Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/22/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMattRoush Bates Motel casting Rihanna as Marion Crane indicates that the Psycho component will be a prominent theme of the final year. I’m curious how you feel about the fifth season playing out almost as a remake of the film. —Matthew MATT ROUSH: I’m hoping Bates can pay homage to the Hitchcock classic without trying to copy it. (Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-by-shot remake should serve as a warning.) My initial dream ending was with Marion checking in, fading out as the movie intersects with the series, but considering how strong last season was—including Freddie Highmore’s amazing work as Norman—I’ll trust the producers to do right by the original. I know Sarah Paulson is the clear favorite (deservedly so) to win the Emmy for lead actress in a limited series/TV-movie…

@TheView IN AUGUST 1997, Barbara Walters premiered a groundbreaking daytime talk show in which a diverse group of women initiate no-holds-barred conversations on topics ranging from the best presidential candidate for women to the latest celebrity sex tape. As the show enters its 20th season and celebrates with a primetime special, Joy Behar, a cohost on all but two seasons, shares what she’s learned during her time on the Emmy-winning chatfest. There is nothing like a dame. Or five. When we came on the air in ’97, people were not used to hearing women on a daytime show talk about politics. Everyone expected light fare like fashion and decorating, and then came this show that actually tackled real topics. That is why it caught on. The View was something very…

Underground Season 1, available now, Hulu WGN America’s bold tale of runaway slaves in antebellum Georgia, starring Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Aldis Hodge (above), sets a new high for historical drama. It has the detail of a PBS costumer (it’s based on actual slave narratives), with none of the languor— always choosing to show off the heart-pounding expediency of its great escape rather than the accuracy of its pantaloons. Narcos SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Friday, Sept. 2, Netflix And then he came to the end. After chronicling 10 years of Pablo Escobar’s incomparable reign over South America’s criminal underworld in Season 1, Narcos goes smaller in Season 2, focusing on the quick, 16-month demise of his empire that led to his death during a rooftop shoot-out in 1993. While the big…

Forsaken (2016) Saturday, Sept. 3, 9/8c, Showtime Young gun Kiefer Sutherland (back this fall playing POTUS on ABC’s Designated Survivor) finally shares a scene with his dear old dad, Donald Sutherland (above right), in this Western directed by former 24 helmer Jon Cassar. Kiefer plays a retired gunfighter who just might have to strap on his six-shooter one last time to save his hometown. Truth (2015) Saturday, Aug. 27, 9/8c, Starz The Sundance Kid. Jay Gatsby. Jeremiah Johnson. Barbra Streisand’s beau. And now, Dan Rather. Robert Redford (above, with Cate Blanchett as producer Mary Mapes) dons his tux to play the CBS news anchor entangled in the 2004 controversy over reporting on George W. Bush’s stint in the Texas Air National Guard. The story, based on unauthenticated documents, led to…

ACROSS 1 State bird of Hawaii 5 ____ King Cole 8 Perry Mason and Arnie Becker (abbr.) 12 Arkin of Big Wave Dave’s 13 Grand ____ Opry 14 Madeline of Cosby 15 Ceremony 16 Yancy Derringer’s dog (2 wds.) 18 A ____ the Life (2 wds.) 20 Crosby of Ray Donovan 21 Fat 22 ____, Dear 23 Cliff Clavin’s job 26 Actor Mineo 29 Bonnie Franklin sitcom (5 wds.) 33 Sullivan and Asner 34 ____ Court 35 American ____! 38 Deputy Strate on The Dukes of Hazzard 39 Recent past (2 wds.) 42 Carol of Beverly Hills, 90210 45 Star of Missing Persons 47 Type of driver 48 Concert film ____ Show 49 Martin of Mr. Sunshine 50 Red Sesame Street puppet 51 The Bold ____ 52 Bar on As the World Turns…

JULIE CHEN Big Brother Sundays and Wednesdays, 8/7c; Thursdays, 9/8c, CBS The Talk Weekdays, CBS The funniest person on TV is Other than my Talk cohosts, of course, Amy Schumer [above] because she pushes the envelope. What I hate-watch I don’t hate-watch anything, because who has the time?! There’s not even enough time to watch all that I love to watch. The show I miss most Melrose Place. Do I really need to explain why? They took storylines to new boundaries and just had fun at the end. I wanted to throw my television out the window when it was canceled. The show I’d like to guest star on Ray Donovan. I’d like to play myself interviewing Hector Campos or his sister Marisol about their shocking incestuous relationship. Zoiks! My…

@TVGMMattRoush Sunday Night Frights THE STRAIN SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, August 28, 10/9c, FX @TheStrainFX FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Sundays, 9/8c, AMC @FearTWD IT’S RAINING DEAD again on Sundays, with Fear the Walking Dead returning to finish its second season of lumbering zombie upheaval and The Strain kicking off a third year of urban vampire apocalypse. The end of the world is beginning to feel like slow death on Fear, an uninspired prequel companion to the megahit The Walking Dead. Existential ramblings about faith, false hope and mortality often bring the action to a crawl during many a dark night of the soul searching, now that the main cast has unwisely branched off into three disparate storylines. Are we terrible people for craving some dramatic momentum, even at the risk of…

Weekdays, ABC @GeneralHospital IT’S GOOD TO be king. Mob king, that is. Emmy Award winner Maurice Benard has spent 23 years on ABC’s General Hospital playing underworld heartthrob— and sperminator extraordinaire—Michael “Sonny“ Corinthos Jr. The fan adoration has never stopped. Neither have the complaints. For a guy who is GH’s No. 1 star, you sure get a lot of gripes! I’ve heard all the audience criticism: “Sonny never pays for his crimes! They’re trying to make him a saint! Sonny has too many kids!” Hey, you can’t please everybody and maybe some of that is true. There are times when I pick up a script and just know I’m gonna get crucified. [In superhero voice] “Here comes Sonny to save the day!” Your character is unstoppable—and unkillable. Has it been…

Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking SEASON PREMIERE Saturday, Sept. 3, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) @FineCookingTV POP-UP DINING—in the woods, on a farm, at the beach—is all the rage these days, and nobody stages an alfresco chow-down quite like Curtis Stone. The Australian superchef guests on the Season 4 premiere of the food and travel series Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking, in which he showcases Los Angeles, the place he now calls home. Just don’t tell his mother. Moveable feasts can be a thrilling thing for diners, but what’s in it for the cook? Isn’t it a pain to be away from your kitchen? True, you give up ease and convenience when you do a pop-up meal, but that means you amp up the imagination, the passion and the…

LOVE IT! Cheers to Leslie Jones for being Team USA’s No. 1 fan. The SNL standout’s Olympics commentary on Twitter—and clear love of country—earned her an invite from NBC to come down and play along in Rio. Not too shabby for someone who almost quit social media over those boneheaded Ghostbusters bullies. Cheers to Gold Zone for giving Olympics addicts a spot to catch ’em all. The NBC streaming site sorted through all live events to show the most climactic moments of competition (like Alexander Massialas’s come-from-behind quarterfinal win in fencing). Cheers to NBC for using the Olympics to sell Superstore. Thanks to a flurry of ads during the games and an Olympicsthemed special episode, America Ferrera’s adorable comedy set in a bigbox shopping mecca will hopefully win some more…

Halt and Catch Fire SEASON PREMIERE Tuesday, August 23, 9/8c, AMC Halt and Catch Fire, AMC’s series about the rise of the tech industry in the 1980s, is rebooting once again. After the second season shifted focus to the show’s female characters, creators and executive producers Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers have moved the action from Texas to Silicon Valley. “The pull of the valley is strong,” says Rogers, who also notes the season begins in 1986. “For each of our characters, it represents something—California is this heaven, this place where everything will be better, will be different.” Donna and Gordon Clark (Kerry Bishé and Scoot McNairy) certainly hope so. The husband-and-wife team have moved across the country to try to save their rocky marriage. At the same time,…

TCM Underground, Saturdays, 2am/1c, Silent Sunday Nights, Sundays, midnight/11c, TCM Imports, Sundays, 2am/1c, TCM @tcm TCM WEEKLY SHOWCASES LATE NIGHTS AREN’T only for the young. TCM has long dedicated the wee hours of the weekend to the best cult, silent and foreign films of yesteryear during its TCM Underground, Silent Sunday Nights and TCM Imports programming blocks. But while the flicks may be old, they’re definitely still fresh. The September 3 installment of Underground features the 1974 sci-fidrama Zardoz, starring Sean Connery as a mustachioed postapocalyptic warrior (he became the prototype for the DC Comics character Vartox). September 4’s Silent Sunday highlights 1928’s behind-the-scenes comedy Show People, with the undervalued Marion Davies (immortalized for being William Randolph Hearst’s mistress and inspiring Citizen Kane). Later that evening, TCM Imports airs the…

Clemson at Auburn Saturday, September 3, 9/8c, ESPN @NCAAFootball THANKS TO THE College Football Playoff, mighty matchups now bookend the season. Mack Brown, ESPN analyst and former University of Texas coach, says more teams are scheduling tough season openers “to impress the [selection] committee when you get down to the end.” He says coaches don’t mind a vigorous test right out of the gate “because they get the attention of their fanbase and the media and their players all summer.” Preseason No. 1 Alabama tackles Southern California in Arlington, Texas, on September 3, while No. 2 Clemson, which lost to the Crimson Tide in last season’s title game, takes on Bama’s archrival, Auburn, that same night. Brown says Clemson, quarterbacked by Heisman Trophy contender Deshaun Watson (right), is coming “off…