Innholdsfortegnelse for January 30, 2023 i TV Guide Magazine

Four decades after the universe met Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I, a new chapter unfolds when Hulu’s eight-episode History of the World, Part II premieres Monday, March 6. The sketch series runs over four consecutive days, again featuring Brooks and his unique satirical humor. The 96-year-old is joined by (above, from left) Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes and Ike Barinholtz and an epic guest cast that includes Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, David Duchovny and The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden. History is fun once again!…

La Brea 9/8c and 10/9c, NBC Some shows do cliffhangers; La Brea does cliff jumpers! In November’s winter finale, the reunited Eve and Gavin Harris (Natalie Zea and Eoin Macken) leapt into a sinkhole from 1988 back to 10,000 B.C. with their kids (Jack Martin and Zyra Gorecki, below, with Chiké Okonkwo). In the two-part return, “they land and are off to the races,” says exec producer and showrunner David Appelbaum, trying to shut down the time portal (long story). The survivors at the clearing have their own prehistoric predicament: “[They’re] in the middle of a migration path,” Appelbaum reveals. Cue the stampede of giant buffalo! Surprisingly, it’s former heroin dealer and loner Lucas (Josh McKenzie) who steps up. “He’s suddenly someone who is having to take charge and protect…

MONDAY, FEB. 6 C.B. Strike: Troubled Blood SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, HBO Childhood grief haunts London PI Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) and his client in this fourpart adaptation of the fifth J.K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith) novel. When Anna Phipps (Sophie Ward) asks Strike to pursue the cold case of her mother, missing since 1974, he agrees, although he’s caring for his dying aunt (Call the Midwife’s Linda Bassett). By the sleuth’s side: unfaltering Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger, above, with Burke). The partners are “firm friends,” Grainger says, but they’ll question whether there’s anything more. Bob ♥ Abishola 8:30/7:30c, CBS If your family is in the sock biz, put your foot down! Bob (Billy Gardell) toils at the factory, while his wife, Abishola (Folake Olowofoyeku), confronts a coworker’s personality shift.…

Hell’s Kitchen SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Fox The table is set for cheers, tears and pan-sears as Season 21 of Gordon Ramsay’s fiery job interview enters its final leg. Having survived weeks of team challenges and unexpected judges (Danny Trejo for taco night!), the three culinary hopefuls left standing enter the two-hour endgame with the daunting task of preparing a five-course meal fit for a stable of famed chefs, including Curtis Stone, Nancy Silverton and David Myers. Only two make it out—after that, the heat is on for a grand prize of $250,000 and the head chef spot at Hell’s Kitchen in Atlantic City. Also: Abe Sanchez (below) returns as sous chef. Young Sheldon 8/7c, CBS Sheldon (Iain Armitage) attempts male bonding, and he isn’t the only one feeling awkward—Mandy’s (Emily…

Super Bowl LVII 6:30/5:30c/3:30p, Fox The players (who were unavailable at press time) won’t be the only ones with nerves once the opening kickoff signals the start of the big game at Arizona’s State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Fox Sports’ NFL lead analyst Greg Olsen (above left) and play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt (above right) are Super Bowl–announcing rookies. Here’s how they’re prepping. GREG’S DO Treat every game as if it’s the biggest. A former player for the Bears, Panthers and Seahawks, Olsen has been employing this athlete’s tactic all along. “My approach is to continue to be true to how I am, speak how I speak, prepare how I prepare and give a broadcast that has become what’s expected from Kevin and me,” he says. GREG’S DON’T Overshadow the big…

Fire Country Fridays, 9/8c, CBS Special episode airing Sunday, Jan. 29, 10/9c or immediately following the AFC Championship Game WHAT DRAWS VIEWERS to CBS’s rookie drama Fire Country like a moth to a flame? Well-drawn characters with everything to lose. Nail-biting action. Thrilling sequences that put you at the center of danger. And a unique conceit: Two groups of courageous hose-toting Northern California firefighters—the local Cal Fire squad and the Three Rock inmates who are part of an uncommon prison work-release program—battle blazes together to save lives. It makes for first-responder broadcast TV at its best. But there’s a secret sauce to the popularity of the top new broadcast series of the season, which has won its 9/8c timeslot against other entertainment programming every week since its October 7 debut—it’s…

Pamela, A Love Story TUESDAY, JAN. 31 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY Turns out Pamela Anderson has plenty more tapes in her archive. Hers is a treasure trove of VHS and DVD memories, some profane with rocker ex Tommy Lee, but most playful and joy-filled, especially when they involve her two sons, with whom she watches parts of home movies in this intimate in-her-own-words biographical portrait. Sitting for in-depth and often self-deprecating interviews sans makeup, Anderson at 55 is a survivor, still a wistful romantic. She’s restless and ambitious enough to consider a brief Broadway run as Chicago’s Roxie Hart in spring 2022, which provides a triumphant climax to this account of a hectic but now seemingly harmonious life. That life, she insists, “is not a woe-is-me story.” Pamela lets Pamela take control…

Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation MOVIE PREMIERE Saturday, Feb. 4, 8/7c, Lifetime “YOU KNOW HOW they say you couldn’t write this s--t? You couldn’t write this s--t!” Jennifer Grey declares of her latest role, playing controversial Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin in this compelling new Lifetime docudrama. When the project first came her way, the Dirty Dancing actress had never heard of the woman it depicted, despite HBO’s buzzy 2021–22 docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. “I immediately downloaded it, watched it, was appalled and stunned, and thrilled,” she shares. “I’m always fascinated by charismatic leaders and the power someone can gain from really hooking into a need in the culture.” The film spans roughly 20 years of Shamblin’s…

History’s Greatest Heists With Pierce Brosnan SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, History DEBONAIR PIERCE BROSNAN, who famously embodied secret agent James Bond, hosts this docuseries of eight episodes, each exploring the planning, execution and fallout of a spectacular real-life heist. “We’re always beguiled by men who do this,” the actor told us by phone from Hawaii (where he’d just finished a humble task: feeding his chickens). He gave us a preview. Are these masterminds like your art thief character in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)? Crown had wealth. He knew the game. These men are desperate. They need the money. They usually have great assurance and charisma; some are goofballs. Tonight’s premiere, about the 2003 record-breaking heist in Antwerp’s diamond quarter, plays like a suspense movie. The scripts are all audacious. They…

Newly Available Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Seven exes battle to keep a bass player (Michael Cera) from winning over his new girl in Edgar Wright’s action-filled rom-com. You People (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL Witty culture clashes abound as an unlikely couple (Jonah Hill and Lauren London) meet each other’s parents. Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus costar. Friday, Feb. 10 Your Place or Mine (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL What happens when totalopposite pals on separate coasts (Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, above) switch lives for a week? Humor and romance! Newly Available The King’s Speech (2010) A grateful friendship forms when a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) helps George VI (Colin Firth) cope with a stammer in this first-rate historical drama. Mission: Impossible (1996) The first four films in the action franchise air on the service, starting…

Celebrity Jeopardy! SEASON FINALE 8/7c, ABC We’re riding high on the announcement of a new Jeopardy! Masters tournament—but first let’s see who takes the title (and $1 million grand prize) here. Of the three players, Ike Barinholtz and Wil Wheaton are the two names confirmed at press time. Law & Order: Organized Crime 10/9c, NBC Sergeant Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) reopens rich kid Teddy’s (Gus Halper) club to bait Eamon Murphy (Timothy V. Murphy) into committing felonies. (She suspects the gangster helped murder her first partner years ago.) In the process, Bell worries that Jet (Ainsley Seiger)—undercover as a blackjack dealer—is falling for Murphy’s lieutenant, Seamus (Michael Malarkey, The Vampire Diaries). MAJOR MEMORY GAP CSI: Vegas 10/9c, CBS Day off…denied! Forensics pro Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) misses out on granddaughter…

Vienna Blood 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Arsenic kills a silent-film siren at her premiere in the twopart mystery that ends Season 3 of this intriguing thriller set in early 1900s Vienna. The detective work of brilliant psychoanalyst Max Liebermann (Matthew Beard) and driven policeman Oskar Rheinhardt (Juergen Maurer, above left, with Beard) leads to men with dangerous obsessions—and dangerous politics. YUP, IT’S MUSIC’S BIGGEST NIGHT The 65th Annual Grammy Awards 8/7c/5p, CBS Trevor Noah is back for a third round of hosting. Top nominees: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Adele. Murf the Surf: Jewels, Jesus, and Mayhem in the USA SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, MGM+ In 1964, Jack Murphy and his fellow “surfer dudes” pulled off the biggest jewel heist in U.S. history. Murf himself speaks of his crime…

Not Dead Yet SERIES PREMIERE 8:30/7:30c and 9:30/8:30c, ABC She sees dead people…and it’s rather funny. Based on Alexandra Potter’s novel Confessions of a Forty Something F##k Up, the new dramedy created by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, both former producers on This Is Us, introduces Nell (Gina Rodriguez, above) in two episodes airing tonight. Nell’s not sure where her career or her life are heading: She has a demanding roommate (Rick Glassman), a tyrannical boss (Lauren Ash, Superstore), loving friends (Hannah Simone and Josh Banday) and a new job she hates: writing obituaries. But Nell gets a surprise from her dead-end gig when the first of many ghosts (a delightful Martin Mull) shows up and teaches her valuable lessons about what’s important. “I really hope people embrace what we’re…

Austin City Limits 11/10c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Country singer Maren Morris (right) croons fire in her 14-song debut on this concert series, the longest-running music show on American TV. Morris performs nine tracks from her 2022 album, Humble Quest, plus hits like “80s Mercedes” from 2016’s Hero. The Texan shares the mic on “Hummingbird” with her pregnant bassist and closes with gospellaced “My Church,” ensuring her soulful twang will be in hearts all Sunday. Murdoch Mysteries SEASON PREMIERE 7/6c, Ovation Turn-of-the-20th-century Canadian crime solver Det. William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) has a new baby girl to spoil in Season 16—but killers keep distracting him, like the “corpse” who emerges from a dirt-filled coffin to slay two unsuspecting gravediggers. Masters of Illusion SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, The CW Magicians show…