May 9, 2022

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What’s Worth Watching

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I can’t imagine anyone other than Ken Jennings gracing your cover for a story on who should be the permanent Jeopardy! host [April 25 issue]. Full marks to this brilliant, darling man—and to you, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE, for your powerful visual statement!
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TV Insider
If you have 30 minutes, see this season fiale Hilarious internet foodie duo Rhett and Link end their Inside Eats season at the Beyond Meat lab, making their offbeat food mixes and deciding if plant-based foods can taste like meat. Sunday, May 15, 11/
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First Look
In the winning dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, widowed teacher Nancy (Emma Thompson), who has never experienced true pleasure, hires young sex worker Leo (Daryl McCormack, above, with Thompson) to help get her there. Coming to Hulu June 17, the
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The Roush Review
@TVGMMattRoush Sundays (through May 22), 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) A POPULAR SONG in the 1960s quipped, “England swings like a pendulum do,” but during that flashy decade of rebellion, there was also a more sinister movement through
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Ask Matt
@TVGMMattRoush I’m thinking about canceling my high-priced cable service and strictly going to streaming, since almost everything I watch is available this way. What do you think? —Gwenn MATT ROUSH: I think you’ll be joining a really big club. Most n
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TV Dinners
FALL IN! CHEF Cliff Crooks (above) is back for a second tour as host of Chef Boot Camp, where the New York–based chef puts struggling professional cooks through a three-day gauntlet of drills designed to up their kitchen skills. If they’re lucky, the
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Finale Secr
Monday, May 23, 9/8c, CBS THE NCIS TEAM draws close to protect one of their own, boss Alden Parker (Gary Cole), when he’s framed for murder in the Season 19 finale. This tricky perp is someone who benefits more from “Parker being disgraced rather tha
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What’s Worthwatching Week 1
Monday, May 9, syndicated, check local listings PICK OF THE WEEK! It’s 10AM on a Wednesday in April, and TV GUIDE MAGAZINE is among the ranks of buzzing audience members filing into Universal Studios Lot, Stage 1, in Hollywood. (Dress code: “nice cas
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Monday, May
9/8c, getTV Retro Pick Film extra. Disco instructor. Wealthy Texas widow. The original Angels (Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson, right) never met an undercover gig they didn’t like (or like to dress the part for). In “Angels in Chains,”
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Tuesday, May 10
9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) “Name some other American athlete that has statues erected to him in three different countries,” says one disciple of swimming and surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku in this enthralling American Masters profile
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Wednesday, May 11
SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, Bravo AFTER MAKING HISTORY as the Housewives franchise’s first Black cast member in Beverly Hills, Garcelle Beauvais is making big moves in Season 12: Cohosting The Real and writing her just-published memoir, Love Me as I Am, ha
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Thursday, May 12
BUILDING INSPECTORS WEEP! 8/7c, Discovery This irresistible series (now in its sixth season) exploring once extraordinary structures that have fallen to ruin treads new ground tonight: a chateau with a history of rebellion and homes built by religiou
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Saturday, May 14
Movie Pick 8/7c, HBO “This isn’t happening; it’s in my mind,” says Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves, below, with Carrie-Anne Moss), who discovers that the Matrix video game he programmed has seemingly come to life, attempting to drag him into it just lo
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Friday, May 13
9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) MATT’S PICK To borrow from the great Cole Porter, you’ll get a kick out of Sutton Foster. As brassy Reno Sweeney in this giddy revival of Porter’s 1930s musical, she belts classic tunes (“You’re the Top,” “
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Sunday, May 15
SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, HBO ROSE LESLIE HAD already been cast in this six-episode adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife before she cracked open the iconic novel by Audrey Niffenegger. The actress was stunned: “I thought it was the most heart-wrenching
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Stream It!
FRIDAY, MAY 13 ORIGINAL DRAMA Crime novelist Michael Connelly, who brought us LAPD detective Harry Bosch, among other creations, knows how to get some mileage out of a gripping yarn. That’s the case in this adaptation of his book (previously made int
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New Movie Releases
Den of Thieves (2018) There’s a heist in the works. The target—the $30 million at the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles. But to grab it, the robbers need to get through a determined L.A. sheriff’s crew. Gerard Butler stars. Dirty Harry (1971) The film t
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What’s Worth Watching Week 2
PICK OF THE WEEK! DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Friday, May 20, and Saturday, May 21, 8/7c, HBO ON AN HBO special in 1978, George Carlin reminded us that “They say the nicest things about you when you die; your popularity goes straight up. They’ll even make s
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SERIES, SPECIALS & DOCUMENTARIES
Blood Sisters ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES A four-part crime thriller that looks at the bond between two Nigerian women and how their friendship gets tested when one’s wealthy—and abusive—fiancé is accidentally killed the night before their wedding. Chris
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Monday, May 16
SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Fox Firehouse 118 winds down Season 5 with a series of “starting over” emergencies. “It’s kind of a pun,” explains executive producer Kristen Reidel of the calls, which include a woman’s ill-fated request for a new look at the hai
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Tuesday, May 17
SEASON FINALE 8:30/7:30c, NBC AS RICH AND suave as Ted Danson’s L.A. mayor Neil Bremer is, there’s one thing he can’t charm his way out of: public outrage! In the secondseason finale of the sly office comedy, a socialmedia scandal has triggered a rec
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Wednesday, May 18
SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, Fox Dust off those dancing shoes! The Emmy-winning competition series returns after a nearly three-year breather. “It’s still the same, but there’s going to be twists and turns,” promises Stephen “tWitch” Boss (left), the former
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Thursday, May 19
On the docket for the NBC franchise’s season finales: Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) makes her first visit to the new Sam Waterston–fronted Law & Order (8/7c) when NYPD detectives Bernard (Anthony Anderson) and Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan) seek intel
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Friday, May 20
9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) In this Shakespeare in the Park adaptation of the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, the revenge-minded madames (Pascale Armand and This Is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson) toy with charlatan Falstaff (Jacob Ming-
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Saturday, May 21
Editors’ Choice SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, BBC America Cute and cuddly meets ferocious in the return of the nature series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, that profiles a different species and family each week. Tonight, we follow a fiercely protective
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Sunday, May 22
THE SIMPSONS (8/7C) “How on Earth does Homer support his family as well as he does?” asks co–executive producer Tim Long. That excellent question gets explored tonight as Homer (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) attempts to school Bart (Nancy Cartwright) o
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Crossword
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Horoscope + Sudoku
How do you feel about meditation and yoga? Do you want to boost your ability to read other people’s energies? Hopefully you’re into such things because a rare new cycle for you begins where your spiritual side is going to massively grow. The good new
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CHEERS & JEERS
@damianholbrook Cheers to The First Lady’s firstrate ladies! Between Viola Davis inhabiting Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer’s beautiful turn as Betty Ford and the always spot-on Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Showtime’s salute to Washington

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