Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/8/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMattRoush Why didn’t Outlander receive an Emmy nomination for its exceptional acting? The episode titled “Faith” was outstanding. I can’t imagine how anyone watched it and didn’t nominate Caitriona Balfe for lead actress. I’ve never been pregnant, and I was crying like a baby. The emotions were so intense I could barely breathe. —Celia MATT ROUSH: As always, it’s an embarrassment of riches when trying to narrow down the drama acting field— there were 81 submissions in her category alone—but I agree that this was among the most glaring oversights. Balfe carried the show this season—such as when Claire lost the baby, and when she experienced PTSD from her WWII ordeals. I wonder if voters too easily write it off because of the romantic-fantasy genre. They shouldn’t. Why is it…

MICHAEL PHELPS Hard to believe, but one title remained out of Michael Phelps’s reach until now. After making his fifth Olympic team—the most for a U.S. male swimmer—Phelps was elected a team captain for the first time by his peers. The 31-year-old Baltimore native is looking forward to swimming up to six events in Rio, with his infant son, Boomer, and fiancée, Nicole Johnson, in the stands and his 2014 arrest for DUI and a rehab stint behind him. “I’ve known Michael for 16 years, and I’ve never seen him happier,” says NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines. “He came up to the booth with us the first few days of [U.S. Olympic] Trials and just hung out during the whole finals, laughing and carrying on and real relaxed.” After pushing…

The Get Down SERIES PREMIERE Friday, August 12, Netflix @TheGetDown IT’S OFFICIAL: JIMMY SMITS can’t be stopped. During his varied career, the Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican actor has played numerous iconic TV characters in the ’80s and ’90s, including L.A. Law’s by-thebook attorney Victor Sifuentes, and NYPD Blue’s Bobby Simone, the latter of which cemented his place as a small-screen sex symbol. He’s also part of the Star Wars film franchise and has appeared in award-winning Broadway plays. Smits even popped up on Pee-wee’s Playhouse. And he has a master’s degree in fine arts from Cornell. How many actors can say all that? Yet, at age 61, when many stars of his ilk start settling for the occasional TV cameo, Smits is still chasing roles in unique projects. Case in point:…

Weekdays, 7am, NBC @TODAYshow THEY’RE NOT JUST covering the personal stories behind the XXXI Olympiad. They’re also covering the evolution of the human species. Matt Lauer will lead a reporting team at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro that includes his fellow Today hosts Hoda Kotb, Billy Bush, Al Roker and Natalie Morales, and he’s confident that several once-unfathomable records will be set. “This is not your grandfather’s Olympics,” says Lauer. “Training methods are now so sophisticated— as is the science of nutrition—and athletes are pushing themselves so much harder that history is guaranteed to be made. Human beings will do what was once considered impossible.” But it’s not all triumph. “Competing in the Olympics requires such sacrifice and heart and fire that every athlete’s personal story is like…

Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Los Angeles Rams SEASON PREMIERE Tuesday, August 9, 10/9c, HBO @RamsNFL WITH TINSELTOWN BACK in the pro football business, HBO execs knew the city was ready for its close-up in the 11th season of NFLdocuseries Hard Knocks. “This is a classic Hollywood story of a young Midwestern kid moving out west to make his dreams come true, only this time, it’s an entire team,” Ken Rodgers, coordinating producer of NFLFilms, says of Training Camp With the Los Angeles Rams. The show will follow the team on the move back to its old stomping grounds after 22 years in St. Louis. Rookie quarterback Jared Goff (right) of the University of California, the first No. 1 NFLdraft pick to be featured on the show, has a…

Youth (2015) Tuesday, August 9, 11:30/10:30c, HBO Because, of course, a movie called Youth is actually about septuagenarians. Classical music composer Fred (Michael Caine) and filmmaker Mick (Harvey Keitel) stew over their curtain calls while on vacation together at a swanky Swiss Alps resort. Jane Fonda (below) upstages both as Mick’s longtime actress muse, Brenda, who’s counting on a second act for herself in television. Creed (2015) Sunday, August 21, 8/7c, Epix Sylvester Stallone was thisclose to winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Creed, just like Rocky Balboa was thisclose to beating Apollo Creed in the original Rocky. Director and cowriter Ryan Coogler smartly refocuses the Rocky franchise onto the fighting shoulders of a captivating Michael B. Jordan (above left, with Stallone), who plays the son of Rocky’s original…

DEATHS Jack Davis, an illustrator who drew 23 TV GUIDE MAGAZINE covers, died July 27 at age 91 due to complications from a stroke. Davis’s work includes the above covers featuring Sesame Street and M*A*S*H. * Jerry Doyle, who played Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, died July 27 at age 60. The cause of death was unknown as of press time. NEW GIGS Bette Midler, Charlie Puth, Sammy Hagar and Joan Jett will mentor contestants on NBC’s The Voice in Season 11. * Idina Menzel is set to star in an adaptation of the 1988 movie Beaches for Lifetime next year. PREMIERES Where they lead, we will follow! Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival, starring Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham (above), premieres November 25. * Netflix also announced a January 6, 2017,…

The Get Down Baz Luhrmann’s fabulous fable of hip-hop revolt and disco dreams SERIES PREMIERE Friday, August 12, Netflix @TheGetDown IN 1977, THE Bronx was burning, an urban ruin symbolizing a New York City in deep decline. From these embers blazed a spark of exuberant creation, and The Get Down, from filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby) and playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, presents the birth of hip-hop as a raucous cultural coming-of-age story. (See page 28 for more.) Think of this flamboyant entertainment as a boldly stylized South Bronx Side Story, complete with violent rumbles, rooftop chases, trysts on fire escapes and an undercurrent of fatalism amid its youthful spirit. An intoxicating mosaic of choreography, wordplay and music, The Get Down serves up a blood-spattered disco ball as a metaphor…

ALL ATHLETIC COMPETITION during the Rio Games—from favorites like gymnastics and swimming to more obscure events like badminton, modern pentathlon and taekwondo—will be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, along with more than 2,000 televised hours on 11 networks (including 260.5 on NBC alone). Here are highlights from each day’s coverage (which is, of course, subject to change). For the complete schedule, visit NBCOlympics.com. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 ● Opening ceremony 7:30/6:30c, NBC SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 ● Rowing, cycling, men’s water polo (USA vs. Croatia) 8am/7c, NBC ● Cycling, swimming 10:30am/9:30c, NBC ● Women’s rugby (USA vs. Fiji) noon/11am c, NBCSN ● Men’s archery 2:15/1:15c, MSNBC ● Women’s field hockey (USA vs. Argentina) 4/3c, USA ● Women’s soccer (USA vs. France) 4/3c, NBCSN ● Women’s volleyball (USA vs.…

Mr. Robot Wednesday, August 10, 10/9c, USA On USA’s twisty drama Mr. Robot, vigilante tech whiz Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) has the ability to wreak havoc with nothing more than a string of zeroes and ones—but now, he’s going up against an opponent who operates by an entirely different code. During Season 2 of the Emmy-nominated series, FBI cyber-crime agent Dominique “Dom” DiPierro (Grace Gummer) is making it her mission to crack the case of the “5/9 Hack,” the digital takedown that Elliot and his fsociety crew orchestrated to destroy megaconglomerate E Corp, leaving modern civilization severely crippled in the process. Here, Gummer keys in on her dogged alter ego. Why do you think Dom is getting so caught up in this investigation? She lives and breathes this case, because…

Fridays, midnight/11c, Adult Swim @ericandre ON CARTOON NETWORK’S edgy Adult Swim block, there’s no tame, family-friendly animation to be found. So it’s only fitting that their interpretation of a late-night chatfest—The Eric Andre Show, now in its fourth season—is equally subversive. The series features comedian Eric Andre and his straight-faced sidekick, Hannibal Buress (Broad City), sending up the genre by impersonating, as he puts it, “the worst talk-show host in history.” That’s no exaggeration. Each 11-minute episode is a chaotic mélange composed of segments with rattled celebrity guests— ludicrous pranks, like a fake squid popping out of the floor mid-interview, are devised to make them uncomfortable—and outrageous hidden-camera stunts. When we spoke with the fearless Andre, he had just spent a few gleefully disruptive days crashing the Republican National Convention.…

The Wine Show SERIES PREMIERE August 13, Hulu Men and alcohol. What more do you need? In this 13-episode docuseries, actors Matthew Rhys and Matthew Goode (right) travel through Italy learning the various aspects of making, tasting and serving vino in order to demystify the heretofore “snobby” drink. Among the best moments: the pair racing wine barrels in Tuscany, trying out their sommelier skills in Verona and learning how to make pasta from a scary Italian mama in Bologna. The Disappearance SERIES PREMIERE August 15, Acorn This French series about the disappearance of an inner-city teenager (Camille Razat) may seem a lot like The Killing (the girl had secrets, her parents are troubled, her friends are liars and the lead detective on the case isn’t all that stable), but it…

ACROSS 1 _____ the Sheriff 5 Gilman of Nurses 8 Cuervo of a.k.a. Pablo 12 Once a _____ 13 Playing card 14 Moe’s Tavern beverage 15 Actor on Alien Nation (2 wds.) 18 James Stacy TV Western 19 Actress Thompson 20 A shoe size 21 Comics company 25 Jean of Fargo 28 As the World Turns Illinois town 29 _____ Chaney Jr. 30 Detective Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU 31 Under the weather 32 Armour of What a Dummy 35 Solo’s partner on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 37 Clifton Davis’s calling on Amen 38 An exclamation of pleased surprise 39 _____ Haw 40 Forced fee for freedom 44 Bewitched ad agency (3 wds.) 48 _____ All Night 49 Fluorescent Day-____ 50 Actor Zulueta 51 The _____ Ones 52 Addams Family cousin 53 Tricia…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to The Bachelorette for giving us Chad Johnson. The beefy “Chad Bear” brought his alpha intensity to the Men Tell All special with a brutal takedown of JoJo’s whinier suitors, leaving us salivating for more of his muscled crazy on Bachelor in Paradise. Cheers to Dead of Summer for turning up the horror. Freeform’s campers-inperil tale went from a supernatural slow-burn to a deep-woods scream with the shocking murder of Camp Stillwater sweetie Cricket (Amber Coney). If she can be killed, you just know s’more deaths are on the way! Cheers to MADtv alums for playing so well with the new crew. Will Sasso and Nicole Sullivan—veterans of the original Fox sketch show—were the perfect pair to help introduce The CW’s edition, which won our vote…