Innholdsfortegnelse for April 12, 2021 i TV Guide Magazine

FUNNY GUY I’m looking forward to the new Christopher Meloni series [Law & Order: Organized Crime], but I have to say I will miss him performing on comedies. He is as talented an actor in that genre as he is in drama. —Terry SOMETHING SPECIAL I agree 100 percent with your Jeer to everyone who isn’t watching The Unicorn [“Cheers & Jeers,” March 29 issue]. The laughs and tears elicited are genuine, never forced. It’s a comedy, but with so much heart. —Patty MAGICAL VIEWING I love A Discovery of Witches on Sundance Now. It’s a series for adults who love sci-fi/fantasy and not for teenyboppers. It has a great story of different people with a common goal. —Michelle SING ON I loved seeing Netflix’s Country Comfort with Katharine McPhee.…

CLEVELAND ROCKS—AND SO does the city’s bighearted James Beard Award winner Michael Symon, who’s all about helping folks through food. “One of the great things about being a chef is mentoring people who are learning their way around the kitchen,” he says. That attitude should be a bonus in his new gig on Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America: The Best of the Worst, where he and fellow chef Anne Burrell lead past contestants in a battle royal of foodie failures. “They had slightly different skill levels,” he notes of his team members. “But for the most part, they really couldn’t cook.” Below, the philanthropic Iron Chef champ dishes out info. Who fired up your love of cooking? I have a Greek-Sicilian mother, so food was at the forefront of…

“STONE COLD” STEVE AUSTIN PREMIERES Sunday, April 18, 8/7c This tough-as-nails Texan kicks off A&E’s eight-week Biography event, recounting his journey from high school football star and fledgling regional wrestler surviving on tuna fish and raw potatoes to the WWE’s biggest, baddest star of the ’90s. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Everything: It dictates the persona. As the Ringmaster, this future pop-culture icon was deemed unmarketable by WWE mastermind Vince McMahon. So in 1996 Austin rebranded to embrace his natural intensity, wisely nixing names like Chilly McFreeze and Fang McFrost before then-wife Jeanie Clarke told him, “Drink your tea before it gets stone cold.” COWBOY UP Injuries are common, but hearing the WWE Legend’s play-by-play of the temporary paralysis he experienced after bruising his spinal cord during a 1997 title match…

Prodigal Son Tuesday, April 13, 9/8c, Fox PICK OF THE WEEK! THE GAME IS afoot! Cocky, dapper Europol agent Simon Hoxley (the always delicious Alan Cumming, left) arrives in New York City this week to investigate the murder of ruthless billionaire and shady smuggler Nicholas Endicott (Dermot Mulroney). To recap: Last season, Endicott was holding TV journalist Ainsley Whitly (Halston Sage) and her brother, criminal profiler Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne), hostage when she snapped. She slit the bad guy’s throat right there in their mother Jessica’s (Bellamy Young) penthouse! After consulting with Dad, serial killer Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), Malcolm sawed the body into bits and shipped it to Estonia, where parts have since surfaced. Cumming, Mulroney’s costar in the 2002 movie Intimate Affairs, notes wryly, “I just thought it…

MOVIES 1:35/12:35c Argo (2012) HBO Zone 4/3c Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) AMC 5:30/4:30c John Wick (2014) Syfy 10:45/9:45c 48 Hrs. (1982) IFC Midnight/11c Before Sunset (2004) OuterMax The Beverly Hillbillies Noon/11am c, Decades Dip into your liquor cabinet every time the Clampetts call their swimming pool a “cement pond” during this classic sitcom binge of 86 ’60s episodes. HELPING HANDS Pit Bulls & Parolees 8/7c, Discovery Villalobos Rescue Center founder Tia Torres travels to Mississippi and meets a hybrid wolf-dog in need of a fresh start, while VRC helper Lizzy Chock hangs back in NOLA and faces a hard choice with one of the animals. Right in Front of Me MOVIE PREMIERE 9/8c, Hallmark Channel A bridal stylist (Janel Parrish) and a resort’s aspiring chef (Marco Grazzini) cook up plans that’ll help him land clients and her…

MOVIES 7am/6c Everest (2015) FX 8:10am/7:10c The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) FXM 9:25am/8:25c Ford v Ferrari (2019) HBO 9:28am/8:28c Philadelphia (1993) Starz Encore 10:30am/9:30c Sleepless in Seattle (1993) SundanceTV 10:55am/9:55c Primal Fear (1996) HBO Signature 12:20/11:20am c Capote (2005) HDNet Movies 1:15/12:15c Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Epix 3/2c Interstellar (2014) FX 3:45/2:45c Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Starz Encore 4:50/3:50c Young Adult (2011) Epix 6:04/5:04c The Devil’s Own (1997) Starz 8/7c Finding Dory (2016) Freeform 8/7c The Producers (1968) TCM 10/9c Harriet (2019) Cinemax 10:03/9:03c Stand by Me (1986) Retroplex 1:57am/12:57c Courage Under Fire (1996) Starz in Black 2:28am/1:28c Three Days of the Condor (1975) 5StarMax Kingdom of the Polar Bears 8/7c, Nat Geo Wild Veteran polar bear guide Dennis Compayre is on a mission in this adventurous two-part docuseries: to spend a year in Canada’s Arctic wilderness tracking the plight of polar bears, specifically a mother and her newborn cubs. Making it personal increases the impact. By the time the…

MOVIES 7am/6c and 10am/9c Mary Poppins (1964) Freeform 8am/7c The Shawshank Redemption (1994) FX 11am/10c Hidden Figures (2016) FX 1:30/12:30c Show Boat (1951) TCM 3/2c Toy Story 3 (2010) Freeform 3:30/2:30c Game Night (2018) TBS 4:16/3:16c Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019) Starz 4:30/3:30c Star Trek Beyond (2016) Epix 4:48/3:48c Yellow Rose (2020) Starz Cinema 5:30/4:30c Coco (2017) Freeform 5:40/4:40c The Shape of Water (2017) FXM 6/5c Singin’ in the Rain (1952) TCM 6:59/5:59c Steel Magnolias (1989) Starz Encore 7/6c Avengers: Endgame (2019) TNT 9/8c Crazy Heart (2009) Indieplex 9:40/8:40c Fury (1936) Movies! Midnight/11c Dark Waters (2019) The Movie Channel Midnight/11c Sounder (1972) TCM Air Disasters SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Smithsonian Channel “Viewers usually have a visceral reaction to Air Disasters: They either can’t get enough, or can’t watch at all,” says exec producer Dan Wolf. I’ll vouch for that! I have one friend who shares my obsession with this series, which stages…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier for avenging two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most underserved residents. In contrast to the bombastic big-budget flicks like 2019’s action-packed Avengers: Endgame, Disney+’s new series centered on Anthony Mackie’s (left) and Sebastian Stan’s superheroes seems to favor actual character development and emotion. Cheers to Breeders for producing a couple we’ve grown to adore. As a flawed and frantic London couple struggling to raise two kids and retain their sanity, Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard feel even more riotously relatable in the FX dramedy’s consistently addicting second season. Cheers to Netflix for giving weekly drops another shot. The second round of the streamer’s reality original The Circle will unravel like Season 1, with four episodes per week starting on April…

@TVGMMattRoush As we enter our second year with COVID-19, I’m wondering if the producers who decided to bring the pandemic into their storylines weren’t prepared for the vaccines to come along so quickly. Grey’s Anatomy still seems to be in the early days of the pandemic. These stories don’t seem as current as they would have a few months ago. I also have to say that Meredith’s COVID storyline is getting boring. Do you think Hollywood overestimated the length of the pandemic? Did a show like Grey’s go too far in on COVID? —Steve MATT ROUSH: I get that many of us are experiencing COVID exhaustion, in real life and in the media. But remember that Grey’s, which I’d describe as still being in the thick of the pandemic as…

MOVIES 8:33am/7:33c American Graffiti (1973) ActionMax 9:50am/8:50c Bugsy (1991) Retroplex 10:54am/9:54c and 1:05am/12:05c L.A. Confidential (1997) Starz Encore 12:30/11:30am c Spy (2015) FXX 12:50/11:50am c Blue Velvet (1986) Indieplex 2:15/1:15c The Life of Emile Zola (1937) TCM 2:36/1:36c Reds (1981) MovieMax 3/2c First Man (2018) FXM 5:05/4:05c Far From Heaven (2002) Showtime 2 7/6c and 1am/midnight c A Few Good Men (1992) Paramount Network 7:30/6:30c Apocalypse Now (1979) HDNet Movies 8/7c and 10:30/9:30c Back to the Future Part II (1989) BBC America 8/7c Patriot Games (1992) Epix 9:05/8:05c Rocky (1976) HBO2 10:44/9:44c Sophie’s Choice (1982) MovieMax 10:54/9:54c The Thin Red Line (1998) Starz Cinema 12:20am/11:20c Midnight Express (1978) HDNet Movies Wipeout 9/8c, TBS AS WIPEOUT’S OBSTACLE course from hell throws those Big Balls (above) at a new batch of teams, we threw a few questions at WWE icon John Cena about cohosting the reboot with the riotous Nicole Byer (Nailed It!) and about how he’d fare on the playing field. You’ve…

Sunday Today With Willie Geist 8am/7c, NBC Daytime Pick On the host’s fifth anniversary, revisit Willie Geist’s in-depth interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Jennifer Lopez, the late Chadwick Boseman and more. 14 FIRST-TIME NOMINEES THIS YEAR! 56th Academy of Country Music Awards 8/7c, CBS Keith Urban and New Female Artist of the Year nominee Mickey Guyton host the festivities live from Nashville’s most iconic music venues. Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton lead the way with six nods each. Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 9/8c, NBC Helping sister-in-law Emily (Alice Lee) with a problem ends up being a lot for Zoey (Jane Levy) on the musical dramedy. Also, Zoey’s widowed mom, Maggie (Mary Steenburgen), gets reacquainted with an old friend. The Food That Built America 9/8c, History An 11-year-old kid leaving his fruit drink…

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM Nominations: Two, including Best Supporting Actress As Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) himself would say of the awards recognition, “Very nice!” Cohen’s ridiculous and raunchy follow-up to his 2006 mockumentary finds the crude Kazakh journalist back in the United States on a mission to gift his teen daughter (breakout Maria Bakalova) to the vice president. ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Nominations: Three, including Best Supporting Actor Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. (left) has two reasons to croon a happy tune. He’s nominated for Best Original Song (“Speak Now,” which he cowrote and performs) and for his role as singer Sam Cooke in this drama that imagines what happened when Cooke, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) met up in a hotel in 1964. SOUND OF…

MOVIES 9:45am/8:45c The Way We Were (1973) HDNet Movies 10:09am/9:09c Yellow Sky (1948) Retroplex 10:30am/9:30c Our Town (1940) TCM Noon/11am c World War Z (2013) FX 1:54/12:54c The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) MovieMax 2:30/1:30c Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) FX 3/2c The Bourne Identity (2002) AMC 3/2c Selma (2014) FXM 3:01/2:01c Ad Astra (2019) OuterMax 5:30/4:30c The Bourne Supremacy (2004) AMC 5:55/4:55c Point Blank (1967) Movies! 8/7c The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) AMC 8/7c Papillon (1973) TCM 8/7c and 11:30/10:30c The Revenant (2015) FXM 10/9c Flight (2012) Paramount Network 11:27/10:27c Titanic (1997) Starz Encore 1:11am/12:11c Night of the Living Dead (1968) Retroplex Deadliest Catch SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Discovery “The town is shut down to half capacity. It’s crazy!” It’s February 2021, and Capt. Sig Hansen, who’s chatting with us via Zoom from the wheelhouse of his F/V Northwestern docked in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, is still incredulous about the pandemic’s devastating effects on the crab…

TODAY’S SPORTS PICK MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 10:10/9:10c, MLB Network San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers The Padres face the World Series champion Dodgers on night two of a four-game set. The Young and the Restless CBS, check local listings Even if he didn’t poison rival Rey Rosales (Jordi Vilasuso), a desperate Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) is on the run. Will Adam’s vengeful fiancée Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) help Rey lure him out of hiding? Doing the Most With Phoebe Robinson 11/10c, Comedy Central Each week, the funny gal and former 2 Dope Queens cohost finds a new way out of her comfort zone and into a celeb guest’s head by joining them in an activity like horseback riding, tumbling or a rope course. MOVIES 12:15/11:15am c Rashomon (1950) TCM 8/7c Get Out (2017)…

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25 TOP SHOWS Smart Watch If you have a half hour, watch this comedy The Simpsons welcomes back Benedict Cumberbatch, this time as the voice of Lisa’s (Yeardley Smith) new imaginary friend, Willoughby. The Sherlock star first guested (as Severus Snape!) in 2013. April 18, 8/7c, Fox If you have an hour, watch this drama Family turmoil on New Amsterdam: Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) wasn’t close to the brother she just lost. Now she’s taking in his daughter Mina (Nadia Affolter) from Iran! April 13, 10/9c, NBC If you have a free evening, watch this documentary Heart of stone? Not her! In Cher & the Loneliest Elephant, cameras follow the do-gooding singer and actress to Pakistan as she helps free a malnourished captive pachyderm named Kaavan. April 22, Paramount+…

@TVGMMattRoush Mare of Easttown SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, April 18, 10/9c, HBO YOU DON’T MESS around with Mare. That’s a given if you live in the rural Pennsylvania burg of Easttown, where she’s a no-nonsense, easily exasperated detective sergeant. Take it from the local priest: “I won’t even look you in the eyes—and I’m your cousin.” Kate Winslet (an Emmy winner for HBO’s Mildred Pierce) is a ferocious marvel as Mare of Easttown, inhabiting this determined antihero with grit, weary wit and a born cynic’s knee-jerk suspicion of anyone who admires her. That short list includes a newly arrived visiting professor (Guy Pearce, another Emmy winner for Pierce), a one-hit literary wonder who also knows about disappointment. When she’s teamed with a young hotshot county detective (American Horror Story’s Evan Peters)…

MOVIES 8:15am/7:15c Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) TCM 9:35am/8:35c The Kremlin Letter (1970) FXM 11am/10c The World’s End (2013) IFC 12:53/11:53am c A River Runs Through It (1992) Starz Cinema 1:18/12:18c The Stranger (1946) Retroplex 1:45/12:45c Julius Caesar (1953) TCM 3/2c My Cousin Vinny (1992) Freeform 4/3c Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) FX 6:34/5:34c Jojo Rabbit (2019) HBO Zone 7:08/6:08c A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Starz 8/7c The Avengers (2012) Epix 8:20/7:20c Coming to America (1988) Freeform 8:40/7:40c and 12:05am/11:05c The African Queen (1951) HDNet Movies 10:30/9:30c Back to School (1986) This TV 11:23/10:23c Men in Black (1997) Starz Encore 1:15am/12:15c Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) FXM Big Sky 10/9c, ABC It’s been months since we visited Big Sky country, but matricidal trucker Ronald Pergman (Brian Geraghty) is still on the run, and Montana private detectives Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick) are still on his tail. “He’s gonna come back and wreak…

MOVIES 9:23am/8:23c Dead Again (1991) MovieMax 11:15am/10:15c The Sum of All Fears (2002) Epix 2/1c Lust for Life (1956) TCM 4:55/3:55c Dick (1999) The Movie Channel 6/5c The Maltese Falcon (1941) TCM 8/7c Airplane! (1980) Starz Comedy 8/7c The Green Mile (1999) AMC 10/9c Captain Phillips (2013) Paramount Network 10:57/9:57c Tootsie (1982) Starz Comedy 12:30am/11:30c The Manchurian Candidate (1962) TCM Van Helsing SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, Syfy When Dracula finally rose last season on this postapocalyptic version of the classic vampire tale, the traditional he was a she, played by Battlestar Galactica icon Tricia Helfer (right). Then came her power grab: Dracula escaped the Dark Realm, killed the president (Jill Teed) and took her form. What’s ahead? A look back, for one. In the fifth and final season, the first three episodes delve into the backstory of both Dracula and Van Helsing vampire hunters Vanessa…