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I wonder what name TV historians will give to the era of television that starts with the year 2020. We’ve had Golden Ages, Platinum Ages, Second and Third Golden Ages—and, of course, Peak TV. A new age is definitely occurring now. Right in the middle

Stumptown is canceled? This was one of the shows I was most looking forward to. I think we’ve all accepted that many of our favorite shows are not going to be back on a traditional timeline, so what’s the difference if, as was reported as one of the

NO ONE MAKES us cringe (and laugh) quite like Larry David on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the acclaimed comedy, which premiered October 15, 2000, the Seinfeld cocreator plays a semi-fictionalized “Larry David,” a curmudgeon whose ill-timed gaffes,

POP TV’S BELOVED sitcom Schitt’s Creek recently swept the Emmys for its final season, nabbing Outstanding Comedy Series as well as trophies for all four of its main actors. And now you don’t have to pay for a Netflix subscription to catch up on the s

Tomato, tomahto. Whether you’re a Jedi or a Trekker, we can all agree that the Force is strong in Uber Eats’ engaging new advertising campaign. The food-delivery service recruited Star Wars icon Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Star Trek legend Sir P

SEASON PREMIERE Friday, Oct. 9, Netflix A FUNNY THING about ghosts: The more you flesh them out, the less haunting they become. One reason I’ve never forgotten the 1961 film The Innocents, based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, is that even whe

Fridays, Disney+ MEN WILL BE boys. Drawing back the squeaky-clean curtain of public relations shielding the pioneering Mercury 7 astronauts, Tom Wolfe’s 1979 bestseller and Philip Kaufman’s Oscar-winning 1983 movie humanized this rowdy, raunchy crew

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) A ONE-MAN TMZ, Walter Winchell commanded a mighty microphone on radio in the 1930s and ’40s, and with his nationally syndicated newspaper columns could make or break careers with a single

FALL, 10/9C CBS WHAT VIRTUAL BACKGROUND would Dr. Jason Bull use for a Zoom video call? Michael Weatherly, the actor who’s played the esteemed trial consultant since 2016 on Bull, has opted for a whimsical beach bonfire setting as he joins TV GUIDE M

Burning Questions NOV. 2, 10/9C ABC AFTERSHOCKS REVERBERATED from an earthquake that flattened a brewpub during an event attended by members of St. Bonaventure’s staff in last season’s finale. Lives were upended and many characters were left in flux.

WHERE WE LEFT OFF Season 1 of the fantasy series—based on Philip Pullman’s young-adult trilogy about a girl’s quest to learn more about her coveted connection to a mysterious substance called “Dust”—ended on a sad note for young British adventurer Ly

It’s a somber day in The Neighborhood. The CBS sitcom about a Black family and their relatively new white neighbors opens Season 3 with a timely episode. “We thought it was important to kick off with a story that addresses issues of police brutality

OCT. 27, 9/8C NBC “IT’S A BIG, pivotal season for us,” says executive producer Dan Fogelman, which makes sense given that the tearjerking family drama—which masterfully hopscotches between past, present and future—ended Season 4 with many characters

FALL, 8/7C CBS THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like steely NCIS boss Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in crusader mode. He’s a man on a mission in the military procedural’s opening five episodes, a storyline starting in late 2019 that explains the lingering my

LOVE IN THE time of COVID-19 means big changes to Clare Crawley’s run for the roses. Instead of traveling the globe, the 16th season was shot entirely at a California resort. “All the dates had to happen within those walls,” says host Chris Harrison,

Mission accomplished. The secret undercover assignment that took away FBI special agent Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym, who wasn’t in several Season 2 episodes while on maternity leave) “is officially over,” says showrunner Rick Eid. He confirms the “Po

When it comes to catching criminals, seasoned FBI supervisory special agent Jess LaCroix (Julian McMahon) usually gets his man (or woman). But one slippery bank robber, who eluded the dedicated Fed during an early case 18 years ago, pops up in the so

“WE ARE GOING TO reflect what the world is like in 2020 for Chicago firefighters, pandemic and all,” executive producer Derek Haas says. “It will be a year of new challenges”—and many changes, both personal and professional, for the members of Fireho

The stories on Med’s sixth season will consider how first responders have been impacted by the coronavirus. But while the docs at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center will see COVID-19 patients, “we focus more on how other types of cases are treated in thi

NOV. 11, 10/9C NBC Possible trouble for the go-their-own-way Intelligence Unit in Season 8 comes with new Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller (Nicole Ari Parker), who arrives in Chicago with an intense police-reform agenda, in a story inspired by t

OCT. 21, 9/8C ABC EASY IS NOT a word that’s ever been used to describe life for the Conner clan. Since we first met them in the 1988–97 sitcom Roseanne (and its 2018 revival), they have faced the same problems as many blue-collar Americans. Thankfull

WHEN IT COMES to 2020’s earthshattering real-world events, “We’re going there,” says S.W.A.T. executive producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas of Season 4, which will dive into protests and police/community relations. Team leader Hondo (Shemar Moore) is “grap

“We find our guys isolated in snowcapped mountains, on the run, fighting for their lives,” executive producer Spencer Hudnut says of the action packed Season 4 opener. The hour begins to wrap up the Bravo Team’s deployment in Afghanistan, where they’

WHERE WE LEFT OFF Wrongly convicted inmate Aaron Wallace (Nicholas Pinnock), who became a lawyer while serving the first nine years of a life sentence, scored a major victory in the fight to clear his name: He successfully argued that his drug-traffi

Balancing real-life issues and comedy is in black-ish’s DNA. The family sitcom begins Season 7 with matriarch Dr. Bow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross), a frontline worker in the early days of the pandemic, toiling tirelessly to save lives “but also protec

Season 5 marks a new beginning for many members of the Westport, Connecticut–based Otto family. In the premiere, elder daughter Taylor (Meg Donnelly) graduates from high school; the sitcom then jumps ahead a few months and finds her attending the sam

Dirty Dancing. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Risky Business. The next classic the ’80s-set comedy pays homage to is Airplane! In the Season 8 premiere, “The crazy, dysfunctional Goldbergs take to the air,” reveals exec producer Alex Barnow. As smothering

OCT. 14, 9/8C CBS ONE MILLION MILES. “That’s like going to the moon and back twice!” notes The Amazing Race’s gregarious host, Phil Keoghan. When the odometer on this race around the world clicked over to seven figures during Season 32, he says, “to

NOV. 12, 9/8C ABC TV’S LONGEST-RUNNING PRIMETIME medical show opens its 17th season with a double timeline: one that finds the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the other flashing back to where we left them last spring. “Ou

What a difference six months make: New York is “a city struggling to return from a harrowing pandemic and months of demonstrations and political fallout after George Floyd…a city that has lost faith in the NYPD and the DA’s office,” executive produce

LAST SEASON, LT. Andy Herrera’s (Jaina Lee Ortiz) life was full of upheaval. She spontaneously married battalion chief Robert Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) and, in the last moment of the finale, came face-to-face with the mom she thought had passed away de

It’s 1991, and young Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) dons his cap and gown and graduates from high school when Season 4 of the hit comedy kicks off. “We’ll get to see Sheldon give his valedictorian speech,” says executive producer Steven Molaro. Befor

The time has come for the Cloud 9 crew to bid farewell to ambitious store manager Amy Sosa (America Ferrera, who exits the comedy after Season 6’s second episode). The single mom is set to move from Missouri to California for a job at HQ, and as of n

The shocking news dropped in September: Anna Faris won’t return for Season 8. As Christy—frantic single mom, waitress and, more recently, law student—her reconciliation with fellow recovering addict and self centered mother Bonnie (Allison Janney) ha

OCT. 15 CBS ALL ACCESS IN ITS THIRD season, Star Trek: Discovery really does boldly go where no person has gone before. “We jump 930 years to 3188 to save all sentient life,” says Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Cdr. Michael Burnham. That’s 114 years

WHERE WE LEFT OFF A failed adoption devastated Rome and Regina (Romany Malco and Christina Moses); Gary (James Roday Rodriguez) put ex Maggie (Allison Miller) in the friend zone as she left for Oxford; widow Delilah (Stephanie Szostak) introduced her

FALL, 10/9C CBS Look for an extra seat at the Sunday dinner table when Blue Bloods begins its 11th season. The occupant is a Reagan in all but name. Joe Hill (Will Hochman, The Code) is the just-revealed grandson of police commissioner Frank Reagan (

THE REALITY SHOWS Cops and Live P.D. have been axed, and scripted series about law enforcement are rethinking their own reality as well. Producers, writers and stars are taking police reform protests seriously—and viewers will see the results. Beside

TROUBLE IN PARADISE? Private investigator Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) got a surprising new boss—partner in crime-fighting Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks)—when the reboot ended Season 2. (Novelist Robin Masters gave the British majordomo his Hawaiian

WHERE WE LEFT OFF FBI Special Agent Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) chose to back her heretofore untrustworthy mother, former KGB spy Katarina (Laila Robins), over international criminal/FBI asset Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader). “Liz has always

“Codex is still a threat,” warns exec producer Monica Macer of the nefarious organization that operative Angus MacGyver (Lucas Till) and the secret government agency Phoenix Foundation tried to bring down last season. In the Season 5 opener, Codex ki

Noble bounty hunter Din Djarin, aka the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), often repeats the mantra “This is the way.” The minds behind the Star Wars series have their own saying: “Not knowing is part of the magic,” according to exec producer Dave Filoni. W

With 30 premieres on tap, Lifetime gifts us three new offerings to launch its festive season: In October 23’s Christmas on Ice, a former competitive figure skater (Abigail Klein) and ex pro hockey player (Ryan Cooper) team up to save a public rink. O

“Predictable is boring, and boring is one thing you are not.” So said strong, compassionate Department of Justice lawyer Rita Devereaux to her long distance boyfriend, NCIS New Orleans boss Dwayne Pride, last year. Truer words. The pair, played by hu

Shake-up at the top! In the drama’s 12th season, boss Hetty (Linda Hunt) takes off on what executive producer R. Scott Gemmill terms “a bit of a misadventure”—so intelligence analyst Nell (Renée Felice Smith), who recently tried to resign, “finds her

NOV. 15 NETFLIX Playing Diana, Princess of Wales, in Season 4 of the British royal drama The Crown meant actress Emma Corrin had big shoes to fill. And it was up to Emmy-winning costume designer Amy Roberts to make sure those shoes (and gowns) captur

OCT. 11, 9/8C AMC “JUST LIVE.” SO said Morgan Jones (Lennie James) into his walkie when we last saw him, bleeding out from a bullet wound and hoping someone was listening. Vicious “visionary” Virginia (Colby Minifie) had shot the former leader and, w

Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope) and her husband, Henry VIII (Ruairi O’Connor), are feeling like the rock stars of 16thcentury Europe when the period drama returns for Part 2. But England’s royal couple “are taking too much for granted, riding to

SEASON 1 THURSDAY, OCT. 15 If you blinked, you probably missed this one-season-and-done thriller, set in the same universe as the Bourne Identity film franchise, during its initial airing on USA last year. That’s a shame, because it was a wild ride o

New Documentary See page 70. Season 1 See page 70. New Season Ready for another hearty helping of comfort food? The heart warming competition from the U.K. returns with a new batch of eager amateur bakers and a new cohost, Doctor Who’s Matt Lucas. Ne

The new moon in Libra means it’s time for a restart. First, there’s housekeeping to attend to. Sort out any toxic relationships and decide if you’re willing to work hard for what you want to achieve in the coming 12 months. If you’re determined to st

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