Innholdsfortegnelse for April 15, 2019 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush I enjoy watching NBC’s Superstore every week and have always wondered if the show is filmed at an actual store or on a Hollywood soundstage. I’m amazed at the amount of inventory that is seen in the background. It’s very realistic—or someone has gone through an awful lot of work to purchase and display all of the goods. —Ray MATT ROUSH: Ah, the magic of TV and the underrated craft of production design. The pilot episode of Superstore was indeed filmed in a repurposed Kmart in Burbank. But once the show was ordered to series, an expansive Cloud 9 set was built—and at the end of Season 2, when a tornado swept through the store, partially destroyed—on soundstages on the Universal lot. Since The CW picked up Supergirl from…

APPLE’S PLANS FOR world domination continue. On March 25, the company held an exclusive event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters to tout the new Apple TV + streaming service, set to launch this fall (for a yet-to-be-announced fee). A cavalcade of big names—Oprah! Steven Spielberg! Jennifer Aniston!—introduced their series. Here are five we can’t wait to see. The Morning Show Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell? Yes, please! In this drama about a daytime TV news program, the Friends alum (in her series TV return) and Carell play anchors, while Witherspoon’s character works behind the scenes. “We pull back the curtain on the power dynamics between men and women in the high-stakes world of morning news shows,” Witherspoon previewed. Two 10-episode seasons have been ordered. Amazing Stories The 10-episode revival…

@TVGMMattRoush Les Misérables A stirring new version of the Hugo classic doesn’t skimp on squalor Sundays (through May 19) 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) EVEN WITHOUT MUSIC, Les Misérables sings: a tearful lament for the poor and oppressed, a rousing cry for justice in an unforgiving time, a soaring appeal for the transformative power of love and mercy. Victor Hugo’s mammoth 19th-century novel, filmed many times and famously musicalized, finally gets the deluxe Masterpiece treatment, courtesy of veteran screenwriter Andrew Davies (1995’s Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House). His approach over six episodes, with director Tom Shankland, leans into the misery of its turbulent era with an epic wallow in noble suffering. The story’s unfairly persecuted hero, Jean Valjean (a robust, impassioned Dominic West), is introduced as a dehumanized and…

1958 TV writer Rod Serling pens the one-hour “The Time Element” for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on CBS. Plot: An NYC bartender (William Bendix) repeatedly dreams he’s in Honolulu the night before Pearl Harbor. 1959 In the wake of the episode’s success, CBS green-lights a Serling anthology called The Twilight Zone; he would write 92 of its 156 episodes (including Season 5’s “The Masks,” right). Despite killer hooks and a loyal fanbase, the series is in frequent danger of cancellation. By 1964, the burned-out creator finally OKs its ending. 1983 Doomed from the start? Actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed during the making of the Steven Spielberg–produced Twilight Zone: The Movie (with John Lithgow, left, starring in one of four segments). It grosses $29…

MOVIE PICKS Demetrius and the Gladiators 8am/7c, FXM After converting to Christianity, ex-slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) questions his new faith in the 1954 sequel to The Robe. Michael Rennie and Jay Robinson reprise their roles as, respectively, the apostle Peter and depraved emperor Caligula. The Greatest Story Ever Told 11am/10c, HDNet Movies Max von Sydow headlines this blockbuster 1965 movie as Jesus, with an all-star supporting cast that includes Dorothy McGuire as Mary, Sidney Poitier as Simon, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist and Claude Rains as Herod. Barabbas 2:30/1:30c, TCM Barabbas (Anthony Quinn), the thief freed when Jesus is sentenced to crucifixion, struggles with faith and his place in the world in this 1962 epic from director Richard Fleischer. The Beverly Hills Dog Show Presented by Purina 1/noon c,…

BAYWATCH SEASONS 1–9 AVAILABLE NOW Say the word “Baywatch” and folks are likely to think of the same few things: tiny red swimsuits, slow-motion running, slow-motion bouncing and maybe a corny play on the title (Babewatch, anyone?). However, the hourlong drama was much more than a punchline. “While people were making so many jokes about us,” star David Hasselhoff told TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in a 1994 cover story, “we became a real show.” A beloved one. At the height of its popularity in the 1990s, the syndicated series was one of the most watched programs on the planet, thanks to an estimated one billion viewers in 142 countries who tuned in to see gorgeous L.A. lifeguards keep equally gorgeous beachgoers safe. “There is this mystery about California that everybody in…

FIXER UPPER SEASON 5 MONDAY, APRIL 15 Tap, tap, tap. No, that’s not the sound of contractor Chip Gaines nailing a piece of distressed shiplap to the interior of a cozy new family room. It’s our toe rapping against the floor while we impatiently wait for the debut of Magnolia, Chip and wife Joanna’s very own network—yes, network—from parent company Discovery. (For the record, there’s no launch date yet.) Until that day arrives, we’re getting our fix of Chip and Jo (right) over on Hulu, which is streaming the Texas couple’s HGTV home-renovation show, a sensation that launched them to stratospheric fame in 2013 and became the channel’s most watched series ever. Now, with the arrival of Season 5 on Hulu—the last installment the Gaines family filmed back in 2017…

The Son SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, AMC “We have a bookend of a story that will be very satisfying”—PIERCE BROSNAN IT’S BEEN A two-year wait for the second—and final—season of The Son, a Texas family saga starring Pierce Brosnan as patriarch and ruthless oil magnate Eli McCullough. Based on Philipp Meyer’s sprawling historical novel, the drama returns in 1915, months after Eli and his men slaughtered a local Hispanic family for their oil-rich land. It also flashes back to 1851, when the teenage Eli (Jacob Lofland) lives with the Comanches as an honored warrior, and forward to 1988, when his now elderly granddaughter, Jeanne Anne (True Blood’s Lois Smith), runs the family empire. “That through line is followed diligently, with some twists and turns,” Brosnan says. Here’s what else he can…

GAME TIME I really enjoyed your multiple covers for Game of Thrones [April 1]. It is a great issue. I liked seeing Jon and Daenerys on the cover together looking like a potential Targaryen vs. Targaryen setup. I am thinking that in the final season, House Targaryen will really be on fire! —Patti GOOD GOD TBS has performed a true miracle with Miracle Workers. Insanely creative! A heavenly cast! Steve Buscemi rules as no one else can. —Mimi LAST CALL? Jeers to Abby’s, a Cheers wannabe that misses the mark by a mile. I wouldn’t want to know anyone’s name in this place. —Sharon HOT TAKE Julian McMahon is coming back to my TV screen? And in an FBI spinoff? Woo-hoo! Is it fall yet? —Cindy [Editor’s note: The backdoor…

PREMIERES No Good Nick April 15, Netflix Bargain Mansions April 15, 9/8c, HGTV Duff Takes the Cake April 15, 10/9c, Food Network The Big Interview With Dan Rather April 16, 8/7c, AXS TV Bless This Mess April 16, 9:30/8:30c, ABC Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World April 17, 10/9c, PBS Life in Pieces April 18, 8:30/7:30c, CBS Bosch April 19, Prime Video Cuckoo April 19, Netflix Ramy April 19, Hulu I Ship It April 19, 9/8c, The CW Portals to Hell April 19, 9/8c, Travel Channel Murdoch Mysteries April 20, 7/6c, Ovation Restaurant: Impossible April 20, 9/8c, Food Network Jeremy Wade’s Dark Waters April 21, 9/8c, Animal Planet Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition April 21, 9/8c, Food Network Live Rescue April 22, 9/8c, A&E Gentleman Jack April 22,…

The Red Line SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, April 28, 8/7c, CBS NOAH WYLE HAS been preparing for an acting career most of his life. He was raised in Los Angeles and while walking home from school each day, he would place his foot over actor Noah Beery Jr.’s last name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and imagine the star was his. Wyle does not yet have a square on that hallowed strip of concrete, but after acting in TV for the past 25 years, he’s well on his way. His latest role is in the timely new CBS limited series The Red Line. Several months have passed since Wyle finished filming, but the 47-year-old still gets emotional talking about it. “I think that’s why I jumped at the chance to…

The Big Interview With Dan Rather SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, AXS TV Former Journey frontman Steve Perry goes in-depth with journalist Dan Rather—now in Season 7—about finding that his fame had become “lackluster” and leaving music. FLASHBACKS TO GIBBS’S PAST! NCIS 8/7c, CBS An old ghost resurfaces for NCIS Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon). A body found at a construction site turns out to be someone he knew, Maj. Ellen Wallace (Erin Cummings), a Marine thought to have died at the Pentagon on 9/11. He makes it his personal mission to find answers. The Rookie SEASON FINALE 10/9c, ABC The LAPD’s John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and his training officer, Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson), respond to a homicide call, then learn that the victim may be connected to a potential terrorist attack.…

I Love Lucy Funny Money Special 8/7c, CBS Need a boost after filing your tax return? CBS suggests two newly colorized (and money-themed) episodes of I Love Lucy from 1954 to take away the pain. We wanted to learn how the original black-and-white comedy is transformed. Turns out, the process is easier to understand than the IRS code! “It’s all about being true and respectful to the time period,” says CBS home entertainment exec Ken Ross. “The only reason I Love Lucy wasn’t shot in color is because the technology didn’t exist then. The colorization is so much better than it was 25 years ago. We can make it look like it was shot in 2019.” Ross and his team begin by doing two to four weeks of research to identify…

HUGE IN FRANCE AVAILABLE NOW NEW SERIES Fame comes at a heavy cost. Paparazzi. People interrupting your dinner to ask for a selfie. A total lack of privacy and anonymity. But man, you sure do miss that when it’s gone. French comedian Gad Elmaleh understands what it’s like all too well. Often called the Jerry Seinfeld of France, he’s virtually unknown here in the States. His new Netflix comedy, Huge in France, might just change that. In the show, Elmaleh—playing a fictionalized version of himself—gets burned-out and decides to leave France to reconnect with his estranged teenage son, Luke (Jordan Ver Hoeve, above right, with Elmaleh), in Los Angeles. That doesn’t sit too well with Luke’s mom (Kevin Can Wait’s Erinn Hayes, hilariously acerbic), or the boy himself, who’d rather…

9-1-1 9/8c, Fox Intrepid first responders are constantly rescuing folks from potentially lethal, totally outrageous scenarios on 9-1-1. But in tonight’s episode, titled “Ocean’s 9-1-1,” our heroes are going to be indisposed when they suddenly become the prime suspects—yes, suspects—in a robbery. If this sounds like a departure from business as usual, then that’s exactly the point. “We came back after winter break with a run of very dramatic, very harrowing episodes,” executive producer Tim Minear explains. “It was time to do something light and airy and fun before our last sweep into the finale. Everyone deserves to have a romp.” The action kicks off as the LAFD crew, led by Capt. Bobby Nash (Peter Krause, above right, with Ryan Guzman and Oliver Stark), is called in to contain what…

The Untold Story 9/8c, A&E WHEN JOURNALIST ELIZABETH Vargas told people she was working on a two-hour investigative piece about child brides, airing tonight, they all had the same question. “‘Oh, did you go to Pakistan or Afghanistan?’ I was like, ‘No, I went to Missouri and Florida,’” she reports. That’s why she’s so excited about her six-episode documentary series, The Untold Story: “These are things that nobody’s heard or thought about.” Vargas shares more. What was your biggest takeaway from “I Was a Child Bride”? What’s astonishing is that children getting married is legal in 48 states in this country. One case, at the age of 15 or 16, she goes to try and divorce [her husband] because it’s an abusive relationship, and she’s told she’s too young to…

 Late-Night Pick Veep 11/10c, HBO They are both unassuming and don’t cuss. But that’s the extent of overlap between actor Tony Hale and his Veep character, Gary Walsh, minion to presidential candidate Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Since the political satire’s 2012 debut, Hale has earned two Emmys; revived his breakout role as Buster Bluth on Netflix’s Arrested Development; and even co-wrote a children’s book called Archibald’s Next Big Thing, about a turtleneck-wearing young chicken in search of his one special talent. And Gary? He’s spent seven seasons anticipating Selina’s every yen—usually by reaching into the ubiquitous man bag he customized with pockets to hold her essentials. You might say it’s his one special talent. “He kind of wants more for himself,” Hale says, “but his heart is codependent on her.…

ACROSS 1 The Good Doctor’s home4 At any time8 Best foreign film winner12 Stephen of Counterpart13 Zachary of Shazam!14 Equal in amount15 Ponderosa neighbor (2 wds.)18 ____ Nivens (2 wds.)19 Emilia of Game of Thrones20 Lamb Chop sound21 ____ of God22 ____ in Pieces25 Alyssa Milano plays one of three on Charmed26 Oprah Winfrey’s network29 Finished with a meal30 Bridge of ____32 Stamped addressed envelope, for short33 Neither companion34 Animation director Avery35 Adam of Family Guy36 Will of The Waltons38 Caitlin’s ____40 Jerry of The Bradys42 A type of time46 Switched at Birth neighborhood (2 wds.)48 The Man With One Red ____49 Roman emperor50 Apprehend51 Balls of fire52 Star of I Dream of Jeannie53 Biological building block DOWN 1 A Farewell to ____2 Bridges of Bloodline3 Like We ____4 Miss Lewis on Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher5 Jenna Maroney’s…

SNL on the Wane The late-night series’ March 30 episode, with Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh as host (above left, with Kate McKinnon), tied for the second-lowest installment of the season. In fact, the NBC stalwart has been declining since 2016–17’s Season 42. (It’s no surprise that round saw an uptick, as it was an election year.) Here, the season averages in total viewers (including time-shifting). Season 44 9 million* Season 43 9.4 million Season 42 11.1 million Season 41 8.1 million Season 40 7.3 million * Episodes 1—15 Empire Loses Its Luster Forgive and forget? Maybe not when it comes to star Jussie Smollett’s real-life legal woes and Empire’s viewers, who have been steering clear of the Lyon family (which includes Terrence Howard’s Lucious and Taraji P. Henson’s Cookie, above)…

GREG KINNEAR In April 18’s “A Traveler,” he plays a folksy police captain in Alaska presiding over the office Christmas party. Then a sharp-dressed mystery man (Steven Yeun) crashes. GINNIFER GOODWIN Once Upon a Time’s Snow White headlines “Point of Origin,” a timely episode about ICE in which her housewife employs an immigrant nanny (Zabryna Guevara). Goodwin signed on before reading a script! ZAZIE BEETZ The Atlanta star appears in the season finale alongside Betty Gabriel, aka housekeeper Georgina from Peele’s 2017 big-screen thriller, Get Out. IKE BARINHOLTZ “Crazy!” That’s the Mindy Project alum’s word of choice to describe “Not All Men,” about toxic masculinity. Also in the cast: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Luke Kirby and American Horror Story vet Taissa Farmiga. RHEA SEEHORN Another costar of “Not All Men,”…

IT’S ALREADY RENEWED! The Magicians SEASON FINALE 9/8c, Syfy The spellcasters’ quest to free Eliot (Hale Appleman) from the Monster that’s been possessing him all of Season 4 comes to an end (we hope)—but there may be at least one major casualty. Delicious Destinations 10/9c, Cooking Channel Louisville, Kentucky, is the birthplace of famous sluggers (both the baseball bat and Muhammad Ali) and a certain equine derby. It’s also the best spot to find mutton barbecue and something called Hot Brown (which we assume is not a side effect of eating mutton barbecue). Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Before you can reach the stars, you’ve got to be able to see them. Learn how the invention of the telescope…

Newly Available Baby Driver (2017) Showtime Music-loving getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) has one last job to pull before he can ditch the criminal life. And those never go well. Blow (2001) Hulu How drug smuggler George Jung (Johnny Depp) made millions working for the Medellín cartel, then lost it all. The Dark Tower (2017) Showtime A continuation of Stephen King’s novels, with Idris Elba as a gunslinger out to slay the villain (Matthew McConaughey) who killed his dad. Destroyer (2018) Hulu Nicole Kidman is nearly unrecognizable as a cop determined to bring a gang leader to justice. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) Netflix A New York playwright learns about her mom’s troubled past. The Help (2011) Showtime In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, a Southern socialite pens a book from the…

The Resident 8/7c, Fox How do you save a patient’s life when there’s a massive blood shortage at Chastain Park Memorial? Senior resident Conrad (Matt Czuchry) best figure it out. SOUND THE SIREN! Live Rescue SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, A&E Prefer a real-life—and real-time—look at the courageous work of the nation’s paramedics and first responders? This new weekly docuseries from the producers of Live PD could be your next obsession. MOVIE PICK Under the Wire 9/8c, Starz The gripping, heartbreaking 2018 documentary centers on a 2012 rocket attack in Syria that killed journalist Marie Colvin (her story was powerfully dramatized in last year’s A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike) and wounded several others, including photographer Paul Conroy. Gentleman Jack SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, HBO Based on the coded diaries of Anne Lister,…

Daytime Pick 30 Minute Meals Noon/11am c, Food Network Celebrity chef Rachael Ray’s signature real-time step-by-step series 30 Minute Meals hadn’t aired since 2012, until it returned for the 30 days of April, yummier than ever! We asked the friendly talk-show host and cookbook author (left) to share her recipe for the revival. A heaping spoonful of fresh recipes Ray wanted to reach the next generation, so last Christmas she asked the food-obsessed millennials who make up the culinary team of her syndicated daytime talk show for a box of recipe ideas. “I wanted to hear what they were eating,” Ray says. “I drew inspiration to create recipes like cast-iron skillet pizza and a Korean-inspired take on Sloppy Joes.” A dash of the latest technology New cameras and production styles…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Gina Rodriguez for Jane the Virgin’s stellar season-premiere monologue on The CW. The award-winning dynamo (right) delivered—and directed!—one of 2019’s greatest moments in a seven-minute bit that tracked Jane’s rampaging emotions over the return of her not-so-dead hubby (Brett Dier). Cheers to Magnum P.I. for honoring a classic. The CBS reboot’s March 25 episode saw boat thieves leave Thomas and Higgins (Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks, below) lost at sea and recalling their past in a plot evocative of a 1983 gem in which Tom Selleck’s Magnum flashed back on his life while adrift in the ocean. Cheers to The Rookie for throwing together two top-tier charmers. As if Nathan Fillion’s 40-year-old LAPD newbie wasn’t roguish enough, the ABC cop dramedy wisely recruited master snarker…