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Editor’s Note Meet THE CREW Completely Moving Earlier this year 92-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt gracefully took the stage at an HBO press conference, where she BARB First on my list to enchanted us with her frank candor and ageless beauty. It DVR: was clear that the heiress turned fashion designer turned The Detour on TBS artist adored her equally famous son Favorite TV series — CNN anchor Anderson Cooper — as theme song/score: she greeted him via satellite with an Outlander. Those bagpipes endearing, “Hi, sweetheart.” Cooper is the really get me. executive producer behind the touching documentary Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, which makes its debut this month (see page 14). JEFF First on my list to It’s one of a handful of truly moving — and DVR: Sherpa on real life — stories on TV this month. Discovery Channel Also deeply enriching is Sherpa, a story about the 2014 Everest avalanche What should you get that claimed the lives of 16 Sherpa guides, me for my birthday and the aftermath of the tragedy that brought to light their this month? Oh, you’re very unfair compensation and the horrendous risks they faced. sweet to ask, but I have everything Lastly, the incredible Morgan Freeman sat down with Lori I need already. Acken to talk about God — or, as he explains, “the greatest mystery and the most important idea in the world … who is God? Where is God and why is he/she/it worshipped so LORI differently?” First on my list to DVR: There’s a lot to explore, learn and watch in this issue, so HBO’s Nothing Left go ahead and get started. My wish for you is that something Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt on TV this month moves you. Let me know. & Anderson Cooper. Happy Viewing! To prevent myself from stalking them. But do not call me during: Barb Oates, Editor in Chief Game of Thrones. HODOR!

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Channel Guide Magazine 5 HYPE

(L to R) Juwan Mass, Marcus If you see this Harvey and man in Vegas, Dalen Spratt do not try to lift him GHOST BROTHERS Based on its title, concept and fun-loving lead personalities, Ghost Brothers kind of sounds like it should be a wacky ’80s movie starring The Fat Boys or something. But it is, in fact, Destination America’s latest foray into the paranormal. What sets Ghost Brothers apart The is that Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey are billed as the first African-American paranormal DICEMAN investigation team on television. They are three best friends who are Returneth on a mission to uncover whether legendary haunted houses throughout Andrew Dice Clay Is Back On A Roll.By Ryan A. Berenz the Southeast are the real deal. Also Andrew Dice Clay, “The Undisputed Bad Boy of Comedy” of the late perhaps different from other shows is ’80s and early ’90s, has had a few humbling years. But Dice’s arrow rose that the trio adds comedic flair to their again with a role in the fi nal season of Entourage in 2011. He’s since done ghost hunts. The guys have interesting Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, the Entourage movie, and HBO’s Vinyl from “day jobs,” as well; Spratt and Mass are Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter. fashion designers with their own label, Showtime’s betting on the comic with Dice, a semiautobiographical while Harvey is a comedian and “barber scripted comedy about the comic’s career resurgence in Las Vegas. Guest to the stars” (he also considers himself stars include Natasha Leggero, Lorraine Bracco, Adrien Brody, Michael the Peter Venkman of the trio, for you Rapaport, Wayne Newton, Criss Angel and Rita Rudner. Ghostbusters fans). Spratt adds: “The What happens to Dice in Vegas? “Some guy once tried to pick me up best part about Ghost Brothers is that in a casino,” he says, clarifying that a fan tried to literally lift him. “He’s lucky I this time, the black guys make it out of didn’t knock his ass out.” the haunted house alive!” — Jeff Pfeiffer Ghost Brothers > Destination Dice > Showtime > Sundays beginning April 10 America > Fridays beginning April 15

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National Lampoon’s Vacation …TRY The Detour (TBS) Remember when word of mouth movies, road trips gone bad and water-cooler talk were how you discovered new TV shows, Hung, Satisfaction, good restaurants and your next Steven Soderbergh The Girlfriend Experience (Starz) great read? Now we’ve got recommendation engines matching us up to what to watch next. Here Hugh Laurie, James Bond, The Night we keep it simple. Jason Bourne Manager (AMC) Dice: Credit: Brian Bowen Smith/SHOWTIME Hung: © 2008 HOME BOX OFFICE CW The AMC Network, LLC Hodes Containment: Credit: Chuck © 2015 Night Manager: © 2015 Film Holdings LLC. Credit: Jim Fiscus The Ink Factory/AMC Discovery Jenkins/The Credit: Mitch Communications Credit: Ryan Gibson Ghost Brothers: 2015

6 Channel Guide Magazine Returning Favorites Questions Banshee — Cinemax (April 1) Bones — FOX (April 14) With … David Gyasi Of Call the Midwife — PBS (April 3) Fear the Walking Dead — AMC “Containment.” By Kellie Freeze (April 10) In The CW’s new apocalyptic thriller Containment (premiering April 19), Game of Thrones — HBO (April 24) when a deadly epidemic breaks out in a major U.S. city, the decision is made Genealogy Roadshow — PBS to cordon off a portion of the metropolis and enforce a large-scale quarantine. (May 17) David Gyasi (Interstellar, Cloud Atlas) stars as Alex “Lex” Carnahan, a major House of Lies — Showtime (April 10) in the Atlanta Police Department who is chosen to serve as the government’s — CBS (April 7) spokesperson, and tasked with keeping order in the panicked city. Gyasi The Odd Couple says a possible mantra for his character is “Keep your head while everyone Orphan Black — BBC America (April 14) around you loses theirs,” and the actor kept his cool when he answered our Outlander — Starz (April 9) “5 Questions.” Penny Dreadful —Showtime If your TV had only three shows or networks on it, what would you (May 1) be watching? Reign — The CW (April 25) I would be watching Breaking Bad. I would be watching House of Cards. I Scream — MTV (May 31) would watch — my guilty pleasure — Scandal. Silicon Valley — HBO (April 24) So You Think You Can Dance: What would you do if you weren’t an actor? The Next Generation I would be a P.E. teacher. I love sport. I love the idea that you could take a group — FOX (May 30) of people and you’re going to do something great and improve yourselves TURN: Washington’s Spies — AMC mentally and physically. (April 25) Whose work inspires you as an actor? 12 Monkeys — Syfy (April 18) The fi rst one that always comes to mind is Denzel Veep — HBO (April 24) Washington. The Hurricane is one of my favorite fi lms. I just always felt like he’s the benchmark, but we YANKED!: Recently shouldn’t be trying to reach that. He doesn’t need me Canceled Shows to reach that; he needs me to now stand on his shoulders and see what’s beyond. CBS announced that the series fi nale of The Good Wife will air Tell us about a time when you were May 8. … Also at CBS, Jane Lynch starstruck. couldn’t keep Angel From Hell from I recently pulled into a petrol station and being cast out of the lineup. … there was an old footballer called Dion Unforgettable was twice canceled Dublin fi lling up his car next to mine. by CBS. Now it’s thrice canceled I was so awestruck. With actors, I’m after a lone season on A&E. … fi ne — put me on the set with Oscar WGN America nuked Manhattan, winners, it’s not a problem. But yeah, so we’ll never know how that Dion, that was quite a moment. atomic bomb thing worked out. What has been your strangest fan They’re Back, encounter? OK, so there is a popular radio DJ Baby!: Renewed in the U.K. named Trevor Nelson. I Colony’s future isn’t completely had been hired to work in the airport dystopian — USA Network and one of my colleagues told these renewed it. … There were no girls that I was actually Trevor Nelson shades of gray in NBC’s decision working in the airport. These girls came to bring back the J.Lo-starring up to me and went, “It’s not Trevor, is it?” police drama Shades of Blue for “Yeah. Yeah it is.” Then they took pictures Season 2. NBC also upped Dick Wolf’s for a second of me and got me to sign some stuff. So, I’m Chicago Med season, and Wolf’s Law & Order: sorry if they read this. They didn’t meet Trevor. SVU for an 18th season.

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POPQUIZ APRIL SHOWERS Suds up and test your TV shower scene smarts! By Andrea Verschage What does Bobby say to Pam in the infamous Dallas shower scene where it’s TV TIPS: How To Wade Your revealed that he’s not dead — it was all just a bad dream? Way Through STREAMING A) “Sleep well last night?” B) “Come on in — the water’s fi ne!” OPTIONS By Kellie Freeze C) “Good morning.”

About a year ago, my husband informed me that we needed to be In honor of Father’s Day 2015, streaming. “What in the heck is that?” I asked, since I am technology Jimmy Kimmel Live! challenged kids averse. He explained streaming as a tech-savvy way to be able to access to do this — and record the results — a media fi le without having to store it in a memory system. An example while their dads were in the shower. is watching a movie without a DVD or without downloading it to a computer’s hard drive. Streaming also allows you to access some of the apps on your smartphone, tablet or computer and send them to your TV over your home’s Wi-Fi. We already have a great cable system and high-speed Internet, so being able to stream media to my favorite (and largest) TV allows me to take both components and expand on my watching experience. I’ll explain. Some televisions, called smart TVs, already have the capability to stream services like Netfl ix, Hulu and YouTube. These TVs have easy-to- navigate menus allowing you to fi nd programming that interests you. If you In an episode of Seinfeld, what kitchen love a particular program, your smart TV can help you search to fi nd all appliance does Kramer install in his of the episodes of that series, including older shows that are not part of shower? your cable provider’s on demand offerings. Plus, since you have cable TV In a 2003 NYPD Blue episode, already, many of the network-specifi c streaming options are available to viewers saw a woman’s bare you at no additional charge, like WatchESPN. behind as she got into the shower. For owners of non-smart TVs, affordable add-ons make streaming For airing this, the FCC attempted possible. Some of the major players in streaming gadgetry include Roku, to fi ne ABC affi liates a total of $1.43 million. Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV. The prices range from $35 How much did they successfully collect? for a basic Chromecast stick to $149 for Apple TV’s most up-to-date player. Each has its own features, but the biggest similarity is that they In Arrested Development, Tobias enable users to stream video and audio from a variety of sources. Some showers in cutoff jean shorts because of the streaming products also have specifi c interest channels covering 5 he’s a self-described … topics like pets, fi tness or outdoor sports, and streaming devices can A) “Never Nude” show you options for renting movies from pay services. Users are also B) “Denim Denizen” able to stream from apps on their smartphones, smart TVs and tablets, C) “Skin Shrouder” including HBO GO, Showtime Anytime and Starz Play. Hopefully, this gives you a general overview of what streaming is all How Did You Score? about. I know I’m now fully versed on the topic (thanks to my hubby — and 5: You clean up nicely! my job) and am now using my smart TV and streaming services in ways 3-4: Maybe you’re just more into baths?

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8 Channel Guide Magazine N STREAMING PICKS! A look at the best shows and movies to stream online.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt SEASON 2 Tina Fey Says Viewers Will Get “More Show” As The Acclaimed Comedy Returns. By Jeff Pfeiffer After being nominated for an Emmy Award after its first season, this comedy from co-creator and co-executive Jane producer Tina Fey is back for Season 2 Krakowski, (and has even already been renewed for Tituss Burgess a third season). and Ellie Ellie Kemper plays the title Kemper character, a wide-eyed and resilient young woman who, after being imprisoned in an underground bunker in a cult for 15 years, decides to reclaim her life and start over in New York City, armed with just a backpack, light-up just awful and comes out the other side for NBC, which has different time sneakers and a couple of overdue library still optimistic.” constraints than Netflix. books. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is “The broadcast timing for a half- Fey and Kemper were on hand one of those shows that people are still hour comedy is 21 minutes and 15 at a recent press conference for discovering, but those who’ve found it seconds on NBC,” Fey said. “And so, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to talk generally love it, and have even been without that restriction, these shows about the upcoming season. Fey inspired by it, according to Kemper. [this season] are all slightly different admitted that the series was developed “I had a lot of people come to lengths, but I think they’re averaging specifically for Kemper. share with me that they were going around 27 minutes, which is delightful “[Co-creator] Robert Carlock and through a difficult time, had some very for storytelling, and a little breathing I were asked if we would ever develop challenging moment in their life, and that room around jokes and stuff. … We still a show for Ellie,” said Fey, “and so we they watched this and it helped them to wrote toward act breaks — imaginary act thought a lot about her qualities. We feel better, which is a nice thing to hear,” breaks, that no commercial comes, but were certainly aware of the fact that Kemper offered. we did still try to build the stories toward there’s a certain type of woman, both in And such people will be glad to moments that kind of crescendo before fiction and nonfiction, that you see over hear that there is “more show” this we go on.” and over again, this kind of ebullient season, according to Fey, since the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season young woman who survived something first season was originally produced 2 is available April 15 on Netflix. And Don’t Miss ... Catastrophe Season 2 — Available April 8 on Amazon. Written return home after a brief and failed semi-pro football career to run by and starring Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe is the family business with his older brother and father, whom he a comedy following an Irish woman and an American man who, hasn’t seen in 15 years. after making a bloody mess as they struggled to fall in love in Special Correspondents — Available April 29 on Netflix. This London, have embarked on a series of best attempts to clear it up original feature film stars Ricky Gervais (who also co produces, and generally do the right thing. The stakes are higher this season writes and directs) as a New York-based radio journalist whose as we rejoin the now married Sharon and Rob, who are taking arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With their trademark mayhem into parenthood. his job on the line, he fakes frontline war reports from the comfort The Ranch — Available April 1 on Netflix. Set on a Colorado of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in Queens. Eric Bana, ranch, this comedy series stars Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Pollak, America Ferrera and Sam Elliott and Debra Winger. The show follows Colt’s (Kutcher) Benjamin Bratt also star. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Eric Liebowitz/Netfl ix Eric Liebowitz/Netfl Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt:

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FASCINATING DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES IMPACT OF 2014 EVEREST TRAGEDY. By Jeff Pfeiffer

$ APRIL 18, 2014 29,029 ft. Sherpa guides $ preparing routes for climbers were killed Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world in an avalanche   10TRAGEDY Channel Guide Magazine 16 N wo years ago, I interviewed a man who was planning to jump off of Mount Everest wearing a wingsuit for one of Discovery Channel’s live event specials. The Discovery crew was one of many groups that were at a base camp of Everest at the time, which has actually developed © AP 1953 over the years into a little village of sorts during climbing season, hosting everyone from TV crews like this, to Hollywood filmmakers to, most often, adventurous Westerners who strive to scale the mountain and pay up to $75,000 to make the attempt. Tenzing Norgay They all would be on hand for the horrific tragedy that took place on TApril 18, 2014, when an avalanche killed 16 Sherpa workers at the infamous The Most famous SHerpa ouched on briefly in the Khumbu Icefall — one of the deadliest single-day incidents on the mountain. documentary Sherpa, Tenzing The Discovery special was scrapped out of respect for those who lost their Norgay’s (1914-1986) lives, and a documentary that filmmaker Jennifer Peedom had been working T influence hovers over the film, on — which appears to have started as an already fascinating look at the Sherpa much as it has among the Sherpa ethnic group and the perilous living they make guiding people up Everest — people. Norgay’s smiling visage clearly expanded in the wake of this incident. The resulting film, Sherpa, has appeared all over international thus become not only a gripping and powerful look at the history of the Sherpa newsreels in 1953 when he and people and their deadly jobs, but also at their future, which came more into Edmund Hillary reached the summit focus through reflection of the event of April 18. of Mount Everest as part of a British Sherpa begins 12 days before the tragedy, when we meet a Sherpa expedition (Norgay had already named Phurba Tashi, who bookends the film pre- and post-tragedy, and appears been up Everest seven times before throughout it as sort of our frame of reference into the Sherpa world. His wife, leading the way for the Westerners). children and parents are not very happy at the dangerous living he makes, and Unfortunately, Norgay did not would like him to stop, but Tashi thinks the risk is worth the money he earns for receive the same acclaim as those his family — a scenario common among Sherpas. There are lovely and touching he led. While Hillary and expedition scenes among Tashi and his family that likely represent similar scenes among leader John Hunt were knighted, other Sherpa families, where the father is going off to a war, albeit against Norgay received the George Medal, nature, and they are unsure if he will make it back. a second-tier recognition from The spiritual nature of the Sherpas regarding the mountain, which they call Britain. Although Norgay kept Chomolungma, and their reverence for it, is sometimes put into contrast with smiling and remaining quiet (he the encroaching Westerners and their view of the peak as something to master. became the archetype in people’s Some of the Westerners featured in the film don’t come off too well, frankly, minds of the friendly, cheerful, but others are sympathetic to the Sherpas’ plight, realizing that their expedition uncomplaining Sherpa that people businesses can’t survive without the Sherpas’ expertise and hard work, and would come to expect), he ultimately grappling with the moral question of basically playing Russian roulette with the said that he wished he had never lives of people who are asked to make the Everest climb 20-30 times a year. climbed the mountain because of Brilliantly and colorfully filmed, Sherpa, like the people it follows, has taken the ensuing political fallout. It is something useful from tragedy. The documentary is a fascinating combination of Norgay’s slight that spurred and history of all sorts — natural history, ethnic history, labor history, political history. inspired modern Sherpas, who do “It will always be here,” says Tashi at one point about Chomolungma. So will the not want to quietly smile and accept issues confronted in and chronicled by the film. The documentary makes a nice the lot the West wants to put on base from which to slowly climb ahead. them regarding their lives and their $ Sherpa > Discovery Channel > April 23 sacred mountain.  8 Weeks $ $5,000$ $360 Million Average time it takes Westerners to Average climbing-season pay Everest expeditions are part of a climb Everest, as their bodies need for a Sherpa, and 10 times multimillion-dollar industry for to acclimate to the altitude average yearly salary in Nepal the government of Nepal  Channel Guide Magazine 11 WHAT’S NEW

THE STORY OF GOD With Morgan Freeman

Freeman And NGC By his very nature — the soulful suite. Not because he’s portraying God. Span The Globe — eyes and regal bearing, legendary voice Because he’s seeking him and all that he and sonorous delivery — when Morgan entails in a world that too often seems to And The Ages — On Freeman tells you something, you believe claim religion to sanction godless actions. A Divine Mission. it. You just do. Hence, the Oscar winner is And he’d like to take you with. By Lori Acken often tapped to play noble sorts — doctors, Freeman and his collaborators joined lawmen, statesmen, even revolutionaries forces with National Geographic Channel like Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X. to create the astounding six-part series Even God. The Story of God With Morgan Freeman, And God is the reason Freeman is which explores how religion has evolved here today, seated beside his Revelations throughout the ages and, in turn, shaped Entertainment partners Lori McCreary mankind’s progression, too. and James Younger in a Pasadena hotel Each episode explores a separate

12 Channel Guide Magazine What happens when we die? more of a quest just for human. Why In the process, Freeman visited does all — all — of humanity have the nearly 20 cities in seven countries same thrust? And that thrust is toward — from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to understanding the un-understandable. India’s Bodhi Tree to Mayan temples The un-understandable is what we and Egyptian pyramids and even Joel give the sobriquet ‘God.’ We’ve split Osteen’s 43,500-member Lakewood the atom. We’ve discovered the Higgs Church — participating in rites and boson. We have indisputable evidence rituals, conversing with the faithful and of it. We have not actually seen it, but as immersing himself in a world’s worth long as there’s indisputable evidence — of theology. To their delight, he and his well, interestingly enough, Einstein said team discovered an inspiring commonality. “When you think about Why does all — all — of what is Islam, what is Christianity, humanity HAVE THE what is Buddhism, what is Hinduism — everyone thinks that SAME THRUST? And the other person’s religion is that thrust is toward totally different from theirs and a completely different way of UNDERSTANDING THE seeing the world,” Younger says. “Our big discovery in doing this UN-UNDERSTANDABLE. was they’re all fundamentally the — Morgan Freeman same.” But, Freeman notes, ignorance and that’s just more proof of God.” intolerance keep some from embracing But what about proof that a big ol’ that. “The trouble we run into is those dirt nap isn’t all that awaits? people who think that they have it. ‘I “The biggest question that we ask got it. Mine has it. I got the answer. I’m — the biggest question that we ask — is correct and you’re wrong,’” he says. about resurrection,” Freeman agrees. “Yeah. Then you’re not just wrong; “Because we cannot stand the idea of you’re hopeless. You’re lost.” not being. The end of the universe is not To that end, the group meticulously what really concerns us; it’s will we be avoided a ny perception of judgment or here? The end of us. What drives this proselytizing: “We don’t try to explain, series, what drives religion, what drives because that’s religious politics and faith, what drives our need” — he cocks we want to separate the two,” Freeman an eyebrow — “that is what drives: says. Instead they opted for a thorough, Need. We need answers. We need enriching examination they hope will to believe that it’s going to be all right. inspire educated (and educational) Particularly when the world blows up.” conversation. Especially as a 24-hour So if faith gives you peace and news cycle churns out so much hatred makes you a more noble sort while but universal theological quandary: in the name of God. you’re here, Freeman says that that’s Who — or what — is God? Can sacred “We’re trying to bring knowledge God, too. “I’ll give you a very mind- creation beliefs coexist with scientifi c and say, ‘You can understand settling answer to afterlife,” he smiles, theory and progress? Is the devil truly something about, not what ISIS does, leaning in. “Life is continuous. There is hell’s proprietor or the manifestation but what’s behind it and how, in fact, no after. There was no before. Just life. of humanity’s desire to explain away they’re perverting their religion,” says Life is self-sustaining. Life doesn’t need evil? Are miracles evidence of God, or Younger. “We say, ‘Let’s see where it anything but itself. Everything that dies, our longing to experience something stems from and have an understanding dies to feed. Everything that lives, lives beyond the mundane? Do modern of it, just to be more enlightened.’” on the dead.” global confl icts really signal end times For Freeman, The Story of God is — or is our ability to monitor them 24/7 the culmination of decades of personal The Story of God With Morgan the only thing that’s new? And the exploration. “For me, it’s not a quest for Freeman > NGC > Sundays

Credit: Courtesy National Geographic Channels. granddaddy of all human wonderment: religious enlightenment,” he smiles. “It’s beginning April 3

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(Clockwise from top left) Wyatt Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carter Cooper and Anderson Cooper

NOTHING LEFT UNSAID: GLORIA VANDERBILT & ANDERSON COOPER The Famed Mother-Son Duo Look thrived until Wyatt died in surgery at age 50; 10 years later, the pair’s older son Carter committed suicide in front of his Back With Love. By Lori Acken mom at age 23. Fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt — looking decades Shared tragedy, says Cooper, bound his mother and younger than her 92 years in a bright coral tunic, slim pants him especially tight. “My dad died when I was 10,” he says. and oversize gold earrings — smiles at rapt reporters from a “My mom’s father died when she was 15 months old. We hotel ballroom stage. On either side, giant screens beam her both grew up with this fantasy that there was a letter out there beloved youngest son, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, into the somewhere — an idle letter from my dad somewhere out there room from Fairfax, Va., where Cooper will host a town hall at — and that she had a letter from her father out there, too. And President Obama’s request. His mom’s face shines with pride. both of us still kind of secretly believe that letter will someday Now viewers can witness the pair’s tender, honest and show up.” deliciously witty relationship in the HBO documentary Nothing A decade ago, Vanderbilt and Cooper began excavating Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, drawn a storage unit Vanderbilt kept for as long as her son could in part from Vanderbilt’s own letters, home movies, photos remember. When the idea for the documentary took shape, and artwork. Executive produced by Cooper and Liz Garbus they shared its contents with Garbus. “One box you would (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), the fi lm is a revealing look — through open up and it would be a box of amazing letters from Howard the lens of a son’s steadfast love — at a spirited woman who Hughes, who my mom dated when he was hot Howard expresses joy and exorcises demons via her artistic endeavors Hughes — when he was, like, 35 and my mom was 17. Before and never bought into her own fame. he was Desert Inn Howard Hughes with the tissues,” Cooper “Her entire life has played out on a very brightly lit stage, grins. “But you’d open up another box, and it would be a box and the idea, really, behind this fi lm is: You may know her of cornfl akes from 1953.” name, but you really don’t know who she is or what her story The process, combined with advancing technology, drew is,” Cooper explains. And what a story it is. the pair even closer. “I feel that I understand you more and Vanderbilt’s railroad-scion father died when she was a love you more, if that’s possible,” says Vanderbilt, gazing up toddler. Raised primarily by a beloved nanny until her aunt won at her son. “And it all happened because we started, just by custody from Vanderbilt’s young and wayward mother, the computer, communicating with each other.” stunning teen became a fi xture on the Hollywood social scene. She clasps her hands tightly. “And it turned into this.” Romanced by Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra, Vanderbilt also endured a trio of failed high-profi le marriages — until she met Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper’s father, actor/playwright Wyatt Cooper. The union Cooper > HBO > April 9 (Re-airs on CNN April 29) Robinson/Vogue/courtesy & Anderson Cooper: Credit: Jack Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt of HBO.

14 Channel Guide Magazine N CONFIRMATION HBO — And Kerry Washington — Revisit A Real-Life Washington Scandal. By Lori Acken The road hits back in “The Detour” Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. Their names are synonymous with the very public hearings about very private matters that led Americans to rethink our collective perspective on race, workplace equity, sexual harassment, victims’ rights and The adjudicating in the public eye. And to side-eye our Coke cans in the process. In 1991, TV viewers were riveted as the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by DETOUR then-Sen. Joe Biden, investigated claims that controversial Supreme Court nominee TBS Gives The Thomas sexually harassed Hill when the young attorney worked for him a decade before. Twenty-fi ve years later, HBO’s Confi rmation — starring Scandal’s Kerry Griswolds A Run Washington as Hill, Suits’ Wendell Pierce as Thomas and Greg Kinnear as Biden — For Their Money. revisits that pivotal time in America’s social and political landscape to take stock of our By Ryan A. Berenz progress. “I hope people don’t prejudge the fi lm because of [Thomas’] reputation,” Pierce Married couple and former says. “I had to check my own prejudice about who I thought he was, and then had this Daily Show correspondents wonderful epiphany studying the man and realizing how much we had in common. … Samantha Bee and Jason I didn’t think of him as a political fi gure; I thought of him as a man about to lose the Jones are the minds behind the greatest opportunity he ever had.” new 10-episode comedy The “What was important for all of us in the making of this fi lm is that we courageously Detour, about a family road trip stick to the complexity of the situation and not try to one-note any character or any one containing all kinds of comic moment of this process,” adds Washington, noting that the cast went through sexual chaos. Jones plays outspoken harassment prevention training before they started fi lming. dad Nate, who, after being fi red “‘Who did you believe?’ — that is a very provocative question,” she concludes. “But from his job, hits the road with one of the things that we learned that was most exciting was when you start to tell this his wife (Natalie Zea) and story and you pull back the curtain, is the story is way more complicated than just ‘he two kids. said, she said’ — layers of politics and pressure and power and status and need and While The Detour appears vulnerability and history and passion — and yet, it is still that.” to depart from the same spot as National Lampoon’s Vacation, Confi rmation > HBO > April 16 Jones says the journeys are different. “It maybe starts out that way, but it goes off on a — let’s call it a ‘detour’ — in a completely different direction,” Jones says. “Each season plans to take a different journey.” Jones says the show was conceived after his own kids had absurd notions about where Nothing but the truth: babies came from. “I couldn’t Kerry Washington as live with myself if my kid was Anita Hill that dumb, and that’s kind of where the show began,” Jones says. “It was that honesty and open connection with the child, and then when you throw in close, cramped quarters on a trip, it gets even more open and honest.” The Detour > TBS > Preview March 27; Airs Mondays Confi rmation: Credit: Frank Masi/HBOrmation: Credit: Frank Entertainment Company. Credit: James Bridges. Networks. Warner A Time Detour: © Turner The Confi beginning April 11

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Riley Keough (daughter of Lisa Marie Presley) leads this provocative new drama The GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE Riley Keough On Being The Perfect have wives or don’t have a family or anybody to talk to. They just want to spend time with somebody. … You’re basically Girlfriend. By Barb Oates trying to be their perfect girlfriend.” tarz’s new steamy thinker The Girlfriend Experience is a And being that perfect girlfriend (think Julia Roberts reimagining of executive producer Steven Soderbergh’s and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman) could be for a day, a S2009 fi lm of the same name. The half-hour series weekend, even for extended trips. Keough actually researched stars the daring and beautiful Riley Keough (a.k.a. Elvis’ her role by tapping the insights of a retired escort. granddaughter) as Christine Reade, a second-year law student “I asked her everything. I really didn’t hold back, but what who is drawn into the world of transactional relationships I found to be the most interesting was she was telling me known as GFEs (girlfriend experiences). instances where she’d fallen in love or had feelings for her A GFE is essentially a girl for hire who serves the needs clients,” Keough says. “It was a never-going-to-work kind of of whatever her high-paying clients desire (sex or no sex). thing, so it was kind of heartbreaking. She said she never felt Keough describes her character as being somewhat void of threatened or uncomfortable. … She really enjoyed herself. emotion. “She’s not into intellectualizing her emotions, as she A lot of the girls that I’ve talked to have said that it was a doesn’t really care about a lot of things women care about,” pretty good gig for them. That was interesting to me, as well, Keough says. “She’s very self-righteous and unapologetic because I wasn’t sure how they felt about it.” about her behavior and her opinions on things and her morals. The Girlfriend Experience > Starz > Sundays beginning She’s about to provide sexual and emotional things to these April 10; plus, the entire 13-episode season will be available men. A lot of them have problems with their wives or don’t on Starz On Demand to binge-watch

Producer Gale Anne Hurd Makes HUNTERS Aliens Scary Again. By Jeff Pfeiffer Among her many feature film and television credits, Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, Aliens) seems to return time and again to the sci-fi and horror genres, and especially to aliens. Hurd thinks it’s time to make aliens scary again. That’s part of her stated goal as an executive producer of Syfy’s new series Hunters. Inspired by Whitley Strieber’s novel Alien Hunter, the series, featuring Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), follows a highly classified government organization that tracks and fights alien terrorists, called hunters. “Something is scary if they’re complex,” Hurd elaborated. “Not just because we make them look ugly, or that they have powers.” Part of the scariness of the aliens in Hunters is that they come in human form. Terrorism plays a prominent role in the show, making it seemingly easy to compare the fictional hunters to the monsters we read about in the headlines. “You’re dealing with worlds Nathan Phillips and situations that you’re unlikely to encounter, but they are a stand-in for the things that we’re and Britne Oldford dealing with in the world today. I think that even explains the success of The Walking Dead. You always feel as if something cataclysmic is going to happen tomorrow. Well, [here] it’s not going to be a zombie apocalypse, but we’re able to ask, ‘Who would I be in that situation?’” > > Hunters Syfy Mondays beginning April 11 Starz Entertainment,Hunters: © Syfy Media, LLC LLC Girlfriend Experience: © 2016 Credit: Ben King The

16 Channel Guide Magazine N Goran Bogdan plays a daring diamond thief

GAME OF SILENCE Dark Secrets Come Out Of The Past In Gripping New NBC Drama. By Jeff Pfeiffer The LAST NBC’s new drama Game of mother ultimately cost the boys nine Silence has as its backdrop one of months at a youth detention facility. PANTHERS those coming-of-age stories featuring Now, as a mystery deeper than their Go Inside A Heist With dark secrets that may call to mind buried past resurfaces, the old friends A Notorious Gang. Stephen King works like Stand by must band together to right some Me and It, not only in its subject wrongs. By Kellie Freeze matter, but also in its literary feel. That “The fact that they are now going SundanceTV is bringing the probably comes in large part from to deal with it because they’re forced gripping U.K. smash The Last the contributions of writer/executive to deal with it … as an actor, you Panthers stateside. The six-episode producer David Hudgins (Friday Night always want to see characters jump series stars two-time Academy Lights, Parenthood) and executive off the page, and all the characters Award nominee Samantha Morton, producer Carol Mendelsohn (CSI), were very flush and had presence,” César Award winner Tahar Rahim, who manage to effectively combine Tate added. Croatian-born actor Goran Bogdan, the realism of Hudgins’ work with the In a series like this, it can be and BAFTA and Golden Globe mystery and occasional violence of challenging for an actor to portray a winner and two-time Academy Mendelsohn’s. character without necessarily knowing Award nominee John Hurt. “The nuances of the characters how the mystery plays out. A daring diamond heist with all and the complexity of the characters, Tate said that wasn’t necessarily of the hallmarks of the famous “Pink the subject matter that was very a problem here. “There are so many Panthers” gang turns deadly when unapologetic” were some of the things secrets, but [Hudgins] didn’t keep an innocent child is killed. Although that initially attracted costar Larenz secrets from us. ‘I’ll tell you if you want the purloined stones are tainted Tate, who plays Shawn, one of a group to know. If you think it helps you, I’ll tell and considered worthless on the of friends who have a dark secret you.’ … And there are certain things I black market, for a British insurance they thought was buried 25 years ago didn’t want to know, you know?” adjuster (Morton), a French cop come back to light. David Lyons as For the rest of us, though, we (Rahim) and a Serbian diamond thief Jackson, Michael Raymond-James as have to learn the surprises as they (Bogdan), the crime sets in motion Gil, Derek Phillips as Boots and Bre come. a desperate cat-and-mouse game Blair as Jessie round out the group. throughout the European continent. > > As children, a well-intentioned Game of Silence NBC And the closer each gets to his or effort to save Jessie from her alcoholic Thursdays beginning April 7 her payday, the deeper each falls into a dangerous and interconnected David Lyons, Michael world. Raymond-James Morton reveals that insurance and Larenz Tate adjuster Naomi Franckom is anything but passive; the actress actually underwent military training for the role. “I don’t want to give too much away,” she hints, “but mid-series we cut back to Naomi two decades ago, when she was in the military. I’d never done anything like that before.” She adds, “I can’t tell you how many burpees a day I had to do!” The Last Panthers > SundanceTV > Wednesdays beginning April 13 Game of Silence: © 2015 NBCUniversalGame of Silence: © 2015 Media, LLC Credit: Bob Mahoney/NBC Sky UK © 2015 Ltd Last Panthers: The

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The NIGHT MANAGER

Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, An Elegant Game Of Cat And Mouse With upbringing and dark past. “I think Jed’s Elizabeth Smoldering Performances From Hugh Laurie And main attraction is her instincts tell her Debicki, Olivia that she can survive if she’s a part of his Colman and Tom Hiddleston. By Kellie Freeze world,” says Debicki. It’s no wonder that Tom Hollander Debicki feels so comfortable portraying ohn le Carré’s thrilling post- The mouse in this cat-and-mouse Jed in this Gatsbyesque microcosm — Cold War novel The Night saga is Hiddleston, who plays Pine with she played Jordan Baker in the 2013 Manager gets reimagined in an perfection. “Le Carré describes him as fi lm The Great Gatsby. AMC and BBC coproduction a self-exiled creature of the night and a J Tom Hollander is deliciously that follows former British soldier sailor without a destination,” the actor smarmy as Roper’s second in Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) as he shares. Hiddleston is as comfortable in command, Major “Corky” Corkoran, who attempts to infi ltrate the inner circle the stiff formality of a hotel employee teeters between pathetic and psychotic. of an international arms dealer (Hugh (Pine’s post-military career) as he is as He’s a nefarious sycophant who is Laurie) and exact revenge. But to gain a manic butt-kicker. “There is a tension reluctant to lose his place at the boss’ the trust of this linen-clad devil, Pine between a very calm exterior and a table, a perilous position that makes must himself become a criminal. “We’re turbulent and chaotic interior,” says him both desperate and dangerous. now in a world where all our best TV Hiddleston. The heat that he exudes Whether you think Corky’s just a fool shows and movies are about very is utterly smoldering, and while each serving his master, or a mini-mastermind morally ambiguous characters,” says actor is superb in his own scenes, when himself, he’s fascinating to watch. executive producer Stephen Garrett. Laurie and Hiddleston share the screen, Laurie sums up the series’ appeal, “[Tom] has to do some quite bad things the results are eye-popping. and the appeal of le Carré in general. for ultimately arguably good ends.” And Director Susanne Bier helms the “There are causes that must be fought the slow build as Pine’s plot for revenge six-part series, which has several le for and risked and sacrifi ced for, and unfolds is deliciously tense. Carré-approved changes to the plot. there’s something immensely appealing There is something incredibly The biggest departure from the source and immensely romantic to me. I fi nd alluring and yet utterly terrifying about material was to gender-swap Leonard this an incredibly romantic story, arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, and Burr to Angela Burr, a brilliant move and romantic without ever straying into the Laurie adeptly embodies this cunning played with frumpy transcendence by sentimental. That’s the miracle of the le Machiavelli. Laurie shares that he was Olivia Colman. Carré writing. I think of him as one of the excited for the role, saying, “He is The entire series is permeated most romantic of writers and one of the described in the story as the worst man with stellar performances from its cast. least sentimental.” in the world, which is a pretty exciting Roper’s companion is his devoted challenge to take on as a character to girlfriend, Jed (Elizabeth Debicki), The Night Manager > AMC > play, but a thrilling one, too.” whose cool demeanor belies her rough Tuesdays beginning April 19 The Night Manager: © 2015 AMC Night Manager: © 2015 Film Holdings LLC.The Ink Factory/AMC Jenkins/The Credit: Mitch

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Kit Harington as Jon Snow ORPHAN BLACK Sarah Circles Back To Where It All Began. By Ryan A. Berenz The saga of Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) and her sisters (all Maslany) heads to a new night for a fourth season on BBC America with more action, more suspense and, of course, more roles for Maslany. As the story moves forward this season, Sarah fi rst has to go back to the start. Sarah returns from her hideout in GAME OF THRONES Iceland to seek a mysterious ally with ties to Beth Childs, the fi rst clone that Season 6 Is Here! Has Snow Really Fallen? Sarah encountered in the series premiere By Lori Acken and the one who appeared to Sarah in a Game of Thrones fan, odds are Westeros throne as the Starks and dream in Season 3. Sarah follows Beth’s footsteps and comes into a dangerous you’ve stopped angsting over Jon Lannisters splinter — his presence in relationship with a powerful new enemy. Snow’s fate just long enough to be the game seems very, very necessary. Orphan Black fans have probably creeped out by those ads showing In the meantime, Snow’s wondered what’s up with the creepy certifi ably not-dead characters’ devoted comrade Samwell Tarly (John sheep mask this season. Maslany noggins in the House of Black and Bradley) gets an expanded storyline says the mask not only represents the White’s creepy Hall of Faces. The that includes the addition of Downton tough exterior Sarah uses to hide her very place where vengeful Arya Stark Abbey’s James Faulkner as his dad vulnerability, but it’s also a little nod to (Maisie Williams) gained painful and UnREAL’s Freddie Stroma as his Dolly, the cloned sheep. knowledge and lost her sight. brother. And last fall, Ray Donovan’s Or maybe they just served to Ian McShane confi rmed that he’ll Orphan Black > BBC America > remind that few are exactly who they make a single-episode appearance as Thursdays beginning April 14 seem — or masters of their own fate someone responsible for the return of — in HBO’s Emmy-winning megahit, a character fans thought they’d never based on George R.R. Martin’s A see again. Song of Ice and Fire book series. Besides Snow — well, and So then … does Snow live or myriad others — possibilities include what? Folks in charge of the show Sophie Turner’s Sansa Stark, who aren’t talking, but the blogosphere literally leaped for her life with the favors the belief that Kit Harington’s unlikeliest of saviors, Theon “call beloved warrior is restored by me Reek” Greyjoy (Alfi e Allen), in calculating, kid-killing priestess the Season 5 fi nale. But Turner Melisandre (Carice van Houten), who already confi rmed that Sansa is back conveniently showed up at Castle in fi ne form. Same goes for Isaac Black just as Snow was felled by his Hempstead Wright, who makes an Night’s Watch comrades. And with impactful return as the Stark sisters’ rampant speculation that the Bastard clairvoyant brother Bran. Film legend of Winterfell is actually the legit Max von Sydow takes over the role of offspring of ill-fated Lyanna Stark and Bran’s mentor, the Three-Eyed Raven. Rhaegar Targaryen — thus blending Game of Thrones > HBO >

Game of Thrones: Photo courtesyGame of Thrones: of HBO © BBC Orphan Black: AMERICA Credit: Ken Woroner two factions in the quest for the Sundays beginning April 24

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Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) are almost unrecognizable in their fancy new duds

OUTLANDER What Awaits Jamie And Claire In Paris. With a new world and a baby on the way, happier times surely await the soulmates, right? Wrong, as Season 2 starts Season 2? Hear It From The Stars. with Claire wishing she was dead and a change in the famed By Barb Oates title song … parlez-vous français? To help provide more details, “You cannot save a man that doesn’t want saving,” Jamie said we sat down with the stars — Caitriona Balfe (Claire) and Sam to Claire after being brutally crippled and raped by Capt. Black Heughan (Jamie) — who share their insights on the new season. Jack Randall, as we learned in the season fi nale of the Starz hit How refreshing was it to change everything — new set, new Outlander. Jamie was convinced he’d never be happy again, but location, just starting over? Claire wasn’t willing to live without him. Their overwhelming love Caitriona Balfe: It was really exciting. It also can be a little and the hope of changing Highlander history gave promise to a daunting, as well, because you get so comfortable in one place new future and a new season, as the couple fl ed Scotland for and you get so comfortable in this sort of Scottish story, and Outlander: © 2015 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All rights reserved. Sony Pictures Television Outlander: © 2015

20 Channel Guide Magazine N Scotland very much felt like a character in In a certain respect, she has to put the show. To depart so strongly from that the pregnancy aside a little bit, or I’ve was kind of strange in the beginning, but it always felt it’s something that in a way also kept everything so fresh because we she goes through quite privately because got this whole infl ux of amazing characters she wants Jamie to have this mission, and fantastically talented actors. It so that he can feel like a man again and mirrored the journey of Claire and Jamie feel whole again. It also is something that because they are out of place in Paris, and brings them together and it helps their they are trying on a new guise, in a sense. bond, because they’re going through such It was funny — I think we both felt quite a tough times. Antony Starr bit of relief, though, once we got back to Heughan: They both get delighted … I Scotland, in a sense. want to say they both want to be parents. Sam Heughan: I think so. It’s an alien She’s probably freaking out about it a world for them, and they are having to bit, and I’m sure he is in his own way, but BANSHEE adjust and be different people in France. he’s also extremely delighted that he’s Will Anyone Get It is a very beautiful world that we’ve going to be a father. I think the addition to Out Of Banshee created. It looks spectacular and the the family of Fergus [played by Romann Alive? By Ryan A. Berenz costumes are amazing. However, going Berrux], this young French boy that comes on, shows how well that they As if you needed a can be parents, sort of adopted reason to get fi red up for the They are OUT OF parents at least. They take return of Banshee, the new to it very well and it’s a nice season’s trailer contains PLACE IN PARIS, dynamic. footage of Ivana Milicevic wielding a fl amethrower. Season 2 is based on Diana and they are TRYING Cinemax debuts the Gabaldon’s second book, fourth and fi nal season of Dragonfl y in Amber. What do ON A NEW GUISE, the surreal, stylized, sexy you think the title means? and super-violent drama in a sense. Balfe: The whole thing with this month, and “Fanshees” — Caitriona Balfe insects or objects getting will most certainly have their petrifi ed in amber is they’re minds blown by the eight back to Scotland was almost a relief. getting locked in time and time is “darker” episodes. Season It’s a bit more free and it’s a bit more unchanging — whether or not that’s an 3 ended in a bloodbath, with comfortable, and it was a world that we [indication] of maybe the storyline in Job (Hoon Lee) kidnapped, already know. It’s familiar. It’s like going book two. Because here you have the Carrie’s (Milicevic) husband back to an old friend. central characters trying to change time dead and Lucas (Antony and I guess it’s whether or not that is a Starr) turning in his badge. How does the pregnancy change Claire possibility. Maybe the image or the symbol In Season 4, Eliza and Jamie’s relationship? of a dragonfl y in amber is a clue, or maybe Dushku (Dollhouse) joins Balfe: I think when a woman becomes it’s an argument. I don’t know. the cast playing FBI agent pregnant, it does change everything about Heughan: It’s such a fragile thing, a Veronica Dawson, who has you in a certain way. This is something dragonfl y, as well. In fact, it is yet frozen a messed-up backstory like that she didn’t know that would be ever in time and it can go through time. everyone else on Banshee. possible, and she always felt that she You fi nd these fossils from hundreds, Ana Ayora enters as sheriff’s couldn’t have children, and now here the thousands of years ago and I think that’s deputy Nina Cruz. After a man that she loves so much and her have exactly what it is. It passes through time, brief appearance in Season created this life and it’s a very hopeful time not changing. It’s quite interesting. The 3, white supremacist leader for them. dragonfl y that you get [referencing the Calvin Bunker (Chris Coy) Also it comes at a period where wedding pin Hugh Monro gave Claire], I will play a major role in how she knows that Jamie still has a long way think that comes back, doesn’t it? In q uite the series ends, and Casey to go in healing and getting over what a powerful way. LaBow joins the cast as happened to him, and they also have this Calvin’s wife. big decision where they’ve decided that Outlander > Starz > Saturdays > > they’re going to try and change the course beginning April 9 Banshee Cinemax of history, so there’s many things going on. Fridays beginning April 1 Banshee: © Cinemax Credit: GregoryBanshee: © Cinemax Shummon

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The Survivors Set Sail With Strand As “The Walking not entirely wholesome,” adds Alpert. “There’s going to be something really Dead” Prequel Returns. By Lori Acken powerful that comes out of that storyline.” eason 2 is upon us, Fear the characters in Season 2 and impact all the Meanwhile, with many Angelenos Walking Dead fans, so let’s storylines that they’re going to explore.” realizing I-5 is not the path to salvation, S take stock. Liza’s a goner — but Curtis says resilience will prove a surely these won’t be the only folks Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Madison (Kim key factor across the board. “My view is to take to the seas. Making way for Dickens) are much wiser about walkers. that relationships that are built through a fresh hell fraught with mechanical An already defi ant Chris (Lorenzo James hardship are the relationships that issues, rough skies and rougher waters, Henrie) only knows that his dad shot his endure,” he offers. “For Travis to have dwindling supplies — and the ensuing mom. Ofelia (Mercedes Mason) is also to do a mercy killing with Liza was very urbanized pirates — and luckless sailors mourning her mother and doubting her tragic for him and that bound Travis and who’ve passed on and turned. Or would dad. And Nick (Frank Dillane) just got Madison together, that they were there they just stumble off the boat and sink? elevated from epic screwup to Strand’s together at that moment. I think he is still Curtis says viewers will have a good second in command as everyone humanitarian at the core, but events that time fi nding out. “It’s not safer at sea prepares to board Strand’s yacht. transpired and things they’ve got lined up than on land, I’ll tell you that much,” he We’ll come back to that last one in in Season 2 are so beyond the realm of chuckles. “Tenets from the original show a minute. normalcy and the extremes that they’re are very much in play — that humans are Fear’s co-executive producer Dave having to face are so severe that Travis’ far more dangerous than dead people. Alpert says the fallout of Season 1 and humanity is completely challenged.” But I don’t think we’re going to be under that gut-wallop fi nale will be realized early Speaking of which … about the the shadow of the other show anymore. in Season 2, setting a dramatic stage for mysterious Strand, deliciously played We’re fi nding our sea legs. [Heh!] The the crew’s watery adventure. “Seeing by Selma’s Colman Domingo. What is elements of water, the restrictions, your dad take out your mom, that’s a his deal? “Travis and Salazar [Rubén containment on a vessel and all the crazy dynamic,” he says. “How do you Blades] had ongoing tension, but I threats you mention — yeah, it’s all there. go back to pretending to be a family after don’t think it’s anything compared to It’s all happening.” something like that happens? How do what’s in store with Strand,” Curtis says. Well, not all of it. “I just want to be clear,” Alpert teases. “Zombies don’t you deal with your dad? How do you “Strand has his own sense of morals surf. So if that’s where you’re going with deal with the other kids? How do you and standards and values that are not your question, I’ll cut that off right now. deal with the other people on the boat? at all aligned with any of us — and we’re Zombies do not surf.” How do you deal with life after that? The beholden to him because we’re on his emotional ramifi cations at the end of boat. It’s a great setup.” Fear the Walking Dead > AMC >

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“It’s an amazing story of forbearance and affi rmation in the face of adversity,” Ken Burns says of “Jackie BEYOND Robinson” BASEBALL Ken Burns On Jackie Robinson’s Place In History. By Ryan A. Berenz

Ken Burns’ seminal Baseball documentary premiered because Jackie had power, he added that dimension as well. in 1994, and a signifi cant part of the series’ original 18- And the steal of home, which is still the most thrilling thing in plus hours was devoted to Jackie Robinson, who on April all of sports, and he did it so magnifi cently,” Burns says. “He 15, 1947, became the fi rst African-American to play in the does represent not just this profound social change in the major leagues. Robinson’s widow Rachel participa ted in the United States — you could argue the fi rst real progress in civil documentary, and years later contacted Burns about doing a rights since the Civil War — but he represents a fundamental stand-alone fi lm about her husband. Now at age 93, Rachel sea change in how baseball’s going to be played. And then sees her idea come to fruition as Burns, his daughter Sarah he’s going to open the door to a lot of African-Americans Burns and her husband David McMahon present the two- who are going to add to that dynamic.” part, four-hour Jackie Robinson for PBS. Baseball is only half the Jackie Robinson story, though. “The most important person in the history of baseball Part 2 examines Robinson’s life after 1947, including is Jackie Robinson,” Burns says. “He may not be the his political activism, his leadership role in the civil rights best baseball player, but he is, without a doubt, the most movement, and the challenges of being a husband and father important baseball player.” Major League Baseball honors in the midst of his public persona. “Part 2 is not without its Robinson every April 15, as every player, manager, coach joy and its great baseball and other interesting things, but and umpire in games that day wears his No. 42, a retired this is one of the most important people in the history of civil number for all MLB teams. rights,” Burns says. “He was the symbol of the civil rights Robinson not only broke the game’s color barrier, but he’s also credited with ushering in baseball’s modern movement. The rest of it is stuff that you’ll go, ‘Oh, my God. I era. “Jackie comes along bringing the virtues of small ball had no idea.’” — of walks, of steals, of bunts, of great baserunning — and Jackie Robinson > PBS > April 11-12

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BIGGER IN TEXAS “WrestleMania 32” Could Be A Record-Breaker. By Scott Fishman

WWE is pulling out all the stops to the right to face Triple H for the WWE including “Stone Cold” Steve Austin are make WrestleMania 32 the biggest in its World Heavyweight Championship. expected to add star power. “Show of Shows” history. Now the two will settle the score on the Ambrose is also gearing up for Since 1985’s inaugural event, biggest stage possible. Reigns’ cousin, one of the biggest fi ghts of his career, raising the bar has always taking on Lesnar with Paul been the mindset heading Heyman ringside. There will be into the Super Bowl of sports a new level of physicality on entertainment. However, Vince display given the “No Holds McMahon and company are Barred” stipulation for the especially motivated this year by “Lunatic Fringe” and the “Beast the potential to break an indoor Incarnate.” attendance record at AT&T The road to WWE’s crown Stadium in Arlington, Texas. jewel also got a huge boost with “While I can’t give away February’s shocking return of any specifi cs, if you think Vince Shane McMahon, who, as of McMahon isn’t putting together presstime, is set to battle The the most loaded, spectacular, Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell surprising card that we have matchup. ever had, then you have another Former IWGP Heavyweight thing coming,” says McMahon’s Champion A.J. Styles, who daughter Stephanie, WWE chief returned to WWE in January, brand offi cer. is preparing to make his “Everything is bigger in WrestleMania debut. The Texas,” adds her husband, Paul “Phenomenal One” drew “Triple H” Levesque, WWE immediate buzz with his matches World Champion and executive against Chris Jericho. The WWE vice president of talent, live Universe is also anxious to see events and creative. “If you know Kevin Owens compete on “The anything about Vince and WWE Grandest Stage of Them All.” — and hopefully, you’re starting And in the midst of the “Divas to learn it about me and Steph, LIVE! April 3 Revolution,” Sasha Banks, as well — we are certainly not 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 5pm MT/ 4pm PT Becky Lynch and current champ going to rest on our laurels. We Countdown Show Prior Charlotte represent a new crop are looking to break our own Available in of female talent hungry for their Only for Standard Defi nition attendance record of 93,173. $59.99 T WrestleMania moment. The tag We want this to be the largest division is also heating up with event we’ve ever done.” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, will also the veteran duo the Dudley Boyz, plus The card began offi cially taking take time out from fi lming blockbuster the Usos, Lucha Dragons and division shape at February’s Fastlane when movies and hit TV shows to champs The New Day. Roman Reigns defeated Dean participate in the WrestleMania Find the updated card at Ambrose and Brock Lesnar to earn festivities. Other top names WrestleMania.com.

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