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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 Who says you can’t be chic when you’re evil? Kathy Lindsey found the costume design for Jennifer Morrison’s Emma Swan as the Dark One on Once Upon a Time just a bit…distracting. “I laughed out loud when I first saw her, because she just looks incredibly stylish versus being ‘dark,’” Lindsey wrote. “I am a fan of the show, but come on, ABC! Emma should look menacing as the Dark One, not like she was styled for a fashion shoot in Vogue!”…Mary Tindal thought the recent episode of The Middle in which Sue’s best friend, Brad, came out to her was incredibly touching.…

Joe “Daddy” Stevenson, fight coordinator Sorry, Scandal, but the real gladiators are on Kingdom, DirecTV Audience Network’s smashing mixed-martial-arts drama (Wednesdays, 9/8c), where the moves are as brutal as the gritty plots. Here, fight coordinator, UFC vet and guest star Joe “Daddy” Stevenson explains how he turned Jonathan Tucker, Matt Lauria, Nick Jonas and Natalie Martinez into the lords (and lady) of the ring. How did you initially start the job? I got a call from [the show’s MMA consultant] Greg Jackson asking me to do a two-week camp and get these actors in shape and ready for some MMA. So I broke it down into a syllabus of five hours a day for 10 days in a row. What these actors did in that time was unbelievable. I put…

Kim Fields is no stranger to girly drama on TV. From 1979 to 1988, she played adolescent spitfire Tootie Ramsey on The Facts of Life, NBC’s classic sitcom about the highs and lows of growing up at an all-female boarding school. Then she spent four years as the gossipy, materialistic Regine Hunter on the Fox comedy Living Single. But all that experience pales in comparison to her latest undertaking, now that the 46-year-old actor/director is joining the notorious ranks of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bravo’s cutthroat docuseries about a group of mercurial women with egos that bruise easier than a Georgia peach. Here, as she’s poised to enter the wine-tossing, weave-pulling fray (she makes her debut on the November 15 episode), Fields reveals her survival plan. You’ve been living…

Like the title of his 2008 self-help book, it can be hard out here for a shrimp. But Pepé the King Prawn is living large these days as one of the writers for Up Late With Miss Piggy, the nighttime talk show at the center of the ABC comedy The Muppets. “Miss Piggy is very easy to work with, as long as you avoid her,” he says, adding that it’s the diva’s former beau, executive producer Kermit the Frog, who really has it tough. “¡Dios mío! He stopped dating her and just when he thought he was out, he gets sucked back in!” Pepé says. Still, as the Up Late team continues to keep its star in line this week, Pepé—a Latino and crustacean—knows that his gig is a rarity.…

MONDAY, NOV. 9 Monday Night Football 8:15/7:15c, ESPN Bears at Chargers TUESDAY, NOV. 10 NHL Hockey 7:30/6:30c, NBCSN Sabres at Lightning WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11 NHL Hockey 7:30/6:30c, NBCSN Canadiens at Penguins NBA Basketball 8/7c, ESPN Clippers at Mavericks NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, ESPN Spurs at Trail Blazers THURSDAY, NOV. 12 College Football 7:30/6:30c Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech NBA Basketball 8/7c, TNT Warriors at Timberwolves Thursday Night Football 8/7c, CBS and NFL Network Bills at Jets NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, TNT Clippers at Suns FRIDAY, NOV. 13 College Basketball 7/6c, ESPN Pittsburgh vs. Gonzaga World Cup Qualifying Soccer 7/6c, ESPN2 St. Vincent and the Grenadines at USA NASCAR Racing 8:30/7:30c, Fox Sports 1 Camping World Truck Series in Phoenix College Basketball 10/9c, ESPN Texas vs. Washington SATURDAY, NOV. 14 College Football 3:30/2:30c,…

HOW’S THIS FOR good news/bad news? Noah “HRG” Bennet (Jack Coleman) has just learned he’s the grandfather of superpowered twins Malina (Danika Yarosh) and Tommy (Robbie Kay), who were secretly born to his daughter, Claire (played by original Heroes star Hayden Panettiere). But no time for happiness—the Earth’s poles are shifting apart and humanity’s about to expire! Coleman breaks it down. —Michael Logan HRG’s head must be spinning. How’s he handling all this? Claire was always his raison d’être, and that doesn’t change because she’s dead. Now he’s on a mission to protect her children. What’s cool is that these kids are Claire’s flesh and blood but not HRG’s, because Claire was adopted. It’s a wonderful take on how we look at things in 2015. You don’t have to be…

Jessica Jones has the strength to halt a running vehicle. She can take out a room full of thugs without breaking a sweat. She even knows how to fly. Hard as it is to imagine, the sullen woman hiding under that hoodie is a true superhero. Well, was a superhero. After a brief stint that ended tragically, Jones (Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23’s Krysten Ritter) now works as a private investigator in New York City, using the hours she’s not drinking—or passed out—to catch philandering spouses. “She’s damaged,” says executive producer Melissa Rosenberg, who developed the dark Marvel Comics story into a 13-episode Netflix series. “She’s not a character that is often written for women.” But the first female superhero to front her own Marvel series is much…

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 | PUZZLE #1267 ACROSS 1 Brick’s sister on McKenna 5 Weight measurement 9 City of Angels’ Syphax 12 The Thin Man’s pooch 13 Gossip Barrett 14 Kind of TV 15 Sam’s pet on A Peaceable Kingdom 16 Sam Beckett’s home 18 Blabbermouth (2 wds.) 20 TV 101 journalism teacher 21 _____ Watching the Kids 25 Bartender on Gunsmoke 27 Mary _____ on Tales of Wells Fargo 28 Ramon of Bret Maverick 29 Gold of Growing Pains 31 Captain Cragen of Law & Order 32 Joey’s job on Friends 33 Rawhide sound 34 John of Jack’s Place 35 Oliver’s younger sister on Arrow 36 Darrin was one on Bewitched 38 Monday _____ 42 Randolph of Emergency 45 Hip to (2 wds.) 46 Kwik-E-Mart owner 47 Animated canine 48 Copley of We Got It…

AMERICA’S MOST WATCHED Source: Nielsen Media Research, week of October 19–25, 2015, in millions. Viewers of at least two premium cable dramas recently experienced a nude awakening: Male characters on both HBO’s The Leftovers and Showtime’s The Affair have exposed their genitalia on camera this fall. Why so shocking? Although nudity has long been a part of pay TV (remember when Cinemax was jokingly referred to as “Skinemax”?), most of the disrobing continues to be done by women. Male nudity, in comparison, remains a rarity on screen (including in film). But that gender imbalance has already begun to shift. The Affair’s October 4 season opener showed Helen (Maura Tierney) in bed with her estranged husband’s best friend, Max (Josh Stamberg). When Max stood up, his manhood was on full display.…

PATINA MILLER Daisy Grant, Madam Secretary (CBS) Broadway credits: Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act, Leading Player in Pippin Playbill: Miller—a Tony winner for her work in Pippin— stars in Madam Secretary alongside seasoned theater vet Bebe Neuwirth, who won Tonys for Sweet Charity and Chicago. CIARA RENEE Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW, midseason) Broadway credits: The Witch in Big Fish, Leading Player in Pippin Playbill: Renee replaced Patina Miller (above) in Pippin when Miller left the company. CARLOS VALDES Cisco Ramon, The Flash (The CW) Broadway credits: Andrej in Once, the U.S. national tour of Jersey Boys Playbill: Ramon studied at the University of Michigan and was part of StarKid Productions, which developed the super popular (and viral) A Very Potter Musical. JEREMY JORDAN Winn Schott,…

THE RISE OF the villains continues on pre-Batman drama Gotham as Barbara Kean (Erin Richards) sets her crazy sights—again— on her ex Det. Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), so it’s a good thing that Michael Chiklis’s bombastic, badass Capt. Nathaniel Barnes is on the case! Playing a cop on The Shield and dealing with superheroes on No Ordinary Family and in the original Fantastic Four movies has paid off, huh? When I talked to my agent and manager about Gotham, we just looked at each other and went, “Yeah, right?” It’s like Cinderella; I could slip my foot right into this part! [Laughs] How did this role come up? I am not altogether sure! [Executive producer] Bruno Heller wanted this role to be something impactful, and I ended up at lunch…

Gender equality. Respect for the environment. Death. The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar is clearly aimed at the little ones, but its ideas are big. Inspired by Disney’s 1994 blockbuster The Lion King, this Disney Channel movie— focusing on lion cub Kion (voiced by The Strain’s Max Charles), the son of Simba (Rob Lowe)—will again dig into the theme of sibling rivalry that drove the Oscar-winning original. Along with delivering lots of adorable characters, frisky show tunes and fart jokes, of course. (Yes, Pumbaa—voiced once again by Ernie Sabella—is back!) “In the film, it was Mufasa, King of the Pride Lands, versus Scar, the second born,” notes Guard executive producer Ford Riley. “Now we have Kion, the second born, and his older sister, Kiara (All My Children’s Eden Riegel),…

Cookie is going to have some company. The monster success of Fox’s hip-hop soap Empire has TV executives eager to tap into that phenomenon. This is the time of year when networks buy scripts, with an eye toward producing some of them as pilots, and family sagas set in flashy business milieus, musicthemed projects and dramas with diverse casts are in high demand. ABC is considering Black Heart, about the family behind a multibillion-dollar energy conglomerate, and another drama about the heirs to a Mexican company. Fox’s plans include dramas about the heirs to a beer empire and another about a family that runs a mega-church in Harlem as well as a show about the East L.A. music scene. NBC is looking at family soaps set in a winery and…

@TVGMLogan GENERAL HOSPITAL HASN’T shown much interest in Genie Francis in recent years, but fans of the luminous actress—and we are legion—can finally stop griping about it. She just signed a contract that will have her on the front burner in Port Charles through 2018. “This gives me a really warm, cozy feeling—a feeling like I’ve come home,” says Francis, who debuted on GH, at age 14, in 1976. “A three-year deal is a very big commitment from ABC these days. It’s too soon to know what stories they have planned for Laura—the who-whatwhere— but I know they really want to write for me, and that’s exciting. [Laughs] They finally took me back!” Francis, who won an Emmy for GH in 2007, was trotted out in 2013 for the show’s…

IMAGINE THE UNITED States in 1962, only without JFK as president. There are no Beatles. Or Elvis. Martin Luther King Jr. doesn’t exist, and neither does freedom. The Man in the High Castle pictures America if Germany and Japan had won World War II and divvied up the country like a sheet cake. In the Nazi-run East, the living is easy—if you’re white and Christian. In the Japanese-ruled West, Americans are second-class citizens subject to the whims of the imperial police. But now the U.S. Resistance has mysterious newsreel footage that appears to show the Allies winning the war. And the Reich is terrified— beginning a deadly drama connecting nine souls with the ability to change everything. “History is shaped by individuals,” executive producer Frank Spotnitz says. “If the right…

TUESDAY, NOV. 10 8/7c, Fox SHE PLAYS Sara Kingsley, the sarcastic former fling of restaurateur Jimmy Martino (John Stamos) who raised their son, Gerald (Josh Peck), as a single mother and is now helping raise Gerald’s 2-year-old daughter, Edie (played by twins Layla and Emelia Golfieri). “Mostly, I am just calling Jimmy on his s--t,” the actress explains. “So to be the woman turning to John Stamos and going, ‘Shut up!’ is hilarious to me.” WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER Brewster spent six seasons as FBI special agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS procedural Criminal Minds and most recently starred in the sixth season of Community as Greendale consultant Frankie Dart. “After leaving Criminal Minds, I got offered roles for a lot of crying moms and FBI agents,” Brewster says. “But…

In the premiere episode of AMC’s martial-arts epic Into the Badlands, a man lingers quietly in a rainstorm when four men suddenly ambush him. In a jaw-dropping, cinematic three-minute sequence, he and his swords take them down, one by one. It’s rough, bloody and…surprisingly balletic. “Martial arts are something we always gravitated toward because of their physicality, but also their poetic quality, their beauty,” says Miles Millar, who cocreated Badlands with Alfred Gough (the duo is best known for the longrunning Smallville). Loosely based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, the series follows Sunny (Daniel Wu), a warrior navigating a feudal society in a postapocalyptic America. This dystopian world is ruled by seven barons, each lording over a different essential resource. As Sunny’s frustration with servitude grows,…

Nearly 50 years ago, Jim Henson—the man who gifted us with Kermit the Frog and the Muppets—decided there was a serious dearth of Thanksgiving-themed entertainment in Hollywood. So he and his writing partner, Jerry Juhl, set out to do something about it. In 1968, the pair drafted a treatment for an hourlong special called The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow. But for some reason— likely the phenomenal success of Sesame Street—it was never made, and the script was boxed away in the company’s archives. That is, until Lisa Henson, Jim’s daughter and CEO of the Jim Henson Company, stumbled upon it. “It was a special project for him, and I actually remember, because I was about 7 or 8, that he still liked the idea for years after that,” she…

MONDAY, NOV. 16 Women’s College Basketball 5:30/4:30c, ESPN2 Connecticut at Ohio State College Basketball 7:30/6:30c, ESPN2 Virginia at George Washington Monday Night Football 8:15/7:15c, ESPN Texans at Bengals College Basketball 9:30/8:30c, ESPN2 San Diego State at Utah College Basketball 11:30/10:30c, ESPN2 Baylor at Oregon TUESDAY, NOV. 17 College Basketball 7:30/6:30c, ESPN Kentucky vs. Duke NHL Hockey 7:30/6:30c, NBCSN Wild at Penguins College Basketball 10/9c, ESPN Kansas vs. Michigan State WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 NBA Basketball 8/7c, ESPN Pelicans at Thunder NHL Hockey 8/7c, NBCSN Capitals at Red Wings NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, ESPN Bulls at Suns THURSDAY, NOV. 19 NBA Basketball 8/7c, TNT Bucks at Cavaliers Thursday Night Football 8/7c, CBS and NFL Network Titans at Jaguars NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, TNT Warriors at Clippers FRIDAY, NOV. 20 NBA Basketball 10:30/9:30c, ESPN Bulls…

@damianholbrook CHEERS TO BLACK-ISH for the kids being all right. The only thing we love more than Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson is the fact that their onair offspring— (clockwise from left) Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner, Miles Brown and Marsai Martin—are as funny as their faux folks. CHEERS TO SCREAM QUEENS for sparing Niecy Nash this long. We have no clue who the killer is, but there’s no question that Fox’s sorority-house massacre would be a bloody bore without her security-guard character, Denise Hemphill, to keep us screaming with laughter. CHEERS TOHOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER for being a master class in addictive TV. “There is always something that amazes me every week. I love this show. Viola Davis and the cast are awesome!” —Karen McCrea Gray JEERS…