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@TVGMMattRoush TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine @tvguidemagazine Regarding UnReal’s second-season finale, I liked who the suitor chose but was shocked at the ending. Why would a character (Jeremy) help end the lives of two major characters? Was the future of Everlasting that important? After that ending, is there any hope for a third season? —Marv MATT ROUSH: Lifetime renewed the show before the second season even began, so despite falling ratings and critical backlash, its future isn’t in jeopardy. But we do wonder if UnReal can be redeemed from its apparent need to keep topping itself at the expense of credibility and coherent character development. There’s still an interesting psychological drama here, about producers selling their souls for ratings, but by stooping to apparent actual murder, the show may have jumped…

ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1996, 6-yearold beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in the basement of her family’s Boulder mansion. For months after, the country was riveted to the nightly news as officials searched for her killer. Twenty years after her death—in which 140 suspects have been cleared of the crime, including her parents, John and Patsy—the high-profile puzzler remains unsolved. A “dream team” of investigators chronicled in the upcoming six-hour docuseries The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey (premieres September 18, 8:30/7:30c, CBS) claims to have cracked the case. The investigation was led by Jim Clemente, a retired FBI profiler specializing in child abduction. He and his group—composed of former law enforcers, forensic scientists, criminal behaviorists and linguistic experts—sifted through mountains of evidence, analyzed the cryptic ransom note and interviewed new…

NFL Kickoff : Carolina Panthers at Denver Broncos Thursday, Sept. 8, 8:30/7:30c, NBC @NFL THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL League is starting where it finished last season. The Denver Broncos take on the Carolina Panthers, the team they beat 24–10 in February’s Super Bowl 50, in the annual Thursday-night kickoff game. And that sssssssss sound you hear? That’s the air going out of the Deflategate controversy—finally. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady begins the season with a four-game suspension for his role in the ball-tampering case that blew up after the 2015 AFC Championship. While Brady sits out, ESPN’s Sean McDonough sits in a new chair as the playby-play voice for Monday Night Football, and Thursday Night Football has two new players: NBC (which joins CBS and NFL Network in televising games)…

SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Sept. 16, 11/10c, HBO @HMwebseries HIGH MAINTENANCE FANS OF THE cult web series High Maintenance can finally exhale. The pot-themed comedy, which previously streamed on Vimeo, is making the jump to HBO with new episodes. “We set out to adapt it and found out that HBO didn’t really want us to deviate from our original recipe,” explains Katja Blichfeld, who created the show and is an executive producer along with her husband, Ben Sinclair. Launched in 2012, the online shorts explored the interpersonal relationships and everyday dramas of a diverse subset of New Yorkers who all have one thing in common: their weed dealer (Sinclair, above). That format remains intact for the show’s sixepisode first season on HBO. Despite its premise, this is no simplistic stoner comedy.…

ACROSS 1 Holbrook and Linden 5 Canned ____ 8 Off the ____ 12 Blind as ____ (2 wds.) 13 Grauer of Black Sash 14 East of Eden director Kazan 15 It’s a Wonderful Life villain (2 wds.) 17 I Just ____ My Pants Back 18 Cade’s County county 19 Kevin of House of Cards 21 Cartoon set in prehistoric times 22 Hercules’s stepmother 23 Family Guy setting 26 Martin of Difficult People 29 Jaime Sommers’s workplace (abbr.) 30 Baywatch complexion 31 Holly’s suitor on Café Americain 35 ____ Loves Company 38 Boone’s mother 39 Ear, nose and throat doctor (abbr.) 40 Ellie’s married name on Cougar Town 42 Wanted ____ Alive (2 wds.) 46 Jill Larson on All My Children 47 Chloe’s cousin on Smallville (2 wds.) 49 Kathy Kinney on The Drew Carey Show 50 Fried of Two Marriages…

It’s been four years since Jimmy Kimmel hosted his first Emmy Awards, and he’s more than ready for Round 2. In fact, for a guy tasked with keeping some of TV’s biggest stars entertained for three-plus hours, the late-night host is probably the only person heading to L.A.’s Microsoft Theater who isn’t feeling the heat. There should be an award for anyone with this much affable chill. Having hosted the Emmys in 2012, what did you learn the first time around? It’s funny, I’ve hosted other award shows—I’ve done the American Music Awards, like, five times—but it’s surprising how much you learn from one to the other. I’ve learned that people say they want things to be different, they want weird or new stuff, and they really don’t. We did…

$200,000 The amount Seth Meyers joked NBC would pay Donald Trump to star in a show if he dropped out of the presidential race. 228 Number of episodes on which actor Steven Hill appeared on Law & Order from 1990–2000. Hill passed away on August 23 at age 94. $10,000 Value of the jewelry stashed inside a piñata at Bethenny Frankel’s party on The Real Housewives of New York’s season finale. 10 Approximate number of episodes Nashville star Connie Britton signed on for in the 22-episode Season 5, which premieres January 5 on CMT. 3.3 Billion Record-setting total number of streaming minutes, along with 100 million unique users, logged for NBC’s digital coverage of the Rio Olympics. 50 Years since the first in-color broadcast of the Miss America Pageant in…

CNN Films Presents 9/11 Fift een Years Later Premieres Sunday, Sept. 11, 8/7c, CNN @CNN DENIS LEARY, PRODUCER, writer and actor, is best known for Rescue Me, his darkly comic tribute to New York firefighters that aired on FX from 2004 to 2011. He’s also founder of The Leary Firefighters Foundation, which provides funding to fire departments around the country. So he was the perfect choice to provide the segment introductions for CNN Films Presents 9/11 Fifteen Years Later, an update of the prize-winning documentary detailing the tragic day the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by terrorists. (More than 39 million people watched the first airing on CBS in March 2002.) Here, Leary shares his thoughts about how TV helps heal the nation in times of crisis. I was…

THE EXORCIST Sept. 23, 9/8c, Fox New family (led by Geena Davis), new priests (Ben Daniels and Alfonso Herrera, left), but the same old devil wreaking havoc in Fox’s take on the legendary 1973 Linda Blair film. Judging from the solid (and super scary) pilot, this is one thrill ride we’re ready to jump on. MACGYVER Sept. 23, 8/7c, CBS He’s been Taylor Swift’s beau (“You Belong With Me” video) and an X-Man. Now Lucas Till stars in this actioner about Angus MacGyver’s early years. The series also stars George Eads (CSI) and is exec produced by Peter Lenkov, who knows a thing or two about rebooting a franchise (Hawaii Five-0). WESTWORLD October 2, 9/8c, HBO Michael Crichton’s 1973 cult film about a Wild West amusement park populated by rogue…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to The Price Is Right for its priceless gender equality. The game show’s lone male model, James O’Halloran, has won us over by gamely (and regularly) baring his übershredded Aussie bod to push those hot tubs, spa trips and other prizes usually reserved for his female counterparts to showcase. Cheers to Stephen Colbert for his stroke of genius. Matt Lauer got the first interview with Olympic liar Ryan Lochte, but it was Colbert’s Late Show spoof of the partying swimmer’s “apology” that really intoxicated us. Cheers to the NCIS: New Orleans Cast for being sweeter than beignets. Scott Bakula (left) and the rest of the crew earn all the beads in the world for taking time off from filming in Louisiana to collect and distribute…

DRAMA Can anything unseat HBO’s Game of Thrones, last year’s winner and once again TV’s most-nominated series (with 23)? Given the epic scale of the “Battle of the Bastards” and the explosive finale that followed, it must be considered the front-runner. Yet there’s growing buzz around FX’s critical darling The Americans, which finally hit the big time after four seasons of scintillating spy intrigue, with nominations for drama series and its stars, Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell. Rhys’s top competition is another firsttime nominee, Mr. Robot’s mesmerizing Rami Malek, while the formidable Russell faces past winners Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder) and Claire Danes (Homeland). As for Thrones, could Kit Harington, as the resurrected Jon Snow, trump costar Peter Dinklage, a two-time supporting winner? Miracles obviously happen.…

My favorite show Broad City. It’s super funny and compact. The show I miss most Louie. Where’d ya go, man? The show I’d like to be a guest on Real Time With Bill Maher, but maybe just in private. My guilty pleasure The Bachelor. It’s interactive. My dream costar I’ve already worked with Jean-Claude Van Damme [in Welcome to the Jungle] so, like, nobody. The funniest person on TV is I’ll go with Danny McBride. First thing I watch when I wake up Jameson on the rocks. Oh, what I watch! Um, just clips on my phone. Last thing I watch before I go to bed Twenty minutes of some recorded movie from my youth. (Last night was Predator. It doesn’t totally hold up.)…

@TVGMMattRoush FX Comedies Keep It Real ATLANTA SERIES PREMIERE Tuesday, Sept. 6, 10/9c, FX @AtlantaFX BETTER THINGS SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Sept. 8, 10/9c, FX @BetterthingsFX I HAD TO laugh this summer when Billy Eichner, of Hulu’s wacky Difficult People, griped, “When did comedies become halfhour dramas?” He has a point, up to a point. Many comedies, especially on cable and streaming, have gone darker, eschewing jokiness to tackle more sobering truths. Two terrific new FX dramedies (for lack of a better word) walk this fine line with unusual finesse, peppering their personal visions with skewed humor that only occasionally qualifies as laugh-out-loud. Donald Glover’s Atlanta is steeped in an urban hard-knocks authenticity, starring actor-musician-creator Glover as sheepishly down-on-his-luck Earn, who can barely afford a fast-food kids’ lunch, let alone support…

Sprint Cup in Chicago Sunday, Sept. 18, 2:30/1:30c, NBCSN @NASCAR NASCAR AS THE CHECKERED flag is waved at the September 10 Sprint Cup race in Richmond, the field for NASCAR’s 10-race postseason championship chase will be set. So what can we expect? “In one word: chaos,” says NBC Sports analyst Jeff Burton, recalling all the bent metal of chase races in recent years. And the formula for getting through all the mayhem and ultimately scoring the title has less to do with winning races than being smart and patient. “A win-or-nothing attitude doesn’t work in this format—until you get to [the final race],” Burton says. “You have to drive with your head, have a fast car and only be aggressive at the appropriate times.” Burton tabs Kyle Busch with having…