Innholdsfortegnelse for March 30, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

SERIES PREMIERE Monday, April 6, Acorn TV WHEN DEATH COMES to the lush Scottish region of Deadwater Fell, it’s not kidding. Neither is this taut four-part mystery, a new benchmark in emotional suspense as it depicts a community reeling from an unthinkable, inexplicable tragedy. Broadchurch’s David Tennant (see page 41) is compellingly inscrutable as the town’s affable doctor, Tom Kendrick, the sole survivor of a house fire that claims his schoolteacher wife (Anna Madeley) and their three adorable daughters. The ashes are still smoldering when clues suggest foul play, possibly implicating the troubled mother or even the grieving dad. Flashbacks slowly reveal the cracks in what seemed a happy marriage. But even so, how could it have led to such a horrific result? Typically, the Kendricks aren’t the only ones…

Broke SEASON PREMIERE Thursday, April 2, 9:30/8:30c, CBS HIGH IN THE palm tree–dotted hills of Los Angeles at our TV GUIDE MAGAZINE photo shoot, Pauley Perrette slides into the driver’s seat of a vintage Mustang. The convertible is parked on a winding street teeming with—to the canine-loving actress’ delight—people walking pets. “Hey, precious dogface dog!” she calls out to passing German shepherds and Pomeranians as their surprised handlers smile “They’re like, ‘Who is this crazy person?’” Perrette says, laughing. “This crazy person” soared to fame in 2003 on the megapopular procedural NCIS as Abby Sciuto, a brilliant and quirky forensic scientist partial to pigtails and, yes, a dog collar. America’s goth sweetheart left the show in 2018 after 15 years, and Perrette spent her time happily hanging out with her…

Late-Night Pick The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 11/10c, getTV “Irreverent is the word for the Smothers Brothers” declared the headline on TV GUIDE MAGAZINE’s February 10, 1968, cover. At the time of their Comedy Hour, Tommy and Dickie (above, from left) were giving viewers political and social satire, smooth harmonies and slapstick—and giving CBS headaches with their controversial views. “We didn’t cause the ’60s, you know. We were just guys that would carry the spear,” says Dickie, now 80 and a part-time Floridian who namedrops Lenny Bruce and singer Billie Eilish in the same conversation. (Tommy, 83—the outrageous one to Dickie’s more logical straight man—is retired in Northern California.) Wearing tidy suits and innocent expressions, “We were nonthreatening, except what came out of us,” Dickie says. See for yourself: Their…

PARASITE NEW MOVIE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 The year’s most talked-about film is finally available to stream, so take the time to find out why South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s pitch-black comedy rightfully took home the 2020 Academy Award for Best Picture. Song Kang-Ho (above right, with Cho Yeo-Jeong) stars as the patriarch of the Kim family. They all live together in a cramped apartment and struggle to make ends meet in the gig economy—until son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) lands a job tutoring the daughter of the ultrawealthy (and supremely gullible) Park family. Soon all four Kims have conned their way into working in the Parks’ luxurious home, and they appear to be sitting pretty. But a shocking twist turns what seems like a hilarious send-up of the oblivious Parks into…

Belgravia SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, April 12, 9/8c, Epix GRAND ESTATES AND elaborate costumes. Clever women and ambitious businessmen. Complex Dickensian plots spiked with withering humor. Julian Fellowes’ new six-part series, based on his bestselling 2016 novel Belgravia, has more than a few things in common with his 2011–15 hit Downton Abbey. But this time, he focuses his penetrating lens on a rapidly diversifying English society in the 1840s—and a secret that links two families. “There’s romance, hate, deceit, intrigue, blackmail, attempted murder,” exec producer Colin Wratten told us when we visited Scotland’s Manderston House, one shoot location. “High stakes for everyone.” The saga begins with a flashback to 1815, when the only child of Peregrine and Caroline Bellasis, aka the Lord and Lady Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson and Harriet Walter), is…

Chicago Fire 9/8c, NBC Finally! It’s a big traditional wedding for Firehouse 51’s Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) and his bride, Chloe (Kristen Gutoskie). The cast (below) spent a full day filming the nuptials—a first for the drama!—at the Windy City’s St. Ignatius Church. “Kristen’s beautiful dress was so big, it took two or three handlers to manage it, and I had four fittings for the suit, which is insane,” says Minoso, adding that producers felt Cruz deserved a fairy-tale wedding after he had such a tragic year. “There’s a very poignant mention of his late best friend Otis [Yuri Sardarov] in the episode,” Minoso reveals, “but [this] really was a happy ending for Cruz.” For the actor, the trip down the aisle was “surreal”: Three years ago, he wed Caitlin Murphy…

It Chapter Two 8/7c, HBO Always leave ’em laughing—or screaming in terror. Stephen King’s 1986 bestseller It definitely did the latter for the poor readers who wished he would quit clowning around with the demonic Pennywise. Things got even scarier in the book’s 2017 horror flick adaptation, and this 2019 sequel brings the killer circus back to town (in this case, the fictional Derry, Maine). The childhood victims of Pennywise are now adults—played by James McAvoy (above), Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James Ransone, Jay Ryan, Isaiah Mustafa and Andy Bean—and their frightful past is about to come back to haunt them. The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime This stirring biopic tells the story of the five sisters from Detroit who became the bestselling gospel group…

WE’RE ONLY IN the middle of the streaming revolution, and you’re probably spending more hours in front of the TV than ever. Now joining Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, Disney+ and all the rest is Quibi, which thankfully won’t take up too much of your time. Quibi—as in “quick bites”—will offer programming up to 10 minutes long made exclusively to be viewed on your phone. Television…on your phone? Relax, here’s how to dial in. When does it launch? April 6, 2020 How much does it cost? $4.99 per month with ads; $7.99 per month without. Sign up for the service on quibi.com before April 6 and get a 90-day free trial, which begins at launch. Each subscription works on only one phone at a time. How do I watch? Go to…

Tuesdays, 9:30/8:30c, Pop TV OH, HAPPY DAY! Proving there is life after Netflix (which gets smacked in the opening joke), this jubilant reimagining of the vintage Norman Lear comedy has survived cancellation and is the better for it. Savoring the ups and downs of the working-class Alvarez family on a weekly basis—rather than as an all-at-once binge—enhances the pleasures of this proudly diverse and rollickingly relevant show. Many will relate when frugal single mom Penelope (the vibrant Justina Machado) dithers about splurging on a much-needed new sofa. More will laugh riotously when teenage son Alex (Marcel Ruiz) walks in on her during a private moment of self-gratification, sparking a family-wide debate. Which means another grand entrance from grandmother Lydia (the peerless Rita Moreno), whipping back her bedroom curtain like a…

The Bold and the Beautiful CBS, check local listings The soap’s long-suffering Katie Logan Spencer and lothario husband Bill Spencer Jr. (Heather Tom and Don Diamont, above) had been in a good place—until last week’s bombshell: A video showing a recent kiss between Bill and Katie’s sister Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) surfaced, ironically at a party celebrating Brooke’s reuniting with her husband, Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye). Tom calls Bill’s betrayal with his old fling “a moment of weakness,” but the fallout is huge. Today, Brooke begs forgiveness. “Ultimately, Katie loves her sister,” Tom says, “and she’s proven that cutting her out of her life is just not something she’s capable of doing.” Katie did get past that time Brooke and Bill had a full-on affair, but as you’ll see from…

How to Get Away With Murder 10/9c, ABC The mystery drama rewinds for its last six episodes. “I wanted to bring the show full circle in terms of ‘why did this all start?’” says creator Peter Nowalk. Why, for example, did Pennsylvania governor Lynne Birkhead (Laura Innes) and attorney Xavier Castillo (Gerardo Celasco) want to take down shady but powerful law professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis)? “Is there anyone else they’ve been working with?” he asks. Expect lots of “satisfying” answers, he says, starting with who really killed FBI mole Asher (Matt McGorry)—a crime for which his former friends Michaela (Aja Naomi King) and Connor (Jack Falahee, above left) were arrested—and whether an on-the-run Annalise reaches her destination. “Not everyone,” says Nowalk, “is going to get a happy ending.” Man…

The Windermere Children MOVIE PREMIERE 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Few children suffered more grievously than the young survivors of the Holocaust, and their reintroduction to a society of caring strangers is the subject of an overwhelmingly moving 90-minute movie based on a true story. The emotional impact is especially strong in the opening scenes, set in August 1945, when 300 children and adolescents rescued from Nazi concentration camps arrive at the lush Calgarth Estate near England’s Lake Windermere. This is where they’ll spend four months learning what it means to be free again as they emerge from a world of deprivation and cruelty to one of comfort and kindness. Under the patient supervision of child psychologist Oscar Friedmann (Thomas Kretschmann)—a German Jew—and a staff that includes an…

Jeopardy! Syndicated, check local listings Dorm rooms around the country would have been hosting the brainiest drinking games ever as host Alex Trebek (above center) fires up the annual Thunderdome of undergrads, the College Championship. Fifteen students are on deck for the two-week, 10-game tournament, complete with Wild Card semifinalists (high-scoring nonwinners) and a whopping $100,000 grand prize. Here’s a primer. • More than 100 schools have competed in the tourney’s 30-year history, including Ivy League universities, junior colleges and military academies. Harvard has made the most appearances (15), followed by Stanford; University of Michigan and Northwestern (tied); Yale; and University of California Berkeley and Princeton (tied). • So far, Stanford is the only school to take home more than one title, having champions named in 2001 and 2005. The…

WHEN YOU CHANGE the channel after getting the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic from your preferred news network, you may notice that regular programming is looking, well, rather irregular. Sports, talk shows and scripted and unscripted series are all experiencing cancellations, postponements and production shutdowns lasting at least a few weeks, possibly longer. Here’s how TV will look in the near and distant future. Scripted Series No more Leroy Jethro Gibbs? Weeks without Meredith Grey? That’s what we’re facing if our favorite shows don’t get back into production to wrap up filming their seasons. Upward of 100 series and pilots are on hiatus, including all of the NCIS dramas, FBI and Young Sheldon on CBS; ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and The Goldbergs; NBC’s Chicago franchise, Superstore and Saturday Night Live;…

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, April 5, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) “EVERY WAR’S DIFFERENT, until it’s the same,” barks Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as a pacifist father, shell-shocked since the Somme. Passing out peace pamphlets in Manchester, England, he’s swimming against the tide: With the invasions of Poland and France, Nazi aggression has stirred the winds of warfare in 1939 and 1940 Europe. The ambitious seven-part Masterpiece series World on Fire covers a lot of ground in its first season, but it still can’t help feeling like every World War II drama you’ve ever seen. With a gaunt Helen Hunt on hand as an exposition machine of an American radio journalist, clinically reciting the latest dire headlines, Fire rarely ignites with dramatic surprise. Still, it’s likely to satisfy…

The Walking Dead: World Beyond SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, April 12, 10/9c, AMC SCHOOLWORK. BFFS. REBELLION. AMC’s latest Walking Dead spinoff is a coming-of-age tale à la the ’80s flick Stand by Me—except for those “empties” (local lingo for walkers) who want to eat human flesh. World Beyond takes a different approach than its zombie-universe predecessors by focusing on a group of teenagers. Safely sequestered in a fully functional Midwestern community since the outbreak a decade earlier, they venture out beyond the walls on a perilous postapocalyptic mission. Unlike the Fear the Walking Dead spinoff, which opened at the crisis’ onset, this new entry is set in roughly the same timeline as the flagship—still cable’s most-watched series, with more than 3 million viewers. At Beyond’s heart are two sisters, diligent Iris…

NCIS 8/7c, CBS When we drop by the L.A. set of NCIS in February, things seem off. Nice-guy medical examiner Jimmy Palmer and forensic pro Kasie Hines (Brian Dietzen and Diona Reason-over, above), usually out of harm’s way, are in a diner being held at gunpoint by robbers. And to the rescue is…normally suit-wearing NCIS office fixture, Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll, right)? In a ball cap and jeans? Then Carroll says “Cut!” and it’s all clear: He’s directing; the episode airs tonight. To the veteran actor, “A good director takes the things you do well and says, ‘Let’s build on that.’” This is his 13th time behind the camera for the crime drama since 2015 (he also directs the May 8 Magnum P.I.). Back then, despite experience helming stage…

Newly Available Black Lightning Season 3 Electrifying superhero Black Lightning (Cress Williams) goes toe-totoe with nemesis Gravedigger (recurring star Wayne Brady) on The CW’s action drama. Car Masters: Rust to Riches Season 2 The auto junkies at California’s Gotham Garage restore clunkers, add embellishments (think: chrome wraps), then sell ’em. It’s not a fast and furious way to make cash, but the paydays hit six figures! The English Game Limited Series See page 40. Feel Good New Series Mae Martin stars in this semiautobiographical comedy about a Canadian comic living in England. Lisa Kudrow steals scenes as her self-involved mother. Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness New Docuseries See page 40. Unabomber: In His Own Words New Docuseries Hear domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski talk about his 17-year reign of terror.…

Fantasy Lands 8/7c, TCM We’re off to see the wizard! Or at least we wish we were, because Oz seems like a much happier place to be right now. So we think you, like us, will be excited to check out tonight’s TCM lineup featuring silver-screen locales that are odd, wonderful and, best of all, virus-free. First up is 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, with Dorothy (Judy Garland) following the yellow brick road to find her way back home. Then Shirley Temple searches for happiness in the Oz-like The Blue Bird (1940) at 10/9c (Temple’s Mytyl, like Dorothy, also has a dog—named Tylo). Finally, at 11:45/10:45c, 1968’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gives us a madcap adventure as widowed inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke, above) finds a magical race car.…