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FOLLOW US> Facebook TV Guide Magazine Twitter @TVGuideMagazine Write to us: Letters, TV Guide Magazine, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10020, or email letters@tvgm.com Quick Clicks Nancy Culverson “can’t believe” CSI is finally ending after 15 seasons [“Final Investigation,” August 31]. “My attention has wavered, but I’ve always checked in throughout the years,” she wrote. “Marg [Helgenberger, who played CSI Catherine Willows] said she cried reading the final script. I’ll cry watching it!” But she had one stern request for CBS: “Gil and Sara better get back together or you are going to have one angry viewer on your hands!”…Kathy White thinks Stephen Colbert’s off to a great start as the new host of The Late Show. “It is a wonderment to have a host who is asking…

Car enthusiast Jay Leno remembers a time when TV shows “had the star and the car.” Growing up in a small Massachusetts town, Leno says, he didn’t get to see cool cars on the street, so he relied on TV to get his auto fix. “We don’t really have that anymore,” says the former Tonight Show host, whose new series, Jay Leno’s Garage, premieres Wednesday, October 7 (10/9c, CNBC). “Cars have gotten so appliance-like. They don’t seem to have that cachet they had back in the day,” he says. “I’m amazed now at the number of teenagers who don’t really care about getting their license. I was born the day I got my license.” Leno has a long list of favorite iconic TV rides: the Starsky & Hutch 1974 Gran…

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS Weekdays, CBS Twitter@TVGMLogan HE WON THREE Emmys as Tad “the Cad” Martin on All My Children. Now Michael E. Knight brings his mighty chops to The Young and the Restless, where, starting October 15, he’ll play Simon Neville, a shady neurologist hired to help Neil Winters (Kristoff St. John), the crazed alcoholic who has kidnapped his ex-wife, Hilary (Mishael Morgan). Here’s Knight’s diagnosis. Who is this Neville guy? He’s very cool, kind of eccentric and a rule breaker. And hilarious, though he doesn’t mean to be. He makes no apologies for being brilliant and always thinks he has the highest IQ in the room. He’s here to keep [the Hilary] situation under wraps. And that’s all I’m allowed to tell you…he says, twirling his mustache.…

It’s party time on the set of Grandfathered, but the kids aren’t all right. Dozens of pintsize extras are supposed to crowd the dance floor of Jimmy’s, a swanky, upscale Los Angeles restaurant owned by perpetual bachelor Jimmy Martino (John Stamos) as he throws an impromptu birthday bash for his 2-year-old granddaughter, Edie (played by twins Layla and Emelia Golfieri). Former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora takes the stage to provide the soundtrack for the celebration, and everything seems to be going off without a hitch until the children scatter at the sight of Stamos attempting to push his way through the tiny dance mob. “I’m trying to go through them, but they run when they see me,” Stamos explains to creator and executive producer Daniel Chun (The Office). As…

Carrie Coon has always been obsessed with the apocalypse. “When I was 5 or 6, I used to wake up during Johnny Carson and ask my parents when Jesus was coming back,” she says with a laugh. “They’d assure me that Jesus is not coming back in my lifetime and [tell me to] go back to bed. I was kind of a little freak.” So when she learned that HBO was developing Tom Perrotta’s bestselling novel The Leftovers into a series—which tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of 2 percent of the world’s population—the 34-year-old theater actress from Copley, Ohio, was definitely eager to be a part of it. Luckily for Coon, her Tonynominated performance in the 2013 Broadway revival of the classic Edward Albee play Who’s Afraid of…

Fluffy Breaks Even (Premieres Oct. 1, 10/9c, Fuse) Heavyweight comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias pulls back the curtain on what it’s really like to tour on the stand-up circuit. Love at First Swipe (Premieres Oct. 2, 9/8c, TLC) The Tinder generation gets the dating show it deserves as What Not to Wear’s Clinton Kelly styles the lost and the lovelorn for more desirable online profiles. The Jacksons: Next Generation (Premieres Oct. 2, 10/9c, Lifetime) You know all about the Jackson 5, but now meet 3T, the music group composed of Tito Jackson’s sons, Taj, Taryll and TJ. 50/50 (Premieres Oct. 4, 7/6c, Travel Channel) Random couples on the street are surprised with a trip worth $50,000, which they must agree to embark on ASAP. Art Breakers (Premieres Oct. 4, 8/7c, Ovation)…

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 9/8c, Fox SHE PLAYS Porsha Taylor, the towering, fabulously mouthy personal assistant to big mama Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) on Empire. Loyalty is an issue. Last season, Porsha nearly went to work for Cookie’s enemy Anika “Boo Boo Kitty” Calhoun (Grace Gealey). “Porsha has needs, baby!” Jones says. “She needs a new weave. She needs new shoes. You’ve seen the crazy way she walks. Those damn feet hurt! Who wouldn’t go where the money is? This is Empire. Everybody switches sides.” WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER Probably nowhere. Jones, who’d never acted before Empire, originally auditioned for the role of Tiana, the bisexual hip-hop star. “Can you imagine?” Jones says with a laugh. “Tiana is so cute and dainty, and I’m so big and loud. And she’s…

SUNDAY, OCT. 4 9/8c, ABC CHACE CRAWFORD’S FIRST and only longterm series role was as wealthy golden boy Nate Archibald on the teen soap Gossip Girl. Now, after three years mostly making movies— including the recently opened Mountain Men and Warren Beatty’s upcoming Howard Hughes drama—Crawford is back on TV in Blood & Oil as Billy Lefever, a working-class guy who migrates to North Dakota oil country with his wife, Cody (Rebecca Rittenhouse), to try to make his fortune. After Billy’s involvement with oil magnate Hap Briggs (Don Johnson) in the pilot proved more dangerous than expected, this week he must decide whether it’s worth the risk to do another deal. We talked to the 30-year-old actor about his drastic change of venue. What brought you back to series TV?…

TUESDAY, OCT. 6 8:30/7:30c, ABC THE HUANG FAMILY is about to get a Shaq attack! This week’s installment of Fresh Off the Boat— ABC’s sophomore series about an Asian-American brood adjusting to life in 1990s Orlando—features a supersize cameo in the form of NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal. Although it will be the first actual appearance by the 7-foot-1 former hoops star, his presence has been felt on the sitcom since the beginning. “Even as far back as the pilot, he’s been part of the lore of this world,” creator Nahnatchka Khan says, noting that adolescent eldest son Eddie (Hudson Yang) is a superfan. (In the first episode, when patriarch Louis, played by Randall Park, described his new cowboy-themed steakhouse as “big, brown and beautiful,” Eddie replied, “Like Shaq?”) Then there…

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 Season premiere, 10/9c, FX Guests check in but don’t check out in Ryan Murphy’s new grimthology. “Every episode is so demented and horrific for so many reasons,” says Wes Bentley, who stars as a cop checking out the Hotel Cortez, an L.A. hot spot owned by Lady Gaga’s twisted Countess. Expect tons of blood and big-name weirdness as the massive cast—including Matt Bomer (right, with Gaga), Chloë Sevigny, Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates—gets entangled in a murder plot…and one another’s body parts. —DH FRIDAY, OCT. 9 Red Oaks Series premiere Amazon Instant Video This retro comedy stars Craig Roberts as a struggling college student who picks up a job as an assistant tennis pro at a country club in the summer of 1985. Undateable Season premiere 8/7c,…

MONDAY, OCT. 5 Monday Night Football 8:15/7:15c, ESPN Lions at Seahawks TUESDAY, OCT. 6 MLB Playoffs Time TBA, ESPN American League Wild Card game WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 MLB Playoffs Time TBA, TBS National League Wild Card game NHL Hockey 8/7c, NBCSN Rangers at Blackhawks NHL Hockey 10:30/9:30c, NBCSN Sharks at Kings THURSDAY, OCT. 8 Thursday Night Football 8/7c, CBS and NFL Network Colts at Texans College Football 9/8c, ESPN Washington at USC NHL Hockey 9/8c, NBCSN Wild at Avalanche FRIDAY, OCT. 9 College Football 8/7c, ESPN North Carolina State at Virginia Tech NASCAR Racing 8/7c, NBCSN Xfinity Series in Charlotte SATURDAY, OCT. 10 College Football 3:30/2:30c, NBC Navy at Notre Dame NASCAR Racing 7/6c, NBC Sprint Cup in Charlotte SUNDAY, OCT. 11 Formula One Racing 7am/6c, NBCSN Russian Grand Prix…

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CHEERS TOAMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR for its winning combo. After seven seasons of uncrowned competitors, TV’s most addictive obstacle course finally found two beasts—Isaac Caldiero and Geoff Britten (above)—who could conquer Mt. Midoriyama. Omedetou, fellas! CHEERS TO HULU for delivering us more of The Mindy Project. Fox’s loss is everyone’s gain because our favorite ob-gyn (Mindy Kaling, above, with Chris Messina) is breezier, bolder and better than ever since the adorable rom-com’s fourth season has arrived on the streaming service. CHEERS TO GOTHAM for making Barbara Kean (Erin Richards, left) a little batty. With Jim Gordon’s stuffy socialite ex now a nut job in cahoots with that joker Jerome (Cameron Monaghan), Richards has elevated Season 2’s rise of the villains to a sexy, sinister level we are crazy about. JEERS TO…

EXCLUSIVE! THE PLAYER Crime stopper (and titular Player) Alex Kane (Philip Winchester) is tasked with stopping a diamond heist in the October 1 episode of NBC’s new drama— and he gets some unexpected help from standoffish Dealer Cassandra King (Charity Wakefield). “Alex is coming to realize that Cassandra has field skills,” executive producer John Rogers says. “And unlike previous Players, he’ll use them.” That meant harness work for Wakefield, who also learned how to assemble a sniper rifle in under 20 seconds. GOTHAM Whip it good! After a killer last-minute introduction in the season premiere, Jessica Lucas (center) slinks into the role of Tabitha Galavan, a character based on DC Comics assassin Tigress, to terrorize Gotham with bad-to-the-bone brother Theo (James Frain). “Their story is one of revenge,” Lucas says…

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 Season premiere, 9/8c, CBS “On CSI, I did a lot of liquefying livers and analyzing fecal matter. With Criminal Minds, I’m out in the field and carrying a gun,” says procedural vet Aisha Tyler of her new recurring gig on the CBS hit. “Both jobs are important, but I definitely enjoy kicking ass just a bit more.” On Criminal Minds’ 11th season opener, Tyler’s Dr. Tara Lewis (whom the actress calls “passionate, brilliant and completely no-nonsense”) helps the BAU catch a killer who tags his victims’ faces. It’s all a far cry from her hosting duties on The Talk, which is one reason she opted to change up her look for Minds— giving Tara a curly, she-meansbusiness cropped ’do. “I didn’t want fans to think, ‘Oh, there’s…

SATURDAY, OCT. 3 9/8c, Starz Most folks would agree that there’s nothing funny about Alzheimer’s disease. But Blunt Talk begs to differ. The irreverent new Starz comedy—set at a struggling cable news channel—hits the road this week when harried producer Rosalie Winter (Jacki Weaver) and her bombastic star newsman, Walter Blunt (Patrick Stewart), go searching for Rosalie’s husband, Teddy (Ed Begley Jr.), who is suffering from dementia and has disappeared somewhere in the Southern California desert. “Teddy’s condition is certainly sad and tragic, but [creator-executive producer] Jonathan Ames also finds humor and whimsy and sweetness in it—and why the hell not?” Weaver says. “There’s comedy in all of life. I’ve been around deathbeds where some extremely funny things have been said—sometimes by the person who’s dying!” The in-demand Australian actress…

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 Season premiere, 8/7c, The CW OLIVER QUEEN ISN’T the only swole arm of the law in Starling City! With the hooded vigilante on a romantic escape, Season 4 opens with sidekick John Diggle in superhero mode, and actor David Ramsey is fit for the job. What has Diggle been up to since Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) left town? Digg has been running the show with Canary [Katie Cassidy] and Speedy [Willa Holland]. We’ve been the ones policing Starling City. Then all hell breaks loose with the arrival of Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough). Damien is the big bad this year, and he’s linked to the group who hired Deadshot to kill Diggle’s brother years ago. We find out some very interesting information about my…

SUNDAY, OCT. 11 Season premiere, 7/6c, ABC GET READY TO bust out your best Carlton Dance, ’cause Alfonso Ribeiro is heading to America’s Funniest Home Videos. For Season 26, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum—and former Dancing With the Stars champ—will take over the mic from longtime host Tom Bergeron to crack wise over footage of precocious toddlers and klutzy adults and their furry friends. Here, he reveals what makes him bust a gut. Is DWTS what put you on the radar for this gig? It got it all rolling! The overwhelming support I got from viewers showed ABC that America doesn’t forget what they feel about you. And Tom Bergeron said that I was his choice to replace him, which was the ultimate confidence builder. Which videos tickle your…

Ready or not, he’s taking over The Daily Show It didn’t take long for new Daily Show host Trevor Noah to face some scrutiny. Just a day after being given the job in March, Noah was criticized for a handful of controversial posts he made on Twitter years ago. Noah told reporters this summer that he learned from the firestorm, and he joked that he’ll have more than 140 characters to better formulate his thoughts on the new show. The Daily Show With Trevor Noah launches Monday, September 28, with a new set, new logo and some new correspondents. Comedy Central’s programming president, Kent Alterman, calls Noah “the perfect choice to replace Jon Stewart.” We spoke with the host about what to expect. You’ve had a few months to prepare…

NARCOS Netflix CHRIS BRANCATO, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Netflix’s Narcos offers a gritty take on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and the U.S. DEA agents who try to take down the Medellín cartel. Chris Brancato (Hoodlum), who created the show with Carlo Bernard, Paul Eckstein and Doug Miro, explains why we should get hooked. —Michael Schneider I have time to watch one more show. Why should it be yours? Because it’s the most unique show to grace your television in years: a gripping story of ruthless drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two countries that marked him for death in what was one of the most expensive manhunts in the history of law enforcement. What happens if we don’t watch? You will be shunned by your friends, expelled from your church,…

SWEAT INC. Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 20, 10/9c, Spike After leaving The Biggest Loser for a third time, fitness maverick Jillian Michaels is back with a new reality competition, Sweat Inc. But this time, it’s entrepreneurs that she’s whipping into shape. Michaels will assess and test the business plans of 27 men and women who believe they have what it takes to create the next big fitness phenomenon—think CrossFit, SoulCycle or Zumba. Once Michaels is done making them sweat, one winner will walk away with $100,000 and the ability to launch their program in Retro Fitness gyms. As an entrepreneur yourself, are there things you wish someone had told you when you were younger? Oh God, everything. [I’ve made] mistakes that have cost me millions and millions of dollars over the…