Innholdsfortegnelse for February 15, 2021 i TV Guide Magazine

PICK OF THE WEEK! Kenan SERIES PREMIERE Tuesday, Feb. 16, 8:30/7:30c, NBC “I DON’T CARE who you slept with as long as you…Wake Up With Kenan!” Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson is pitch-perfect delivering that intro as an Atlanta morning TV host (also named Kenan) on this sitcom from Happy Endings’ David Caspe and Jackie Clarke. Recently widowed, the character struggles to keep it together for his daughters (Dani and Dannah Lockett, above, flanking Thompson). “I just want to reflect the circus that it can be,” Thompson says. And while onscreen Kenan needs a lot of help from his fatherin-law (Don Johnson) and his brother (SNL castmate Chris Redd)—one takes the girls on a spa day, the other eases the single dad back into the dating world—the real Kenan is…

The Masked Dancer 8/7c, Fox It remains to be seen whether sugary Cotton Candy (above) had moves sweet enough to earn a Top 3 spot on the hidden-celebrity dance competition. But before anyone takes home the sparkly Diamond Mask Trophy next week, “Road to the Finals” celebrates the best of the best by looking back at the finalists’ most jaw-dropping performances. Bonus: New clue packages divulge more details to torment us and judges Paula Abdul, Ken Jeong, Ashley Tisdale and Brian Austin Green. Married at First Sight 8/7c, Lifetime Is the honeymoon over so soon? As the five newlywed couples get to know each other while on vacation in Las Vegas, four of the pairs seem on the path to real romance. But the fifth encounters a major obstacle and…

BROADCHURCH The Crown’s Olivia Colman reigns on this 2013–17 police drama as Ellie Miller, a sympathetic detective in Broadchurch. The fictional English town is known as a vacation destination… until the body of a local 11-year-old boy turns up on the beach. As Miller and new colleague Alec Hardy (David Tennant, above, with Colman) investigate, the residents’ dark secrets emerge. Seasons 1–3 available GILMORE GIRLS Single mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her teen daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel), banter in rapid-fire style about everything from school to sex. More than just a platform for the actors’ repartee, the 2000–07 WB/CW dramedy (revived by Netflix in 2016) presents complicated family dynamics in humorous and heartbreaking ways. Seasons 1–7 available YOU VS. WILD Host Bear Grylls treks through perilous terrain (a Central American…

Newly Available The Bank Job (2008) Stick ’em up! The cool heist thriller starring Jason Statham is based on the notorious 1971 Baker Street robbery in London. Eat Pray Love (2010) When a divorcée (Julia Roberts) travels the world trying to find herself, she falls for a hunky Brazilian (Javier Bardem) and carbs. Adapted from Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir. Inception (2010) No brief description can do justice to Christopher Nolan’s mind-blowing, sci-fi action film featuring Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy. Just stream it! The Patriot (2000) Mel Gibson stars as a veteran of the French and Indian War who’s reluctant to do battle again when American colonists revolt. Shutter Island (2010) After a woman vanishes from a mental hospital, two U.S. marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) investigate. War Dogs…

Supernatural 11am/10c, TNT Daytime Pick In the 2009 fan favorite “Changing Channels,” brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are condemned by the Trickster (Richard Speight Jr., above right, with Ackles) to play endless roles in parodies of shows from Grey’s Anatomy to Knight Rider. Chain Reaction SERIES PREMIERE 5/4c, GSN Think: Six Degrees of Separation meets Wheel of Fortune. The game show, which last aired in 2016, reboots with teams trying to connect a list of words. Dylan Lane hosts. TRAVEL BACK 4,700 YEARS Legends of the Pharaohs SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel Archeologists dig into stories of the people behind the Egyptian pyramids. First, we learn about pharaoh Djoser’s savvy adviser Imhotep, likely the architect of the new kind of tomb designed to reflect his boss’ godlike…

MOVIES 6:14am/ Heaven Can 5:14c Wait (1978) 5StarMax 7:30am/ Dirty Mary 6:30c Crazy Larry (1974) FXM 8:28am/ Brubaker (1980) 7:28c MoreMax 10:35am/ Von Ryan’s 9:35c Express (1965) FXM 11am/10c Bugsy (1991) The Movie Channel 11am/10c Eighth Grade (2018) Showtime 12:22/ Two Mules for 11:22am c Sister Sara (1970) Retroplex 1:38/12:38c Hope Springs (2012) Starz Edge 3/2c Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015) FX 5:30/4:30c Ford v Ferrari (2019) HBO Signature 6/5c Creed (2015) BET 6/5c Judy (2019) Epix 8/7c Crash (2005) Cinemax 9:45/8:45c Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) Flix 10/9c The Hurricane (1999) HBO Zone 10:30/ White Men 9:30c Can’t Jump (1992) Starz Encore Midnight/ Return of the 11c Gunfighter (1967) Grit 12:30am/ Night Shift 11:30c (1982) Starz Encore Movie Picks Dream Cinema 6am/5c, TCM Dare to dream as TCM’s daytime lineup showcases the trippy and surreal, beginning with 1962’s The Exterminating Angel, in which guests at a cursed dinner…

When Calls the Heart SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, Feb. 21, 9/8c, Hallmark Channel EARLY IN THE new season of Hallmark’s hit frontier drama When Calls the Heart, an emotional Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) hurtles across a field on a fast-galloping horse as music swells. We can’t tell you if she’s speeding toward or away from someone, but it’s safe to say that her love triangle with hero Mountie Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry) and adventurous saloon owner/oilman Lucas Bouchard (Chris McNally) is finally coming to a head in Season 8. “I can assure you we will have an answer,” promises Krakow, who’s also a co–executive producer of Heart, which is based on Janette Oke’s Canadian West novels. “Elizabeth makes a choice this season. It’s time.” “Hearties,” the show’s ardent fans, agree. The…

9-1-1 8/7c, Fox Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark) is the latest character to have his origin story told on the first-responder drama—and the daredevil firefighter’s past is a five-alarm heartbreaker. “The main thing we learn is that Buck has never quite belonged in his family,” says Stark (above). “And not just his immediate family, but even his found family [within the Los Angeles Fire Department]. There’s always been something missing.” That becomes clear when Buck’s parents (Gregory Harrison and Dee Wallace) come to town to visit his pregnant sister, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and a long-buried family secret (depicted in flashback) is revealed. “It’s quite earth-shattering news for him,” Stark says, adding that the development forces Buck to look at his potentially self-destructive addiction to risking his own life for…

19-2 At Montreal’s gritty Station 19, city cop Nick Barron (Adrian Holmes) clashes with his new partner from rural Quebec, Ben Chartier (Jared Keeso, below left, with Holmes, center). Both guys have personal woes but bring their A games against warring gangs, drug dealers and a department mole. Watch on Prime’s Acorn TV channel. MERCY STREET The period medical drama, inspired by real memoirs and letters, views the Civil War through the experiences of two volunteers at a Virginia hospital: New England abolitionist Mary (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Confederate belle Emma (Hannah James). Watch on Prime’s PBS Masterpiece channel. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES Celebrate Black History Month with noted historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helps prominent people of color, including Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, research their family trees. Watch…

Newly Available Accomplice DOCUMENTARY We’ve all been cooped up for way too long, so hit the open road with world-renowned bikers like Kurt Sorge, who show off incredible feats of derring-do. Call My Agent! ORIGINAL DRAMEDY Compared to American shows like Entourage, this French-language series follows talent agents who deal with big egos and backstabbing. On the recently released fourth and final season, Sigourney Weaver guest stars as an (awful) version of herself. C’est magnifique! Heartland CANADIAN DRAMA The long-running series (11 seasons just dropped!) follows Fleming sisters Amy (Amber Marshall) and Lou (Michelle Morgan) as they run a ranch in Alberta and deal with family issues like the return of their estranged dad (Chris Potter). Strip Down, Rise Up ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY An unscripted look at women who pole dance…

MOVIES 8:36am/ Yellow Sky 7:36c (1948) Retroplex 9:40am/ The Incident 8:40c (1967) FXM 11:35am/ Being John 10:35c Malkovich (1999) Showtime 12:20/ Rebel Without 11:20am c a Cause (1955) Movies! 1/noon c The Revenant (2015) FX 2/1c 1917 (2019) Showtime Extreme 2/1c and Ghost (1990) 10/9c The Movie Channel 4/3c Ghostbusters (1984) SundanceTV 5:35/4:35c The Day of the Jackal (1973) Retroplex 6/5c The Untouchables (1987) Showtime 2 8/7c Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) BBC America 8:09/7:09c A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Starz Edge 9:53/8:53c Walk the Line (2005) Cinemax 11:05/ The Truman 10:05c Show (1998) Epix 12:15am/ Four Daughters 11:15c (1938) TCM 1am/ Sabotage (2014) midnight c IFC 3:55am/ Jaws (1975) HBO2 2:55c Young Rock SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, NBC Professional wrestling legend. Actor. All-around cultural icon. They don’t come much bigger than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and this new sitcom based on his life features three fictionalized versions…

Behind Her Eyes WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17 ORIGINAL DRAMA A dangerous game of deception consumes London receptionist Louise (Simona Brown) when she begins an affair with her boss, psychiatrist David Ferguson (Tom Bateman), while also striking up a close friendship with his unstable wife, Adele (Eve Hewson, right), on Netflix’s latest British import. Love triangles on TV are nothing new, but this twisty six-part series keeps viewers guessing at every turn. “You think you’re watching one [type of] show, and you’re really not,” Hewson says. The intensely controlling David and soft-spoken Adele both keep their respective relationships with Louise from each other, but there’s something sinister in the couple’s past that haunts them too. “It’s just been rotting away at their life,” Hewson says. Flashbacks help fill in the blanks: Ten…

Nomadland FRIDAY, FEB. 19 NEW MOVIE An ode to the mystery of the restless American spirit, Chloé Zhao’s haunting Nomadland could be mistaken for a documentary if not for the chameleonic presence of Frances McDormand (above). The Oscar and Emmy winner once again disappears with remarkable authenticity into an uncompromising role: that of Fern, a widow and determined drifter who doesn’t consider herself homeless. “I’m just houseless,” she explains, a circumstance of her Nevada hometown folding after the local gypsum plant closes. Traveling the West alone, but rarely lonely, in an unreliable van, Fern learns how to live off the grid and stay on the move amid real-life nomads. Anytime you think Fern will go in a conventional direction—embracing a stray pooch or welcoming the attention of a shy admirer…

Assembly Required SERIES PREMIERE Tuesday, Feb. 23, 10/9c, History PICK OF THE WEEK! TOOL TIME REUNION! The show-within-a-show on the ’90s sitcom Home Improvement featured Tim Allen as know-it-all handyman Tim Taylor and Richard Karn (above left, with Allen) as his reserved cohost, Al Borland. Now the actors reteam, as themselves, to judge this fun, fast-paced 10-episode competition series. Three mechanically inclined contestants, working from their home shops, build everyday household items (tonight: a fire extinguisher). Two move on to construct a crazy new invention like a combo ice melter/leaf blower and—surprise!—repair whatever monkey wrench the series’ resident DIY expert, April Wilkerson, throws into their plans. The winner pockets $5,000. We nail down the details. Can we expect Tool Time banter? Tim Allen: We’re pretty much like we were, but…

Girl in the Basement MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Using a notorious Austrian abduction case as a template, this film tells the harrowing tale of Sara (Stefanie Scott, above). An American teen with a desire to see the world, she’s imprisoned for years in a secret basement bomb shelter by her sadistic dad, Don (Judd Nelson), who rapes and impregnates her. “On the surface, [this film] is a very difficult story to understand and process,” says first-time director Elisabeth Röhm (Law & Order), “but it is ultimately a story of survival and the prevailing triumph of the human spirit. It’s a call to action.” Beyond the Headlines: Surviving Child Abduction and Imprisonment follows (10/9c). —Ileane Rudolph It Was Always You MOVIE PREMIERE 9/8c, Hallmark Channel While planning her wedding to fellow…