Innholdsfortegnelse for Sep-21-15 i TV Guide Magazine

A Coach revival? The idea hadn’t crossed creator Barry Kemp’s mind. Kemp, who created the Craig T. Nelson comedy in the late ’80s, was busy last year developing a pilot for CBS. NBC executives, disappointed that they didn’t get a shot at the pilot, called Kemp last November with an idea: Would he consider updating Coach? After getting a “yes,” NBC made a commitment to the revival–only to pull the plug months later. The sports comedy aired on ABC from 1989 to 1997, and although repeats run in syndication, it hadn’t remained top of mind in pop culture. “It made me laugh,” Kemp tells TV GUIDE MAGAZINE of the idea. “And then I couldn’t stop thinking about it.” Kemp and Nelson, who starred as college football coach Hayden Fox, began…

Season premiere, Monday, Sept. 21, 8/7c, Fo If things got any darker in the violently Gothic gloom of Gotham City, you might need to attach a spotlight to your TV to keep watching Gotham. The show’s second-season subtitle, Rise of the Villains, is great news for the bad guys—who, as always, are the best reason to tune in. “Surely sometimes the right way is also the ugly way,” suggests young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) to a tormented Det. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), stating what could be another theme of this impressively nightmarish season. Penguin (the ghoulish Robin Lord Taylor) now considers himself the “King of Gotham,” and if he had a mustache, he’d twirl it when the overwhelmed Gordon enters his lair to seek a favor that will surely come…

Returns Tuesday, Oct. 6, 8/7c, The CW LATE-NIGHT SHOOTS. LONG hours. So much tight red leather. It’s hard work being a TV superhero, but you won’t hear Grant Gustin grumbling about the gig. “It’s [even] more fun now,” says the actor, happy to be slipping back into the warp-speed world of Barry Allen for Season 2 of The Flash. “It definitely feels less stressful this year, I don’t know why. It could be as simple as the fact that the cast is all friends, we know the crew and we all know what we’re in for now.” The Arrow spinoff wowed viewers with the highoctane, humor-amped adventures of DC Comics’ resident speed freak and even outpaced the hit that begot it to become The CW’s most-watched show last season. Expectations…

Returns Sunday, Oct. 11, 9/8c, AMC THERE GOES THE neighborhood. Last season, the roadweary survivors on AMC’s The Walking Dead found much-needed sanctuary behind the walls of the idyllic Alexandria Safe Zone in Virginia. But group leader (and newly appointed town constable) Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) remained on high alert—and grew increasingly volatile—as he criticized the Alexandrians for their ignorance of the danger lurking outside their gates. As the citizens convened to vote whether to exile Rick, he presented them with the corpse of an intruding zombie to illustrate his point. The situation quickly escalated when abusive Alexandrian Pete (Corey Brill) stormed in and accidentally sliced the throat of Reg (Steve Coulter), the husband of town boss Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh). At Deanna’s command, Rick shot and killed Pete. “There will…

THE MINDY PROJECT A new doctor is in! With Mindy (Mindy Kaling) out on maternity leave, Raising Hope vet Garret Dillahunt joins the Hulu comedy in a recurring role on October 6 as her temporary replacement, Dr. Jody Kimball. “He came to New York from Georgia under mysterious circumstances and is beloved by everyone in the office,” Kaling says. “I’ve been a fan of Garret’s for a long time, and I believe it’s one of the funniest bits of casting that I’ve ever been a part of.” GRANDFATHERED Fox’s new comedy gets shot through the heart on October 13 when Jimmy (John Stamos, right) enlists former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora to play at his granddaughter Edie’s secondbirthday party. “It’s a little bit inappropriate because I’m singing my song ‘Sugar…

Stephen! Stephen! Stephen! The nightly chanting for Stephen Colbert might sound like Colbert Report business as usual. But nothing could be further from the truth as the former Comedy Central satirist bursts free of his mock-conservative-blowhard shell, liberated by the ability to finally be himself. Dancing around his gorgeous new stage as the audience cheers, Colbert grins and jokes with high energy and higher spirits. Judging from the first few uneven but upbeat nights of CBS’s splashy post-Letterman reincarnation of The Late Show, Colbert’s aim isn’t to reinvent late-night TV (if that’s even possible). His challenge is to reshape a show originally tailored to one of TV’s most unique personalities to reflect his own quirks and interests. We look forward to seeing that happen. Colbert is so genuine in his…

Something’s out of order on the Hollywood set of How to Get Away With Murder. High-powered attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) is sitting not at the defense table but in the witness box of a packed courtroom. While she appears characteristically polished in a forest-green sheath, it quickly becomes clear she’s uncomfortable in her new role. Especially since she’s there to provide evidence against ex-cop Nate Lahey (Billy Brown), her sometime lover. The very one she’s done everything possible to frame for the murder of her husband. “Argumentative!” she objects after one of the prosecutor’s questions. Reminded by the judge that’s not her call to make today, Annalise silently fumes, until the DA dares to suggest she conspired with Nate. “I did not swear on this court’s Bible,” Annalise explodes,…

Returns Wednesday, Sept. 23, 9/8c, Fox GAME ON, BITCHES. The phenom Fox series Empire ended last season with hip-hop megamogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) no longer dying of ALS—oops, wrong diagnosis!— but he was behind bars for killing a pal who tried to extort him for three million bucks. The new season will jump three months to find Lucious still in the slammer and more popular than ever. “This is almost a throwback to O.J. Simpson,” says cocreator and executive producer Lee Daniels. “Here’s Lucious, a bona fide murderer-sociopath, using the system to his own benefit. In fact, the guy is cleaning his ass with the system! He was already a superstar among the other inmates. They revered him even before he went to prison. Now he is their god.”…

ReturnsMonday, Sept. 21, 9/8c, CBS IT DOESN’T TAKE a genius to realize that when the world needs saving, there are no greater or more intelligent minds up for the challenge than the team at the center of Scorpion. But as CBS’s high-tech Homeland Security procedural prepares for another action-packed season, it’s also clear that the rigorous demands of this year’s high-stakes missions are taking a toll on the cast. On the Manhattan Beach, California, stage that houses Team Scorpion’s warehouse home base, Elyes Gabel—who stars as high-IQ’ed leader Walter O’Brien— shows off a splint on a right-hand finger, while Ari Stidham (numbers whiz Sylvester Dodd) is limping around thanks to a torn ACL he suffered a week earlier while filming a stunt. “In Episode 4, there’s a moment when my…

Returns Thursday, Sept. 24, 8/7c, ABC AFTER DR. DEREK Shepherd was killed off Grey’s Anatomy last spring, loyal fans reacted to the shocking plot twist with a vocal mix of grief and outrage. At the time, the woman who created the iconic character played by Patrick Dempsey remained largely silent. Now, as the medical drama prepares to launch Season 12, executive producer Shonda Rhimes makes it clear that viewers weren’t the only ones who found it difficult to say goodbye to Meredith’s McDreamy husband. “It was devastating,” Rhimes admits. “It was never something that I had pictured happening. It was really, for me, unprecedented. I sat there and thought, ‘Well, he is the great love. We’ve spent the entire show with that as our premise. How can we ever possibly…