Innholdsfortegnelse for May 9, 2022 i TV Guide Magazine

PERFECT FIT I can’t imagine anyone other than Ken Jennings gracing your cover for a story on who should be the permanent Jeopardy! host [April 25 issue]. Full marks to this brilliant, darling man—and to you, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE, for your powerful visual statement! —Lisa I only hope that the powers that be are paying attention. Ken Jennings is the perfect successor to the late Alex Trebek. —Ann THROWBACK LOVE The April 13 episode of ABC’s The Wonder Years, which has been a joy to watch, should be required viewing for anyone who saw the original series. The ending of the episode made me gasp, and I cried recalling the original’s very first episode with Kevin and Winnie. Kudos to everyone involved. —Janet GOOD GOING Wow! I have watched many…

@TVGMMattRoush Ridley Road Sundays (through May 22), 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) A POPULAR SONG in the 1960s quipped, “England swings like a pendulum do,” but during that flashy decade of rebellion, there was also a more sinister movement through the land toward neo-Nazi fascism. PBS’s Masterpiece revisits this uneasy time in the tense four-part limited series Ridley Road, featuring the exploits of a most unusual Mata Hari–style spy. We meet Vivien Epstein (an alluringly vulnerable Agnes O’Casey) as a restless young Jewish woman in Manchester, fleeing a dull potential arranged marriage to follow her dashing boyfriend, Jack (Tom Varey), to London, though he warned her not to. Finding work as a hairdresser in fashionable Soho, this romantic is in for a rude awakening when she discovers that…

Waterman—Duke: Ambassador of Aloha 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) “Name some other American athlete that has statues erected to him in three different countries,” says one disciple of swimming and surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku in this enthralling American Masters profile (Jason Momoa narrates). Here are three ways the Hawaiian trailblazer made waves. OLYMPIC CHAMP In 1912, Duke went from ocean wonder who’d never swum in a pool to the 100m freestyle gold medalist at the Stockholm Games. (Due to a miscommunication, he’d missed the semifinals and faced disqualification, but Aussie favorite Cecil Healy said he wouldn’t race without him!) Duke defended his gold at the 1920 Olympics and earned silver in a 1924 American sweep. FATHER OF SURFING At Healy’s invite, Duke traveled Down Under in 1914 and…

ACROSS 1 ____ Skies5 Mammal associated with Bruce Wayne8 Actress Sorvino12 Devours13 World’s Toughest Race: ____-Challenge Fiji14 Sebastian on The Little Mermaid15 Capricorn’s symbol16 Pepper ____17 Get Smart device: ____ of Silence18 Cheers actress (2 wds.)21 NCIS: ____ Angeles22 Mikey of Saturday Night Live23 Grown-up26 Lawyer, for Matlock27 Concert sound booster30 My ____ Is Earl31 The New Pope star Jude32 Operatic number33 Cynthia Nixon’s role on The Gilded Age34 The Flying ____35 I ____ of Jeannie36 2001–04 Billy Ray Cyrus show37 Oz detainee38 Only Murders in the Building actor (2 wds.)43 Big party44 Snazzy dresser45 The ____ House47 Former The Voice coach Levine48 Longoria of Desperate Housewives49 Pet on The Flintstones50 Girls creator Dunham51 Sprinted52 Wooden strip DOWN 1 Plead2 Its capital is Vientiane3 Setting of Big Love4 The Golden Girls actress Getty5 The L Word: Generation Q star Jennifer6 Dermatologist’s concern7 Wally on Leave It to…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, see this season fiale Hilarious internet foodie duo Rhett and Link end their Inside Eats season at the Beyond Meat lab, making their offbeat food mixes and deciding if plant-based foods can taste like meat. Sunday, May 15, 11/10c, Food Network If you have an hour, watch this docuseries Has it been 40 years since the cyanide-tainted Tylenol murders? History’s Greatest Mysteries’ season finale looks at this unsolved 1982 case that’s as confusing as why we drank all that Tab. Monday, May 16, 9/8c, History If you have a free evening, check out this film Covering the Queen of Soul’s 20-year rise from prodigy to survivor, Respect is a musical drama tour-de-force starring Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin’s own pick to play her. With…

@TVGMMattRoush I’m thinking about canceling my high-priced cable service and strictly going to streaming, since almost everything I watch is available this way. What do you think? —Gwenn MATT ROUSH: I think you’ll be joining a really big club. Most network and cable series are available for streaming (often the next day, sometimes sooner), and the amount of top-drawer programming being developed exclusively for streaming is formidable. This is the direction the entire industry is heading, and “cutting the cord” is no longer as revolutionary as it once seemed. I’m disappointed that one of my family’s favorite shows, Dancing With the Stars, is shifting over to streaming this fall on the Disney+ platform. We’ve watched it live on ABC since 2005, and after this shocking move, the immediacy factor is missing.…

The Kelly Clarkson Show Monday, May 9, syndicated, check local listings PICK OF THE WEEK! It’s 10AM on a Wednesday in April, and TV GUIDE MAGAZINE is among the ranks of buzzing audience members filing into Universal Studios Lot, Stage 1, in Hollywood. (Dress code: “nice casual trendy bright colors.”) Crew members hustle as they prep to tape two episodes of Kelly Clarkson’s weekday talker. Excitement is in the air, escalating when upbeat warm-up guy Ruben Ervin announces Clarkson’s arrival. The ultra-relatable host (left) has a lot of folks excited, in fact: She scored a pair of Daytime Emmys in her first two seasons, with an Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show twofer on top of that. Being on set for her series’ blend of conversation, games, real talk and music makes…

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Bravo AFTER MAKING HISTORY as the Housewives franchise’s first Black cast member in Beverly Hills, Garcelle Beauvais is making big moves in Season 12: Cohosting The Real and writing her just-published memoir, Love Me as I Am, have allowed her to buy a beach house! (The ladies also hit the sand in Punta Mita, Mexico, and the slopes in Aspen.) Beauvais spills more on castmate beefs and pricey bags. Drama seems to be a constant, even between seasons. Your frenemy Erika Jayne just trashed your book on Instagram…. Even when the cameras aren’t on us, it’s important to remember we’re regular people. Just as in all relationships, we have our ups and downs. When you care about people, obviously emotions are…

Movie Pick The Matrix Resurrections 8/7c, HBO “This isn’t happening; it’s in my mind,” says Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves, below, with Carrie-Anne Moss), who discovers that the Matrix video game he programmed has seemingly come to life, attempting to drag him into it just long enough for his business partner, Smith (Jonathan Groff), to kill him. Anderson (still aka Neo, or “the One”) doesn’t know the half of it, as this fourth film in the franchise shows in liquidy, high-flying, slo-mo action. The central idea—that human reality is a simulation meant to keep us happy while machines control the world—remains. Nonetheless, Neo is back to fight for his fate, his love for Trinity (Moss) and humanity’s soul. Road Trip Romance MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Hallmark Channel Former high school nemeses and…

9-1-1 SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Fox Firehouse 118 winds down Season 5 with a series of “starting over” emergencies. “It’s kind of a pun,” explains executive producer Kristen Reidel of the calls, which include a woman’s ill-fated request for a new look at the hair salon and the rescue of a wellness guru from his overly enlightened (aka drug-crazed) followers. After that, though, happier matters emerge as LAFD paramedic Hen (Aisha Hinds, right) and wife Karen (Traci Thoms) renew their wedding vows. Noting how the pair’s original ceremony was soured by Hen’s disapproving mom, “This is a chance [for them] to start over and have the wedding that should have been,” Reidel says. Good things are in the wings for other first responders, including firefighter Bobby (Peter Krause), who wants to…

HOROSCOPE Taurus (April 20–May 20) How do you feel about meditation and yoga? Do you want to boost your ability to read other people’s energies? Hopefully you’re into such things because a rare new cycle for you begins where your spiritual side is going to massively grow. Gemini (May 21–June 20) The good news is that, after having money matters exploding around you endlessly, the universe is giving you a break. Instead, turn your mind to your friends, your social life and the people you connect with. As it turns out, your friends are your fortune. Birthday: Amy Schumer 6/1/1981 Cancer (June 21–July 22) You’re entering a cycle now where you’re going to be encouraged by the universe to go big. There will be pressure on you to keep smiling,…

CLIFF CROOKS FALL IN! CHEF Cliff Crooks (above) is back for a second tour as host of Chef Boot Camp, where the New York–based chef puts struggling professional cooks through a three-day gauntlet of drills designed to up their kitchen skills. If they’re lucky, they’ll be able to create something as mmm-mmm-good as his ricotta gnocchi dish (below) one day. And if we’re lucky, the insightful Crooks will send some our way. Is it true you’ve been working in restaurants since you were 15? Oh, yeah. I started in high school, and not even in the back of the house. I started up front [as a busboy]. I really just love the environment, the people and no two days are the same. Who was your culinary hero growing up? In…

Charlie’s Angels 9/8c, getTV Retro Pick Film extra. Disco instructor. Wealthy Texas widow. The original Angels (Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson, right) never met an undercover gig they didn’t like (or like to dress the part for). In “Angels in Chains,” they got themselves locked up in Louisiana to find a missing person, only to learn inmates were being forced to pay their debts to society as prostitutes! The 1976 hour lampoons “women in prison” exploitation films—“I’ll try not to bruise her tender skin too hard” is an actual line from a sadistic guard (Mary Woronov)—and was a ratings blowout, but it looms large in Angels lore for other reasons: PRANK INSPIRATION Crew members got a kick out of leaving the stars shackled. According to Smith, “We had…

BUILDING INSPECTORS WEEP! Mysteries of the Abandoned 8/7c, Discovery This irresistible series (now in its sixth season) exploring once extraordinary structures that have fallen to ruin treads new ground tonight: a chateau with a history of rebellion and homes built by religious outcasts. Watch your step! Legacies 9/8c, The CW As headmaster Alaric (Matt Davis) preps his supernatural students for an epic battle, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) and Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) struggle with their past sins, Cleo (Omono Okojie) explores her evolving powers, and Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) re-creates himself—again! Commit or Quit With Judge Lynn Toler SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, WE tv Eight couples in crisis are under the scrutiny of Judge Lynn Toler—they even have surveillance cameras installed in their homes!—who will rule on which pairs stay together or throw…

Mr. Mayor SEASON FINALE 8:30/7:30c, NBC AS RICH AND suave as Ted Danson’s L.A. mayor Neil Bremer is, there’s one thing he can’t charm his way out of: public outrage! In the secondseason finale of the sly office comedy, a socialmedia scandal has triggered a recall election, pitting Bremer against his own ambitious deputy mayor Arpi Meskimen (Holly Hunter). Here, Danson (right, with Hunter) looks back on his first two years in office. The last two episodes of the season are so stressful! [Laughs] My cohort/nemesis Arpi has always known that I was in over my head and didn’t deserve to be in this position. She sees her chance to become mayor, so then sides are chosen. Some staff members come with me, others go with her. And I love…

Merry Wives 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) In this Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, the revenge-minded madames (Pascale Armand and This Is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson) toy with charlatan Falstaff (Jacob Ming-Trent) in Harlem. HOW SUPERSTITIOUS ARE YOU? The UnXplained 9/8c, History Are curses real or just a series of unfortunate coincidences? The William Shatner–hosted series looks at the tragic ends associated with Georgia’s Lake Lanier, James Dean’s Porsche parts and Los Angeles’ Cecil Hotel. All in the Family 12:30am/11:30c, getTV Retro Pick Bea Arthur makes a memorable first appearance as Cousin Maude in this 1971 gut-buster: “Archie, you can have your chair. Only don’t move around too much—you’ll crush your brains.” MOVIES 9am/8c WarGames (1983) IFC 12:40/All About Eve 11:40am…

@damianholbrook Cheers to The First Lady’s firstrate ladies! Between Viola Davis inhabiting Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer’s beautiful turn as Betty Ford and the always spot-on Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Showtime’s salute to Washington D.C.’s iconic wives gets our vote for the must-watch of the month. Cheers to Woke for hopefully opening some eyes to the star quality of Lamorne Morris (left). Buoyed by the power trio of Sasheer Zamata, T. Murph and Blake Anderson, Morris is lovably low-key yet commanding as a cartoonist turned activist in Hulu’s insightful culture satire. Cheers to Mandy Moore for her beautiful work on NBC’s This Is Us as the aging Rebecca. We’re with her onscreen son Sterling K. Brown: Give this woman an Emmy! Cheers to Girls5eva for making sure the second verse isn’t the same as…