Innholdsfortegnelse for November 8, 2021 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush ABC’s The Conners should be renamed The Darlene Show. Why does the show revolve almost entirely around Darlene (Sara Gilbert)? Why do the other characters receive so very little screen time? Why are D.J. (Michael Fishman) and his family virtually excluded? —AN MATT ROUSH: You say this like it’s a bad thing—although I agree D.J.’s minibranch of the family is too rarely seen. (One explanation: They don’t live in Dan’s house, where most of the action is.) The way I see it is that after Roseanne’s unceremonious departure, Darlene stepped up as the show’s natural center. (It doesn’t hurt that Gilbert is one of the executive producers.) Darlene is the most like her mother in terms of sarcastic attitude and life experience as a beleaguered, and in her case…

Gerald McRaney Known for playing tough guys in Major Dad and Dead  wood, the actor channeled that steeliness in his cancer fight. After a 2004 knee injury, his wife, Delta Burke (Designing Women), urged him to see a doctor. An eagle-eyed radiologist spotted a shadow on a chest X-ray during his checkup. Doctors caught the growth and removed it before it had a chance to spread. “The No. 1 thing is to adopt a positive mindset,” McRaney, 74, has said. “You’ve got to be prepared that you’re going into battle. But the battle can be won.” Stefanie Powers The Hart to Hart star, 79, was diagnosed with an alveolar cell carcinoma in the late 2000s after two decades as a heavy smoker. She had part of her right lung removed,…

Ordinary Joe 10/9c, NBC It’s the all-flashback episode fans of the freshman what-if drama have been waiting for. Tonight, we return to that fateful weekend in 2011 when Joe Kimbreau (James Wolk) and his best friend with benefits, Jenny (Elizabeth Lail, right), graduate from college. How he chooses to celebrate sets in motion the three different paths their lives could take: If he goes to the lake house with Jenny, she’ll tell him she’s pregnant. “You get to see how Joe feels about her and how she feels about him, and it all comes pouring out of them because they have this huge journey starting together,” Lail says. In the other two timelines, they don’t have the talk and she continues the unplanned pregnancy on her own. “It’s pretty devastating…

M*A*S*H 7/6c, MeTV On February 28, 1983, a staggering 106 million people watched “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” the M*A*S*H series finale—a record still unmatched for scripted series. At episode’s end, a flurry of flushing by bathroom-deprived viewers sent an extra 6.7 million gallons of water through New York City sewers. But on top of those fun facts is the two-hour episode itself, airing tonight in honor of Veterans Day. In sending the doctors and nurses of the 4077th on their way, “My hope was…to show that in some way everybody had been affected by the [Korean] war, that they were all going home with some kind of a wound,” says lead Alan Alda (middle, second from left), who directed. He told TV GUIDE MAGAZINE: “We tried to be a little…

Adele One Night Only 8:30/7:30c, CBS We’re already feeling shortchanged. Two hours is not enough time with Adele (above), the 15-time Grammy winner who had us long before “Hello.” And even if this stunning talent couldn’t sing a note, she’d be good company—a cutup of a mum from North London who laughs at the fact that many babies have been conceived listening to her work: “I do make lovemaking music!” In this special, she sits down with Oprah Winfrey in her rose garden (topics: her divorce, losing 100 pounds) and performs hits as well as tracks from her upcoming album, 30, out November 19. If Adele follows her usual concert MO, expect her to candidly announce, “I’m gonna take me shoes off.” Frozen Gold SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, The Weather Channel…

The Flash SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, The CW It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the Flash is gonna need a lot of help. Good thing Barry Allen (Grant Gustin, below, with Chyler Leigh) has a whole Arrowverse to pull from when Season 8 kicks off with a five-part event titled “Armageddon.” The Scarlet Speedster and wife, Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton), face their greatest challenge to date when a psychic alien known as Despero (Tony Curran) arrives in Central City. “I won’t say exactly why he’s there, but he’s got an agenda that sets the whole thing off,” previews showrunner Eric Wallace, who has lined up a who’s who of The CW’s superhero shows past and present to lend a hand (see sidebar below). “These characters were specifically…

Dancing Through the Snow MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Virgin River’s Colin Lawrence and his real-life daughter Bianca star in this Yuletide yarn about a widowed fireman who finds love again with his young girl’s cash-strapped ballet teacher (AnnaLynne McCord). My Lottery Dream Home: David’s Holiday Extravaganza 9/8c, HGTV Designer David Bromstad and his sisters, Dyonne and Dynelle, deck the halls of his new Orlando home with 70 indoor trees and enough gnomes to fill a Scandinavian village. Music Box: Jagged DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE 11/10c, HBO Late-Night Pick Alanis Morissette and those close to her take us behind the music in this film about the making of her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill. MOVIES 9:15am/Beauty and the 8:15c Beast (1946) TCM 12:45/Se7en (1995) Syfy 11:45am c 7/6c Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Paramount Network…

ACROSS 1 Gretchen of Chance4 Comedian Idle8 Massage11 King Kong, for one12 Just13 Brooklyn Nine-Nine detective14 ____-Manuel Miranda15 Soreness16 Remote Control host Ken17 Madam Secretary star19 Snook of Succession21 Sphere23 Let’s Make ____ (2 wds.)26 Easy-to-use cellphone and1930s swing dance31 Boxer Muhammad32 Emmy winner Falco33 Michael ____ Black34 Lhasa ____35 Comedian DeLuise36 The Good Place actor (2 wds.)38 Glazer of Broad City40 This ____ House41 Soap opera actress Dano44 Real People host Allen48 Animator Disney 50 The Great star Fanning52 Rene Auberjonois on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine53 Kind of sword54 Untrustworthy person55 ____ Grande56 3rd Rock From the ____57 Type of call58 Japanese currency DOWN 1 Shop ’til You Drop setting2 Ron Howard role3 Carson’s successor4 Taraji P. Henson drama5 Irish actor Stephen6 Barry’s wife on The Flash7 Wipeout cohost John8 Matt on Dare Me (2 wds.)9 Manipulate10 Where Cheers was set13 Flamingo…

@damianholbrook Cheers to CSI: Vegas for sweetening the pot. While rebooting the crime-scene classic with OG stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox might have been CBS’s safest bet ever, the real payoff is what the fresh heat crew—played by Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez—bring to the (examination) table. Cheers to the newbies on The Morning Show. This just in: Our favorite additions to Apple TV+’s soapy look at a.m. infotainment wars are Greta Lee’s sharp network boss Stella Bak and Julianna Margulies’ (right) seasoned journalist Laura Peterson. Honestly, fired host Mitch (Steve Carell) would have been toast if these two had been on staff last season. Cheers to Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis for scoring beyond the pitch as Saturday Night Live’s heartfelt host on October 23. Cheers to Law…

ANGELIC ADD I liked your “Kindred Spirits” sidebar in your Highway to Heaven article [October 25 issue, page 11], but you missed one of my favorite God-centric, feel-good shows, Joan of Arcadia. Amber Tamblyn’s portrayal of a teen who talks to (and takes assignments from) God was uplifting and a shining spot to my week. —Michal STILL STELLAR NCIS has always been one of my favorite shows. I’m disappointed about the exit of Mark Harmon [October 25 issue, page 2], but I’m really liking Gary Cole [October 25 issue, page 48]! The resilience of NCIS amazes me. They’ve lost strong characters over the years (Ziva, Tony, Abby and now Gibbs), but it’s just as good as ever! —Linda FRESH PERSPECTIVE I love the addition of Dr. Dylan Scott (Guy Lockard)…

@TVGMMattRoush Yellowjackets They endured a calamity as teens, but adulthood has its own terrors SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Nov. 14, 10/9c, Showtime WORDS DESIGNED TO be eaten later in regret: “As long as nobody does anything crazy, we have nothing to worry about.” Maybe Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), one of several survivors of a notorious fictional tragedy 25 years earlier, isn’t aware that Juliette Lewis—the embodiment of lunacy in so many film and TV projects—is playing one of her former companions in peril. Yellowjackets is a luridly intriguing melodrama about a statechampion team of female high-school soccer players whose dreams of national triumph crashed along with their private plane, which went down in a northern wilderness in 1996. Seemingly inspired by the 1972 crash of a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes,…

Blue Bloods 10/9c, CBS There’s no one you trust more than family. When a former gang member puts out a hit on Det. Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg), the cop’s dad, police commissioner Frank (Tom Selleck), assigns his younger son, Sgt. Jamie (Will Estes, above), to protection duty. “As you can imagine, it goes over like a lead balloon with Danny that Jamie’s going to be his ‘handler,’” Estes says. “Danny doesn’t take orders so well, and Jamie is just trying to make the best of it.” Then little bro rolls out his sleeping bag next to the star detective’s bed! Sibling bickering aside, though, “there is real danger.” Jamie has his hands full in this episode: Wife Eddie (Vanessa Ray) meets her new NYPD partner, Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan), whom…

PICK OF THE WEEK! FBI: Most Wanted Tuesday, Nov. 16, 10/9c, CBS IF YOU’RE A criminal on the run and FBI Special Agent Kristin Gaines (Alexa Davalos) is on your tail, it’s game over. The recent addition to the Fugitive Task Force—a Navy veteran and former Miami field agent with an arsenal of skills from combat readiness to interviewing and flipping witnesses—never gives up the chase. “She is there to shake up the dynamic,” executive producer David Hudgins explains. “[She’s] a strong, independent thinker who isn’t afraid to express her opinion but ingratiates herself with the team by virtue of hard work and doggedness.” Not that she’s a natural team player. Already we’ve seen Kristin butt heads with methodical supervisor Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon). “Jess wants her to follow the…

Frankie Drake Mysteries 7/6c, Ovation Frankie (Lauren Lee Smith) and Trudy (Chantel Riley), the most glamorous gumshoes in 1920s Toronto, wonder who’s contaminating the water at Trudy’s new place—and why a masked vigilante, Lady Justice, is suddenly on the case too! A Kindhearted Christmas MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, GAC Family After a widow (Jennie Garth) plays Secret Santa to a fundraising high school, her TV crush, a handsome Upstate New York morning show anchor (Cameron Mathison), tries to uncover her identity. 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 8/7c, HBO Inductees include Tina Turner, Carole King, the Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Jay-Z and Todd Rundgren. Among the performers: Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera. MOVIES 10am/9c Paddington (2014) Freeform 1:15/12:15c In the Heights (2021) HBO 8/7c The Wizard of Oz (1939) TBS…

Smart Watch If you have a half hour, check out this series Enterprising vets help others by inspiring military families and salvaging unused items for those in need on Operation Hidden Treasures. Sundays, 8am/7c, Discovery, and Thursdays, 8:30/7:30c, American Heroes Channel If you have an hour, watch this drama Plenty of family and fiscal tension led up to the dazzling third season of Succes sion, but whistleblowing son Kendall Roy’s (Jeremy Strong) explosive revelations have made Season 3 unmissable. Sundays, 9/8c, HBO If you have a free evening, watch this movie Will an estranged music duo (Peter Gallagher and Bruce Campbell) reunite on TV? More to the point in One December Night, will their musicmanager kids strike their own chord? Saturday, Nov. 13, 10/9c, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries If you have a free…

Dexter: New Blood Sunday, Nov. 14, 9/8c, Showtime DEXTER MORGAN IS proof that there is life after death. Well, fake death, that is. Eight years after the Miami serial killer of bad guys (Michael C. Hall, left) disappeared in a hurricane on the 2006–13 drama’s much-derided ending, the antihero is back for a 10-episode thrill ride. Says Hall, “We wanted to do something decidedly new but also maintain fundamental parts of the original.” It’s safe to say the limited revival absolutely, uh, kills it. Picking up 10 years after the finale, New Blood shows Dexter with a new identity (mild-mannered cashier Jim Lindsay), a new home (charming Iron Lake, New York) and a new vow not to kill. For the past decade, he “has been committed to abstinence,” explains Hall,…

Chicago Med 8/7c, NBC Success not guaranteed: Ethan (Brian Tee) risks a nonsurgical method; Will (Nick Gehlfuss) helps Stevie (Kristen Hager) look for her homeless mom. The 55th Annual CMA Awards 8/7c, ABC Two-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan hosts live from Nashville, where top nominees Eric Church and Chris Stapleton duke it out for that coveted title alongside Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood. Born in the Rockies 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Spring has sprung in the Rocky Mountains, and that means a baby boom. In the first of a two-part Nature special narrated by Uma Thurman, new animal moms (bison! mountain goats!) raise their young. Intergalactic SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, Syfy Peacock’s streaming epic, set in 2143, comes to Syfy: A heroic space cop…

A Picture Perfect Holiday MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime We love a double-booked cabin! Two photographers (Henderson Wade and Tatyana Ali) are forced to cohabitate on a Christmas-themed professional retreat in the Rockies. Born Mucky 10/9c, Animal Planet Life’s no hayride for the trio of modern-day British farmers in this reality series. Ian’s dated tractor fleet strains under the harvest’s demands, Tom finds a dangerous structure on his property, and Ally’s side-hustle campsite busts the budget. Austin City Limits 11/10c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Late-Night Pick Jackson Browne (“Somebody’s Baby”) takes the Texas stage with songs from his latest release, Downhill From Everywhere. MOVIES 3:15/2:15c Gremlins (1984) TNT 5/4c Silverado (1985) Grit 10/9c Promising Young Woman (2020) HBO Zone 1:20am/Slap Shot (1977) 12:20c Flix…

9-1-1 8/7c, Fox Holey moly, Los Angeles really is the pits this season! Not only has NBC’s La Brea opened up a massive sinkhole in the middle of the City of Angels, but now Fox’s first-responder drama has an epic fissure to deal with. “It was just a funny coincidence,” says co-showrunner Kristen Reidel with a laugh. Instead of a portal back to prehistoric times, the 9-1-1 disaster is caused by an underground oil-well explosion that craters a downtown L.A. street—swallowing a woman taking her driving test. “Our inspiration here was really, have you ever wished the earth would open up and swallow you whole? OK, now, what if it did?” The rescue efforts led by LAFD Capt. Bobby Nash (Peter Krause, above) will be tricky, Reidel adds. “Because the…

Editors’ Choice Big Sky 10/9c, ABC We all do questionable things when we’re drunk. Most of us don’t bust open our old gunshot wound in the process! At the end of last week’s episode, tipsy but determined undersheriff Jenny (Katheryn Winnick, above) got frustrated by the slow-going search for answers about the car crash at the center of Season 2’s mystery. With PI pal Cassie (Kylie Bunbury) in tow, she decided to follow a person of interest as he left the bar. The ladies found themselves in what Winnick dubs “the ultimate standoff” with the local crime syndicate after Jenny was revealed to be a cop. Tonight, we pick up mid-standoff, and while the women will get to walk away, there may be consequences. Someone in the crew grows suspicious…

Fear the Walking Dead 9/8c, AMC That doesn’t look like a nuclear wasteland?! Hopeful former leader Morgan Jones (Lennie James, above) is trekking toward greener pastures, literally. But just because he’s not decked out in his hazmat suit and gas mask to avoid the fallout of the warheads that exploded across Texas in the Season 6 finale doesn’t mean he’ll have an easy trip. “Morgan is still trying to discover how many of his group survived and what he might have to do to bring them all back together,” James says. He has already located—and threatened—traitor Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), who is running his own colony, called the Tower, with nurse June Dorie (Jenna Elfman) and her father-inlaw, John Sr. (Keith Carradine), stuck inside. Tonight, Morgan and his love Grace…

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Take out your journal and map out your life strategy. Outline your goals. Allow room for unexpected changes to occur. Life remains unpredictable, but manifestation powers are extra potent now. Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) The power of dreams is so, well, powerful! When we are no longer children, we tend to forget that. As adults, this is why rest and retreat become so important. So does meditation! Allow your mind to be still and relax. Get clear on what your future vision is. Birthday: Simon Helberg 12/9/1980 Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Friends and alliances may prove to be potent for you. When it comes to communication, be clear and direct. A strategic and cautious approach may also be required before any deals are made. Trust your instincts…