Innholdsfortegnelse for September 29, 2025 i TV Guide Magazine

Deck the halls with boughs of holly! The milestone fifth year of Great American Christmas is back starting October 10 on Great American Family and GFAM+ (you can also catch it streaming on Great American Pure Flix beginning October 16). New original movies harnessing the joy and spirit of the season are on tap with a host of beloved talent, including Candace Cameron Bure and Mario Lopez (above), as well as Danica McKellar, Cameron Mathison, Jillian Murray and Jonathan Stoddard.…

GENERAL HOSPITAL Six-time Daytime Emmy winner Erika Slezak wasn’t exactly planning a soap comeback, but when General Hospital’s executive producer Frank Valentini called, the daytime legend couldn’t resist hearing him out. “He filled me in on what he wanted for the story arc, and I said, ‘That’s very interesting, because it’s completely different from what I played on One Life to Live,’ ” Slezak recalls. “I was always Viki [Lord Buchanan], confident and strong. This is a totally different character. It’s an exciting, wonderful change.” (Producers are keeping the name of the character she’s playing under wraps until her September 26 debut on the ABC soap.) Once Slezak arrived at the studio, it didn’t take long for her to feel at home. “I came in, and Jane Elliot [Tracy Quartermaine]…

St. Denis Medical RETURNS NOV. 3, 8/7C, NBC The outstanding mockumentary set in a struggling Oregon hospital returns for its second season. And things are just as messy for nurse Alex (Allison Tolman) and the team as they were last time around. That includes staff shortages, personal problems and, of course, office politics of hilarious proportions now that often flaky administrator Joyce (Wendi McLendon-Covey) has procured a big investment from hospital backers. “Those donations and sometimes the relationships with donors can cause complications,” says showrunner Eric Ledgin, adding that Joyce could deliver on last season’s plan to develop a birthing center. “It seems to me to be a sound enough plan that I’m rooting for her,” he admits. “I would like to see her succeed despite whatever barriers and frustrations…

TRACKER RETURNS OCT. 19, 8/7C, CBS UNDERSTANDABLY, COLTER SHAW (Justin Hartley) is in a dark place after that shocking revelation in the Season 2 finale. Otto (Alex Fernandez) admitted that, yes, he pushed Colter’s father over the cliff—but he did it at his mother’s (Wendy Crewson) behest! Colter wants more information before speaking to his mom. “There’s one version: ‘You had Dad killed,’ ” says executive producer Elwood Reid. “It’s far more complicated emotionally.” A couple weeks later, Colter’s brother Russell (Jensen Ackles, back for the two-part premiere) finds him after he’s fallen off the grid. “It’s just two guys, in the Airstream, talking. It’s very tense,” teases the EP. It opens the door to “another central mystery: the why.” Meanwhile, Colter is still doing what he does best—tracking down…

High Potential SEASON 2 Tuesdays on ABC and next day on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ The instantly addictive police drama starring the fabulous Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Gillory, a single mom of three with a genius IQ who joins the LAPD’s Major Crimes Unit as a consultant, brought in big numbers in its freshman season. In fact, the finale, which saw Morgan receiving an ominous threat after bumping into a stranger she believes to be the maniacal kidnapper called the Game Maker (David Giuntoli) scored seriesbest ratings: over 13 million viewers. And things are just getting started. Showrunner Todd Harthan points out that in addition to the Game Maker twist, the first season delivered an emotional shock when Morgan’s partner, Det. Adam Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), called her with a…

Cheers to The Paper for reminding us how great it would be if there were more newspapers to write about Peacock’s sly spinoff of The Office, starring Domhnall Gleeson (left). Cheers to Netflix for giving The Hunting Wives a second shot. Not since Desperate Housewives have we had gal pals that are as wicked and weirdly sympathetic as the gun-toting, bed-hopping, backstabbing ladies of this soapy, sexy drama starring Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman. Cheers to a Glee-ful Celebrity Weakest Link. Host Jane Lynch hilariously unleashed her inner Sue Sylvester on former castmates turned contestants Heather Morris, Jenna Ushkowitz, Amber Riley and Chord Overstreet on the September 15 launch of Fox’s game show. Best class reunion ever! Cheers to the Emmys for avoiding trophy atrophy. Instead of recognizing the same old shows again, this…

Squid Game: The Challenge Power up the creepy animatronic doll, because it’s almost time for the second season of this wacky reality game show spinoff based on Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. Once again, the streamer brings together 456 players to compete for a massive $4.56 million prize. While details on what’s in play in Season 2 are sparse at this point, executive producer Tim Harcourt teases, “The games are a mixture of ones from the drama, favorites from [The Challenge] Season 1, as well as some completely new ones.” Executive producer Nicola Brown also promises “epic twists” and more preexisting relationships among the competitors, so you can expect some fun team-ups. —Amanda Bell Returns Tuesday, Nov. 4 Nobody Wants This Happily ever after isn’t set in stone for Noah (Adam…

Let’s break out the best silver—Dick Wolf’s Law & Order, the franchise’s mothership procedural that spawned six U.S. spinoffs and one iconic theme song, is ready to celebrate its 25th season. That makes the renowned crime show the second-longest-running liveaction series on primetime TV, behind only its first offshoot, Law & Order: SVU, with 27 years of service. (A quarter century is especially sweet, given that L&O took an 11-year break, ending with the show’s celebrated 2022 rebirth.) “We’ll try to make this a season worthy of the legacy,” says showrunner Rick Eid, adding that there’s the possibility of a past favorite or two returning. But first, something new is in order. Season 25 begins with a rare break from the tradition that each episode opens with a new unsolved…

Survivor RETURNS SEPT. 24, 8/7c, CBS As if the competition on this long-running reality series doesn’t get hot enough, Survivor host Jeff Probst says an “oppressive heat” plagued the first two weeks of shooting Season 49 in Fiji. “This was the hottest season I can remember, maybe other than Cambodia,” admits the Emmy winner. The extreme temperatures exhausted everyone, including the 18 new players. “It hit their cognitive ability so fast,” Probst says, and it impacted strategy—they could barely process the challenge instructions. Mercifully, though, when the teams merge, “the weather cools down and the gameplay ignites,” he recalls. “The back half of the season is bonkers!” The front half isn’t exactly smooth. “Out of the gate, a couple of players absolutely, capital letters, Cannot Read the Room,” Probst says.…

AKA Charlie Sheen AVAILABLE NOW Charlie Sheen (above) does something he’s very good at—being candid—in a two-part look at his Hollywood rise and fall. Now seven years sober, Sheen recounts his troubled past with help from exes Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller as well as Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre and Sheen’s costar on the series, Jon Cryer, with whom he had a falling out. “I lit the fuse,” Sheen admits, “and my life turned into everything it wasn’t supposed to be.” —Alyssa Norwin The Woman in Cabin 10 FRIDAY, OCT. 10 “I am not imagining this,” insists Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley, below), a journalist aboard a luxury yacht who witnessed a woman being tossed overboard. Her claim is dismissed by the wealthy host (Guy Pearce)…