Innholdsfortegnelse for April 26, 2021 i TV Guide Magazine

DOCTOR APPRECIATION New Amsterdam on NBC is by far the best medical drama on television since ER. The network’s Chicago Med is just not on the same level. The diversity of the cast is excellent as well. —Gloria FORGOTTEN START The pop culture documentary series on E! For Real: The Story of Reality TV was disappointingly incomplete—it omitted the beginning of that story. It failed to include what is generally acknowledged to be the first reality series on U.S. television: An American Family. That 12-episode PBS documentary appeared in 1973, decades before later popular reality shows. It was arguably more engrossing and authentic than subsequent so-called reality programs, which seem artificial, silly and bland in comparison. —Mike ADDITIONAL DEPTH Cheers to the origin stories on Fox’s 9-1-1. It’s great to…

Ever since bald baddie Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer, right) zapped Kara/Supergirl (Benoist) into the hellish space prison known as the Phantom Zone in the season opener, we’ve been waiting for him to get his comeuppance. Sounds like we’ll have to wait a little longer. “Lex will have departed our radar after leaving an ominous threat” by the time-traveling April 27 and May 4 two-parter, says exec producer Robert Rovner, who hints that we’ll see “more of his vulnerable side” when Lex resurfaces for an all-heroes-on-deck battle royal in the second half this summer. That should give the Superfriends plenty of time to free the Girl of Steel—and face their worst nightmares. In the May 11 midseason-ender, directed by series regular David Harewood (who plays stoic father figure J’onn J’onzz, aka…

MOVIES 7:55am/ The Hot Rock 6:55c (1972) FXM 8:55am/ Star Trek II: 7:55c and The Wrath of 8/7c Khan (1982) Epix 9:10am/ Blow Out (1981) 8:10c The Movie Channel 10:05am/ Rancho Deluxe 9:05c (1975) HDNet Movies 11:45am/ Tom Jones (1963) 10:45c TCM 12:45/ Hush…Hush, 11:45am c Sweet Charlotte (1964) FXM 3/2c 300 (2007) FX 3:29/2:29c Grease (1978) BBC and 9/8c America 4/3c Top Hat (1935) TCM 5/4c Frances Ha (2013) Showtime Women 5:30/4:30c Wonder (2017) Freeform 6/5c Travels With My Aunt (1972) TCM 7:45/6:45c The Martian (2015) FXM 8/7c The Man From Laramie (1955) Grit 8/7c and American 11/10c Sniper (2014) TNT 8/7c The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) TCM 10/9c The Russia House (1990) Cinemax 10/9c Mad Max (1979) Epix 2:15am/ 12 Angry Men 1:15c (1957) TCM Charles and Diana’s Wedding: You Had to Be There 6/5c, BBC America Editors’ Choice For 750 million people, July 29, 1981—the day Prince…

MOVIES 7:45am/ Voyage to the 6:45c Bottom of the Sea (1961) FXM 7:57am/ Do the Right 6:57c Thing (1989) Starz Encore 10am/9c Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) FX 10:17am/ Once Upon a 9:17c Time…in Hollywood (2019) Starz Cinema 1/noon c The Jungle Book (2016) TBS 1:25/12:25c Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) FXM 2/1c Wonder Woman (2017) TNT 3/2c Twister (1996) AMC 3:30/2:30c The Firm (1993) SundanceTV 3:45/2:45c Gigi (1958) TCM 5/4c and Skyfall (2012) 9/8c BBC America 7/6c and The Wizard of 9:15/8:15c Oz (1939) TBS 8/7c The Magnificent Seven (1960) Grit 10:10/9:10c Dark Passage (1947) Movies! 11:30/ Despicable Me 10:30c (2010) TBS Midnight/ Black Hawk 11c Down (2001) BBC America 12:15am/ The World of 11:15c Apu (1959) TCM Bewitched 3/2c, FETV Retro Pick TV mothers-in-law are rarely loving, supportive types, and Bewitched’s Endora (Agnes Moorehead, above) took even that to extremes. In this six-hour “Mother(in-Law) Knows Best” marathon,…

Walker 8/7c, The CW Cord (Jared Padalecki) and the kids decide it’s time to make some changes to the Side Step now that they own the bar, but it’s what daughter Stella (Violet Brinson) does behind her dad’s back that will really shake things up for the Walker family. Station 19 8/7c, ABC While on a boat enjoying a banquet at a Seattle Black Firefighters Coalition event with some of their Station 19 colleagues, Ben Warren (Jason George) and Dean Miller (Okieriete Onaodowan) put themselves in grave danger trying to save a man’s life. Million Dollar Listing New York SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Bravo The real-estate reality show’s first-ever female agent angles for a slice of the Big Apple pie. Powerhouse broker Kirsten Jordan wows fellow agents like Ryan Serhant (who…

When Calls the Heart SEASON FINALE 9/8c, Hallmark Channel WHO WILL SHE CHOOSE? The payoff has arrived for “Hearties,” this period drama’s passionate fanbase, who have waited patiently for conflicted schoolteacher Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) to choose between two worthy men. By the end of tonight’s Season 8 finale, she will have proclaimed her feelings for either noble Mountie Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry) or sensitive businessman Lucas Bouchard (Chris McNally, right, with Krakow). But after an unexpected twist in the final moments of the May 2 episode, look for Elizabeth to enter the hour with some emotional cracks showing: “She’s heartbroken, optimistic, scared, all of those things. There’s a lot happening for sweet Elizabeth!” teases Krakow. “Buckle up and go for the ride!” The actress promises Elizabeth will have time…

@damianholbrook LOVE IT! Cheers to Law & Order’s arresting reunion. Millions of L&O fans were material witnesses to the illegal amount of chemistry between SVU’s Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni (left) when their ex-partners Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler paired up again after 10 years apart to launch Meloni’s Organized Crime spinoff. Talk about packing heat! Cheers to Chad for schooling us in the continuing horrors of adolescence. Mixing angst and optimism, TBS’s wry sitcom starring Saturday Night Live vet Nasim Pedrad as an awkwardly thirsty 14-year-old Persian boy hell-bent on high-school popularity is so universally relatable we can’t help but cringe and crack up. Cheers to Mom for calling on Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk for a guest appearance. The star did us all a favor with a cheeky…

@TVGMMattRoush I keep seeing negative comments about the guest hosts on Jeopardy! [Aaron Rodgers, above, was the most recent.] But this forgets a basic fact. They are being compared to an Alex Trebek who had 36 years to grow on the job. When he started in 1984, he had hosted a few relatively unsuccessful game shows, and to the press and public at the time, the consensus was, “He isn’t Art Fleming!” So let’s lighten up on the guest hosts—one of them very well may be the next Alex, but we won’t know until they’ve been on the job for several years. —Rick MATT ROUSH: Score one for institutional memory and for keeping an open mind. With very few exceptions, I don’t see these guest stints as job auditions. And…

@TVGMMattRoush SERIES PREMIERE Friday, April 30, Apple TV+ IN MORE WAYS than one, the latest version of The Mosquito Coast is a family affair. Loosely based on Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel, the seven-part season stars the author’s nephew Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) as obsessive inventor and societal dissident Allie Fox, who whisks his family into a rabbit hole of peril. It’s a challenging role, previously played by Harrison Ford in a more faithful 1986 Peter Weir film costarring Helen Mirren and River Phoenix. Allie and wife Margot (the sultry Melissa George) will never win parents-of-the-year awards as they drag their teenage kids, Dina (Logan Polish) and Charlie (Gabriel Bateman), on a harrowing and surreal odyssey across the border to Mexico. They’re fleeing the U.S. government for reasons not immediately apparent,…

MacGyver SERIES FINALE 8/7c, CBS In the farewell episode, Phoenix Foundation agents Mac (Lucas Till, above left, with Henry Ian Cusick) and Riley (Tristin Mays) wake up in a cornfield with no memory of the previous 24 hours—and nano-trackers embedded in their bodies. World’s Funniest Animals: Spring Fling 8/7c, The CW This one-hour special collects LOL animal videos from around the world. You probably won’t hear any good knock-knock jokes, but expect waggish dogs, comical cats, funny bunnies and a baby chick fashion show. Elizabeth Stanton hosts. My Lottery Dream Home International 8/7c, HGTV On the struck-it-rich spinoff tonight: Flush with £400,000 he won gambling online (roughly $550,000), a single British dad goes on the hunt with host Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen for a flat that’s fit for a bachelor, but also…

What is it? AMC Networks’ streaming bundle, which offers a wide range of programming from its family of channels including AMC, BBC America, IFC and SundanceTV. How much does it cost? Plans start at $8.99 per month. What’s in the library? Thousands of hours of must-see series and movies: Want to binge Emmy winners Mad Men and Orphan Black? Do that here. Movies now streaming include everything from Black Hawk Down to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Or check out AMC+ originals like the just-released espionage series Spy City starring Dominic Cooper (above) as an English secret agent looking for a traitor in Cold War–era Berlin. Launching in May: the psychological thriller Too Close, about a psychiatrist (Emily Watson) who must evaluate a manipulative criminal suspect (Denise Gough). What’s…

ORIGINAL DRAMA What you don’t see can terrify you. The innovative nine-episode sci-fi thriller Calls on Apple TV+ harks back to the days of classic radio drama in a series of increasingly panicked phone calls illustrated only by sound waves or other graphic tools. We never see the callers—the voice cast includes Joey King, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Jonas and Lily Collins—but we feel their fear as their world becomes threatened by inexplicable and deadly anomalies involving time and space. I sampled the first Calls out of curiosity and couldn’t stop watching—er, listening. What makes this a perfect binge is the series’ brevity, with chapters varying in length from 13 to 21 minutes. It’s over before you know it, but Calls may unnerve you enough to want to call your mommy.…

MOVIES 8am/7c Alfie (1966) HDNet Movies 8:45am/ A Kiss Before 7:45c Dying (1956) TCM 11:22am/ Hombre (1967) 10:22c Retroplex 2:06/1:06c Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (1977) TBS 4/3c The Simpsons Movie (2007) FXX 4:50/3:50c Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) HDNet Movies 5:46/4:46c Apollo 13 (1995) Starz Edge 5:58/4:58c Before Sunrise (1995) MoreMax 7/6c O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) AMC 7:39/6:39c Before Sunset (2004) MoreMax 8/7c To Have and Have Not (1944) Movies! 8/7c The War Wagon (1967) Grit 10/9c Cape Fear (1991) Starz Encore 11:04/ Dead Man 10:04c Walking (1995) 5StarMax 11:45/ Georgy Girl 10:45c (1966) TCM 12:10am/ Chances Are 11:10c (1989) Movies! 12:15am/ The Breakfast 11:15c Club (1985) AMC New Amsterdam 10/9c, NBC Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold), New Amsterdam hospital’s principled medical director, may have met his match in patient Jane Munsee (Tantoo Cardinal, above center, with Eggold). “She’s a history professor with a drive for…

MOVIES 7:20am/ Go (1999) Starz 6:20c Comedy 1:24/12:24c Harriet (2019) MoreMax 2:29/1:29c Night Shift and 9:51/ (1982) Retroplex 8:51c 2:45/1:45c Hanky Panky (1982) Movies! 3:17/2:17c Semi-Tough (1977) 5StarMax 4:28/3:28c Broken Lance (1954) Retroplex 5:05/4:05c Much Ado About Nothing (2013) 5StarMax 5:27/4:27c Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) Indieplex 7:06/6:06c Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Indieplex 8/7c Big Hero 6 (2014) Starz Kids & Family 8/7c Crazy Rich Asians (2018) TNT 8/7c Deadpool (2016) FX 8/7c The Invisible Man (2020) Cinemax 9/8c Black Panther (2018) TBS 9/8c La La Land (2016) 5StarMax 11:08/ Punch-Drunk 10:08c Love (2002) 5StarMax 1am/ Ready Player midnight c One (2018) TBS 1am/ Thelma & midnight c Louise (1991) AMC Magnum P.I. SEASON FINALE 9/8c, CBS Editors’ Choice AS THE SUN sets on the third season of the Hawaii-based reboot, could it also mark the end of the partnership between crafty private investigator Thomas Magnum and intrepid…

ACROSS 1 Planet Melmac native 4 Fay of King Kong 8 Dull 12 Rugrats toddler 13 Central points 14 Judge Judy wears one 15 Jerry Mathers role (2 wds.) 18 Bassett of American Horror Story 19 Clothing size (abbr.) 20 Potsie’s pal (2 wds.) 25 Visnjic of Timeless 28 HBO show ____ Dark Materials 29 Debt letters 30 God of war 31 Pamela Anderson series 32 Aware of (2 wds.) 33 The ____ Patrol 34 Be sickly 35 Prepared to propose 36 Popular preschooler’s show (2 wds.) 39 Like Tom Brokaw, now (abbr.) 40 Paul Reubens character (hyph.) 44 Miley Cyrus show (2 wds.) 48 Takes a load off 49 Top-notch (hyph.) 50 Harington of Game of Thrones 51 Dallas Cowboys quarterback Aikman 52 Hayes of Will & Grace 53 Bradley and…

The Wizard of Paws SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, BYUtv Take it as a stamp of approval from the universe: In The Wizard of Paws’ second season, animal prosthetist Derrick Campana’s first patient is a dog named…Toto (above). The energetic mixed-breed pup, who lost her front paws in a farming accident, belongs to the Glick family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Their home is Campana’s first stop on a 10-episode cross-country journey in his pickup truck, towing a mobile workshop trailer. “I always dreamt of being able to travel to people’s houses, use this trailer and fit [animals],” says Campana. The husband and father usually works out of a 6,000-square-foot Virginia facility, but after Season 1 aired, he heard from so many people with animals in need that he decided to visit in person.…

We all know (and love) Tina Fey’s 30 Rock, but there are a slew of other series featuring current and former Saturday Night Live vets worth watching too. Here are a few of our favorites: Shrill, Aidy Bryant On the upcoming final season of this sharp, underrated gem, unapologetically plus-size writer Annie (Bryant) navigates life as a newly single gal. “Annie’s journey really comes to a beautiful end,” says Bryant. Seasons 1–2 available now; Season 3 premieres Friday, May 7 The Last Man on Earth, Will Forte The good news: Phil Miller (Forte) didn’t succumb to a virus that wiped out most of the world’s humans. The bad news: A lot of the other survivors he meets on the 2015–18 Fox comedy are weirdos. Seasons 1–4 available Happy Endings, Casey Wilson…

MOVIES 7:50am/ Lucas (1986) 6:50c Retroplex 9:14am/ Elegy (2008) 8:14c Indieplex 11am/10c Blockers (2018) FXX 11:46am/ Gattaca (1997) 10:46c Starz Encore Noon/ The Command 11am c (1954) Grit 3:50/2:50c The Barefoot Contessa (1954) HDNet Movies 7:15/6:15c Postcards From the Edge (1990) Starz Encore 8/7c Dazed and Confused (1993) IFC 8/7c Greenland (2020) HBO 8/7c Transformers (2007) This TV 8/7c and Smokey and the 12:45am/ Bandit (1977) 11:45c SundanceTV 10:30/ The Blues 9:30c Brothers (1980) IFC 11/10c The Undefeated (1969) Grit 11:15/10:15c Half Light (2006) HDNet Movies 1am/ The Lego midnight c Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) TNT 1:15am/ Frailty (2002) 12:15c HDNet Movies 3:30am/ The Count of 2:30c Monte-Cristo (1975) Movies! Riviera SEASON PREMIERE 7/6c, Ovation Some shows are meant to be savored. With its gorgeous villas and stunning sea views, this sun-soaked dark drama is one of them. As Season 2 begins tonight on Ovation (three seasons are streaming on…