Innholdsfortegnelse for October 25, 2021 i TV Guide Magazine

PLEASANT PROGRESS What a pleasure it is to see Abby (Meghan Ory) smile and laugh again on Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores! Jesse Metcalfe’s Trace was so stale I almost stopped watching several seasons ago. It is so much fun watching two handsome guys flirting with Abby—and two more good-looking guys flirting with Bree (Emilie Ullerup) as well. How refreshing! I love Chesapeake Shores all over again. —June SAD TV Jeers to ABC’s A Million Little Things. Could any show be more depressing? I have watched for two years now, but I am done. This show should have quit after last season. I have never seen a group of friends with so much bad luck. —Barbara BOO—YEAH! What a delightful new show CBS’s Ghosts is! And to add to the joy,…

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MOVIES 8am/7c Rain Man (1988) HDNet Movies 10:02am/9:02c City Slickers (1991) OuterMax 10:30am/9:30c Winter’s Bone (2010) Flix Noon/11am c The Goonies (1985) Freeform 1:10/12:10c 9 to 5 (1980) FXM 1:55/12:55c The King of Staten Island (2020) HBO2 5/4c Shrek 2 (2004) Freeform 6/5c Taken (2008) USA 7:16/6:16c Lost in Translation (2003) Indieplex 8/7c The Mask (1994) Syfy 8/7c Skyfall (2012) Epix 9:45/8:45c Moonrise Kingdom (2012) HBO Signature 11/10c The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Showtime 11:21/10:21c The First Wives Club (1996) Starz Comedy Midnight/11c Mad Max (1979) This TV 1:35am/12:35c The Sixth Sense (1999) Syfy 2am/1c 1984 (1984) This TV 2:30am/1:30c The Insect Woman (1963) TCM The Last O.G. SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c, TBS “It’s a story that needed to be told,” Tracy Morgan says of his semi-autobiographical comedy’s poignant Season 4 opener, which mirrors his real-life recovery following the 2014 tour-van accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury. On the show’s cliffhanger 2020 finale, his character,…

Toon In With Me 7am/6c, MeTV Daytime Pick Just like all of today’s morning shows, Toon In has a Halloween episode! Host Bill Leff intros spooky cartoon shorts, like the Daffy Duck–Witch Hazel classic from 1966 “A Haunting We Will Go.” Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! 8/7c, The CW Grab some Scooby Snacks—wait, better make that human food—and celebrate the slobbering pooch and his Mystery Inc. pals. This special looks back on the long-running toon franchise with guests such as “Weird Al” Yankovic and Young Sheldon’s Iain Armitage. Deadly Due Date MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Movie Network Rachel and Bill (Ashlynn Yennie and Philip Boyd) reconnect with a pregnant Claire (Ella Cannon) at their 15-year high school reunion. She tells the two, who hope to become parents, they can adopt…

The Long Call THURSDAY, OCT. 28 ORIGINAL DRAMA A fatal stabbing brings Detective Inspector Matthew Venn’s past to the present on this four-part mystery. Based on a book from award-winning novelist Ann Cleeves (whose work has also inspired the crime dramas Vera and Shetland), The Long Call finds Venn (Fleabag’s Ben Aldridge, right, with onscreen colleague Pearl Mackie) back in his small English hometown to investigate. The sleuth, who is gay, was away for 20 years after being rejected by his family, members of the Brethren, a conservative religious group. “He has to negotiate this [emotional hardship] when he returns,” says director Lee Haven Jones. Adding even more strife: Venn’s husband, Jonathan (Declan Bennett), becomes implicated in the killing! “It gets personal and very messy for Matthew,” says Jones. “It…

The Good Doctor 10/9c, ABC The old adage “art imitates life” is really hitting home for Will Yun Lee (left), who plays surgeon Alex Park. This week, an elderly Korean American shopkeeper (François Chau) and his activist daughter (Jee Young Han) come to the medical center after he’s beaten in an anti-Asian hate crime. When the two have different opinions on how to deal with the attack, Park uses his experience as the son of immigrants to connect with the young woman and bridge the gap. For Korean American Lee, whose parents owned stores when he was growing up, conversations about that hardworking generation were particularly touching. “Sometimes, because their English is limited, they become faceless,” he says. “I love that this episode goes into what’s in their heart and…

MOVIES 10:05am/9:05c The Missouri Breaks (1976) HDNet Movies 11am/10c Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018) FXX 11:30am/10:30c The Bank Job (2008) AMC 2:21/1:21c Good Will Hunting (1997) Starz Edge 4:45/3:45c Pride & Prejudice (2005) HBO 6:15/5:15c A Ticklish Affair (1963) TCM 7/6c The Karate Kid (1984) AMC 9/8c Beauty and the Beast (1991) Freeform 10:30/9:30c Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) FX 11:30/10:30c The Queen (2006) HBO Vexed 11/10c and 12:30am/11:30c, Ovation Late-Night Pick In this ironic police procedural, a 2010–12 British favorite airing Thursdays starting tonight, Kate and Jack (Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens, above) are just like any other detectives…who happen to work out of a café and bar instead of a precinct and spend time at a crime scene trying to decide whether to lease the victim’s flat. Immature and incompetent Jack’s antics veer into the absurd as he interrogates a potential suspect over the phone and uses…

MOVIES 7:36am/6:36c Tamara Drewe (2010) Indieplex 9:25am/8:25c 21 Grams (2003) Starz Cinema 10:45am/9:45c Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (1983) TNT 11:50am/10:50c Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Starz Noon/11am c The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Movies! 1:30/12:30c El Dorado (1967) SundanceTV 2/1c Marty (1955) TCM 3/2c Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) TBS 4:54/3:54c The Rock (1996) AMC 5/4c Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) FX 6:05/5:05c Vera Cruz (1954) HDNet Movies 7/6c and 10:30/9:30c The Patriot (2000) SundanceTV 8/7c Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) FX 8:05/7:05c Avatar (2009) Freeform 9/8c Twister (1996) BBC America 11/10c Jeremiah Johnson (1972) INSP Yellowstone SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Paramount Network The last Dutton standing in Season 3’s bloody finale was brooding lawyer Jamie (Wes Bentley, above), who’d recently learned he was adopted by the cattle-ranching clan. Could that discovery have driven him to orchestrate the violent incidents that may have mortally wounded patriarch John…

Gibbs has left the bullpen. The tight-lipped, steely-eyed NCIS boss man, played by Mark Harmon since 2003, retired in the October 11 episode and was last seen happily fly-fishing in Alaska. Although indefinitely suspended, he’d just gone very rogue in helping take down a mining company CEO. But instead of catching a seaplane to D.C., he dropped this bombshell: “I’m not going back home.” Since last spring, rumors had been swirling that the actor (who is also an exec producer) was ready to exit the CBS hit, with reports that his Season 19 participation would be limited. But no one expected it to be this limited! Gibbs said his goodbyes to most team members in flashback—he even dunked that good old flip phone in a cup of coffee! Is there…

@TVGMMattRoush I’d like to complain about the abrupt firing of Jamie Gray Hyder and Demore Barnes from Law & Order: SVU. Both characters were a welcome addition to the show! Why did NBC drop them? I am very, very disappointed. Hoping you can explain. —Eve MATT ROUSH: The Law & Order franchise is well known for its revolving door for supporting cast members. With few exceptions, a gig on a Law & Order show is not a lifetime assignment, although Kat (Hyder) and Deputy Chief Garland (Barnes) had unusually short tenures. Whether this was a creative or budgetary decision was never explained, but I’d agree the optics were worse than usual, losing a young LGBTQ officer and the show’s first Black deputy chief in one fell swoop. I keep hearing…

Movie Pick In the Heights 8/7c, HBO This joyous 2021 adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical celebrates the rhythms of upper Manhattan’s Washington Heights, where bodega owner Usnavi and his crush, Vanessa (Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera, above), lead the neighborhood in song as they strive to make their dreams come true. Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), the film dwells more than anything on dignity, identity and the magic of dance. The Zoo 9/8c, Animal Planet At the Bronx Zoo, love is in the air—high in the air. Towering giraffes Jigsaw and Zizi are matched for breeding, and crane chick Cora is relocated and meets a possible mate. NFL Icons 10/9c, Epix The term GOAT may be used too freely. Not with Jerry Rice. This greatest-of-all-time wide…

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF “How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?” Let teen slacker Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) inspire you to play hooky and join him, girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) on an adventure as they “borrow” a Ferrari, lip-synch the Beatles and dodge the mean school dean (Jeffrey Jones) in the 1986 comedy. LEGALLY BLONDE We have zero objections when it comes to this feel-good 2001 comedy starring Reese Witherspoon (right) as an effervescent Harvard Law student who’s unfairly underestimated. NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU This intimate 2016 documentary about the man behind All in the Family and Maude features conversations with colleagues including Family star Rob Reiner and Lear himself, who gives insight into how…

Food Lovers’ Double Feature Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi: Holiday Edition THURSDAY, NOV. 4 ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES Think you know all the classic holiday dishes? Think again. In four special episodes of her cooking and travel series, Top Chef host and self-described food nerd Padma Lakshmi (right) seeks out minority communities to see what they eat when they celebrate. Items on the menu: potato latkes (for Jewish New Yorkers’ Hanukkah), clam chowder (for the Wampanoag Nation’s Thanksgiving) and whole roasted pig (for Nochebuena, the Cuban Christmas Eve feast). Light talk about food leads to meatier conversations about the struggles each community has faced. “I want to give our audience the whole story—that’s what makes us human,” Lakshmi explains. “It was very moving to share such intimate moments with the families.”…

MOVIES 6am/5c Life of Brian (1979) IFC 7:30am/6:30c Moonstruck (1987) HBO 10am/9c Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) FX 11am/10c BlacK-kKlansman (2018) FXX 12:32/11:32am c The Dark Crystal (1982) Starz Kids & Family 1:15/12:15c The Women (1939) TCM 3:12/2:12c Pain and Glory (2019) Starz Encore 3:30/2:30c Crusoe (1989) This TV 4:10/3:10c Matilda (1996) Freeform 5:46/4:46c The Missing (2003) Starz Cinema 6/5c Galaxy Quest (1999) BBC America 6:15/5:15c Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Freeform 7/6c Iron Man 3 (2013) FX 7:30/6:30c Miami Blues (1990) This TV 8/7c Ashes and Diamonds (1958) TCM 10:50/9:50c Battle of the Bulge (1965) HDNet Movies 12:05am/11:05c Greenland (2020) HBO 2:23am/1:23c Ned Kelly (2003) Starz Encore The Curse of Oak Island SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, History Talk about a gold mine: Treasure-hunting brothers Marty and Rick Lagina (above), partner Craig Tester and their expedition experts are heading into their ninth season of successfully scouring Nova Scotia’s historic Oak Island for artifacts and supposed buried treasure. Cable’s…

MOVIES 10:30am/9:30c E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Freeform 5/4c The Big Country (1958) TCM 6:40/5:40c Cop Land (1997) HDNet Movies 8/7c McLintock! (1963) INSP Magnum P.I. 9/8c, CBS Cold feet for an anxious groom should be an easy case for private-eye duo Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks). But a surprise web of lies and a life-threatening situation for Higgins complicate things! (There will still be cake, right?) Gold Rush White Water SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Discovery In the Gold Rush spinoff’s return, Dakota Fred looks for new ground to mine in the Alaskan wilderness and helps his busy son Dustin form a second crew, with standout Kayla Johanson as its boss. The Deep House 9:35/8:35c, Epix Movie Pick This 2021 French supernatural horror film will leave you breathless, as a social media–obsessed couple find a…

ACROSS 1 Howard’s best friend on The Big Bang Theory 4 Twin Peaks character: The _____ Lady 7 Wrecker’s offering 10 Aladdin’s monkey 11 Food Network chef Garten 12 Shade of color 13 Homer’s neighbor (2 wds.) 16 Family _____ 17 Service station stuff 18 That’s So _____ 21 Martin actress Campbell 25 Portlandia state (abbr.) 26 He worked with Mary Richards (2 wds.) 30 Lorenzo Lamas series _____ America 31 Insecure star Issa 32 What a sleeve covers 33 Eric’s dad on That ’70s Show (2 wds.) 37 56, in Roman 38 Mother, May I _____ With Danger? 39 TV host DeGeneres 41 WKRP in Cincinnati newsman Nessman 43 Dubai’s nation (abbr.) 44 The Beverly Hillbillies patriarch (2 wds.) 49 Long _____ and Far Away 50 Tablet download 51 New _____ Revue 52 Swanson on Parks and Recreation 53 _____, Dear…

Sundays, 9/8c, HBO WORDS WOUND LIKE bullets in the family battleground and media fishbowl of HBO’s Emmy-winning Succession, which is worth every minute of the excruciating two-year wait between Seasons 2 and 3. That’s how long we’ve been reeling from the shock of heir apparent Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) turning whistleblower, the damaged sacrificial lamb biting back to expose the Roy company’s scandalous financial and sexual misdeeds. “It’s war!” bellows Logan Roy (Brian Cox), patriarch and power-broking CEO, who steams as the remaining offspring under his thumb squirm with uncivil ambition, wasting no opportunity to attack and undercut their fellow siblings and other rivals. Here’s Logan shooting down the hopes of an underling who suggests he could take over should the old man temporarily step aside: “If your hands are…

Available now, Netflix HOW DOES ONE spread word of mouth when your jaw stays dropped for hours? Somehow, this ultraviolent and terrifically gripping thriller broke through the tonnage of Netflix programming since a quiet launch in mid-September to become a global sensation, the hottest thing from South Korea since the Oscar-winning Parasite. Like that film, Squid Game is extreme in every way: in its performance style, its perverse playground production design and especially in its level of carnage. It’s basically The Hunger Games for grownups, a sometimes cartoonish allegory of class warfare in which several hundred financially desperate folks are recruited to participate in an elaborately stylized and warped series of children’s games, where elimination is terminal but the cash prize too tempting to ignore. Alliances are forged, only to…

4400 SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, The CW Sci-fi fans, gear up for this timely reboot of USA’s 2004–07 series. The premise is the same: 4,400 people who disappeared over the course of the last century suddenly reappear in the present with no idea how they got there. This time, they’re mostly from marginalized groups — “people who typically throughout history have been invisible,” says Brittany Adebumola (below), who plays impressive lawyer Shanice from 2005 Detroit. While trying to reconnect with her husband and now-teenage daughter, she’s “concerned with making sure the 4,400 understand their rights—[she’s] always advocating for them,” explains Adebumola. “She’s a badass.” Mixed up with the grand mystery is this much more grounded plot. “The government basically treats the 4,400 like prisoners.” The time refugees—among them Claudette (Jaye Ladymore),…

MOVIES 8am/7c The Long Riders (1980) HDNet Movies 9:05am/8:05c Love and Monsters (2020) Epix 9:30am/8:30c The Black Swan (1942) FXM 10:15am/9:15c The Thin Man (1934) TCM 11am/10c The Robe (1953) FXM 11:30am/10:30c Casper (1995) Freeform Noon/11am c Split (2017) FXX 1:13/12:13c Sunshine Cleaning (2009) OuterMax 2:25/1:25c Argo (2012) Cinemax 3:45/2:45c Captain Blood (1935) TCM 4/3c Ghostbusters (1984) Freeform 6:20/5:20c Shampoo (1975) Showtime Women 7/6c How the West Was Won (1962) Reelz 7:39/6:39c Bottle Rocket (1996) Starz Cinema 8/7c The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957) Grit 10/9c The Company Men (2010) Flix 11/10c Die Hard (1988) Bravo Midnight/11c Frankenweenie (2012) Freeform 2:10am/1:10c Schindler’s List (1993) Showtime 2 B Positive 9:30/8:30c, CBS With the file closed on Gina Dabrowski’s (Annaleigh Ashford) kidney donation to Drew Dunbar (Thomas Middleditch), the sitcom resets—and newly wealthy Gina begins her first day as owner of Valley Hills retirement home. “At its core, the show’s theme is giving, so Gina pays it forward to the…

MOVIES 8:45am/7:45c White Zombie (1932) TCM 9am/8c Daddy Long Legs (1955) FXM 10:14am/9:14c Black Hawk Down (2001) HBO Zone Noon/11am c The Haunting (1963) Movies! 1/noon c Before Sunset (2004) Showtime Women 2:40/1:40c The Way Back (2020) OuterMax 3/2c The Train Robbers (1973) Grit 5/4c Red River (1948) Grit 6:30/5:30c The Silence of the Lambs (1991) SundanceTV 7/6c and 9:30/8:30c Joker (2019) TNT 8/7c Django Unchained (2012) The Movie Channel 9:05/8:05c Pitch Perfect (2012) HBO2 10/9c Blow Out (1981) TCM 10:01/9:01c The Nanny Diaries (2007) Movieplex 11:36/10:36c Insomnia (2002) HBO Zone Midnight/11c Carrie (1976) SundanceTV 1am/midnight c What We Do in the Shadows (2014) FXX 2:25am/1:25c Altered States (1980) Cinemax The Canterville Ghost SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, BYUtv “London Times called me ‘an apparition from the very bowels of Hell itself,’” crows the late Sir Simon de Canterville in this four-part take on Oscar Wilde’s comic short story. Yet another rave review (in a sense) for Buffy the Vampire…

Thursday Night Football THURSDAY, OCT. 28 NFL GAME Good news for gridiron-loving cord-cutters: As of October, Prime Video is streaming Thursday’s live NFL games, including the October 28 face-off between the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona (8:20/7:20c). Though the Packers have one of the game’s best quarterbacks in Aaron Rodgers, the Cardinals have a tremendously talented young arm in Kyler Murray (left). The following week features a matchup between the New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts, two teams that got off to rough starts, making them both hungry for a win. Keep up with all the action by using Prime’s X-Ray feature (on Fire TV and Apple and Android mobile devices), which lets viewers watch enhanced replays from the game in real time and access…

5 Movies to Watch Now Emmy-winning series like Ted Lasso have put Apple TV+ on the map, but don’t overlook these original films that are just as engrossing. —LM FINCH The last man on Earth feels a duty to man’s best friend in this moving adventure, set in a postapocalyptic world. Tom Hanks (right) stars as quirky inventor Finch, who builds a robot to care for his beloved pup Goodyear when he’s no longer around. Available Friday, Nov. 5 GREYHOUND Dip into dangerous waters with this tense World War II drama starring Tom Hanks (again!) as Cdr. Ernest Krause, a vigilant captain who leads a convoy of ships through the deadly Battle of the Atlantic while German U-boats lie in wait to strike. Available now THE BANKER How much can…

“He admires that Gibbs breaks rules. Parker bends them. We’ll see if it gets to the point of breaking”—Cole NCIS Monday, Nov. 1, 9/8c, CBS IT’S OFFICIAL. FORMER FBI guy Alden Parker (Gary Cole) is the new NCIS special agent in charge, taking over for the legendary Gibbs (Mark Harmon), who capped off his indefinite suspension by retiring to Alaska. The momentousness can’t be overstated: Leroy Jethro Gibbs is one of television’s most popular characters, and Harmon had been the series’ lead since 2003 (he continues to be an exec producer offscreen). Tonight, Parker and his team investigate the death of a commander who heads the All-Navy Sports Program. We talked to Cole about having his name on the door. Is there pressure stepping into a lead role on such…

Chicago P.D. 10/9c, NBC Despite this episode’s title, “Trust Me,” trust continues to be sorely tested in the CPD’s Intelligence Unit. Officer Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) fears the sex trafficker who shot her is still at large because her guilt-stricken colleague Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) hasn’t told her that she killed the bad guy and that their boss, Sgt. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe, below), covered it up. Hailey’s fiancé, fellow detective Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer), who sussed out the truth, is angry with Hailey and especially Hank for putting her in that vulnerable position. “If you look at [the team] as a family and Voight as the father—the responsible party—his family is unhappy and dangerously out of sync. It doesn’t feel like home anymore,” Beghe says. However, this week,…

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) This isn’t a time to take your health for granted. Everything from your food choices to exercise to your mindset is so important for you now. If you’ve let healthy habits slip by the wayside, you’ve got a rare opportunity to get yourself back on track. Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) You might not like this, but it’s time for you to hit the brakes. The time you take now to rest, restore and refocus will repay you threefold later. You need to make choices around what you really want, before an avalanche of opportunities distracts you from what’s important. Birthday: Kaitlyn Dever 12/21/1996 Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) As your social life begins to ramp up, you might need to decide how much energy, effort and even…

@damianholbrook Cheers to Grey’s Anatomy for getting our heart rates up again. Much like Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), we’re breathless over the full-time return of Scott Speedman as Dr. Nick Marsh on the ABC medical drama. And it’s fitting that Nick’s a transplant specialist, since he’s probably the only one who can truly replace McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey). Cheers to Chucky for making the cut. The killer doll (right, with Zackary Arthur) from the Child’s Play movie franchise makes the perfect bleeding, er, leading man in Syfy/USA’s funny, frightening and sharply satiric adaptation. Cheers to United States of Al for realizing some things are no laughing matter. CBS’s sitcom about Afghan war vet Riley (Parker Young) and former interpreter Al (Adhir Kalyan) ditched its laugh track to open Season 2 with a gut-wrenching…