Innholdsfortegnelse for September 14, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

I recently binged the first two seasons of Cobra Kai and was surprised by how true it is to the spirit of the original Karate Kid movies. The returning actors easily fall back into their characters, now 30-plus years later, and the new roles cast with younger actors are realistically portrayed. The production is nearly movie quality and the fight sequences are great. Now that the already-produced third season is moving from YouTube to Netflix, along with the first two seasons already streaming, I really expect it to take off since Netflix has such a higher global reach. Do you think Netflix has plans for extending the series further? They typically don’t rescue shows unless they plan on producing their own seasons. —Mark MATT ROUSH: Netflix may choose to wait…

GRIDIRON GREAT I would have been so disappointed if you had not included Super Bowl–winning Patrick Mahomes on the cover of the NFL Preview issue [August 31]. Never has a quarterback come along like Mahomes. He is a very decent young man, and Kansas City Chiefs fans are enormously proud of him. He deserves the accolades. —Terry GOOD CLEAN FUN It was so great to see daytime dramas get the positive recognition they deserve [August 17]. The actors, writers, producers and crew work so hard to produce quality TV. Watching soap operas during this time provides some semblance of normalcy and escape. Four different covers representing each soap is wonderful. —Iris PERFECT CHEMISTRY The actors who play detectives Jackson and Lola (Babou Ceesay and Eve Myles) in the Showtime series…

Sundays (through Sept. 27), 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) YOU KNOW YOU’RE in unfamiliar territory for a Masterpiece Mystery! when an investigation involves a nun with a taste for mystical religious erotica. “Just because I’m on a diet doesn’t mean I can’t look at the menu,” she tells Piet Van der Valk (Hustle’s Marc Warren), a Dutch detective with a steely demeanor and testy temperament. Edgier and grislier than the norm for the franchise, Van der Valk updates a series that aired in the U.K. in the 1970s and ’90s. Amsterdam has never looked better, or deadlier, than in the three twist-filled cases that confront Van der Valk and his refreshingly distinctive team. I’m especially fond of the preppy rookie, Job Cloovers (Elliot Barnes-Worrell), an inexperienced know-it-all who…

The Drew Barrymore Show SERIES PREMIERE Monday, Sept. 14, check local listings DREW BARRYMORE HAS appeared on talk shows since 1982, when, as a 7-year-old in a pink party dress, she charmed legendary Tonight Show host Johnny Carson while promoting the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Now, the actress and producer is switching from guest to host with daytime’s latest chatfest, The Drew Barrymore Show. “All the things I’ve put my energies into somehow have led to this,” Barrymore tells TV GUIDE MAGAZINE. “I feel like I have the most to offer as far as the life experience I’ve had so far.” The self-professed “pop culture and news junkie” will bring together interviews, daily headlines, cooking and comedy on the syndicated series, which airs live from New York City. “This is…

Newly Available Coneheads (1993) They come from France! Or so they say. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise their pointytopped Saturday Night Live characters: aliens in suburbia trying to fit in. Glory (1989) Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick and Cary Elwes star in a top-notch drama about a Black regiment fighting for the Union Army during the Civil War. Midnight Special (2016) A father (Michael Shannon) flees Feds and a cult, both out to get his superpowered son (Jaeden Martell). Muppets Most Wanted (2014) On-the-lam criminal Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais) gets Kermit, Fozzie and the gang involved in a robbery. Red Dragon (2002) He likes fava beans and a nice Chianti. But what else do you know about Silence of the Lambs’ cannibal Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)? This creepy…

MOVIES 9am/8c Finding Neverland (2004) Flix 3/2c Twister (1996) Freeform 4:40/3:40c Richard Jewell (2019) HBO Signature 9:45/8:45c Groundhog Day (1993) Epix 11:30/The Hospital 10:30c (1971) TCM Celebrity Family Feud/Press Your Luck/Match Game 8/7c, 9/8c and 10/9c, ABC ABC’s game night resumes! Go ahead and pour yourself a glass of Chardonnay. First up on the Feud: wine aficionado Kathie Lee Gifford and her loved ones vs. Ricki Lake and her nearest and dearest. India From Above 9/8c, Nat Geo Wild This breathtaking two-hour special, an aerial journey over the massive Indian continent, is narrated with both warmth and awe by Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire). The flyover—shot with drones—captures traditional temples, modern cities and natural wonders. Interviews provide context. Star Trek: Discovery SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, CBS Before Season 3 debuts on CBS All Access (October 15), the…

ACROSS 1 Cash devices (abbr.) 5 That girl 8 Pokey 12 Dennis the Menace, for one 13 Queen of the South channel 14 The Daily Show host 15 Pylon 16 Jeannie of Holey Moley 17 Poker payment 18 2008–12 Mary McCormack series (3 wds.) 21 Diner owner on 2 Broke Girls 22 Dallas actress Barbara ____ Geddes 23 Pepé ____ (2 wds.) 26 Write quickly 27 Courage the Cowardly ____ 30 Growing Pains star Thicke 31 ____ and Chicken 32 We Got It ____ 33 Smidgen 34 Dancing With ____ Stars 35 Cheers actor George 36 Homeland agency (abbr.) 37 Danson of The Good Place 38 The National Eye Institute recommends the formula in this eye vitamin brand to help reduce the risk of AMD progression 44 Easy victory 45 Ignited 46 Karate move 48 Nina Kiri on The…

NCIS One reason to love the crime-solvers of CBS’s NCIS: The team feels like a family. So it’s fitting that for the 400th episode, coming this fall, the military drama will see a real-life father-and-son reunion. TV GUIDE MAGAZINE can exclusively reveal that Mark Harmon, who plays flinty big boss Leroy Jethro Gibbs, welcomes back his son Sean, again stepping into the shoes of Gibbs’ younger self. The acting gene is strong: Sean’s mom is Harmon’s wife of 33 years, Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy). The junior Harmon, 32, has tackled the role in six previous episodes. The first was in 2008 when he appeared in flashbacks after a crime led the NCIS team to Gibbs’ hometown of Stillwater, Pennsylvania. Most recently he was seen in 2012 for another landmark,…

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Thursday, Sept. 10, Peacock HEEERE’S… HARRY! Over five February nights in the historically turbulent year of 1968, singer-actoractivist Harry Belafonte sat in Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show chair to guesthost episodes with a personally curated guest list, potently mixing an agenda of racial awareness with entertainment. “I wanted to bring a political dimension to the evening that was not quite the Tonight Show thing,” Belafonte, now 93, recalls in a fascinating documentary that places this revolutionary but largely forgotten experiment in its cultural context. His lineup emphasized Black stars, including Sidney Poitier, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Bill Cosby, Diahann Carroll, Dionne Warwick and George Kirby. But it was his decision to bring on a relaxed Martin Luther King Jr. and enlightened future presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, just months…

The Masked Singer SEASON PREMIERE Wednesday, Sept. 23, 8/7c, Fox THE WHOLE THING seems way too silly to work: Stars disguised in elaborate but ridiculous getups (Llama! Taco! Astronaut!) belt out songs while a quartet of wise-cracking panelists—actor Ken Jeong, TV personality Jenny McCarthy and singers Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke—plus an in-studio audience cast ballots for their favorite. “It’s unlike anything else on TV,” brags exec producer Craig Plestis. Which is why the show has been such a monster success: Season 3’s post–Super Bowl premiere pulled in nearly 24 million viewers, and this summer, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE readers named it their No. 1 reality competition in our Fan Favorites polls. While much of the fun comes from each episode’s climax—the lowest-rated singer is unmasked, revealing stars as varied as…

PICK OF THE WEEK! Wednesday, Sept. 16, 8/7c, CBS IT’S BEEN NEARLY two decades since Keith Urban, host of this year’s ACM Awards, took home his first trophy. “What I remember most is going back to the hotel and getting a fax slid under the door,” says 2001’s Top New Male Vocalist. “It was from Glen Campbell, who I’d never met: ‘Welcome to the award-winning world. You got it, kid. Glen.’” He still has that fax, and the 14 ACMs he’s earned since—including 2019 Entertainer of the Year. Here, Urban helps us preview 2020’s audience-free show, postponed from its traditional spring date in Las Vegas and held in Nashville for the first time. THREE LEGENDARY LOCATIONS The Grand Ole Opry House serves as the centerpiece for the telecast, but two…

Archer SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, FXX The more things change, the more Sterling Archer…doesn’t. Which is good news for longtime fans of this irreverent and stylishly animated spy comedy—but not so much for his exasperated fellow agents. They view the dashing yet arrogantly buffoonish James Bond wannabe as, says one, “a human disruption on the scale of an ice age.” When the zippy and zany 11th season opens, Archer (expertly voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) gets a chilly greeting upon awakening from a three-year coma—during which time the series flirted with dream-state genres including film noir and sci-fi. (Above: Archer’s “recently decoma-fied brain” is examined.) Now back to espionage, the gang has moved on and is doing just fine without him. There’s a “new, better” Cheryl (Judy Greer) taking part in…

Movie Pick The Invisible Man 8/7c, HBO Out of sight…and out of his mind. After escaping from her abusive boyfriend (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss, left) tries to start anew. News of his suicide gives the Bay Area agoraphobe even more hope—but appearances can be deceiving. Make that nonappearances: Turns out the late optic scientist faked his death so he could terrorize Cecilia invisibly! Based on H.G. Wells’ 1897 novel (and the 1933 Claude Rains horror film), this tense thriller from earlier this year is a smart update with a terrific cast. And it boasts more than a few scares that you definitely won’t see coming. Secret Life of a Celebrity Surrogate MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime The mother of all nightmares! After signing on to be the surrogate for…

MOVIES 10:03am/Flaming Star 9:03c (1960) Retroplex 1:35/12:35c Cast Away (2000) HBO Signature 4:30/3:30c Village of the Damned (1960) TCM 5:41/4:41c A Beautiful Mind (2001) Starz Cinema 6:10c/5:10c Frozen (2013) Disney Channel 7/6c Brave (2012) Freeform 8/7c Captain America: Civil War (2016) TNT 8/7c Grease (1978) Pop TV 8/7c A Quiet Place (2018) Epix 9/8c John Wick (2014) IFC 10:15/9:15c Die Hard (1988) HBO2 11:30/Papillon (1973) 10:30c Retroplex A Wilderness of Error SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, FX Editors’ Choice In the 41 years since former Fort Bragg Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Colette, and their two daughters in 1970, the verdict has sparked heated debates across pop culture. Joe McGinniss’ damning 1983 bestseller Fatal Vision quickly became a hit TV miniseries. Now Errol Morris’ revisionist 2012 tome A Wilderness of Error has inspired this riveting five-part docuseries from Marc…

Viewers stampeded to the August 23 season finale of Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, lassoing in record ratings. The Western, which stars Kevin Costner (above), has grown steadily since its 2018 launch, and 5.2 million viewers tuned in to the (literally!) explosive third-season ender. Whether the draw has been intense family drama, the conflict between good and evil, men (and women) on horseback or quiet competition from other summer series, this episode was the most watched scripted cable telecast of the year, up 84 percent from last year’s finale. No surprise, Season 4 is in the works.…

Watched Live 1 60 Minutes CBS 7.2 2 America’s Got Talent (Tuesday) NBC 5.6 3 America’s Got Talent (Wednesday) NBC 5.1 The Ticket: The First Interview ABC 5.1 5 America’s Funniest Home Videos ABC 4.7 6 NCIS CBS 4.6 7 Big Brother (Sunday) CBS 4.1 8 Blue Bloods CBS 4.0 9 Big Brother (Thursday) CBS 3.9 Big Brother (Wednesday) CBS 3.9 11 NBA Playoffs: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Portland Trail Blazers ABC 3.8 The Lakers beat the Trail Blazers 116–108 to win Game 3 of the series. The matchup also topped the week with viewers age 18–49 (1.7 million). 12 The Neighborhood CBS 3.5 FBI CBS 3.5 Bob Abishola CBS 3.5 15 Magnum P.I. CBS 3.4 16 MacGyver CBS 3.1 17 2020 Democratic National Convention (Thursday) ABC 3.0 18 United We Fall ABC 2.8 In the penultimate episode of Season 1, the family sitcom hit a series low, dropping more than a million viewers since its July 15 premiere (4.2…

Tuesdays, 10/9c, NBC I’VE WATCHED FIVE episodes of this solid medical drama from Canada and have yet to witness the first organ transplant. What Transplant is really about, and why it’s compelling, is the earnest struggle to implant a gifted Syrian refugee doctor, Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq)—he of the soulful dark eyes and empathetic bedside manner—into the bustling world of a Toronto hospital. Called “Dr. Instinct” for his war zone–honed triage skills in the ER, Bash deals with legal hurdles and traumatic memories of the world he left behind. (In the best episode to date, airing September 22, he juggles hospital duties with walking a medic in Syria through a tricky procedure by phone.) His unyielding mentor, well played by John Hannah, warns him, “I need you to be…sharper…

MOVIES 10am/9c Annihilation (2018) FXX 10:40am/ 9:40c My Week With Marilyn (2011) Showtime Women 1:30/12:30c The Revenant (2015) FX 2:05/1:05c Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Epix 8/7c Chisum (1970) Grit 8/7c Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) CMT 8:30/7:30c Pretty Woman (1990) Freeform 10/9c Magnificent Obsession (1954) TCM 11/10c Steel Magnolias (1989) CMT 3:15am/Young 2:15c Frankenstein (1974) Starz Comedy The Bradshaw Bunch SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, E! Legendary quarterback and Fox NFL Sunday fixture Terry Bradshaw is getting personal. In this new reality series, the 72-year-old Hall of Famer, wife Tammy and adult daughters (from top left) Rachel, Lacey and Erin shelter at the family ranch, “800 acres of beautiful Oklahoma scenery with horses, cows, dogs—you name it,” Terry says. (Also two grandbabies!) Everything from boob jobs to BBQ is fair game on what he promises will be a relatable and real depiction of “uninterrupted time” together.…

MOVIES 8am/7c The Cider House Rules (1999) HBO 9:30am/Upgrade (2018) 8:30c FX 11:30am/ 10:30c Captain Phillips (2013) A&E 12:15/ 11:15am c Going My Way (1944) TCM 1:15/12:15c Ford v Ferrari (2019) HBO2 1:30/12:30c Stand by Me (1986) Showtime Next 2:30/1:30c The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) A&E 2:33/1:33c Open Range (2003) ActionMax 6/5c and 10/9c Casino (1995) SundanceTV 6/5c and 10:12/9:12c Independence Day (1996) AMC 8/7c Awakenings (1990) Retroplex 9:50/8:50c Inside Out (2015) Freeform 10/9c Return of the Gunfighter (1967) Grit 11/10c What We Do in the Shadows (2014) FXX 11:55/Rise of the 10:55c Planet of the Apes (2011) ThrillerMax 12:18am/And Now for 11:18c Something Completely Different (1971) Indieplex 12:30am/Jerry Maguire 11:30c (1996) TBS Last Tango in Halifax SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) We’re so bloody happy! Returning after a three-year absence is Sally Wainwright’s brilliantly written British comedy-drama about an extended Yorkshire family trying to do the best they can as life’s baggage accumulates. At…

TRUST ME SEASONS 1 AND 2 AVAILABLE NOW Paging all suspense junkies! Both seasons of this medical anthology feature different casts, stories and settings, but they share one common thread: tales of medical misdeeds and mysteries in Scotland that will raise your resting heart rate. Here’s why you need to check it out. 1 Jodie Whittaker’s standout performance in Season 1. Skilled, compassionate nurse Cath Hardacre loses her job, so she steals the identity of a retiring doctor friend and finds work in a new town. Whittaker so well captures Cath’s concern for her patients (love that Botox-free crease between her eyes!) that you root for her even as suspicions (quite rightly) build up. THREE REASONS TO BINGE 2 The Rear Window vibe in Season 2. Paraplegic soldier Jamie McCain…

PICK OF THE WEEK! Fargo SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, Sept. 27, 10/9c, FX KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: The year is 1950, and the leaders of two rival crime syndicates are eager to establish a cease-fire in their struggle for control of the city’s underworld. They strike a grim bargain, each sending his youngest son to be raised by the other in a sort of voluntary hostage situation. This being Fargo—creator Noah Hawley’s darkly funny anthology series, loosely inspired by the Coen Brothers’ 1996 film—you can probably guess how well that works out. But it’ll be the last thing you’re able to predict. The idea of that bizarre son swap—which occurs between Black entrepreneur Loy Cannon (Chris Rock, left) and the Italian-American Fadda family—sparked Hawley’s vision for the long-awaited fourth season. It’s the…

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) The new moon brings good vibes, and guess which sign it’s in right now? Yours, Virgo! Use it to decide how you want your life to look in the next 12 months. If you’ve been feeling shaky or worried, you should feel more secure. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) Sagittarians have a reputation for being freewheeling adventurers, but you have grounded ambitions too! Expect professional opportunities to open up. The best thing to do is devise a strategy for getting what you want. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20) Your love zone is getting some attention, heralding a time when you can expect new relationships to flourish, including romantic ones for single Pisces. If you’re open to love, decide what you want in romance and go after it. GEMINI…

LOVE IT! Cheers to The Bold and the Beautiful for hitting the jackpot with its latest love triangle. Ever since its 1987 debut, the CBS soap has played romantic roulette with fashionista Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang), so we are all-in on the Vegas shocker that saw her main man Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) marry opportunist Shauna (Denise Richards, left, with Kaye). Cheers to The Vow for its commitment to exposing the NXIVM cult. You will be hooked on the slow-burn suspense of HBO’s nine-part docuseries about psychobabble spouting “guru” Keith Raniere and the self-help scam he used to create a sex-trafficking ring with the help of, among others, Smallville vet Allison Mack. Cheers to Love It or List It for always keeping our prime interest. Now in its 16th season, HGTV’s renovate-versusrelocate…