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FOLLOW US> TV Guide Magazine @TVGuideMagazine Write to us: Letters, TV Guide Magazine, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10020, or email letters@tvgm.com Quick Clicks Tony Donlon is unhappy with the direction that Castle is taking in Season 8, with Beckett (Stana Katic) separating from her husband (Nathan Fillion) as she tries to determine who attacked her. “I was hoping for a return to the old relationship between the pair,” Donlon wrote. “Instead it seems that this will be a rehash of Beckett going on another hunt. Please don’t waste a season doing this.”...Frances Girlando disagreed with Ellen Pompeo’s comment in our Sept. 21 Returning Favorites issue that Grey’s Anatomy has “always been my show.” “The appeal of the show has always been its great ensemble cast,” Girlando…

SEINFELD FANS CAN soon be the virtual masters of their domain. Netflix and Hulu are developing virtual reality apps that will allow viewers who wear a VR headset while watching TV on the service to feel transported to a different location. Users can choose the setting in which they want to watch, such as a movie theater for screening a film or Jerry’s blue couch for catching up on Seinfeld. Netflix is working with Facebook’s Oculus VR to launch its app on Samsung Gear VR by Thanksgiving; Hulu’s app will be available this fall as well. Hulu is also developing original 3-D content for virtual reality, including a short film from the producers of its original series RocketJump: The Show. The streaming service is in talks with creators of its…

@TVGMMattRoush Season premiere, Monday, Oct. 12, 10/9c, FX Laughter has a way of catching in the throat, curdling into a gasp or maybe a scream, as Fargo casts a mesmerizing spell of suspenseful whimsy in its second year. Executive producer Noah Hawley’s variations on a Coen Brothers theme (see page 22) are inspired in their quirky, shocking unpredictability and surprising in their humanity. Even a smarmy cockroach like Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin), inept bagman and runt of a Fargo-based crime family, evokes pathos when a desperate attempt to prove himself sets off a terrible chain of events in 1979 with dire consequences for residents of sleepy Luverne, Minnesota. These include paragons of decency like state trooper Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson, crisply playing a younger version of Keith Carradine’s Season 1…

Executive producer Noah Hawley had a high bar to clear while thinking up Season 2 of FX’s tundra-bound anthology series Fargo. Instead of duplicating the elements of the critically acclaimed first installment, though, Hawley decided to spin the tale of the fateful Massacre at Sioux Falls in 1979. We’ll see how Lou Solverson, father of Season 1 hero cop Molly, got his limp, as well as a crime-story twist on the rise of corporate America and the death of the family business, an examination of the societal fallout of the free-love ’60s and the Vietnam War, and a darn tootin’ lot of dark fun thanks to a massive, well-chosen ensemble. FARGO, Season premiere, Monday, Oct. 12, 10/9c, FX PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON GRAUBART…

SHARPER THAN MICHAEL Myers’s kitchen knife and so funny it’s scary, Jamie Lee Curtis slays as the sexy, sinister dean Cathy Munsch on Fox’s Scream Queens, the campy serial thriller from Glee’s Ryan Murphy. “If this had been straight-up horror, I don’t think I would be having as much fun,” says the 56-year-old actress. We have nothing but love for Curtis. Let us count the ways. 1. Laurie Strode, her iconic character in 1978’s Halloween, was one of slasher filmdom’s first final girls—and Curtis couldn’t be prouder. “A smart survivor? Put that on my tombstone!” 2. She doesn’t like scary stuff but still does her job. “I’m not a horror fan; I’m a horror practitioner,” says the woman who also starred in Halloween II, Halloween H20, Prom Night, Terror Train…

31 Days of Halloween Syfy has its eighth annual scarefest running all month long, with new original movies including They Found Hell (Oct. 17, 9/8c), about a team of college students whose science project teleports them into a wicked scenario, and the secluded-island horror tale The Hollow (Oct. 24, 9/8c). In addition, the Ghost Hunters (Oct. 28, 9/8c) investigate the otherworldly antics at a college in Bennington, Vermont, while Paranormal Witness (Oct. 28, 10/9c) explores the real-life events surrounding the 2013 flick The Conjuring. 13 Nights of Halloween ABC Family’s yearly salute to the season kicks off on October 19 with airings of Casper, the Addams Family flicks, Toy Story of Terror! and Hocus Pocus. Also, Stitchers (Oct. 20, 9/8c) returns for a special hour that has the team scrambling…

TUESDAY, OCT. 13 Season premiere, 10/9c, NBC AS IF FIREFIGHTING weren’t dangerous enough, Lt. Matt Casey (Jesse Spencer) went undercover last season to help the Chicago P.D. Intelligence Unit bring down strip club owner/human trafficker Jack Nesbitt (Eric Mabius). Casey then went missing in the finale after the body of stripper-turned-informant Katya (Izabella Miko) was discovered at his place by his on-again, off-again fiancée, Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund). Spencer tells us what’s next for Casey and Firehouse 51 as Chicago Fire blazes back for Season 4. Where’s Casey when the season opens? He’s fighting for his life—and let’s just say he may have blood on his hands. We’ll learn through flashbacks how he got to that point. He’s also faced with Dawson’s unexpected pregnancy. How does he deal with the…

FRIDAY, OCT. 16 Season premiere, 10/9c, Pivot IF YOU HAVEN’T yet seen Australian import Please Like Me, about a young gay man named Josh (Josh Thomas) trudging through life, you’re missing one of the most bracingly real series this side of anything created by Lena Dunham. As the award-winning dramedy gears up for Season 3, here are five reasons to fall in love with—not just like—Please Like Me. 1. Creator, producer and star Thomas is the freshest new voice in TV. With Thomas at the helm, the show never confuses being shocking with being honest—whether dealing with dark issues (Josh’s mom’s suicide attempt in Season 1) or light ones (Josh’s budding romance with Keegan Joyce’s clinically anxious Arnold, which really kicks off in tonight’s premiere). 2. If the storylines feel…

SATURDAY, OCT. 24 Season premiere, 8/7c, Starz It’s a mother of a problem. The third and final season of Da Vinci’s Demons kicks off with Ottoman warships about to attack the city of Otranto—just the first step in the Islamic empire’s grand plans to conquer all of Italy. The great Leonardo da Vinci (Tom Riley) is among those leading the Otranto resistance, and he’s relying on his new badass invention—a four-pronged master-blaster cannon—to cripple the invading vessels. Da Vinci’s key target is the lead Ottoman ship, which carries Bayezid (Akin Gazi), son of the Sultan. But just as Da Vinci lights the fuse on his WMD, he learns that his mother, the soothsayer Caterina (Sasha Behar), is being held prisoner aboard Bayezid’s ship. Does he have the guts to blow…

MONDAY, OCT. 19 Monday Night Football 8:15/7:15c, ESPN Giants at Eagles TUESDAY, OCT. 20 NHL Hockey 7:30/6:30c, NBCSN Stars at Flyers WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21 Women’s Soccer 10/9c, ESPN2 Brazil at USA NHL Hockey 8/7c, NBCSN Flyers at Bruins THURSDAY, OCT. 22 Thursday Night Football 8/7c, CBS and NFL Network Seahawks at 49ers College Football 9/8c, ESPN California at UCLA FRIDAY, OCT. 23 College Football 8/7c, ESPN Memphis at Tulsa SATURDAY, OCT. 24 College Football 8/7c, ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 Ohio State at Rutgers SUNDAY, OCT. 25 NFL Football 9:30am/8:30c, Yahoo Bills vs. Jaguars (Wembley Stadium, London) English Premier League Soccer 10am/9c, NBCSN Manchester City at Manchester United English Premier League Soccer 12:15/11:15am c, NBC Southampton at Liverpool NFL Football 1/noon c, CBS Steelers at Chiefs, Browns at Rams, Texans at…

OCOTOBER 12, 2015 | PUZZLE #1265 ACROSS 1 Network that aired Bob 4 Joe ____ 8 Carmen Electra on Baywatch 12 Check It ____! 13 James West’s sidekick 14 ____ Brockovich 15 ____ Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal 16 Marcia of Welcome Back, Kotter 18 Lew of Lime Street 20 Charlie’s brother on Two and a Half Men 21 Stephen of NewsRadio 23 Doctor Hertz on Mariah 27 Ken of L.A. Doctors 30 Take note of 32 Evil foes on Doctor Who 34 Celia of Alice 35 Single piece of bread (2 wds.) 37 Neck hair on Mister Ed 38 Tessa’s gypsy servant on Queen of Swords 39 ____ and the King 41 ____ House 43 Russian writer Chekhov 47 Beauty parlor (2 wds.) 51 Coming of ____ 52 Stephanie Zimbalist on Centennial…

The goal of Sudoku is to fill in every empty box with one of nine letters. Each letter can appear only once in each horizontal row, as well as in every vertical column and in each of the 3x3 grids. Each finished puzzle will contain the spelling of a TV star, character, setting or show. Last issue’s puzzle, about the night Heroes Reborn airs, contained the letters letters A D E H R S T U and Y. The finished grid spelled out Thursday. Jaimie Alexander’s new NBC drama appears in this issue’s puzzle at left. It has the letters B D I L N O P S and T.…

CHEERS TO SCREAM QUEENS’ KING HOTTIE, GLEN POWELL. No offense to the Red Devil terrorizing the sorority monsters of Kappa Kappa Tau, but this guy is really killing it with his goofy-sexy turn as Chad Radwell, the frat boy most likely to be the comedy’s breakout star. CHEERS TO LIFE IN PIECES for cracking us up. Smart, sophisticated and stocked with a cast that includes the hilarious Zoe Lister-Jones and Colin Hanks (both center), the series gives us a modern TV family we wish we were a part of. Imagine Parenthood’s Bravermans if they didn’t cry so much. CHEERS TO MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. for reporting back to duty (with Chloe Bennet) in fine form. The series is finally starting to embrace the stuff it’s good at and drop what…

To paraphrase the title of Neil Patrick Harris’s new variety show, the broadcast networks are not having their best time ever this fall. Some of the most anticipated new series, including ABC’s The Muppets, NBC’s Heroes Reborn and Fox’s Scream Queen, are off to slow starts, while several returning series, like ABC’s Once Upon a Time and CBS’s NCIS: Los Angeles, are showing signs of viewer erosion. But network execs say audience habits are rapidly changing, and those initial day-after ratings tell only part of the story. “The amount of time shifting and nonlinear viewing is astounding compared to where we were a year or two ago,” says Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman. Fox was on the defensive after Scream Queens premiered September 22 to a paltry 4 million…

PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING. In Season 1 of Showtime’s steamy drama The Affair, novelist Noah Solloway (Dominic West) and waitress Alison Bailey (Ruth Wilson)— both married to other people—met and embarked on a secret relationship. This year, with their liaison out in the open and the pair now living together, the show adds in the points of view of their former partners, shopkeeper Helen Solloway (Maura Tierney) and Montauk, New York, rancher Cole Lockhart (Joshua Jackson), both of whom are left to clean up the ruins of their broken marriages. Here, Tierney and Jackson discuss taking on greater roles in Season 2—and tackling the cable series’ more intimate moments. Last season, viewers saw the story unfold through Noah’s and Alison’s eyes. What challenges did that pose in fleshing out your characters?…

SATURDAY, OCT. 17 10/9c, HBO Thanks to three acclaimed seasons of Inside Amy Schumer, a lucrative book deal and the summer box-office smash Trainwreck, Amy Schumer is now a bona fide star. So why did she decide to drop her first HBO stand-up hour now? “Mmm…money!” she jokes. “No, I’ve been hitting the road hard and felt strong and ready to record another special.” Schumer says viewers can expect a noticeable evolution since her last solo TV special (Comedy Central’s 2012 Mostly Sex Stuff) in the Chris Rock– directed broadcast. “It’s way more autobiographical,” she says. “I used to be more of a character. I still slip into it sometimes. But I’m more me.” Topics will include “pu--y and taxes” teases the recent Emmy winner, and her set promises to…

MONDAY, OCT. 12 Monday Night Football 8:15/7:15c, ESPN Steelers at Chargers TUESDAY, OCT. 13 Soccer 6:55/5:55c, ESPN Costa Rica at USA NHL Hockey 7:30/6:30c, NBCSN Lightning at Red Wings WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14 NHL Hockey 8/7c, NBCSN Blackhawks at Flyers THURSDAY, OCT. 15 College Football 7/6c, ESPN Auburn at Kentucky Thursday Night Football 8/7c, CBS and NFL Network Falcons at Saints FRIDAY, OCT. 16 College Football 8/7c, ESPN Cincinnati at BYU SATURDAY, OCT. 17 English Premier League Soccer 7:45am/6:45c, NBCSN Liverpool at Tottenham English Premier League Soccer 12:30/11:30am c, NBC Arsenal at Watford College Football 7:30/6:30c, NBC USC at Notre Dame College Football 8/7c, ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 Penn State at Ohio State SUNDAY, OCT. 18 NFL Football 1/noon c, CBS Chiefs at Vikings, Bengals at Bills, Broncos at Browns, Texans…

FRIDAY, OCT. 23 8:30/7:30c, ABC HE PLAYS Dave Park, Dr. Ken’s youngest child, a quirky little fellow with eccentric interests, such as the craft of miming. “The leotard was, um, interesting,” says 11-year-old Tsai, who worked on the bit for a week with a choreographer. In tonight’s episode, Dave’s aunt (Margaret Cho) visits and offers to give him the gift of his dreams: a restaurant crumb sweeper. WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HIM Snagging laughs on the short-lived but much-loved Trophy Wife as adorable adoptee Bert. “You just couldn’t take your eyes off this kid. It seemed like everything out of his mouth was funny,” says Dr. Ken executive producer Mike Sikowitz. “Originally, when this part was conceived, we called it ‘an Albert Tsai type’ in the hopes we could get Albert.”…

@TVGMLogan Life on a Faris Wheel THE VIEW Weekdays, ABC PAULA FARIS IS happening, baby! The Good Morning America weekend anchor recently joined The View as cohost, plus she beat out Fox News to land the first interview with controversial county clerk Kim Davis. But it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. You have so much going on right now. And you’re a mother of three. Is all this crazy-making? [Laughs] I’m hanging on for dear life! My life can be a s--t show at home. I’m constantly cleaning up messy diapers. There’s always someone needing my attention. But that’s a good thing. It means I don’t have time to overthink any of this. Is scoring a big get like Kim Davis addictive? It sure whets the appetite, and you see…

Halloween Ultimate Costume Party Oct. 18, 8/7c, Nickelodeon The cast of Game Shakers hosts a holiday soiree with music, costumes, DIY projects and lots of Nick stars. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Oct. 20, 8/7c, ABC Good grief! It’s been 49 years and poor old Linus and Sally are still waiting for that Great Pumpkin to appear. Kirby Buckets Oct. 21, 8/7c, Disney XD Kirby, Eli and Fish dig up trouble when one of them becomes possessed by a spirit stuck in the ancient mascot costume they discovered buried in Principal Mitchell’s backyard. MAL-OWEEN Marathon Oct. 23, 6/5c, Disney Channel The deliciously malicious Mal (Dove Cameron) from Disney’s monster summer flick Descendants hosts four hours of spooky programming. Peg + Cat Oct. 27, PBS , check local listings at…

MONDAY, OCT. 19 8/7c, The CW YouTube sensation Rachel Bloom hits a pitch-perfect note with her new musical/comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Bloom stars as Rebecca Bunch, an up-andcoming New York lawyer who ditches city life to move across the country to West Covina, California, in hopes of reconnecting with her childhood crush, Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III). “She’s somebody who just can’t admit to herself how unhappy she is,” says executive producer Aline Brosh McKenna, who cocreated the series with Bloom. “And Josh represents a more innocent, free time in her life.” But Rebecca’s obsession with Josh goes to extremes tonight when she learns about his new yoga-instructor girlfriend, Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz), and attempts to insert herself into their lives by trying to learn yoga and stalking them at their favorite…