Innholdsfortegnelse for December 7, 2020 i TV Guide Magazine

SAD GOODBYE Thank you for your extended six-page coverage of our American treasure, the much loved and legendary Alex Trebek [November 23 issue]. He will be forever missed by the viewers who have appreciated his steadfast gentlemanly demeanor and celebrated hosting abilities for over 36 years. Still being able to see him greet us nightly on Jeopardy! until [January 8] is both bittersweet and a bit heartbreaking. —Doris BAH, HUMBUG I can’t believe you forgot to list George C. Scott [“Pick a Scrooge,” November 23]—the best ever! —Christine CARRY ON Thank you for your eight-page cover story commemorating the 15-season run of Supernatural [November 9 issue]. It may never have broken into the Top 25 shows of the week, but devoted fans made up for that in enthusiasm. For us,…

Watched Live 1 Sunday Night Football: Ravens vs. Patriots NBC 15.8 2 60 Minutes CBS 12.4 3 Thursday Night Football: Colts vs. Titans Fox 12.2 4 Monday Night Football: Patriots vs. Jets ESPN 9.8 5 Chicago Med NBC 7.8 6 The Voice (Tuesday) NBC 7.6 7 Young Sheldon CBS 7.4 8 The Voice (Monday) NBC 7.3 9 Chicago Fire NBC 7.2 10 The 54th Annual CMA Awards ABC 7.1 The yearly country music event, hosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker, dropped 4.2 million viewers from last year (11.3 million) and hit an all-time low. 11 This Is Us NBC 6.8 12 Station 19 ABC 6.6 13 Chicago P.D. NBC 6.4 14 NCIS: Los Angeles CBS 6.1 The Masked Singer Fox 6.1 16 Dancing With the Stars ABC 6.0 17…

@TVGMMattRoush SERIES PREMIERE Monday, Dec. 7, Acorn TV HOW JANE AUSTEN would have admired Lata Mehra, a modern woman who sees through the pride and prejudice of her turbulent times. “This is a stupid world we live in,” Lata declares in frustration, upon learning that her university beau is unsuitable because they’re of different faiths (she’s Hindu, he’s Muslim). Somehow, she has become more independent of thought than her country of India in 1951, four years after emerging from British rule. Echoes of Austen, and Dickens and Shakespeare, enliven the six glorious hours of A Suitable Boy, adapted from Vikram Seth’s mammoth novel of manners (nearly 1,500 pages). Director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) and veteran writer Andrew Davies (the definitive 1995 Pride and Prejudice) tame the sprawling text with an…

MOVIES 8:40am/ 7:40c Emma. (2020) HBO Signature 9am/8c Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas (2009) PBS 10:35am/Harriet (2019) 9:35c HBO2 1:05/Apollo 13 (1995) 12:05c Showtime 2 1:30/ 12:30c The Hangover (2009) FXX 2:33/1:33c National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) Starz Comedy 2:42/1:42c Noah (2014) Syfy 3/2c Kong: Skull Island (2017) TNT 3:30/2:30c The Hunt for Red October (1990) Showtime Extreme 3:50/2:50c About Last Night (1986) Epix 5/4c Red River (1948) This TV 5:45/4:45c Broadcast News (1987) Epix 7:15/6:15c The Exorcist (1973) IFC 8/7c Elf (2003) AMC Midnight/ 11c Great Expectations (1946) TCM Midnight/ 11c Nevada Smith (1966) Grit 12:45am/Gangs of New 11:45c York (2002) HBO2 1:18am/The Girl With 12:18c the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Starz Editors’ Choice FBI: Most Wanted 10/9c, CBS BLUE BLOODS’ BELOVED Linda Reagan may have fallen victim to a helicopter crash, but happily Amy Carlson, who portrayed the outspoken…

MOVIES 10am/9c Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008) Freeform 10am/9c and 8:30/ 7:30c The Terminator (1984) This TV 11:25am/ 10:25c Road to Perdition (2002) IFC 11:40am/ 10:40c The Other (1972) FXM 4:24/3:24c The War of the Roses (1989) Retroplex 8/7c It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) USA 8/7c Shane (1953) Grit 8/7c Sing (2016) FX 11/10c Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Showtime Baby Shark’s Big Show! SERIES PREMIERE 12:30/11:30am c, Nickelodeon Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo… This new animated series based on the kids’ viral video—with more than 7 billion views, it’s just YouTube’s most watched of all time—is fintastic family fun. Baby (voiced by Kimiko Glenn) lives in Carnivore Cove with his parents, grandparents and best friend, William (Luke Youngblood). “Baby is sweet, bubbly and enthusiastic—he has no clue how to play it cool,” says co–exec producer…

Newly Available Always (1989) Even hardened cynics can’t help but shed a tear or two during this bittersweet dramedy. A daredevil pilot (Richard Dreyfuss) dies, becomes an angel and watches over his grieving love (Holly Hunter). Beowulf (2007) The epic poem becomes a computer-animated blockbuster with Ray Winstone, Robin Wright, Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. Hard Kill (2020) Desperate Housewives lawn boy Jesse Metcalfe plays a mercenary hired to protect a CEO’s (Bruce Willis) new technology. If it falls into the wrong hands, mankind could be kaput. Mosul (2020) Netflix Original Members of a police unit in Mosul, Iraq, fight back against the ISIS terrorists who encroach on the city. The drama is based on a true story. Peppermint (2018) Jennifer Garner channels Charles Bronson in this bloody, Death Wish–esque…

Mom 9/8c, CBS Longtime 12-stepper Bonnie Janikowski (Allison Janney, right) has the hilarious habit of saying exactly what’s on her mind. But tonight’s laughs come when she reluctantly clams up. She supports her former-stuntman husband Adam’s (William Fichtner) dream to try adaptive skiing in his wheelchair, despite her fears he’ll be injured (a snowboarding accident is how he became paralyzed). “Bonnie’s just not prepared for how difficult doing the right thing can be,” says exec producer Gemma Baker. “While Adam’s away, she’s plagued with worst-case scenarios, which leads her to some pretty erratic behavior.” Like dreaming of her late ex, Alvin (Kevin Pollak)! Death in Paradise 7/6c, Ovation In this charming British import, Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and his colleagues continue to solve murders on the beautiful (faux)…

MOVIES 7:32am/6:32c School Ties (1992) Indieplex 8:35am/7:35c The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Cinemax Noon/ 11am c Jurassic Park (1993) A&E Noon/11amc Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Showtime Family Zone 1:57/12:57c Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Starz Encore 2:45/1:45c Clihanger (1993) Epix 3:15/2:15c Game Night (2018) TBS 4/3c The Shop Around the Corner (1940) TCM 5:30/4:30c Tombstone (1993) CMT 6:15/5:15c The Cooler (2003) Flix 7:07/6:07c A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Starz Edge 8/7c and 10:30/ 9:30c Twister (1996) SundanceTV 10:15/9:15c The Holly and the Ivy (1952) TCM 11/10c Creed II (2018) Epix 1am/ midnight c Do the Right Thing (1989) Showtime Showcase 2:20am/Muriel’s 1:20c Wedding (1994) HBO2 Editors’ Choice Garth & Trisha Live! A Holiday Concert Event 8:30/7:30c/8PT, CBS THEY HEADLINED AT their home recording studio in April. Now country greats Garth Brooks and Trisha…

ACROSS 1 Good buddies 5 The Bernie ____ Show 8 Deep 11 Match Game host Baldwin 12 Aplenty (2 wds.) 14 The Great Grape ____ Show 15 Archie and Jughead show 17 The Masked Singer judge Jeong 18 Goosebumps creator R.L. 19 Weep 20 End for depend 21 Consume 23 Richard Madden on Game of Thrones 25 Antiques Roadshow network 28 Bones setting 30 Mary-Louise Parker series 33 Help in a heist 35 So You Think You Can Dance host Deeley 37 Show with Chris Colfer 38 Frosty the Snowman wears one 40 Major ____ 42 Superman foe Luthor 43 Little joke 45 Sack 47 Simpsons character Disco ____ 49 Sports o.cial, for short 51 Shire of Rocky 55 Gardening tool 56 Like Hulu and HBO Max 58 ____ Garry Shandling’s Show 59 ____ Wolf 60 Actress Sommer 61 Stovetop…

@TVGMMattRoush As with many Ryan Phillippe fans, I am totally shocked that his character, Cody, was killed off on the premiere episode of ABC’s Big Sky. He is the reason I was attracted to the show, and I’m not sure if I will continue watching. I’m also curious how the ratings will go as the season progresses. This could go well for ABC or be a total bomb. What are your thoughts? —Melinda MATT ROUSH: Ratings aside, shock was the point of this brutal twist, and it comes straight from the source material (C.J. Box’s The Highway). It reminded me of how people must have felt the first time watching Janet Leigh meet her fate in the shower midway through Psycho. Big Sky now rests on its female leads (Katheryn…

MOVIES 8:30am/ 7:30c The Hustler (1961) FXM 9:15am/ 8:15c As Good as It Gets (1997) Epix 11:35am/ 10:35c Ray (2004) HBO Signature 11:45am/ 10:45c Lawrence of Arabia (1962) TCM 12:35/ 11:35am c The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) FXM 12:59/ 11:59am c Skyfall (2012) Syfy 2:29/1:29c A River Runs Through It (1992) Starz Edge 3:35/2:35c The Silence of the Lambs (1991) HDNet Movies 4:45/3:45c The Stranger (1946) Retroplex 5/4c Transformers (2007) TNT 5:50/4:50c Home Alone (1990) Freeform 8/7c The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) TCM 9:35/8:35c Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Flix 9:58/8:58c Rush (2013) OuterMax 10/9c Ready Player One (2018) TNT 10:05/Reservoir Dogs 9:05c (1992) Showtime 2 11:45/The Blues 10:45c Brothers (1980) Showtime 2 12:44am/Blue Collar (1978) 11:44c Retroplex Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! 8/7c, NBC “It’s heavy. And hot. But, man, does it deliver,” says Matthew Morrison of the iconic green suit he dons to…

NEW ORIGINAL MOVIES The Ride Based on the true story of BMX rider John Buultjens: An interracial couple (Sasha Alexander and Ludacris) take in a teen (Shane Graham) raised by white supremacists. Available now Sound of Metal Emmy winner Riz Ahmed (The Night Of) plays a drummer who must decide whether or not to continue making music—even if it means losing his hearing. Available now I’m Your Woman The marvelous Rachel Brosnahan (right) is no Mrs. Maisel in this 1970s-set crime drama. She’s a suburban housewife who goes on the run with her son after her shady husband (Bill Heck) betrays his partners. Premieres Friday, Dec. 11 MAD ABOUT YOU SEASONS 1-8 TUESDAY, DEC. 8 “Where can I watch Friends and Seinfeld?” is a common question these days. (FYI: HBO…

MOVIES 7:15am/ 6:15c Planet of the Apes (1968) MovieMax 9:25am/ 8:25c The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) The Movie Channel Xtra 10:45am/ 9:45c The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) TCM 11:40am/ 10:40c Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) HDNet Movies 2:05/1:05c Ford v Ferrari (2019) HBO Signature 4/3c The Polar Express (2004) AMC 4:05/3:05c Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Freeform 6:17/5:17c Garden of Evil (1954) Retroplex 8/7c Hot Fuzz (2007) HBO 9/8c The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) HBO2 9/8c Elizabeth (1998) Indieplex 10/9c and 12:15am/ 11:15c Dumb and Dumber (1994) truTV 10:32/ 9:32c Black Hawk Down (2001) Starz Encore 12:30am/ 11:30 c Gremlins (1984) AMC 1:05am/ 12:05c The Post (2017) FXM 2:13am/ 1:13c Three Days of the Condor (1975) 5StarMax Big Sky MIDSEASON FINALE 10/9c, ABC Still reeling from that premiere shocker? As Montana private eye Cody Hoyt (Ryan Phillippe) searched for two sisters kidnapped by a trucker, he was killed by…

MOVIES Noon/ 11am c Leadbelly (1976) Flix 2:20/1:20c The Santa Clause (1994) Freeform 5/4c Obvious Child (2014) Showtime Women 6:10/5:10c Fighting With My Family (2019) Epix 9/8c and 11:30/ 10:30c My Cousin Vinny (1992) IFC 11:58/ 10:58c The Jungle Book (2016) TNT Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 7/6c, TNT The green grump with a heart two sizes too small tries to ruin Christmas for Whoville in this 1966 animated classic. He learns his lesson in back-to-back airings tonight and once more tomorrow (8/7c). TCM Classic Christmas Marathon 8/7c, TCM ’Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the night (plus the next seven), TCM has classic holiday film marathons! It all kicks off with 1940’s Remember the Night (with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, right). Movie Picks Wicked Tuna 8/7c, Nat Geo Wild It’s crunch time for…

When Tom Bergeron was fired last summer from ABC’s Dancing With the Stars—he’d hosted the popular show since its 2005 premiere—fans were shocked. As was he: Bergeron tells TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in his first interview since exiting the ballroom, “I always thought Dancing would be where I end my hosting tenure,” though he thought it would be on his terms. He was replaced by Tyra Banks; viewers have criticized the former model for not being as polished as Bergeron and campaigned for his return. The unflappable Emmy winner, 65—who began his career on New Hampshire radio, hosted FX’s Breakfast Time (1994–96) and ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos (2001–15) and performed as Taco on The Masked Singer last winter—addresses his future with Dancing and shares what’s left on his bucket list.…

MOVIES 11:15am/ 10:15c The American President (1995) AMC Noon/ 11am c Gone Girl (2014) FXX 2:45/1:45c Just Mercy (2019) HBO2 3:45/2:45c Gypsy (1962) TCM 6/5c Layer Cake (2004) Flix 8/7c Misery (1990) HBO Signature 9/8c and 1:10am/ 12:10c Sabrina (1954) HDNet Movies 10:42/Gattaca (1997) 9:42c Indieplex One Night Only: The Best of Broadway 8/7c, NBC With theaters shuttered, Broadway is takin’ it to the streets! Tina Fey, who wrote the hit musical adaptation of Mean Girls, hosts this twohour salute. It features outdoor performances from Kelly Clarkson, Patti LaBelle and the casts of Ain’t Too Proud, Jagged Little Pill, Mean Girls and more, plus appearances by stars like Leslie Odom Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal, Billy Porter, Vanessa Williams and Nathan Lane. Grey’s Anatomy 9/8c, ABC A leap in COVID-19 cases sends Bailey (Chandra Wilson) into a panic. Can her loved…

MOVIES 10:45am/ 9:45c Ad Astra (2019) HBO Signature 11:30am/ 10:30c White Christmas (1954) AMC 1/noon c Pale Rider (1985) IFC 1:47/12:47c Titanic (1997) Starz Encore 2:30/1:30c The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) Flix 4/3c Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) TCM 4:21/3:21c Crimson Peak (2015) OuterMax 5:30/4:30c Wonder (2017) TBS 6/5c and Casino 11:30/Royale (2006) IFC 10:30c 6:50/5:50c GoldenEye (1995) Epix 8/7c Carrie (1976) Retroplex 8/7c A Star Is Born (2018) TNT 9/8c Goodfellas (1990) BBC America 9/8c Pretty in Pink (1986) SundanceTV 10:40/The Longest 9:40c Yard (1974) HDNet Movies Midnight/Public Enemies 11c (2009) BBC America 1:10am/Before Sunrise 12:10c (1995) HBO Signature 2:15am/The Deer 1:15c Hunter (1978) Showtime 2 Pennyworth SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Epix The butler does it again! In Season 2 of the wildly creative origin story, Batman’s future manservant Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon) is…

DEUTSCHLAND 89 SEASON 3 AVAILABLE NOW The wall comes tumbling down—the Berlin Wall, that is—in the final season of the Deutschland franchise, a rare spy thriller that, now complete, echoes with the chaos of modern world history. As suspenseful (if never as outlandish) as 24, but with a cerebral grasp of geopolitics and moral ethics worthy of novelist John le Carré, this series never lets anyone off the hook. Least of all young and often unwilling spy Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay, far left), who in the first season, Deutschland 83, was an East German border guard recruited as an undercover double agent in West Germany. Even after averting a nuclear war and spending a second season (Deutschland 86) in exile, Martin always seems out of his depth while his reputation…

Monday, Dec. 14, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org); Thursday, Dec. 17, 8/7c, BYUtv PICK OF THE WEEK! NOTHING QUITE PREPARED Richard Thomas for being a part of this holiday tradition. “It’s the Grand Canyon of concert experiences,” he says of the spectacle, staged at Salt Lake City’s 21,000-seat Temple Square auditorium. “No matter what your faith, it’s a profound experience if you let yourself be open to it.” PBS airs an hour version of the Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra and Bells’ performance; BYUtv their full 90-minute, Americana-themed program. Highlights of the 17th annual event, filmed in 2019, include Oklahoma-bred Tony winner Kelli O’Hara performing a trio of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s tunes (“A Cockeyed Optimist” from South Pacific, “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from The King and I and “My…

Devils SEASON FINALE 8/7c, The CW The mighty fall—and rise—in the first-season ender of this slick international drama. Trader Massimo (Alessandro Borghi) figures out how to one-up CEO Dominic (Patrick Dempsey) while also clearing his own name in the murder of a rival colleague. MAKE YOUR FINAL GUESSES! The Masked Singer SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Fox The Golden Mask Trophy is awarded. But first, the finalists perform “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and super clues for the panelists (including Ken Jeong, right) come wrapped as gifts. A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special 9/8c, NBC If this year’s compilation of sketches from Christmas Episodes Past doesn’t include the howlingly perfect “Holiday Baking Championship” bit from Eddie Murphy’s 2019 return, Santa and his li’l elves are gonna be on our naughty list. Expedition…

Letters to Satan Claus MOVIE PREMIERE 9/8c, Syfy In this solid spoof of Hallmark holiday fare, investigative journalist Holly (Karen Knox, right) returns to her hometown, Ornaments, to cover the Christmas festival and land a promotion. Satan, whom she accidentally wrote to when she was 7 and wanted Santa to make her parents “go away,” returns for a killing spree that only holiday spirit can stop! Wonderstruck’s Winter Wonderland 6am/5c, BBC America Cozy up and watch the snow fall with this 14-hour binge of winter-focused nature specials. Included: heartwarming Polar Bear Family and Me, awe-inspiring Planet Earth and jaw-dropping Wild Alaska. A Christmas Exchange MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime It’s a twist on The Holiday! An American woman (Laura Vandervoort) and an Englishman (Rainbow Sun Francks) swap homes—only they begin to…

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) It could be wise for you to tend to issues on the home front. Some good news: No matter how strange things get with personal and family matters, there are a lot of reasons to believe you can still have a great time right now. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20) Money comes our way pretty much in the exact amounts we expect and feel we deserve. On a more practical level, what we receive is based on the work we do. Put those two ideas together and you’ll see how you manifest cash. GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Here’s the thing: Life is cyclical, and there will be times when you know what you want, and there will be times when you have no clue. And you just…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Chicago P.D. for bravely walking the thin blue line. Season 8 of the NBC drama has bristled with more authenticity than ever as Officer Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins, left) deals with racial bias within the ranks, and his Windy City squad adjusts to the very real shift in how the police are perceived right now. Cheers to The Pack for spreading so much pawsitivity. Prime Video’s Amazing Race for dogs and their humans (hosted by Lindsey Vonn, below) is a rollicking tribute to the fur-ever bond our four-legged friends provide. The only bone to pick? We wish every canine could have stayed the course! Cheers to Mom for recovering nicely from Anna Faris’ exit. CBS’s top-notch comedy about recovery hasn’t stumbled a bit since her character, Christy, left…