PLUS BUZZWORTHY “THE RANCH” STARS “THE PATH” TALK ABOUT CROSSOVER EPISODE EVERYTHING “SUPERGIRL” FROM A LOVE OF SUPERGIRL, MEET WINE TO A PASSION THE FLASH FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A GOLF TOURNAMENT! WILL J.B. HOLMES FIND HIS NAME AT NEW SERIES THE TOP OF THE JON FOO ISN’T JACKIE CHAN, LEADER BOARD? BUT HE’S IN “RUSH HOUR”

FOLIO

Connect to these shows within this magazine! Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 C What’s HOT this Week! Click to jump to these contents featured sections! YOURTVLINK “THE RANCH” CELEBRITY is a “That ‘70s Show” 4 CARRIE PRESTON reunion is happy being “Crowded”

5 JAMES PUREFOY Purefoy feels like an ‘old pickup’ to Hendricks’ Bentley

6 SARAH GRAHAM A chef’s love of lions

8 JUSSIE SMOLLETT “Empire” star doesn’t like “THE PATH” auditions A crisis of faith

9 JAMES YOUNG Getting to know the “SUPERGIRL” kitchen fixer The epic story of when superheroes collide 17 FOOD 7 KATHIE LEE GIFFORD Wine love

SPORTS THE STORY! 18-19 J.B. HOLMES Holmes hoping Houston “RUSH HOUR” Open is simply elementary brings another movie premise to TV REALITY MOVIES IN EVERY ISSUE 16 “INDEPENDENT LENS” 20-21 Featuring: Theatrical 22-23 Featuring: Our top focuses on magic’s Review, Our top DVD pick, suggested programs to watch Amazing Randi and Coming Soon on DVD. this week!

Page 2 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 Editor's choice STORY S It’s ‘Rush Hour’ at CBS with new series version of action- comedy movies

BY JAY BOBBIN If a movie franchise is popular enough, it still can yield a television-series spinoff some years later.

Shows based on “Lethal Weapon” and “The Exorcist” are in the works, and another example is about to debut. Nine years after the last of the three action-comedy films that teamed Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, CBS’ version of “Rush Hour” premieres Thursday, March 31. Justin Hires succeeds Tucker as self-styled Los Angeles police detective Carter, whose manner immediately clashes with that of his new partner: martial-arts-skilled Lee (Jon Foo), who arrives in the City of Angels to probe his sister’s presumed death. Pictured: Justin Hires

The duo gets other missions assigned by their no- that. And I’ve never laughed so hard as hanging out with nonsense boss (“Hot in Cleveland” and “Just Shoot Me!” these guys.” alum Wendie Malick), and they receive help along the way from Carter’s former partner (Aimee Garcia, “Dexter”) Foo comes by his physical agility naturally, since he and streetwise cousin (Page Kennedy, “Backstrom”). explains, “I started out as a martial artist working in the With TV veterans Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs,” “Spin City”) circus. I did performances with the London Chinese and Steve Franks (“Psych”) among the show’s executive Acrobats and the Flying Dudes Rock and Roll Circus producers, other “Rush Hour” stars certainly include the and then went to Hong Kong and Asia and Thailand, so I stunt players, since the first hour alone indicates there’s started with martial arts and then ended up doing action plenty for them to do. movies.” If viewers aren’t familiar with Foo, though, he understands. “This is my first TV show,” he notes. “This is “It is risky dice to roll,” Lawrence allows, “because if it’s my first time having any kind of experience like this.” an iconic movie that people like, you can’t knock fans off of it, but I think what you hope is that a title brings people Should Foo and Hires be compared to Chan and Tucker to check out your show and give it a look. And I still want – which seems inevitable, particularly since a “Rush Hour to believe that if you cast it well and write it well and act it 4” movie reportedly has been discussed – they maintain well and produce it well, the people will stay long after the they’re ready for it. “Chris Tucker is literally one of the references to the feature (films) are gone.” reasons that I got into comedy,” stand-up comic Hires says, “so it’s a huge honor and a privilege to be able to Franks adds of the main “Rush Hour” characters and step into those shoes. Honestly, I just feel like if I bring my actors, “I like the humanity that these guys bring to this own comedic voice to this role, eventually, the audience world. I love the guys. I think it’s real fun. For eight years will see that there’s a different Detective Carter. And on ‘Psych,’ we were doing a version of the buddy comedy, hopefully, they’ll grow to love me somewhat comparable kind of. Here’s these two guys that were just sort of to Chris Tucker.” meant to be together, and this felt like a fun extension of Click or tap on icon for more! March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 C CELEBRITY BY JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A CARRIE PRESTON of ‘Crowded’ Sunday on NBC

Is being a series lead in “Crowded” a big deal for you? Yeah, it is a big deal. It’s certainly one of the things that attracted me to this job. I knew I was ready to take the next step; I’ve been playing these great supporting roles, but I was like, “I want to be on the (show-promoting) poster.” I want to have that responsibility, and I think I’m ready for it.

Your husband, “Person of Interest’s” Michael Emerson, took a similar route in television with such shows as “Lost.” Did he give you any tips about making the leap to series star? I’ve certainly watched him over the last five years with that, and the responsibility that comes with it is bigger. Sometimes he will say, with a little bit of whimsy, “I kind of wish I was just doing the supporting thing.” A lot more is asked of you – not that he ever complains about it – but there is something that is different. I’m starting to feel that.

At the same time, “Crowded” makes you part of an ensemble cast again. Do you like keeping that aspect? When you’re doing the single-camera (drama) stuff, you’re not there all the time with your cast. When I was on “True Blood,” it was like three or four different shows, and everybody else was on a vampire show. With this, we’re all there every day, doing the work together ... and we present it to the audience together. I like that. Also with single-camera work, you’re in the hands of the editors and directors, and there are many different ways to cut a scene together. Sometimes you’ll make a deliberate choice and it won’t make it into the (final) cut, or you’ll do something you didn’t think was anything, and they’ll make a “moment” out of it. When you’re doing this (a comedy filmed with multiple cameras), everything counts.

FOLIO Click or tap on icon for more!

Page 4 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 CELEBRITY C GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A

Some actors say that when they do JAMES accents for a role, they have to stay in it all day. Is that the case with you? I’m not like that. Maybe I pay for it. I PUREFOY don’t know if the accent works or it doesn’t but it seems to work. I like to of ‘Hap and Leonard’ think about accents as voices and I Wednesday on think that’s a different thing. An accent Sundance Channel is something that lots of people speak. A voice is the thing that only one person has. And I think if you’re playing a person, you’re playing a single person, so an accent, you know, they get melded with different things. I used to have a strong West Country accent in England, it’s like that (drawls). That’s how they speak. I used to speak like that (drawls) when I was 17.

On “Hap and Leonard,” is ex-wife Trudy smarter than your character, Hap? What she’s got on Hap is that she knows he loves her, so she will always have power over him. You know those women. We’ve all been there. I’ve been there. The woman who you just can’t help loving. And I’m sure there are women in my life who if they came back now, I would struggle. Even though I’m a married man, they would kick something in me ... that little fundamental piece in your heart that you remember from when you were a kid or when you were a teenager or when you were a young man. That doesn’t go away. It’s not that she’s smarter than him, it’s just that she has that over him and she knows that. It’s power. And she’s played by Christina Hendricks (laughs), so she looks like Christina Hendricks, for Christ’s sakes. What more can you say?

And semi-recognizable from “Mad Men.” Yeah, also Christina is disarmingly intelligent and beautiful. And I was just saying to somebody else, it was like she would come on set and Michael Click or tap on icon for more! (Kenneth Williams, his co-star) and I are like a couple of old pickups and along purrs the Bentley.

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 5 C CELEBRITY GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A

of SARAH ‘Sarah GRAHAM Graham’s Food Safari’ Saturday on Given your upbringing, Cooking you must be Channel comfortable with these animals. Yeah. I mean, the lions, they are something I love so much and so we literally did grow up with lion cubs in our home, bottle-feeding them in the middle of the night. When they’re really young, they’re like babies. They have to have a bottle of milk every three or four hours and it’s a really special experience.

Do these animals remember you later on? They do. I mean, with the lions, we can only really physically interact with them until they’re about 22 months old. After that, Click or tap on icon for more! it’s no longer safe. And then they go into a kind of a fenced off area in the bush that acts as a semi-release area where Wildlife conservation is an important part of “Food there’s other wildlife and then Safari” for you, correct? they can hunt for themselves Yes, absolutely, because (a wildlife conservancy) is where I grew up and so and form their own independent it’s a big part of my life and my family’s life and the whole lion conservation prides. And so my parents have program. My dad is a real character and he actually had his left arm taken constructed a whole project off by one of our lions about 20 years ago. He had to have his left arm that works on releasing lions amputated after the attack, and he really is such a character. He still goes back into the wild. around and he’s still passionate about lion conservation.

Page 6 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 FOOD F GEORGE DICKIE’S WHAT'S FOR DINNER KATHIE LEE GIFFORD takes her love of wine to market Ask Kathie Lee Gifford about the wines she and co-host Hoda Kotb sip on the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today,” and it becomes immediately clear that this is a woman who knows wine.

She’s lived with it her whole life, from a happy childhood in Europe and the United States with a family who celebrated life with a little vino through her partnership (with Scheid Family Wines of Monterey, Calif.) in Gifft wines to her current gig on NBC’s iconic weekday morning program, which she’s been co-hosting with Kotb for the past eight years.

And she has strong opinions on the subject. Take, for instance, her views on the current state of California chardonnays, which she expressed to the winemakers who did her first release.

“I just said, ‘I haven’t liked California chardonnays in so long because they’re so oakey, so heavy, so bitter.’ I mean, they overshadowed completely any food you would eat with them,” she says, “And so I said, ‘If Click or tap on icon for more! you could make a chardonnay for my Gifft wines that taste like the kinds that in the 1970s were California chardonnays, were more like modern- day pinot grigios, they were just delicious and light.’ And they said, ‘We can do that.’ So that’s what I’m enjoying in the mornings and Hoda drinks the red blend, which is a blend of 10 different varietals.”

As for Kotb, she readily admits she isn’t nearly the wine enthusiast that her co-host is, adding that her spirit of choice is tequila. But on camera, Gifford’s wines are her go-to beverage.

“If I’m going to sip a wine on the show, which is what we do because we don’t want to get crazy by the last guest, I sip Kathie Lee’s red because it’s awesome,” Kotb says. “I mean, when I order from a restaurant, I usually order a pinot noir or I order a syrah or something. And Kath’s is strangely addictive, which is really ticking me off – in a good way – where you’re like, ‘Oh, I guess I’ll have a little more of that.’ ”

What book are What did you have for What is your next When was your last vacation, where you currently dinner last night? project? and why? reading? “I don’t eat dinner. I’m “I’m just now forming “We have a place down in the Keys, a “I just finished a a big, big, big lunch a film company with family home, that we’ve had for about 20 fascinating book girl. I was at Geoffrey a very good friend of years. So I took a couple of weeks – I called, ‘Who Zakarian’s restaurant the mine that we haven’t just took my doggie; Bambino and I went Ate Lunch With National in Greenwich, even announced yet. ... – and I have a lot of friends down there. I Abraham?’ It’s by a Conn., yesterday, so So I’m looking forward just had a very, very, very quiet holiday. It man named Asher Geoffrey always takes in the next few years to would probably be the most boring thing Intrater. Fascinating very good care of me ... .” being a part of some for others. But I lost my husband and my book. ...” very, very exciting film children’s father about seven months now, projects.” and I just wanted to be someplace quiet and safe and full of memories.”

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 7 CELEBRITY C JOHN CROOK’S CELEBRITY SCOOP JUSSIE SMOLLETT The mid-season finale of Fox’s hit drama “Empire” ended things on several cliffhangers last December, as Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) lost control of his company due to the betrayal of a loved one. As the story resumes with new episodes on Wednesday, March 30, however, we’ll see the Lyons start to reunite, says series star Jussie Smollett.

“We see this family that was so broken starting to come back together,” says the actor, who plays gay son Jamal Lyon. “We see Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious trying to fix this family that has been through so much. I love where we see Jamal going Early ambition: in this second half of the season.” When he was 8, In part, that includes renewed sparring between Jussie and Jamal and his father, both of whom have been one of his nominated in the same category for a major industry sisters wrote award. an entire album’s “The award represents something much larger, a worth of fight that has been going on a long time, and the songs unhealed wound that they still have from the past,” for Janet Jackson, Smollett says. “Their unity is still very new. This is a although crazy, deranged, dysfunctional family, but that being she never said, they always find their way back together, and I recorded think that’s why we love them.” them.

As a child, Smollett co-starred in films such as “The Mighty Ducks,” then he and his five siblings starred together in the 1994-95 NBC sitcom “On Our Own.” When that show folded after one season, he turned his focus on music and travel, chiefly throughout Europe.

“I started honing my craft as a musician, a songwriter, because that was what I wanted to do,” he says. “I knew that I would always act, but I didn’t like the whole going-on-auditions thing. I remember my mother telling me ‘No one is going to be able to write a song that says what you want to say better than you.’ ” Click or tap on icon for more!

Page 8 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 CELEBRITY CELEBRITY PROFILE C JAMESYOUNG - A multi-skilled U.S. Army veteran who received two Army Achievement Medals and received a Soldier of the Month award. He was a signal soldier – communications, so he “fixed things.”

- When he left the Army he joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and began a five-year apprenticeship. He is now a licensed master electrician, contractor and renovation wizard.

- While working as an electrician he eventually started getting into carpentry as well.

- After being laid off as an electrician/ construction worker he received a phone call asking him to audition for a TV show. He thought it was fake or that they were trying to sell him something so he skipped the audition

James Young is a master electrician, licensed contractor and TV host who can be seen on “I Hate My Kitchen” on DIY Network. twice. When they called to reschedule a third time and he received more information (and the name of the person who recommended him) he went to the audition and landed the job.

- In 1996, he made his TV handyman debut on the Discovery for a show called “Gimme Shelter.” He loved it and has been in the industry ever since.

- In the early 2000s he also became a realtor and started to flip homes. He realized he made more money on the houses where he focused more on the kitchens and started to shift his focus. He gave up the realtor part when his schedule got too busy.

- In 2010, he became host of “I Hate My Kitchen.” He loves tearing up kitchens and showing homeowners the latest designs and products, always coming up with innovative ways to remodel their kitchens without breaking the bank.

- So far, he has remodeled several homes and over 100 kitchens, bringing them from ugly to awesome. He has also worked on numerous large-scale commercial and residential projects as a licensed electrician.

Click or tap on icon for more!

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 9 C CELEBRITY

“Michael’s like my brother. I love him so much. We started this together, we have so much fun and it’s so great. And now, there’s a bit of sadness. It’s just mixed emotions. It’s a really hard thing. I’ve definitely cried … a lot.” – Pauley Perrette of “NCIS” on CBS, about co-star Michael Weatherly’s imminent exit from the series

“There have been these great moments where we haven’t done a disguise fitting together, so the first time we see it is on set. We’ve referenced this in the past, but there was a moment when she walked on set looking like a young John Denver, and I couldn’t recover “Basically, Shonda handpicks everyone in for the majority of the scene.” her world and then she gives them license – Matthew Rhys of “The to do what they’ve been hired to do. So it’s Americans” on FX, about different from other places that I’ve worked disguises he and co-star where you ... feel kind of a heaviness of the Keri Russell have worn on producer’s eyes, because they trust you here the show in ShondaLand to do your work and do your best.” – Mireille Enos, on working on the Shonda Rimes-produced and -created “The Catch” on ABC

Page 10 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 CELEBRITY S

ON DVRs

Mireille Enos of “The Catch” on ABC I watch ‘Pepa Pig’ and ‘Octonauts’ (laughs). You know, I have a 5-year-old and an 18-month-old. And so in my spare time when I’m not making TV shows, I’m watching “ little kids’ shows. I love all the Pixar movies but I’m pretty useless to talk about adult television with.” Norm Abram of “This Old House” on PBS “ ‘This Old House’ (laughs). You know, they used to send us DVDs of the show. Now we don’t get that so I record the show because I have to be my own critic. And mostly, some of the TV shows we like. There’s probably less now because with things like Carrie Preston Apple TV, you can just of “Crowded” watch it whenever you on NBC want and don’t have to “ ‘Homeland,’ store it, necessarily.” ‘Nashville,’ the Shonda Rhimes(- produced) shows, ‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones,’ obviously ‘The Good Wife’ (for which Preston won an Emmy), ‘Madam Jurnee Smollett-Bell of “Underground” Secretary’ ... any on WGN America show that has a “ ‘Downton Abbey.’ Of course, ‘Empire.’ I female center. love a lot of HGTV shows, love ‘Flip or I really try to Flop,’ ‘Love It or List It.’ ... My husband and support those I just bought a house, so I’m obsessed shows.” with interior design. I love ‘Master Class,’ Oprah’s ‘Super Soul Sundays’ are good.”

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 11 S STORY

“THE RANCH” Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson together again This Netflix comedy series “The Ranch,” is premiering Friday Story on next page

Page 12 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 STORY S Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson reunite on ‘The Ranch’ in Netflix series BY JAY BOBBIN which is a situational comedy with a live audience – but because we’re working with Netflix, we get to explore the A “That ‘70s Show” reunion is in store on “The Ranch.” ability to tell the story in a slightly different way. We don’t have commercial breaks, so we don’t have to pump a Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson – alias the earlier comedic joke at the end of every scene. We don’t have a series’ Kelso and Hyde – reteam as stars and producers 22-minute time capsule that we’ve got to deliver a show of the Netflix comedy that debuts Friday, April 1, with in, so it allows us to really play more dramatic story into the first 10 of its 20 first-season episodes available the format.” simultaneously. With “Two and a Half Men” alum Don Reo also an Executive producer Kutcher plays a semi-pro-football executive producer of “The Ranch,” co-executive failure who returns home to Colorado to join his brother producer Masterson recalls having done “eight years of and father (Masterson, Sam Elliott) in running the family ‘That ‘70s Show’ ” with Kutcher “and then spent some ranch, though there’s emotional strain from their many years doing different projects, but (we were) always years apart. In a rare series turn since her first major talking about getting back together and doing something role, as Wonder Girl to “Wonder Woman” in the mid- together. Our favorite stuff on ‘That ‘70s Show’ is the 1970s, Debra Winger also stars as the siblings’ bar- Hyde-Kelso relationship of domination and abuse, so operating mother. when this show was coming together, it was kind of like, ‘Let’s find adult versions of those guys ... a little more “Whether it’s television for network or television for cable realistic, but keeping that dynamic of how our comedy or television for a streaming service, you have the same works together.’ ” goal, which is to make a great product,” Kutcher reasons. “You try to get a great group of people together and work Admitting she’s a newcomer to the sitcom world, “An really hard to make something wonderful. I think there’s Officer and a Gentleman” and “Terms of Endearment” some beautiful liberties that you get when you’re working movie veteran Winger explains that “it was so intriguing to with Netflix that I’ve never experienced before ... and me, the whole picture, and Ashton and Danny – the fact one is just an absolute creative freedom. They’ll suggest that this was a world that they had inhabited and was a things to you that they’d like to see happen, but once they comfort zone (to them) in some ways. I was just intrigued order the show, they let you make your show. that I could live on that planet for a while. It had started in being interested in working with Sam on something, “I think, as a creator, it allows you to think a little bit so we’ll see if they kick me off the planet, but I’m really outside the box and try to push the edges of what’s happy to start learning all of it. The first 10 episodes were possible and what you’re capable of,” adds Kutcher, like school.” who also has four seasons of “Two and a Half Men” experience. “We’re doing a very traditional format, Click or tap on icon for more!

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 13 S STORY

A crisis of faith

Hugh Dancy stars in “The Path,” dropping with 10 episodes Wednesday on Hulu. Story on next page

Page 14 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 STORY S A family in a religious cult struggles with faith in Hulu’s ‘THE PATH’ BY GEORGE DICKIE A family at the center of a religious cult finds its faith tested in many ways in a new series premiering this week on the streaming service Hulu.

“The Path,” dropping with 10 episodes on Wednesday, March 30, follows the Lane family as they struggle with Pictured: Michelle Monaghan relationships, faith and power as members of the Meyerist to be taken in having a frame for your life. And I think Movement of upstate New York. They’re made up of father that’s something a lot of us are seeking.” Eddie (Aaron Paul, “Breaking Bad”), who converted to Meyerism after suffering a crisis of faith; Sarah (Michelle The premiere episode does a fine job of illustrating the Monaghan, “Source Code”), Eddie’s wife and a woman positives and negatives of life within the cult. On the born into a Meyerist family, whose devotion is tested plus side, its rescue of Mary in the opening scene and when she discovers her husband’s falsehoods; and son subsequent nursing her back to health. On the down Hawk (newcomer Kyle Allen), who wants to drop out side, we see two cult members stake out a defector and of high school and join the Movement full time – until try to pull her back to the sect. popular classmate Ashley Fields (Amy Forsyth, “Defiance”) pursues a relationship with him. As for whether working on a project that casts a critical eye at religion might make one cynical, Dancy says, “I The Lanes are under the influence of Cal Roberts (Hugh think we’re all playing people well, those of us within Dancy, “Hannibal”), the sect’s charismatic unofficial leader the Movement, ... that are genuinely either not wrestling who winds up roiling the waters of the Lanes’ already with, perhaps, but are very much living a life of belief, troubled marriage. And so is Mary Cox (Emma Greenwell, and faith is incredibly important to them. There are “Shameless”), a young addict saved by Cal and the some problems, some fault lines within the structure that Meyerists after a tornado struck her hometown. they’re in. But the basic thing that drives them all is that they believe and that they want to believe. Nobody thinks The series is the brainchild of creator Jessica Goldberg they’re in a cult, right?” (“Alex of Venice”), who is an executive producer with Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights”) and Michelle Lee “I think Stephen Colbert said, ‘If you’re wondering if (“Parenthood”). you are in a cult, you are in a cult,’ ” the British actor continues. “But these guys, they are not having that “I think our goal is to look at both sides of religion,” thought. They’re just trying to improve their lives, strive Goldberg recently explained to a gathering of TV critics in for something, heal themselves, heal people. There is Pasadena, Calif., “where it brings comfort, and then also something beautiful about that ... .” where ... when you go against the grain of the faith, sure, that does provide cynicism. But there’s also great comfort Click or tap on icon for more!

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 15 S STORY The Amazing Randi makes magic for PBS’ ‘Independent Lens’ BY JAY BOBBIN

If you practice any form of magic, you’d better keep the intention pure, or you’ll have the Amazing Randi to answer to.

James Randi has been in the illusion business for a half- century, and actively protecting his profession has made him a nemesis of those who use the tricks of the trade to bilk unsuspecting people. On Monday, March 28 (check local listings), PBS’ “Independent Lens” documentary “An Honest Liar” profiles Randi not only from the stance of his performing career -- with clips from his many television appearances with Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and others included – but also from his efforts to expose cheats, in part by staging hoaxes himself. Click or tap on icon for more!

“They just keep going because they’ve always got a sucker camera and says, ‘Come over here.’ And when you go over audience out there … some people, often in many cases there, you see that the spoon is hanging out one side of his elderly people and people who are not as well-educated hand. It’s already bent.” as they might be,” Randi says of the faith healers, psychics and others he opposes. “I don’t expect everyone out there During the making of “An Honest Liar,” an unexpected to be a genius that can solve these things, but the point is if legal development involving Randi’s longtime partner, artist they really need something at an emotional part of their life, Jose Alvarez, and multiple identities “took the direction a death in the family or a divorce, these things trigger that of the film in a very different path, but in the same path need. And they look for some consolation, and these people along the theme of the film,” says Tyler Measom, one of its are ready to give them the consolation. It’s a pack of lies, producer-directors along with Justin Weinstein, who adds, but they are willing to collect on them.” “As documentary filmmakers, you care about your subject, or else you’d do something else. So, we were concerned. Among those commenting on Randi’s life and work in “An We were worried. We didn’t know what would happen.” Honest Liar” are Penn & Teller, “Science Guy” Bill Nye, However, Randi cited a Oliver Cromwell saying by telling music’s Alice Cooper, “MythBusters” staple Adam Savage them to proceed with a “warts and all” profile. … and Uri Geller, the self-declared psychic who supposedly can bend spoons just by using his mind, and who has been The Toronto, Canada-born Randi allows that in his crusade a particular target of Randi’s debunking attempts. against those who would use illusion improperly, “It’s very “I can tell you very simply,” Randi purports of Geller’s hard to convince some people, because they have very technique. “You do it when no one is looking, and that’s good educations, that they have been wrong. And many of exactly what Uri Geller does. Now, he’s a much younger them have admitted that they saw that I was speaking truth man than I. I swear that if you give me a teaspoon or give and that they were wrong … and, then, you get a letter two me 20 teaspoons, I can probably hold them all in one hand years later that says, ‘I looked over the evidence again. No. -- but when Mr. Geller picks up a teaspoon, he picks it up I’m convinced that the kids could bend spoons with their with both hands as if it’s very heavy, turns away from the minds.’ And it’s discouraging, Yes, it is. But that’s my job.”

Page 16 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 STORY S

‘Supergirl’ and ‘The Flash’ meet in a cross-network episode

BY JAY BOBBIN Big production values have to be anticipated from a If merging two series across different networks seems like a meeting of two super-icons, and Kreisberg admits, “We superhuman feat, a couple of shows ideal for that challenge saved our shekels for this one. We took a little bit out of have met it. every (episode budget) surrounding it so we could really go to town on this. It feels huge; it feels epic. We shot in the desert, we shot in downtown L.A., and it’s been a The new Monday, March 28, episode of CBS’ “Supergirl” blast.” also involves the title character of The CW’s Tuesday adventure “The Flash.” The powerful, DC Comics-based alter egos of Kara Danvers (played by Melissa Benoist) and With The CW’s “Arrow” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) team up in a story that pits them also under the same shingle, the producers rarely if against villainnesses Silver Banshee and Livewire (Italia ever have a moment that’s less than busy ... so they’re grateful for all the relationships that facilitated the Ricci, as the evil alias of the Siobhan Smythe role she’s “Supergirl”/“The Flash” crossover. been playing on “Supergirl,” and Brit Morgan). Kreisberg reflects, “Because it was The CW and CBS In making the crossover happen, it hasn’t hurt that the two (which share ownerships), and because both shows are shows share executive producers. One of them, Andrew produced by Warner Bros. Television – which owns The Kreisberg, wrote the script with Michael Grassi – with fellow CW with CBS – it wasn’t quite as tricky as it might have executive producer Greg Berlanti devising the story. “It’s so been, had we been trying to cross over with a show that much fun to see those two characters together,” Kreisberg was on Fox or NBC. says. “It’s that same giddy feeling you got when you were a kid and you opened a comic book, and on the last ‘splash’ “At the end of the day, everybody was as excited by the page of a Batman comic, Green Lantern showed up. prospect of this as we were ... and they’re comic-book fans, and fans of these shows, especially (Warner Bros. “Melissa and Grant are both such easygoing, happy, Television president) Peter Roth and (CW chief) Mark positive hard-working No. 1’s on the call sheet,” adds Pedowitz. They wanted to see this, I think, just as much Kreisberg, “to watch them work together and have fun and as we did and the fans did.” get such a kick out of it, it was a really special few weeks for everybody.” Click or tap on icon for more! March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 17 S SPORTS

J.B.HOLMES Right at Holmes in Houston

STORY ON NEXT PAGE FULL NAME: John Bradley Holmes HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 5 foot 11 inches, PGA TOUR WINS: 4 190-pounds BORN: April 26, 1982 HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: COLLEGE: University of Kentucky Has played in 22 Masters, making the BIRTHPLACE: Campbellsville, Ky. cut in 12 of them; SEC Champion TURNED PRO: 2005

Page 18 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 SPORTS S

BY DAN LADD

J.B. Holmes hasn’t won a PGA event since his victory at the Shell Houston Open in 2015. He’s hoping for a repeat performance of that effort when the action picks up from the Golf Club of Houston, Saturday, April 2, on NBC.

With The Masters sneaking up on members of the PGA Tour the time is right for an oft-contender like Holmes to catch his foes looking ahead. Holmes could use a push in both the money and Fed Ex Cup standings, and at times, has shown some poise. He had back-to-back top ten finishes (sixth place in both) at the Farmers Insurance Open and Waste Management Phoenix Open. He also finished eighth at the Hero World Challenge, an unofficial event, and placed just outside the top-ten in three other tournaments. Still, at press-time he was 40th in point standings and was ranked 32nd in the money leaders standings.

If Holmes can catch fire, his chances of climbing in both standings is excellent. Household names like Jordan Spieth and Phil Mickelson are struggling outside the top-ten with only Bubba Watson among the more popular golfers making that cut. Brandt Snedeker, Adam Scott and Kevin Kisner have been more common on the leader boards and in the standings thus far.

Still, a lot of golf remains, including that big tournament at Augusta next weekend. For now, J.B. Holmes would be content to not only notch another top-ten finish, but find his name at the top of the leader board for the first J.B.HOLMES time in a year.

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 19 M MOVIES JAY BOBBIN'S THEATRICAL MOVIE REVIEW

in question to make it fresh You just never say “never” ... and Jackman largely does. to some people, and “Eddie the Eagle” is one of them. Jim Broadbent and Christopher Walken also The British athlete named turn up in the cast directed Michael “Eddie” Edwards by actor Dexter Fletcher fuels the latest example of (who made a memorable a genre that’s been around screen underdog himself for some time now: the feel- in “The Rachel Papers”), good true-sports movie. If with Walken making his you know the story being usual sort of impact that dramatized, there’s little can’t be denied even in the room for surprise, though shortest of roles. Much as the result still can leave you Jackman plays mentor to smiling. Egerton. Walken plays that to Jackman; it’s one of the That’s exactly the effect, as movie’s top treats to see Taron Egerton (“Kingsman: them work together, brief The Secret Service”) plays though it is. Eddie, looked down upon by the British selection And then, there’s the matter team for the 1988 Winter of the skiing itself, which Olympics. When he’s cut “Eddie the Eagle” captures from the downhill-skiing quite well. There certainly squad, the underdog are bumps along the way, doesn’t take it lightly, and it’s an art in itself to redirecting his focus to ski show those effectively. jumping. Fletcher achieves that nicely, leading up to the payoff at The focus is quite intense, the Calgary Olympics when too. Eddie refuses to let Eddie finally has to give all anything or anyone deter he has to the dream he’s him from his goal, thanks pursued. to his own drive and the unflagging support of his Having the cameras at parents. And, ultimately, the top of the ski jump thanks also to an initially gives viewers the you- reluctant mentor – a are-there feeling that the veteran of the sport played picture‘s conclusion virtually by Hugh Jackman. ‘EDDIE THE demands, and it’s satisfying to have made the journey Jackman actually is much with the title character all the of the fun here, playing a way to that point. burnout who eventually EAGLE’ redeems himself by training In the end, “Eddie the Eagle” our hero. You’ve seen that FLIES ON doesn’t quite soar ... but for character in movies a zillion what its aim is, it flies high times, so it’s up to the actor THE SKI SLOPES enough.

Page 20 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 MOVIES M JAY BOBBIN'S MOVIE REVIEW MOVIES TO WATCH

“THE HATEFUL EIGHT” Part of the fun of any Quentin Tarantino project lies in sensing the filmmaker’s evident love for conventions of earlier movies, and how he’ll incorporate those into his own by putting twists on them. This Western is another example, boasting an impressive core group of players that includes Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Demian Bichir, Walton Goggins (“Justified”), Michael Madsen, Tarantino-film regular Samuel L. Jackson and recent Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh. Most of them play strangers who become stagecoach companions, but a blizzard puts a halt to their travels, and resulting complications and suspicions leave in doubt who will survive. Channing Tatum and Lee Horsley (“Matt Houston”) also appear, and writer-director Tarantino narrates the lengthy, often vicious saga. The music score is by the celebrated DVD Ennio Morricone. ››› (R: AS, N, P, GV) (Also Top Pick on Blu-ray) Pictured: Samuel L. Jackson

UPCOMING DVD RELEASES Coming Soon on DVD... “THE EXPANSE: SEASON ONE” “JACKIE ROBINSON” (April 12): (April 5): Earthlings and Martians The same week it debuts on PBS, try to coexist in the Syfy series; stars Ken Burns’ profile of the baseball include Thomas Jane and Shohreh and civil-rights icon (voiced in some Aghdashloo. (Not rated: AS, P, V) sequences by Jamie Foxx) comes to home video. (Not rated) “STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS” (April 5): The “THE REVENANT” (April 19): The enormously popular fantasy recent Oscar winner for best actor franchise gets another chapter; (Leonardo DiCaprio) and director returnees include Harrison Ford, and (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu) is an Daisy Ridley and John Boyega also early-19th-century frontier survival star. (PG-13: V) story. (R: AS, N. P, GV)

“GRACE AND FRANKIE: SEASON “RIDE ALONG 2” (April 26): Kevin ONE” (April 12): Jane Fonda and Hart and Ice Cube reunite as their Lily Tomlin reunite in the Netflix characters team with a female cop series as women left by their (Olivia Munn) against a drug dealer. husbands ... for each other. (Not (PG-13: AS, P, V) rated: AS, N, P) Family Viewing Ratings Pictured: Thomas Jane AS Adult situations P Profanity V Violence N Nudity GV Graphic Violence March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 21 S FAVORITE SHOWS

Jaimie Alexander stars in “Blindspot”

James Corden “The Late Late Show Carpool Tea Leoni stars in Karaoke “Madam Secretary” Primetime Taraji P. Henson stars Special” in “Empire”

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 8 p.m. on CBS 10:01 p.m. on NBC 10 p.m. on CBS Madam Secretary Blindspot The Late Late Show Carpool Veteran television journalist Jane Jane (Jaimie Alexander) takes matters Karaoke Primetime Special Pauley becomes the latest personality into her own hands to protect her One of the most popular and talked- to portray herself on this show in the comrades in the new episode “Older about features of James Corden’s new episode “On the Clock.” She Cutthroat Canyon,” as a painting stolen program showcase his teamings with apparently brings her ”A” game, since from a gallery — and incorporating various music stars, singing the given she conducts what’s described as a one of her tattoos — becomes the artist’s hits while tooling around with “grueling” interview with Elizabeth (Tea blueprint for a series of attacks on the him or her in an automobile. This Leoni) — who has other worries here, team. To stop the threat, Jane makes new special compiles many of those since a plane crash affects the peace herself disappear. Jordana Spiro and segments, with Corden’s sessions with talks she’s staging with the prime Francois Arnaud continue their guest Adele and Elton John certain to be ministers of Israel and Pakistan. Henry roles. Sullivan Stapleton, Marianne among the ones excerpted. There’s (Tim Daly) tries to help find a terrorist. Jean-Baptiste and Ashley Johnson also a new example staged specifically New also star. New for this hour, with Jennifer Lopez joining Corden on the road. New

Page 22 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote March 27 - April 2, 2016 continued on next page FAVORITE SHOWS S

WEDNESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 p.m. on FOX 9 p.m. on FOX 8 p.m. on FOX Empire Hell’s Kitchen Rosewood Season 2 of the drama resumes Who doesn’t like ice cream? That may Actor and director Vondie Curtis- with the spring-premiere episode, be a dangerous question to pose to Hall (“Chicago Hope”) guest stars as “Death Will Have His Day,” as the contestants in the new episode “7 Rosewood’s (Morris Chestnut) dad, who Lucious (Terrence Howard) is Chefs Compete,” as they take a blind generates problems for his son during determined to get his company taste test to name different flavors. a trial in which both are testifying, in back. Not unexpectedly, Cookie If three wrong guesses are made, “Quadriplegia and Quality Time.” The (Taraji P. Henson) has her own a different teammate will suffer the father also causes a shock for his ideas about that. The entire Lyon consequences. The winners get a son when he and Donna (Lorraine family ends up shaken by a sudden kitchenware shopping spree, while Toussaint) offer a revelation. Mackenzie tragedy. Guest stars include Naomi the losers get to deal with malodorous Astin also guest stars. Jaina Lee Ortiz Campbell and William Fichtner. fruits. “Family Ties” alum Meredith and Gabrielle Dennis also star. Jussie Smollett, Bryshere “Yazz” Baxter and Olympic-medalist swimmer Gray, Grace Gealey and Gabourey Haley Anderson are guests. Gordon Sidibe also star. New Ramsay hosts. New

THURSDAY 10 p.m. on FX Archer Macho superspy and phrasing enthusiast Sterling Archer (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) returns for his seventh season of animated adventures with the new episode “The Figgis Agency,” which finds Archer breaking into a mansion to restore the honor of a Hollywood starlet. Aisha Tyler, Jessica Walter, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer and Amber Nash round out the principal voice cast. New

10 p.m. on HISTORY Gordon Ramsay Vikings Morris Chestnut stars in hosts “Hell’s Ambitious King Ecbert (Linus “Rosewood” Kitchen” Roache) schemes to gain the crown of Mercia, but the real action is happening in Paris, where the Vikings attack again with considerable force. Rollo’s (Clive Standen) defenses prove to be formidable, however. Back in Kattegat, the mysterious wanderer Harbard (guest star Kevin Durand) reappears and causes a stir among the women of the community in the new episode “The Profit and the Loss.” New

“Archer”

March 27 - April 2, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 23