JULY 21 - 27, 2019 staradvertiser.com FIVE-STAR TELEVISION Wealthy guests enjoy living in the lap of luxury at Miami Beach’s Riviera Grand Hotel, but a mysterious disappearance and explosive secrets threaten to destroy the business in Grand Hotel. All the while, Santiago Mendoza (Demián Bichir) and his second wife, Gigi (Roselyn Sanchez), enjoy the spoils of their success. Airing Monday, July 22, on ABC. Be a TV star at the ¶Ōlelo interactive exhibit Visit the “Express Yourself” ¶Ōlelo Road Show at the Prince Lot Hula Festival, July 20–21. Videotape your own message for airing, take TV star selfies at the Photo Booth, and ask experts olelo.org how you can take better videos using your own devices. ON THE COVER | GRAND HOTEL Hot stuff ABC’s ‘Grand Hotel’ puts the While the gorgeous hotel provides a discovering who they were. Some of them luxurious setting for the series, it was will have a past that catches up to them.” sizzle in summer quickly revealed in the June 17 pilot that Longoria guest stars as Beatriz Mendoza, the Mendoza’s business was in trouble. The Santiago’s first wife and the original owner By Kyla Brewer family has been plagued by escalating debt of the hotel, who appears in a series of flash- TV Media and scandals, not to mention explosive backs. Her family had owned the Riviera secrets. Grand Hotel for generations, and the busi- ith its stunning hotels, sizzling-hot A welcome respite from a summer sched- ness was passed down to her husband beaches and even hotter nightlife, ule laden with reality TV shows, “Grand after she died. According to official records, WMiami is a haven for people looking Hotel” is a prime-time soap for today’s Beatriz died of a heart attack, but “Grand for a taste of the high life. Yet, life in Miami isn’t discerning TV fans, rife with a mysterious Hotel” plot twists soon cast doubt on that all fun in the sun, and a new series set in a posh disappearance, an unexpected pregnancy conclusion. hotel explores the dark side of the sunshine and maybe even murder. Eva Longoria In addition to Bichir, the main cast in- state. (“Desperate Housewives”) — who execu- cludes a bevy of beautiful, talented per- Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir tive produces, directs and appears in the formers. Roselyn Sanchez (“Without a (“A Better Life,” 2011) stars as Santiago series — has promised that the new show Trace”) plays Santiago’s second wife, Gigi, Mendoza, the owner of Miami Beach’s will deliver plenty of summertime who also happened to have been Beatriz’s last family-run hotel, in “Grand Hotel,” drama. best friend. She butts heads with Alicia airing Monday, July 22, on ABC. “’Grand Hotel’ is going to (Denyse Tontz, “The Fosters”), Beatriz and Inspired by the popular Spanish have a lot of twists and turns Santiago’s adult daughter, who recently TV series “Gran Hotel,” the drama — big twists, big turns, big returned to the hotel after graduating with offers viewers a modern take on surprises — almost every an MBA from Cornell. Alicia’s brother, Javi the classic upstairs-downstairs episode,” Longoria said in (Bryan Craig, “General Hospital”), is the ho- story as it follows the lives of an official ABC Q&A video. tel’s resident playboy. In Gigi’s camp are her the Mendozas and their wealthy “What will keep people twin daughters: the self-obsessed Carolina guests, along with those of coming back is falling (Feliz Ramirez, “Bull”) and the decidedly their loyal working-class in love with the jour- more awkward Yoli (Justina Adorno, “Seven staff. The original Spanish neys of each of these Seconds”). series was a period dra- characters and really Hotel manager Mateo (Shalim Ortiz, ma, but ABC has up- caring about their “Heroes”) bridges the gap between the af- arcs and where dated the American fluent “upstairs” characters and the staff they’re going, version of the show members. While he serves as Santiago’s and then also and set the action in right-hand man, he also secretly works for multicultural Miami, Denyse Tontz the hotel’s creditors. Helen Parker (Wendy an area brimming as seen Raquel Robinson, “The Steve Harvey Show”), with Latin American in “Grand known as “Mrs. P” to her colleagues, is the Hotel” culture. hotel’s no-nonsense head of staff. 2 STAR CHANNELS JULy 21 - 27, 2019 BEST BETS Sunday Tuesday Thursday Big Little Lies Pose Elementary HBO 6 p.m. FX 7 p.m. KGMB 9 p.m. Meryl Streep joins the cast as Celeste’s Pray Tell (Billy Porter) gets sick while orga- Jonny Lee Miller returns as a modern-day (Nicole Kidman) mother-in-law, Mary nizing his annual AIDS cabaret in this new version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Louise, in the new season of this critically episode. When his illness lands him in the Holmes in a new episode of this drama. As the acclaimed series. Based on the novel of hospital, he receives several unexpected legendary detective works to solve crimes, the same name, the show follows five visitors. Mj Rodriguez and Dominique he relies on his good friend and sidekick, Dr. women who become embroiled in a murder Jackson also star. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu). investigation. Wednesday Friday Monday Snowfall Killjoys Legion FX 7 p.m. SYFY 7 p.m. FX 7 p.m. After Franklin (Damson Idris) Interplanetary bounty hunters Dutch David (Dan Stevens) wages war in puts his new business plan (Hannah John-Kamen), D’avin (Luke this new episode. Once confined to into motion, he and Avi (Alon Macfarlane) and Johnny (Aaron Ashmore) a psychiatric hospital, David Haller Aboutboul) go on a trip in share another epic adventure in this new has discovered that he’s one of this new episode. At the episode. Season 5 also features fan favor- the world’s most powerful mu- same time, Teddy (Carter ites Pree (Thom Allison) and Fancy (Sean tants in this drama based Hudson) struggles to make Baek). on the Marvel Comics new alliances in Costa Saturday character. Rica. Share Monday HBO 7 p.m. KHON 8 p.m. When teenager Mandy (Rhianne Barreto) sees a disturbing video of herself after So You Think You Can Dance a night she doesn’t remember, she must Host Cat Deeley welcomes talented dancers to the stage as they go head to head in piece together what happened in this a thrilling dance competition in a new episode of “So You Think You Can Dance,” airing premiere film. She also struggles to navi- Monday, July 22, on Fox. This season, veteran judges Mary Murphy and Nigel Lythgoe gate the fallout and accompanying social are joined by Laurieann Gibson and Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval. tensions. Pagoda Island Buffets Breakfast Lunch Dinner Weekend Dinner Sunday Brunch PAGODA BANQUETS & CATERING presents 7:00 - 10:30AM Mon. - Fri. CHRISTMAS in July $11.95 Seniors (60+ Yr) $19.95 $21.95 $43.95 $41.95 (60+ Yr) (60+ Yr) (60+ Yr) (60+ Yr) Book any new event from now until Dec. 31, 2019 from BREAKFAST $17.00 Seniors $19.00 Seniors $36.00 Seniors $34.00 Seniors our popular International, Japanese, or Hawaiian Buffets $7.95 Keiki (5-10 Yr) $8.95 Keiki (5-10 Yr) $17.95 Keiki (5-10 Yr) $15.95 Keiki (5-10Yr) $ starting from $32.00 with a 75 person minimum and receive a SPECIALS 10:30AM - 2:00PM 5:00 - 9:00PM 5:00 - 9:30PM 10:00AM - 2:00PM 6.99 Christmas present in July from us. 7:00 - 8:30AM Daily Mon. - Sat. Mon. - Thu. Fri. - Sun. 948-8354 Call Risa or Darlene now at HAWAII’S BEST BUFFETS & XMAS IN JULY! 1525 Rycroft Street 948-8370 www.pagodahawaii.com 1525 Rycroft Street / www.pagodahawaii.com JULy 21 - 27, 2019 STAR CHANNELS 3 ON DEMAND That’s a wrap Final season of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ airs on Netflix NEW ON NETFLIX: commit, and Blanca (Laura Gómez, “Show Me a Tyler Hoechlin (“Road to Perdition,” 2002), Hero”), thinking she was getting early release Justin Chatwin (“Shameless”), Jessica “Orange Is the New Black” Season 7 as well, was instead transported to an im- Camacho (“Taken”) and Samuel Anderson migrant detention center (consider my guts (“Emmerdale”) join Sackhoff as some of the The seventh and final season of one of wrenched). There are loads of other characters crew members aboard the Salvare. Netflix’s first and most-watched original series who deserve a satisfying conclusion to their drops Friday, July 29, and fans are eager to see stories, so the writers really had their work cut how things will finally pan out for their favorite out for them this season. group of inmates. In last season’s finale, Piper “Workin’ Moms” Season 2 (Taylor Schilling, “The Lucky One,” 2012) was The second season of this Canadian sitcom granted early release, and this season sees is available to stream Thursday, July 25. It fol- “Another Life” her struggling to readjust to life on the out- lows a group of young moms as they venture side. With far bigger problems on their plates, Sci-fi fans may recognize Katee Sackhoff, who back into the workplace after maternity leave Taystee (Danielle Brooks, “Master of None”) played Starbuck in “Battlestar Galactica,” as and juggle the many challenges that go hand has been convicted of a murder she didn’t the star of this new space-set drama start- in hand with being a working mother. In Season ing Thursday, July 25. The series follows a 2, Kate (Catherine Reitman, “Black-ish”), space crew, led by astronaut Niko Breckinridge Frankie (Juno Rinaldi, “5ive Days to Midnight”), (Sackhoff), on a mission to locate the source Anne (Dani Kind, “Wynonna Earp”) and Jenny of an enormous alien artifact that mysterious- (Jessalyn Wanlim, “Orphan Black”) contend ly appeared on Earth.