Innholdsfortegnelse for June 10, 2019 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush Now that The Big Bang Theory has ended—and quite successfully—my big question is this: Will the series be streaming on Netflix, Prime Video or elsewhere in the future?—Aaron MATT ROUSH: That’s the megamillion-dollar question, and while nothing has been announced, odds are that Big Bang could be a centerpiece of the upcoming streaming service from WarnerMedia, due later this year. This hit sitcom is a crown jewel of the Warner Bros. TV library, along with Friends, which stayed put on Netflix for an extra year after the streaming giant paid dearly ($100 million) for the privilege. Complicating the situation is whether WarnerMedia would forgo what could be very lucrative streaming deals for Big Bang on competing services in order to keep the show exclusive to its own platform. Whatever…

Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) was crowned king in Game of Thrones’ May 19 series finale, but we still had burning questions (or questions about burning) for Emilia Clarke, whose Queen Daenerys Targaryen seemed to be a lock for the throne—until she sicced her fiery dragon on the innocent citizens of King’s Landing. Dany’s brutality seemed so out of character. Why did she snap? She’s brutal with her enemies, so this is a logical step. It’s coming from pain, hurt and heartache. That can make people do crazy things. She was broken. What was it like shooting the scene when Jon Snow (Kit Harington) stabbed her? I wanted Daenerys’s last moment to be one of hope, for the audience to see a little flavor of who she was in the…

COTE DE PABLO NCIS Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS Ziva’s back! NCIS fans got a huge surprise in the last seconds of the Season 16 finale with the return of fan-favorite agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), who showed up in former boss Leroy Jethro Gibbs’s (Mark Harmon) basement to tell him his life is in danger. (De Pablo’s scene was filmed in secrecy in the middle of the night to prevent spoilers.) “This surprise moment is just the beginning,” showrunners Frank Cardea and Steven D. Binder said in a statement, confirming that the character will have a prominent role in the Season 17 fall premiere “as Ziva’s warning to Gibbs unfolds.” It had already been quite a ride for the character when de Pablo departed the show abruptly in 2013, citing…

FBI: MOST WANTED Midseason, CBS Agent Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon) heads up the undercover Fugitive Task Force, which goes after the baddest of bad guys, in a new drama from Dick Wolf. 9-1-1: LONE STAR Midseason, Fox Rob Lowe stars as a New York City cop who relocates to Austin, aiming to balance his high-stakes job and family life. KATY KEENE Midseason, The CW In this Riverdale offshoot, four Archie Comics characters—led by aspiring fashion designer Katy Keene (Lucy Hale) and singer-songwriter Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray)—try to make it in NYC. BATWOMAN Sundays, 8/7c, The CW After debuting on last season’s Arrowverse crossover, Kate Kane/Batwoman (Ruby Rose) is front and center as Gotham City’s new vigilante. MIXED-ISH Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC Get to know black-ish mom Rainbow Johnson before the husband…

Editors’ Choice Jett SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, Cinemax The word thief doesn’t even begin to describe Daisy “Jett” Kowalski in Cinemax’s latest thriller. More like world-class criminal, ex-con, risk-taker, master of disguise, bombshell, smartest person in the room. “It’s a character akin to something you might see Lee Marvin do in Point Blank, or a young Clint Eastwood,” Carla Gugino (left) says of her meaty role. “She is not a wronged woman trying to get revenge. She is a professional who loves what she does and is incredibly good at it.” In the premiere, the fresh-out-of-prison Jett aims to clean up her act and make a life for her daughter, who’s 6. This won’t be easy, Gugino says: “She has no natural maternal instincts. She loves her daughter—she just doesn’t know…

Newly Available 50/50 (2011) A cancer diagnosis doesn’t give Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) great odds, but a good buddy (Seth Rogen) helps him fight. The Grinch (2018) The Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) is green with anger over Christmas, and no one in Whoville is going to be merry as a result. I Am Mother (2019) Netflix Original See page 41. Magic Mike (2012) Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer play strippers who show off their, um, talents. The Perfection (2019) Netflix Original Allison Williams (Girls, Get Out) returns in a horror thriller as a musical prodigy who befriends a young cellist (Dear White People’s Logan Browning) for maybe sinister reasons. The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Gerard Butler is the haunted (and haunting) man behind the mask in this off-key adaptation of the Broadway musical. Shameless’s Emmy…

Family Food Fight SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC Eight families vie for $100,000 in this tasty competition series hosted by Ayesha Curry, who also judges the heirloom recipes and improvised dishes with fellow restaurateurs Cat Cora and Graham Elliot. How many times will we hear someone say, “There are too many cooks in the kitchen”? Reef Break SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, ABC Unforgettable’s Poppy Montgomery dreamt up this very summer show in which she stars as a former pro surfer/thief who now helps solve crimes on a Pacific island. The action is heart-pounding, and so is her love life: She beds a detective while still carrying a torch for her FBI agent ex. TODAY’S SPORTS PICK NBA BASKETBALL 7/6c, ESPN NBA Draft Not much drama here. The New Orleans Pelicans won the…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to ABC’s salute to King Lear. The live event reviving All in the Family and The Jeffersons not only gave Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei (above) and so many more the chance to play some of sitcoms’ greatest characters, it also clued younger viewers in to the fact that the shows’ cocreator, Norman Lear, developed edgy, topical content way before cable or streaming. Cheers to Dead to Me for being a lively look at grief and girl power. Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate (right) deftly balance dark humor and heartbreak in Netflix’s grim comedy about a widow‘s unlikely bond with a pal hiding a killer secret. Cheers to The Fix for solving its central mystery. Even though ABC canceled the Marcia Clark–produced crime drama, fans still got…

FINALE TRIUMPHS Cheers to a great finale episode of Young Sheldon [May 16] that very nearly upstaged the final episode of The Big Bang Theory. Thank God we still have [at least] two more seasons of Young Sheldon to get us through the loss of Big Bang.—Sharon SUMMER LOVIN’ Blood & Treasure is both fun and very interesting. Its premiere [May 21] was two whole hours of excitement. You can’t go wrong with mysteries about antiquities and the exotic places where they are found, stolen and refound.—Shary DELICIOUS MOMENT American Housewife’s musical ode to Westport on the season finale [May 21] was clever and as tasty as a torte.—Susan CORRECTION In our tribute to Tim Conway in the May 27 issue [page 8], the name of Conway’s character on McHale’s…

With the fall TV season still months away, it’s a leap of faith to get excited about upcoming series so early. But here are five that jumped out at me during May’s network presentations, including a couple for midseason. THE UNICORN Thursdays, 8:30/7:30c, CBS In a break from action roles, Justified’s Walton Goggins (right) is all sheepish charm in a comedy about a widowed dad who’s a hot commodity to local single ladies. The ensemble (including Michaela Watkins and Rob Corddry as funny, supportive friends) looks terrific. STUMPTOWN Wednesdays, 10/9c, ABC Cobie Smulders drops her S.H.I.E.L.D. to play snarky and sexy Dex, a pugnacious PI in Portland, Oregon, with attitude to spare. We loved her on How I Met Your Mother as Robin, and she’s even more fun taking down…

MONDAYS AT 10/9C BLUFF CITY LAW / NBC VS. THE GOOD DOCTOR / ABC VS. BULL / CBS Last fall, NBC held its own in this hour as it launched the plane-mystery saga Manifest against veteran hits headlined by Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) and Michael Weatherly (Bull). With Manifest’s return on hold for midseason, NBC bets on new courtroom drama Bluff City Law. Jimmy Smits stars as a father who asks his estranged daughter to join the family firm following the death of her mother—so it should pack an emotional punch just as powerful as its competitors’. TUESDAYS AT 10/9C EMERGENCE / ABC VS. NEW AMSTERDAM / NBC VS. NCIS: NEW ORLEANS / CBS Ryan Eggold’s freshman hospital drama New Amsterdam narrowly bested Scott Bakula’s NCIS spinoff last season,…

LIFETIME TURNS JANE GREEN’S CHICK LIT INTO MOVIES TEMPTING FATE THE BOOK On paper, Gabby has it all: a loving husband, Elliott, two daughters, a nice home, a creative hobby she’s turning into a business.… But, as Jane Green writes in her 2013 novel, the 43-year-old feels “caught up in the pots and pans of life.” After meeting movie star–handsome millionaire Matt at a party, a friendly chat leads to a texting relationship that quickly turns flirty. Will she cheat? THE MOVIE Gabby and Elliott (Alyssa Milano and Shameless’s Steve Kazee, above) have a solid marriage, but—spoiler alert on that cheating dilemma—she gives in to the temptation of a fantasy liaison with Matt (Zane Holtz, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series). After Gabby and her hot younger man share an…

Ambitions SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, OWN If you’re missing the days of guilty-pleasure soaps like Dynasty and Dallas—where money, power and sexual tension are what keep us all tuning in—settle in for multigenerational family saga Ambitions. At the center is Stephanie Carlisle, a powerhouse Atlanta-based attorney and femme fatale played by the seemingly ageless Robin Givens. “I love those women who can drink with the guys but still look great in a dress,” she says. “To me, Stephanie’s a modern-day dame in the best sense of the word. And she carries a gun.” Here, Givens introduces us to the drama’s decadent leading lady. DEFINING TRAIT Her drive. Stephanie likes to win, whether that means working to take down the pharmaceutical company she blames for her sister’s opioid death or being a…

@TVGMMattRoush Big Little Lies Secrets unravel in the high-class soap’s irresistible second season Sundays, 9/8c, HBO DELIVERING A SEQUEL to a delicious hit like Big Little Lies requires aiming high. And when your cast already features Oscar and Emmy winners Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, it only makes sense to reach for the pinnacle: Meryl Streep. As Mary Louise Wright, a deceptively mousy paragon of passive-aggressive manipulation, the sly Streep wastes no time getting under the perfectly moisturized and perilously thin skins of the Monterey mom brigade she holds responsible for the mysterious death of her golden-boy son, Perry (Alexander Skarsgård, seen in flashbacks and videos). Unwilling to accept the truth that her offspring was an abusive husband and rapist, she unnerves her damaged daughter-in-law, the nightmare-ravaged Celeste…

IF YOU LIKE BLUE BLOODS, CBS WATCH TOMMY, CBS (midseason) Never fear, another CBS family procedural is here! Edie Falco’s Abigail “Tommy” Thomas has just become Los Angeles’ first female chief of police. As a native New Yorker, does she have Frank Reagan’s number? IF YOU LIKED THE FOLLOWING WATCH PRODIGAL SON, Fox EVIL, CBS The DNA of Kevin Bacon’s dark psychological drama lives on: In Prodigal Son, a criminal profiler (Tom Payne, aka The Walking Dead’s Jesus) has the inside edge hunting serial killers because his dad (Michael Sheen) is one; in Evil, a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) helps a priest in training (Luke Cage’s Mike Colter) distinguish between the psychopathic and the possessed. IF YOU LIKED PARENTHOOD WATCH NOT JUST ME, Fox When it comes to far-reaching family drama,…

SPIN THE WHEEL Thursday, June 20, 9/8c, Fox WHILE GAME OF Thrones fans debate whether the wheel has been broken, Fox is reinventing it! Dax Shepard (Bless This Mess) hosts this all-new game show in which players rely on a mix of knowledge, strategy and luck to win up to $23 million. “It’s like the biggest and brightest game in the casino, and it is simple enough that the whole family can play along,” says Andrew Glassman, who serves as an executive producer alongside Justin Timberlake. In Round 1, contestants spin a massive wheel (no surprise!) and answer pop culture trivia questions as it turns. If they are correct, they win the amount of money the wheel stops on. If their answer is wrong, they don’t. In Round 2, friends and…

MOVIE PICKS Hollywood Hair Hall of Fame 8/7c, TCM Which stars are a cut above the rest? Tonight’s four “mane” attractions showcase memorable moments in movie hair, beginning with Elizabeth Taylor in the costly 1963 epic Cleopatra. (One of her gold-ornamented wigs just sold for $7,575 at auction!) At 12:30am/11:30c, Pam Grier is a nurse with an afro that’s as killer as she is in the 1973 blaxploitation flick Coffy. Next, at 2:15am/1:15c, John Nance sports a towering ’do in David Lynch’s wildly weird cult favorite Eraserhead (1977). And the roundup of silver-screen coifs wraps at 4am/3c with Bo Derek’s trendsetting cornrows (left) in the 1979 rom-com 10, also starring Dudley Moore. Kate Plus Date SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, TLC Having survived sextuplets and twins, reality star Kate Gosselin tests the…

Baskets SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, FX Season 4 of the quasi-comedy begins with this question: Will Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis), at 49, finally leave home? It won’t be easy, as the world’s saddest clown juggles his own insecurities, the rah-rah advice of a life coach and the reality that his mom (Louie Anderson) is ready to shack up with boyfriend Ken (Alex Morris). TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS GOLF 12:30/11:30am c, FS1 and Fox U.S. Open: First Round World No. 1 Brooks Koepka—the 2018 (and 2017!) Open titleholder—is the man to beat as the 119th U.S. Open Championship tees off at famed Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 8/7c, ESPN Detroit vs. Kansas City Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers face Jorge Soler (left) and the Kansas City Royals at…

NCIS: The Cases They Can’t Forget 9/8c, CBS ON TV’S NO. 1 drama, NCIS, Rocky Carroll plays smart, decisive, highly trained director Leon Vance. The actor channels the boss man’s serious, no-nonsense attitude in another gig: hosting this true-crime series about real-life Naval Criminal Investigative Service cases that haunt investigators. Tonight, it’s an inquiry into a sailor’s murder in a sleepy town on the island of Okinawa that uncovers a love triangle. He tells us more. How similar to an NCIS episode are these real cases revisited by agents and the victims’ families? If they were scripts, somebody would say, “This would never really happen.” The deeper investigators dig into what looks like a clear-cut case, the stranger it gets. A witness can suddenly become a prime suspect. In one…

ACROSS 1 This American Life host Glass4 Apartment, in England8 Small drinks12 “No” side of a debate13 Twin Peaks’ FBI agent Cooper14 Nicollette Sheridan on Desperate Housewives15 Art Carney, on The Honeymooners (2 wds.)17 Throw of the dice18 The A-____19 The Addams Family cousin20 Aria’s mother on Pretty Little Liars21 Furry alien of 1980s TV23 Female chicken25 Former SNL regular Jay29 American Horror Story actress Jessica33 According to ____34 The only brand to earn J.D. Power Dependability Awards across cars, trucks and SUVs four years in a row.36 ____ Masterson37 The Untouchables star Robert39 The Little ____41 Glee star Michele43 Diner owner on Alice44 My ____ and Kids47 The Larry Sanders Show costar Torn49 Once ____ a Time in Wonderland53 Garfield and Friends dog54 Dirty John star (2 wds.)56 Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van ____57 Comic actress Dunn58 Ballpoint, for example59 Power actor Larenz60 Little House: ____ Beginning…