One and Only

Cover Story

One and only

Fox tackles the loneliest number in ‘The Last Man on Earth’

people after a virus takes out all of Earth’s population. His family is gone, his coworkers him get into a lot of really silly shenanigans.
“It’s all just kind of stupid

By Cassie Dresch

TV Media

are gone, the president is gone. stuff that I go around and do,” ello? Hi?Anybody out
Hthere? Of course there is, otherwise life would be very, very, very lonely. Fox is taking a stab at the ultimate life of loneliness in the new half-hour comedy“The Last Man on Earth,”premiering Sunday, March 1. The premise around“Last Man”is a simple one, albeit a little strange.An average, unassuming man is on the hunt for any signs of other living
Everyone. Gone. So what does he do? He he said in an interview with “EntertainmentWeekly.” travels the United States doing things he never would have been able to do otherwise — sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium, smear gooey peanut butter all over a priceless piece of art ... then walk away with it, break things.The show, according to creator and
“That’s been one of the most fun parts of the job.About once a week I get to do something that seems like it’d be amazingly fun to do:shoot a flame thrower at a bunch of wigs, have a steamroller steamroll over a case of beer. Just dumb stuff like that, which pretty starWill Forte (“Saturday Night much is all it takes to make me

Live,”“Nebraska,”2013), sees

happy.”

Registration $25.00

online: www.skseniorsmechanism.ca or phone 306-359-9956

2
Cover Story

Flame throwers and steamrollers?Again, it’s a strange concept, but Fox is really behind the show.As if engaging ally proud of what has come out of it so far.” Of course,you have to wonder with the show title worded

Index

in a multi-network bidding war the way it is:is Forte’s character,

Sports ��6 Saturday ��8 Puzzle Solutions �� 19 Sunday��20 Weekday Daytime ��32 Monday�� 40 Tuesday��44 Wednesday��48 Thursday��52 Friday ��56 Weekday Late Night�� 60

for the rights to the show’s pilot wasn’t dedication enough to the idea, a few months after it won the bid, Fox completely skipped the pilot episode process and ordered a full season
Phil Miller,the last man on Earth or is he the last person?While Forte hasn’t really opened up about that — there are a lot of aspects of this show being kept under wraps — the answer to without airing a single episode. that question was let out of the
“It’s been really fun and exciting because it’s such a weird concept and Fox has really embraced it, giving us their full support,”Forte said.“Trying to figure out how to tell a story with one person has been an incredible challenge, but also a really exciting challenge. Figuring out how to do it all has bag at theTelevision CriticsAssociation winter press tour in January.Kristen Schaal (“Bob’s Burgers,”“Toy Story 3,”2010), whose casting announcement was made in December,joined the Q&A sessions with Forte and executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller,lending credence to the idea that maybe been really, really fun.We’re re- she’s the last woman on Earth.

Late Laughs

Seattle, but at the last second New England jumped in the way.

Conan: Conan

The Late Show: David

O’Brien

Letterman

Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend were out at a
I was watching the Super Bowl, party and he accidentally banged into two parked cars. So then he told the cops that his girlfriend was driving. That’s the kind of thing that can hurt the man’s image. and for the first

The Tonight Show

hour, I was like, “These

Starring

guys are just standing

Jimmy

around doing nothing!” And

Fallon:

then one of my kids told me

Jimmy Fallon

I had forgotten to turn off “Madden 2015.”
I read that more

than 100 million people tuned in to tonight’s Super Bowl on NBC. In response, NBC will be re-airing the Super Bowl every Thursday night at 8 p.m.

Jimmy Kimmel Live:

Yesterday, a man was arrested for attempting to get into the White House. Luckily, the man was intercepted after taking advice from Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Jimmy Kimmel

On the heels of winning one of the craziest football games ever last night — from the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots — Rob Gronkowski is here. Rob is six-foot-six, 265 pounds. So, if anyone knows any good Polish jokes, this might be a good time to keep them to yourself.
There was actually a fight between some Patriots and Seahawks at the end of the game. I’m not saying it was embarrassing for the Seahawks, but the Patriots won that, too.
Boston postponed a victory celebration for the New England Patriots due to a record-breaking winter storm. The storm was originally supposed to hit

3
Feature Story

The hunt for a killer

‘12 Years a Slave’ writer John Ridley puts a fresh twist on crime drama

a small English town is rocked by the vicious murder of an 11-year-old boy.The eight-episode arc focuses on the hunt for the boy’s killer, but also on
Fortunately,“American

By Jacqueline Spendlove

TV Media

Crime”has its own ingredients for success, including a fantastic ensemble cast to deliver the still-compelling concept. Emhere’s no shortage of grip-
Tping crime dramas on television right now. If the longrunning“Law & Order”and “CSI”franchises are anything to go by, it’s a genre that audiences love. Most of these series tend to present the heinous deed at the beginning of the episode, and after a few dubious interviews and a wild goose chase or two, the culprit is nabbed by the good guys before the end credits start rolling. how the horror, grief and suspi- my-winning actress Felicity cion that follow impact the res- Huffman, who’s best known for idents of the close-knit community.The show became a “national obsession”in the U.K., according to“EntertainmentWeekly,”averaging more than nine million viewers per episode. It’s raked in heaps of awards and nominations, including three BAFTA wins and a Peabody for its“pitch-perfect take on the classic crime drama.” her role as Lynette Scavo in “Desperate Housewives,” plays grieving mother Barb Hanlon, who has been reunited with her estranged ex-husband, Russ (Timothy Hutton, “Leverage”), over the murder of their son, Matt (Grant Merritt,“Bullets for My Baby,” 2013). Barb, who is determined to pin Matt’s murder on somebody, has convinced herself that her son was murdered by a racial minority. Russ, who spoke to his son on the phone every week, comes to learn that he didn’t know him as well as he thought he did. Huffman and Hutton are joined byW. Earl Brown (“True Detective”) and PenelopeAnn Miller (“Mistresses”), who play the distraught parents of Matt’s pretty blond widow, Gwen (Kira Pozehl,“Fall to Grace,”2005), who may still live or die.
All that considered, you might think“American Crime” has the makings of an instant success, but“Broadchurch’s” American remake,“Gracepoint,”proved that the concept alone is not what made its British forerunner such a massive success. Critics and audiences alike were disappointed with the version, which simply didn’t have the magic of “Broadchurch,”
ABC’s new series,“American Crime,”is shaking up the format a bit. Someone has perpetrated a brutal attack in a young couple’s home, leaving a war vet murdered and his wife in a coma. Instead of having things wrapped up in a neat little package within the hourlong time-slot, however, audiences will follow the racially charged investigation that follows and, more importantly, the impact the murder has on a wide range of individuals over the course of the season’s 11-episode run. Created by AcademyAward-winning writer John Ridley (“12Years a Slave,”2013), the anthology crime drama premieresThursday, March 5, onABC and CTV. The concept of following the aftermath of a murder despite the compelling material.

“While it’s

While the show does focus

heavily on the investigation and the hunt for the killer, one element that sets it hard to pinpoint,‘Gracepoint’ can’t

help but feel as

apart from other crime dra-

mas is that the angle is less on the police and detecif something significant has been lost in tives and more on the

translapeople close to the vic-

tion,” tims, as well as the sus-

wrote Bri-

pects and their families.

throughout an entire series is

uncommon, but not unprecedented. In the first season of the British hit“Broadchurch,” an Lowry

Felicity Huffman stars in “American Crime”

for“Variety.”

4

TV

Crossword

8 Shawn of FOX’s
“The Following”
9 King of a tragic play
10 Edible root 11 Harbinger 16 Moray __

20 Gives the thumbs-up signal

21 Mr. Owens of
“Hee Haw”
22 Woody Guthrie’s son
23 Unhappy droplet 27 1957 Igor
Stravinsky ballet
28 Burkina __
(Nation in West Africa)
29 Train: Spanish 31 “__ and Lies”, new murder mystery on ABC
32 Tempo 37 “CSI: __” starring Patricia Arquette, new on CBS
38 Timothy Hutton’s new ABC series, “American __”
39 “Dream” by
Priscilla __
25 ‘Press’ suffix 26 Easy Mac maker 30 Necklace part 33 Cartoonist, E.C.
__ (Creator of Popeye)
34 South __,
51 Mend, as a broken bone
52 The 30th on calendars sometimes [acronym]
53 Speck

ACROSS

1 Country star Mr.
Paisley
5 Giant’s cry of disgust!
8 Sort of sax 12 __ Cooper car 13 Wood sorrel 14 Crease
54 Without
“M*A*S*H” set- 55 Bakery offering

ting

56 Hurried letters

15 Hit for Dion:
“The __”
17 Fabled racer 18 Mesh 19 “NewsNation with __ Hall”, weekdays on MSNBC
21 New CBS series starring Josh Duhamel as an FBI agent, “__ Creek”
35 Suffix with ‘Lact’ 36 300 in ancient
Rome
38 William Conrad’s detective series of 1971 to 1976
41 “My Fair Lady”
(1964) star Ms. Hepburn
44 Greek alphabet’s
17th letter
45 Blackthorn fruit 46 Supermodel
Christie
40 Finland-based technologies company
41 Calls for 42 Arm bone 43 “How ya __’?”
(Casual query)
47 “Rob __” (1995) 48 __ Gatos,
California
49 In-flight info, briefly
50 Pitchy dog bark

DOWN

1 Snazzy car 2 River inlet 3 Ms. Romney 4 Billy Joel hit: “We
__ Start the Fire”
5 Will __, SNL alum starring on 7 Down
6 Pepsi chiller 7 New FOX comedy,
“The Last Man on __”

Solution on page 19

24 Owl’s noise

5