Innholdsfortegnelse for October 26, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

GGG GIGG Blue Bloods alum Amy Carlson and former Lost star Terry O’Quinn are joining CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted in recurring roles. She’ll play a bounty hunter; he’s Jess’ (Julian McMahon) gambling addict dad. Kate Mulgrew is boldly going to the Nickelodeon animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. She’ll reprise her Star Trek: Voyager role, Capt. Kathryn Janeway, on the show, due next year. Mother-daughter duo Andie Mac-Dowell and Margaret Qualley will costar in the Netflix drama Maid, based on the memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Qualley plays a single mom working to make ends meet, and MacDowell is her eccentric parent. Shawshank Redemption star Morgan Freeman will host and executive produce History’s six-episode Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman, featuring infamous jail breaks. GGGGGGGG…

Thursdays, CBS All Access THERE’S NO SUCH thing as an easy landing for the dynamic Trek spinoff as the show reinvents itself for Season 3 by jumping forward 930 years into the unknown. First, Cdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), in her tricked-out suit, collides with the ship of space pirate Cleveland “Book” Booker (a jaunty David Ajala) after zooming through a wormhole. Then the U.S.S. Discovery gets stuck in parasitic ice after crashing on a hostile planet. The real indignity? Everyone they meet regards them, and their gizmos, as antiques. “We like to think of her as a classic,” retorts perky Ensign Tilly (Mary Wiseman) when asked Discovery’s age. I agree. The temporal shift enlivens the fabled franchise with a new sense of adventure and purpose once they learn the…

NCIS Tuesday, Nov. 24, 8/7c, CBS One is a former Marine from small-town Pennsylvania, a man of few words and many rules. The other is a charming, loquacious Brit, intuitive about what people need to hear and overgenerous with information they don’t (like how Zulus ward off evil and what makes barbershop music unique). So how on earth did NCIS boss Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and medical examiner turned historian Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum) end up friends? NCIS’s landmark 400th episode—airing November 24, a week after the Season 18 premiere—takes us back. The 400th delivers everything we love about TV’s No. 1 entertainment series, which averaged 15.3 million viewers last season: bumpy, relatable work relationships, long and tangled character histories, surprising stories with flashes of humor and engrossing…

PICK OF THE WEEK! My Big Italian Adventure SERIES PREMIERE Friday, Oct. 30, 9/8c, HGTV INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL THESE days? Fuhgeddaboudit. Happily, this new series, filmed in 2019, whisks wannabe tourists to the Italian island of Sicily—with The Sopranos’ Lorraine Bracco (above) as a companion. The actress got an offer she couldn’t refuse, scoring a major fixer-upper in the hilltop town of Sambuca…for a single Euro (about $1.10 in U.S. currency)! “When Lorraine called us saying she wanted to [do this], we jumped on board to join her from beginning to end,” says Loren Ruch, HGTV’s senior VP of programming and development. Over a nine-month shoot, “we watched her meet the mayor, went house hunting with her and followed the entire design and renovation process.” Let’s break down this huge undertaking.…

Married at First Sight SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Lifetime Decision time: The five New Orleans couples who wed as strangers and spent their first months of marriage in quarantine reveal whether they’ve elected to split or stay hitched. Martha Knows Best SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, HGTV Martha Stewart, that is. In her how to show’s second round, the domestic expert harvests vegetables, plants bulbs and tonight whips up apple cider and chooses the most jack-o’-lantern–worthy pumpkins. American Housewife SEASON PREMIERE 8:30/7:30c, ABC Hold off on buying that graduation gift for Taylor (Meg Donnelly)! An overdue library book could keep her from receiving her high school diploma, but determined mom Katie (Katy Mixon) will make things right. THE JURY VOTES! Big Brother SEASON FINALE 9/8c, CBS The all-star Season 22 comes to an…

One Royal Holiday MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Hallmark Channel Yes, today is Halloween. But once you see the chemistry between Broadway faves—and longtime friends—Laura Osnes and Aaron Tveit (above) in his romantic Countdown to Christmas debut, you’ll understand why we’re willing to skip ahead to December. And why, just like the two stars, we’re already hoping for a sequel: “We started joking about that the first day,” Tveit says. “The next one could be One Royal Wedding. One Royal Baby…” (They’ll have to come up with new duets too—here, they sing “Winter Wonderland” for the opening credits.) Tveit stars as buttoned-up James, who’s stranded in New England days before Christmas. Unaware he’s the Crown Prince of Galwick, sympathetic nurse Anna (Osnes) offers him and his mother (Tony winner Victoria Clark) rooms…

3 REASONS TO BINGE GET SHORTY SEASONS 1–3 AVAILABLE NOW Can Hollywood possibly get any sleazier? That’s a rhetorical question—of course it can! Nevada gangster Miles Daly (Chris O’Dowd) helps on that front when he moves to L.A. and tries to go legit with the aid of washed-up movie producer Rick Moreweather (Ray Romano, above left, with O’Dowd). You wouldn’t want to make Miles mad, so here’s why you should check out this dramedy inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 1990 novel. 1 It’s a fresh take on a familiar title. Rather than re-adapt Leonard’s book or rehash the 1995 film version (starring John Travolta), the show tells an entirely new story with original, out-there characters like Laurence Budd (Steven Weber), a hairless movie producer who glues on his wig and eyebrows.…

Newly Available Barbarians New Series See page 52. Dolly Parton: Here I Am New Documentary See page 52. Dream Home Makeover New Series Raise your hand if you want a home theater. How about a new loft in a converted 19th-century barn? We all do, but the only ones who are getting them are clients of husband-and-wife design duo Shea and Syd McGee, stars of this renovation series. Emily in Paris New Series Remember how Carrie Bradshaw moved to France in Sex and the City but, uh, didn’t know how to speak French? That’s where creator Darren Star begins with this rom-com about a marketing exec (Lily Collins) in the City of Lights for a new job. A language barrier is just the start of her problems. The Queen’s Gambit…

The prequel is taking flight! House of the Dragon, HBO’s follow-up to the megahit Game of Thrones, has cast its first actor: Paddy Considine (The Third Day) stars as Viserys Targaryen. Here’s intel on the hugely anticipated series: IT’S BASED ON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S 2018 NOVEL FIRE & BLOOD Set 300 years before the events of Thrones, the tome tells the tale of House Targaryen—yes, Queen Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke, left) dragon-riding ancestors! THE KING COULD BE IN DANGER Wise, peace-loving Viserys Targaryen—not to be confused with his namesake, Dany’s cruel brother—is chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed his grandfather, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal, a gathering of lords. Viserys is a benevolent and honorable man (shades of Thrones’ ill-fated Ned Stark—we’re scared for him already!). PLENTY…

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Nov. 1, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) DID THIS RARE Masterpiece misfire mean to echo Succession with its insistent score of piano arpeggios? I kept wishing for more of that HBO drama’s bite in Roadkill, playwright David Hare’s underwhelming and overly cluttered political drama. Even the reliably witty Hugh Laurie seems subdued as Peter Laurence, an ambitious British government minister with an unsurprising closet full of personal and family skeletons. He’s continually upstaged by the delicious Helen McCrory as his smug, waspish boss, a conservative prime minister who delights in making Peter squirm. While it’s possible he’ll get the last word, this house of cards is situated on a too familiar road.…

Shriek Week Themes go bump in the night all week, beginning with a vampire triple feature (Dracula 2000, The Lost Boys and Bram Stoker’s Dracula) on Monday and exorcisms (The Exorcist and The Conjuring) on Tuesday. The original Halloween and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later salute psycho Michael Myers on Wednesday; Thursday gets Insidious with a trio of the franchise’s films; and Friday fittingly brings it to an end with the classic Friday the 13th and its 2009 reboot. If you can survive this bill, you deserve some candy come Saturday! Starts Monday, Oct. 26, 6/5c, BBC America Roald Dahl’s The Witches Wicked fun for the whole family: Oscar winners Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables) and Octavia Spencer (The Help) face off in this enchanting adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel…

MOVIES 10am/9c The World’s End (2013) IFC 11:30am/ 10:30c How the West Was Won (1963) Grit 12:30/Mildred Pierce 11:30am c (1945) TCM 3:40/2:40c Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Movies! 3:55/2:55c The Others (2001) Cinemax 4:30/3:30c and 9:30/ 8:30c We’re the Millers (2013) Comedy Central 5:26/4:26c La Bamba (1987) Starz Encore Classic 5:30/4:30c and 8/7c Top Gun (1986) CMT 5:59/4:59c Halloween (1978) AMC 7:11/6:11c Adventureland (2009) Indieplex 8/7c No Way Out (1987) Retroplex 8/7c Star Trek Beyond (2016) CBS 8:30/7:30c RoboCop (1987) This TV 9/8c and The Bad News 12:40am/Bears (1976) 11:40c HDNet Movies 10:30/The Sixth Sense 9:30c (1999) SundanceTV 11/10c Under Siege (1992) BBC America 11:56/Colette (2018) 10:56c Starz Edge 1:30am/Motherless 12:30c Brooklyn (2019) HBO Killer Competition MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Movie Network In her quest to become valedictorian, a high school senior (Jacqueline Scislowski) sparks a chain of events leading to a classmate’s death. Is she smart enough to catch the murderer? Alaska the Last Frontier 8/7c, Discovery Home(steader)…

HOMELAND SEASON 8 MONDAY, OCT. 26 Over eight seasons, Homeland won Emmys for acting, writing, casting and, in its first year, Outstanding Drama Series. That excellence is again on display in the spy thriller’s emotional, edge-of-your-seat final season. It’s very much a full-circle storyline. As Claire Danes (above), who brilliantly embodied driven, bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, told us earlier this year, “Carrie becomes Brody.” She means her onetime lover Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), who, in Season 1, returned from Al Qaeda captivity as a sleeper agent sent to kill U.S. officials. Now, Carrie is back in Afghanistan, where she had been a flawed CIA station chief, to help her mentor Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin, in a volcanic performance) close a peace deal. When it goes wrong, her…

PICK OF THE WEEK! The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions Saturday, Nov. 7, 8/7c, HBO THERE’S NO ALL-STAR jam at Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame museum this year. Rather than the traditional live ceremony, where presenters give speeches and perform with (or in honor of) inductees, this taped special plays more like a fascinating two-hour Behind the Music. We see deeper into the artists’ rise and influence with archival interview and performance clips, and get even more testimonials from famous fans. Executive producer and Hall of Fame CEO Joel Peresman previews the six acts worthy of at-home standing ovations. T. REX Ringo Starr leads a colorful tribute focusing on the English glam rockers’ trailblazing frontman, the late Marc Bolan. “You see [clips of] David Bowie…

PBS’S MASTERPIECE CELEBRATES 50 years with a November 29 retrospective special featuring clips from some of its most popular British hits, like sweeping period pieces and addictive, character-driven dramas such as The Jewel in the Crown and Downton Abbey. And with a slate of returning favorites (Grantchester!) and highly anticipated new offerings (Magpie Murders!), the next era starts strong. Executive producer Susanne Simpson, about to complete her first year in Masterpiece’s top post, previews 2021. What are you most looking forward to? We’re probably most excited about All Creatures Great and Small [premiering January 10 and featuring the late Diana Rigg in her last role], which is a new adaptation based on the James Herriot books about a young veterinarian [in 1930s Yorkshire]. It’s very heartwarming, community-based, softly romantic. It’s…

Sundays, 9/8c, HBO DAVID E. KELLEY knows a page-turner when he sees one. In recent years, the prolific writer-producer successfully brought Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies to TV. He attempted to do the same with Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer (which CBS turned down), and next month transforms C.J. Box’s gripping The Highway into Big Sky for ABC. But first, he delivers what feels like the classiest long-form episode ever of Law & Order: SVU in the irresistible six-part The Undoing, an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel You Should Have Known. Directed by Emmy winner Susanne Bier (The Night Manager) with unwavering emotional intensity, the glossy mystery thriller stars a radiant Nicole Kidman (whose hairstyling gets three credits) and debonair Hugh Grant as Grace…

SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Oct. 22, HBO Max BREATHLESSLY NARRATING THE fascinating stories of early pioneers in the pre-Stonewall LGBTQrights movement, Emmy winner Billy Porter (Pose) glibly warns, “Don’t get it twisted if you hear some outdated terms, OK?” Fair enough. Attitudes have come a long way. Even so, while the four-part Equal sheds welcome light on a too-easily-forgotten history of pain and oppression, its cartoonishly stylized and relentlessly shallow approach is more tiring than engaging. Which is too bad, because there’s nothing cheesy about people risking jobs, freedom and even their lives by refusing to conform to society’s norms. “In 1944, my secret could get you killed,” declares Lucy Hicks Anderson. Assigned male at birth, Lucy lived as a woman, enjoying success in Oxnard, California, society as a chef, hostess…

BREAK OUT THE sheet pans and snowflake cookie cutters and preheat the oven. It’s time for holiday baking! With celebrations around the corner, we’re all looking forward to pumpkin pies, gingerbread and doughnuts. But this year, the season will be a little different, as people are spending more time at home and have fewer guests at the table thanks to social distancing measures. Luckily, there are a ton of festive baking competition shows premiering in the coming weeks to help us prepare—and lift our spirits. Food Network alone has more than 40 hours of holiday programming on the way, says president Courtney White, offering “delicious escapism as well as holiday cheer.” Considering how many of us tried to perfect sourdough starters and banana bread during lockdown this spring, making sweet…

Daytime Pick General Hospital ABC, check local listings “This reminds me of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure!” actress Eden McCoy says of today’s very special episode that sends characters back in time (believed to be a show first). The journey begins when teens Josslyn Jacks (McCoy) and Trina Robinson (Sydney Mikayla) visit a museum for an extra credit assignment. They pull a lever in an old voting booth and find themselves transported to 1920—amid the first presidential election in which women had the right to vote. While in the Port Charles of the past, the surprised pair cross paths with familiar-looking suffragists determined to exercise that hard-won right (above, from left: Brook Kerr, Cassandra James, Nancy Lee Grahn, Maura West, Rebecca Herbst, Briana Henry, Laura Wright and Finola Hughes, with…

LOVE IT! Cheers to Supernatural for making the wait worth it. After a demonically long sevenmonth break, the CW staple finally resumed its farewell season with a charmingly demented return that saw the Winchester brothers (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, above, from left) celebrating every holiday they’d missed due to demon hunting…and fans celebrating the fact that the boys are back. Cheers to American Ninja Warrior’s hosts for, well, their cheers. With safety precautions preventing NBC’s obstacle-course hit from filming in front of an audience this season, we love how Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila (from left) root for every competitor with enough rowdy excitement to make up for the missing crowd. Cheers to The Young and the Restless for giving us hope. Courtney Hope, that is. Her duplicitous spitfire…