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CHICAGO MED Scandal, interdepartmental warfare and romance are on the way! On the May 8 episode, the drastic actions taken by Dr. Bekker (Norma Kuhling) to win the heart of Dr. Rhodes (Colin Donnell, left) could threaten the hospital, which is later shaken by the growing conflict between COO Garrett (Heather Headley) and patient and medical services chief Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson). Also May 8, Dr. Manning’s (Torrey DeVitto) romance could falter when ex-fiancé Dr. Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) discovers that her new beau, Phillip Davis (Ian Harding), may not be who he seems. And there’s “a happy surprise” for Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) and his cancer-stricken ex-wife, Cece (Paula Newsome), in the May 15 show, says executive producer Andrew Schneider. CHICAGO FIRE On the May 8 episode, Lieutenant Severide (Taylor…

Best Room Wins SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, Bravo Twenty-five grand will buy 50 Landskrona armchairs at IKEA—or a professionally designed room on Bravo’s latest competition series. In each episode, two pros get that amount of cash and four days to create a luxury-for-less space in a client’s home. Genevieve Gorder (above, with designer Matt Sanders) pulls triple duty as host, mentor and judge, critiquing the work alongside Elle Decor’s Whitney Robinson and a rotating guest. (The best room wins a spread on ElleDecor.com.) Here, Gorder previews what makes this design show different. THE BUDGET Yes, $25,000 sounds like a lot—especially when Gorder worked with as little as $1,000 on Trading Spaces—but it’s actually more realistic for non-DIY projects, she says. “If this were just truly decorative, that would be an amazing…

A DAY OF HATS AND HORSES! 145th Kentucky Derby 2:30/1:30c, NBC Better start googling the lyrics to “My Old Kentucky Home.” The 145th Kentucky Derby is run today at Churchill Downs in Louisville, marking the start of horse racing’s Triple Crown season. Some of the thoroughbreds who could be in the starting gate: Tacitus, Vekoma, Plus Que Parfait, Roadster, By My Standards, Maximum Security and Game Winner. Last year, Justify (above right) swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont to become the 13th horse to win the Triple Crown. But let’s not forget today’s other attraction: Derby hats! Attendees traditionally go big on headwear, adding feathers, flowers and all manner of frippery. (Above left, actress Sarah Hyland chose a fascinator in 2015; Olympian Johnny Weir and actress Aisha Tyler embedded props—a…

THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-winning 2018 FX series tells the story of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), a serial killer whose 1997 spree culminated in the slaying of designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramirez). Penelope Cruz (above, with Ramirez) costars as his sister, Donatella. All nine episodes available MINDHUNTER This 2017 Netflix original dramatizes how FBI agents (Jonathan Groff, right, plays one) put criminal profiling into practice in the 1970s. They interviewed prisoners, then used that knowledge to help with open cases. Season 1 available DEXTER By day, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall, left) is a quiet blood-spatter analyst for the Miami PD. By night, he’s a vigilante who butchers bad guys to satisfy his serial-killer urges. The acclaimed series aired on Showtime from 2006 to…

PICK OF THE WEEK! NCIS: Los Angeles Sunday, May 12, 10/9c, CBS ATTENTION, JAG FANS! NCIS: Los Angeles enlists a very special guest for tonight’s hour: heroic, handsome Navy captain Harmon Rabb Jr. (David James Elliott, above right) from the beloved CBS military legal drama—the show that spun off the original NCIS before wrapping its 10-season run in 2005. Harm, now second-in-command of an aircraft carrier, is called upon to help Callen (Chris O’Donnell) and Sam (LL Cool J) investigate ISIS sympathizers. Even more exciting, the May 19 NCIS: LA season finale reunites Harm with his longtime love interest, Lt. Col. Sarah “Mac” MacKenzie (Catherine Bell, inset). It’s both characters’ first time back on TV, but are they still together? Elliott fills us in. Fourteen years ago, JAG ended with…

6 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SEASON 6 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, ABC Hope you liked last year’s space-set season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., because the show (starring, above, from left, Ming-Na Wen, Clark Gregg, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Henry Simmons, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Jeff Ward) travels even deeper into the galaxy for Season 6. Here are six things to keep in mind: 1 The action picks up a year later. Engineer Fitz (De Caestecker) perished in the finale, but thanks to time travel, there’s now an unharmed, cryogenically frozen version of him floating in deep space. Not so lucky: leader Phil Coulson (Gregg), who suffered a slow death via poison. Giving the gang time to grieve was important, exec producer Jeffrey Bell explains.…

Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta Saturdays, 9/8c, CNN PACK YOUR BAGS! Journalist and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta also plays tour guide in the six-part Chasing Life, a global journey to find out how to live a longer, happier existence. The CNN correspondent (who still practices at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital and teaches at Emory University School of Medicine) travels to countries that get it right when it comes to health and tries both new and traditional treatments. “There are clearly things happening around the world that can improve our lives,” he says. “You don’t really understand them until you experience them.” Gupta endured long acupuncture needles in Japan but also lives la dolce vita in Italy on the May 11 episode (above). Here, he lets us pick his brain. When…

GETTING TO KNOW BAILIFF BYRD Daytime Pick Judge Judy Syndicated, check local listings On TV’s perennially popular Judge Judy, verdicts are rendered by Judith Sheindlin, the legendary take-no-prisoners veteran of New York City’s criminal justice system. But the order in the court? That comes courtesy of Petri Hawkins Byrd, the only bailiff the series has known in its 23-year run. “I’m the cool to her hot,” says Byrd (above, with Sheindlin). He makes sure the proceedings stay civil, even when Sheindlin delivers her trademark tongue-lashings to clueless litigants. During Judy’s reign as daytime’s No. 1 show in first-run syndication for 10 consecutive seasons, the affable Byrd has become a star. How the perfect partnership began The pair’s unforced rapport dates back to 1986, when Byrd served as an officer in…

Editors’ Choice Chernobyl MINISERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, HBO IT COULD HAVE been Armageddon. On April 26, 1986, a massive explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine fatally injured workers and released a radioactive cloud. This gripping five-part drama tells how two brilliant and determined Soviet nuclear physicists, Ulana Khomyuk and Valery Legasov (Emily Watson and Jared Harris, insets), saved millions of lives by preventing a chain-reaction at the plant. The costars took us inside the contamination zone. Are your characters based on real people? Jared Harris: Yes. Valery Legasov was plucked out of his life one morning and told to sort out [one of] the worst man-made disasters of all time. The reactor core was exposed and on fire. There was no playbook on how to put it out.…

HAIL TO THE PEAK OF POLITICAL SATIRE Veep SERIES FINALE 10:50/9:50c, HBO The vice presidency “ain’t worth a bucket of warm piss.” Sounds like a line from HBO’s potty-mouthed political satire Veep, but actually, John Nance Garner said it. Can’t place the name? He was the U.S. vice president for eight years under Franklin D. Roosevelt—kind of proving his point. We may have undersold Veep by calling it a “potty-mouthed political satire,” even if the show—which wraps tonight—does have incredible, witty dialogue that’s unfortunately way too crass to print in a family magazine. And the most insightful inside-the-beltway humor on TV. On top of that, it’s a show about striving. It’s about frustration. It’s about anger. For the last few seasons, the comedy’s heroine, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above), has…

ACROSS 1 Match Game host Baldwin5 Efron of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile8 Good friend11 Actor Lugosi12 Chances ____13 Bart Simpson’s middle name14 Heavy money15 My Gal ____16 Cumming of Instinct17 Nickelodeon game show (2 wds.)20 Type of fence23 Star Trek: The Next Generation character Tasha ____24 Felix and Oscar (2 wds.)28 Vampire body31 Raison d’____32 W companion33 Hawaiian goose34 506, in Roman numerals35 David Lynch TV show (2 wds.)37 “Evil Woman” band39 Talk show host with own network40 CMT competition show (3 wds.)45 Actor Mark ____-Baker46 Playground game47 Scott Foley show The ____51 City in Yemen52 ____ My Children53 Former SNL regular Dunn54 ____, Dear55 Informal greeting56 I Dream of Jeannie star DOWN 1 Grey’s Anatomy network2 Uncle on Seinfeld3 Legal drama____ Stone4 Bergen of Murphy Brown5 Silent film actress Pitts6 Bedouin, e.g.7 Sleeper ____8…

EVERYONE GETTING NERVOUS? That’s typical this time of year as the networks make their final decisions on which series get to live on for another season. Some calls have already been made—Blue Bloods, The Good Place and The Good Doctor are among those coming back—but 51 scripted shows are still sweating it out. All fates should be determined by the week of May 13, when the broadcast networks announce their 2019–20 lineups. Here’s where things stand as of press time. DRAMAS Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy will surely be prescribed a 16th round—the March 28 episode hit a season high with 7.4 million viewers. Spinoff Station 19 will likely continue to put out fires (averaging 5.3 million viewers for the season), but it’s not such a sure thing for Rhimes’s other…

Chicago Med 8/7c Chicago Fire 9/8c Chicago P.D. 10/9c Wednesdays, NBC IT’S A SATURDAY in early spring on the warehouse-like Chicago Fire set, and emergency vehicles are filling the bay of Firehouse 51. Along with the usual truck and ambulance, a police car straight from Chicago P.D. has arrived to join the fleet. While the crossover episodes among creator–executive producer Dick Wolf’s trio of Windy City first-responder dramas (Chicago Med is the third) have become increasingly popular, today’s action is all for TV GUIDE MAGAZINE’s cover shoot. Chicago Fire’s Taylor Kinney, Chicago Med’s Yaya DaCosta and Chicago P.D.’s Jason Beghe are particularly happy to share this experience. Their casts have gotten to know one another through the many intersecting storylines on the sister shows, especially since, as of this season,…

“Everyone told me that it would be hard for me to find satisfying roles after 40. I’m 43 now, and I’m getting some of my most exciting work yet. I think Hallmark does that for all their leading ladies”—Kellie Martin Hailey Dean Mysteries: Death on Duty MOVIE PREMIERE Sunday, May 5, 9/8c, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries EDGY. GRAPHIC. RISQUÉ. In today’s increasingly cluttered TV landscape, you can find plenty of programs eager to deliver on those buzzwords. But Hailey Dean Mysteries, the Hallmark franchise starring Kellie Martin (Life Goes On, ER), isn’t among them, and that’s by design. “We are not Game of Thrones, and we never will be,” Martin says cheerily. “We scratch a different itch. Watching our movies is like cozying up with a good book—you know you’re…

3 DISTURBING FINDINGS At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE 8/7c, HBO Between July 2017 and February 2018, former USA Gymnastics national team doctor and Michigan State University osteopath Larry Nassar was convicted of a dizzying number of criminal acts, including sexual assault and possession of child pornography. You’ve probably seen news clips of the emotional survivors detailing to a packed courtroom how his abuse damaged their lives. (Team USA’s “Fierce Five” from the 2012 Olympics, above, are among Nassar’s accusers.) This new HBO documentary examines how he got away with abusing hundreds of victims, some as young as 6, for so long. Director Erin Lee Carr walks us through some of the film’s key insights. 1 Nassar found the perfect hunting ground. In intimate…

YOUR 8-PAGE STREAMING GUIDE STARTS HERE! EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE MOVIE PREMIERE FRIDAY, MAY 3 DIRECTOR JOE BERLINGER never intended to spend so much time with Ted Bundy. In 2017, the Emmy-and Oscar-nominated filmmaker was deep in production on his Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (just released in January) when his agent tipped him off to another project about the serial murderer: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, a screenplay chronicling Bundy’s 1970s reign of terror from the viewpoint of then-girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer. “I loved it because it had a unique point of view,” Berlinger says. Rather than focus on the charismatic killer’s many crimes, the story, inspired by Kloepfer’s 1981 book, The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, looks at the…

SNEAKY PETE SEASON 3 PREMIERE FRIDAY, MAY 10 Margo Martindale would like you to start watching Sneaky Pete, please. “You’ll love these people so deeply,” promises the actress. She’s referring to the Bernhardts, your atypical Connecticut family that runs a bail bond business. In the third go-round of the crime drama, they cope with more struggles and secrets as the title character con man (Giovanni Ribisi, above, with Martindale) continues to betray their trust. The three-time Emmy winner, who plays matriarch Audrey, shares more. Well, as much as she’s allowed to share. We haven’t seen the Bernhardts in more than a year. What’s changed? It’s very much a story about family this year. Honestly, it’s some of the best work ever [because] we’re all so connected [offscreen]. We shot in…

Newly Available Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Seasons 1–4 TV GUIDE MAGAZINE’s Matt Roush calls The CW’s just-wrapped musical comedy about a needy singleton (Rachel Bloom) “brilliant.” Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé New Documentary Superstar Beyoncé (above) preps for the 2018 Coachella music festival. I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson New Series On this sketch show, comic Tim Robinson annoys folks until they flee from his presence. Special New Series A young gay man with cerebral palsy comes out of his shell. Street Food New Series Craving buffalo stew or a banh mi sandwich? You will after seeing this unscripted series, which takes viewers on a culinary tour of Asia. Tuesday, April 30 Anthony Jeselnik: Fire in the Maternity Ward Stand-Up Premiere The comedian offers a dark, politically incorrect take on…

STORM WATCH Deadliest Catch 9/8c, Discovery The reality hit’s 15th season got off to a rough start for Sig Hansen, demanding captain of the Northwestern, who survived his second heart attack last October shortly before filming began. His stress level rises tonight when the Bering Sea crab fleet faces the season’s biggest storm yet. “It’s all the stuff I’d like to forget,” Hansen says as he recalls how he and his relief skipper, daughter Mandy, continue to set their traps, aka pots, through the night. “She had to deal with some stronger weather than she has in the past. She’s not 100 percent comfortable, but I don’t blame her. It takes time and practice, and her [spouse, Clark Pederson, right] is on deck. One wrong move [in the wheelhouse] and…