Innholdsfortegnelse for September 26, 2022 i TV Guide Magazine

BIG FAN! Please extend my heartiest thanks to everyone involved in putting together your 70th annual Fall Preview [August 29 issue]! I especially appreciated the two-page calendar, which handily lists all the new TV series and movies. I don’t know anywhere else to get all that helpful information in one place. I also look forward to the Returning Favorites every year [September 12 issue]. I have been using TV GUIDE MAGAZINE since the 1960s, and don’t know what I’d do without it! —Renée EXCELLENT EMCEE Kenan Thompson was a gracious host for the Emmys [September 12]. He was sly and dapper without being mean or catty. And I loved his opening dance numbers. —Aimee DRAMA REC I really enjoyed Dark Winds [Season 1 is available to stream on AMC+]. The…

@TVGMMattRoush Monarch Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox WHO KNOWS A country music diva better than their stylist? Sure enough, it’s the hairdresser (Kevin Cahoon) who nails the potential of Fox’s soapy Monarch when he quips, “People like a little Game of Thrones with their country music.” If only. Hoping to do for the network what Empire did in the hip-hop arena, the show feels more like a tired Nashville knockoff if that series had begun with Connie Britton already one foot out the door. Monarch places its “first damn family of country music” in Texas, a land of cheating hearts and dark secrets. Not to mention toxic sibling rivalry, which intensifies when matriarch Dottie Roman (Susan Sarandon) goes public with her diagnosis of terminal cancer, setting in motion a heap of sisterly squabbling…

In the premiere, Frank goes on an incognito late-night walk around the city to check on his cops. What’s the result? It gives him insight into the loss of morale in the NYPD, and he’ll deal directly with that serious issue. Frank has had to walk a tightrope in this woke environment. Now he’s realizing he’s not going to be as diplomatic, and I like that for him. He’s due for a confrontation with Mayor Chase [Dylan Walsh]—’cause he seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth, in Frank’s opinion. Blue Bloods has always strived to be nonpartisan. It’s a show about a law-enforcement family and their point of view, but it doesn’t mean they’re always right and their adversaries don’t have a point…unless they’re just flat-out…

The Gabby Petito Story MOVIE PREMIERE Saturday, Oct. 1, 8/7c, Lifetime PICK OF THE WEEK! A YEAR AGO, 22-year-old Gabby Petito became headline news when the aspiring travel influencer went missing during a cross-country trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Now her short life and violent death at his hands are the subject of a Lifetime docudrama starring Skyler Samuels (right, Scream Queens) and Evan Arthur Hall (Orange Is the New Black). “She was attempting to build this life for herself online, then realized, unfortunately too late, that was one very large facade, and her real life was much more turbulent,” says Emmy nominee Thora Birch, who makes her directing debut and plays Gabby’s mother, Nichole Schmidt. Petito’s saga ended after her body was recovered in Wyoming and Laundrie committed…

Chicago Med 8/7c, NBC Crockett (Dominic Rains) and Kai (Devin Kawaoka), a newly arrived surgical resident, clash with other docs when supply chain disruptions seriously hinder patient care. Also: Head charge nurse Maggie (Marlyne Barrett) finally reveals long-hidden secrets to her husband, Ben (Charles Malik Whitfield). The Masked Singer 8/7c, Fox He was runner-up as Peacock in the competition’s inaugural season in 2019. Tonight, entertainer Donny Osmond returns as a guest panelist (he’ll also sing) for Vegas Night. Another jackpot: Sin City staple Blue Man Group performs! Hostages SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c and 10/9c, HBO For 444 days—from November 1979 to January 1981—anxious Americans waited for word about dozens of citizens held captive in Tehran by Iranian activists. Through new interviews with hostages and hostage-takers, this fourepisode docuseries captures the gripping…

Station 19 SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, ABC A tornado strikes Travis Montgomery’s (Jay Hayden) mayoral campaign event, just as his Station 19 family is shaken by repercussions from Maya’s (Danielle Savre) attempt to blackmail Chief Ross (Merle Dandridge) for dating a subordinate. Ghosts 8:30/7:30c, CBS By the end of tonight’s episode of the comedy, haunted B&B owner Samantha (Rose McIver) will have recorded her inaugural podcast on the murder of Prohibition-era jazz singer Alberta (Danielle Pinnock)—and we’ll have our first suspect in the diva’s poisoning. Grey’s Anatomy SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, ABC Back for Season 19: Richard (James Pickens Jr.), who’s got five new residents, and a chastened Owen (Kevin McKidd) and Teddy (Kim Raver). Still gone: surgery chief turned happy mom Bailey (Chandra Wilson). Soon to leave: acting chief Meredith (Ellen…

Be My Guest With Ina Garten SEASON PREMIERE Noon/11am, Food Network The Barefoot Contessa (above) welcomes more visitors to her East Hampton home in Round 2 of her delightful chat-’n’-chew (and cheers!) show, now airing as a full hour. First up, country singer and 1883 actress Faith Hill swings by for some refreshing frozen palomas and homemade guacamole. Then Faith’s daughter Gracie joins them to bake the family’s favorite Coca-Cola cake before more cocktails are imbibed at a luxury hotel. Still to come: Nathan Lane gets a cooking lesson (October 16); Emily Blunt holds her own in the kitchen (October 23); and chef Marcus Samuelsson teaches Ina a few of his secrets (October 30). A SIGNIFICANT FIND! Secrets of the Dead SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)…

Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) There’s a new moon in your sign, which means it’s time to start all over again! Forget about the past and see this period for what it can be—a chance to be happier and feel more loved. SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) After everything you’ve been through in the past couple of years, do you think there might be room for some self-help in your life? Perhaps meditation or contemplation? Your stars are urging you to get more cosmic. Birthday: Tom Ellis 11/17/1978 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) Choose a wish and turn it into an ff - imation as though it has already happened. Like: “I love my new job and my new job loves me,’’ if you’re job hunting. Keep saying it. Magic is possible. Birthday:…

For the Record BROADCAST PREMIERES Bachelor in Paradise Sept. 27, 8/7c, ABC La Brea Sept. 27, 9/8c, NBC The Rookie: Feds Sept. 27, 10/9c, ABC NEW Hell’s Kitchen Sept. 29, 8/7c, Fox Young Sheldon Sept. 29, 8/7c, CBS Ghosts Sept. 29, 8:30/7:30c, CBS So Help Me Todd Sept 29, 9/8c, CBS NEW Welcome to Flatch Sept. 29, 9/8c, Fox Call Me Kat Sept. 29, 9:30/8:30c, Fox CSI: Vegas Sept. 29, 10/9c, CBS Saturday Night Live Oct. 1, 11:30/10:30c, NBC America’s Funniest Home Videos Oct. 2, 7/6c, ABC Family Law Oct. 2, 8/7c, The CW NEW The Equalizer Oct. 2, 8:30/7:30c, CBS Coroner Oct. 2, 9/8c, The CW East New York Oct. 2, 9:30/8:30c, CBS NEW The Good Doctor Oct. 3, 10/9c, ABC Kung Fu Oct. 5, 9/8c, The CW The…

@TVGMMattRoush I was so disappointed by the news that Kelli Giddish is leaving Law & Order: SVU after 12 years! What’s the deal? —Eve MATT ROUSH: By all accounts, it wasn’t her call, and even star–executive producer Mariska Hargitay reportedly fought to keep her. But the bottom line is that on long-running series, contract negotiations often go sideways. And while she will be missed, it’s nothing new for cast members to go through the constantly revolving door on Dick Wolf series, from the original Law & Order onward. I am a fan of NBC’s new Password with Jimmy Fallon and host Keke Palmer. But I can’t seem to find the credit for the voice that says, “The password is…” and I could swear it’s the voice of actor-comedian Will Forte. Can…

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Daily, 1/noon c and 6/5c, FETV Jane Seymour had a decision to make. It was early 1992, and the actress, going through a divorce, was having financial troubles. Then came an offer for a 19th-century Western about a progressive Boston doctor, Michaela “Mike” Quinn, who finds a community in Colorado. A sitcom role was a possibility, but this job needed her answer now. “I was at the bottom of the barrel, and this [script] was just a piece of magic,” she recalls. “I thought, ‘If it has that effect on me, maybe it will on an audience.’” It did. Though many doubted Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would succeed, it ran for six seasons. As the beloved drama joins the FETV schedule September 26 with four episodes…

Welcome to Flatch SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Fox They say you can’t go home again. But the mockumentary’s larger-than-life newcomer Barb Flatch (Mom’s Jaime Pressly, above) is sure gonna try. In the Season 2 opener, she makes a big return to the Ohio town where her family has ancestral roots. (Similarly, Pressly is shooting in her home state of North Carolina: “There’s nothing better than being on set and hearing the crew members sound like me. It’s soothing.”) “Barb’s a lot,” the actress notes. “She’s positive all the time but also very hurt.” After 20 years in Pompano Beach, Florida, with her husband/business partner, Barb is en route to a divorce and eager to “glow up” Flatch with her own successful real estate firm. (She’ll enlist Holmes’ eccentric Kelly Mallet.) “She’s…

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Historians estimate that Harriet Tubman (right) led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom before and during the Civil War on daring and dangerous raids. Where did this runaway slave, born 200 years ago in the border slave state of Maryland, get the courage and will? This stirring biographical documentary suggests that Tubman developed her sense of divine invincibility by experiencing visions and hearing voices that she was convinced came straight from God. “He gave me the strength in my limbs. He meant that I should be free,” says Tubman in words eloquently read by narrator Alfre Woodard. When she was 13 and still enslaved, Tubman’s skull was fractured in an encounter with an overseer, which led to a lifetime…

MEET THE CREW! Fire Country SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, CBS “We want you to feel like the danger is ever present,” says exec producer Tia Napolitano of this twist-filled drama, centered on the men and women who battle blazes in Northern California as members of Cal Fire—and the inmates who join the effort to reduce their prison time. She makes the introductions. VINCE (Billy Burke) This passionate thirdgeneration Cal Fire-man doesn’t want to climb the ladder to an administrative position; he opts to serve as chief of Edgewater’s Battalion 1608 “because you can get your hands dirty,” Napolitano says. “He likes to be boots on the ground.” SHARON (Diane Farr) The no-nonsense division chief outranks Vince, her spouse. “This is a couple who has found the sweet spot of how to be…

ACROSS 1 Danny Tanner and Jack Pearson5 Belonging to a male8 Work with11 Glazer of The Afterparty13 Animal retreat14 Drink slowly15 ____ Honor (2 wds.)16 ____ the line17 1051, in Roman numerals18 Monica Geller actress (2 wds.)21 The guiding principle22 Mark Wahlberg movie Father ____23 Frozen water26 Kim’s Convenience cocreator Choi28 Thorny flower32 South Park channel (2 wds.)36 Once ____ a Time37 Wedding vow (2 wds.)38 Sheeran and Harris39 Mad About You cousin42 Gun group (abbr.)44 Allen Funt series (2 wds.)50 One Life to Live character51 Kilmer of Top Gun52 Large concert setting54 Illuminated55 Australian bird56 Sings lightly57 Actress West58 ____ Dawn Chong59 ____ Wide Shut DOWN 1 Not bright2 Guinness of Star Wars3 Riddler portrayer Paul4 Miss Piggy’s nose5 Intense dislike6 The Borgias actor Jeremy7 A shooting sport8 Gomer Pyle, ____9 Farm tower10 Condor’s network12 Scared19 Singer Bennett20 Mongolian tent23…

@damianholbrook Cheers to The Patient for treating Steve Carell to an Emmy-worthy role. After being wasted on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, it’s great to see the Office icon absolutely excel in Hulu’s gripping tale of a shrink held hostage by the worst client ever (Domhnall Gleeson). Cheers to What We Do in the Shadows for shining a light on Kristen Schaal’s (left) particular vein of comedy. As the Vampiric Council’s goofy rep, the Bob’s Burgers hoot added her patently bizarre bite to the FX comedy’s fourth season. Cheers to Jeopardy! for hangin’ with the cool crowd. Season 39 kicked off with permahost Ken Jennings welcoming a studio audience for the first time in two-plus years, and their energy was as buzzy as our excitement to have the best game show on again. Cheers to Dancing…

In June 1953, when television was young, a rapt American viewing public clamored to see the coronation of Elizabeth, the 27-year-old royal about to be crowned Queen. The event was so all-consuming, the four television networks secretly planned to hire jet planes to “speed film across the ocean,” as we reported when we made Her Royal Highness the ninthever cover subject of TV GUIDE MAGAZINE. It was the start of an auspicious pairing. Few European figures of the last century have inspired more fascination on this side of the pond, as television grew up and came of age alongside the longest-ruling British monarch in history. The Queen’s passing on September 8 at age 96 offers a chance to reflect on the dignified leader who, for millions, was the symbol of…

Alaska Daily SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Oct. 6, 10/9c, ABC IN HER LAST TV series, 2020’s Away, Hilary Swank played the commander of the first crewed spaceflight to Mars. With ABC’s new drama Alaska Daily, she’s another woman on a mission. Swank stars as hard-hitting New York journalist Eileen Fitzgerald, who comes under fire for an alleged error in her latest exposé—and for her brusque treatment of coworkers. A few months later, a former colleague, Stanley Kornik (Scandal’s Jeff Perry), offers her a job at his Anchorage newspaper. He hopes she’ll be able to break an important story about missing Indigenous women. (Series creator Tom McCarthy’s got cred: He won an Oscar for cowriting 2015’s Spotlight, about investigative journalists.) The gig will be harder than Eileen thinks. She has to (gulp)…

IN THEIR ELEMENT Gold Rush SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Discovery What would you do for a Klondike (gold) bar? In the reality show’s 13th round, veteran Tony Beets risks his kids’ inheritance to mine the White Channel, while newbie Fred Lewis could lose his house if his California Creek claim doesn’t pan out. Too bad it’s under 30 feet of ice. Los Espookys 11/10c, HBO Late-Night Pick On the imaginative bilingual comedy: Uncle Tico (Fred Armisen)—mopey over losing his valet gig—joins Los Espookys to help create horror experiences. Can he hack it? And Andrés (Julio Torres) moonlights modeling staircases. (Think: auto shows.) TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7/6c and 10:30/9:30c, ESPN Tulane at Houston, Washington at UCLA An American Athletic Conference matchup has the Green Wave crashing into the Cougars, and…

Abbott Elementary Wednesday, Oct. 5, 9/8c, ABC PICK OF THE WEEK! WE ALL HAVE a past—and in tonight’s installment of the A+ comedy, we find out what makes Abbott’s easily rattled history teacher Jacob Hill (Chris Perfetti, left) tick when a group called “The Story Samurais” arrives. Brought in to entertain the Philadelphia school’s student body, the Samurais are a traveling troupe that improvises plays based on the kids’ ideas. They also hold a special place in Jacob’s heart, since it’s revealed early in the episode that he is, as Perfetti explains, “a revered alum.” However, since “most things Jacob is [excited] about are duds,” both Abbott’s students and Jacob’s colleagues are unimpressed by the prospect of the group visiting. Needless to say, the sensitive Jacob takes the disdain personally…