January 30, 2023

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What’s Worth Watching

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First Look
Four decades after the universe met Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I, a new chapter unfolds when Hulu’s eight-episode History of the World, Part II premieres Monday, March 6. The sketch series runs over four consecutive days, again featuring
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Editor’s Letter
Last April, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE conducted its largest reader survey ever. Thousands of you replied, both online and by mail. Your input was enlightening. About five years ago, 30 percent of you said you streamed TV. Now, more than 74 percent of you str
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Top Shows 25
If you have 30 minutes, check out this premiere John Mayer, Kesha, Bret Michaels and Paul Rudd are among the celebrities guest starring on Season 10 of the chaotic hidden-camera series Impractical Jokers. Thursday, Feb. 9, 10/9c, truTV and TBS If you
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Ask Matt
@TVGMMattRoush I’ve noticed recent concerning trends in Young Sheldon. Iain Armitage is now 14 and his voice is changing, so the show’s original premise of a child genius is getting lost. His sister has changed from a refreshing tomboy to a girl obse
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Setting Hearts Ablaze
Fire Country Fridays, 9/8c, CBS Special episode airing Sunday, Jan. 29, 10/9c or immediately following the AFC Championship Game WHAT DRAWS VIEWERS to CBS’s rookie drama Fire Country like a moth to a flame? Well-drawn characters with everything to lo
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The Roush Review
@TVGMMattRoush SERIES PREMIERE Thursday, Jan. 26, Peacock EVERYBODY LIES. FEW know that better than Charlie Cale (the delightful Natasha Lyonne), whose built-in BS detector is second to none. “It’s like birds chirping, people lying,” she explains in
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All Good things
A Million Little Things SEASON PREMIERE Wednesday, Feb. 8, 10/9c, ABC EVEN THOUGH A Million Little Things opened in 2018 with Boston businessman Jon Dixon (Ron Livingston) killing himself, series creator DJ Nash says his drama is about embracing what
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Stream It!
TUESDAY, JAN. 31 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY Turns out Pamela Anderson has plenty more tapes in her archive. Hers is a treasure trove of VHS and DVD memories, some profane with rocker ex Tommy Lee, but most playful and joy-filled, especially when they invol
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New Movie Releases
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Seven exes battle to keep a bass player (Michael Cera) from winning over his new girl in Edgar Wright’s action-filled rom-com. You People (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL Witty culture clashes abound as an unlikely couple (J
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SERIES, SPECIALS & DOCUMENTARIES
Cunk on Earth ORIGINAL COMEDY A crazy mockumentary that traces the history of civilization? Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) is our guide. She explores the stories behind our greatest inventions and asks experts hard-hitting questions about how far we’v
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What’s Worth Watching Week 1
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation MOVIE PREMIERE Saturday, Feb. 4, 8/7c, Lifetime “YOU KNOW HOW they say you couldn’t write this s--t? You couldn’t write this s--t!” Jennifer Grey declares of her latest role, playing controversial Remnant Fellows
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Monday, Jan. 30
SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c and 10/9c, Freeform Nothing is as it seems when Elena (Mariel Molino), a determined young woman with a sordid history, moves into an upscale Manhattan apartment building to work as a live-in nanny for wealthy widower Matthew (War
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Tuesday, Jan. 31
9/8c and 10/9c, NBC Some shows do cliffhangers; La Brea does cliff jumpers! In November’s winter finale, the reunited Eve and Gavin Harris (Natalie Zea and Eoin Macken) leapt into a sinkhole from 1988 back to 10,000 B.C. with their kids (Jack Martin
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Wednesday, Feb. 1
SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, Syfy Not since the SS Minnow of Gilligan’s Island has there been a more ill-fated vessel than the hapless title spacecraft of The Ark, a proudly cheesy sci-fi potboiler from Independence Day’s Dean Devlin. If it were a B movie,
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Thursday, Feb. 2
SEASON FINALE 8/7c, ABC We’re riding high on the announcement of a new Jeopardy! Masters tournament—but first let’s see who takes the title (and $1 million grand prize) here. Of the three players, Ike Barinholtz and Wil Wheaton are the two names conf
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Friday, Feb. 3
SERIES PREMIERE 11:30am/10:30c, Nickelodeon Who wants a treat? PAW Patrol—the animated show unleashed on preschoolers nearly a decade ago to become a massive family hit—gets a spinoff. In the original, six search and rescue dogs work together to prot
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Saturday, Feb. 4
Noon/11am c, Comet Retro Pick The Rookie’s Nathan Fillion as a gunslinging spaceship captain, 9-1-1: Lone Star’s Gina Torres as his second-in-command and Resident Alien’s Alan Tudyk as her pilot hubby? Marathon the 2002 sci-fi Western’s 14 episodes t
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Sunday, Feb. 5
10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Arsenic kills a silent-film siren at her premiere in the twopart mystery that ends Season 3 of this intriguing thriller set in early 1900s Vienna. The detective work of brilliant psychoanalyst Max Lieberma
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What’s Worth Watching Week 2
SEASON PREMIERE 9/8c, HBO Childhood grief haunts London PI Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) and his client in this fourpart adaptation of the fifth J.K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith) novel. When Anna Phipps (Sophie Ward) asks Strike to pursue the
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Tuesday, Feb. 7
SERIES PREMIERE 10/9c, History DEBONAIR PIERCE BROSNAN, who famously embodied secret agent James Bond, hosts this docuseries of eight episodes, each exploring the planning, execution and fallout of a spectacular real-life heist. “We’re always beguile
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Wednesday, Feb. 8
SERIES PREMIERE 8:30/7:30c and 9:30/8:30c, ABC She sees dead people…and it’s rather funny. Based on Alexandra Potter’s novel Confessions of a Forty Something F##k Up, the new dramedy created by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, both former producers o
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Thursday, Feb. 9
SEASON FINALE 8/7c, Fox The table is set for cheers, tears and pan-sears as Season 21 of Gordon Ramsay’s fiery job interview enters its final leg. Having survived weeks of team challenges and unexpected judges (Danny Trejo for taco night!), the three
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Friday, Feb. 10
6/5c, BBC America Movie Picks Double feature! In Goldfinger, Sean Connery takes on the title’s big-time smuggler and deadly derbytossing Oddjob. In 1963’s From Russia With Love (8:30/7:30c), he’s shaken but not stirred by a pair of assassins (Robert
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Saturday, Feb. 11
11/10c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) Country singer Maren Morris (right) croons fire in her 14-song debut on this concert series, the longest-running music show on American TV. Morris performs nine tracks from her 2022 album, Humble Quest, p
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Sunday, Feb. 12
6:30/5:30c/3:30p, Fox The players (who were unavailable at press time) won’t be the only ones with nerves once the opening kickoff signals the start of the big game at Arizona’s State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Fox Sports’ NFL lead analyst Greg Olsen
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Crossword
1 Smaller than a lake but bigger than a puddle5 Sheeran and O’Neill8 Type of exchange12 Michael of Younger13 Winnie-the-Pooh kangaroo14 I Remember ____15 Jerry Mathers’ 1950s sitcom role (2 wds.)18 ____ Dead Yet19 Star Trek: Picard actor Spiner20 And
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CHEERS & JEERS
@damianholbrook Cheers to Minx’s new home. Thanks to Starz, the cheeky skin-mag comedy tossed off by HBO Max after one season re-rises—hopefully to score star Jake Johnson (New Girl) the attention he deserves. Cheers to happy returns. We were psyched
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Sudoku
Emily Blunt’s character in the Prime Video series The English appears in this issue’s puzzle at left. It contains the letters A C E I L M N O and R. LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTION ■

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