Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/10/2016 i TV Guide Magazine

Haters Back Off! SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Oct. 14, Netflix YouTube star Colleen Ballinger-Evans (above) gives her poorly crooning, overly lipsticked alter ego, Miranda Sings, a backstory in this eight-episode comedy. Life in Tacoma, Washington, with a single mom and oddball uncle wasn’t easy. And lest you start judging Ballinger for Miranda’s bad pipes, in real life the actress is a classically trained singer. Mascots MOVIE PREMIERE Thursday, Oct. 13, Netflix Best in Show actor-director Christopher Guest and his usual troupe of players (including Don Lake, Ed Begley Jr. and Jane Lynch, above) spoof the supercompetitive world of sports mascots, where the ultimate goal is winning the prestigious Golden Fluffy award. You’ve never seen so much stabbing of furry backs. Vixen SEASON PREMIERE Season 2, Thursday, October 13, CW Seed The…

@TVGMMattRoush @TVGuideMagazine TV Guide Magazine @tvguidemagazine I enjoy all three of NBC’s Chicago shows (including Chicago Med with Colin Donnell, above), but it seems the ratings are just so-so. How committed is NBC to this franchise? If one show falters, would NBC ever cancel it and keep the others? Does NBC view them as one entity or individual shows? —LD MATT ROUSH: Generally, these are all still solid performers, but it’s possible franchise exhaustion will someday set in (happens to all of them, including Law & Order and CSI). But NBC isn’t there yet. With Chicago Justice coming at midseason, NBC is at a Chicago peak. It’s hard to imagine any of them making an early exit, although if Justice is a nonstarter, it could be gone before you know…

(Head) Stone Cold Use Jet-Puffed flat, rectangular marshmallows for tombstones; inscribe with edible black sparkle gel and let dry. Frost a batch of devil’s food cupcakes, sprinkle with shredded coconut and place marshmallows. Great Grog Place ½ teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon lemon juice in a glass. Add a pinch of dried lavender and muddle with the back of a spoon. Add ½ ounce cherry juice, 4 ounces Sandra Lee Cocktail Time Key Lime Margarita and ice. Garnish with a lemon twist. Makes 1 drink. Shortcut Shriek: “Graveyard Smash” Ghouls and goblins come to life with a store-bought sheet cake turned into a chocolate graveyard by adding jagged iced cookies for ghosts and tombstones and crushed brownies for dirt. The frosted rolled wafer biscuits make a perfect fence. For more,…

Bull Tuesdays, 9/8c, CBS @BullCBS Michael Weatherly is messing around—again. The crew of his new legal drama, Bull, is busy putting the finishing touches on a fake courtroom on the show’s Queens, New York, set. So it probably doesn’t help that their star and producer is dragging (sometimes almost literally) a reporter over the wires and under the cameras on a frantic, ad hoc tour of the soundstage. Spending the day with Weatherly practically requires its own unique skill set. One must be energetic. One must be flexible. And if you giggled at the unintended sexual connotations of those last two sentences, then you already have the right sense of humor to hang with him. His quick wit can be dry, highbrow, lowbrow, slapstick, snarky, bawdy and self-referential. This is,…

Term Life (2016) Friday, Oct. 14, 8:25/7:25c, Cinemax Vince Vaughn (and his costar toupee, above) plays a thief with contract killers on his tail. He tries to survive long enough to reconnect with his estranged daughter and for a life insurance policy to kick in. Double Indemnity was also a movie centering around insurance, and that didn’t turn out too bad. Fail Safe (1964) Wednesday, Oct. 19, 8/7c, TCM While we debate who is best to handle a fateful 3am presidential phone call, it’s clear that one should not follow the example of Henry Fonda’s president in this 1964 Cold War thriller. Gods of Egypt (2016) Saturday, Oct. 22, 8/7c, HBO You might want to brush up on your mythology before you check out this actionfantasy flick. There are a…

Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, ABC @JimmyKimmelLive A WRY SENSE of humor and a healthy dab of joie de vivre transported Guillermo Rodriguez from guarding cars in an ABC lot to sidekick status on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The now 45-yearold quickly bonded with Kimmel’s late Uncle Frank and Kimmel himself, who serves as godfather to Rodriguez’s son. “We hang around together,” Guillermo says of his buddy and boss. “I go to his house to watch football and everything. He’s a great guy.” We sat down for a heart-to-heart with the Mexico-born charmer whose signature “Back to Back” interviews are an A-lister must. Did you experience more dramatic things when you were doing security or now that you are a TV personality? You know what? Both, because when I was a security guard, a…

ACROSS 1 Leather and ___ 5 _____: Crime Scene Investigation 8 A Prayer for ____ Meany 12 Williams on True Blue 13 Jean- _____ Picard 14 To _____ & to Hold 15 Freeway entrance 16 A diamond size (2 wds.) 18 Cop hangout on Turks 20 Cheers was one 21 Tornquist on Hec Ramsey 22 Cleaned a VCR tape 26 Lisa of Ray Donovan 28 Linda Evans on Dynasty 29 Say further 30 Cookie Newton 31 Hartman of Dan August 32 Leslie of Police Squad! 35 Hiro’s home on Heroes 37 McRaney of Jericho 38 Air _____ 39 Lorenzo Lamas on Air America 40 Waiting to go home (2 wds.) 43 Place for takeoff and landing 47 Henry’s British housekeeper on You Again? 48 Jesse’s bride on The 5 Mrs. Buchanans 49 Actress…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Milo Ventimiglia for growing up so nicely. No longer a Gilmore boy, the actor has quietly and capably proven to be more than a pretty face (and butt) with adult turns as a Gotham villain, Chosen’s action hero and, now, the sweet dad on This Is Us. Cheers to Dancing With the Stars for staging a quickstep edition. In a compressed pre-debate episode, the show sped things up by having the judges (Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli) score routines with paddles only, not patter. Smoothest move ever. Cheers to The Last Man on Earth for its Mad-cool cameo. Jon Hamm’s (right) top-secret spot in the Season 3 opener as a hazmat-suited stranger led to the demented Mad Men reunion we…

THE HIT LIST The Big Bang Theory The Class All That NOT EVERY SHOW makes it to 200-plus episodes—but not every show has found success like CBS’s The Big Bang Theory. The sitcom saw its Season 10 premiere land in the Top 5 with nearly 16 million viewers—and the future, to paraphrase brainiac Sheldon (Jim Parsons), appears to have infinite possibilities. That’s good news for executive producer Steven Molaro, who has been helping steer the show since 2007. Molaro fills us in on the challenge to find untold stories and which bigname guest stars were the most exciting to meet. You’ve been with the show since the beginning. How has your job as a writer changed? I run the writers’ room now, so instead of just being one of the…

NCIS Tuesday, Oct.11, 8/7c, CBS Viewers have seen how NCIS’s Timothy McGee (Sean Murray, above) fusses over computer accessories. “Dust,” he told boss Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in this year’s season premiere, “is a keyboard’s worst enemy.” So now imagine how the obsessivecompulsive, newly promoted senior agent is going to handle holding on to an engagement ring once he finally decides to pop the big question to live-in girlfriend Delilah (Margo Harshman) tonight. “He’s got this very carefully thought-out proposal and wants everything to be just perfect,” Murray says, “but nothing goes perfect. The McGee who always needs control of things must face the fact that there is his ultra-planned life and then there is what happens in his real life.” And when work calls, he ends up having to…

Washington Capitals at Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday, Oct. 13, 8/7c, NBCSN @NHL THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS kept the band together after winning the Stanley Cup in June. That, and some good luck, could help them defend their title, something the NHL hasn’t seen since the Detroit Red Wings pulled it off in 1997 and ’98. “As hard as it is to win back-to-back, Pittsburgh has put themselves in a good spot,” NBCSN analyst Eddie Olczyk says. As the new season begins October 12, the Pens are the favorites thanks to a roster that includes Sidney Crosby (last season’s playoffs MVP, right), Phil Kessel and Kris Letang. The squad also benefits from almost a full year with coach Mike Sullivan, who replaced Mike Johnston last December. The Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars and San…