Innholdsfortegnelse for January 20, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush Has ABC gone sour on The Rookie? While many of the network’s shows are returning from the holiday break with new episodes after a month or less, The Rookie will have been off the air for 10 weeks before returning February 23 to resolve its ill-advised cliffhanger. For this we have to wait until the daffodils bloom? Has ABC done so well this season that it can afford to blow off a series that has hung in against tough competition in two timeslots? Or do you see some grander plan at work? —J. Norris MATT ROUSH: The waiting game is never fun, but it looks to me as though ABC is protecting the show by keeping it off the air during one of the busiest periods for Sunday stunt…

PREMIERES Family Reunion Jan. 20, Netflix Brain Games Jan. 20, 8/7c, National Geographic Home Town Jan. 20, 9/8c, HGTV Spy Games Jan. 20, 10/9c, Bravo Carter Jan. 20, 10/9c, WGN America DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Jan. 21, 9/8c, The CW Project Blue Book Jan. 21, 10/9c, History October Faction Jan. 23, Netflix Station 19 Jan. 23, 8/7c, ABC Outmatched Jan. 23, 8:30/7:30c, Fox The Bold Type Jan. 23, 9/8c, Freeform Swamp People Jan. 23, 9/8c, History Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Jan. 24, Netflix The Ranch Jan. 24, Netflix Ancient Aliens Jan. 25, 10/9c, History The Biggest Loser Jan. 28, 9/8c, USA Miracle Workers: Dark Ages Jan. 28, 10:30/9:30c, TBS Next in Fashion Jan. 29, Netflix Miz & Mrs Jan. 29, 10/9c, USA The Stranger Jan. 30, Netflix Impractical Jokers Jan. 30, 10/9c,…

MOVIES 6:35am/5:35c Forget Paris (1995) HBO Signature 8:15am/7:15c Romeo and Juliet (1936) TCM 9am/8c Clear and Present Danger (1994) AMC 9:30am/8:30c Rudy (1993) IFC 11am/10c Marley & Me (2008) Freeform 11:55am/10:55c Aliens (1986) HBO Zone Noon/11am c Saving Private Ryan (1998) IFC 12:05/11:05am c A Simple Favor (2018) Epix 1:30/12:30c Remember Me (2010) Showtime 3/2c The Girl on the Train (2016) FXM 3:40/2:40c The River Wild (1994) Starz 5:08/4:08c My Cousin Vinny (1992) Starz Encore 5:33/4:33c For the Boys (1991) Retroplex 8/7c Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Epix 8/7c A League of Their Own (1992) Showtime Family Zone 10:30/9:30c X-Men: First Class (2011) AMC BIG CROSSOVER! Station 19 SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, ABC Grey’s Anatomy 9/8c, ABC Regarding the cliff-hanging return of Grey’s Anatomy: “Watch with a whole box of tissues!” So says showrunner Krista Vernoff, who now holds the same job on companion series Station 19. The Grey’s fall finale closed with a car crashing through the wall of Joe’s Bar, the…

MOVIES 6am/5c The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) Showtime Showcase 7am/6c The Poseidon Adventure (1972) IFC 7:49am/6:49c Vertigo (1958) Starz Encore 8:30am/7:30c Arrival (2016) Syfy 10am/9c Jonah Hex (2010) TBS 11:25am/10:25c The Missing (2003) Showtime Beyond 11:30am/10:30c Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) FXM 11:30am/10:30c K-9 (1989) IFC Noon/11am c Speed (1994) CMT 1:37/12:37c A Very Long Engagement (2004) Indieplex 2:25/1:25c The Hurt Locker (2009) HBO Signature 5:16/4:16c Slap Shot (1977) Starz Encore 5:30/4:30c The Professional (1994) SundanceTV 6/5c and 10:20/9:20c The Princess Bride (1987) BBC America 8/7c and 10:15/9:15c Goodfellas (1990) SundanceTV 10/9c The Crow (1994) Comet Sanditon 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Fight or flirt? It can go either way on the PBS drama Sanditon—adapted from Jane Austen’s 1817 unfinished final novel—whenever saucy country girl Charlotte Heywood and worldly snob Sidney Parker (Rose Williams and Theo James, above) meet. She’s opinionated. He has a mean streak. But they have chemistry. And they can’t avoid…

TED BUNDY: FALLING FOR A KILLER DOCUSERIES PREMIERE FRIDAY, JAN. 31 Elizabeth Kendall was a young, divorced single mom when she met aspiring lawyer Ted Bundy at a Seattle bar in 1969. Suave and handsome, he seemed like Mr. Right. But her boyfriend hid a double life as a killer and later confessed to murdering 30 women. Now, 31 years after Bundy’s execution, Kendall (above, with Bundy in 1974, when she went by the last name Kloepfer) breaks her silence in this five-part series. “Liz wanted her story to have more meaning, not [be] a tabloid telling,” says producer and director Trish Wood. To that end, she presents Kendall’s experience in the context of 1970s America, showing how feminism (exemplified by The Mary Tyler Moore Show) fueled Bundy’s hatred of…

The Good Place SERIES FINALE Thursday, Jan. 30, 8:30/7:30c, NBC ALL GOOD THINGS must come to an end, even this quirky Emmy-nominated comedy about a group of strangers trying to earn their way into a Heaven-like utopia in the afterlife. Will Kristen Bell’s former bad girl Eleanor and Ted Danson’s reformed demon Michael each get their version of a happy ending? We quizzed the actors (above) to find out. What has it been like trying not to reveal anything about the finale? Ted Danson: The first season, I immediately told all my friends, like John Krasinski, the twist [that Eleanor and her new pals had actually been sent to the Bad Place, living in a neighborhood designed by Michael]. So I kind of learned my lesson and didn’t say anything…

Undercover Boss 8/7c, CBS It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. And by someone, we mean the CEO. To better understand how his company works, Alan S. McKim, the head of Clean Harbors, North America’s largest hazardous waste disposal business, trades his boardroom suit for a hazmat suit and treats the inside of a tank at an oil re-refinery. Guy’s Grocery Games 9/8c, Food Network Guy Fieri gets into the Super Bowl spirit by having teams of ex-NFL players and all-star judges earn ingredients for 6-foot subs by tossing footballs into ice buckets. The Magicians 10/9c, Syfy It’s Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley, above) in blunderland! After her attempt to connect with the late hero Quentin doesn’t go according to plan, only a trek to an unpleasant underworld locale…

31 Days of Oscar 6am/5c, TCM Movie Picks The theme for this year’s marathon is “360 Degrees of Oscar.” An example of how it works: Today, Barbra Streisand stars in 1968’s Funny Girl (right) at 11:30/10:30c. She returns in 1973’s The Way We Were at 2:15am/1:15c, with Robert Redford, who then headlines 1972’s The Candidate at 4:30am/3:30c. Murdoch Mysteries SEASON PREMIERE 7/6c, Ovation Det. William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) investigates an attempt on a suffragette’s life in early-1900s Toronto. Fittingly, though, his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden (Hélène Joy), cracks the case. RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Did Stacey Castor (Nia Vardalos) murder both her husbands, or were their deaths a coincidence? The title would seem to deliver a verdict. MOVIES 10am/9c Divergent (2014)…

WHAT GIVES? Cheers to Damian Holbrook’s “Jeer” of The Masked Singer [January 6]. I like the show, but how a basketball player lasts over Patti LaBelle and [Destiny’s Child’s] Michelle Williams is beyond me. —Sharon PERFECT PAIRING  I really enjoyed the Hawaii Five-0/Magnum P.I. crossover [January 3]. It had everything: action, scenery, a plot twist, romance—and it ended with a song. The characters played great off of each other. I hope they do it again soon! —Connie HEART-WARMER  God Friended Me’s January 5 episode with Judd Hirsch about the Holocaust survivor and his sister brought tears to my eyes. That was truly beautiful and touching. —CL Email us: letters@tvgm.com COMING NEXT ISSUE NCIS: NEW ORLEANS  Special Agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula, above) has avenged his team member’s murder—but at what…

The Outsider Sundays, 9/8c, HBO I CONFESS, I’M a sucker for a good Stephen King story, and The Outsider is one of his better recent efforts. This is because the 2018 novel, and writer Richard Price’s excellent adaptation for HBO, follow one of the horror master’s cardinal rules: Make you care first, the better to scare you later. The two-hour opener (which aired January 12), directed by and starring Jason Bateman (Ozark), is an instantly riveting exercise in emotional suspense, trapping a nice-guy small-town coach in a Hitchcockian “wrong man” nightmare. Bateman’s affable everyman charm makes the dilemma of Terry Maitland even more disturbing when he is arrested, very publicly, for the horrific murder of a young boy. Eyewitness, forensic and video evidence place him at the scene. But equally…

MOVIES 7am/6c The Horse Whisperer (1998) Showtime 8:33am/7:33c The Wedding Date (2005) Movieplex 9:19am/8:19c Waterworld (1995) Starz 9:30am/8:30c Little Women (1994) Showtime 2 11:45am/10:45c Face/Off (1997) SundanceTV 3:29/2:29c Moneyball (2011) Starz Encore 5/4c First Blood (1982) SundanceTV 6/5c Rocky IV (1985) AMC 6:05/5:05c Wonder (2017) Epix 6:12/5:12c The Odd Couple (1968) Retroplex 7/6c Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) SundanceTV 7:35/6:35c and 9:45/8:45c Get Out (2017) FXM 10/9c John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2019) HBO 2 10/9c Ghost (1990) Showtime 2 10:15/9:15c Hud (1963) TCM 10:30/9:30c Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Grit New Amsterdam 10/9c, NBC Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold, below) is used to being in charge and making big decisions—back on his first day as medical director of (fictional) New Amsterdam Hospital, he fired all the cardiac surgeons! But tonight on the sophomore drama, the widower’s infant daughter, Luna, ends up in his facility, and Max’s role changes dramatically. “He’s there as the father of a…

THE STRANGER SERIES PREMIERE THURSDAY, JAN. 30 Apparently, no one ever taught Adam Price (Richard Armitage, left) that all-important rule: Don’t talk to strangers. In this new mystery series based on author Harlan Coben’s bestselling 2015 novel, the mild-mannered family man’s life begins to crumble when he encounters an enigmatic woman (Hannah John-Kamen) who reveals a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne (Dervla Kirwan). “She offers Adam evidence that his wife deceived him in one of the worst ways imaginable,” hints Coben, also an executive producer on the series. As Adam frantically looks into the truth, he realizes that he isn’t the only one being targeted. The stranger is dropping these bombs on other people too. But why? And how is it all connected? Detective Johanna Griffin (Downton Abbey’s Siobhan…

Newly Available Catch Me If You Can (2002) An FBI agent (Tom Hanks) pursues a sly con man (Leonardo DiCaprio) in a thrilling cat-and-mouse caper. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Dick Van Dyke stars in this classic musical fantasy about a kooky inventor who turns a race car into a floating, flying contraption. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So says high schooler Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), who ditches class to have a fun day with his friends. Free Willy (1993) A troubled boy (Jason James Richter) befriends a whale in captivity and plans to release him back into the Pacific Ocean. Julie & Julia (2009) Meryl Streep plays chef Julia Child…

The New Pope 9/8c, HBO A pensive, purring John Malkovich (above) dons papal robes for the first time tonight on this lush fictional look at Vatican power plays in today’s Catholic Church. As Sir John Brannox, a harp-strumming, intellectual English aristocrat and author of the renowned theological study “The Middle Way,” he’s hesitantly accepted the role while cheeky, white-Speedo-wearing American Pius XIII (Jude Law) of 2017’s The Young Pope remains in a coma. Malkovich, who considers himself an atheist, experienced the weight of spiritual leadership when he first stepped into the ceremonial garb with all its symbolic meaning. “It sounds stupid, but you feel the aspirations, projections, fantasies, beliefs, sorrows and disappointments of a billion living people and many more who are no longer on the Earth,” he says. Pope…

MOVIES 7:43am/6:43c Amistad (1997) Starz Encore 8:21am/7:21c Saving Grace (2000) Indieplex 9:03am/8:03c Hugo (2011) Starz Cinema 9:15am/8:15c Dark Passage (1947) TCM 10am/9c The Firm (1993) SundanceTV 12:10/11:10am c Mr. Brooks (2007) More Max 12:55/11:55am c True Lies (1994) HBO Zone  2/1c And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen (2002) Showtime Family Zone 2:01/1:01c and 11:29/10:29c Brazil (1985) Retroplex 4:12/3:12c Lost in Translation (2003) Starz Comedy 5/4c Logan (2017) FX 5:45/4:45c National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) IFC 6:15/5:15c Fifty Shades Freed (2018) Cinemax 8/7c Donnie Brasco (1997) Epix 8/7c True Grit (1969) Grit 10:15/9:15c Return of the Seven (1966) TCM Young Sheldon 8/7c, CBS It’s a fact that 10-year-old Cooper twins Missy and Sheldon (Raegan Revord and Iain Armitage, above) are night-and-day different: He likes solving tough chemistry problems; she prefers chasing fly balls. So how do they spend a day when dad George (Lance Barber) and brother Georgie (Montana Jordan) are off camping? “They concoct…

MOVIES 10am/9c Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) TCM 10:53am/9:53c Cast Away (2000) Cinemax  11am/10c Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) HBO 2 12:05/11:05am c Finding Neverland (2004) The Movie Channel 1:20/12:20c Savages (2012) Cinemax 1:30/12:30c Girls Trip (2017) FX 2:32/1:32c Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1992) Movieplex 6:40/5:40c and 8:50/7:50c The Sandlot (1993) FXM 7:12/6:12c Senna (2011) Indieplex 8/7c 9 to 5 (1980) Starz Encore 9:57/8:57c Broadcast News (1987) Retroplex 10/9c Hold Back the Dawn (1941) TCM 10:15/9:15c BlacKk-Klansman (2018) Cinemax 11/10c Two Weeks Notice (2002) TBS Midnight/11c Steel Magnolias (1989) CMT 1:35am/12:35c Boys Don’t Cry (1999) HBO 2 Super Bowl LIV 6:30/5:30c, Fox Oh, Super Bowl, what will you be this year: historic nail-biter or bomb-filled blowout? Call it a coin toss. We’ve had both in recent years. When the league’s top two teams meet in the big game (at press time, the playoffs were still underway), one thing is for…

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Emotional solitude suits you, even if you have energy to spare. While you could be tempted to hit the town, a better use of your time would be to focus on solo projects. A breakthrough could happen if you give yourself the space. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20) You are surprised when hidden feelings surface—in yourself or someone you love. You’re better off not revealing what you learn because you’re not quite sure what to make of it. ARIES (March 21–April 19) You’re interested in unusual people and social activities now. You should try something new—this is a lucky time for you. You’re in need of expanding your group of friends. TAURUS (April 20–May 20) You have a bright idea on how to improve productivity. It’s good…

Star Trek: Picard SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Jan. 23, CBS All Access For the first time since the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis, Patrick Stewart, aka Jean-Luc Picard, is seated on a 24th-century starship’s bridge, booming “Engage!” in that stentorian British accent as he and the crew head out on an interstellar mission. It’s a scene from Star Trek: Picard, a series no one expected to see. Certainly not Alex Kurtzman, cocreator of another CBS All Access show, Star Trek: Discovery, who conjured the idea for this eighth Trekverse entry. “I put the odds at zero that Patrick would agree to reprise the role,” he recalls with a chuckle. And not Stewart, who thought that after seven seasons of the syndicated drama The Next Generation (1987–94) and four movie sequels, he…

Project Blue Book SEASON PREMIERE Tuesday, Jan. 21, 10/9c, History Destination: Roswell, New Mexico. After close encounters with roughly 3 million viewers per episode, History’s scripted hit Project Blue Book is heading to the desert hot spot long believed to be a UFO crash site. “It’s an intentional move to go somewhere that people have a familiarity with,” explains Aidan Gillen (left) of this big swing by showrunner Sean Jablonski and creator David O’Leary. The actor—who returns as Dr. Allen Hynek, the real-life astrophysicist hired by the U.S. Air Force to look into reports of unidentified flying objects—notes that the series wasn’t “trying to be deliberately obscure the first season out.” Still, out of the 12,000-plus cases in the government’s now-declassified findings, several that were dramatized (like Texas’ “Lubbock Lights”…

TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS NHL HOCKEY 8/7c, NBC All-Star Game The league’s leading players compete in a three-game, three-on-three tournament at the 2020 NHL All-Star exhibition, held at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. BOXING 9/8c, Showtime Garcia vs. Redkach Former two-division world champion Danny “Swift” Garcia squares off against hardhitting Ivan “El Terrible” Redkach in a welterweight elimination bout at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Seven Worlds, One Planet 9/8c, BBC America, AMC, IFC, SundanceTV When this wildlife series visiting all seven continents lands in South America, a puma (below) hunts the llama-like guanaco in the Andes, and birds risk their lives flying through a massive Amazon waterfall. Heartland Docs, DVM SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, Nat Geo Wild These married Midwestern vets will win your heart! The uplifting new series is…

DAMAGES SEASONS 1–5 AVAILABLE NOW “I think anyone is capable of anything,” attorney Patty Hewes comments to a colleague in Damages. She’s referring to a man who may have killed his wife, but she could have been talking about herself. The shrewd, tough and downright frightening attorney played by Glenn Close (above) on the legal thriller—which ran on FX from 2007 to 2010 before moving to AT&T’s Audience Network in 2011 and 2012—stops at nothing to get her way. That could mean crashing a wedding to woo a potential employee or blackmailing a rival counsel…or worse. Of course, like most TV antiheroes viewers come to love (or love to hate), Patty doesn’t see herself as a villain. As we learn over the course of the series, she has demons from…

MOVIES 7:05am/6:05c Hotel Rwanda (2004) HDNet Movies 8:30am/7:30c Flirting With Disaster (1996) Cinemax 11:15am/10:15c Hombre (1967) FXM 11:20am/10:20c Out of Sight (1998) HBO Signature 1/noon c Designing Woman (1957) TCM 3/2c Underworld (2003) IFC 4:35/3:35c Killers (2010) Epix 5:50/4:50c Les Misérables (2012) HBO Signature 6:35/5:35c and 11:20/10:20c Iron Man (2008) USA 7/6c Catch Me If You Can (2002) WGN America 8/7c and 11/10c Black Hawk Down (2001) SundanceTV 8/7c Captain Phillips (2013) AMC 10/9c Gone Baby Gone (2007) Starz Cinema 10:30/9:30c The Transporter (2002) BBC America 11:45/10:45c No Strings Attached (2011) Epix 2am/1c Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) IFC Miracle Workers: Dark Ages SEASON PREMIERE 10:30/9:30c, TBS SEASON 1 OF the anthology series Miracle Workers was a workplace comedy set in Heaven. Much of the cast returns for this go-round—a medieval saga on Earth—including Daniel Radcliffe (above), who stars as the royal offspring of King Cragnoor (Peter Serafinowicz).…

Spider-Man: Far From Home 8/7c, Starz After getting wiped out of existence by Thanos’ finger-snap (and thankfully restored to life in Avengers: Endgame), Spider-Man is swinging back into action… overseas! This fun 2019 superhero flick takes our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler and his high school classmates—including crush MJ (Zendaya, left, with star Tom Holland) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon)—to Europe. But their educational field trip is threatened when deadly creatures called the Elementals (think: water and fire monsters) attack. Charlie’s Angels 9am/8c, Cozi TV Daytime Pick What’s so special about “Angels in Paradise,” a two-parter from 1977? (It concludes Monday.) Cheryl Ladd makes her debut as Kris Munroe, taking over for TV big sis Farrah Fawcett as the blonde Angel. Magnum P.I. MIDSEASON FINALE 9/8c, CBS Aloha, Magnum! In the…

ACROSS 1 Comedian Elaine 4 Ending for dot or rom 7 Mad ____ You 12 Kids ____ People, Too 13 ____ Life to Live 14 Shatner’s Raw ____ 15 ____ Hunt 16 ____ and Be Fit 17 Fearful feeling 18 Robert Wagner show (3 wds.) 21 Millennium Falcon pilot 22 Justice ____ Unlimited 26 Middle Brady Bunch son 29 ____ Girl 30 Important time period 31 ____ All Night 32 Greenfield of New Girl 33 Shear Genius subject 34 Insult, in slang 35 Mental Samurai host Lowe 36 ____ Lucy 37 The Magic ____ Bus 39 Sam Waterston on Grace and Frankie 40 Michael Palin travel show (3 wds.) 45 Megan Mullally on Will & Grace 48 Music genre 49 The ____ Squad 50 Cherish 51 Ending for hero or salt 52 Men of a Certain ____ 53 Hoda Kotb’s…

LOVE IT! Cheers to The Bachelor for delivering its most diverse group of contestants ever. TV’s greatest comedy-disguised-as-a-dating show has killed it with a very impressive group of possible paramours for Pilot Pete (including, from left, Alexa Caves, Eunice Cho and Jasmine Nguyen) in Season 24. Cheers to Schitt’s Creek for flooding us with emotion. With the nuptials of Patrick (Noah Reid, far left) and David (Dan Levy) at the center of the standout comedy’s sixth and final season, we are both thrilled for the happy couple and heartbroken to know our time with the fabulous Roses is coming to an end. Cheers to Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist for being a pitch-perfect gig for Jane Levy (right). We cannot stop singing the praises of the Suburgatory grad. She is an endless…