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Editor’s Note Meet A Look Ahead At 2019! THE CREW You ready for this new year?! Have you made your resolutions? I always start the new year by cleaning out my DVR, BARB which gets me thinking how long I’ve been watching some of First on my list to DVR: these shows. I’ve been watching CBS’ Survivor for 18 years! That’s Black Monday on hard to believe. I actually met Season 1 winner Richard Hatch a Showtime few years ago at PopCon in Milwaukee. It was the first time he attended a fan event of this Most excited for in type, and he was selling shells he collected 2019: Game of Thrones’ from Borneo and other memorabilia. We final season this April had a quirky, fun conversation. (He actually took off his shirt to show me his ‘‘seek truth, question everything” tattoo that spans his JEFF entire back. “Like truth, there’s always a piece First on my list to DVR: of the puzzle missing,” he told me.) I ended Project Blue Book on up buying one of his framed shell pieces, History and it still sits in my office next to my photo My exciting New Year’s of my kids. That’s one show I just can’t stop plans: Cozy evening in watching. Shark Tank I’ve been watching with family for nine years! The Walking Dead for eight! The list goes on and on and, thankfully, a new year offers an opportunity to start a new TV journey. 2019 brings a rich slate of new shows. Whatever your mood or interest, rest assured one of the networks has you covered. KELLIE From Showtime’s new comedy Black Monday (Don Cheadle takes First on my list to DVR: viewers back to Oct. 19, 1987 — the worst stock market crash in MythBusters Jr. on the history of Wall Street) to the riveting Valley of the Boom’s take Science Channel. My on the start of the internet to nature series, competition series kids are gonna love it! (The Titan Games), bizarre singing series (The Masked Singer) and Favorite part of the more, you won’t be disappointed — and that’s just in January. original MythBusters: As always, we look forward to helping you find what’s new Anytime Buster, the series’ and what’s good to watch on TV in 2019! Happy New Year! And crash test dummy, was in peril. happy viewing!

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Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg will host the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards airing on NBC Sunday, Jan. 6. Idris Elba’s daughter, Isan Elba, will serve as ambassador, presenting the trophies to award winners and escorting them offstage. Here’s a quick look at just some of the nominees this year: Best Television Best Television Best TV Movie Or Best Motion Picture Series — Drama Series — Comedy Limited Series — Drama The Americans (FX) Barry (HBO) The Alienist Black Panther Bodyguard (Netﬂix) The Good Place (NBC) The Assassination of BlacKkKlansman Homecoming Kidding (Showtime) Gianni Versace Bohemian Rhapsody (Prime Video) The Kominsky Method Escape at Dannemora If Beale Street Could Killing Eve (Netﬂix) Sharp Objects Talk (BBC America) The Marvelous Mrs. A Very English Scandal A Star Is Born Pose (FX) Maisel (Prime Video) America’s Got Talent: The Champions: © 2018 NBCUniversal Champions: © 2018 The Media, LLC. Credit: NBC.America’s Got Talent: Susan Boyle: © 2014 Getty Images, Credit:

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NBC Thursday, Jan. 10. DATE SET an/courtesy of HBO. HBO finally announced the premiere date for NEW YEAR, NEW … REBOOT? Season 8 of 4 Game of Thrones — or at 2 Temptation Island, one of the first least the premiere month. Daenerys Targaryen, controversial romance reality shows to enthrall Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister and all of your the world in the early 2000s, is being rebooted favorite Westeros residents will return this April at USA Network with a 10-episode straight- for the sure-to-be thrilling series conclusion. 2 to-series order and returning host Mark L. Walberg. You won’t need to wait long — the FROM THE PAGE TO THE SCREEN series premieres Tuesday, Jan. 15. Speaking Prepare yourself for even more literary The 4400 of reboots, , the sci-fi show that aired adaptations to hit your screen in 2019 and on USA from 2004-07, is in the works for a beyond. Joyland, Stephen King’s amusement remake, now at The CW. Showtime’s recent park novel, is being adapted for Freeform. Victorian stunner, Penny Dreadful, is being BBC America is taking on the daunting task revived — with entirely new characters. The of adapting author Terry Pratchett’s ambitious Penny Dreadful: City of 3 new series, called Discworld novels into an eight-episode Angels, will take place in a 1938 Los Angeles Good Behavior: © Turner Entertainment Comapny. Credit: Vincent Peters. Networks, Warner Inc A Time Good Behavior: © Turner hourlong series called The Watch. And USA Getty Images. Credit: Marcus Ingram/Gettydit: Jason Willheim. Shaq: © 2018 Credit: Helen Slo Images. Game of Thrones: deeplydeeply rootedrooted in Mexican-American folklore Network has cast its leads for a new TV andand spirispirituality.tual spinoff of the Jason Bourne universe of books and films, titled Treadstone. 5 Jeremy Irvine SHAQSHAQQ AANDN KEN JEONG TEAMTEAM UPU & MORE (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) and Brian TBSTBS pickedp up the pilot of J. Smith (Sense8) will headline. UnUnqualifiednqua , with 3 Shaquille 4 OO’Neal’Ne and Ken Jeong trying their CAST ADDITIONS hhandand at jobs they have never The Good Fight is adding Michael Sheen ttriedried before — including scuba (Masters of Sex) to the cast for Season 3 on iinstructor,nst dental hygienist and CBS All Access. He will play Roland Blum, nnudeud art class model. ABC is a cunning lawyer who will do anything to ddevelopingev a scripted comedy win a case. The upcoming time-jumping final ccalledal Work Wife, inspired by season of Showtime’s The Affair will feature 6 ththee close relationship between 6 Anna Paquin (True Blood) in the key role ddaytimeay talk show hosts Kelly of Joanie Lockhart, the adult daughter of Cole Brooklyn Nine-Nine: © 2014 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: Scott Schafer/FOX.Brooklyn Nine-Nine: © 2014 Fox Broadcasting Cre Island: © 2001 Fox Temptation 5 RRipaipa and Ryan Seacrest. In and Alison. Getty Images. Credit: StuartJeremy Irvine: C. Wilson/Getty © 2018 Andrew Toth/Getty Images. © 2018 Images. Anna Paquin:

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Although Showtime’s wild new series Black Cheadle’s Maurice Monroe. Cheadle enthusiastically 1 Monday deals with a devastating economic event inhabits Maurice, who refers to himself as “black — it opens on the titular Oct. 19, 1987, the date Moses” and promises to “put the ‘brother’ in ‘Lehman of the biggest Wall Street crash in history — Brothers’” as he works to crash the old boys club of the series draws uproarious and outrageous Wall Street alongside the other outsiders of his small Don Cheadle comedy from the crash as viewers are treated trading house (Cheadle is matched in his energy by Headlines A to a fictionalized accounting of how a group an outstanding cast including Andrew Rannells and Superb Cast In of outsiders eventually caused that crash. Regina Hall). New Wall Street The manic ’80s energy of Black In the real world, Cheadle, too, was working Monday not only perfectly fits its setting tirelessly on completing the series — often filming 14- Comedy. By Jeff Pfeiffer and time period, but also may come from hour days — when we caught up with him to talk about the fact that its producing partners Seth Black Monday. Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who also Are Maurice and the other characters in Black co-direct the pilot episode) appear to Monday based on real people, or are they have been inspired in both content satiric constructs put together from Wall Street Showtime, and style to emulate some of the archetypes? Sundays great ’80s film comedies with the Don Cheadle: The latter. It would be nearly impossible beginning “underdog outsiders versus upper- to find this particular makeup of people in one house. Jan. 20 crust snobs” theme. The show also There’s a line in the series where Maurice talks about uses a nothing-off-limits approach how they’re the ones nobody ever wanted. At that time, to its comedy that allows it to not — hell, even now — a black man at the head of a trading shy away from finding humor in the house with a black woman as his right hand is pretty raunchy sex-and-drug habits of unheard of. But it affords the opportunity to play with many of its protagonists. and talk about all that stuff in the context of the show, The energy of the series so it’s cool. But mostly, we’re hoping people laugh. It’s also mirrors the intense, often a comedy, after all. coke-inspired bravado of Although Black Monday deals with a specific its main character — Don Showtime. Credit: Miller Mobley/Showtime Monday: © 2018 Black

1010 ChannelChannelne GuideGuidede MagazineMagazinezin NAT historical crash and has fun satirizing the excess of the 1980s, THRILLER do you think it also has lessons even for today? 2 As James B. I AM THE NIGHT Stewart talks about TNT Delivers A Mind-Boggling, in his book Den True Mystery. By Barb Oates of Thieves, which focuses on Wall Last January TNT introduced us to the captivating Street in the ’80s, the limited series The Alienist. This year the network offers one thing that cannot us something even better — the engrossing I Am the be eliminated from the Night, which is based on a true mystery that follows way the market works an adopted teenage girl, Fauna Hodel, who unravels is the inherent greed of her birth family’s dark secrets. Fauna’s aided by a people in general and flawed reporter, and together they uncover a sinister Don Cheadle, their inability to refrain trail that leads them to the infamous Los Angeles Andrew Rannells gynecologist Dr. George Hodel, who is involved in and Regina Hall from letting it run amok. Will our show some of Hollywood’s darkest debauchery, and possibly serve as a cautionary its most infamous unsolved crime (the murder of the tale? I doubt it. And Black Dahlia). it’s not really the point. The six-episode limited series is a complex thriller I think our job is to with a cast and producing team that includes Wonder hopefully provide some Woman director Patty Jenkins, superstar Chris Pine and comic relief as people the amazingly talented India Eisley (The Secret Life of try not to slide down the American Teenager). razor blade mountain. If “I Am the Night is a mind-boggling, true mystery they take away something substantive, that’s cool, too. with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your- seat chills,” tells Sarah Aubrey, TNT’s executive vice This isn’t the first time you’ve starred in a Showtime president of original programming. “Patty Jenkins is series that has scathingly satirized an industry that a phenomenally talented director who has always some people may not look too kindly on — this time delivered powerful characters. … Sam Sheridan, an House of Lies it’s finance, in it was management expert storyteller, has delivered scripts that entertain, consulting. Do you see any similarities or differences frighten, and tell tales of redemption and a powerful between Maurice Monroe and your Emmy-nominated search for identity. Chris Pine has wowed us with House of Lies role as Marty Kaan? so many of his performances, and knowing how The biggest difference for me is that Maurice isn’t a world- multidimensional his character is in I Am the Night, we beater. No matter what Marty faced, I think the prevailing are so lucky to have an actor as talented as he is to lead TNT, thinking was that he was always as smart, if not smarter, than this cast.” Mondays everybody in the room, and that given any crack, he could Next month we talk with both Jenkins and Pine beginning exploit it and land on his feet. Maurice more lives on his about where this story will take us. Jan. 28 cunning and insane gambles. He’s not a thoughtful plotter as much as a dude who’s gotten lucky so far and would rather push his chips in the middle on a hope to get a winning hand India Eisley rather than be a lock going in. It can’t last. and Chris Pine You were just a few years starting into your acting career on Oct. 19, 1987. Do you recall reading/hearing about the events of Black Monday? I had just moved to L.A. and started trying to make it in the business. That hustle was all-consuming. Although the economy everywhere was affected, my brown-rice-and- broccoli diet didn’t really take a discernible hit, and finding work didn’t get appreciably harder. It was kind of a blip for me. 2007 definitely caught my attention, though, and not unlike everywhere, our business definitely changed for the tougher. I Am the Night: tm & © 2017 Turner Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved. Networks, Warner Credit: Clay Enos Inc. A Time Turner I Am the Night: tm & © 2017

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NEAL MCDONOUGH as Gen. James Harding

AIDAN GILLEN as Dr. J. Allen Hynek

MICHAEL HARNEY as Gen. Hugh Valentine

LAURA MENNELL as Mimi Hynek

TRUE STORY PROJECT 3BLUE BOOK From Villain To Scholarly Debunker, “Game Of Thrones” Favorite Aidan Gillen Stars In New Twisty Thriller. By Barb Oates

or seven seasons Aidan Gillen portrayed the cunning (played by Gillen), who the government recruited to debunk Lord Petyr Baelish (a.k.a. Littlefinger) on Game of reports surrounding the unexplained. Hynek spent years F Thrones. So when it came time to bid adieu to the man meticulously researching thousands of cases, hundreds of and his misdeeds, Gillen said he knew what he needed to do. which were never solved, trying to have science prove the “That was quite a momentous release to just walk away from. unexplainable. But that’s what I do. When I’m finished with a part, I just stop “I was always quite taken by Star Trek. It was a big show thinking about it. I literally just walk away. Take the jacket off for me when I was a kid, and Close Encounters was a huge and don’t look back.” film for me when I was growing up. So you could say I didn’t Although he wouldn’t have had time to even if he wanted. have to be converted to get involved in this project,” Gillen This past year the Irish actor has been immersed in high-profile shares. “What’s interesting about it is that it is fact-based and l projects that found him playing a hitman in Peaky Blinders, science-based and history-based. This is a real character. It’s Queen’s manager in Bohemian Rhapsody and a brilliant based on real events that happened in a very interesting era.” redit: Ed Araque History, astrophysicist in History’s new thriller Project Blue Book. Some of these stories covered in Project Blue Book C Tuesdays Based on top-secret investigations into UFOs and other will put goose bumps on the back of your neck — you’ll be beginning related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force dumbfounded that these events actually took place. It’s really a ect Blue Book: © 2018. ect Blue Book: © 2018. j

Jan. 8 during 1952-69, the series tells the story of Dr. J. Allen Hynek fertile ground for a TV series to cover, as Project Blue Book Pro

12 Channel Guide Magazine SUPERNATURAL ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO Aliens Are Already Here … And They’re On The CW. By Taylor Neumann

Let’s just state the obvious right away: The new show Roswell, New Mexico KSENIA SOLO as Susie Miller is about aliens. But instead of little green guys, these aliens are straight from the CW warehouse — young, hot and morally Jeanine Mason and conflicted. Of course. Nathan Parsons That’s not to say MICHAEL MALARKEY these aliens aren’t interesting. The story begins as Capt. Michael Quinn with Liz (Jeanine Mason, Grey’s Anatomy), a researcher returning to her hometown of The CW, Roswell, N.M., after being away for 10 years Tuesdays after the death of her older sister. Immediately beginning upon entering town, she encounters her old Jan. 15 friend Max (Nathan Parsons, The Originals), Stream on with whom she has a bit of history. The catch? cwtv.com She doesn’t know he’s an alien. If the plot sounds a little familiar, you’re right: The current show is a reboot of Roswell, which aired on The WB and UPN for three seasons from 1999 to 2002. Both series are based on the Roswell High young adult books by Melinda Metz. The main change from both the book series and the original show is the age of the characters, who are now grown ran for 17 years, and the first season alone only covers six adults instead of high school students. (The months into Hynek’s tenure. “Truth is stranger than fiction,” use of late ’90s music in the new series is a Gillen attests. “All of [Blue Book’s] stories are based on actual great homage as well.) reports of things that people reported. They said they saw it.

e Another big change from the source They believed they saw it, in most cases and sometimes not. material is the addition of current politics to We’re not afraid to dramatize a hoax either because once set up its story, relying heavily on the topic of people start seeing the stuff, people start faking it, too. Even immigration and the concept of “illegal aliens” people who do go to massive lengths to create a story to in a town sitting near the border. It feels right fool people, to keep that story up for years, you know, why that a newer version of the show would speak would you do that? That’s also of interest to me. What puts to the world around it, though the commentary somebody in that mindset? can be heavy-handed at times. But the “Also cases with multiple witnesses — UFOs in the chemistry between the two leads is sparkling 1950s over Washington, D.C.? There were mass reports,” and quickly makes the show a must-watch. he continues. “They sent up ﬁghter jets, and were scrambled Ditch your heavy sweaters and spend your to go up and try and shoot them down. These were seen by winter in hot Roswell, New Mexico.

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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story: © Lifetime 2018. Credit: Michelle Faye. ) comparison when they see the macabre agenda at Kings Dominion. Proudly claiming alumni like JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (Class of LanLannaaC Coonndndorr ’57), and with a curriculum that ranges anandndd BBenjajamin Wadaaddsswwwoorth from reading The Anarchist Cookbook to watching the infamous Faces of Death video to prep for classes like Poison Lab, Kings is not your typical school. And that means its internal social hierarchies also DEADLY CLASS take on a more-brutal-than-usual form. Homework Assignments “The only difference [between here and regular school],” Marcus tells viewers, “is in this V Are Literally Murder In This ICIOUS place, the dagger in your back is real.” Enjoyably Anarchic ’80s-Set That especially holds true for students like 6High School Drama. Marcus, who don’t come from well-connected families By Jeff Pfeiffer and are known as “rats.” Marcus is recruited by the school from the streets after they spot what they think is his potential as a coldblooded killer, but he does not fit in with any of the academy’s violent cliques. ome high schoolers might feel that their daily “Marcus is probably one of the more morally centered experiences are “killer” as they try to fit in socially while also characters,” Wadsworth explained. tackling schoolwork. But in the series Deadly Class, this To get into Marcus’ head, Wadsworth read Deadly Class, feeling becomes literal — the show takes place at a secret Rick Remender and Wes Craig’s graphic novel on which the academy known as Kings Dominion, which trains privileged TV show is based, six times. The series is set in 1987 San youngsters from criminal families in the lethal arts. Francisco, and features an enjoyably anarchic sensibility that Benjamin Wadsworth, who stars as school newcomer recalls the best punk rock of that era. The morbidly satiric Marcus Lopez, gave us an apt description of Kings. “What approach it takes to serious teenage themes is also akin to the I have heard from people is that [Deadly Class is] basically pitch-black ’80s cult classic Heathers. Syfy, Harry Potter set in the Slytherin universe.” “Our show is definitely a dark comedy,” Wadsworth Wednesdays Potter fans who know what sort of dark wizards the agreed, “but we do have these serious questions about mental beginning Slytherin house produced at Hogwarts will understand that health and social acceptance.” Jan. 16

FEEL-GOOD TV GOOD TROUBLE Maia Mitchell anda Cierra Get Yourself In Double Trouble. By Taylor Neumann Ramirez redit: Freeform/Beth Dubber. C Freeform’s new show Good Trouble may be a spinoff of feel-good family drama hts reserved. g The Fosters, but it’s decidedly less suburban. Two of The Fosters’ young adults, sisters Callie (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez), move to L.A., looking to branch out among its diverse culture: Callie is clerking for a well-known judge, and Mariana has a job at a tech startup. You don’t need to have watched The Fosters to enjoy Good Trouble, but there are little presents 7 dropped in for diehard fans, including the appearance of some familiar faces.

ood Trouble: © 2018 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All ri © 2018 ood Trouble: While the show’s handling of tricky political issues — gender disparity in the G workplace, police violence, even LGBTQ+ visibility — is admittedly a little ham- YFY. YFY. S handed, its grasp of female relationships is razor-sharp. The show could easily Freeform, go for well-worn tropes of cutthroat ambition and catty bickering between Tuesdays redit: Katie Yu/ C . C women, but instead we see more positive facets: a neighbor willing to help beginning out, a coworker sharing advice and a daughter trying to keep her mom from Jan. 8 YFY Media, LL S worrying too much. At the heart of the show is the sometimes bruising but always rewarding relationship between sisters who may not be blood but lass: © 2018 lass: © 2018 C are bonded by something just as strong. eadly D NAT 151 NEW Shows 16 To WATC H

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Steve Zahn plays OF THE a flamboyant, felonious eccentric whose flash-in-the-pan dot-com lost BOOM millions A Riveting Look At The Meteoric Rise And Cataclysmic Burst Of The Dot-Com Bubble. By Lori Acken On a brisk spring day near the Vancouver waterfront, At the heart of the tale is Zahn’s Michael Fenne, a Steve Zahn is ready to dance in the street. Not that anyone flamboyant, felonious eccentric who parlayed a rudimentary who passed by would ever recognize the actor. understanding of the burgeoning web and an uncanny ability Boasting an unruly blond mullet and impressive faux girth, to read people’s vulnerabilities into Pixelon, a flash-in-the-pan Zahn is about to join a carefully choreographed flash mob dot-com that promised to revolutionize online video content that, like the rest of the series the scene is part of, is a sort of and, instead, imploded at its own $16 million launch party that grownup Schoolhouse Rock! about the financial excess and exposed Fenne as a spectacular fraud. unchecked egos of Silicon Valley’s earliest days. Veteran actor Bradley Whitford plays James Barksdale, It’s pure ’90s gone wild … and surprisingly educational. a brilliant business mind and inherent good soul who left a And it’s exactly what filmmaker Matthew Carnahan had career at FedEx and then in the cellphone industry to helm the in mind for Valley of the Boom, his six-episode limited series fledgling Netscape. about the birth of the digital era. Most notably the browser In the middle of these two men, one conscientious and war between Microsoft and Netscape, and the curious blend kind, the other unfettered and unapologetic? The enterprising of youthful tech renegades and shockingly impressionable young people who launched public internet access and social business moguls willing to trust the young geniuses (or media platforms, first in their dorm rooms and then in office poseurs) to the tune of millions of dollars, just to be at the spaces strewn with soda cans, tchotchkes and ambition. forefront of a technological and cultural revolution. Both Zahn and Whitford say that, while this revolution Carnahan says he was intrigued by the subject matter that happened largely unnoticed beneath our very noses is offered to him by Nat Geo and executive producer Arianna undeniably fascinating, its aftereffects are unsettling at best. Huffington, but, he says, “when I started digging a little, I said, “Hundreds of years from now, they’ll talk about this ‘OK, I would like to do this, but I have to be able to just ruin moment,” Zahn muses of Boom’s time frame. “Culturally, your network. I have to be able to blow everything up. I have to civilization has changed — hopefully for the better. But I fear be able to try at least to do something as disruptive … as the what will happen. … Now you don’t do anything with any

makers and innovators who started the internet and invented people. It’s all digital. And that scares the @#$% out of me.” s traus the browser and created social networking.’” “Barksdale saw the internet as an extension of a systems S And so he did. Blending scripted material with business, like his FedEx business or cellular phones,” Whitford redit: Bettina unprecedented access to real-life tech pioneers, Boom is as adds. “You can’t sell telephones if someone doesn’t have C eographic. National eye-popping and unsettling as the bullet-train speed of the someone else to talk to. It’s all relative and will continue to be. G Geographic, internet’s grip on our collective psyche. “When I was pitched The problem is that we’ve become so distracted that we don’t Sundays this, I just thought it was crazy,” Zahn admits. “Is it a musical? even notice. I’m not overstating it. What these guys did has beginning Is it performance art? Is it a documentary? Is it a miniseries? Is reached into my children’s brain and changed the way it works

Jan. 13 it kitchen sink drama? We break every rule.” … for better or for worse.” of the Boom: © National Valley

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Saniyya Sidney and Mark-Paul Gosselaar PASSAGE Mark-Paul Gosselaar Leads An Emotionally Rich Adaptation Of Justin By Jacqueline Cutler 9 Cronin’s Vampire Novels. The details are grim: a terrifying pandemic, blood-drinking Sidney delivers a startlingly raw performance, one that left ﬁends and a kidnapped child. And that’s just in the pilot. Gosselaar, himself a father to four kids, moved. Despite all of that, The Passage is strangely “The level of maturity Saniyya has,” Gosselaar says, then heartwarming. The FOX drama focuses on a sweet pauses to consider her talent. “It’s eye-opening to see what relationship between Brad Wolgast, a rogue agent played by level she’s starting from, and she’s 11.” Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Amy, an orphan played by Saniyya Her character is hardened by the realities of knowing Sidney. Based on Justin Cronin’s bestselling trilogy, it deftly what a visit from children’s protective services is typically like. weaves Wolgast and Amy’s plight against the backdrop of She’s rightly suspicious of Wolgast until he proves himself a humans infected with a virus that stops them from living yet worthy protector. FOX, prevents them from dying. “I asked what is important about vampires and that Mondays Scientists, intent on preventing a global catastrophe, world,” Gosselaar recalls after reading the script. “Then as I beginning need a child to test their vaccine. But what parent would read it, it has so much heart, and Amy and Brad’s relationship Jan. 14 sacriﬁce their child? The government intervenes and assigns hooked me into wanting to take on the show. I then read the Stream on Wolgast to kidnap Amy, whose mom just died of an overdose. books and became a fan of the books.” fox.com

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MUSIC RUMBLE: ROCKED THE WORLD PBS, 10Hear The Indigenous Pulse That Beats In America’s Musical Heart. By Kellie Freeze Jan. 21 PBS’ Independent Lens documentary Rumble: The artists, because we don’t have a lot of figures who are in the Stream on Indians Who Rocked the World presents a riveting look at the mainstream that best exemplify that ‘hero moment.’” pbs.org indelible influence of Native American musicians on American Taboo — whose given name is Jaime “Jimmy” blues, jazz and rock music. The film uses vintage footage Gomez — also shares that the Black Eyed and recordings, as well as interviews with the musicians Peas’ megahit “Let’s Get It Started” was themselves and those they influence, including Taj Mahal, influenced by the Native American rock George Clinton, Martin Scorsese, Slash, Jackson Browne, group Redbone. “Visually, sonically, Taboo, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steven Van Zandt, Quincy Jones, they represented our people to the Tony Bennett, Iggy Pop and Steven Tyler. fullest, and they brought a sound Taboo, of the hip-hop supergroup the Black Eyed Peas, that was very international sounding. is proud of his Shoshone heritage and shares that the special It was like anybody could gravitate has helped him discover and connect with musicians of Native to it. ‘Come and Get Your Love’ is Taboo is a ancestry. the prime example,” he says. “Even member of “I didn’t even know that Jimi Hendrix was Native!” Taboo though it was Native folks doing that the hip-hop supergroup marvels. “As a Native myself, it’s important for the world to song, it just appealed to the masses. the Black know the long-running contributions of Native American To this day, it inspires me.” Eyed Peas

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Jordan Fisher Prepares For The Role Of His Dreams. By Kellie Freeze When FOX’s live presentation of Fisher reveals that he Rent premieres this month, it will be the and stage director Michael culmination of a dream for star Jordan Greif (who directed Rent Fisher. The 24-year-old — who has already on Broadway) have even found acclaim as a recording artist, more ideas. “We both felt that Mark could

MUSICAL appeared in Broadway’s Hamilton, won potentially be an edgier, slightly more tortured guy,” he says. Season 25 of Dancing With the Stars and recently hosted “I deﬁnitely think that he is an optimistic guy, but I think that Dancing With the Stars: Juniors — reveals, “Rent was the there’s a bit of cynicism and pessimism that could be played FOX11, show that made me want to pursue this industry. It was around with.” Jan. 27 something that really moved me as a kid.” Rent’s all-star ensemble cast includes Vanessa Stream on Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Hudgens, Kiersey Clemons, Brandon Victor Dixon, Brennin fox.com musical Rent is loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème Hunt, Mario, Tinashe and Valentina, plus Keala Settle (The and tells the story of artists struggling to follow their dreams Greatest Showman) in a special role to perform the musical’s in a bohemian New York City East Village neighborhood at seminal song “Seasons of Love.” the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. “It’s a story of ultimately “Every time I heard of a new person that was locking ﬁguring out how to measure the love that you not only give, down a deal to join the cast, I was thrilled because it was a but the love that you receive,” says Fisher. “Everybody’s broke. friend,” Fisher shares. “Brandon Victor Dixon was my [Aaron] Nobody really has anything, but they have each other, and Burr in Hamilton. Vanessa [Hudgens] and I worked together that’s what the show ultimately celebrates.” on Grease Live! Kiersey Clemons — we’ve been friends for One role in Rent has always stood out to Fisher: Mark years, but we’ve never actually worked together. Keala Settle Cohen, the musical’s scarf-wearing narrator. The character has and I performed at Richard Sherman’s birthday party over the eschewed his upper-class Jewish upbringing for life as a poor summer. … The list goes on and on …” documentarian whose camera captures his story, and those of On the night of Jan. 27, Fisher can’t wait until showtime his friends, after he decides to document the gritty reality of life so he can introduce Rent to a new generation and present

and “shoot without a script.” a fresh staging for the musical’s loyal fans. “The first thing . X The iconic role has been played by industry veterans you see and the first thing you hear is Mark steppin’ out and O Anthony Rapp and Neil Patrick Harris, and Fisher hopes to setting the scene,” he shares. “I’m excited to set the tone and infuse Mark with fresh perspective. “I wanted to be the first get the energy right.” redit: Pamela Littky/Fredit: Pamela C o. Mark Cohen of color,” he says. “I’m mixed, and I’m proud of Until then, Fisher will be living, breathing and rehearsing C all of my heritages. Why can’t Mark Cohen also be a person the show that’s been such an integral part of his life. “I’ve just of color that was born into privilege in upstate New York and been blasting Rent in my car. I’ve been singing all the songs chose to move down to Manhattan to choose the life that he in the shower,” he says. “‘Goodbye, Love’ is my favorite! I ENT: © 2019 Fox Broadcasting Fox ENT: © 2019

wanted to live?” love ‘Goodbye, Love.’” R

18 Channel Guide Magazine FOX, Wednesdays beginning Jan. 2 Stream on THE MASKED SINGER fox.com

OUTLANDISH By Kellie Freeze C Celebs Hide Themselves To Reveal Their Vocal Talent. treiber/NB S In the new year, FOX presents The Masked Singer, a celebrity singing competition based on the hit South Korean series King of Mask 121redit: Art C . C Singer, where award-winning artists don elaborate and outlandish costumes and sing incognito. During each performance, while trying not

Universal Media, LL to giggle at the ridiculous costumes, the judges and audience will use C clues to try to identify the mysterious singer and be awed by the hidden talent. Each performer will only be known by his or her character name, ames: © 2018 NB ames: © 2018 G including “The Alien,” “The Hippo” and “The Poodle,” until he or she is eliminated, and only then will the masked singer be revealed. X. The Titan Titan X. The O While FOX has gone to great lengths to ensure that the contestants remain a surprise, the network teases that the accolades of this season’s dozen participants include a combined 65 Grammy Award Can you redit: Michael Becker/Fredit: Michael C nominations, 16 Emmy Award nominations, four stars on the Hollywood guess who is Walk of Fame and four Super Bowl titles. The fun will not only be in each singing? X Broadcasting. episode’s big reveal, but also in learning which celebs are willing to look O like the love child of an NFL mascot and a Las Vegas showgirl, all for the sake of entertainment. inger: © 2018 F inger: © 2018 S Nick Cannon hosts the competition. The panel of judges includes

The Masked The Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger.

THE TITAN GAMES Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Titan? Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Wants To Know. By Nicole Baxter The one and only Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has put together the most grueling, physical, mental and emotional athletic competition series known to man in NBC’s new The Titan Games. Johnson was inspired by the need to “create a platform for everyday people who were exceptional athletes to shine.” Men and women from all walks of life step into the iconic Titan arena to prove that they have the grit, physicality and determination to walk away with the grand prize of $100,000 and be crowned a Titan. “I wanted a show to redefine what an athletic competition can be,” says Johnson, who put together challenges influenced by his own workouts. All of the trials are incredibly difficult, and the women are faced with the same obstacles as the men. We all know Johnson from his blockbuster movies, but true fans remember him from his days in the WWE: “Can you smell NBC, what The Rock is cooking?!” He uses his own passion for physical Thursdays fitness to create this phenomenon built to unleash and celebrate beginning the greatness that athletes and everyday people possess. “I get an Jan. 3 incredible amount of gratification just knowing that they have this Stream on incredible spotlight,” says Johnson. nbc.com AMAZING ATHLETES 13NAT Channel Guide Magazine 19 NEW Shows 16 To WATC H DYNASTIES Long Live These Five Royal Families Of The Animal Kingdom. By Ryan A. Berenz

BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, known for wildlife documentary epics Blue Planet, Planet Earth and The Hunt, presents its latest series, Planet Earth: Dynasties. Each episode of the ﬁve-part event is an intimate look at family life in the animal kingdom, revealing the challenges leaders face in protecting their young, warding off rivals and ensuring their dynasty lives on. With captivating images and emotionally intense storytelling — host and presenter Sir David Attenborough lends his signature levity and gravitas to the narration — Dynasties is essential family viewing.

DYNASTIES EPISODE GUIDE: Chimpanzee In Senegal, David, a chimpanzee group’s alpha male for three years, must always be alert and display his superiority to the group. Surrounded by rivals looking to overthrow him, David tries to hold onto his position long enough to sire a possible future heir to his throne.

Emperor The stars of March of the Penguins

get the royal treatment again, as Dynasties NHU C follows emperor penguins in Antarctica’s Atka Bay. Emperor parents have to work together to keep themselves and their chicks alive through the coldest and cruelest imon Blakeney; Painted Wolf: © BB Wolf: imon Blakeney; Painted

winter on earth. S redit: C Lion Dynasties follows African lions in the NHU 2018 Masai Mara’s Marsh Pride, which has just C two adult females — Charm and her cousin Sienna — left to feed and protect their hristmann; Lion: © BB eight cubs. Charm and Sienna must help C tefan their young overcome the dangers of the S redit: savannah if their dynasty is to continue. C America C NATURE Painted Wolf This episode features a painted wolf named Tait, matriarch of one of the 14 last great families of endangered African BBC America, wild dogs in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi river redit: Rosie Thomas; Penguins: © BB Penguins: redit: Rosie Thomas; Saturdays ﬂoodplains. Tait has ruled her dynasty and C NHU NHU beginning Jan. 19 kept the peace for many years, but tensions C (Also simulcast are rising as Tait’s power is waning with age. on AMC, IFC and himpanzee: © BB C SundanceTV) Tiger In India’s Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, a tigress named Raj Bhera cares for her four newborn cubs while defending her redit: Theo Webb; Webb; redit: Theo hunting grounds against invading rival tigers — one of which is her C NHU own adult daughter, Solo. C

202 ChaannenelGl Guidde MagaMMaagazinezinne NAT Science Channel, Wednesdays MYTHBUSTERS JR. beginning SCIENCE Jan. 2 15Adam Savage Mentors A New Generation Of Problem Solvers. By Kellie Freeze riginal MythBusters host Adam Savage returns to car, and testing myths from the film Gravity and TV’s Breaking television with a new twist on an old favorite. “My kids Bad. And while crushing cars might not be something that Oare 19. They’ve just left the house,” explains Savage. viewers could (or should) replicate, Savage shares that “I’m a big believer in sharing. I share the stuff that I build, I share the series has elements based around a STEAM (Science, my process, I share my emotions around it, I share my failures. Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum, and many And that’s been my job for years.” And in Science Channel’s of its experiments are meant to be imitated. “That’s probably MythBusters Jr., Savage is sharing his special-effects know-how the most significant shift from MythBusters. When it’s stuff with a half-dozen kids who share his wonderment and curiosity. you shouldn’t try at home, we’re doing it behind blast shields. Just because Savage’s new crew are tweens and teens, We’re doing it with safety equipment and with all the correct don’t expect the new myths to be watered down. The action precautions,” says Savage. “I think that the difference here is of this season’s 10 episodes includes engineering a fire that I’m really into a lot of the interim experiments being ‘do try extinguisher jetpack, building dominos big enough to crush a this at home’ experiments.”

Makers Of “The Walking Dead” Present A “Horror Nature Series.” By Jeff Pfeiffer Anyone who has ever tuned in to a documentary about animals has likely noticed that, on occasion, the natural world can be a brutal and scary place as various species struggle for survival. That observation has been taken to its logical next step in Dead by Dawn, a genre-bending six-part series described as the “first ever horror NATURE nature series.” It fittingly comes from the production company behind the fictional series The Walking Dead, except here the horrific sights and sounds all come from 16 the real world. DEAD Each episode features wildlife in a different country, following what goes on among these creatures of the night from sundown to just before sunrise. The series , Inc. Credit: Norman Chan Nat Geo y BY is inspired by classic, modern and cult horror films, using storytelling techniques and Wild, distinctive soundtracks to infuse suspense, tension and eeriness into the terrifyingly Sundays real stories of life in the wild — after dark. beginning

NAT Channel Guide Magazine 21 Mahershala Ali and RETURNING FAVORITES Stephen Dorff

T Time Is A Flat Circle. The Crime Drama Gets A Do-Over In Season 3. By Ryan A. Berenz

t’s been nearly three and a half 1980, during a reopening of the case years since the last episode of Nic in 1990 and during the filming of a “TRUE DETECTIVE” RETROSPECTIVE Pizzolatto’s True Detective aired. After documentary in 2015. As the years The case file on previous seasons: the generally disappointing Season 2, progress, Hays’ memories of the it appeared for a time that the series events change until he can no longer SEASON 1 wouldn’t live to find redemption. trust the version of the story he’s had Premiered: Jan. 12, 2014 Fortunately, that’s not the case. to live through. Stars: Woody Harrelson, Matthew After some tumult (director Carmen Ejogo (the Fantastic McConaughey, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Jeremy Saulnier left the production Beasts films) stars as Amelia Reardon, Potts, Tory Kittles after two episodes), HBO at last an English teacher whose involvement The Crime: A 2012 murder case has delivers Season 3, which has Pizzolatto in the case leads to an unlikely similarities to the 1995 ritualistic murder of a venturing into new territory while romance with Hays. “You have this Louisiana prostitute. Viewers: 2.33 million (premiere); also returning to Season 1’s first-rate quite macabre backdrop that two 3.52 million (finale) storytelling. people are falling in love against,” Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87% The new installment stars Ejogo says. It’s not exactly a fairy tale Mahershala Ali, Oscar winner for romance when a horrible crime is at the SEASON 2 Moonlight and 2019 Golden Globe center of your “how we first met” story. Premiered: June 21, 2015 nominee for Green Book, as Arkansas “There’s something somewhat Stars: Colin Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel State Police Detective Wayne Hays. disjointed about their relationship McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly HBO, Hays and his partner (Stephen Dorff) onscreen,” Ejogo says. “They’re not the The Crime: The murder of a corrupt Sundays take the lead on the case of two most suited personas for each other. It California politician with possible ties to a beginning children who went missing in a small was a fascinating experience to bring career criminal. Jan. 13 town in the Ozarks. to life a couple that know each other Viewers: 3.17 million (premiere); Stream on The story plays out in three well but don’t really know each other 2.73 million (finale) HBO NOW Rotten Tomatoes Score: 63%

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CLOSER TO CLOSURE It’s The Beginning Of The End For These Four Series, Which Debut Their Final Episodes. By Ryan A. Berenz BROAD CITY Comedy Central Returns: Jan. 24 Where We Left Off: Abbi (Abbi(Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana (Ilana GGlazer)lazer) celebrated their “friendiversary”ary” with a scavenger hunt through NNewew YorYorkk City, eventually winding up oonn the park bench where they cementedmented ttheirheir GOTHAM friendship in 2011. FOX What To Expect: Comedyy Central Returns: Jan. 3 president Kent Alterman toldd Where We Left Off: The Season 4 finale, “No Man’s Land,” IndieWire, “[Jacobson and GGlazer]lazer] saw Gotham City turned into a hellscape divided up by its came to us and said, ‘We thinkhink it’s criminal element and cut off from the rest of the world. time to resolve the series, andnd we want What To Expect: The 12-episode final season, dubbed to go out in style.’ They havee really “Legend of the Dark Knight,” will complete Bruce’s (David great ideas for what they’re trying to do Mazouz) transformation into Batman, as he aids Jim Gordon in the final season.” Comedyy Central’s (Ben McKenzie) and the police in taking back the city. Trying to not letting Glazer and Jacobsonbson get awaawayy afteafterr BrBroadoad stake a claim on turf will be a host of new criminals, the most City. The network’s signed the pair to a first-look development highly anticipated being Bane (Shane West). deal that spreads across other Viacom-owned properties.

UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT Netflix Returns: Jan. 25 Where We Left Off: The first half of Season 4 — which dropped way back in May — left us with a mysterious man spying on Kimmy (Ellie ky/FXX. Credit: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix. Broad City: Giardino. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Credit: Patrik Kemper), Titus (Tituss Burgess), Lillian (Carol Kane) and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski), and YOU’RE THE WORST announcing that he’s FXX “moving to Phase Two.” Returns: Jan. 9 What To Expect: The Where We Left Off: Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen’s (Aya final six episodes will Cash) engagement is back on … for now. clear up who’s being watched and why. Is Sesame Street’s What To Expect: How about the most epic Sunday Funday Mr. Frumpus stalking Titus? Is men’s rights activist Fran Dodd ever? The couple who’ve hated to love each other for four (Bobby Moynihan) digging for more dirt on Kimmy? The series, seasons will get 13 more episodes to try out the whole which was originally slated to air on NBC, became an almost commitment thing. In the Season 5 premiere, “The Intransigence universally loved surprise hit for Netflix, and it paved the way for of Love,” Jimmy and Gretchen tell the story of their relationship more half-hour comedies on streaming services. And Kimmy to a prospective wedding planner, who will probably run might not be done, either: There’s discussion of a theatrical film screaming. after the series’ run ends. Gotham: © 2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: Giovanni Rufino/FOX. You’re the Worst: © 2018, FX Broadcasting Co. Credit: Giovanni Rufino/FOX. Networks. Litt Fox Credit: Pamela © 2018, the Worst: Gotham: © 2018 You’re

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We Break Down The Month’s Biggest And Best Programming So Jan. You Never Miss A Must-See Minute. Antiques Roadshow, PBS 1 — Season Premiere 19 AKC National Championship Dog Planet Earth: Dynasties, BBC America, Show, Animal Planet 8 AMC, IFC & SundanceTV — New Bad Chad Customs, Discovery Channel Good Trouble, Freeform — New Series Series — New Series Project Blue Book, History Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie The Gifted, FOX — New Episodes — New Series Bly Story, Lifetime — Original Film Lethal Weapon, FOX — New Episodes Ellen’s Game of Games, NBC Married at First Sight, Lifetime — Season Premiere 20 — Season Premiere New Amsterdam, NBC — New Episodes Crashing, HBO — Season Premiere I Am Jazz, TLC — Season Premiere High Maintenance, HBO 10 — Season Premiere 2 The Rap Game, Lifetime Black Monday, Showtime — New Series Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell — Season Premiere SMILF, Showtime — Season Premiere and Back, FOX — Season Premiere Brooklyn Nine-Nine, NBC The Masked Singer, FOX — New Series — Season Premiere Project Runway All Stars, Lifetime 21 — Season Premiere Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, CBS MythBusters Jr., Science Channel 11 Blindspot, NBC — New Episodes — Season Premiere — New Series Independent Lens: “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” 13 PBS 3 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, 60 Days In, A&E — Season Premiere The CW Gotham, FOX — Season Premiere True Detective, HBO — Season 23 Premiere Suits, USA Network — New Episodes Valley of the Boom, National Geographic — New Series 24 Dead by Dawn, Nat Geo Wild Broad City, Comedy Central — New Series — Season Premiere 14 The Good Place, NBC — Season Finale The Passage, FOX — New Series 25 The Resident, FOX — New Episodes SAG Awards 25th Anniversary Movie The Orville, FOX — New Time/Day Lost Gold, Travel Channel — New Series Marathon, TCM Surviving R. Kelly, Lifetime — New Series 15 26 The Blacklist, NBC — Season Premiere Drunk History, Comedy Central NHL All-Star Game, NBC The Titan Games, NBC — New Series — Season Premiere Roswell, New Mexico, The CW 27 6 — New Series Rent, FOX Worst Cooks in America, Food This Is Us, NBC — New Episodes Outlander, Starz — Season Finale Network — Season Premiere Temptation Island, USA Network Screen Actors Guild Awards, TBS & 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards, — New Series TNT NBC 16 28 7 In Pursuit With John Walsh, I Am the Night, TNT — New Series The Bachelor, ABC — Season Premiere Investigation Discovery — New Series America’s Got Talent: The Champions, Schitt’s Creek, Pop TV — Season Premiere 31 NBC — New Series Will & Grace, NBC — New Episodes Manifest, NBC — New Episodes Deadly Class, Syfy — New Series Gotham: © 2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: Giovanni Ruﬁno/FOX.

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