Innholdsfortegnelse for July 25, 2022 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Thursday, July 21, HBO Max SHE WAS THE more assured, accomplished, natural actor, winning an Oscar in her twenties. He was the embodiment of a matinee idol, emotionally reserved but dazzling to behold. The 50-year marriage and professional partnership of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (including 16 films together) was not without its rocky patches, but it’s an enduring love story rare among celluloid icons. (He died of cancer in 2008; at 92, she is living with Alzheimer’s.) We learn loads about their careers, lives and struggles over the immersive, exhaustive six chapters of The Last Movie Stars, compiled and directed with giddy zeal by an earnestly frenzied Ethan Hawke. Ever the curious enthusiast, he is often shown gushing about his subjects and debating his creative decisions…

On Patrol: Live 9/8c, Reelz See police officers on the job live—documented by 30-plus cameras across the country—in a three-hour block Fridays and Saturdays. Bonus: “citizen ride-alongs”! NYC Point Gods DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE 9/8c, Showtime The streets of New York in the 1980s produced dizzying, theatrical, elegant NBA point guards (court generals who run the offense)—Kenny Anderson, Mark Jackson and Stephon Marbury among them. This doc salutes eight such local heroes who changed the way basketball was played. FREEDOM HAS STRINGS ATTACHED Life ft er Lockup SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, WE tv When one partner has a prison past… The struggles for Season 5’s nine couples include disapproving families, travel restrictions, the lure of alcohol and drugs, and questionable former connections. Belle Collective SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, OWN The reality show—sort of The…

PICK OF THE WEEK! Summer Under the Stars Monday, Aug. 1, 6am/5c, TCM AS ELVIS PRESLEY (above) mesmerizingly sang in the title song to 1964’s Viva Las Vegas, “How I wish that there were more than 24 hours in the day.” His legion of fans will indeed get 24 hours’ worth of a dozen of the King’s movies as he opens TCM’s annual August event, which honors a different film star each day of the month. And while Monday’s slate begins with the posthumous patchwork 1981 documentary This Is Elvis, it’s anchored by the aforementioned Sin City musical dramedy classic (8/7c), featuring Presley as auto racer Lucky Jackson but dominated by his chemistry with equally swivel-happy costar Ann-Margret. “It’s infectious,” says TCM host Ben Mankiewicz of the much-loved film. “It’s…

Broadchurch 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Even if you already know who murdered young Danny Latimer in this acclaimed 2013 British mystery, tonight’s Season 1 finale remains a jaw-dropper with a gut-wrenching performance by Olivia Colman as Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller. Me or the Menu SEASON FINALE 10/9c, Food Network Houston duo Alan and Nicole have an investor snag, and an angry family member hits the roof during the soft opening of Nate and Kathleen’s eatery in Illinois in the reality show about four couples opening their own restaurants. UNLUCKY IN LOVE? Impractical Jokers SEASON FINALE 10/9c, truTV Brooke Shields and the Jokers tape a show based on Celebrity Dating Game, where Brian Quinn, Sal Vulcano and James Murray are hidden bachelors. TODAY’S SPORTS PICK NFL FOOTBALL 8/7c, NBC…

WHO WILL REIGN SUPREME? Becoming Elizabeth SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Starz King Edward VI (Oliver Zetterström) falls ill, which means Elizabeth (Alicia von Rittberg) or Mary (Romola Garai)—his sisters—may take the throne. My Life as a Rolling Stone SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, Epix It’s Mick and Keith et al.’s turn to have their iconic history celebrated as this four-part documentary delves into the 60-year odyssey of the “It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll” masters. MOVIES MONDAY AUG. 1 2:30/1:30c King Richard (2021) HBO 8/7c Dial M for Murder (1954) Movies! TUESDAY AUG. 2 5:55/4:55c What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Movies! 10:53/Wonder Woman 9:53c (2017) TNT WEDNESDAY AUG. 3 11:30am/National 10:30c Lampoon’s Animal House (1978) AMC 12:55am/Limbo (2021) 11:55c Cinemax THURSDAY AUG. 4 11am/10c Cliffhanger (1993) BBC America 10:34/Before the Devil 9:34c Knows You’re Dead (2007) Indieplex FRIDAY AUG. 5 1:05/12:05c Moonrise Kingdom (2012) HBO 11/10c…

Password SERIES PREMIERE 10/9, NBC Having played the verbal guessing game for years on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon now brings Password to primetime. He’ll appear as a celebrity partner to contestants in every episode. “Jimmy is our Betty White, although she is irreplaceable,” says host Keke Palmer (right, with Fallon). In fact, the revival’s premiere begins with a tribute to the late actress, who was married to original emcee Allen Ludden and a fan-favorite regular, before Fallon faces off with Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. This week’s special Wednesday at 9/8c episode features Fallon vs. Heidi Klum. Future stars include Martin Short and Chelsea Handler. Contestants can take home up to $25,000. “We want them to win the money, so they have a possible second chance with a bonus round if…

Good Morning America 7am, ABC Daytime Pick “Savage” rapper and triple Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion (above) brings hot-girl summer—a phrase coined by the Houston native—to New York City’s Central Park for the GMA Summer Concert Series. Children of the Underground SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, FX Was Faye Yager, who became famous in the 1980s for creating an underground network that rescued hundreds of women and children from allegedly abusive homes, a true hero or a zealot who hindered the legal system? This five-part docuseries, airing as a marathon tonight, may provide answers. FUN FOR ALL AGES! CMT Summer Camp SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, CMT Little Big Town kicks off CMT’s newest concert series, from Sandy Creek Barn Amphitheater at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia. The Great American Recipe SEASON FINALE…

@damianholbrook Cheers to Christmas in July. Hallmark Channel’s summer roster of Yule-themed flicks is just the shot of merry we need these days! Cheers to Only Murders in the Building for its killer trio. The onscreen chemistry between Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez (left) is even more to-die-for now that Season 2 of Hulu’s mystery comedy is digging deeper into the bonkers backstories of their true-crime podcasters. Cheers to Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin for being original. Instead of copycatting Freeform’s popular teenstalker soap, the HBO Max reboot is giving grittier horror-movie vibes and a masked killer who is more “OMG!” than “A.” Cheers to NBC for rescuing Magnum P.I. Seven weeks after CBS benched its rollicking reboot of the Tom Selleck classic, NBC stepped up with a save that assures…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, watch this episode Yes, Junior (Marcus Scribner) is now a freshman on grown-ish, but Aaron (Trevor Jackson), who’s teaching at Cal U, thinks the school is using him to show its diversity. Wednesday, July 27, 10/9c, Freeform If you have an hour, watch this season finale What will onetime onscreen Vulcan Zachary Quinto find out about his past? The genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? takes the Star Trek Beyond star back a few generations. Sunday, Aug. 14, 7/6c, NBC If you have a free evening, check out this film The 2018 rescue of a boy’s soccer team, stuck in a cave in Thailand for 18 days, gets a dramatic retelling in Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives, with Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell…

@TVGMMattRoush We looked forward to The Terminal List on Prime Video but were so disappointed that it’s shot so dark we can’t even see it! Ridiculous! What happened to the quality of filming? Please put some lights on the actors’ faces so we know who they are. This is another show we won’t bother trying to view. —Connie MATT ROUSH: Next to loud background music, low-light cinematography is by far the most common complaint I receive about TV. I’d heard this was an extreme case, but even by today’s standards, I was shocked by the interior gloom. I typically suggest adjusting the light balance on your TV to compensate, but I agree that just moving on to the next streaming series might be the better solution. Having read Thomas Perry’s thriller…

Flowers in the Attic: The Origin SERIES FINALE 8/7c, Lifetime With several attempted murders (one successful!), religious zealotry, incest and some conspicuously placed rat poison, the prequel’s last hours in creepy Foxworth Hall set up the chess pieces for V.C. Andrews’ luridly familiar Flowers in the Attic horror story. Spoiled Corinne Foxworth (Hannah Dodd, below)—in love with her half brother, Christopher (Callum Kerr)—flounces out the door, seemingly forever. Having sacrificed so much, obsessive mother Olivia (Jemima Rooper) then warps and hardens into the monster who would one day lock her grandchildren away. A Splash of Love MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Hallmark Channel A highly excitable marine mammalogy Ph.D. student (Rhiannon Fish) travels to the Pacific Northwest to track orcas—and finds her soulmate in a whale-watch tour guide (Ben Hollingsworth) to boot.…

Parking Lot Payday SEASON FINALE 8/7c, AXS TV The pre-concert tailgatingfor-top-dollar trivia game show tests fans—waiting to see rock act Coldplay—who are hoping to win some sweet merch money. Edge of the Earth SERIES FINALE 9/8c, HBO The thrilling four-part series featuring action-adventure “firsts” wraps with surfers Ian Walsh and Grant “Twiggy” Baker attempting to catch previously unridden big waves on South Africa’s remote West Coast. Their risky quest is captured in both aerial photography and immersive video. THE NANCY DREW SPINOFF WRAPS UP Tom Swift SERIES FINALE 9/8c, The CW As Tom (Tian Richards) preps a drone launch to save his tech-pioneer father from space, a cyber attack from within his family’s corporation and a revelation about Papa Swift’s past threaten to derail everything the young inventor has worked…

Ghost Whisperer 8am/7c, Pop Daytime Pick In this eerie episode from 2005, Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt, below) helps a groom (Jay Harrington, S.W.A.T.) terrorized by his dead bride. Killer Camp SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, The CW The ’80s-inspired horror whodunit returns, as contestants desperately try to earn money and uncover a fake killer at the same time. MAYIM BIALIK WRITES AND DIRECTS As They Made Us 9/8c, Showtime Movie Pick In this 2022 drama, a divorced mom (Dianna Agron, Glee) balances carving out a new life for herself with caring for her aging parents (Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen). CMT Campfire Sessions 10/9c, CMT After a thrilling set at Nashville’s July 4th celebration in front of roughly 250,000, Old Dominion goes acoustic for this intimate summer concert series. (We bet…

ACROSS 1____ to the bone4 Judd Hirsch on Taxi8 Historic time periods12 Suspicion star Thurman13 Young sheep14 Leakes of Glee15 ____ the Dress, TLC reality show (3 wds.)17 ____ and rave18 2001: A Space Odyssey astronaut19 Extreme sports event (2 wds.)21 Country star Haggard23 How I Met Your Mother bet24 Stuntman ____ Knievel25 Depression decade29 Hawaii’s Mauna ____30 Corvette maker31 Baking measure (abbr.)32 “____, lover boy” (2 wds.)34 Jacob’s biblical twin35 ____ Scotia36 TV studio sign (2 wds.)37 British network (2 wds.)40 Entertainment website41 Earth’s center42 Raymond Burr detective role46 Russian leader47 Kid’s plea (2 wds.)48 Lowe of 9-1-1: Lone Star49 Ugly-cries50 Flock members51 Dexter’s adoptive sister DOWN 1 Mass transit vehicle2 Doc’s organization (abbr.)3 Fantasize4 Pain relief brand5 Zap with a light6 Emergency! responder (abbr.)7 Microsoft online media service (2 wds.)8 Enthralled9 The Offce order10…

Daytime Pick The Doctor Blake Mysteries 8am/7c, 9:30am/8:30c, 11am/10c and 12:30/11:30am c, Ovation Good thing Lucien Blake came back to his Australian hometown in 1959 after a 30-year absence. Imagine how many unsolved murders the Ballarat cops would have on their hands if the astute, persistent police surgeon played by Craig McLachlan (above) weren’t around to crack the cases. Yes, the title character of this 2013–17 mystery series is a man of science, but he also knows human nature. In the third episode of today’s weekly six-hour block, for example, both talents help Lucien uncover how and why a showing of Vertigo was disrupted by a deadly projection room fire. Common-sense widowed housekeeper Jean Beazley (Nadine Garner) is his patient companion, and their growing attraction is as much a reason…

CMA Fest 8/7c, ABC For the first time since 2019, the beloved country music fan festival returned to Nashville in June for four days of live music. “Worth a Shot” duet partners and pals Dierks Bentley and Elle King (right) cohost this three-hour concert special that includes Nissan Stadium highlights: Carrie Underwood rockin’ denim and rhinestones to belt the breakup anthem “Ghost Story,” Breland joining Lady A for a silky-smooth rendition of “Need You Now” that will give you goose bumps and Bentley bringing out surprise guest Billy Ray Cyrus to trade verses on “Achy Breaky Heart” in honor of the song’s 30th anniversary. For Bentley, who also fronts the spooftastic ’90s-country band Hot Country Knights, it was a true honor. But he admits his dance moves need some work.…

Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted Showdown SEASON FINALE 8/7c, National Geographic After battling former employees on their home turfs in England and Wales, the Michelin chef and adventurer heads to Costa Rica to face his own daughter, cooking show star Tilly Ramsay. Expect lots of heat in that kitchen! THIS SOUNDS OMINOUS! Better Call Saul: Talking Saul 10/9c, AMC Immediately following Saul’s all-important penultimate episode (9/8c), Talking Dead’s Chris Hardwick hosts this one-off aftershow to break down the big moments—should we be worried?!—and prepare us for the August 15 series finale. Cooper’s Bar 1am/midnight c, IFC Late-Night Pick Saul’s Rhea Seehorn stars as “the biggest d--k in Hollywood” in this six-episode short-form series airing in its entirety tonight. When the studio exec ends up at the backyard bar of disillusioned actor Cooper…

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22) The new moon is in your sign, which is very positive! However, Saturn, the planet of hard luck and dreariness, is also activated in your chart. Expect to have some serious dealings or conversations. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) If you started 2022 aiming to be happier and more at peace, get back on that bandwagon. The skies support you in setting aside time for contemplation. Working through your fears is also recommended. Birthday: Nicole Byer 8/29/1986 LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) There could be some surprises connected to your sex life or money right now. Take them in stride! This is a lucky time for you, and intentions you send out to the universe really can stick. Birthday: Michael McKean 10/17/1947 SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) There’s a…