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FOLLOW US> TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazin @tvguidemagazine Write to us: Letters, TV Guide Magazine, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10020, or email letters@tvgm.com Quick Clicks Every single one of our readers seemed to have an opinion on our recent Jennifer Lopez cover for Shades of Blue [January 4]. Timothy Breth thought it was “the hottest cover ever for TV GUIDE MAGAZINE and easily the best one” we’ve ever done. Lisa Henrich agreed, writing that J.Lo “looks absolutely fantastic”— though the shot left Linda Wells wondering if we’d recently made a deal with Playboy. “Those photos are way over the top,” she noted. Dee Lynn Bonn was just perplexed. “She is representing the police drama Shades of Blue. No cop would dress this way!”…Tim Dean disagreed with our…

More than a year after leaving CBS’s The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson says his new History series, Join or Die, satisfies his talkshow itch. “I wanted to do something that had a little more heft,” he says. “Content that grabbed you, that was interesting to me in a discussion format as opposed to asking, ‘Hi, where are you from? How long have you known George Clooney?’ ” Join or Die (premiering Thursday, February 18, 11/10c) follows a panel of celebrities and experts riffing on various topics from history, such as “most influential drug” and “biggest gangster in history.” Ferguson has already taped 20 episodes and would like to do more. “There are a lot of areas where it can go,” he says. “I just don’t want to make 220…

AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED Source: Nielsen Media Research, December 28, 2015– January 3, 2016, in millions. “I got my AFTRA card when I was 7 years old. I did a couple of those fake commercials for Saturday Night Live. At the time, there was a whole thing about medical waste being dumped in one of the rivers on the East Coast. My vignette was kids at a birthday party breaking open a piñata that was actually a cast and then playing in the used medical waste that fell out. Apparently I was really good at it, because I got featured!” —Christina Ricci (Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles) “I officially got my SAG card on Over There, a Steven Bochco war series for FX. But…

@TVGMLogan Idol Worship SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS Saturday, Jan. 30, 8/7c, TNT and TBS THERE WILL BE lots of love in the room when 82-year-old comedy legend Carol Burnett gets the Life Achievement trophy at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. But she’ll be the one in awe. What will you be thinking as you walk to that SAG stage? I’ll be 10 years old again! This award is quite terrific but so unnerving because I know I’ll be looking out at a sea of fantastic movie stars. Back in the coveredwagon days, my grandmother and I were crazy about the movies—she got in for a quarter, I got in for a dime—and I was so inspired by the magic that I believed anything in life was possible. It’s…

NEARLY 50 YEARS ago, a young James Brolin left a studio film contract and decided to take a chance on television. That gamble, Marcus Welby, M.D., made him a star, earning him an Emmy and two Golden Globes. Now, with an admirable Hollywood career full of dramatic roles under his belt, he’s returned to the medium to play sweet but spacey patriarch John Short on the CBS family comedy Life in Pieces. Between bites of branzino and sips of iced tea, the 75-year-old actor discussed his funny business. Life in Pieces has been one of the few true successes on network TV this season. Why do you think it’s connecting with people? It deals with some really common, but more ridiculous, family problems. There’s also the blue side of it.…

TUESDAY, JAN. 19 9:30/8:30c, Fox THIS DEB IS no downer. As the matriarch of the Sanderson family on The Grinder, Mary Elizabeth Ellis (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) finds herself playing the voice of reason, whether it’s dealing with her high-strung attorney husband, Stewart (Fred Savage), or her egotistical former actor brother-in-law, Dean (Rob Lowe). The actress gives us a little testimony on her role. In a show full of characters with over-thetop personalities, what did you think of Deb when you first read the script? It spun me out a little bit. I’m used to being the person who comes in as a crazy ex-girlfriend and throws cinder blocks through a car windshield or is scream-crying while also laughing. I play crazy people a lot, so it’s nice for…

SATURDAY, JAN. 23 8/7c, Lifetime DIVORCE. MULTIPLE BANKRUPTCIES. A lifeendangering health crisis. Sounds like another over-the-top Lifetime movie—only all of the drama in this tale happens to be true. Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart, based on the 2014 memoir of the same name, offers a diva’s-eye view of the platinum-selling artist’s personal and professional struggles. Braxton, who serves as executive producer, sings like a canary about the experience. Even on Braxton Family Values, your reality series on WEtv, you’ve stayed pretty reserved. Why open up now? I tend to be aloof, so there’s a lot people don’t know. I just wanted to tell my story, because others have been doing it for years. Any misconceptions that you’re especially eager to clear up? Probably what happened with my first bankruptcy. Or…

MONDAY, JAN. 25 Series premiere, 9/8c, Fox THE DEVIL’S GOING down to SoCal for one hell of a good time. In this new drama, Tom Ellis (Rush) stars as the titular lord of Hell who moves to Los Angeles to start anew as a club proprietor. How are you putting a new spin on the devil? We’re taking the epitome of evil and putting him in a redemption story. But underlying all of this is Lucifer being rejected by his dad. He bears that chip on his shoulder massively. Lucifer partners with an LAPD detective (Lauren German). Any romance? Coming from a successful TV show in the U.K. (Miranda) about whether two people got together, we realized if they ever did, that would be the end of the show. They…

JANUARY 18, 2016 | PUZZLE #1272 ACROSS 1 Armstrong of All Is Forgiven 5 Doctor on Doctor, Doctor 8 Is in the red 12 Feeble 13 Nathan Fillion on Firefly 14 Frank of Leave It to Beaver 15 Aeryk of Brooklyn Bridge 16 Attractive companion (2 wds.) 18 Sherif Lobo on B.J. and the Bear 20 Actor Rip 21 Art of Tough Cookies 23 ____ Buck 27 When Time ____ Out 28 Matt’s teenage daughter on All Is Forgiven 29 Queen of ____ 3 3 Bixby on The Incredible Hulk 34 Connie of Mister Ed 35 ____ About You 36 Verdugo of Marcus Welby, M.D. 37 The Boys ____ (2 wds.) 42 Tent door on M*A*S*H 44 Ally McBeal’s roommate 45 Amassed something (2 wds.) 49 Teachers ____ 50 At ____ 51 One Day ____ Time (2…

@damianholbrook JEERS TO THE BACHELOR ’S MESSY MISSES Between drunken mean girl Lace, flower-powered weirdo Mandi, the tiny-horse hopeful and the chick who loves chickens, we wouldn’t blame poor Ben Higgins (above, with Lace) if he stepped away from the roses and ran for his life. CHEERS TOMAKING A MURDERER for putting the “guilty” in guilty pleasure. Netflix’s 10-part documentary series about the corruption and courtroom shenanigans surrounding accused killer Steven Avery’s 2007 trial is an addictive, infuriating and exemplary case of true crime being so much stranger than fiction. CHEERS TO DOWNTON ABBEY for beginning the end in first class. The Brit hit kicked off its final season with Lady Mary being blackmailed, the Dowager delivering one of her best burns and fans frothing to see how it will…

THURSDAY, JAN. 21 Series premiere, 10/9c, Bravo MMM, IS THAT a red herring that we taste in the stew? On Bravo’s new cooking competition Recipe for Deception, contestants won’t just need an arsenal of culinary skills to cut the mustard—they’ll also have to be stone-cold sociopaths. Hosted by stand-up comedian and food writer Max Silvestri, the series, loosely based on the parlor game Two Truths and a Lie, challenges chefs to create a winning dish featuring a mystery ingredient. To home in on what that is, they’ll swap clues with their opponents while trying to intentionally mislead each other along the way. Silvestri dishes about bringing Pinocchio into the pantry. With so many kitchen showdowns out there, what will make this one stand out? Our show takes food very seriously,…

FRIDAY, JAN. 22 Series premiere, Amazon Prime Video Unless you’re a bunch of monks, any guys-only vacation to the steamy paradise of Belize promises to get rowdy. But when that trip celebrates the retirement of your rich college bestie (Billy Zane), who turns out to be in the Central American drug trade and is murdered right in front of you by a little person in a cat mask with ties to the local police— well, you might just be up the Caribbean without a paddle. Such is the fate of Joel (Ben Chaplin), Lex (Michael Imperioli), Gus (Romany Malco) and Cobi (Steve Zahn) in Amazon’s new black-comedythriller-mystery-action series Mad Dogs. “Cris Cole, who created the British series the show is based on, sums it up as a ‘farce noir,’ which…

Life’s a beach for Dean Sanderson (Rob Lowe)! In the January 19 episode of Fox’s The Grinder, the clip from Dean’s legal procedural finds his character, Mitch Grinder, on the shores of Nicaragua. After Mitch is betrayed by his mentor, Gordon Stutz (Richard Schiff, above left), the two attorneys face off in a remote fishing village (Mitch also found time to fit in some yoga). “A gun is pulled, a fish is thrown, but who will prevail?” asks Lowe, who was excited to share the screen again with his West Wing costar. “We’ve been to the mountaintop together and in the trenches. It was a fun change to reunite for an out-and-out comedy.”…

EDWARD SNOWDEN The computer expert and former National Security Agency subcontractor, currently exiled in Russia, leaked top-secret documents that revealed the U.S.’s global surveillance of Internet and phone data. “When we went off the air in 2002, we had almost absolute trust in our government and our representatives to protect us,” Carter says. “So many of those powers that we gave them have been abused. The shocking thing to me is how little outcry there is when we find out that they’re spying on us. I think it’s because millennials freely give up their privacy online now, thinking nothing bad is ever going to happen.” MYCELIUM RUNNING The Paul Stamets book, subtitled “How Mushrooms Can Save the World,” looks at how certain fungi could be bred to decompose toxic waste,…

THURSDAY, JAN. 21 Series premiere, 10/9c, FX Excusez-moi, but if you were imagining that Zach Galifianakis’s new show would be The Hangover: The TV Series, he has une surprise for you. In the dark comedy Baskets, the actor and comedian stars as Chip Baskets, a classically trained clown in the French tradition who—broke and seemingly left with no other options—must degrade his beloved craft by taking a job as a rodeo clown in Bakersfield, California. Executive producer Jonathan Krisel says the series, which he created with Louis C.K. and its star, is more in line with Galifianakis’s restrained acting work in the Oscar-winning Birdman than the trilogy that made him a household (albeit somewhat unspellable) name. Krisel calls this turmoil-centric show “a slapstick drama.” “He’s a guy trying to be…

MONDAY, JAN. 18 NBA Basketball 2:30/1:30c, ESPN Pelicans at Grizzlies College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN Syracuse at Duke NBA Basketball 8/7c, TNT Warriors at Cavaliers Australian Open Tennis 9/8c and 3am/2c, ESPN2 Earlyround play College Basketball 9/8c, ESPN Oklahoma at Iowa State NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, TNT Rockets at Clippers TUESDAY, JAN. 19 College Basketball 6:30/5:30c, Fox Sports 1 Butler at Providence College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN2 Kansas at Oklahoma State Australian Open Tennis 9/8c and 3am/2c, ESPN2 Earlyround play WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20 College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN2 Wake Forest at North Carolina NBA Basketball 8/7c, ESPN Warriors at Bulls NHL Hockey 8/7c, NBCSN Blues at Red Wings Australian Open Tennis 9/8c and 3am/2c, ESPN2 Earlyround play NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, ESPN Hawks at Trail Blazers THURSDAY, JAN. 21 NBA Basketball 8/7c, TNT Clippers at…

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 10/9c, TV Land SHE PLAYS Diana Trout—aka Trout Pout— the monstrous, wildly insecure publishing exec on TV Land’s battle-of-the-generations comedy Younger. Cross her at your peril. “Diana is a woman in power who is completely unapologetic about her ability and ambition,” says Shor. “Women like that are quickly and unfairly labeled a bitch these days—only in Diana’s case, it’s totally warranted. She’s intolerable.” WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER Shor has starred in numerous flop series, including Then Came You, Inside Schwartz and Big Day. She was prissy hausfrau Janet on the steamy disco-era sudser Swingtown and Cricket, the hypersexed fashion mogul with a gay hubby on Southern satire GCB. “Younger is my first show to make it to a second season,” Shor says. “Apparently, I am no longer…

MONDAY, JAN. 25 College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN Duke at Miami Australian Open Tennis 9/8c and 3am/2c, ESPN2 Quarterfinals College Basketball 9/8c, ESPN Kansas at Iowa State TUESDAY, JAN. 26 College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN2 Texas Tech at Oklahoma Australian Open Tennis 9/8c and 3am/2c, ESPN2 Quarterfinals NHL Hockey 10/9c, NBCSN Avalanche at Sharks WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27 NBA Basketball 8/7c, ESPN Rockets at Spurs Australian Open Tennis 9:30/8:30c, ESPN2 Women’s semifinals THURSDAY, JAN. 28 Australian Open Tennis 3:30am/2:30c, ESPN Men’s semifinal NBA Basketball 8/7c, TNT Knicks at Raptors FRIDAY, JAN. 29 Australian Open Tennis 3:30am/2:30c, ESPN Men’s semifinal SATURDAY, JAN. 30 Australian Open Tennis 3am/2c, ESPN Women’s championship College Basketball noon/11am c, CBS Virginia at Louisville NBA Basketball 8:30/7:30c, ABC Spurs at Cavaliers SUNDAY, JAN. 31 Australian Open Tennis 3am/2c, ESPN Men’s…