Ben Warren (Jason George), formerly a surgical resident at Grey Sloan Memorial…

Westworld Sunday, April 22, 9/8c, HBO An uprising led by android hosts Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood, below, with James Marsden) and Maeve (Thandie Newton) plunges the futuristic theme park into chaos. Plus: Awesome new robots! The Handmaid’s Tale Wednesday, April 25, Hulu Pregnant Offred (Elisabeth Moss) faces fallout from her rebellion, and flashbacks reveal more about Gilead’s violent beginnings. In the Colonies (a new location), criminals are forced to clean up toxins Quantico Thursday, April 26, 10/9c, ABC Three years after fearless Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra) faked her own death, she and her former FBI and CIA colleagues reinvent themselves as a black-ops team. Elementary Monday, April 30, 10/9c, CBS Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) hunts a serial killer while fighting the dire effects his illness has on his brain. Code…

Premieres Sunday, May 6, 8/7c, Starz Allow us to whet your appetite for Starz’s new half-hour drama Sweetbitter, set in the cutthroat world of high-end Manhattan dining. The series, developed by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and based on Stephanie Danler’s 2016 New York Times bestseller, depicts 22-yearold Tess (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children star Ella Purnell) as she heads from a small town to the Big Apple in 2006. “She’s figuring out what she wants to do and waiting for her life to start,” explains executive producer Stu Zicherman. To pay the bills in the meantime, the wide-eyed ingenue gets a job training to become a back waiter at the elite 22W restaurant. Says Zicherman, “She experiences everything for the first time: what it’s like to taste an…

1 WEEK PICK OF THE WEEK! Dynasty Friday, March 23, 8/7c, The CW ATLANTA WILL GET a lot hotter when Nicollette Sheridan steps into Joan Collins’s heels as the soap reboot’s pot-stirring Alexis Carrington. Tonight, she finally makes her first appearance to torment her ex, billionaire Blake (Grant Show), and the rest of the clan. TV GUIDEMAGAZINE looks at how the Knots Landing alum stacks up against the original diva (Collins, below). Old Alexis stormed in to Denver—the setting of the 1981–89 series—to destroy Blake while he was on trial for murder. New Alexis wants to reconnect with her estranged kids, whom Blake has poisoned against her. “She’s going to do whatever she can to convince her children that she’s looking out for their best interests,” Sheridan previews. Old Alexis…

FIGURE SKATING N Noon/11am c, NBCSN ISU World Figure Skating Championships The Olympics may be the crown jewel of figure skating, but there are still more precious medals up for grabs. The ISU World Figure Skating Championships bring many of the top skaters from the PyeongChang Games back together. The five-day competition begins with the ladies’ short program, where two-time defending world champion Evgenia Medvedeva battles 15-year-old teammate Alina Zagitova, who won the Olympic gold medal over Medvedeva. And several American skaters, including Nathan Chen and ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock (above), hope to improve on their inconsistent performances in South Korea. Speechless SEASON FINALE 8:30/7:30c, ABC The second season of the groundbreaking comedy comes to a close with nonverbal teen JJ (Micah Fowler) landing a nomination at…

Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 8/7c, Nickelodeon You may not recognize the tweens at the Kids’ Choice Awards—hosted by John Cena—but it’s guaranteed that at least one famous adult will get doused in green goop. As stars take home blimp trophies in categories like “Favorite Funny YouTube Creator,” we’ll wait to see which victim joins (clockwise from bottom left) Halle Berry, Justin Bieber, Harrison Ford, Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise and Heidi Klum in the slimed hall of fame. Royal Matchmaker MOVIE PREMIERE 9/8c, Hallmark Channel Oh, Hallmark, how you spoil us. The go-to channel for satisfying schmaltz has truly outdone itself with this rom-com, which features an actual Prince Charming. Yep, the dashing Sebastian of Voldavia (Will Kemp) has it all…except someone to share it with. “Anyone he dated was more…

America’s Most Watched 25 TOP SHOWS David Ogden Stiers 1942–2018 THERE ARE FEW tougher jobs in show business than stepping into the shoes—or combat boots—of a famous sitcom character. In 1977, David Ogden Stiers had the unenviable task of replacing M*A*S*H’s Larry Linville, who played buffoonish Maj. Frank Burns for five seasons, as the new foil for Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell). Stiers, who died March 3 at age 75 of bladder cancer, succeeded brilliantly by aiming high, not low. An erudite and stuffily pretentious contrast to his wisecracking bunkmates, Stiers’s Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester used wit and culture as his weapons. “I had an image of William Buckley in mind,” executive producer Burt Metcalfe told TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in 1978 of creating “a far more formidable opponent”…

CBS’S DALLAS MARKS its 40th anniversary on April 2, and it’s an event surely worthy of a Texas-size celebration. Primetime soaps had proven their popularity as far back as 1964, with ABC’s Peyton Place, but Dallas (launched as a miniseries) propelled the genre to a new level. The original focus of the show was the Romeo and Juliet–esque romance between Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), the scrupulous son of a wealthy oil baron, and Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), the less-rich daughter of a longtime Ewing nemesis. But very quickly, Bobby’s older brother, J.R. (Larry Hagman)—who used his fortune as a weapon to acquire more land, oil and money while targeting and destroying anyone who stood in his way, even members of his own family— grabbed the spotlight as the villain you really…

FEATURE PRESENTATION (MARCH 19–25) Atomic Blonde (2017) Saturday, March 24, 8/7c, HBO THRILLER Unfolding like a violent big-budget ’80s music video, Atomic Blonde is frenetically fast-paced and hardly ever pauses to let you get ahold of its wildly bloody plot. All you really need to know is that the name of the game here is action. Blonde has sexy people doing sexy things and secret agents fighting over whose gun is the biggest. Hint: It’s usually the one held by Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron, right). The full-on badassery takes place in 1989 while the Berlin Wall is coming down. After a British spy is murdered, Lorraine is dispatched by MI6 to catch the culprit and locate a list of spies that lots of other folks (mostly KGB assassins) also want to…

Premieres Wednesday, March 28, 8:30/7:30c, ABC CHASING THE AMERICAN dream turns into an obstacle course for radio producer and loving family man Alex Schuman (Zach Braff) in Alex, Inc. Bored crafting fluff pieces at Cheer-Up radio, he quits to form a company focused on creating in-depth podcasts. Luckily for the impromptu entrepreneur, his wife, Rooni (Tiya Sircar), is a badass public defender with a regular paycheck. But she’s not exactly happy her hubby made a life-changing decision solo, and their two precocious kids (Audyssie James and Elisha Henig) miss their suddenly super-busy dad’s bedtime stories. “Alex is trying to go after his dreams without letting his family down, but he lets them down sometimes,” says Braff, who teamed up with Scrubs co–executive producer Matt Tarses to write and produce the…

Premieres Sunday, March 25, 10:30/9:30c, HBO HOLLYWOOD DEPICTIONS OF professional hit men often stick to a specific formula: the dangerously cool assassin capable of delivering a kill shot and a deadpan remark in one fell swoop. Not so with Barry, HBO’s dark comedy from cocreator and star Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live). When we meet Barry, the awkward, down-in-the-dumps former Marine is joylessly going through the motions of his gun-for-hire gig. Then a job brings him to Los Angeles, where he follows his latest mark into an acting class—and suddenly feels a calling to pursue a career in the spotlight himself. Hader gets us locked and loaded. Why does Barry get bitten by the showbiz bug? Acting classes are kind of like group therapy. He sees that, and in a…

The Americans Returns Wednesday, March 28, 10/9c, FX The USSR is about to collapse…and so might the Jenningses’ marriage. A flash-forward on the 1980s-set spy drama teases tension between ex-Soviet spy Philip (Matthew Rhys) and wife Elizabeth (Keri Russell), who’s loyal to the motherland along with their idealist daughter, Paige (Holly Taylor). Cold war, anyone? (For more, see page 56.) New Girl Returns Tuesday, April 10, 9:30/8:30c, Fox If quirky Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and bestie Nick (Jake Johnson, below, second from right, with Hannah Simone, Lamorne Morris, Deschanel and Max Greenfield) are gonna tie the knot, they have just eight episodes left to do it. Look for the return of Jess’s ex (Dermot Mulroney) to cause complications. The Originals Returns Friday, April 20, 9/8c, The CW Seven years have passed…

POP-QUIZ TIME! RuPaul’s Drag Race SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, VH1 What’s in a name? When it comes to RuPaul’s Drag Race, plenty. A highlight of tuning in to the reality competition is learning the contestants’ LOL stage personas. As the series returns, we challenge you to match some new queens to their wacky monikers. 1. MIZ CRACKER 2. KALORIE KARBDASHIAN-WILLIAMS 3. MONÉT X CHANGE 4. THE VIXEN (Answers below) The Rundown With Robin Thede SEASON FINALE 11/10c, BET In a late-night landscape dominated by James and Jimmys (Corden, Kimmel and Fallon), Robin Thede stands out as the only woman of color hosting her own talk show. The former head writer on The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore offers a bitingly funny perspective on the week’s news: When Clueless star Stacey Dash recently…

Billions SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, Showtime Money, politics, power, corruption—and two men who’ll do anything to take each other down. Billions is back! As the drama begins its third season, hedge fund titan Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti, above right, with Malin Akerman, Lewis and Maggie Siff) still yearn to destroy each other. But first, they must make sure they have the means to achieve that. Axe finds himself at a distinct disadvantage. Following his arrest for insider trading last season, the 1 percenter may lose his money and maybe his freedom too. “Axe’s options are severely limited,” executive producer Brian Koppelman notes. “He has to find a new path forward.” For his part, Chuck toils for a demanding new boss, attorney general Waylon…

Splitting Up Together SERIES PREMIERE 9:30/8:30c, ABC We can all agree breaking up is hard to do, but just try breaking up and taking turns living in the garage apartment. As exes Lena and Martin, Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson (above) rule the house and kids on alternate weeks—and gain insights as they go. The stars of the Ellen DeGeneres–produced sitcom explain. How would you describe Lena and Martin’s relationship? Fischer: So similar to us. We hate each other. [Laughs] No, this is not true. Hudson: It’s an amicable divorce. Now that we’ve actually split, we can implement our own [parenting] styles, so that causes some friction and tension. Ultimately, there’s something else bubbling between them. Fischer: We have broken hearts and wounds, but we’re really solid coparents, even though…

MARCH 19, 2018|PUZZLE #1332 ACROSS 1 Baldwin of SNL 5 Detective Esposito’s nickname on Castle 9 Coming of ____ 12 Starship Troopers hero 13 Once ____ a Time 14 The ____ Bang Theory 15 A noble title 16 California city (2 wds.) 18 Good luck charm 20 Discouraging words 21 Linda Lavin sitcom 23 Name for Ancient Syria 27 Good Morning ____ 30 Brian of rock 31 Dogs’ dogs 32 Catchall abbr. 34 Put onboard 35 CBS symbol 36 Red Wedding victim on Game of Thrones 38 Gilbert of Roseanne 40 ____’s Company 41 Horned Frogs school 43 Onetime TV judge 47 Ragnar’s first wife on Vikings 51 Rhine feeder 52 ____ Got a Secret 53 Brian’s nickname on Chicago Fire 54 Book doctors? (abbr.) 55 D.J.’s job on Fuller House 56 Accompanied by 57…

LOVE IT! HATE IT! @damianholbrook Cheers to Kevin (Probably) Saves the World for bringing quirky back. Not since Fox’s Wonderfalls have we been awash in the kind of warm, comical weirdness that Jason Ritter (left), JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Kimberly Hébert Gregory deliver each week on ABC’s underrated, faith-based delight. Let’s all pray that ABC saves this one. Cheers to Paramount Network for suspending Heathers. In light of the shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the channel formerly known as Spike has delayed the debut of its comedy based on the cult-fave flick about killer teens until later this year. Classy move, indeed. Cheers to Lucifer for its soulful love triangle. While the situation between (from above left) smitten shrink Linda (Rachael Harris), sexy angel Amenadiel (DB Woodside) and bountyhunting…

READING MATERIAL HAP AND LEONARD SERIES BY JOE R. LANSDALE Available where books are sold With SundanceTV airing Season 3 of Hap and Leonard, I had good reason to speed through the first three books (out of over two dozen stories) that have inspired the series so far. In 1980s Texas, draft dodger Hap Collins (played by James Purefoy) and his bud Leonard Pine (Michael K. Williams), a black, gay Vietnam vet, navigate through adventures that often involve bad guys, sunken treasure, the law and an ex-wife of Hap’s who brings trouble with her everywhere she goes. They’re an exciting, fast read. —John Bernikow, Associate Art Director FOR YOUR EARS ONLY ROB HAS A PODCAST Listen on RobHasAWebsite.com The tribe has spoken…and a notable castaway is speaking back! Former Survivor…

Marcia Clark Investigates: The First 48 Premieres March 29, 9/8c, A&E When it comes to stories of murder, blackmail and other dastardly deeds, former prosecutor and defense attorney Marcia Clark is all in. “It’s an abiding passion of mine that has been with me since birth,” Clark says. “I am my own audience!” That love serves Clark well in the new crime series Marcia Clark Investigates: The First 48, in which the woman who tried to take down O.J. Simpson revisits infamous cases like the unsolved murders of Caylee Anthony, Stacy Peterson and Chandra Levy. In each two-hour episode, she digs deep into the crucial first two days of the original investigation. “In my experience, the vast majority of evidence that is needed to prove someone did something is found…

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR’s ITALIA RICCI MY CURRENT FAVORITE SHOW Jeopardy! The world won’t end if you miss an episode, it’s on every night of the week and it sometimes makes you feel smart. THE SHOW I MISS MOST Parenthood (above) was everything I wanted it to be and more. And the cast was unbelievable. I mean, they were so believable that it was unbelievable. THE FUNNIEST PERSON ON TV Seth Meyers. I used to be a [Jay] Leno girl, but now I fight to stay awake for Late Night. Seth is cheeky. It’s contagious. THE SHOW THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH Little Big Shots. Steve Harvey has me in stitches every time he interviews the kids. WHAT I EAT WHILE WATCHING Charcuterie. A good meat and cheese board never lets me…

NETFLIX The Standups SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Tuesday, March 20 Consider your funny bone already tickled by these six new half-hour specials from comedians Joe List (Last Comic Standing), Brent Morin (Chelsea Lately), Aparna Nancherla (Crashing), Gina Yashere (The Daily Show), Rachel Feinstein (Inside Amy Schumer) and Kyle Kinane (the voice from the Comedy Central commercials). Game Over, Man! MOVIE PREMIERE Friday, March 23 Workaholics trio Blake Anderson, Anders Holm and Adam Devine (above, from left) reunite for this Die Hard action spoof written by Holm. They play three video game nerds who are forced to lock-and-load when the swanky hotel restaurant where they work as waiters is taken over by ruthless gunmen. Santa Clarita Diet SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, March 23 Realtor Sheila (Drew Barrymore) still craves flesh…

Premieres Tuesday, April 3, 10:30/9:30c, TBS TRACY MORGAN IS back in primetime! Now recovered from the 2014 car crash that left him in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, the 30 Rock vet has not only forgiven the driver (“You have to pray for that strength”) but turned the experience into this unexpectedly kindhearted comedy. As Tray Barker, Morgan is a Brooklyn hustler who gets a second shot at living right after serving 15 years for dealing. Here, the star and executive producer opens up about Tray’s path and why people mean more than paychecks. Did you ever think it was all over for you? Never. I fought hard to come out of that coma and gave it everything I had, because my daughter was only 11 months old.…

WEEK 2 PICK OF THE WEEK! Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Sunday, April 1, 8/7c, NBC CALL IT THE gospel according to John Legend. On Easter Sunday, the 10-time Grammy winner takes the lead in his most ambitious project yet: NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, a production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera from 1970, staged at the Marcy Armory in Brooklyn. The show—about the events leading up to the Crucifixion—had Legend hooked from the outset. “How do you turn down the role of Jesus?” he says. (Rocker Alice Cooper and singer Sara Bareilles costar as King Herod and Mary Magdalene.) On a recent rehearsal break, the crooner filled us in on his divine experience. You had a supporting role in La La…