Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2, 2023 i TV Guide Magazine

TOP COP If you haven’t seen Karen Pirie on BritBox, watch it. It’s one of the most riveting, intelligent British police dramas I have seen! Lauren Lyle is fantastic in the lead role. Wonderful plot twists right up to the third and final 90-minute episode. —Rhonda HIDDEN WONDERS I truly enjoy The Masked Singer on Fox. Nick Cannon delights me with his style, and the judges are funny. But how about the people who design those costumes? Amazing! They are stars themselves and need to be commended for their work. Also, the backup dancers have outstanding energy! Here is to the unknown talents! —Helen ON SCHEDULE I love the calendars you publish! I cut them out to keep. I always see a few movies I would have missed. Yeah! With so…

@TVGMMattRoush Why would The Conners hire Jane Curtin to play Katey Sagal’s mother in a recent episode? Nothing against the fabulous Jane, but they’re six years apart in age! Was Carol Burnett (21 years’ age difference) not available? —Chris B. MATT ROUSH: This sort of casting, while odd when you do the numbers, is hardly new. In this case, I saw it as a reunion for Jane and her former 3rd Rock From the Sun producer Tom Werner (an executive producer of The Conners). Since this subject came up online, readers pointed out that Tom Selleck is less than six years younger than his Blue Bloods TV dad, Len Cariou, and on the classic The Golden Girls, Estelle Getty (as Sophia, the eldest) was younger than both Betty White and…

Heroes don’t quit. In the second installment of this 11th century Norse drama, the valiant leads—warrior explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his sister and keeper of the pagan flame Freydis (Frida Gustavsson) and ambitious prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter)—venture into unfamiliar worlds. “Season 2 is about: Does the Viking ethos survive when you get out into the bigger universe?” says executive producer Jeb Stuart. Considering this trio’s ax-sharp survival skills, the answer is ja. They sure can’t go home again: In the finale, Harald’s half brother Olaf (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson) conquered Kattegat in a bloody battle that killed both Freydis’ mentor and Leif’s love. The melee also left Harald badly wounded, but Freydis rescued him. In the opener, we learn she’s pregnant but not telling Harald, and the couple opt…

TOM JONES Hannah Waddingham No, of course the Ted Lasso star isn’t playing the title role in this Masterpiece adaptation of Henry Fielding’s colorful The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling—but Waddingham does have a title: Lady Bellaston, lusty society schemer and thwarter of true love. PREMIERES 2023, PBS QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY India Amarteifio Or, When Charlotte Met King George… Their love story unfolds in this before-she-was-crowned limited series prequel about Bridgerton’s imperious, gossip-loving monarch. Bonus: We’ll see how the ton, that rigidly defined high society, came to be. PREMIERES 2023, Netflix MARIE ANTOINETTE Emilia Schüle Young, rebellious but très élégant! France’s Austrian dauphine turns Versailles upside down while trying to navigate court and produce an heir in a drama from a screenwriter of 2018’s The Favourite. PREMIERES…

Yet to post a Wordle win on social media? You’ll still be sucked in by this ’80s game show reboot hopping on the word-guessing game craze. Hosted by flashy RuPaul Charles, the puzzler puts players in fast-moving rounds, guessing letters to reveal a five-letter word. Episodes end in a showdown. Cash prizes dangle! “You’re gonna love it,” Charles teased audiences in the U.K., where the new Lingo was a hit. Your prefrontal cortex will too!…

THE GANG IS very much all here for Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) final voyage. The stalwart captain first introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation is joined by most of his main O.G. crewmates in the third and last season of Picard. After Season 2’s contemplative time-travel journey to 2024, expect a tense campaign, this time with Jonathan Frakes (Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Troi) repeating as guest stars, along with Brent Spiner now reprising his nefarious Next Gen android character, Lore. Meanwhile, LeVar Burton (Geordi), Michael Dorn (Worf) and Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) make their first visits to the spinoff. Stewart tells us how they fit into the farewell. Early this coming season, Picard and his former “number one,” Riker, end up on the USS Titan and attempt to rescue Crusher…

NEW ERA Miracle Workers: End Times The hit anthology that has mined laughs from the Dark Ages and the Oregon Trail this season tackles the perils of the apocalypse! Daniel Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan and Steve Buscemi return. Monday, Jan. 16, 10/9c, TBS NEW CITY You To escape his past, serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) ventures to London in Season 4 and poses as college professor Jonathan Moore. But with socialites being murdered in town, will Joe learn his lesson and stay out of trouble? Thursday, Feb. 9, Netflix NEW CASE Perry Mason After a gripping first season involving a baby-napping, the fearless lawyer (Matthew Rhys) returns to a mystery involving a savage murder in a powerful oil business family. Our verdict: Prep for another addictive ride. Monday, March 6,…

“There [are] scenes in Season 2 that are graphic. [The cast] looked at each other like, ‘What…are we doing?’” Yellowjackets’ Sophie Nélisse revealed recently. She plays Shauna Shipman, a teenager in 1996 whose soccer team is stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash. The thriller follows the girls’ increasingly unhinged survival methods—and their haunted older selves decades later. In the first season, adult Shauna Sadecki (Melanie Lynskey) murdered a man she thought knew their gruesome secrets. Those skeletons get harder to hide in the present day with the arrival of Lottie (Simone Kessell), who as a teenager (Courtney Eaton) led a supernatural-worshipping cult in the forest.…

@damianholbrook Cheers to a tale as old as time. ABC’s Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, with its animation, inventive live-action and a stellar cast led by vocalists H.E.R. and Josh Groban, can be our guest any time. Cheers to The Cleaning Lady for rubbing out Oliver Hudson (far left). We’ll miss his FBI agent Garrett Miller, but Fox’s drama gets props for shockingly offing a major character who’s both the only law-enforcement ally to reluctant Mafia doc Thony (Elodie Yung, left) and an audience fave. Cheers to Colin Donnell’s Irreverent star turn. As a grumpy mob fixer posing as a priest in backwoods Australia on Peacock’s unsung farce, the Arrow and Chicago Med alum finally has a leading-man role that lets him unleash his smirky charms and solid comedy chops.…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, watch this return Abbott Elementary makes a competitive midseason splash when Melissa’s (Lisa Ann Walter) and Janine’s (Quinta Brunson) classrooms go head-to-head in a “read-a-thon.” Wednesday, Jan 4, 9/8c, ABC If you have an hour, check out this premiere Dr. Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard) and police detective Oskar Rheinhardt (Juergen Maurer) have new mysteries to solve in Season 3 of Vienna Blood. Sunday, Jan. 8, 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) If you have a free evening, check out this spotlight Get ready to ask Is That You, Nancy Drew? with four back-to-back movies starring Bonita Granville as the classic teenage sleuth and John Litel as her attorney father, Carson. Friday, Jan. 6, starting at 8/7c, TCM CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: EDUARDO…

THE FIRST TIME we see Reba McEntire employ her considerable powers of persuasion as no-nonsense judge Kim Wheeler in a new Lifetime movie, she’s dressing down a deputy pointing a gun at her after she was clocked going over 100 mph on a rural highway. The second time, she’s using her gavel to clean the clock of an angry perp as he rushes the bench. And so southcentral Nevada’s new traveling circuit judge earns the nickname “The Hammer.” The country music icon resumes her U.S. concert tour in March, but she tells TV GUIDE MAGAZINE she’s been having “a blast” on The Hammer and ABC’s Western crime thriller Big Sky: Deadly Trails—especially because her real-life beau Rex Linn (Young Sheldon) costars in both projects. “She doesn’t stop moving,” he marvels.…

Beautiful storytelling is at the forefront of this drama, an emotional but brutal postapocalyptic journey of survival based on the popular video game. In the United States of 2033, a mutated fungus has destroyed civilization, and single dad Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal, The Mandalorian) must smuggle a 14-year-old girl, Ellie (Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey), out of a harsh quarantine zone. “The characters are in a totally different place each episode, but the through line is always Joel and Ellie,” says cowriter Neil Druckmann, who also created the game. “Everything is built around that connection and its evolution, from when they first meet and don’t like each other to how they learn to care more and more and make greater sacrifices for each other.” Translating that to TV was a…

TV’s most iconic vampire slayer and a new whirl on werewolves? Howl, yes! But though this scarefest is from Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis, it’s not a spinoff. “I would call this a psychological thriller,” Davis says. With action, no surprise! The series is headlined by genre queen Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Los Angeles Fire Department investigator Kristin Ramsey, who is hot to catch an arsonist behind a rash of local wildfires. In the pilot, after flames trap a school bus in the woods with teens Blake (Bella Shepard), Everett (Armani Jackson) and their classmates aboard, the kids are attacked by a fast, furry and ferocious something hiding amid the burning trees. With this, Ramsey’s case takes a new twist that leads her to the firestarter—but…

In this follow-up to 2011’s Frozen Planet, Sir David Attenborough (who else?) takes us back to regions where snow, ice and freezing temperatures serve as essential surroundings for some of Earth’s most fascinating creatures. The six-part series visits frigid poles, arid tundra, icy seas, snowy forests and mountain peaks to meet Siberian tigers, penguins, polar bears, snow monkeys and other hardy animals braving extreme conditions. Attenborough thoughtfully surveys the measurable ecosystem effects of climate change, which is thawing our frozen planet at an alarming rate. Here’s a peek at the first three episodes. FROZEN WORLDS (January 28) Journey through remote lands to discover the incredible ways that animals have overcome the challenges of subzero survival. FROZEN OCEANS (February 4) Dive into a world of water and ice to visit creatures…

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@TVGMMattRoush National Treasure: Edge of History Wednesdays, Disney+ AMONG THE STREAMERS, Disney+ is where brands go to expand, sometimes for better—WandaVision, Andor—sometimes not so much (The Book of Boba Fett). Falling somewhere in the middle is the charming young adult spinoff of the National Treasure film franchise, where we make the refreshing acquaintance of a heroine whose superpower is her wits. The hunt for fabled treasure leads through Elvis Presley’s Graceland Edge of History introduces the appealing Lisette Olivera as Jess Valenzuela, an earnest and orphaned twentysomething who loves a good puzzle. (We first meet her and her generic Scooby Gang in an elaborate escape room.) Jess dreams of a job in FBI cryptanalysis, despite the obstacle of her undocumented DACA status, and eagerly accepts the challenge when ailing former FBI…

Motor City, here comes Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant)! Last seen fleeing Appalachia in the acclaimed drama Justified (2010–15), the lawman extends his presence in the Elmore Leonard universe with this limited series based on the late crime writer’s City Primeval. Set in Detroit, the gritty novel features local cop Ray Cruz, but in the series, Givens is the protagonist and Cruz (Paul Calderon) is a retired homicide detective. “Tim started banging the drum to put Raylan in this world,” reports executive producer Michael Dinner, “and that’s how this mashup started.” The timeline has moved ahead eight years and Raylan is now part-time dad to teen Willa (played by Olyphant’s real-life daughter Vivian). In Detroit, he runs into Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), “one of Elmore’s great antagonists,” Dinner says.…

GET THEM TO the church on time! The wedding of Yorkshire Dales veterinarian James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) and farmer’s daughter Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton) opens Season 3 of this delightfully poignant drama, adapted from the popular books and now set in 1939. Before the “I dos,” though, there are cows to test for tuberculosis, nerves to overcome and a wedding ring to locate. “I was reading the script and smiling cheek to cheek,” Ralph says. “It was touching, romantic. There was drama, but it was also very funny.” After their honeymoon, James and Helen squeeze into tight living accommodations at Skeldale House, where James is now a partner in the practice. But Britain is on the cusp of war with Germany, and he has to weigh his responsibilities. “He starts…

FOR HARRISON FORD FANS Shrinking The octogenarian multitasker (above), fresh from his Western series, 1923, gets modern-day laughs as the mentor to an unstable therapist (Jason Segel) in this wry comedy. Friday, Jan. 27, Apple TV+ FOR TRUE CRIME JUNKIES Love & Death Acclaimed producer David E. Kelley takes a swing at a bloody 1980s murder case. Elizabeth Olsen (above) plays the ax-wielding Texas housewife charged with offing her best friend. 2023, HBO Max FOR MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS The Way Home Old wounds and second chances drive this emotional family drama starring Andie MacDowell as Del, a strong-willed woman forced to confront the past when her daughter Kat (Chyler Leigh, Supergirl) returns to their small Canadian farm town after a 20-year estrangement. Complicating the tenuous reunion: Kat’s independent-minded offspring, Alice…

What on earth can Logan Roy (Brian Cox), pathological patriarch of Succession, do for an encore? He ended last season by scuttling a potential palace coup orchestrated by his conniving offspring Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin), who had united to push Daddy out of the family’s media conglomerate, Waystar Royco. “Everything I try to do, people turn against me,” Logan says disdainfully as Season 4 begins with gusto. “I’m a hundred feet tall. These people are pygmies.” Details are scant for the new round, but expect immediate intrigue as Logan weighs selling Waystar to cool tech tycoon Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård, who returns, as do Hope Davis, Cherry Jones and Barry’s Stephen Root). Still, Logan and his kids will surely drive the drama. And some…

Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) As Jupiter continues to energize your home and family zone until May, you’ll discover the best opportunities in life stem from there. Look within and to those you love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Your life is set to get a whole lot sweeter, thanks to Venus’ arrival. You may find it easier to attract love, support and a little bit of luck. You’ve earned it. Treat yourself. Sprinkle a little sugar on your life if you’re lacking sweetness! Birthday: Justin Hartley 1/29/1977 PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20) It may be hard to believe that the strife, irritation or confusion on the home front is almost over! It may take a little while to fully iron out any kinks, but the good news is that you’re better…