Innholdsfortegnelse for June 11, 2018 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush America’s top TV critic Matt Roush answers your burning questions What is it with the same-old, sameold ending for season finales? NCIS: New Orleans showed Pride (Scott Bakula) shot at the end. Hasn’t the age of the “Who Shot J.R.?” cliffhanger gone by? When are shows going to do something more creative? I also want to cheer Blue Bloods, which did have a terrific, upbeat ending that was very refreshing. More shows should follow their lead! —Donna MATT ROUSH: I couldn’t agree more. It’s so tiresome to watch show after show putting characters in contrived peril between seasons. Now if the idea is to present an actual game-changer that will affect a series going forward, that’s another story. (For this spring’s finale shockers, check out page 4.) While we’re…

PREMIERES The Bold Type June 12, 8/7c, Freeform Million Dollar Listing New York June 12, 10/9c, Bravo Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell & Back June 13, 9/8c, Fox Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour June 13, 9/8c, A&E Caribbean Pirate Treasure June 13, 10/9c, Travel Channel Wahlburgers June 13, 10/9c,A&E Strange Angel June 14, CBS All Access Marlon June 14, 9/8c,NBC Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce June 14, 10/9c,Bravo Goliath June 15, Amazon Prime Video 12 Monkeys June 15, 8/7c, Syfy The Affair June 17, 9/8c, Showtime Shades of Blue June 17, 10/9c, NBC The Proposal June 18, 10/9c,ABC Drunk History June 19, 10/9c, Comedy Central Love Is___ June 19, 10/9c, OWN Young & Hungry June 20, 8/7c, Freeform Yellowstone June 20, 9/8c, Paramount Network The Gong Show June 21, 8/7c,…

Zero Dark Thirty George Amazon Video, iTunes Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden starred Jessica Chastain as CIA agent Maya and Strong as her boss George, who oversees the operatives on the global manhunt. For George, the urgency is clear: “There is just us [hunting for bin Laden],” he tells his team. “And we are failing.” Later, an exasperated Maya reminds George how long they’ve waited for higher-ups to approve their plan—by writing the number of days on his office wall. It’s a powerful object lesson about how none of them will rest until the world’s most wanted terrorist is found. Kick-Ass Frank D’Amico Amazon Video, iTunes Ganglord Frank D’Amico (Strong) runs a vast criminal enterprise in New York City, which pits him…

EXPANDED AND UPDATED SECTION! NETFLIX What’s New The Ranch SEASON PREMIERE Season 3, Friday, June 15 Rooster (Danny Masterson) flies the coop! The first 10 episodes of the new season are the last for Masterson, who departs the Colorado-set comedy. Let’s hope he sticks around long enough to see brother Colt (Ashton Kutcher) wed high school sweetheart Abby (Elisha Cuthbert). The Staircase NEW DOCUSERIES Available now Netflix continues its streak of riveting true-crime documentaries (see: Making a Murderer and Evil Genius) with the story of novelist Michael Peterson, whose wife was found dead at the foot of a staircase. Would you believe the body of another woman Peterson knew was found in the same situation? This update of the 2004 docuseries includes the 2013 sequel plus three new installments for…

Animal Kingdom Tuesdays, 9/8c, TNT WARM AND FUZZY aren’t words to describe the clan of criminals that populate TNT’s Animal Kingdom—so edgy actor Denis Leary felt right at home when he joined the cast this season (starting with the June 19 episode). Leary plays Billy, deadbeat dad to Deran Cody (Jake Weary) and an ex of Smurf (Ellen Barkin). “I have played in a lot of dysfunctional family stuff, and this is by far the most dysfunctional family,” Leary says. Tensions escalate once Smurf learns Billy has worked his way into the Codys’ crime ring. “She’s ready to kill him, but then the old sexual spark reignites and she can’t help herself,” Leary says. And we couldn’t help taking a look back at his eclectic TV career. REMOTE CONTROL (1987–1990)…

Love Is SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, OWN In the 1990s, a headstrong sitcom writer and a determined director fall head over heels. That’s not just the premise for OWN’s new romantic drama, starring Michele Weaver and Will Catlett (below); it’s quite similar to the real-life love story of series creators Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. “Love Is ___ was born out of trying to answer questions that have been asked of us in the last few years: How did we find each other, keep love alive, build a family and build our careers?” says Brock Akil. The short answer: “We followed our hearts completely, and we figured out the rest later,” says Brock Akil. The same goes for Nuri (Weaver) and Yasir (Catlett). On the series, the couple dive in…

EDITORS’ CHOICE Shooter SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, USA Sure, life imitates art—but in the case of Shooter, it changed the way the story was told. Last July, the thriller’s star, Ryan Phillippe (left), who plays ex–Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, broke his leg in an off-set accident. Production shut down and the eighth episode served as an ad hoc finale—leaving Bob Lee stranded as the hostage of his nemesis and fellow sharpshooter, Solotov (Josh Stewart). Phillippe explains how he’ll hit the ground running in Season 3. Are you all better? For the most part. It took 24/7 dedication. I was training while I was still in a wheelchair! I had to make sure I could physically play the role. Has this had an impact on Bob Lee’s journey? The plan had…

Radio Disney Music Awards 8/7c, Disney Find out what all the cool kids are playing on their AirPods! This event for the younger set features categories like Best Song to Lip Sync To. Plus, “All About That Bass” singer Meghan Trainor performs. MOVIE PICK Love Means Zero 9/8c, Showtime This engrossing 2017 documentary puts 86-year-old tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who has worked with Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova, in the spotlight. In interviews, the blunt pro doesn’t hold back, which makes the film all that much more interesting as we see how Bollettieri endured dizzying ups and downs, especially his infamous falling out with Agassi. Ghost Adventures 9/8c, Travel Channel Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his team look into spooky incidents at an Oregon amusement park. Even its name—Enchanted Forest—is…

13 REASONS WHY’s CHRISTIAN NAVARRO MY FAVORITE SHOW RIGHT NOW The Walking Dead. I love how it turned the postapocalyptic genre on its head by making the survivors the true antagonists. THE FUNNIEST PERSON ON TV Julia Louis-Dreyfus [Veep]. That woman is strong, smart and absolutely hilarious. THE SHOW I MISS MOST The West Wing (above). I’d love to see a reboot where Charlie [Dule Hill, third from left] is running for president, with Josh [Bradley Whitford, right] as his chief of staff. THE SHOW THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH The Office. Michael Scott [Steve Carell] just gets me. MY GUILTY-PLEASURE SHOW RuPaul’s Drag Race. I binged it during the filming of 13 Reasons Why. It is so inspiring and heartwarming—and downright funny WHAT I EAT WHILE WATCHING Pizza. Always…

PICK OF THE WEEK! Goliath SEASON PREMIERE Friday, June 15, Amazon Prime Video NEW CRIME, NEW foes, same Billy. When Amazon’s Goliath returns, hangdog lawyer Billy McBride (Billy Bob Thornton)—fresh off his victory in the Borns Tech wrongful death lawsuit—is content to stay far away from the courtroom. Then a friend’s son is arrested for a double homicide, which drags Billy back to work. Thornton, who took home a Golden Globe for the role last year, briefs us on the drama’s sophomore round. Where is Billy when the season starts? He has money. Just like me, money doesn’t change him much. [Laughs] He likes to stick close to his own neighborhood and bar and do all the same monkey business. He’s not really any happier, not really any more used…

Instinct Sunday, June 24, 8/7c, CBS PICK OF THE WEEK! Since premiering in March, Instinct has quickly joined the ranks of CBS’s hit procedurals. Averaging nearly 8 million viewers a week, it even earned an early renewal for Season 2. While the crime drama delivers on the well-worn formula of an odd couple—former CIA operative Dylan Reinhart (Alan Cumming) and NYPD homicide detective Lizzie Needham (Bojana Novakovic, below, with Cumming)—sparring their way through a case of the week, the show’s greatest appeal is how it breaks ranks: Dylan is gay, Lizzie is struggling with a loss, and their investigations tend to be quirky almost to the point of camp. (Tonight, they try to crack the Steampunk-themed murder of a film student.) Novakovic offers her POV from the precinct. Why do…

JUNE 11, 2018 | PUZZLE #1338 ACROSS 1 Suspend 5 All-American Girl actress 8 Low female voice 12 Soothing plant 13 That woman 14 Perry Mason star 15 Avatar: The ____ (2 wds.) 18 ____ Life to Live 19 Singer Yoko 20 Glee star Michele 21 ____ Pablo 22 Stoop 24 Mark for life 27 Sanford and ____ 28 ____ Dwarf 30 Ben 10: ____ (2 wds.) 34 You ____ Your Life 35 Water, in France 36 Actress Fisher 37 Jane of Grace and Frankie 39 Former Pamela Anderson series 41 Irish actor Stephen 42 Project Runway mentor Gunn 43 Spigot 46 End of Trebek’s game show (2 wds.) 50 Manipulative person 51 Web address (abbr.) 52 The ____ Housewives of Potomac 53 Tampa Bay team 54 Instant Mom star Mowry-Hardrict 55 Viral internet sensation DOWN 1 Angel topper 2 Two…

@TVGMMattRoush Pose The fashions are fierce, and so is the heart in this club-culture drama Sundays, 9/8c, FX NO THIN-SKINNED CINDERELLAS allowed at the glittery high-camp balls so vividly and flamboyantly portrayed in Pose, the latest over-the-top FX sensation from Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story), primetime’s proudest provocateur. As these trans and drag Glamazons strut in elaborate weekly voguing competitions, an outrageous emcee named Pray Tell (Kinky Boots Tony winner Billy Porter) throws more shade than a weeping willow. The divas who rule these bohemian ballrooms in 1987 New York take their trophies seriously: “I am going to eat you like an after-dinner Rolaid,” snarls the imperious Elektra (Dominique Jackson), “Mother” of the House of Abundance, to upstart Blanca (Mj Rodriguez), who left Abundance to shepherd her own group…

Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Freeform This Fairy Tale is all about happy beginnings. Disneyland and other company theme parks worldwide play twinkly host to a dozen couples’ “I dos” in the latest round of the reality series, hosted by tWitch (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) and his wife, fellow So You Think You Can Dance alum Allison Holker. Yes, the brand is very much on display: A projection of Tinkerbell dances across the white-frosted cake at one of tonight’s receptions, and an upcoming episode features Cinderella’s glass slipper (above). But surely a magic wand was waved to achieve some of the special touches at these celebrations. Tonight’s second duo—hockey fanatics from Chicago—get to display the Stanley Cup! BOTTOMS UP! Drinks, Crime and Prohibition 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel The U.S.…

American soccer fans were devastated last fall when the U.S. men’s team failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia—the first time since 1986 that the Red, White and Blue won’t be competing. That’s not ideal for Fox Sports, which is broadcasting the monthlong tournament for the first time, but nonetheless, “This is the biggest party in the world, celebrating the most popular sport in the world,” says Fox Sports analyst Alexi Lalas, a former U.S. team member. (Governing body FIFA calculates 3.2 billion people watched in 2014.) All 64 games will air live on Fox or Fox Sports 1. The favorites? Defending champion Germany, Brazil, Spain, Argentina and France. But Iceland (population roughly 340,000), the smallest country ever to qualify, is sure to be a sentimental…

MOVIE PICK The Mountain Between Us 8/7c, HBO Expect some turbulence from this 2017 drama. Alex (Kate Winslet) and Ben (Idris Elba, above) are two wildly unlucky people, even if they are pretty successful in life. She’s a photographer on her way to her own wedding. He’s a neurosurgeon whose skills are desperately needed by a child thousands of miles away. When their flight is canceled, these strangers decide to go in together and charter a plane to Denver. And that’s where their luck goes from bad to abysmal: They crash in Utah’s Uinta Mountains, and because no one knows where they are, no rescue mission is forthcoming. Putting aside their injuries and getting a little four-legged help from the late pilot’s dog, Alex and Ben begin the perilous trek…

Who Do You Think You Are? SEASON FINALE 9/8c, TLC Last summer, Jean Smart was working on the film Senior Moment when she heard a visitor talking to Lisa Kudrow on the phone. “I asked the woman to tell Lisa that her show on TLC is great,” says Smart, referring to Who Do You Think You Are?, the genealogy series Kudrow produces. “Instead, she handed me the phone and Lisa invited me on. I said, ‘I’d love to!’ and then started worrying that my family would be too boring to be included.” Hardly. The show’s researchers found Smart’s eighth great-grandmother, Dorcas Hoar, born in 1635. “She was an unconventional gal,” says Smart (below right, with historian Ann Little). Dorcas and her daughters ran a burglary ring and were found with…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Six for firing up summer TV. Authentic, action-packed and now even more covertly addictive thanks to the addition of Olivia Munn’s shady CIA operative (center) as a foil for our heroes, History’s SEAL team drama is on target to make the warm weather months ever hotter. Cheers to Empire for ending Anika’s reign of errors. In the hip-hop soap’s season finale, the bad girl (Grace Byers, right) who made the mistake of crossing Cookie (and hooking up with two Lyon men!) fell to her death after foolishly swigging champagne spiked by her ex-son-in-law, Andre. This clueless Boo Boo Kitty didn’t have nine lives after all. Cheers to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt for realizing that more Jane Krakowski is always better. As ex-socialite Jacqueline White, the Emmy-nominated Broadway vet slays the…