Innholdsfortegnelse for March 16, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

MINDS BLOWN I am sad that Criminal Minds has ended, but what a classy ending to reward us loyal fans! —Christine Kudos to CBS for the Criminal Minds series finale! What a phenomenal end. Everything was wrapped up nicely. Thank you! —Terri MISSED OPPORTUNITY? It was a delight to open my mailbox and see The Conners on the cover [February 17 issue]. I wish ABC hadn’t been so quick to abandon Roseanne Barr. They could have spent the past two seasons dealing with Roseanne’s struggle with her ingrained racism. It would have made for some powerful television. At least The Conners is keeping the spotlight on the struggle to stay financially solvent. —Kathy FOND FAREWELL Your Robert Conrad tribute in the March 2 issue [page 5] brought tears to my…

WHO SAYS PHYSICIANS don’t make house calls anymore? TV’s morning show medical correspondents visit your living room every week. We talked to three of these dedicated journalist doctors (all of whom still see patients) about hot health headlines, wellness tips and why they love wearing the white coat. Dr. Jennifer Ashton Good Morning America, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Ob-gyn with advanced degrees in nutrition and author, most recently, of The Self Care Solution. Got a take on a hot topic in medicine? With coronavirus, make decisions based on facts, not fear. If you’re not sure about something, like a vacation to a certain area, compare the risks and benefits of doing it. What is an ongoing concern in your specialty area? Our country’s maternal mortality rate has soared over…

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse SERIES PREMIERE Friday, March 13, Prime Video THERE’S MORE ROD Serling than Agatha Christie in the latest loose Christie adaptation by Sarah Phelps (And Then There Were None), who delights in burrowing into the macabre psychological corners of classic whodunits. Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle) stars as a Londoner in the Swinging ’60s who finds his name on a list marking him for murder—by witchcraft? Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears Monday, March 23, Acorn TV THE ONLY TEARS here are of laughter, because no matter how high the body count, pistol-packing fashion-plate lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) is a Jazz Age delight. The glamorously irrepressible Australian snoop—and aviatrix, and master fencer, to name a few tricks up her stylish…

MOVIES 6:16am/5:16c Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Retroplex 11:15am/10:15c True Grit (1969) HDNet Movies Noon/11am c Spider-Man (2002) FXX 12:04/11:04am c Dracula (1979) Retroplex 1:35/12:35c The Mustang (2019) MoreMax 3:45/2:45c Mission: Impossible III (2006) IFC 4/3c and 8:30/7:30c Airplane! (1980) Pop TV 6:15/5:15c Wildlife (2018) The Movie Channel Xtra 6:18/5:18c Amélie (2001) OuterMax 6:30/5:30c and 10/9c Coming to America (1988) Paramount Network 7:30/6:30c A League of Their Own (1992) CMT 7:30/6:30c Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Syfy 9/8c Beyond the Lights (2014) BET 10:15/9:15c Long Shot (2019) HBO2 11:30/10:30c Winchester ’73 (1950) TCM 11:32/10:32c Friends With Benefits (2011) Starz Comedy 1:43am/12:43c Blood Simple (1985) ThrillerMax TRY OUR SAMPLER PLATTER! Top Chef SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, Bravo Long-simmering regrets and reheated rivalries fuel the competition’s 17th season, a Los Angeles–based all-stars edition. Of the 15 former cheftestants back to face judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons, which ones will linger on your palate? We picked four. —Damian…

MOVIES 10:35am/9:35c Alien (1979) HBO Signature 11:45am/10:45c I Married a Witch (1942) TCM 1:30/12:30c The Wolverine (2013) TBS 2/1c Blinded by the Light (2019) HBO 9:05/8:05c Spy (2015) FXM 9:55/8:55c Matilda (1996) Freeform Midnight/11c Sully (2016) TNT Spy Wars With Damian Lewis SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel After playing U.S. Marine turned traitorous sleeper agent Nicholas Brody on Homeland, Damian Lewis has the cred to host this eight-part series about real-life spies. He guides us through 50 years of espionage, from the Cold War to the Iran hostage crisis. God Friended Me 8/7c, CBS The social media account claiming to be the Almighty steers podcaster Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) to a hospital administrator in need of help. Complication: This new friend is running a drug trial that could benefit Miles’ cancer-stricken sister, Ali (Javicia Leslie). The Walking Dead 9/8c,…

LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE SERIES PREMIERE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 THREE THINGS TO KNOW Celeste Ng’s bestselling 2017 novel becomes a slow-burn thrill in this eight-episode adaptation starring Reese Witherspoon (left) as Elena, a type-A suburbanite whose family life is upended by nomadic black artist Mia (Kerry Washington). For those who skipped book club… 1 The setting is significant. Fires—which exec producer Liz Tigelaar describes as “a story about race, white fragility and class”—takes place in 1997, “when people still had this idea that being ‘color blind’ was a good thing,” says Tigelaar. 2 But nothing is black or white. While race plays a role in the tensions between Mia and Elena, Tigelaar says there’s way more going on: “Their relationship is layered.” 3 Mia’s art is real. Washington’s character paints and takes…

MOVIES 11am/10c E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Freeform 12:50/11:50am c Instant Family (2018) Epix 4:09/3:09c Scarface (1983) Starz Encore 8/7c and 12:30am/11:30c 300 (2007) BBC America 8/7c Some Like It Hot (1959) TCM 10/9c Jack Reacher (2012) TNT 10/9c The Martian (2015) FX 10:45/9:45c Badlands (1973) HDNet Movies Midnight/11c Winter’s Bone (2010) HBO Zone SEAL Team 9/8c, CBS The elite fighters of Bravo prep for a three-month deployment to Afghanistan, but there’s conflict even before wheels up. Team leader Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) gets pressure from CO Captain Lindell (Jamie McShane); volatile Sonny (AJ Buckley) is in more trouble; and Clay (Max Thieriot) considers job-hopping. WHO’S HUNGRY? Eating History SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, History Two brave souls (Old Smokey and Josh Macuga) taste-test “vintage food.” Tonight’s treats are a 1979 bag of Fritos corn chips and hardtack from 1913. CMT Crossroads…

SPRING FEVER PREVIEW! Just My Type MOVIE PREMIERE 9/8c, Hallmark Channel In the first of Hallmark’s four new original “Spring Fever” movies, all our favorite themes are in bloom. Big-city pop culture writer Vanessa (Bethany Joy Lenz) travels to a rural setting, in this case found in Washington state, to nurse a broken heart. There, she meets Martin (Brett Dalton, right, with Lenz), a reclusive mystery author with a scene-stealing golden retriever. If she can convince him to do an interview, that promotion she’s been after will be hers! While you ponder how that plays out, here’s what comes next. YOU’RE BACON ME CRAZY  April 4, 9/8c Hallmark can’t take credit for that title. This one is based on a Suzanne Nelson novel. Natalie Hall stars as Cleo, a chef…

@TVGMMattRoush We just finished watching Sanditon on PBS’s Masterpiece, and is it really possible there won’t be a second season for this delightful Jane Austen series? The way it left the two romantic leads, Charlotte (Rose Williams) and Sidney (Theo James), cruelly separated by fate and circumstance can’t be the end of the story! —Janet MATT ROUSH: For now, I’m sorry to say, that’s all he wrote—he being Andrew Davies, who masterfully adapted and expanded Austen’s unfinished novel. The original broadcaster, Britain’s ITV, decided against a second season when ratings didn’t live up to expectations. However, the series’ producers have expressed hope that if Sanditon made a big enough splash in the U.S., there may be a way to keep the show going. Let’s hope so. There’s obviously more story…

Modern 4K technology, which features 4,000 pixels onscreen (four times as many as regular high-def sets!), means TV looks sharper than ever before. Here are five of our favorite 4K achievements—powerful documentaries and bright period dramas that marry great storytelling with epic visuals. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (PRIME VIDEO) The laughs keep coming in this hit comedy about a female stand-up comic (Rachel Brosnahan, above) trying to make it big in the 1960s. From Las Vegas to Miami, the eye-popping color and period pizzazz on display are no joke. CASTLE ROCK (HULU 4K) In its second chilling season, this drama showcasing characters from the works of Stephen King focuses on a young Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan, above), the killer nurse from Misery. Castle Rock’s eerie lighting is pitch-perfect for the…

This Is Us SEASON FINALE Tuesday, March 24, 9/8c, NBC PRIMETIME’S BIGGEST TEARJERKER: It’s a title This Is Us has held since its 2016 premiere, when Jack and Rebecca Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore) lost one of their triplets during birth and still left a Pittsburgh-area hospital with “The Big 3”: son Kevin, his biological sister Kate and their later adopted brother Randall. Now in its fourth season, NBC’s decade-hopping drama about the close-knit and at times dysfunctional family continues to churn out equally memorable twists week after week. Some recent reveals have been heartwarming: Kevin (Justin Hartley) will soon have a pregnant fiancée! Others, like an aging Rebecca learning her mild cognitive impairment will lead to Alzheimer’s, are heart-wrenching. “The way Rebecca is facing the future is so…

All Rise Mondays, 9/8c, CBS THEY CALL HER the Lolacoaster, because you never know to what lengths recently appointed judge Lola Carmichael will go in the name of truth and justice. But her vision isn’t the only reason the CBS drama All Rise has proven to be an inspiring and surprisingly fun ride in Season 1. As multiple new arcs kick off March 16, let’s look at other creative decisions that distinguish the show. The heart of All Rise remains the unconditional platonic friendship between Lola (Simone Missick) and prosecutor Mark Callan (Wilson Bethel). Their all-encompassing tête-à-têtes in the courthouse stairwell (the actors affectionately call it the “tree house”) have become such a tradition that Missick laughingly recalls directors asking if they’ve already sat on this step or that one:…

MOVIES 8:20am/7:20c Adrift (2018) Showtime Extreme 11:05am/10:05c Jaws (1975) ThrillerMax 11:15am/10:15c Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) IFC 1/noon c War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) FXX 1:17/12:17c No Country for Old Men (2007) Starz Encore 4/3c Baby Boom (1987) Pop TV 8/7c Us (2019) HBO Signature 8/7c X-Men (2000) BBC America 9/8c and 11/10c The Wedding Singer (1998) IFC 9/8c and 12:45am/11:45c No Way Out (1987) HDNet Movies 9:15/8:15c John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2019) HBO 9:35/8:35c School of Rock (2003) Flix Midnight/11c McLintock! (1963) Grit 1:28am/12:28c Puzzle (2018) Starz Cinema 2am/1c A Room With a View (1986) MovieMax 4:23am/3:23c West Side Story (1961) Retroplex FBI FBI: Most Wanted 9/8c and 10/9c, CBS RULES FOR THEIR VERY FIRST CROSSOVER Prolific producer Dick Wolf’s Tuesday hits join up for the first time with a gripping two-hour story set in motion by the kidnapping of a busload of kids. Since Wolf’s…

The Blacklist 8/7c, NBC AFTER A THREE-MONTH hiatus, the just-renewed drama sneaks into your Friday to steal two hours of viewing time with this tale of larceny. International criminal turned FBI ally Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) learns he can finally sell his share of a stolen art treasure, reuniting him with one of his fellow thieves, elegant, sexy Cassandra Bianchi (guest star Joely Richardson, above, with Spader). Then someone starts picking off the gang one by one. The voluble and charming British actress reveals more. Joely, what brought you to The Blacklist? Cassandra is a cracking character who’s a bit kickass. And working with James Spader was a really exciting concept. [I’ve admired him] since my twenties, and the episode is very much about her and Reddington. You’ve played…

ZZ TOP: THAT LITTLE OL’ BAND FROM TEXAS DOCUMENTARY  AVAILABLE NOW You know the songs (“Legs”), you know the beards (bushy), but you may not know the story behind the rockers who’ve been making hits for five decades. Lone Star State natives Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard open up about their humble beginnings playing roller rinks, their break opening for the Rolling Stones and their exposure on MTV, which propelled them to superstardom. Director Sam Dunn weaves in concert clips and interviews with celebrity fans such as Billy Bob Thornton, who sums up, “They’re unique. They’re eccentric. When you would see them onstage, it was like seeing Bugs Bunny.” —Eric Andersson THE LETTER FOR THE KING SERIES PREMIERE  FRIDAY, MARCH 20 Meet Tiuri (His Dark Materials’ Amir Wilson),…

Newly Available GoodFellas (1990) “Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” Robert De Niro doles out wise(guy) advice in Martin Scorsese’s classic gangster movie. Hook (1991) The late Robin Williams plays an adult Peter Pan in a reimagining of the Disney fairy tale. The Interview (2014) A killer comedy: Two journalists (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who head to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-un (Randall Park) are recruited by the CIA to assassinate the supreme leader. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Jim Carrey wears many disguises as the creepy Count Olaf, a schemer out to get three orphans’ inheritance in this dark comedy. Outbreak (1995) Think the coronavirus is frightening? That’s nothing compared to the body-ravaging pandemic scientists and the military race…

LET’S PLAY BALL! Major League Baseball Opening Day 1/noon c, ESPN After a winter chilled by the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its rather unsatisfying resolution, Major League Baseball clubs start their regular-season campaigns. ESPN has an opening day triple-header with some of the big leagues’ biggest off-season movers and shakers: WASHINGTON NATIONALS AT NEW YORK METS (1/noon c) Stephen Strasburg (above), Max Scherzer and the World Series champs open on the road against two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom, NL Rookie of the Year Pete Alonso and the Mets. The Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies also have postseason potential, making the NL East race a fun one to watch. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS AT LOS ANGELES DODGERS (4/3c) The hard-hitting Dodgers brought right fielder Mookie Betts to a…

MOVIES 7:50am/6:50c The Constant Gardener (2005) Starz Cinema 9:30am/8:30c Unbroken (2014) FX 11:30am/10:30c Follow the Fleet (1936) TCM 1:29/12:29c A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Starz Encore 1:45/12:45c Nowhere Boy (2009) Flix 2:44/1:44c The Green Mile (1999) AMC 3:09/2:09c The Old Man & the Gun (2018) MovieMax 3:45/2:45c Move Over, Darling (1963) TCM 4/3c Wedding Crashers (2005) Comedy Central 4:47/3:47c Brazil (1985) Indieplex 6/5c Captain Phillips (2013) IFC 6/5c and 10:30/9:30c Titanic (1997) SundanceTV 8/7c Fatal Attraction (1987) Flix 8:40/7:40c Back to the Future (1985) Freeform 10/9c Annihilation (2018) Epix 11/10c Wonder Woman (2017) TNT 12:45am/11:45c Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) More Max 12:50am/11:50c Muriel’s Wedding (1994) HBO Signature Little Big Shots 8/7c, NBC Comedic actress Melissa McCarthy has taken over for Steve Harvey as host of this feel-good show, and we’re already believers. McCarthy—who is also an executive producer alongside her husband, Ben Falcone, and Ellen DeGeneres (one…

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20) Expect your issues with someone who means a lot to you to start to fade away. There could be a big climax (breathe through the stress)! Or there could be a simple release of things that upset you. ARIES (March 21–April 19) It’s time to find a balance between everything you need to feel Zen vs. all the little duties you have to take care of to keep ticking. This could be a super-lucrative time with the chance of a lovely surprise that involves money! TAURUS (April 20–May 20) Changes on the job, rethinking your professional life and finishing off a major work project are all possible. Certainly what happens now looks exciting and even liberating. Leave room for a bit of magic to delight you!…

LOVE IT! Cheers to Indebted’s Fran Drescher for returning to TV in fine form. It’s a total mitzvah to have the former Nanny star (left) back and cracking wise alongside onscreen hubby Steven Weber as broke but brassy parents who move in with their cool-dad son (Adam Pally) and his wife (Abby Elliott). The family dinners alone are priceless. Cheers to Devs for not leaving us out in the code. Instead of piling on the techno-babble, the dazzling cyberthriller set within a Google-like empire has us hooked with its ominous tone and a first-rate ensemble led by Sonoya Mizuno and a terrifying Nick Offerman (above right, with Mizuno). Cheers to Kirsten Vangsness for pulling double duty on Criminal Minds. Starting with just two lines in the pilot, the actress (left)…

IS TRUE LOVE ageless? The folks at The Bachelor think so: During the February 24 episode, the ABC hit revealed it was currently “casting seniors looking for love” for a new 65-and-over edition of the franchise. Fans already knew about the upcoming music-themed The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart (premieres Monday, April 13, 8/7c), but this more seasoned spinoff opens up a world of possibilities. Would it be one mature man sorting through a stable of eligible older ladies? Or more of a septuagenarian safari, à la Bachelor in Paradise? We’d prefer to imagine some of television’s grandest golden-agers jumping into the dating pool. —Damian Holbrook Rose Nylund (Betty White, The Golden Girls) Would the bubbly, ever-optimistic St. Olaf, Minnesota, native find someone to melt her Häagen-Dazs? Nah, she’d…

Little Fires Everywhere SERIES PREMIERE Wednesday, March 18, Hulu EVEN WITHOUT THE Reese Witherspoon connection, this lacerating eight-part domestic potboiler feels like the natural successor to HBO’s hit Big Little Lies. And the secrets and lies here are doozies. Also based on a gripping bestseller (by Celeste Ng), Little Fires Everywhere trades Lies’ luxurious beachfront property for the rigidly planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Even the height of grass is regulated, “to avoid uncertainty and disaster,” according to a town brochure. Into this 1990s suburban Stepford utopia arrives an agent of chaos: nomadic single mom and mixed-media artist Mia Warren (Scandal’s brooding Kerry Washington), who’s devoted to daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood). They quickly earn the patronizing and suffocating scrutiny of control-freak supermom Elena Richardson (an expert Witherspoon, also risking…

Brockmire SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, IFC For three seasons, it seemed as if the notoriously debauched boozehound sportscaster Jim Brockmire (Hank Azaria, right, in the role of a lifetime) would wind up in the gutter. But in the inspired fourth and final inning of this underrated satire, it’s the national pastime of baseball itself that’s on the ropes. Anyhoodles (as Brockmire often says)…after a quick prologue, the show jumps forward to the 2030s, and he’s a devoted single dad—long story—and sober, if you don’t count his addiction to holographic porn. He’d be even happier if his beloved sport weren’t succumbing to the “blighted hellscape” of a globally overwarmed dystopia: “Not a great time to be outdoors in America,” he notes. And yet it’s a good time to be Brockmire. When desperate team…

MOVIES 9:50am/8:50c The Queen (2006) Starz Cinema 10:45am/9:45c The Horse Whisperer (1998) Showtime Family Zone Noon/11am c Ferdinand (2017) FXX 2/1c Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) FX 2:37/1:37c Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Starz 5/4c Ray (2004) BET 8:25/7:25c Frozen (2013) Freeform 10/9c Wait Until Dark (1967) TCM Midnight/11c It (2017) TNT Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Nat Geo Wild With assists from daughters Maya, Sierra and Willow, the reality show’s Dr. Michelle Oakley castrates a reindeer, gives a bald eagle a “mani-pedi” and X-rays a baby musk ox. EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS 2020 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Preview Special 11/10c, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Late-Night Pick Deduce what’s next in the franchises headed by Danica McKellar, Candace Cameron Bure, Taylor Cole and Jill Wagner. TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS FIGURE SKATING 1/noon c and 9/8c, NBC ISU World Figure Skating Championships…

LUTHER SEASON 5 MONDAY, MARCH 23 “Your conscience has killed more people than I have,” psychopathic murderer Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson, The Affair) teases ethical but unorthodox London Detective Sergeant John Luther (Idris Elba, right) in Season 5 of British police drama Luther. Onscreen duos have never been more dangerously mismatched—or more madly compelling, for that matter. The broad-shouldered copper and the cunning redhead, wrongly presumed drowned in Season 4 (which is already streaming on Prime Video along with the first three installments), met in the show’s 2010 debut. He investigated the gruesome shooting deaths of her parents and knew she was guilty but couldn’t prove it. For her part, Alice was so impressed with Luther that he became the only person she ever cared about. Remarkably, he began asking…

MOVIES 9:45am/8:45c The Great Escape (1963) TCM 1:30/12:30c The Professional (1994) SundanceTV 2:54/1:54c Looper (2012) Syfy 4:10/3:10c and 11:47/10:47c The Omen (1976) Retroplex 8:10/7:10c Get Out (2017) FXM 10:55/9:55c The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) HDNet Movies Project Blue Book SEASON FINALE 10/9c, History Apparently the sky’s not the limit when it comes to alien life on the UFO-hunting drama, which draws from another real-life declassified case for its second-season finale. This time, instead of flying saucers, scientist Allen Hynek and Air Force Captain Michael Quinn (Aidan Gillen and Michael Malarkey, above) investigate a possible unidentified submerged object. The USO was spotted during a joint military exercise on the border of Russian waters and then reported by a U.S. battleship. Despite resistance from the ship’s commanding officer, Late-Hynek and Quinn refuse to back down (they find themselves…

MOVIES 6:15am/5:15c Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Cinemax 8:05am/7:05c Red Eye (2005) HBO2 9:53am/8:53c The Prestige (2006) 5StarMax 10:15am/9:15c Glory (1989) Epix 11:30am/10:30c and 5/4c The Karate Kid (1984) BBC America Noon/11am c Little Women (1994) The Movie Channel Xtra 1:30/12:30c Much Ado About Nothing (1993) This TV 1:45/12:45c and 9/8c Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Showtime Women 2:25/1:25c and 10:26/9:26c The Breakfast Club (1985) Retroplex 6/5c The Haunting (1963) TCM 6:45/5:45c The Best of Enemies (2019) Showtime 8/7c The Dark Knight Rises (2012) TNT 10/9c Pulp Fiction (1994) Starz in Black 10:15/9:15c The Hunt for Red October (1990) Flix 11/10c Girls Trip (2017) FX 12:07am/11:07c Saturday Night Fever (1977) Retroplex 1:30am/12:30c Gone Girl (2014) FX Movie Pick Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood 8/7c, Starz Auteur Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award–winning 2019 film is a wildly vivid, epic vision of 1960s America told via Tinseltown. Best of…

ACROSS 1 All ____Go to Heaven 5 thirtysomething ad agency 8 Moby Dick captain 12 Girl with powers on Out of This World 13 Begley Jr. and Helms 14 Former late-night host Jay 15 Leslie of Head of the Class 16 Matt Foley lives there 17 Gross of Citizen Baines 18 Frank Sheeran nationality (2 wds.) 21 Ewing clan commodity 22 Kurosawa film 23 Star Wars movie The ____ Menace 27 Breaking News reporter 31 A ____ Moms Christmas 32 Jackie to Roseanne 34 Paid TV spots 35 ____: 1999 38 Sci-fi policeman 41 ____ Vegas 43 Actor Mineo 44 Men in Black: ____ 51 Fabled race loser 52 Coming of ____ 53 Gilpin of Mr. Robinson 54 Planet of the ____ 55 Mangy dog 56 Men in Trees town 57 Knight & ____ 58 Ken Loach falcon film 59 Shae…