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Trial & Error John Lithgow returns! ZAGS Final Four quest begins PAGES OF TOP STORIES, Snatch SPORTS, new chapters with series CELEBRITY version of movie Q&A, MOVIES, AND MUCH MORE! American Crime re-boots for Season 3 FOLIO Courtesy of Gracenote March 12 - 18, 2017 C What’s HOT this contents Week! YOURTVLINK STAFF PICK TOP STORIES 12-13 The much-acclaimed “American Crime” launches its third ABC season Sunday with a story of modern labor practices … and malpractices. Series creator and executive producer John Ridley and co-star Regina King — who earned Emmys for both of the first two seasons, playing different 3 characters — tell Jay Bobbin about the show’s newest round. 14-15 Another of this season’s movie-to-series transitions begins Thursday, as the streaming service Crackle debuts Emmy winner John the crime caper “Snatch.” Former “Gossip Girl” co-star Ed Lithgow returns to Westwick and Rupert Grint — formerly “Harry Potter’s’” Ron sitcom work as an unexpected murder Weasley — tell Jay Bobbin about the new version, as does suspect in NBC’s “Trial executive producer and writer Alex De Rakoff. & Error,” premiering Tuesday. He and 17 The legendary Julie Andrews makes a return to television executive producer Jeff by educating youngsters about the performing arts in “Julie’s Astrof tell Jay Bobbin Greenroom,” a new Netflix series that starts streaming Friday. about satirizing the Oscar winner Andrews and one of her partners in making true-crime-show genre. the show, her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, talk with Jay Bobbin about the project that also involves The Jim Henson Company. CELEBRITY REALITY 4 Acting is the thing for ‘APB’ 16 ‘Boat Buyers’ Travel Channel series Justin Kirk wants you out on the water 5 Susan Sarandon recalls Bette Davis’ professional drive SPORTS 18-19 Is the year of the Zags? 6 Paul Rust slappin’ the bass 8 Charles Michael Davis ‘Originals’ actor takes the bull by the horns MOVIES 20-21 Theatrical Review, and Our top 9 All About Milo Ventimiglia of `This Is DVD releases Us’ FOOD IN EVERY ISSUE 22-23 Our top suggested programs 7 Sports is Jim Nantz’s career, wine is 18-19 to watch this week! his passion CONTRIBUTING STAFF Here’s where you can find us Managing Editor: Michelle Wilson Writers: Jay Bobbin, George Dickie, John Crook, Dan Ladd facebook/yourtvlink https://twitter.com/yourtvlink Visit YourTVLINK.com Magazine Design: Nicolle Burton Quality: Chris Browne Page 2 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 12 - 18, 2017 Editor's choice STORY It’s a case of ‘Trial & Error’ for John Lithgow in NBC true-crime satire Pictured: Nicholas D’Agosto (left) and John Lithgow BY JAY BOBBIN me a wonderful kind of magic trick to pull off, and I love John Lithgow has been seen making a murderer before, challenges like that. but a new spoof of true-crime shows poses the question, “Is he or isn’t he?” “They created a character for which this trick can work,” adds Lithgow. “He’s completely driven by his id. It’s The five-time Emmy winner for projects including “3rd completely unedited. He has no sense of priority or Rock From the Sun” – honored recently with a Screen proportion. The tiniest things have absolutely as much Actors Guild Award for his Winston Churchill portrayal in importance to him as the crime of murder, and you Netflix’s “The Crown” – returns to series duty in NBC’s see it in the very first moment of the series, in that 911 sitcom “Trial & Error,” premiering with back-to-back call. The cable guy and the death of his wife are equal episodes Tuesday, March 14. Previously lethal as the emergencies. This is the stuff of just fantastic comedy, Trinity Killer on “Dexter,” Lithgow now plays small-town very much like Dick Solomon in ‘3rd Rock from the Sun.’ poetry professor Larry Henderson, suspected of slaying He was driven by his id, too, and yet they are very, very different characters.” his wife ... which draws murder-case-novice Josh Segal (Nicholas D’Agosto, “Gotham”), an attorney from New York, to South Carolina to defend him. The lawyer doesn’t “Trial & Error” creator and executive producer Jeff Astrof get much help from his client, whose quirks only make (“Ground Floor,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) explains that a murder-trial documentary titled “The him look increasingly culpable of the crime. Staircase” was the inspiration for the new show, and Warner Bros. Television suggested partnering him with Sherri Shepherd (“The View”) and Steven Boyer (“Orange drama-series veteran Matt Miller (“Lethal Weapon,” Is the New Black”) play Segal’s assistants, though their “Forever”). “help” often is questionable, and “Glee” alum Jayma Mays co-stars as a prosecutor eager to send Henderson “The two of us, it was a match made in Hebrew school,” up the river. The suspect’s daughter (Krysta Rodriguez, Astrof muses. “The timing was really great, because right “Smash”) and Segal develop a romantic interest in each at the time everybody was watching ‘The Jinx’ and ‘Serial.’ other, complicating the case even more. And we had handed in our script, and that’s when ‘Making a Murderer’ came out. And we were just like, ‘If we don’t Filmed in the style of a documentary, “Trial & Error” do this now, someone else is going to do it.”’ appealed to Lithgow from the start. “I loved the whole idea,” the pleasant actor, musician and children’s- Lithgow says he and his current colleagues all have book author says. “It was so completely original. I “their own particular version of the ‘Trial & Error’ sense of mean, primetime true-crime documentary series were humor. We just make each other laugh like crazy all the completely teed up for a great satire, a great parody. time. My favorite work has been in great ensembles, and Nobody has done this yet, and it was brilliantly written. this goes with theater and television and even film, where And I loved the challenge of playing a part who at half the time you never even meet the people you are any given moment could completely, plausibly have acting with. One thing I absolutely love about acting is the committed or not committed this crime. This seemed to community spirit of it.” March 12 - 18, 2017 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 CELEBRITY GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A JUSTINKIRK of ‘APB’ Monday on Fox How did you become interested in acting? You know to this day, I’m not certain. My first play (at age 7), my mother’s husband at that time was a student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. And for whatever reason, I wanted to be an actor at that point, so I did that. I ended up going to a school in Minneapolis at a theater company called the Children’s Theatre Company. So yeah, I wanted to do it for whatever reason from an early age and I’m still trying to figure out why (laughs). Now I know why. I couldn’t tell you what it was initially, what the initial instinct was, I really can’t. I remember events happening as I got into my teen years and seeing a thing or seeing a show or acting and being profoundly affected by that but that was after I had already wanted to do it. I was by no means a “look at me” child. I didn’t put on shows in the living room or anything. Actually, my mother describes me as a stoic young person. At what point did you realize you could make a living from acting? I would have done it no matter if I had ended up sitting here talking to you ... I think probably when I was a teen I thought maybe I’d go be in a rep company somewhere in the Midwest and do theater. And to this day, I still have a sense of it as being something you do as a life, as a journeyman, and you go from job to job and sometimes it’s going well and sometimes they’re paying you well and sometimes you like the piece of text you’re doing more than others. And they don’t always correlate in terms of the payment and how much you love the work. But I’ve been pretty lucky. I’ve been in some cool things so I feel very fortunate. FOLIO Page 4 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 12 - 18, 2017 CELEBRITY JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A SUSANSARANDON of ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Sunday on FX As suggested by “Feud: Bette and Joan,” do you think Bette Davis’ Oscar bid for “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” fueled her feud with Joan Crawford? She saw it, and probably rightly, (as) her last chance to get good parts. Always, part of the interesting dynamic was that Joan was the beautiful one, so that was difficult. Bette went towards the character actor, so in a way, her base was broader and she could continue. But how was she going to get any more big parts? They just didn’t exist, so she was counting on that Academy Award to revive things. And when she didn’t get it, Olivia (de Havilland) said, “Well, don’t worry. The next time.” (And Davis) said, “How? What film? How is that possibly going to happen?” Do you believe ageism also was a factor in Davis’ professional drive? There are many stories of people that are older women.