TV Guide Magazine January 20, 2025

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37 YEARS AGO

We’re all shook up after rereading this January 30, 1988, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE cover story, written by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley about her late King of Rock husband, Elvis, titled “I Don’t Think He Really Wanted to Live Beyond 40.” Timed to ABC’s two-part Elvis and Me TV movie, a ratings smash, Priscilla’s first-person account here dove into her complicated romance with Elvis that began when she was just 14 years old and ended in divorce. “I think it was fate that his life ended when it did,” she wrote. “I heard him say many times that he didn’t want to be up on the stage with a guitar past 40. He wanted to go on with his career in the studio and in movies, but it’s strange and very sad…

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YOUR FEEDBACK

ENGINES ON I love Tim Allen and am looking forward to his new ABC show, Shifting Gears. —KitKat I love, love, love Tim. I never get tired of his characters. Can’t wait! —Curlytopp GAGA FOR GIBBS I was a latecomer to CBS’s NCIS, although I did watch all of NCIS: New Orleans and the last few seasons of Mark Harmon’s tour. But I love NCIS: Origins. The December 9 episode, which showed why Gibbs got in the bar fight, was stellar. I’m hooked! —Franny I’m loving NCIS: Origins. Not only does it provide great background on Gibbs and his “rules,” but it’s fun to watch and experience a time when good old brainpower was being used. All four leads are terrific. —Janet STREAMING REC There are many wonderful dramas available on…

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25 TOP SHOWS

Source: Nielsen ratings, week of December 16–22, 2024, in millions. Island Bliss The top-rated entertainment series for viewers 18–49 continues to outwit and outlast. Its December 18 finale, in which Rachel LaMont (above, with host Jeff Probst) was crowned winner, hit a season high. Alive and Kicking With steady numbers for the December 17 outing and an audience that’s grown nearly 30 percent with a week of multiplatform delayed viewing, this hospital-set comedy has yet to flatline. Federal Case Season 7 of the crime procedural has jumped 13 percent over the eight episodes since its October 15 premiere. In a season high, nearly a million more viewers watched the December 17 fall finale, about a cargo heist that left three customs officers dead. Spirits Flagging Have fans ghosted Season 4?…

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THE LAST OF US RETURNS

At last! For a year, fans have clamored for more of HBO’s hit apocalyptic series starring Pedro Pascal as hardened survivor Joel Miller and Bella Ramsey as orphan Ellie Williams, who may be key to a cure for the viral outbreak that ravaged the world. During the recent annual CES tech event in Las Vegas, Sony announced that Season 2 of the drama, based on the video game of the same name, would debut in April. The new season is set five years after the events of the first, with the zombie-infested world even darker than before. Tensions will be heightened by the arrival of two new characters: antagonist Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and Dina (Isabela Merced), a love interest for Ellie.…

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LINDA LAVIN

NO ONE SERVED up attitude better than Linda Lavin. As the star of the hit sitcom Alice (1976–85), slinging hash at Mel’s Diner in Phoenix while waiting for her big break, Lavin became a household name after honing her sardonic style on Broadway, where she would later win a Tony Award in Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound. For Lavin, who died December 29 at 87 from complications of lung cancer, comedy was serious business. “What makes me laugh is desperation, self-pity, things that are funny because they’re awful,” she told TV GUIDE MAGAZINE in a 1976 cover profile. “Humor as a survival button.” Lavin survived and thrived as Alice, a role that awakened her activism. “Working for equal pay, equal rights, [Alice] politicized me,” she told CBS News Sunday Morning in…

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For the Record

PREMIERES W.A.G.s to Riches Jan. 22, Netflix NEW Pawn Stars Jan. 22, 9/8c, History Expedition Big Foot Jan. 22, 10/9c, Discovery Police 24/7 Jan. 23, 8/7c, The CW C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart Jan. 23, 9/8c, HBO Crime Nation Jan. 23, 9/8c, The CW Penn & Teller: Fool Us Jan. 24, 8/7c, The CW Harpoon Hunters Jan. 24, 9/8c, Discovery NEW Masters of Illusion Jan. 24, 9/8c, The CW Toya & Reginae Jan. 24, 9/8c, WE tv The Catch Jan. 27, Acorn TV NEW History’s Most Shocking Jan. 27, 10/9c, History NEW Paradise Jan. 28, Hulu NEW Mythic Quest Jan. 29, Apple TV+ Teen Mom: The Next Chapter Jan. 30, 8/7c, MTV Outback Opal Hunters Jan. 31, 10/9c, Discovery Common Side Effects Feb. 2, 11:30/10:30c, Adult Swim NEW Wild…

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