Innholdsfortegnelse for April 30, 2018 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush I was looking forward to watching Roseanne again but turned it off as soon as I realized they had an awful laugh track or live audience—both are the same to me. Hope they fix it. —Juidie MATT ROUSH: Forgive me for laughing, but if you’ve seen the ratings for this hit revival, I’m not sure they’d agree anything needs to be fixed. We seem to be in a moment of cultural amnesia. I heard similar gripes about the revival of Will & Grace, which, like Roseanne, has always been filmed in front of a studio audience, including in its original run. Nothing has changed, except maybe some viewers’ tastes. (And a live audience is different from a laugh track, although obviously the laughter is often enhanced on many shows.)…

THEY FIRST WENT for the gold, and now they have their eyes on the Mirror Ball trophy. The celebrity contestants on Dancing With the Stars—all athletes, many of whom competed in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics—will have only four weeks to wow both the judges (Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli) and the voting audience in this truncated Season 26. (The ABC series premieres Monday, April 30, at 8/7c; the finale is May 21.) Along with Winter Olympians, the aspiring dancers also include former basketball pro Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; retired baseball player Johnny Damon; retired softball player Jennie Finch Daigle; Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman; and college basketball player Arike Ogunbowale. “The slow starters of the group had better get going,” former pro Louis Van Amstel advises of the short…

WHAT A NEAT trick. Parlaying an aptitude for street magic and hustles into a TV career, Harry Anderson triumphed by perpetrating what TV GUIDE MAGAZINE described in 1985 as “the ultimate scam: making people think he is acting when all he’s doing is being himself.” He even shared a first name with his most famous character: Judge Harry Stone, the affably ironic overseer of NBC’s Night Court (1984–92). Suffering fools gladly in a chaotic Manhattan courtroom and playing card games to relax, Anderson earned three Emmy nominations for the role. The series was a staple of the network’s 1980s comedy resurgence that included Cheers—which gave him his first big break in the recurring role of con artist Harry “The Hat” Gittes. Magic came naturally to Anderson, who died April 16…

GOOD GIRLS’ RETTA THE SHOW THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH Insecure. THE FUNNIEST PERSON ON TV Andy Daly (Review, Silicon Valley). I love him and his sense of humor. Even just the sound of his voice makes me smile. WHAT I EAT WHILE WATCHING Caramel Bugles are everything. WHAT I LOVE TO WATCH Timeless (below). It’s a really great history lesson that’s fun to watch. MY GUILTY-PLEASURE SHOW Any renovation show on HGTV. I’m into transformation of a space. THE SHOW I MISS THE MOST The Good Wife was so well done. I loved the music and the way they wrote for the recurring characters and guest stars. They were always fully fleshed-out. THE SHOW I’D LIKE TO GUEST STAR ON The Good Fight. Like The Good Wife it has…

FEATURE PRESENTATION (April 30–MAy 6) The Promise (2017) Saturday, May 5, 9/8c, Showtime DRAMA A heart-wrenching love story set against the horrors of the Armenian genocide during World War I, The Promise is an ambitious tale reminiscent of Old Hollywood’s legendary epics, but it doesn’t quite live up to that potential. Oscar Isaac shows both strength and vulnerability as the conflicted Mikael, an Armenian who’s journeyed to Constantinople from southern Turkey in hopes of going to medical school. As race-fueled violence breaks out, he is injured and subsequently taken care of by Ana (Charlotte Le Bon, far right, with Isaac), who falls for him despite being in a relationship with an American war correspondent (Christian Bale). And so begins a love triangle spanning years, with each person trying to do the…

THE FIRST SEASON of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale ended with a scene—and a line—taken directly from Margaret Atwood’s iconic 1985 novel. As June (aka Offred, played by Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss) is loaded into a van, it’s unclear whether she is being rescued from the oppressive theocracy known as Gilead, which has enslaved all fertile women, or being arrested by the regime’s militaristic police force. “I step up into the darkness within,” June says in a voiceover. “Or else the light.” For more than 30 years, fans of the book have been wondering where Offred was headed—and when the hit series returns for its sophomore run, they’ll have the chance to find out. “The fact that I got to be one of the first people to know what happens next…

Patrick Melrose MINISERIES PREMIERE Saturday, May 12, 9/8c, Showtime Should he start writing his Emmy acceptance speech now? With the emotional depth Benedict Cumberbatch brings to the troubled titular character on the new Showtime drama Patrick Melrose, he could easily snag another trophy. (He already won for PBS’s Sherlock in 2014.) Based on Edward St. Aubyn’s five semiautobiographical novels, the series introduces privileged twentysomething junkie and author Patrick, who in 1982 receives word that his father (Hugo Weaving) has died. Patrick’s reaction is surprising—he laughs!—but the real shockers come via time jumps to the 1960s and 2000s. (Cumberbatch plays Patrick from his twenties through his forties, while Sebastian Maltz portrays him as a boy.) They reveal a torturous upbringing at the hands of a cruel, controlling dad and a complacent…

NYPD BLUE: THE BEST EPISODES TO STREAM NYPD Blue Entire series available, Hulu Naked butts! That’s what most viewers remember about ABC’s NYPD Blue, which debuted in 1993. And true enough, it did seem to be a rite of passage for the cast to display their tushes onscreen. (The American Family Association damned the show as “softcore porn.”) But the cop drama broke as much ground as it dropped trou. Its deglamorized style and outbursts of profanity preceded HBO’s The Wire. Its portly, racist, cranky antihero, Det. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz, above right, with Season 1 costar David Caruso), predated Tony Soprano. With all 12 seasons now on Hulu, binge these key episodes to see for yourself: The proof is in the 15th precinct. Pilot” (Season 1, Episode 1) Several…

ACROSS 1 Batman star West 5 Cincinnati team 9 American Horror Story actor Fraser 12 Actor Lugosi 13 Dixon of Hogan’s Heroes 14 People ____ Funny 15 Throw out water 16 Lima’s country 17 Actor Harrison 18 Rashida Jones series (2 wds.) 21 Assassin on Lexx 22 One Life to Live patriarch 23 Inquire 26 Football scores (abbr.) 28 Karen’s husband on Will & Grace 32 Former E! late-night talk show (2 wds.) 36 Emmy winner Daly 37 Designate 38 Funny or ____ Presents 39 Ocean near Virginia (abbr.) 42 Company’s boss 44 1960–62 game show (2 wds.) 50 Galavant squire 51 Disappearance sound 52 Wooden strip 54 Survivor setting 55 The Simpsons’ Ms. Krabappel 56 Parenthood actress Whitman 57 Venison source 58 Henpecks DOWN 1 Disco quartet 2 A Superman 3 Da ____ Show (2 wds.) 4 Hosea Chanchez…

MISSING PIECE Elton John: I’m Still Standing—A Grammy Salute [April 10] was the best, most enjoyable all-star concert I’ve seen in a long time. However, I was hugely disappointed that we got Gayle King but no “Sacrifice.” —Dorothy FIERY COMPETITION I think NBC’s Chicago Fire is far superior to ABC’s Station 19. The acting on Fire is more realistic and the characters are well developed. There’s just too much sex in the firehouse on Station 19, which is obviously against the rules. —Gloria HIGH PRAISE Brendan Fraser has still got it! He is so good in FX’s Trust, and he can hold his own with Donald Sutherland. Few can! I loved all of his movies, and I’m so happy to watch him again. —Jeannie QUICK CORRECTION In the April 16 issue,…

The Pioneer Woman Saturdays, 10am/9c, Food Network Ree Drummond, the star of Food Network’s The Pioneer Woman, went from city girl to country mama when she fell in love with ranch owner Ladd Drummond, a journey chronicled in her 2011 memoir, Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. She now has four kids with the cowboy she nicknamed the “Marlboro Man.” On the May 12 episode of her daytime cooking show, Drummond honors some of her favorite moms with recipes for sweet Mother’s Day treats like strawberry cheesecake brownies and vanilla meringue cookies. We found out more about this flamehaired force of nature. 1 SHE OWNS A FANCY INN. The Pioneer Woman Boarding House is an eight-room “cowboy luxury” hotel in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It opened in April, but that “No Vacancy” sign’s…

“There are so many talented individuals in every facet of the NCIS team. But there’s nobody like Pauley. Nobody”—Mark Harmon to TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in 2015 NCIS Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS THE AVERAGE AMERICAN spends roughly four years at a single job. Take one look at NCIS’s Pauley Perrette and you can be pretty sure she’s not the average American. Not many women style their dyed raven hair in the pigtails and bangs she wears onscreen as forensic specialist Abby Sciuto (not to mention offscreen when the Los Angeles weather is hot and sticky). Perrette’s 15 seasons on NCIS make Abby the longest-working forensic expert on TV and the third-longest-serving female law enforcer on primetime (behind the Law & Order franchise’s Mariska Hargitay and S. Epatha Merkerson). For nearly a decade,…

WHEN HE TOOK ON the title role in Season 2 of National Geographic’s anthology series Genius: Picasso, Antonio Banderas knew it was a big challenge. First, because the most famous artist of the 20th century had a complicated, controversial and scandalous life. And second, because Picasso was Banderas’s homie. “He’s from Málaga, like me,” says the Spanish-born actor, “so what I have done with our local hero will be looked at here with a magnifying glass.” Banderas plays Picasso as a mature master and celebrity, sharing the role with Alex Rich (GLOW) as the cocky, ambitious young Pablo. “Antonio is truly brilliant,” says executive producer Ken Biller of the star’s first part in a regular series. “He was kind of haunted by Picasso his whole life. It’s a role he…

PICK OF THE WEEK! A Little Help With Carol Burnett SERIES PREMIERE Friday, May 4, Netflix WE’RE JUST GOING to come right out and Tarzan-yell it: We love Carol Burnett. The comedian’s namesake variety show was honored with a 50th-anniversary special in 2017 and she’ll be the very first recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award in May. But is retirement on her mind? Nope! On the funny lady’s new Netflix series, she moderates a panel of 4- to 8-year-olds who offer advice (“Follow your heart,” “Bribery always works”) to grown-up guests, both celebrities and regular folks. She was nice enough to kid around with us. Was W.C. Fields wrong when he warned about working with children and animals? I love working with kids! Not that this was work. This…

JAM OUT LOST IN SPACE: THE COMPLETE JOHN WILLIAMS COLLECTION Available on ThinkGeek.com; $79.99 If you watched the syndicated Lost in Space in the ’70s as I did, you were probably pumped to see each episode before it even began. That’s because composer John Williams was responsible for the opening credits. He would later go on to write the scores for some of the greatest adventure movies ever, like Jaws, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, to name a few. This new vinyl release covers all the Space themes and a lot of the incidental music he wrote for individual episodes. —Michael Fell, Editor-in-Chief DRESSED TO THRILL THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL Now streaming on Amazon Prime Oy vey, my closet needs a makeover! I wear black 90 percent of the time,…

DuckTales Fridays, 8/7c, Disney Channel Lin-Manuel Miranda—creator and original star of the smash-hit musical Hamilton—has already conquered Broadway. Now he’s poised to quack into a different genre with a recurring role on Disney Channel’s DuckTales, the recent reboot of the 1987–90 cartoon chronicling the misadventures of Huey, Dewey and Louie. “As a huge fan of the original series, I love that I can share this new version with my sons,” announced Miranda, who has 3-year-old Sebastian and 3-month-old Francisco with his wife, Vanessa. Starting on May 11, Miranda voices Duckburg’s resident superhero Gizmoduck and his alter ego, brainy science intern Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, reinvented here as a Latino. “There aren’t a lot of Hispanic superheroes,” coproducer and story editor Francisco Angones says. “We imagined this fun, noble, motormouthed idealist!’’ Angones wrote…

ABC’S ROSEANNE REVIVAL didn’t just bring back the hit sitcom—it also revived the theme song, that once ubiquitous, now endangered opening credits sequence that serves as a scene-setter for a series. In recent years, networks and streaming services have discouraged theme songs because execs fear viewers’ shortened attention spans and want them to be able to binge-watch more efficiently. (Take, for example, the opener of Lost, which was one elongated note.) But I think that’s a shortsighted, wrongheaded approach. When properly written and presented, such songs don’t just identify a show, they set the mood, connect with the audience and propel the series. The Roseanne opening (mirroring that of the original) concludes with a newly recorded laugh from Roseanne Barr punctuating a casual, raucous family dinner scene. Despite the bickering…

NETFLIX John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City STAND-UP PREMIERE Tuesday, May 1 To know former Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney (below) is to love him. To not know him means you must watch him rip on growing up, growing old and the iniquities of college. A Little Help With Carol Burnett SERIES PREMIERE Friday, May 4 The comedy doyenne and a bunch of straight-talking kids (ages 5 through 9) solve adult problems posed to them by celebrity guests such as Julie Bowen, Taraji P. Henson and Lisa Kudrow. (See page 27.) End Game DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Friday, May 4 Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman search for dignity in death at two San Francisco medical centers. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman NEW EPISODE Friday,…

Abby dropped her perennial sunblocking parasol at least once: to save a German shepherd (who did help with the case) in 2008’s “Dog Tags.” The neck tattoo? Fake. To add contrast between Abby’s hard-core look and soft-core attitude, creator Bellisario insisted on at least one visible tat. Every item of Abby’s wardrobe (even the handcuffs and top hat) remains on the NCIS set in a room they’ve nicknamed “Abby’s Closet.”…

FERNANDE OLIVIER (Aisling Franciosi) “La Belle Fernande” was Picasso’s first love and his model during his early Cubist period, which included the sculpture Head of a Woman (Fernande). Olivier wrote two memoirs about her life with Picasso in Paris. MARIE-THÉRÈSE WALTER (Poppy Delevingne) Picasso was married when he met the 17-year-old blonde; his relationship with the mother of his daughter Maya lasted 14 years. His portraits of Walter, such as The Dream, are among his sunniest. DORA MAAR (Samantha Colley) During their tempestuous nine-year relationship, Picasso often painted the intense and brilliant anti-fascist (see: Dora Maar au Chat), who was a surrealist photographer and painter in her own right. FRANÇOISE GILOT (Clémence Poésy) The law student turned painter lived with Picasso for seven years and gave him two kids. (Fun…

BULL ON THE BRINK! Bull SEASON FINALE 9/8c, CBS HE LOOKS LIKE a smiley guy, but Jason Bull (Michael Weatherly, above right, with Freddy Rodriguez) is brimming with inner turmoil. He can’t get a girl. He fears he’s losing his special touch as a trial consultant who applies psychology to help win cases. And things are getting even worse on the drama’s Season 2 ender. Bull’s exwife, Izzy (Yara Martinez), is remarrying. At work, he and his team defend a mute man who could face the death penalty if they lose. Luckily, they’ll find a loophole that may set the guy free. We interrogate Weatherly about the proceedings. Did Bull change this season? He’s been veering off course since last year—and in a self-destructive way. Now everyone around him notices…

Meghan Markle: An American Princess DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE 8/7c, Fox There might be something to that old adage about men marrying women like their moms. On the surface, Prince Harry’s bride-to-be, Meghan Markle—a divorced American actress—doesn’t seem like the late Princess Diana, a demure English noblewoman. But Nick Bullen, whose company, Spun Gold TV, produced Meghan Markle: An American Princess ahead of the May 19 wedding, points out the similarities highlighted tonight. 1“The key to being a successful royal wife,” Bullen notes, “is that you are the supporting star to the blood royal.” That sure wasn’t Diana—and it isn’t the case for Meghan either, Bullen says: “Some folks noted that in her engagement interview with Harry, she was taking the lead.” 2Diana championed causes such as AIDS relief, and Meghan, a…

Masterpiece: Little Women MINISERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Few characters have loomed as large as the heroines in Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War–era saga. With Masterpiece unveiling the latest adaptation, we ask Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke’s daughter Maya Hawke, 19 (above right, with Willa Fitzgerald and Annes Elwy), about the tall order of playing outspoken Jo March. This is quite a protagonist for your screen debut! I was first approached about the role of [Jo’s sister] Meg, and I asked if I could try for Jo—I’ve wanted to play her since I was a kid. I spent hours with my mom trying to come up with the right audition tape. I’ve tried to bring my own clumsiness to the character. I want her…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! HATE IT! Cheers to Riverdale’s musical episode. Not only did the gang’s (including Camila Mendes’s Veronica, left) staging of Carrie: The Musical move several plots ahead, it was also a hoot to hear the famed Broadway flop’s tunes, and it gave us a showstopping murder to boot! Cheers to Champions for winning our hearts. By tricking out a standard-sitcom setup—straight dude learns he has a gay son!— with Oscar Wilde–worthy one-liners and a killer cast led by (from left) Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah and Anders Holm, NBC’s freshman gem plays like the love child of Will & Grace and Modern Family. Cheers to Tristan Rogers for checking in to General Hospital. Even though his Robert Scorpio was around only for a handful of episodes, the former spy’s reunion with…