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Courtesy of Gracenote September 4 - 10, 2016 C What’s HOT this contents Week! YOURTVLINK TOP STORIES 3 “Community” alum salutes the THE STORY! area where he grew up with the seriocomic FX series “Atlanta,” premiering Tuesday. He tells Jay Bobbin about weaving the story of two cousins involved in the rap- business around his own personal and professional experiences.

12-13 Three crooked tech entrepreneurs try to manipulate a digital currency for their own nefarious ends in Crackle’s “StartUp.” George Dickie talks with series stars Martin Freeman and Edi Gathegi about the storyline and their characters.

14-15 A Vietnam vet who is having trouble assimilating FOOD back into Memphis society finds himself at the 7 Food, friends and fun with Haylie Duff of a nefarious party who wants to use him as a paid assassin in Cinemax’s “Quarry.” George Dickie gets the lowdown on what to expect from series star Logan REALITY Marshall-Green. 16 Katie Couric enlists more star power to ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ SPORTS 17 The premium-channel debut of “: The Force Awakens” marks a rare approach, since it will 18-19 Miller turns up the pressure on NFL premiere on all six Starz channels simultaneously quarterbacks Saturday. Jay Bobbin writes about the significance of that simulcast, and about the fllm’s theatrical success. MOVIES 20-21 Theatrical Review, and Our top DVD releases IN EVERY ISSUE CELEBRITY 4 gives acting advice 22-23 Our top suggested programs to watch this week! 5 Jon Voight feels ‘very lucky’ as ‘Ray Donovan’ Emmy nominee Visit YourTVLINK.com 6 Corey Stoll’s character is an for more stories! entertaining drunk OUR STAFF 8 Pamela Adlon seeks ‘Better Things’ in Writers: Jay Bobbin, George Dickie, John Crook Graphic Design: Nicolle Burton her seriocomic FX series Quality Team: Michelle Wilson, Lisa Webster, Chris Browne 9 Getting to know Food Network judge Troy Johnson Page 2 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote September 4 - 10, 2016 Editor's choice STORY

Premiering Tuesday!

Donald Glover“Atlanta” goes back to ‘Atlanta’ in new FX series BY JAY BOBBIN suspended disbelief In honoring the area where that you need for he was raised, Donald all genres, and it’s Glover wants “Atlanta” to important to me as be unpredictable ... just an artist to keep like life. those intact.”

The former “” Glover prides writer and “Community” himself on using co-star wears many hats many Atlanta- including actor, writer and area actors in the executive producer on the 10-episode first FX series that premieres season that was with two episodes Tuesday, filmed on location. Sept. 6. He draws his other Co-star Henry also career as a rap artist – under was raised there, and the name Childish Gambino – he notes, “There are into the saga of promising rapper different worlds in Atlanta. Alfred (played by Brian Tyree Henry), The absurdity for one person who’s being guided by his manager is the reality for another, and we cousin Earn (Glover). Though the show is just take it as it is. And I think that’s billed as a comedy, it can and does turn quickly what’s so special about that city, that it is toward dramatic and even violent content, and Glover always constantly growing and changing. doesn’t mind keeping viewers on their toes. “Most people feel that they can’t go down there and learn “There really isn’t a limit, I feel, to how abstract you can anything from Atlanta,” adds Henry, “when I actually feel get as long as you believe it,” he reasons. “There has to like Atlanta has so much more to teach every other major be some sort of grounded nature to something so people city. It’s the one little hub that I feel that allows other people don’t start being like, ‘I don’t believe this,’ and then they to come in and bring what they want and also expand what turn the channel. if you have something that is grounded on some level, you can go anywhere. People want to go there with you if you do, but you “There really isn’t a limit, I feel, to how just have to have it so people are like, ‘OK. They abstract you can get as long as you are guided by their own rules every step of the way.’” believe it.”

Despite his own background in music, Glover determined we already have and already have discovered. And I just early in developing “Atlanta” that he didn’t want to play the love that.” rap artist “because that would be weird. I wouldn’t have enjoyed that. It’s possible to do that, but then it actually As “Atlanta” weaves its own story, Glover hopes for makes it harder for me to do (the show). It just clouds a lot viewers to get to know the city better “so when you come of things. I think it just wouldn’t be fun as much. to Atlanta, hopefully, it will feel like people who watch this will sort of feel like they are on a ride ... like when you go “If David Bowie made a show about him being a rock star, to Universal Studios and you are, ‘I’m really in Hogwarts.’ I you could definitely watch it ... but then there’s some times think if we are going to do that, let’s really show that. Let’s you’d be, like, ‘Is this dude playing me a little bit? Like, show both sides of that.” what’s going on?’ There’s a level of magic realism and Click on icon for more! September 4 - 10, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 CELEBRITY GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A HENRY WINKLER of ‘Better Late Than Never’ Tuesday on NBC

In the first episode of “Better Late Than Never,” you mentioned that doing the voice was how you were able to create the Fonz character for “Happy Days.” Is that true? That is true, that once I changed my voice in the audition it unlocked me and I just said anything that came to my mind.

So at that point, you were the Fonz? I started to create him in the room at the audition for my wonderful, late, great (series creator) Garry Marshall. You know, Sir Laurence Olivier only could play a character once he found the nose. He would create and change his nose with makeup putty, and once he found the nose of the character it gave him enough of a key to start to create whatever the brilliance was he did.

The wardrobe helps a lot. It helps a lot. There’s an old exercise from Commedia del’arte in the 15th century. You put on a piece of clothing or you put on a mask and you just stand in front of the mirror, you say not one word, and on its own your body starts to change and your posture changes and your shoulders move and all of a sudden a voice starts to come. You know, I did it at Yale in the drama school. That’s why I learned it. But it’s shockingly effective.

Did you use that with the Fonz at all with the black leather jacket? No, I just used the voice. Remember, I didn’t get the black leather jacket until the second year. I wore a cloth jacket because ABC thought I would be associated with crime.

Others in the “Happy Days” cast say Marshall encouraged them to branch out and take on roles other than acting. Did he do that with you? Yes, he did. He encouraged in every way. He was my Don and I will still kiss his metaphorical ring. FOLIO Click on icon for more!

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JON VOIGHT of ‘Ray Donovan’ Sunday on Showtime

You now have your second Emmy nomination for playing Mickey on “Ray Donovan.” What are your thoughts about it? I’m very lucky to be part of the consideration for that award. I’m working with a team of brilliant people, and I’ve got a role that catches whatever talent I have. It illuminates it and gives me a playground, and the audience likes it, so it’s great.

You’ve said that your work in the movie “Runaway Train” factored strongly into your “Ray Donovan” opportunity. In what way? That was a turning point in my acting life, to be asked to do that character. I had to come up with a new persona, which became an avenue to do a lot of other pieces ... and those, in concert with “Runaway Train,” were the reasons they came to me to play Mickey Donovan.

You recently produced and starred in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries “J.L. Family Ranch.” What made you want to make that? It had a nice feel to it. It was reminiscent of many things, and that’s the way we are. You look at the (political) conventions and see people coming together, and it’s very moving, really. You see people trying to solve problems and encourage each other. A convention is really nothing more than a big town meeting.

Besides fellow acting veterans James Caan and Melanie Griffith, you also wanted Teri Polo of Freeform’s “The Fosters” in “J.L. Family Ranch.” Why? Each one of those people was very strong in it, but my friend Teri is a person I really have great admiration for. I’m an encourager of her serious work, because she’s a very, very fine actress. I got the cast I wanted ... and I think we’re going to do another one, because the conclusion Click on icon for more! left it a little up in the air as to what comes next.

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Eph seems like a pretty functional alcoholic, at least judging from the first few episodes of Season 3. Is he? Yeah (laughs) I mean it’s not really sort of that traditional narrative of immediately hitting bottom. It’s a low plateau but it seems to be pretty much a plateau – he doesn’t seem about to take an abstinence pledge anytime soon. ... We’re certainly not trying to advocate anything (laughs) on the show but actually I think it’s something that makes Eph sort of tolerable to some of the people around him. He can be pretty arrogant and so at least with the alcohol he’s sort of entertaining.

Is he a fun character to play, drunk or sober? Yeah, he’s a fun character. He’s obviously somebody who’s incredibly capable and smart and driven. But (he is) countering the most absurdly resilient foe that one can imagine and he’s somebody who’s been successful his whole life and then suddenly there’s this set of obstacles that are seemingly insurmountable. But one thing that’s really sort of great about this show and one that Carlton (Cuse, the showrunner) is sort of constantly sort of infusing the show with is a sense of adventure as opposed to just horror. I think horror is a hard thing to maintain over the course of a series. But adventure, there’s sort of a sense of joy of discovery and the sense of there’s a goal that we’re working toward. And for all the arrogance and bitterness and alcoholism of Eph, there is this incredibly optimistic side to him and he’s absolutely determined to solve this . So that’s a fun set of Click on icon for more! contradictions to play.

Page 6 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote September 4 - 10, 2016 GEORGE DICKIE’S WHAT'S FOR DINNER TASTY DUFF travels the country on her stomach in ‘Haylie’s America’ Haylie Duff wears many hats: actress, producer, food blogger and mother of an active 1-year-old daughter. Now she adds to her resume host of her own foodie/travel series, Cooking Channel’s “Haylie’s America.”

Premiering Thursday, Sept. 8, the 30-minute program takes the 31-year-old Houston native to various locales around the country to visit with friends, explore local food scenes and go on adventures.

“It’s a mix of places that I love and wanted to share with people and places that I always have wanted to visit ...,” she explains. “One of the things I really love about this new series is that I’m kind of getting to share favorite cities and also explore places with the audience as well.”

Over eight episodes, the host of “The Real Girl’s Kitchen” samples gourmet ice cream in Denver with former “7th Heaven” co-star Beverley Mitchell, Click or tap on icon dines on poke burritos with actress Alanna Masterson (“The Walking for more! Dead”), has a pre-concert “Coffee Talk” with Trisha Yearwood in Las Vegas and goes on an oyster excursion in New Orleans.

In Thursday’s series opener, she heads to Santa Barbara, Calif., with actor and fellow foodie Jonathan Bennett (“Cupcake Wars”) for an epic cheat day in which they devour beer-batter-and-cheese-infused waffle sandwiches, smoked tri tip brisket and a triple chop sandwich and, of course, bake cupcakes.

“I did a chocolate and wine (cupcake) because I was trying to keep it a little classy,” Duff says. “And Jonathan, of course, his cupcakes were filled with bourbon because he’s never to be outdone, of course. We did a little ‘Cake Wars’-style competition.”

“I’m not really known for my baking skills,” she continues. “That’s one thing that I have always sort of shied away from, like I can never really follow directions – in the kitchen or in life in general – so baking has never been my thing, my strong suit. So for me when the task is to bake them, I’m like, ‘Oh great.’ But I jumped into it because Jonathan put me up to the challenge, so I did pretty good. I’ll let you see the episode to see who wins the cupcake war.”

What book are you currently reading? What is your What did When was the last vacation next project? you have for you took, where and why? “Sad but true, when Ryan was first born, I was dinner last able to read so many books and then now the “I just started night? “I have been traveling for the books I’m reading, it’s almost like I’m starting working on show, so that’s more like work. from the beginning. I’m reading ‘ABCs.’ I’m my book “Airplane I guess the last vacation I took reading all the basics with Ryan. The last book proposal, and food. Isn’t that was last Christmas and New I got to read for myself was ‘The Girl on the hopefully the sad? I had Year’s, and I went to Kauai with Train,’ which feels like a long time ago now. second season a salad on my family. I went with Matty When you have a 1-year-old, your free time of ‘Haylie’s the airplane. (Rosenberg, her fiancé) and really isn’t so free anymore.” America.’ ” (Laughs)” Ryan for New Year’s.”

September 4 - 10, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 7 CELEBRITY JAY BOBBIN’S CELEBRITY SCOOP Checking In With Pamela Adlon who stars in “Better hings,” premiering hursday, Sept. 8 on FX

fter many years as a member of the Fox Broadcasting family, partially in voice-only roles, Pamela Adlon now has her eye set on A “Better Things.” The distinctively raspy “” and “Californication” alum not only stars in the seriocomic FX series – premiering Thursday, “I’m very aware of things that would be too personal,” she Sept. 8 – but also is its co-creator (with Louis maintains, “and my daughters know that I wouldn’t co-op their C.K.), frequent writer, sometimes director and lives. But my dad would always say, ‘Write what you know,’ and all an executive producer. Adlon plays Sam Fox, an my daughters are writers. I don’t walk into a room and go, ‘Wait. actress and single mother who finds constant Hang on. I’ve got to go write what just happened’ ... although I do challenges in raising her three daughters (Mikey that with my mother. She walks into the kitchen, and I just Madison, Hannah Alligood, Olivia Edward) and a pen and go, ‘Go,’ because I know it’s just going to be material dealing with a neighbor who also happens to be for me.” her mother (Celia Imrie). Birthdate: July 9, 1966 “I just feel like everything is funny in my life,” Birthplace: Adlon explains of her “Better Things” approach, Current residences: New York and “and there is a lot of funny in the darkness. I Family info: Divorced; has three daughters guess I like things that just feel real, and I don’t Other work includes: “TripTank” (voice only), “Louie,” like anything that’s dark without a heart. I just “Californication,” “Bob’s Burgers” (voice only), “WordGirl” (voice only), feel like there’s really no category for this kind of “Rake,” “Monk,” “Pound Puppies” (voice only), “Phineas and Ferb” (voice thing. It’s not comedy or dramedy. It’s like ‘The only), “Out There” (voice only), “Parenthood,” “Thundercats” (voice only), Incredible Feelings Show.’ ” “Beavis and Butt-Head” (voice only), “” (voice only), “ Legal,” “,” “Six Feet Under,” “” (voice only), An Emmy winner for her vocal work as “Recess” (voice only), “The Oblongs” (voice only), “” (voice Bobby Hill on the animated “King of the Hill,” only), “Bobby’s World,” “101 Dalmatians: The Series” (voice only), “Breast Adlon also has lent her sound to many other Men,” “Down the Shore,” “The Show,” “The Facts of Life” cartoons including “Bob’s Burgers,” “WordGirl,” Movie work includes: “Conception,” “Lucky 13,” “Teacher’s Pet” (voice “Phineas and Ferb,” “Thundercats” and “Beavis only), “” (voice only), “Recess: School’s Out” (voice only), and Butt-Head.” Though “Better Things” is “Sgt. Bilko,” “Bed of Roses,” “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” (voice only), semiautobiographical, she knows where to “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” “Say Anything ... ,” “Grease 2” draw the line in terms of referencing others. Click icon for more! Page 8 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote September 4 - 10, 2016 CELEBRITY PROFILE CELEBRITY TROY JOHNSON WHERE HE WAS FROM, HOW HE BEGAN, THE ROAD TO SUCCESS

- He was born Aug. 13, 1973 in San Diego and raised in Penasquitos.

- He attended California State University-Chico, graduating in 1997 with a BA in public speaking and creative writing. He won the universities poetry award.

- He was a pre-dental major at Chico State until a conversation initiated by his dentist dad convinced him to follow his passion as a writer.

- His first foray as a professional writer came in college, after he wrote a five-page anonymous critique of the local newspaper, The Synthesis, titled “Respectful Disrespect.” Impressed with his writing, The Synthesis responded with a letter in the paper offering the anonymous writer a job and eventually he became managing editor of the paper.

Troy Johnson is a writer, food critic and TV personality who can currently be seen as a judge on “Guy’s Grocery Games” on the Food Network.

- He was a music editor for San Diego City Beat and has - He also wrote and hosted Food Network’s one-hour written for The Huffington Post, Spin, Surfer, , special “Best Thing on Sliced Bread,” and has appeared as Paste, Mojo, Paper, etc. a food critic on “Iron Chef America,” “Extreme Chef” and “Best Thing I Ever Ate.” - He created, hosted and wrote the Emmy-winning TV show, “Fox Rox” dedicated to underground music. - In 2011, San Diego magazine named him editor at large, and he began work as the title’s dining critic. - In 2007, he splashed onto the food writing scene as the senior editor of Modern Luxury’s Riviera magazine, working - In 2013, he became a permanent judge on “Guy’s under James Beard Award winner Brad Johnson. Grocery Games” on Food Network.

- In 2008, his first book “Family Outing: What Happened - He continues to live and work in San Diego along with his When I Found Out My Mother Was Gay” was published. A wife and young daughter. memoir that is a deeply personal and often funny look into how a teenager copes with learning his mother is a lesbian.

- By 2010, his funny, irreverent food writing got him tapped Click icon for more! by Food Network to write and host the travel series “Crave.”

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WHAT THE CELEBRITIES HAVE TO SAY!

1. Martin Sheen, seen recently on “WE Day” on ABC, on his devotion to Turner Classic Movies “You know what I love about it? I can’t stop watching when (the movies) are in black-and- white. I’ll say, ‘Look at so-and-so!’ They’re all gone, but in some way, they’re preserved for us. Isn’t that amazing?”

1 2. Wagner Moura of “Narcos” on , about an extra benefit of his work on the series. 2 “I like the Spanish that I have now. I mean, I spent basically the two last years just learning, and being in Colombia, and speaking Spanish with people … so I feel pretty much more confident now with the Spanish that I have.”

3. Marcus Lemonis of “The Profit” on CNBC, about dealing with those whose businesses he invests in on the show “Body language is, unfortunately for them and fortunately for me, a pretty telling sign. And watching somebody sort of follow through on basic tasks, or (be) unwilling to follow through on basic tasks, is sort of a projection into what’s going to happen in the future.” 3

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ON DVRs

Katie Couric of “Stand Up to Cancer” on multiple networks My daughter’s working on the set of ‘Mr. Robot,’ so I’ve got that in the queue, as they say. I’m also interested in watching the documentary ‘Weiner,’ and I’ve been “ watching ‘Billions.’ I also love ‘Shameless,’ and I can’t wait for the new season of ‘The Affair.’”

Curtis Stone, recently of “Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking” on PBS “To be honest, I don’t watch a lot of television. I’m a USC fan, so I watch USC a fair bit. I watch the news and I watch a lot of ‘Sofia the First’ (laughs). Like I said, I’ve got two young kids so the little one’s into ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ and the other one is into ‘Sofia the First.’ ”

Corey Stoll of “The Strain” on FX “I don’t have cable. I watch everything through Pamela Adlon of “Better Things” on FX Netflix or HBO Go. ... I’m almost done watching “Anything that’s alternative, or a the ‘O.J.: Made in America’ documentary on documentary series ... all the HBO ESPN. That’s a really compelling and addictive documentaries. And I love ‘The show. I love ‘Archer,’ that and the John Oliver Americans’; I’m totally obsessed with it.” show. Those are probably my favorite shows right now.”

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“StartUp”Tuesday on Crackle Digital currency at the center of this new drama BY GEORGE DICKIE Digital currency is a topic that many outside the tech and economic fields might consider too esoteric to grasp. But that hasn’t stopped the streaming service Crackle from creating a drama about it in a gripping new series debuting this week.

In “StartUp,” which drops with 10 hourlong episodes on Tuesday, Sept. 6, Adam Brody (“The O.C.,” “Growing Up and Other Lies”) stars as Nick Talman, a whiz-kid financier at a boutique firm in Miami who suddenly finds himself in possession of a stash of ill-gotten cash courtesy of his wealthy and irresponsible father, who has disappeared. Rather than go to the FBI, Nick elects to hide the loot by investing in a tech startup firm headed by Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero, “Graceland”), who has written the code for a digital currency that could revolutionize world finance.

But it turns out the money belongs to a Haitian gang, and their second in command, Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi, “The Blacklist”), pays a visit to Nick to get it back. When that proves impossible, the three disparate souls are forced by circumstance into an unlikely partnership.

And they’ve attracted the attention of Phil Rask (Martin Freeman, “The Hobbit” movie trilogy), an FBI agent originally on the trail of Nick’s dad and his loot. He’s frustrated by bureaucratic red tape and disillusioned by colleagues on the take, and in Nick and his partners, he sees the possible payday his cohorts have been getting for years. Continued on next page

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Continued from previous page - “He’s a volcano that’s about to blow, really,” Freeman says of his character. “You join him at a point where he’s reached a crossroads in his professional and personal lives, where he has seen other people, for want of a better phrase, kind of take advantage of the American dream and get rich by cutting corners. And he has tried to play the game with a straight back and now he thinks, ‘Well, actually, why should I anymore? If everyone else is doing it, I’ve tried to do this the straight way, it’s not really getting me anywhere.’

“Also it’s not getting results ...,” he continues. “He wasn’t even bringing down bad guys, really, because bad guys can always get off because of money. ... He feels his job is kind of worthless from a justice point of view, so I think he’s thinking now, ‘Well f... it, I’m gonna join in if everyone else is doing it.’ ”

In Rask, Freeman welcomed the chance to flex a few new acting muscles playing an angry, intimidating FBI agent, certainly a marked departure from more genteel characters he’s played in the past, such as John Watson in the PBS series “Sherlock” and Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit” movies.

“I’m not a big guy,” Freeman says, “so it’s kind of slightly more interesting when you make someone of my stature a person who when they walk into a room makes people go ‘Oh, hang on. Who’s this guy?’ Which is fun. It’s fun from just an acting point of view.”

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BY GEORGE DICKIE Mac Conway is a man who’s been given a raw deal.

As played by Logan Marshall- Green (“Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Prometheus”) in the hourlong drama series “Quarry,” premiering Friday, Sept. 9, on Cinemax, he’s returned from two tours of duty in Vietnam in 1972 to find himself shunned by his loved ones and demonized by the public he fought for.

As he tries to re-adapt to life with wife Joni (Jodi Balfour, “Final Destination 5”) in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn., he struggles with PTSD and nightmares over a massacre he took part in. And “QUARRY” without a job, he soon finds himself drawn with best friend and battle PREMIERING FRIDAY comrade Arthur (Jamie Hector, “”) into a network of killing ON CINEMAX and corruption by a man known only as The Broker (Peter Mullan, A Vietnam vet becomes a killer- “Olive Kitteridge”). The Broker is a crafty man. So for-hire to make ends meet dubbed because he acts as middle man and point person between clients and his network of killers, he knows Mac is unemployed and in need of a job, and this line of work pays well. And having killed in Vietnam, Mac has the type of experience and skill The Broker is looking for. In this state, Mac is easily manipulated.

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Minus the killing, it’s a character that strikes close to home for the actor who plays him.

“Mac is based pretty much on my father ...,” Marshall-Green explains. “My dad is an older generation and it was essential that we find a Mac immersed in a progressive ‘70s feminist movement and the ousting of the macho male, essentially. And so I played him a bit like a dinosaur.

“You know, he’s rough around the edges and he smokes Pall Mall unfiltered and he drinks coffee black and he has a short temper and would never let a woman pay for him. He still is the guy who would stand when a woman leaves the table. And I wanted to infuse that morality of the ‘50s in him. You know, my dad flew in World War II, so again he was a different kind of vet but he’s the vet closest to me.”

As the season progresses and the killings mount, Mac struggles to reconcile himself with the violence he has wrought, both here and during the war, and takes what Marshall-Green describes as “spiritual penalties.” For the actor, that meant making Mac an unsympathetic character and an anti-hero.

“I don’t expect, nor do I really want the audience, to root for Mac’s actions or even to like him at times,” he says. “I don’t want him likable at times. I want him hard and grizzled and hard to be in a relationship with, a marriage with.

“But it’s my job to make you love him no matter what,” he continues, “and to attach yourself emotionally with him and to understand the emotional penalties he’s going through with this violence because let’s be honest, it’s a whole different climate right now that this Pictured: Logan Marshall-Green show’s coming out in. So it’s up to us to make sure that we earn every single bit of violence and never glorify.” Click icon for more!

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BY JAY BOBBIN As Katie Couric and many other celebrities continue their stand against cancer, they’re getting a big assist from Bradley’s willingness and enthusiasm is the proverbial Bradley Cooper. icing on the cake. We have been just thrilled to have the participation of so many people in the Hollywood community, and they have given so generously of their The multiple Oscar nominee lost his father to the disease time and talent. in 2011 and – much as current Yahoo global news anchor Couric did after it her first husband, attorney Jay Monahan, and her Virginia-senator sister Emily – he’s “I think that speaks to the fact that cancer does not channeling the loss into action as an executive producer discriminate,” adds Couric. “It affects everyone from all of, and participant in, the fifth special to benefit the Couric- walks of life everywhere in the country and the world. co-founded Stand Up to Cancer initiative. Airing Friday, This is personal for everyone.” Indeed, this year, people Sept. 5, on approximately 50 networks in the U.S. and are invited to submit photos and videos using the Canada simultaneously, the show combines performances social-media hashtag #Reasons2StandUp; some of the with informational segments aimed at increasing financial contributions will be shown on the telecast. support for medical research to find cures. Though the Stand Up to Cancer specials – which have “When I think about what has been accomplished, not aired every two years since 2008 – are among its focal only the money we’ve raised but the paradigm shift this points, the campaign is a year-round effort that manifests has helped accelerate, I am filled with such enormous itself in many ways. “I think it’s hard to miss the presence pride and admiration for everyone in this community,” of Stand Up to Cancer,” Couric says, “whether you’re Couric says of those who have participated in the cancer- talking about the All-Star Game of Major League Baseball, battling Entertainment Industry Foundation program. “This or that MasterCard does a huge campaign for us, or that is the most important work I do, and I’m just so gratified to there are Stand Up to Cancer posters at airports and be a part of it and to play a role.” public-service announcements in magazines … we are relentlessly on message 365 days a year, 24/7. The many other celebrities booked for this year’s special include Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Anna “That’s really because of the scientists,” Couric stresses. Kendrick, Emma Stone, Josh Gad, “Modern Family’s” Eric “We really want to do everything we can to help them Stonestreet, Alison Sweeney, Ken Jeong (“Dr. Ken”) and help us, because without the research dollars, they Niecy Nash. (who lost her manager husband can’t continue to do their work. We’re in such a critical Rene Angelil to throat cancer last January), Keith Urban time when it comes to new discoveries in the treatment and Little Big Town are slated to render songs. of cancer, we cannot take our foot off the gas pedal. They are really the superstars in this whole endeavor, Cooper’s involvement this year is, Couric reasons, an the people who and brilliant and selfless and working example of “how effective star power can be in spreading tirelessly in anonymous labs all across the country, with the message and capturing people’s attention, and I think very little recognition. Those are the people we do this for.”

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BY JAY BOBBIN film has grossed $2 billion-plus internationally, and its Not every movie can command several television influence can be seen in ways including the naming channels simultaneously. of Syfy’s recent “Sharknado: The 4th Awakens.” It also prompted those behind the Critics’ Choice Awards to Then again, not every movie bears the title “Star Wars.” poll voters who ultimately approved including it in last January’s honors, though the eligibility deadline had It took a while for the original in the enormously closed before the movie opened. popular, George Lucas-created series of sci-fi fantasies to reach TV, but not so with the latest chapter. Nine In terms of pleasing audiences, “The Force Awakens” months after its theatrical debut, the J.J. Abrams- brings back beloved characters from the original directed “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” saga – perhaps most notably is coming to premium cable in (played again by Harrison Ford), a very big way – premiering who figures into the action across all six Starz channels prominently as he and simultaneously on sidekick Chewbacca Saturday, Sept. 10. aim to retrieve their Millennium Having “The Force Falcon, acquired Awakens” clearly by scavenger is a big deal Rey (Daisy for Starz, and Ridley) and it marks the a defecting end of a Stormtrooper deal: It’s the dubbed last Disney- Finn (John distributed Boyega). film to be ‘The Force Awakens’ Once united, they shown by the across six Starz channels with latest ‘Star Wars’ chapter network as oppose its contract sinister for the First Order studio’s movie commander product ends. Kylo Ren Going forward, (Adam Driver). Disney’s main outlet for its big- Though its profit screen offerings makes it evident will be Netflix ... but that many people that doesn’t mean have seen “Star Wars: the seventh “Star Wars” The Force Awakens,” it theatrical adventure won’t would be unfair to spoil its stick around Starz for a while, surprises for those who may thanks not only to the channels but experience it for the first time via such other avenues as Starz on Demand Starz. That said, the Force being in six and the Starz App. (It also doesn’t hurt December’s places at once leaves no surprise about the event “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” by serving as an its latest example’s television arrival is deemed to be. unofficial teaser now.)

As was anticipated, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” received a thunderous response upon its release, in box- Click on icon for more! office terms alone. To date, the generally well-reviewed

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FULL NAME: Vonnie B’Vsean Miller Jr. NO.: 58 BORN: March 26, 1989 COLLEGE: Texas A&M BIRTHPLACE: Dallas, TX DRAFT: 2011, Round 1, Pick 2 HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6-foot, 3-inches/250-pounds HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS: Super Bowl TEAM: Denver Broncos champion, 50; Super Bowl MVP, 50; Pro Bowl, POSITION: Outside linebacker 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015; Defensive Rookie of the Year, 2011

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BY DAN LADD The Denver Broncos would not have won Super Bowl 50 without linebacker Von Miller. The reigning Super Bowl champs and their Super Bowl MVP host a familiar opponent, the Carolina Panthers in the 2016 NFL season “kickoff” game that will be a Super Bowl rematch on Thursday, Sept. 8, on NBC. While the Panthers and quarterback xceeds Cam Newton will seek to atone for their 24-10 Super Bowl embarrassment at the hands of Miller and the Broncos top-rated xpectations defense from 2015, Denver’s offense will have to sort out their quarterback situation for this game.

Back in June, Miller signed a new contract making him the highest paid defensive player ever in the NFL. Up to this point he’s done everything that’s been expected of him since he came into the league in 2011; a year in which he was honored as the defensive Rookie of the Year. He was taken as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft behind only Newton.

In Super Bowl 50, Miller ironically harassed Newton the entire game, earning 2.5 sacks off the mobile quarterback and forcing two fumbles; one of which resulted in an early touchdown. His efforts earned him the game MVP honors. The Broncos have built an aggressive defense around him which culminated in their Super Bowl victory.

In just five seasons Miller already has 60 sacks, and is the third fastest player to reach 50. A healthy career should place him among the VONMILLER all time sack leaders.

September 4 - 10, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 19 MOVIES JAY BOBBIN'S THEATRICAL MOVIE REVIEW ‘SUICIDE SQUAD’ bends superhero-movie rules Our Take If you were going hard for an actor to remake “The to make his mark Dirty Dozen” and when the others set it in the world around him are of superheroes, so colorful, but it you’d pretty much must be said that have “Suicide Kinnaman gives it Squad.” a good try.

The idea is that As with the Marvel the bad guys get movies, there to become the are efforts to link good guys in the “Suicide Squad” latest movie based to other films on DC Comics within the DC characters. The Universe, some fact that they can of them of very be so reckless recent vintage. is what makes So as not to give them – and the away surprises, movie, written let’s just say that if and directed you’ve seen some by David Ayer of those recent – entertaining. pictures, you should be satisfied There are Pictured: Jared Leto with that effort ... elements of such particularly since other pictures as “Suicide Squad” “The Expendables” and “Escape From New York” as the has the same grim government prisoners get to reduce their sentences by look that makes it a good tonal match for those other tackling seemingly suicidal missions ... thus making them movies. the Suicide Squad. It’s a definite leap to buy fully into the premise of the And what an oddly assorted team. Will Smith plays picture, since to do so, you have to root for characters always accurate assassin Deadshot, Jay Hernandez whose actions largely aren’t the sort you normally portrays fire-loving Diablo, Margot Robbie is the Joker- cheer for. That is the very fiber of the story, though, inspired Harley Quinn, and even The Joker himself is and a failure to reorient inevitably will translate into present here as played by Jared Leto (an interesting disappointment with the film. casting choice, but not the best one ever made for the role, as Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson’s earlier work If you like your superheroes as upstanding straight supports). arrows, “Suicide Squad” may not be for you. But if you don’t mind their taking some steps off the traditional Joel Kinnaman also stars as the military man assigned path, this is an intriguing and fun variation on some very to keep them in line, akin to Lee Marvin’s “Dirty Dozen” familiar themes. major with just as thankless a job. Such a part keeps it

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“MONEY MONSTER” Well-known to be good friends, George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite from the “Ocean’s” crime capers in this tense, tightly told (in real time) melodrama directed by Jodie Foster. Clooney plays a television financial guru – think Jim Cramer – whose advice ends up costing an investor (Jack O’Connell, “Unbroken”) big-time, prompting the vengeful man to take the celebrity hostage while on the air. The program’s producer (Roberts) tries to figure out a way to defuse the situation before a widely watched tragedy results. Dominic West (“The Affair”), Caltriona Balfe (“Outlander”) and Giancarlo Esposito also are in the cast, but the tale largely boils down to a two-man show between Clooney and O’Connell, and their teamwork pays off. DVD extras: three “making-of” documentaries; deleted scenes; music video. ››› (R: AS, P, V) DVDTop Pick (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) Pictured: George Clooney Coming Soon on DVD... “CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR” “NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY (Sept. 13): Captain America (Chris RISING” (Sept. 20): The comedy Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey sequel finds a couple (, Jr.) lead opposing factions of Marvel Rose Byrne) facing the same superheroes. (PG-13: P, V) problems they had with a next-door fraternity from a sorority. (R: AS, N, P) “THE CONJURING 2” (Sept. 13): A spectre-plagued mother (Frances “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA O’Connor) is the next person helped TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS” by paranormal experts (Patrick Wilson, (Sept. 20): The heroes on the half- Vera Farmiga). (R: AS, P, V) shell battle Shredder as well as a new foe, Krang. (PG-13: P, V) “FREE STATE OF JONES” (Sept. 20): A fugitive (Mathew “X-MEN: APOCALYPSE” (Oct. 4): McConaughey) from the Confederate The younger incarnations of the Army returns to Mississippi and forms Marvel heroes try to save mankind his own force in a secession bid. (R: from a more malevolent mutant; AS, V) Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy Pictured: Chris Evans star. (PG-13: AS, P, V)

Family Viewing Ratings AS Adult situations P Profanity V Violence N Nudity GV Graphic Violence September 4 - 10, 2016 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 21 FAVORITE SHOWS

Akbar Gbajabiamila co-hosts “”

Anthony Anderson of “blackish” is Juliet Rylance stars in Kristen Connolly stars among those featured in “The ABC “American Gothic” in “Zoo” Fall Preview Special” SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 7 p.m. on ABC 8 p.m. on NBC 9 p.m. on CBS The ABC Fall Preview Special American Ninja Warrior Zoo This look at the network’s lineup for The second week of the National The suspense series inspired by the new season splits the hosting Finals continues the season’s ultimate and Michael duties between stars of returning in Las Vegas, where the Ledwidge’s novel wraps up its second shows and some of those featured in challenges that await the competitors season with a two-hour finale, debuting series. still left standing include the Snake “Shepherds of Men/Clementine” ... but (“blackish”) and Randall Park (“Fresh Run, the Giant Log Grip, the Broken don’t expect a definite resolution, since Off the Boat”) represent those who Bridge and the Flying Squirrel. The the animals will stay on the rampage: will start new seasons, while Katy person who ultimately triumphs will Season 3 has been ordered for next Mixon (“American Housewife”), John get bragging rights and a bigger bank summer. Threads are very likely to Ross Bowie (“Speechless”) and account — to the tune of $1 million. be left hanging, then, as Jackson Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata and Akbar Gbajabiamila (James Wolk) and his cohorts take (“Notorious”) help introduce their soon- are the hosts, and Kristine Leahy their counterattack to its limits for now. to-premiere programs. New serves as co-host. New Kristen Connolly and Billy Burke also star. New

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WEDNESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 p.m. on CBS 9 p.m. on CBS 9 p.m. on NBC American Gothic 10th Annual ACM Honors Aquarius Another victim will be claimed — Though this event has existed for a Going rogue, Hodiak () specifically, one of the Hawthornes decade, it’s being televised for the tracks down a serial killer who’s been — before Election Day is over in first time, focusing on those who contacting him in a very troubling way the drama’s two-hour season finale, received special honors and off-camera in the new episode “Mother Nature’s “Madame X/Whistler’s Mother.” The accolades in last April’s 51st Academy Son.” Manson (Gethin Anthony) is family hopes the police can keep of Country Music Awards. The members determined to acquire needed money them protected, but Garrett (Antony of Lady Antebellum serve as hosts at by sending Bobby, Mary and Sadie Starr) turns out to be the key. Alison Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, with (Mark L. Young, Abby Miller, Ambyr (Juliet Rylance) tries to stay focused , Carrie Underwood, Childers) to be his decidedly dangerous on her mayoral bid, but a suddenly Keith Urban, Crystal Gayle and Little emissaries. The season finale, “I Will,” resurfaced friend poses another Big Town among those celebrated. follows immediately. Grey Damon, . Guest stars include Urban also is a performer here, as are Emma Dumont, Claire Holt and Bethany Joy Lenz (“One Tree Hill”). Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean. New Michaela McManus also star. New Season Finale New

THURSDAY 8:30 p.m. on NBC NFL Football Tonight’s Super Bowl 50 rematch and NFL kickoff game in Denver has the champion Broncos hosting Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers. For Newton, it’s a chance to redeem himself against last season’s top defense. Denver, meanwhile has a quarterback situation to figure out with Peyton Manning now retired and former backup Brock Osweiler in Houston. That leaves journeyman Mark Sanchez as the likely starter with backups Trevor Siemian and rookie Keith Urban Paxton Lynch on the sidelines. New is among the honoress in the David Duchovny stars in 10th Annual 9 p.m. on CW “Aquarius” ACM Honors Beauty and the Beast Vincent (Jay Ryan) may not manage to avoid showing his true colors — and true beast — when he’s secretly subjected to an interrogation in the new episode “No Way Out.” If he ends up being unable to control his instincts, his future with Cat (Kristin Kreuk) could be all but doomed. Austin Basis, Nicole Gale Anderson, Nina Lisandrello and Michael Roark also star. New

Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers take on the Denver Broncos

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