TV Guide Magazine March 11, 2024

The years haven’t been kind to Max McCall (Mark Bonnar, right) ever since he tried to cover up that hit-and-run accident on the first season of Scottish crime dramedy Guilt. Fishing in the picturesque Highlands doesn’t even appear to offer the former jailbird much solace. When the Masterpiece series returns for its third and final four-episode go-round (Sunday, April 28, 10/9c, PBS), Max and brother Jake (Jamie Sives, Annika) go back to Edinburgh, where danger awaits in the form of vindictive crime boss Maggie Lynch (Downton Abbey’s Phyllis Logan). Will the McCalls exact revenge or find redemption—and will a reunion with their father (David Hayman) offer comfort, or just more pain?…

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Source: Nielsen Media Research, week of February 12–18, 2024, in millions. Go, Ghosts, Go! The supernatural sitcom’s Season 3 premiere became the series’ highest-rated episode ever in same-day viewer-ship, while it was also tops for the week among viewers 18–49. Sour Note Idol’s premiere (with judge Katy Perry, above) dropped 12% of its audience compared with last year’s debut but was still ABC’s top show of the week. Genius Level The Season 7 premiere saw the long-running comedy score its largest same-day audience in nearly four years (since April 2020). After being added to Netflix in November, it’s also among the most watched streaming shows. Staying on Track Following its boffo debut after Super Bowl LVIII, which attracted 18.4 million viewers, the second episode of the drama starring This Is…

FOR SUITS FANS, it’s a surprising happily ever after that comes four years after the series finale: a record-breaking run on Netflix and an NBC pilot order from original creator Aaron Korsh. Led by Arrow’s Stephen Amell, Suits L.A. will focus on Ted Black, a charismatic former prosecutor who runs a Los Angeles firm that specializes in criminal law, he’s about to give original sharp-dressed lawyers Harvey Specter and Mike Ross (Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams, left) a run for their money. The legal drama, which aired on USA from 2011 to 2019, also starred Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres, Sarah Rafferty, Abigail Spencer and Meghan Markle (yes, the Duchess of Sussex), and it has since found a fresh audience thanks to streaming. When the first eight seasons arrived on Netflix…

PREMIERES Lakefront Empire March 11, 10/9c, HGTV NEW The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys March 11, 11/10c, USA NEW Wildcard Kitchen March 12, 9/8c, Food Network NEW Password March 12, 10/9c, NBC Teen Mom: Family Reunion March 13, 8/7c, MTV Station 19 March 14, 10/9c, ABC True Crime Story: Smugshot March 14, 10/9c, SundanceTV NEW America’s Backyard Gold March 15, 9/8c, Discovery NEW Critter Fixers: Country Vets March 16, 9/8c, Nat Geo Wild Call the Midwife March 17, 8/7c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? March 17, 8/7c, TLC Nolly March 17, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) NEW Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV March 17, 9/8c, Investigation Discovery NEW Alice & Jack March 17, 10/9c, PBS (check local…

@TVGMMattRoush Shogun They don’t make epics like this anymore—until they do, magnificently Tuesdays, 10/9c, FX A “RELIC FROM a bygone era”—that’s how Shogun’s hero, cunning Lord Yoshii Toranaga (the mesmerizing Hiroyuki Sanada), refers to the military title he insists he doesn’t covet. (We know better.) FX’s majestic 10-part Shogun could also be seen as an emblem of another time, when maxi-sized miniseries (today’s “limited series”) were regular events, now a seemingly lost art like that of the star-driven variety show or the weekly Twilight Zone–style anthology. In 1980, the first time TV tackled James Clavell’s mammoth and hugely entertaining historical novel, with miniseries king Richard Chamberlain as the star, Shogun was rightly acclaimed as a peak achievement of the sprawling format. This ambitious remake, told largely in Japanese with lucid…