CELEBRITY SPOTLIGHTS FRED SAVAGE LUCY LAWLESS SHARON STONE PHILIP WINCHESTER GRAHAM ELLIOT THE STORY! Heading ‘Into the Badlands’ WHAT'S FOR Daniel Wu stars in “Into DINNER the Badlands,” premiering Featuring: Sunday on AMC. “Kelsey’s Essentials” FEATURED STORIES “CHICAGO MED” “TURKEY HOLLOW” EXCLUSIVE! “HUNTING HITLER” PROFILED ATHLETE MOVIES TO MATT WATCH JOHNSON And so much more! Connect to these shows within this magazine! FOLIO

Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 C What’s HOT this Week! Click to jump to these contents featured sections! YOURTVLINK CELEBRITY “CHICAGO MED” 4 FRED SAVAGE “The Producer Dick Wolf makes Wonder Years” alum likes his Windy City triple play laying down the law in “The Grinder” 5 LUCY LAWLESS On ditching another deal to be on “Ash vs Evil Dead” 6 SHARON STONE “Agent X” star appreciates leading man who’s “not a jerk” 8 PHILIP WINCHESTER “The Player” star doesn’t play around when it comes “TURKEY HOLLOW” to stunts Mary Steenburgen talks about being “a huge Jim 9 GRAHAM ELLIOT Henson fan.” A restaurateur and celebrity chef “THE ART OF MORE” Kate Bosworth’s character has FOOD to “prove herself far more than 7 “KELSEY’S ESSENTIALS” anybody else.” 17 for great dinner table experiences

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with him, we knew David could bring the American cable- drama sensibility, but he also understood how to work with a fight unit.”

Millar adds of the participation of fight director Fung, “There‘s a distinct difference between how you shoot Western-style action in a traditional movie or TV show, and how you shoot Hong Kong-style. It’s about seeing your hero really fight, and that was the key in terms of making this feel authentic. The action is as important as the drama, and what really makes the show unique is giving respect to that element. That’s why the fights are like nothing you’ve ever seen before.”

The producers also made that attempt earlier with star Sammo Hung in the late-’90s CBS series “Martial Law,” and they knew they had to get their principal “Into the Badlands” casting just right.

AMC goes “Daniel was in as an executive producer from the beginning,” reports Gough. “We sort of wrote it with him in ‘INTO THE BADLANDS’ the back of our minds, but he was like, ‘I’m too old. I don’t know if I could take the regimen of training.’ He screen- with contemporary yet tested with a couple of other guys, to make sure he could look legitimate. Then, casting Aramis was a big piece of the ancient action saga puzzle.” BY JAY BOBBIN In action terms, “Into the Badlands” is a little of this and a little Indeed, Millar says that turned out to be “a classic thing. of that ... and that’s exactly how its creator-producers want it. We’d seen him in (the movie) “Ender’s Game” and everybody liked him, and he was actually the first person Combining modern and ancient elements, the AMC series we asked to see. Then we probably saw 400 other kids and premieres Sunday, Nov. 15 – and its mentors, “Smallville” and we hadn’t found anybody, and we thought, ‘You know what? “Spider-Man 2” veterans Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, agree Let’s go back to Aramis.’ He came back in and the chemistry that it’s a mash-up of virtually everything they’ve done before with Daniel was awesome and great, and it just happened. it. Martial-arts masters Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung also are You have to see everybody to come back to the first.” executive producers, with Wu starring as well as the ironically named Sunny, a celebrated Clipper (or warrior) in a desolate Additional “Into the Badlands” cast members include area where he saves young M.K. (Aramis Knight) and then Stephen Lang (“Salem”), Marton Csokas (“Sons of Liberty”), mentors him at a feudal outpost known as The Fort. Emily Beecham, Orla Brady (“American Odyssey”) and Oliver Stark. “It’s everything we love put into a blender, and this is what came out,” Millar allows of “Into the Badlands,” which also was Also executive producers of MTV’s forthcoming fantasy inspired loosely by a 16th-century Chinese novel (“Journey to series “The Shannara Chronicles,” Millar and Gough aimed the West”). “Martial arts, superpowers, the society of ancient “Into the Badlands” specifically for AMC, given the cable Japan ... we put it all together and created something that’s network’s track record with series on the order of “The original in its own way with references, if you’re a movie buff, to Walking Dead” and “Hell on Wheels.” things you know that way as well.” “They bought it in the room (during the initial pitch),” Gough Aspects of Millar and Gough’s “Shanghai Noon,” which starred says. “Honestly, they were all in. They’re a network of big Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, certainly factor into “Into swings, and they take pride in that – so you bring them your the Badlands” – particularly since the director of the sequel passion project and tell them, ‘We want to do this martial- “Shanghai Knights,” David Dobkin, also is involved in the new arts show set in the future with a Hong Kong fight team.’ series. “When we pitched the show to AMC,” Gough reflects, And they really didn’t blink.” “we said that in order to get the martial-arts aspect right, you needed a full-time Hong Kong fight unit to do it. Having worked Click or tap on icon for more!

November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 C CELEBRITY JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A FREDSAVAGE of ‘The Grinder’ Tuesday on Fox How does it feel to be acting out courtroom scenarios opposite Rob Lowe in “The Grinder”? In the pilot, I end up in trial – which I didn’t want to be (in character) – and it’s probably not something I do very often, so I was definitely out of my element. I think that that was definitely an arena where Rob’s character shined, where the spotlight was on him; he was making big speeches, and that was not my comfort zone at all. I think that my comfort zone is kind of behind a desk or maybe at a deposition table, so I think that we’re both going to be pushing each other out of our comfort zones a little bit, but he’s definitely going to be dragging me out of mine. But our stance has been, and will be, that my character, he’s a good attorney. He’s good at what he does, just what he does isn’t what Rob’s character did on his TV show.

Growing up from the point when you were Kevin on “The Wonder Years,” how did you manage to avoid the pitfalls that some other young actors appear to fall prey to? I think that a lot of actors at a young age get kind of a bad rap. You have me and Rob right here, and our (show) is sandwiched between Josh Peck and John Stamos (in “Grandfathered”) on one end, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts (in “Scream Queens”) on the other. And I think that that idea of being a young actor Click or tap on at an early age as a recipe for disaster icon for more! later in life is not really the rule. FOLIO

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of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ Saturday on Starz

What drew you to the character? Oh, I wasn’t drawn to the character. The character wasn’t even written. It was a big, amorphous, inchoate idea of a character by the time I signed. But I was like, “Oh, I’m definitely going to play with Bruce and Rob and Sam on ‘The Evil Dead.’ Whatever it is, I’m totally there.” So I was actually in negotiations for something else ... . And we were probably a couple of days away from signing, hammering out the exec deal – maybe one day – and this came up and I just went “See ya. I have to go do this.” It was a no-brainer.

Did you get to do your own stunts here? Oh, hell no. Are you crazy? I never did. No, it’s dangerous. You can’t have your actors fighting other actors who maybe have never done sword fighting or whatever. If you damage your star, everybody’s out of work. So I used to do it with fights but only while the camera was on me. When they turned around on the guest actor, they’d be fighting the stunt woman. That’s how it works.

How is it working with Bruce Campbell? It’s funny, Bruce is extremely gregarious and then when he shuts down, it comes down good. Like after work, leave me alone, I want my drink, I want my wife. He goes into full privacy mode. He’s always on with friends as always. But no, he’s doing his job. He’s selling. He’s a very excellent gentleman in real life, away from the noise of all this.

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SHARON STONE OF ‘AGENT X’ SUNDAY ON TNT

As an executive producer In playing the new U.S. Did you already as well as a star of “Agent vice president, you were have a background X,” you had a big say in administered the oath of on how to play a who plays the title role. office in the series pilot vice president? What made you decide on by James Earl Jones, as As the global campaign Jeff Hephner? the Chief Justice of the chairman of amfAR (The We wanted someone who had an Supreme Court. What was Foundation for AIDS exceptional maturity while being that moment like for you? Research), I’ve been young, and who had that kind of working internationally You know, I was so proud that day. It’s with politicians. I’ve known James Bond-ish, sophisticated the kind of thing that a young actress badass-ery ... and he’s got all Hillary and Bill (Clinton) will never see, where you’re really glad for maybe 20 years, and that. He’s just so charming and so to be a grown-up and glad to be a lady interesting, and such a good actor. I know Nancy Pelosi who’s been in the business a long time and Barbara Boxer and And I like that he comes from ... when you stand there playing the the stock he does. His mom’s a Dianne Feinstein very vice president, looking into the eyes of well. A lot of them have nurse, his dad’s a high-school gym James Earl Jones, who’s been a friend teacher, he’s married to a woman been my colleagues and and a mentor. You have that kind of love compatriots as we’ve who’s a teacher, he’s got three kids and respect, and I can’t even say how – he’s a guy. He’s not a jerk. worked through things for profound and joyful that day was for me. a very long time. Just marvelous. Click or tap on icon for more! Page 6 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 FOOD F GEORGE DICKIE’S WHAT'S FOR DINNER ART MIRRORS LIFE for Kelsey Nixon on ‘Kelsey’s Homemade’ Kelsey Nixon likes to think of her TV shows as mirrors of her life.

For instance, when she created “Kelsey’s Essentials” for Cooking Channel in 2010, she was a newlywed setting up her first kitchen, so she was showing her viewers how to do the same.

Now a working mom, she’s the host of the recently debuted “Kelsey’s Homemade,” airing Saturdays on Cooking Channel, in which she’s – yep – dispensing time-saving tips for the busy working family. Click or tap on icon “Where I see ‘Essentials’ is this program where it was all about setting up for more! your first kitchen,” she says, “I look at ‘Homemade’ and I think it’s really about setting up a home. And when I say ‘home,’ I mean that environment where the people that you love come to the dinner table, you sit down, you break bread together and you have a great experience, and somehow doing that without Mom losing her mind or Dad losing his mind. Just a really practical solution for every day.”

Nixon, a native of Salt Lake City now transplanted to New York City with her husband and young son, invites viewers into the kitchen as she shares shortcuts and time-saving tools, wholesome recipes and last-minute entertaining ideas. She even has friends and family appear in the six half-hour episodes shot in a Cooking Channel studio, talking and sharing a meal. No one has any set lines and everyone just relaxes and dines as cameras roll.

“It basically was like, ‘Alright, we’ve made all this food, you guys just sit there and eat it and enjoy each other’s company and we’ll just happen to be rolling the cameras in the background,’ ” Nixon says. “So it was really fun.”

And as it turned out, there was a side benefit.

“My little boy, Ollie, I didn’t know how he was going to react, and I didn’t want to do it if it wasn’t going to be fun for him,” she explains. “But my goodness, he had the time of his life and is still talking about Paul the audio guy at home. He’ll pretend that he’s the guy who’s putting on the microphone and walking around with a small broom that looks like boom mike. So we made actually really great family memories in filming this show together and it was such a positive experience for us all around. And, hey look, we have family home videos that are really high quality, so I got a two-for- one deal there.”

What book are you What did you have What is your When was your last vacation, currently reading? for dinner last next project? where and why? “I’m currently listening night? “I have a line of “Oh gosh, I need a vacation. The last to podcasts like crazy “Chicken piccata.” kitchen products vacation was me and my husband and I’ve almost replaced with the Home and my son went to Los Angeles and some of my reading Shopping Network we went to Disneyland. And it was with podcasts. So I am and we’re amazing; it was so much fun.” really loving the podcast launching a few ‘Mystery Show.’ That new products this would be my answer, upcoming Sunday, is that I’m listening to which is really podcasts more than I am exciting. So I’m reading.” heading to Florida to do that.” Click or tap on icon for more!

November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 7 CELEBRITY C JAY BOBBIN’S CELEBRITY SCOOP PHILIP WINCHESTER “Strike Back” proved to be a fortunate prelude to Philip Winchester’s equally action-fueled stint in “The Player.”

Though it ended its on-air run on Cinemax after his Thursday NBC series premiered, Winchester had finished production as one of the ”Strike Back” troubleshooters much earlier. He’s brought much of the same physicality to his current role as Alex Kane, a former Special Forces operative turned security expert whose potential success in missions is the subject of On doing bets fielded by Las Vegas casino pit boss Johnson (Wesley stunt scenes Snipes). for “The For the tastes of stunt work Winchester has had in his career, Player”: “We he acknowledges, “There are rules that let you do things and were out there the don’t let you do other things. With ‘Strike Back,’ we got to do a other day, driving lot more stuff when we were in South Africa and Budapest. around in the “But having said that, NBC and Sony (the studio behind ‘The desert in a Jeep Player’) have been amazing. They said, ‘If you want to get in and doing all of our there and ride that bike, if you want to do that stuff, go ahead,’ driving ourselves, so we’re pushing that out. This is a show where we’re bringing and the camera back ’80’s action and we’re putting it on television, and we’re truck was right having a good time doing that.” next to me. And we were bumper- One of Winchester’s most distinctive scenes thus far was in to bumper, doing the pilot for “The Player,” as a gun-carrying Kane engaged in a foot chase down the Las Vegas Strip, wearing only his briefs. about 50 mph and Much of the sequences actually was filmed in Los Angeles, then spinning out but it still was quite memorable for the good-humored actor. of shots together. I just pinch myself. “I mean, they shut down Hollywood Boulevard,” he recalls. That we get to do “They shut a stretch of it down, and it was actually really neat, this for a job is because we were running around the alleys in Hollywood ... so incredible. We are they had these toe shoes. We painted them skincolored, and really fortunate.” we stuck those on, and I was running around in those to make it look like I was barefoot. We probably did it all night.

Birthdate: March 24, 1981 “And then, we went to Vegas” for location filming, Winchester Birthplace: Belgrade, Mont. adds, “and we ran down Fremont Street – which, actually, Current residence: Los Angeles nobody paid attention to because it’s Vegas. They were like, Marital status: Married; has an infant daughter ‘Ah, it’s no big deal. Boxers and a gun? He probably lost Other television work includes: “Strike Back,” “24: Live Another a bet.’ ” Day,” “Camelot,” “Warehouse 13,” “Alice,” “Maneater,” “King Lear,” “CSI: Miami” Movie work includes: “Undrafted,” “In My Sleep,” “Solomon Kane,” Click or tap on icon for more! “The Heart of the Earth,” “Flyboys,” “Thunderbirds,” “The Patriot” Page 8 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 CELEBRITY C CELEBRITY PROFILE GRAHAMELLIOT - Born Graham Elliot Bowles, on Jan. 4, 1977, in Seattle.

- He is a self-proclaimed “Navy brat” who has traveled the world and all 50 U.S. states.

- Attended culinary school at Johnson & Wales and was off and running, finding his way into inspiring kitchens around the country.

- His first position after culinary school was at the Jackson House Inn & Restaurant in Woodstock, Vermont,

- In his career he has accrued many prestigious accolades including multiple James Beard Foundation nominations and a spot on Food & Wine Magazine’s best new chefs in 2004.

- At the age of 27 he was the youngest Four Star Chef to be named in any city, also earning him a spot on Crain’s Chicago Business list of 40 Under Forty. Graham Elliot is a restaurateur and celebrity chef who can currently be seen as a judge on the latest “Junior Edition” of “MasterChef” on Fox. Click or tap on icon for more!

pounds, he ran his first-ever full marathon in October of - In May 2008, he opened his first solo project Graham 2014 in Chicago. He and his wife Allie ran together for Elliot in Chicago, a “bistronomic” restaurant that combined Smile Train, a charity that has provided cleft surgery for four-star cuisine with humor and accessibility, to another children in 87 countries. Their son Conrad was born with a round of critical acclaim. The restaurant closed at the end bilateral cleft lip. of 2013. - In addition to his regular TV work, he also oversees - In summer 2009, his passion for music led him to be the his current restaurant, Graham Elliot Bistro, located in culinary ambassador at Lollapalooza, a three-day music Chicago. festival, a position he still holds. - A few weeks ago, his first cookbook “Cooking Like - As a current co-host and judge on the Fox hit cooking a Master Chef: 100 Recipes to Make the Everyday competition, “MasterChef,” he offers his expert advice to Extraordinary” was published. the show’s contestants. - Currently he resides in Chicago with Allie and his three - In July 2013, he underwent a sleeve gastrectomy after boys, Mylo, Conrad and Jedediah. nearly hitting 400 pounds. After losing more than 150

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“I’m doing these little independent films, and the whole industry is just being reinvented before our very eyes, so you have to go with the flow. I guess I’ve always been trained all my life that it’s just not going to be easy. I’ve never been inundated with offers, even when I was at my prime ... so I’m not fantasizing or holding my breath.” – Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field of “The Essentials” on Turner Classic Movies

“This show offers a certain ease and comfort. There’s nothing tense about it. It’s not a wacky children’s show. It isn’t zany. It’s about “He’s awesome. He’s like Charlie in ‘Charlie’s everyday life, but in Angels.’ He’s the voice. ... So it’s kind of like he an interesting way. It’s sends down the assignment and we say, ‘Yes, obviously not going to Charlie.’ But it’s great because it lets us know be boring. It’s always that even in the midst of all that he has to do, going to be interesting.” that he is on it in terms of watching the show, – Rita Moreno of “Nina’s lending his notes, lending what ideas and World” on Sprout thoughts that he has about driving the show and keeping it moving, and it’s actually pretty awesome.” – Erica Ash on having LeBron James as a boss and executive producer of “Survivor’s Remorse” on Starz

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ON DVRs

Aidan Quinn of “Elementary” on CBS “Well, I just got (a DVR) and I don’t Sharon record anything except Stone of ‘Elementary’ because “Agent X” on I need to watch that TNT for work, and my wife “I am records that. And currently ‘Sesame Street’ for my watching all daughter. And I record the Swedish occasional sports television things.” series. I’m into it to the point where I just ordered Beth Behrs of “2 the Swedish Broke Girls” on version of CBS Rosetta “ ‘Shark Tank’ and Stone. ‘Chopped’ are I’m very always on there attracted to (the DVR), and Scandinavia ‘Kingdom’ and right now. And ‘Mr. Robot.’ And I’m obsessed my dear friend is with Tommy Sadoski ‘Wallander.’ on ‘Life in Pieces,’ I think he’s so I’ve been (Kenneth watching that, and Branagh) it’s so cute.” really a hot guy ... and it’s so well- Ben Daniels of “Flesh & Bone” on Starz written.” “I binge-watch. I just finished ‘Sense8’ on Netflix, which I loved. I’ve also just finished Season 3 of ‘The Americans,’ which I’ve watched in two days. I love that show. You can tell I’m not working at the moment (laughs). I’m halfway through ‘Extant’ and at the same time I’m watching a British robot show called ‘Humans.’ So I’m watching a lot at the moment. And also, I’ve just recently finished the last season of ‘Mad Men,’ which I sort of saved up and I went on holiday and I was like, ‘Right, now I’m going to sit down.’ I loved it.”

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Checking into ‘CHICAGO MED’

S. Epatha Merkerson stars in “Chicago Med,” premiering Tuesday on NBC. Story on next page

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The characters and actors of “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago While DaCosta’s character largely has been seen up to PD” have spent a lot of time on each other’s shows, and now in relation to “Fire’s” Severide, the actress maintains now, there’s another series for them to share. her April Sexton is established quickly as someone who’s her own person and “usually in charge. She’s the nurse Executive producer Dick Wolf scores a Windy City triple that the doctors turn to when something needs to get play as “Chicago Med” makes its NBC debut Tuesday, done. She’s the liaison between all the other nurses and Nov. 17. Some of its players already have turned up on the doctors, as well as the patients when the doctors are the other dramas – a “Chicago Fire” episode last season too busy to speak to the patients in a calm, compassionate served as the new show’s backdoor pilot – but due to way and explain things. So she’s the person that kind of casting changes and expanded plans, others also will keeps the hospital running, generally.” be introduced as the filmed-on-location, hospital-themed spinoff officially gets going. That may come as a surprise to Chicago Med operations chief Sharon Goodwin, Merkerson’s new character. “It was As administrators, Wolf-series veterans S. Epatha a no-brainer for me,” the Emmy-winning actress reflects Merkerson (alias Lt. Anita Van Buren through most of the of signing up for another tour of duty with Wolf. “I love run of “Law & Order”) and Oliver Platt reprise their roles, working with Dick. I love the productions that we’ve done as does Yaya DaCosta (“Whitney”) as a nurse who’s a together. I love the people that he surrounds himself with.” longtime friend of “Chicago Fire’s” Casey Severide (Taylor Kinney). Direct lineage to another established character Stage and screen veteran Platt (“Bulworth,” “The West is supplied by Nick Gehlfuss (“Shameless”) as the doctor Wing,” “The Big C”) also returns to Wolf’s company, having brother of “Chicago PD” detective Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee done the NBC journalism drama “Deadline” with him in Soffer). Colin Donnell (“The Affair”), Torrey DeVitto (“The 2000-01. “I’m incredibly excited about shooting in Chicago Vampire Diaries”), Brian Tee (“Jurassic World”) and Rachel and getting to know Chicago better,” the New York-based DiPillo also play medics dealing with the fast-paced, high- talent says, “but the community that I’m actually excited pressure work environment. about joining is the community of these three shows. What is really remarkable – and I speak for myself, and I think I “The aim here is every week, if you watch the show, you speak for the rest of the cast – is the sense of community will get at least one piece of medical information that that exists on ‘Chicago Fire’ and on ‘Chicago PD.’ They you probably don’t know,” Wolf says. ”And that can be made us feel so welcome. something that is in the consciousness of the country, in the zeitgeist. The Ebola story was obvious because it was “They clearly enjoy each other so much, and I think it’s a matter of concern, but there are other medical stories in palpable on the screen,” Platt adds. “And in a larger sense, terms of the right to life, and how everything from organs the idea of what Dick is doing is actually pretty exciting. I is transmitted and what that leads to, to sex education for mean, franchises have spun off shows before ... but never kids in school. Everything that touches on our medical or into a sort of an active matrix, if you will, of these shows our physical lives is fair game for us.” that are being aired. And that’s the community that I’m excited about.” Click or tap on icon for more! November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 13 S STORY

CREATURE FEATURE Mary Steenburgen stars in “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow,” premiering Saturday on Lifetime. Story on next page

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come out to play in Lifetime’s ‘Turkey Hollow’

BY GEORGE DICKIE you going to say your line like that?’ And their characters W.C. Fields once had a well-documented aversion to eat rocks, so at one point he just turned the puppet working with children and animals. But he never shared a toward me and goes, ‘Boy, I could go for a glass of sand set with the creatures from The Jim Henson Company. right now.’ ”

And they figure prominently in the family-friendly Lifetime The story was written in 1968 by Jim Henson and original movie “Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow,” premiering writing partner Jerry Juhl, a selling point that enticed Saturday, Nov. 21. The film tells the tale of recently Oscar winner Steenburgen into coming aboard. divorced dad Ron Emmerson (Jay Harrington, “Benched”) and his two children (Graham Verchere, Genevieve “I’m a huge Jim Henson fan,” she says, “and so this Buechner), who head to the bucolic burg of Turkey Hollow obviously was something he created in the first place to spend a rustic Thanksgiving with their eccentric Aunt and he had done the original designs for the creatures. Cly (Mary Steenburgen, “Last Man on Earth”). “And it was almost like one of those kind of treasures With no Internet connectivity, the kids are forced to where you got to work with someone that’s not around entertain themselves in other ways, such as investigating anymore but yet someone who you admire so much. But the local legend of “the Howling Hoodoo,” a monster that was such a kind of wonderful idea to me. And then dismissed as myth by residents. As the family heads into the fact that (daughter and Henson CEO) Lisa Henson the woods to check things out, the Henson creatures has so much integrity and cared so much about the come out of the woodwork, forcing the actors to put on Henson brand and the fact that she even remembers ... their best poker faces. her dad taking her outside and (photographing her) with the original versions of these creatures. ... And he was “The biggest challenge is that they are very funny and ... exploring, expanding from a sort of indoor puppet world they’ll one-up you,” says Harrington with a laugh. “These to a much more expansive idea, and ‘Turkey Hollow’ was (puppeteers) were amazing ... they’re contortionists. I a vehicle for that. mean, I don’t even know how they don’t go take an ice bath after every long day. “And so just the history of it and the look of it and the kind of quirky, old-fashioned kind of charm of it and the “But they’re so funny and quick. Their dialog in this was fact that I would get to work with the creatures,” she obviously burbles and squeaks and things. They don’t says, “all that is what made me want to do it.” speak. But as soon as they say, ‘Cut!’ at one point, Robbie, one of their puppeteers, looked over at me and (said), ‘Are Click or tap on icon for more! November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 15 S STORY History’s ‘Hunting Hitler’ offers up plenty of doubt BY GEORGE DICKIE

As a retired CIA agent, Bob Baer considers himself a search for them made by (then-FBI Director J. Edgar) man of reason. Hoover and the military ... they truly believed there was a good possibility he got away. So the fact of the He needs empirical evidence to back up conclusions, absence of forensics and then on top of it he had the and he knows that chasing conspiracy theories can U.S. government looking for him for a couple of years, I end careers in the U.S. government. thought it was just a great story.”

But something about the information – or rather lack of The search in the eight-part series takes Baer, war it – presented to him for the History investigative series crimes investigator John Cencich and a team of “Hunting Hitler,” airing Tuesdays, gave him pause. international sleuths and experts to South America, where an extensive fortress deep in the Argentine History books tell us that German dictator Adolf Hitler jungle was built by Nazis as a sanctuary in the event committed suicide with wife Eva Braun in a Berlin Germany lost World War II. bunker on April 30, 1945, as Soviet troops closed in on their location. His body was then burned in a bomb Could that have housed Hitler in the postwar years? crater and all that remained was part of his skull. But Ultimately, Baer isn’t ready to concede that. But he American tests conducted in 2009 on the remains does point out that no insurance company in the world the Soviets believed to be Hitler’s revealed it actually would pay off on this death claim, given the reasonable belonged to a woman of about 35 years of age. doubt surrounding the case.

And then there were other things that got Baer’s “Which is pretty astounding considering the importance attention. of that war and how it created the world we have today,” Baer says. “And there’s no history that I feel “We’re just missing big pieces of this,” he says. “In my comfortable with.” mind, it catches. How do we know he did that in the bunker? I assume he did like everybody else. But I had “I think the fact that there are no answers is the story,” just accepted the traditional narratives. And then on top he continues. “We can live without certainties but if we of it when I saw the FBI documents, this out-and-out had to bet on it, it’d be an iffy bet.” Click or tap on icon for more! Page 16 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 STORY S Crackle enters the original programming arena with ‘The Art of More’ BY GEORGE DICKIE Click or tap on icon for more! Pictured: Dennis Quaid and Kate Bosworth Sony’s streaming service Crackle joins the fray of original “And I think that’s why Graham feels that he can secure series this week with a look at a world seldom portrayed on the Brukner account for Parke-Mason,” Cooke says, “is television. because he can relate. He knows that Brukner can relate to him, that they have comparatively similar backgrounds. “The Art of More,” dropping with 10 episodes on Thursday, So I think he uses that to try and lure him to the firm. Nov. 19, delves into the surprisingly cutthroat world of That’s his in, the Army connection.” premium art auction houses, one filled with hustlers, smugglers, power mongers and collectors of the exotic and “And Arthur,” Elwes adds, “his relationship is sort of like the esoteric. Pygmalion in a way. He sort of sees this guy who’s a little rough around the edges and likes the idea of teaching The story is told through the experiences of Graham Connor him about art and the art world. He comes knowledgeable (Christian Cooke, “Magic City”), a blue-collar Brooklynite and but he wants to help refine him and help him build himself junior executive at leading Park Ave. auction house Parke- up the ladder of the auction world. And he also sees an Mason, whose connections to an artifacts smuggling ring he element of danger in this guy. He’s a guy who definitely encountered while a soldier in Iraq gained him entry into this has an edge to him and I think he’s attracted to that. He exclusive arena. Mentoring him is antiquities collector Arthur suddenly brings some excitement into Davenport’s life that Davenport (Cary Elwes, “The Princess Bride”), who sees wasn’t there before.” potential in this diamond in the rough. Self-made millionaire Sam Brukner (Dennis Quaid, “Vegas”), who sees himself in But while all are plying the waters of this sea of exclusivity Graham, also takes a liking to the upstart. Kate Bosworth for their own ends, none feels very comfortable on it, no (“Beyond the Sea”) plays Roxana Whitman, Graham’s matter the size of their bank accounts. competitor at rival auction house DeGraaf. “I think all the characters,” says Bosworth, “what’s maybe a “We both come from lower middle class backgrounds,” little bit connecting is that I think there’s something about them that all feels like an outsider. Like she’s a woman in a says Quaid, also an executive producer, of his and Cooke’s man’s world. You know, she has to prove herself far more characters. “We were both in the Army. We’re both rough than anybody else, and I think that there’s that feeling of around the edges yet we’re playing in a society that we insecurity in probably everybody in that sense. And I think always feel like doesn’t really want us.” that’s why they’re all drawn to each other.”

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FALCONS’ MATT JOHNSON SOARING TOWARD NFL CAREER? Story on next page Story on next page

FULL NAME: Matthew Quinn HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6 foot/215- TEAM: Bowling Green Falcons, Johnson pounds 2011-present

BORN: Sept. 9, 1992 POSITION: Quarterback HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: MAC Championship game MVP, BIRTHPLACE: Harrisburg, Penn. NO.: 11 2013; fourth best passing yards in a season for Bowling Green (3,467), 2013.

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BY DAN LADD

In the world of college football there’s sometimes little conversation about teams or players that sit outside the top 25, at least until draft day. When two Mid-American Conference powerhouses, Bowling Green and Toledo, square off Tuesday, Nov. 17, on ESPN2, fans of both college and NFL football should pay attention.

Bowling Green’s Senior quarterback, Matt Johnson, has been quietly at or near the top in passing yardage for a good part of the season, surpassing the likes of TCU’s Trevone Boykin. Many major college programs that passed on Johnson as a recruit are now wishing they had the pro-style quarterback running their offense.

Johnson is surely NFL bound and is being compared to the likes of Drew Brees, who he could potentially succeed in New Orleans. It’s anyone’s guess where a top quarterback could wind up but teams like Dallas and Denver would be wise to consider Johnson as a future successor to their star quarterbacks.

Johnson, meanwhile, is enjoying the year he’s having in Bowling Green. Since losing to Tennessee in their opener, the Falcons have only lost one other game as of press time, which was a disappointing one to Memphis. Throughout, Johnson has put up stellar numbers with multiple touchdown games that will likely see him top his 2013 passing yards total of 3,467, fourth best in school history.

As for the Toledo game, the 19th ranked Rockets will be more than a formidable foe. It is quite possible these two teams could meet again in the MAC championship game in MATTJOHNSON December.

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TOM HANKS CROSSES A ‘BRIDGE’ THAT HE COMES TO

Steven Spielberg is the king of movie entertainment for Two other major players of “Bridge of Spies” are Joel the masses (see “Jurassic Park”), but when he chooses and Ethan Coen, who co-wrote the screenplay (with to deal with weighty issues (see “Schindler’s List”), he’s Matt Oberman, who worked up the original script for every bit as effective a filmmaker. this true story). Anyone who knows the “Fargo” siblings’ work knows how smart it is, so they inevitably offer a big The latest proof is “Bridge of Spies,” an involving Cold creative boost here. War-era drama that reteams him with Tom Hanks, now playing a lawyer assigned to defend a suspected Hanks and Rylance get the lion’s share of screen Russian spy. That part goes to stage veteran Mark time, but they get solid support from a supporting cast Rylance, seen recently as Thomas Cromwell in the PBS typically well-chosen by Spielberg and also including drama “Wolf Hall” and every bit a star of this picture as Amy Ryan, the wonderful character actor Dakin Hanks is. Matthews (as the judge overseeing the case) and Eve Hewson, a daughter of music star Bono who has Taking the defense for an alleged traitor, at the appeared on TV’s “The Knick.” behest of a boss played by Alan Alda (who’s always a pleasure to see on the big screen), ultimately confirms Additionally, Spielberg is wise to call upon several of the attorney’s worries as he finds his loyalties under his frequent collaborators behind-the-scenes again suspicion as well – even from his own family. – such as cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and editor Michael Kahn – in burnishing a look and feel that are The case takes a major turn with the Soviet capture of both domestically familiar and globally uncertain. U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (played by Austin Stowell) – a well-remembered chapter of international history “Bridge of Spies” is not casual viewing. It draws you in – making the Hanks character sort of a spy himself and makes you think ... and from talents like Spielberg, as the CIA asks him to arrange a trade of his client Hanks and the Coens, that is no surprise. It’s also very for Powers. It doesn’t stop there, since the lawyer also welcome. wants someone else in exchange.

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“THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.” The movie version of the classic 1960s television series lacks the Robert Vaughn- David McCallum charisma as Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer assume the roles of (reluctant, in this case) spy partners Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, but director Guy Ritchie (“Sherlock Holmes”) gets the atmosphere of the time right as the agents launch a Cold War pursuit of the sinister masterminds behind a global nuclear threat. Alicia Vikander plays a scientist’s daughter who could help the duo in their mission. Hugh Grant appears as U.N.C.L.E. chief Waverly, and Elizabeth Debicki and Sylvester Groth have their moments as villains. Jared Harris also appears. DVD extra: “making-of” documentary. ››› (PG-13: AS, N, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) DVD Pictured: Henry Cavill Top Pick UPCOMING DVD RELEASES Coming Soon on DVD...

“AMERICAN ULTRA” (Nov. 24): Not “MINIONS” (Dec. 8): The animated realizing he’s a CIA operative with “Despicable Me” characters get their deeply implanted spy skills, a slacker own movie, taking them to 1960s- (Jesse Eisenberg) is targeted for era New York and London; voices elimination. (R: AS, P, GV) include Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm. (PG: AS) “NO ESCAPE” (Nov. 24): A businessman (Owen Wilson) tries “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE to protect his family during a violent NATION” (Dec. 15): Ethan Hunt rebellion in Southeast Asia. (Tom Cruise) is an agent without an (R: AS, P, V) agency after the CIA shuts down his team. (PG-13: AS, P, V) “RICKI AND THE FLASH” (Nov. 24): A would-be rock star (Meryl “TED 2” (Dec. 15): The talking Streep) is summoned home to deal teddy bear (voiced by Seth with her troubled daughter (Mamie MacFarlane) runs into trouble in Gummer, Streep’s actual offspring). becoming an adoptive parent; Mark (PG-13: AS, P) Wahlberg also returns. (R and unrated versions: AS, P) Pictured: Jesse Eisenberg November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 21 S FAVORITE SHOWS

Melissa Benoist stars in “Supergirl”

Oliver Platt stars in Gabrielle Dennis stars Joey Logano competes in the Quicken “Chicago Med” in “Rosewood” Loans Race for Heroes 500

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 2:30 p.m. on NBC 8 p.m. on CBS 9 p.m. on NBC NASCAR Racing Supergirl Chicago Med A field of eight will become four after Dual identities can lead to colliding Many of the characters have had trial today’s Quicken Loans Race for obligations, as Kara (Melissa Benoist) runs on sister shows “Chicago Fire” Heroes 500 as NASCAR’s Chase for finds in the new episode “How Does and “Chicago PD,” but the third piece of the Sprint Cup sets up for next week’s She Do It?” Bombings wreak havoc executive producer Dick Wolf’s Windy season finale. The 1-mile low-banked throughout National City at the same City triple play gets its official premiere tri-oval of Phoenix International time Kara is enlisted to mind Cat’s with “The Green Branch.” An accident Speedway is the scene as contenders (Calista Flockhart) son (guest star Levi involving one of the metropolis’ Joey Logano, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch Miller) — forcing a decision on which elevated trains floods the hospital with and Carl Edwards will do battle with is the bigger job for Supergirl. James victims and stretches the staff and an eye toward racing for the series title (Mehcad Brooks) is unsure about ex- facilities to their limit. Oliver Platt, S. next week in Homestead, Fla. Gordon, girlfriend Lucy Lane’s (Jenna Dewan- Epatha Merkerson, Yaya DaCosta and Edwards and Busch have all taken Tatum) desire to renew their romance. Nick Gehlfuss are among the stars. trips to Victory Lane here in the past. Jeremy Jordan also stars. New Series Premiere New

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WEDNESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 8 p.m. on FOX 8:30 p.m. on NBC 11:29 p.m. on NBC Rosewood Truth Be Told Saturday Night Live Hornstock’s (Domenick An incorrectly sent text makes Mitch All right, all right! Yes, that’s probably Lombardozzi) former partner (guest and Angie (Mark-Paul Gosselaar, the most expected thing anyone can star Kurt Fuller), now a bounty Bresha Webb) lunch mates in the say about Matthew McConaughey hunter, works a murder case new episode “The Ecosystem.” The returning as guest host of this new with Rosewood and Villa (Morris conversation that results makes episode, but ... there it is. Likely to be Chestnut, Jaina Lee Ortiz) in the them determined to break through on the agenda here is a parody of the new episode “Bloodhunt and Beats.” boundaries they’ve maintained. stylized car commercials the “Dallas At the same time, Villa attempts a Tracy (Vanessa Lachey) comes to Buyers Club” Oscar winner has become reunion with her mother (guest star regret offering Russell (Tone Bell) an known for. The musical guest also is Lisa Vidal). Pippy (Gabrielle Dennis) unoccupied work space at her office, an “SNL” returnee and Academy Award has a chance to put her musical since his knack for stand-up comedy recipient: Adele, performing tunes from pursuits into high gear. Lorraine becomes a huge distraction. Melanie her long-awaited third studio album. Toussaint and Anna Konkle also Paxson and Jerry Lambert guest star. “25.” New star. New New THURSDAY 9 p.m. on FOX Sleepy Hollow Here comes the Hidden One (played by guest star Peter Mensah): The residents of Sleepy Hollow are in greater danger than ever in the new episode “Novus Ordo Seclorum.” Abbie (Nicole Beharie) has additional problems, since Reynolds (Lance Gross) is far from pleased with her after the recent encounter Jenny and Joe (Lyndie Greenwood, Zach Appelman) had with Sophie (guest star Jessica Camacho). Bill Irwin also guest stars. Tom Mison also Matthew McConaughey stars. New hosts “Saturday Night Mark-Paul Gosselaar stars in Live” “Truth Be Told” 9 p.m. on CW The Originals Thanksgiving isn’t exactly a joyous occasion in the new episode “Out of the Easy,” as Klaus and Elijah (Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies) use the holiday to try to broker a truce with Lucien, Tristan and Aurora (guest stars Andrew Lees, Oliver Ackland and Rebecca Breeds). The effort may require help from Hayley and Freya (Phoebe Tonkin, Riley Voelkel). Marcel and Vincent (Charles Michael Davis, Yusuf Gatewood) take a risk to help Davina (Danielle Campbell). New Lyndie Greenwood stars in “Sleepy Hollow”

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