Innholdsfortegnelse for 9/26/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush I must be the only one watching ABC’s Mistresses, because I was shocked that they killed off Karen (Yunjin Kim, above)—we’re supposed to assume she fell over the railing when her heel broke—and didn’t hear anything about it afterward. Was this it for the series? It time-jumped at the end with everyone married off and with new babies. What’s the scoop? —Pat MATT ROUSH: That’s all she wrote. ABC canceled the series after the finale aired, one of several recent casualties from what turned out to be a tough summer season. (FX announced Tyrant’s series finale the day it aired and also axed Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, while Lifetime fired Devious Maids earlier this month.) Still waiting to hear about the fate of a few others. I’m a fan of Blue Bloods.…

21 million Viewers who watched Dennis Murphy’s “Cliff Hanger” report on January 5, 1998, about a woman who pushed her boyfriend off a cliff, making it the highest-rated Dateline episode ever. 101 Number of pocket squares correspondent Josh Mankiewicz has worn in 21 years on air. 342 Members of the staff when Dateline aired five nights a week (1999– 2000) 185,000 Total amount of minutes Dateline has aired, the most of any NBC primetime show. 44 Emmy Awards Dateline has won. 23 million Number of times correspondent Andrea Canning’s duct tape escape experiment has been viewed online. 3 Number of times Bill Hader impersonated correspondent Keith Morrison on SNL. 6 Times Michael J. Fox has been featured on the show, more than any other celebrity. Angelina Jolie is second, with 5. 68…

Survivor Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8/7c, CBS Considering the theme for the latest season of Survivor is Millennials vs. Gen X, it would be understandable if host Jeff Probst, 54, found himself a tad biased. “I’m a Gen Xer myself, so initially when I saw the Millennials, I was like, ‘Look at these cute little upstarts; they have no idea,’ ” he says. But that mentality proved to be short-lived. “As the show got going, I realized that it was the Millennials I had the most to learn from. With the Gen Xers, I found myself thinking, ‘Do I sound like you guys? Because you guys sound old!’ ” Welcome to Fiji, where the 33rd round of CBS’s reality competition is underway, and the two factions attempting to outwit, outplay and…

AM JOY Weekends, 10am/9c, MSNBC @amjoyshow SHE’S A BRIGHT light in a dark and dismal election year. Last May, MSNBC launched the weekend political gab show AM Joy—anchored by live wire journalist Joy-Ann Reid—and ratings in the timeslot shot up 78 percent. She’s also the network’s go-to gal when its primetime stars Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow need a break. But there’s no break for Reid. When she goes home, she’s mom to three kids. This is your moment to shine, and you’ve seized it. Did you ever think this would happen after MSNBC canceled The Reid Report? Never. I did not expect to get another shot at my own show. I’d gone back to my national-correspondent gig and I was getting out there, digging it and doing it. TV…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Archer and Drag Race for rocking the Emmys. After seven seasons, FX’s naughty spy cartoon nabbed an Outstanding Animated Program statue, while Logo’s eleganza extravaganza sashayed away with the Reality Show Host gold for first-time nominee RuPaul. Cheers to Samantha Bee for her Full Frontal assault on Matt Lauer. Back on the air with the biggest cojones in late night, Bee’s September 12 tirade about how the “human Splenda” mishandled NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum may be the only thing Trump and Clinton supporters can agree on. Cheers to Nicole Byer for being Loosely Exactly adorable. As a struggling actress with a flamboyant roomie and sunny yet slightly demented worldview, the Girl Code star’s new MTV sitcom is loaded with quotably crass comedy and enough of Byer’s…

As heated as the 2016 presidential campaign has been—with chatter about deleted emails, the candidates’ health and the building of walls—the intensity will become even more explosive in three upcoming scheduled debates between the first female nominee of a major party, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and Republican businessman Donald Trump. The first debate, moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, will be held September 26. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz moderate the October 9 event; Fox News’ Chris Wallace leads the October 19 meeting; and vice presidential hopefuls Tim Kaine and Mike Pence face off October 4 with CBS’s Elaine Quijano. “There’s no template for this, and I think it is what makes the debate exciting and unpredictable,” says Candy Crowley, a Harvard Institute of Politics fellow who moderated a presidential…

Late Night With Seth Meyers Weeknights, 12:35am/11:35c, NBC @LateNightSeth BROOKLYN NINE-NINE I love this show, and Andy Samberg is one of my closest friends, yet he hates my dog. He genuinely thinks she looks like a rat when everyone else agrees she looks like an angel. Thankfully, the supporting cast of this show (the best ensemble on TV) is strong enough to carry this monster of a human being. THE BLUEPRINT Following in the tradition of The Blacklist and Blindspot, this show follows a man who wakes up in Central Park with a blueprint tattooed on his face. It’s a race against the clock to find out why. (Spoiler alert: He passed out and his friends did it as a prank.) THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL I know I’m in the minority,…

GREY’S ANATOMY 8/7c, ABC @GreysABC IS THERE LIFE beyond McDreamy? Oh, hell yeah! Last season, Grey’s Anatomy followed Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) as she grieved for her husband, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey). The ratings spiked, and Grey’s ended the 2015–16 season as the third highest-rated network drama in the advertisercoveted 18–49 demo (behind Empire and The X-Files), a stunning achievement for a 12-yearold program that—by all the rules of showbiz— should require life support by now. That said, the show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, isn’t reveling in all this viewer love. On the eve of the show’s 13th season, she’s only thinking about one fan, and that fan’s name is Shonda Rhimes. “Here’s how I operate: If I don’t completely reinvent Grey’s Anatomy every season, then I’m not going to…

Penny Dreadful Season 3, available now, Netflix Showtime’s Gothic horror series went out with a bang—or should we say a bite?—in its final season as it introduced Christian Camargo’s seductive Dracula, Shazad Latif’s Dr. Jekyll and Samuel Barnett’s creepy Renfield. But the real treats (and tricks) came from Broadway star and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone’s casting as Dr. Seward, the alienist who begins treating Vanessa (Eva Green, above, with Josh Hartnett). Crisis in Six Scenes SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Sept. 30, Amazon Woody Allen returns to TV with this six-episode ’60sset comedy about a free spirit (Miley Cyrus, right) whose surprise visit to a middle-class family turns their house upside down (like a wrecking ball!). But don’t get too attached—the actor-writer-director has already confirmed there will be no Season 2.…

THE HIT LIST Transparent United States of Tara Six Feet Under Nikki JILL SOLOWAY BELIEVES that TV—specifically the niche, creator-driven series streaming on platforms like Amazon—has the power to change the world. Her show Transparent, loosely based on her own parent’s gender transition, certainly has changed the conversation about transgender issues. Her second potential series for Amazon, I Love Dick, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn, is waiting for an official pickup. Soloway chats about being a feminist showrunner and how she now feels about casting cisgender actors (those whose gender identity corresponds to the sex they were assigned at birth) in transgender roles. Your feminism influences the kinds of stories you tell, but how does it affect your role as a producer? I try to bring a feminist, collectivist,…

@TVGMMattRoush Marvel’s Luke Cage Tales of the Incredible Hunk SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Sept. 30, NETFLIX @LukeCage ON A MISSION to clean up the crime-infested streets of Harlem, Luke Cage is asked by an admiring citizen (OK, she’s a stripper), “Don’t you need a gun?” His answer: “I am the gun.” He’s more of a tank, actually, a literal human shield able to level a posse of thugs with a swipe of his tree-trunk arm. First seen having bed-breaking sex in Hell’s Kitchen with another unorthodox superhero in Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Luke moves uptown to take the spotlight in his own series, though it’s hard to imagine a more reluctant hunk of bulletproof beefcake. With brooding magnetism and quiet intensity, Mike Colter as Luke is a physical marvel and an appealing…

CHICAGO FIRE Returns Oct. 11, 10/9c, NBC @NBCChicagoFire AS IF FIREFIGHTING weren’t nerveracking enough, add a crazed exhusband, an escalating feud and several life-changing decisions to the mix and you’ve got the intense challenges facing the brave folks of Firehouse 51 in Chicago Fire’s fifth season. Here’s what to expect. BURNING LOVE Trouble lay in wait for new couple Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) and fellow firefighter Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) as they settled into bed together in the tense closing moments of Season 4. Kidd’s ex-husband, Grant (Guy Burnet), was lurking in the apartment with a large knife. “Grant’s become jealous and unhinged, but he had been a special part of her life,” Mayo says. “So Kidd insists that she take the lead in handling him.” What happens…

BLUE BLOODS Fridays, 10/9c, CBS @BlueBloods_CBS PASS THE POTATOES! For six years, millions of viewers have spent Friday nights having Sunday dinner with the Reagan family of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It’s a ritual that never seems to go stale on Blue Bloods, which follows a family of New York City law enforcers—three generations of cops and one assistant district attorney—and is still a steady Top 10 performer going into Season 7. Those dinner scenes are the only time that the entire cast can catch up—and routinely tease each other. On a late-summer afternoon on the Brooklyn set, while filming for this fall’s fifth episode, 20-yearold Sami Gayle (feisty teen Nicky Reagan-Boyle) is the victim, as her castmates playfully grill her about a new boyfriend. The show’s star, Tom Selleck, wearing…

Friday, Sept. 30, 8:30am/7:30c, Golf Channel Saturday, Oct. 1, 9am/8c, NBC Sunday, Oct. 2, noon/11am c, NBC @rydercup TEAM USA HOPES to recover lost ground in the Ryder Cup. Though the Americans have a 25–13–2 edge in the biennial international golf series, Team Europe has claimed six of the last seven going back to 2002. With match play (golfers compete for every hole as singles or on two-man teams) replacing the stroke play of regular tournaments, “There are very few meaningless shots hit at the Ryder Cup,” says NBC and Golf Channel host Mike Tirico. “Match play is so much a test of your mental strength. Don’t let somebody win two holes in a row, because then they build momentum and confidence. That’s why the Ryder Cup is such great…

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