Innholdsfortegnelse for November 6, 2023 i TV Guide Magazine

@TVGMMattRoush Why is NBC the only major broadcast network to have a lineup of new scripted shows and episodes this fall? I like The Irrational (awful title), and Season 2 of Quantum Leap is off to a good start. Were they anticipating the strike and filmed earlier than normal? —Scott MATT ROUSH: Yes and no. Some shows, like the second half of Magnum P.I.’s season and the Canadian import Transplant, had been earmarked for midseason 2024 and were moved forward, and the procedural Found, originally set for last winter’s midseason, was pushed back to fall. The Irrational was ordered to series late last year and put into production as part of the network’s year-round process, which along with banking new episodes of Quantum Leap qualifies as forward thinking, all things…

There have been scores of movies and documentaries probing the life and death of John F. Kennedy. A trio of new shows mark the tragedy’s anniversary. The three-part JFK: One Day in America (Sunday, Nov. 5, 8/7c, National Geographic; streams next day on Disney+, Hulu) tells of the 35th president’s murder and its aftermath, using archives and surviving witnesses’ testimony. Among those sharing memories: Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Service protector, Clint Hill, who says, “I have a sense of guilt. I should have been able to do more that day.” Unfolding in eight parts over three nights, Kennedy (Saturday, Nov. 18, 8/7c, History; streams next day on History.com and VOD) offers the critical moments that defined the life and legacy of the youngest president ever elected. As historian Eileen McNamara says…

TCM Memorial Tribute: Alan Arkin 8/7c, TCM Movie Picks This mini-thon honoring the Oscar winner, who died in June at age 89, covers his unique skills in both drama and comedy. First, he plays an empathetic but deeply depressed deaf mute in 1968’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. After the ’67 thriller Wait Until Dark (10:15/9:15c), the laughs kick in with ’66 farce The Rus sians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (12:15am/11:15c). Holiday Baking Championship SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Food Network ’Tis the season for judges Carla Hall, Duff Goldman and Nancy Fuller to oversee the annual sweet-a-thon. Tonight: cinnamon rolls! Jesse Palmer hosts. THE FAMILIES FEUD! The Family Chantel SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, TLC The explosive final chapter for 90 Day Fiancé fan favorites Chantel Everett and Pedro Jimeno…

Mountain Men: Alaska SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, History Will I eat? Survive the winter? Get perilously close to a grizzly? The challenges of off-the-grid life in the 49th state are presented in excruciating, engrossing detail in this Mountain Men spinoff. As are the rewards: “I got a plate in front of me. I got the solitude and the beauty of it around me. I got my best buddy,” says master forager Cub Finney…whose friend is a blue heeler named Fenrir. Here’s an intro to the other amazing Alaskans we’ll meet. MARTY AND NOAH MEIEROTTO The father (above) is teaching his 16-year-old daughter to fly, and their love is palpable and heartwarming.“You’re not a bad pilot for an old trapper,” she teases. Intrepid Marty also faces a bear charge while on a…

Monk 3/2c and 4/3c, Cozi TV Daytime Pick With Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie only a few weeks out (the new installment streams December 8 on Peacock), it’s a good time to rewatch the sweetly satisfying series finale from 2009. In the two-parter, obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk (triple Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub, below) is poisoned via his omnipresent hand wipes. (The villain gets a gold star for that ingenious plan.) Seems Monk is getting too close to the person who killed his cherished wife, Trudy (Melora Hardin), years earlier. The episodes unfold like the classic film noir D.O.A., with the dying Monk working his own case as time slowly runs out. It takes the opening of the last Christmas present from Trudy, which Monk has kept intact, to…

Hatfields & McCoys Thursday, Nov. 23, 1:15/12:15c and 8/7c, SundanceTV PICK OF THE WEEK! THANKS TO THE mega-success of Yellow-stone, everyone wants to see Kevin Costner in a cowboy hat! As a Thanksgiving football alternative, SundanceTV is reloading this 2012 shoot-’em-up series—nominated for 16 Emmys, one of those won by Costner (left)—for back-to-back airings. Here’s a look at the three-parter, taken from the original TV GUIDE MAGAZINE preview by David Hochman. For Kevin Costner, the beard was probably the toughest part. “It went on one hair at a time, singly laid in,” he says of the old-man whiskers he wears for the epic Hatfields & McCoys. Costner plays Devil Anse Hatfield, patriarch and neighbor-from-hell to Randall McCoy (the late Bill Paxton, equally fuzzy-faced), from ages 30 to 73. “My chin…

Movie Picks TCM Guest Programmer: Jonathan Scott 8/7c, TCM Jonathan Scott, one of HGTV’s Property Brothers (with twin Drew), takes over TCM tonight and chooses the films on the lineup—two with astonishing personal connections. Late in the 1975 thriller Russian Roulette (8/7c)—starring George Segal (left) as a disgraced Canadian police officer mixed up in a KGB conspiracy—you can see Scott’s father, Jim, perched on a hotel roof, playing a would-be sniper. It was beyond his role as the second unit director, and it provided years’ worth of thrills for his son. Scott’s fascination with espionage informed his next pick, 1974’s The Parallax View (10/9c), with Warren Beatty’s reporter investigating a string of assassinations that lead back to a frightening secret organization. It was, he tells host Ben Mankiewicz, a title he…

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) Curious Mercury arrives in your sign, signaling a time where you’re willing to get to know yourself a little bit better. There’s a lot to learn in terms of you, your career and those in your life. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) Venus arrives in your career zone, helping smooth any diplomatic issues that may have been lingering from the past few weeks. Using this time to win over friends and influence people at work is a wise strategy. You’ll discover who really is on your team. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) If you’ve found yourself caught between a rock and a hard place, call a friend! With Mercury now in your friends zone, it’s time to catch up with your social groups and networks. Reach out to…

RETURNING FAVORITE I just smiled during the whole first episode of the new revamped Frasier on Paramount+! Cheers and Frasier were two of my all-time favorite shows, and it was lovely to be reminded of that time again. And how great they’re back in Boston! Lovely tribute to John Mahoney at the end, in the pub’s name. Looking forward to seeing old friends and new witty storylines. —Christine LATE GREAT I was so disappointed in your October 16 cover [Frasier, above]. David McCallum deserved the cover photo after all of his years as Ducky on CBS’s NCIS! He should have been given this honor and not just the article on page 3. —Robin WALTZING WOES I agree with your Jeer for the lack of Judges’ Saves on ABC’s Dancing With the…

PREMIERES Holiday Baking Championship Nov. 6, 8/7c, Food Network The Family Chantel Nov. 6, 9/8c, TLC De La Calle Nov. 7, Paramount+ NEW Fixer to Fabulous Nov. 7, 8/7c, HGTV Beat Bobby Flay: Holiday Throwdown Nov. 7, 9/8c, Food Network The Curse of Oak Island Nov. 7, 9/8c, History Neighborhood Wars Nov. 7, 9/8c and 9:30/8:30c, A&E Wipeout Nov. 7, 9/8c, TBS The Buccaneers Nov. 8, Apple TV+NEW Fixer Upper: The Hotel Nov. 8, 9/8c, Magnolia NetworkNEW Help! I Wrecked My House Nov. 8, 9/8c, HGTV Feds Nov. 8, 10/9c, Investigation Discovery NEW Rap Sh!t Nov. 9, Max 007: Road to a Million Nov. 10, Prime Video NEW For All Mankind Nov. 10, Apple TV+ The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday Nov. 10, The Roku Channel Belle Collective Nov. 10,…

Moonlighting Hulu, Available now It wasn’t easy, but 34 years after the Moonlighting finale, the 1980s romantic dramedy starring Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd as detective David Addison and model Maddie Hayes solving cases together is finally streaming. Creator Glenn Gordon Caron had been campaigning “forever,” he says, to make the show more widely available, but there was an alarming report in the spring of 2022 that made it more pressing: Willis’ diagnosis of brain-damaging aphasia. “A lot of the world knew him as this guy who carried a gun, but they didn’t know that he was this romantic leading man,” he says. “He’s incredibly funny and verbally dexterous.” Part of Caron’s inspiration for Moonlighting was the quick dialogue of the classic Cary Grant–Rosalind Russell comedy His Girl Friday. Willis…

Wednesday, Nov. 8 Robbie Williams ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES An incredibly intimate four-part human-behind-the-headlines look at one of the U.K.’s top pop stars, now 25 years into a solo career that has seen meltdowns and immeasurable success. Newly Available Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY A fond look at the four colorful Australian mates who brought joy to generations of kids (and their parents) with their infectious tunes. Friday, Nov. 17 Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY Willie Maxine Perry’s son sure made good! The Hollywood hyphenate rose from a traumatic childhood to find comedy gold with Madea (based on Mom) and an astonishing career. Tuesday, Nov. 14 A Murder at the End of the World ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES Nine guests come to an exclusive snowbound retreat…

Prosecuting Evil With Kelly Siegler SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, Oxygen Kelly Siegler is well known to true-crime fans as the tenacious ex-prosecutor unwilling to let unsolved crimes fade away on six seasons of Cold Justice. In her new docuseries, she shifts gears, presenting some of the cases she successfully prosecuted as chief of special crimes at Texas’ busiest courthouse, Harris County. WHAT IT’S ABOUT According to Siegler (above), Prosecuting Evil showcases “unusual and heartbreaking” murder investigations and trials, with previously unheard details coming from “the people who are the best at their jobs” in the Lone Star State. WHY IT’S SPECIAL Not only does Siegler take us through trial prep from her own point of view, but as an insider, she’s able to elicit revealing anecdotes from the investigators. “We get…

Person Place or Thing 9am/8c, Game Show Network Daytime Pick In case you haven’t caught this fall arrival yet, it’s a breezy morning half hour. Melissa Peterman (Reba) hosts the Twenty Questions–based game. Could you have guessed Barbra Streisand? TIMED TO IMPERFECTION Kitchen Nightmares 8/7c, Fox For the sibling owners of the Puerto Rican restaurant El Cantito, having an opening date five days before the COVID shutdown was strike one. Their tiny staff and malfunctioning equipment aren’t helping. Can Gordon Ramsay save the day? TODAY’S SPORTS PICK NFL FOOTBALL 8:15/7:15c, ESPN and ABC Philadelphia Eagles at Kansas City Chiefs This Super Bowl LVII rematch could be upstaged by Taylor Swift if she’s in the luxury box to watch Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in action. MOVIES 1:20/12:20c Chinatown (1974) HDNet Movies…

Mary Makes It Easy Noon/11am c, Food Network Daytime Pick How slow can you go? Canadian cook Mary Berg spotlights leisurely dishes such as slow-roasted squash and a classic pot roast. Mistletoe Connection MOVIE PREMIERE 7/6c, UPtv At first, a chance encounter between small business owner Kate (Jessica Sipos) and handsome stranger Mark (Markian Tarasiuk) seems like a Christmas miracle…until both realize they’re on different sides of a very personal battle. Can the couple-to-be find a common ground, or is Kate’s family store doomed? BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN Yellowstone 9/8c and 10/9c, CBS The Western’s Season 2 continues with Episodes 7 and 8. Developers Malcolm Beck (Neal McDonough) and his brother Teal (Terry Serpico) escalate their war with the Duttons. Patriarch John (Kevin Costner) and loyal Rip Wheeler (Cole…

@damianholbrook Cheers to Family Switch’s parental guidance. As marrieds who body-swap with their bratty offspring in Netflix’s holiday romp, Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms (above right, with younger costars Emma Myers and Brady Noon) get to have the kind of physical-comedy fun usually reserved for, well, the kids. Still, we have to say… Cheers to Kim Kardashian for killing it on FX’s American Horror Story. Maybe it’s all those years with momager Kris, but the influencer is giving the perfect blend of no-nonsense and nefarious as the high-powered publicist Siobhan to Emma Roberts’ haunted actress Ava. Cheers to Hulu for lighting the way for ’80s gems. After bringing the Cybill Shepherd–Bruce Willis classic Moonlighting to streaming (see page 14), Hulu is also set to drop all 172 episodes of long-MIA legal drama…

@TVGMMattRoush Fellow Travelers Sundays, 9/8c, Showtime THE LOVE THAT once dared not speak its name is further clouded by political paranoia in a fascinating historical drama, loosely adapted from Thomas Mallon’s novel. Much of the eightpart limited series is set in early-1950s Washington, D.C., where firebrand senator Joseph McCarthy’s (Chris Bauer) relentless crusade against “subversives and deviants” in the government, and later the military, tarnished and ruined many an innocent life. Fellow Travelers focuses on the Lavender Scare, with closeted homosexuals hounded and persecuted as potential security risks. Seemingly “bulletproof” through this period is suave war hero Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller (Matt Bomer, never better), a mid-level bureaucrat who advises a principled senator (Linus Roache) by day, wooing the politician’s daughter (Girls’ stoic Allison Williams) for cover as he engages in…

Fixer Upper: The Hotel SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, Magnolia Network Step aside, shiplap! Chip and Joanna Gaines (right) are trading pine paneling for hospitality on a grand scale. In this six-episode series, the Waco, Texas, couple undertake a passion project to turn a sprawling historic building near their flagship Magnolia Market into the boutique Hotel 1928. “It’s over 50,000 square feet, with three floors, 33 guest rooms, a ballroom, three food-and-beverage outlets and a rooftop terrace,” tallies Lauren Frasca, Magnolia Network’s senior VP of content and strategy. Due to the property’s spot on the National Register—and the nature of any construction job—plenty of issues arise, but “Chip and Jo were passionate about preserving the original detail and leaving as much of that history intact as possible.” While Jo focused on design,…

Buddy Valastro’s Cake Dynasty SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, A&E New Jersey’s cake-construction maestro showcases his entrepreneurial talents in this how-he-does-it series, set mostly in his 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that can generate 10,000 cakes or 60,000 slices a day! “You might see me on the floor fixing my cookie machine or making a deal for another concept in Las Vegas,” Valastro (below) says. The secondgeneration owner of Hoboken’s world-famous Carlo’s Bakery isn’t doing it on his own: His four kids, ages 12 to 20, are key ingredients to success. “They were psyched to be involved, and building this business with them will be a lot of fun,” their dad notes. Cake Dynasty debuts immediately after another new Valastro project, Legends of the Fork (9/8c). Double yum. The Pacific 10am/9c, HBO2 Daytime Pick…

BUENA SUERTE! Lotería Loca 8/7c, CBS The “crazy lottery” game show, with gregarious host Jaime Camil and a chance for contestants to win a million bucks, moves into its new timeslot. This week, a psychologist and a retired social worker go head-to-head trying to unscramble words and identify Mexican wrestlers. Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test 9/8c, Fox In between an arduous logcarry challenge and a winterwarfare exercise in the snowy mountains, the recruits receive inspiring video messages from their loved ones. And with one week left before the finale, they’re gonna need those good wishes to keep it together. BlackBerry: The Limited Series SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, AMC How did we all wind up with smartphones? This dark comedy (a 2023 film extended and split into three parts) revisits the BlackBerry’s…

Fargo SEASON PREMIERE 10/9c and 11:20/10:20c, FX You betcha we’re excited that this crime anthology is returning. In Season 5, Minnesota-nice Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Juno Temple, left, Ted Las so), a sweet wife and mom with a secret past, is kidnapped. Among those on her trail is macho sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm, Mad Men), who rules, kinglike, over a county in North Dakota. “It’s a thriller and mystery in a way we haven’t done before,” says exec producer Noah Hawley. The 1996 film Fargo, the series’ inspiration, is about a man having his wife kidnapped: “We revisit a similar event from the wife’s point of view.” This time, the missus is way more wily than the mister, dontcha know. While her kind husband (David Rysdahl) is frantic, she’s besting…

My Christmas Hero MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Great American Family The latest from holiday movie queen Candace Cameron Bure! As Army Reserve doctor Nicole Ramsey, she spends her days in Washington state serving others. This Christmas, though, she looks inward as she tries to track down her family’s military history…with the help of a charming new friend (Gabriel Hogan). UNHELPFUL MOTHER NATURE Bering Sea Gold 9/8c, Discovery With the storm of the century looming, the ships race to mine. Kris Kelly’s group heads for deeper waters, while his longtime rival, Shawn “Mr. Gold” Pomrenke, fights towering swells. Also battling waves: the fleet’s only female captain, Emily Riedel; never-give-up Vernon Adkison; and secondgeneration miner Chris McCully. TODAY’S SPORTS PICKS COLLEGE FOOTBALL Noon/11am c, Fox TCU at Oklahoma; noon/11am c, ABC Miami at…

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