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We Break Down The Month’s Biggest And Best Programming So Nov. You Never Miss A Must-See Minute. 1 8 24 One Starry Christmas, Hallmark Channel The Nine Lives of Christmas, Chug, NGC — New Series — Original Film Hallmark Channel — Original Film Crowd Control, NGC — New Series Eric Greenspan Is Hungry, NGC 2 9 Ascension, Syfy — New Event Series Finding Bigfoot, Animal Planet A Cookie Cutter Christmas, < — New Episodes Hallmark Channel — Original Film Skyscraper Live With Nik Wallenda, The Comeback, HBO — Season Premiere Discovery Channel Getting On, HBO — Season Premiere Olive Kitteridge, HBO — Original Miniseries The Newsroom, HBO — Season Premiere 3 11 Over the Garden Wall, Cartoon Network Navy Seals: Their Untold Story, PBS — New Miniseries < 14 Booze Traveler, Travel Channel Hitmakers, PBS — New Series 15 25 Northpole, Hallmark Channel The Sisterhood, Lifetime — New Series — Original Film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, Lifetime — Original Film 26 The Whale: Devil of the Deep, The Missing, Starz — New Series Animal Planet — Original Film 16 Angels and Ornaments, Hallmark Channel 27 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC 17 State of Affairs, NBC — New Series 28 4 NHL Thanksgiving Showdown: N.Y. MasterChef Junior, FOX Rangers vs. Philadelphia Flyers, NBC — Season Premiere 18 One Child, SundanceTV Search for the Lost Giants, History State of Play, HBO — Season Premiere — New Series Life Below Zero, NGC — New Episodes 29 21 Christmas Under Wraps, EAT: The Story of Food, NGC Hallmark Channel — Original Film 5 Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever, The Game, BBC America — New Series Lifetime — Original Film Fix My Choir, Oxygen — New Series 22 A Royal Christmas, Hallmark Channel The Exes, TV Land — Season Premiere — Original Film Hot in Cleveland, TV Land 30 One Christmas Eve, — Season Premiere Hallmark Channel 23 < The Christmas Shepherd, — Original Film 6 Hallmark Channel — Original Film Sleepless in America, Covert Affairs, USA Network Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas, NGC — Season Premiere Hallmark Movies & Mysteries The Tree That Saved White Collar, USA Network — Original Film Christmas, UP — Season Premiere Jay Leno: The Mark Twain Prize, PBS — Original Film Over The Garden Wall: © Cartoon Garden Wall: NetworkOver The Credit: Erik Heinila Ascension: Credit: Jan Thijs/Syfy Productions © Hallmark Hall of Fame One Christmas Eve:

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Editor’s Note MEET THE Good Sleep, Good TV It’s 6:30am and I’m at work writing this letter, which means I’ve only logged CREW six hours of sleep — a somewhat normal occurrence; however, it’s one that makes First on my list to me legitimately part of the nation’s 40 percent of adults who are chronically sleep- DVR: Starz’s The deprived. And according to National Geographic Missing Channel’s Sleepless in America, if I keep this up, it could kill me. Two of the forces behind this fascinating I will be physically documentary, airing this month, discussed the ill watching: Nik repercussions of sleep deprivation with Lori Acken Wallenda’s live in grave detail (page 14), and it’s truly a must-read tightrope walk on feature — and a must-view program. BARB Nov. 2 Adding to my lack of sleep — and I’m honestly not even complaining — is the sheer volume of really, really good TV. From the hilarious Lisa Kudrow returning to HBO in The Comeback to James First on my list to Nesbitt in the heart-wrenching Starz limited series DVR: Sleepless in The Missing, this month alone I’ll be adding another America on NGC two hours a week to my already busy viewing schedule. Plus, November also brings My favorite TV Frances McDormand’s Olive Kitteridge and that damn Nik Wallenda, who’s got to show Thanksgiving do another one of those agonizing tightrope walks that I simply can’t turn away from. episode: Cheers Is anyone else like that? Lastly, on behalf of the staff at Channel Guide Magazine, I’d like to extend JEFF Thanksgiving blessings to you. Happy Thanksgiving! First on my list to DVR: Olive Kitteridge on HBO Barb Oates, Editor in Chief Why I don’t get eight hours of sleep: Damn you, Random Rants & Raves LORI Jimmy Fallon! READERS RESPOND We asked: What would it take for you We asked: Did you ever dress as a TV to stop watching the NFL? or movie character for Halloween? When I was young, a not-so-famous First on my list to Does Cookie Monster count as a TV player from a famous team wanted DVR: Ascension on character? I took a fl at paper bag big to date me. Just his playing football Syfy enough for my head as a profession was a huge turnoff. Someday I’ll binge- to fi t inside and folded Handsome, but can you say ignorant? QUESTION OF view: Party Down THE MONTH: down the corners. The odd thing was, I dated a baseball Then I took squares player and he was absolutely brilliant. I RYAN What TV show of blue crepe paper, think there are intelligent football players, are you most layered and crinkled but few and far [between]. Players are thankful for — them and pasted more violent and dumb than ever before. them onto the bag to — Whooperwill First on my list to and why? DVR: New episodes resemble fur. I had The letters and opinions above refl ect the Email us at letters@ of Life Below Zero ping-pong balls for my views of Channel Guide Magazine and its ntvbmedia.com on NGC eyes. I wore a royal readers. Letters may be edited for clarity blue sweatshirt, sweatpants, mittens and or length. Send your letters to: letters@ Favorite part of the sneakers. I carried a bag of cookies and ntvbmedia.com or write to Random Rants/ Thanksgiving meal: went around saying, “Me want cookies.” Raves, Channel Guide, 1720 W. Florist I could eat turkey — Natalie Ave., Suite 150, Glendale, WI 53209. KELLIE dressing all day long

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NAT 04 1114.indd 4 10/16/14 11:21 AM This Month’s Returning Favorites Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (new episodes) — Nat Geo Wild (Nov. 1) Finding Bigfoot (new episodes) — Animal Planet (Nov. 2) The Curse of Oak Island (Season 2) — History (Nov. 4) Life Below Zero (new episodes) — NGC (Nov. 4) The Exes (Season 4) — TV Land (Nov. 5) Hot in Cleveland (Season 6) — TV Land (Nov. 5) Pushing Buttons | By Lori Acken Covert Affairs (new episodes) — USA Network (Nov. 6) White Collar (Season 6; fi nal season) — USA Network SLEEPLESS On MY Sofa (Nov. 6) When I fi rst saw this month’s cat got older and adopted my bedtime, The Comeback (Season 2) can’t-miss National Geographic Channel too. And decent sleep returned without — HBO (Nov. 9) documentary Sleepless in America fanfare. Getting On (Season 2) — HBO (Nov. 9) previewed at a summer press event, I Well, briefl y. The Newsroom (Season 3; knew I had to cover it. Next to sucking Then I realized that, with no kids to fi nal season) — HBO (Nov. 9) down more coffee than a woman my size tend and the approximately 97 percent State of Play (Season 2) should be able to hold and reading entire reduction in housework that resulted, — HBO (Nov. 18) novels in the bathtub on weekends, I was actually awake enough to watch being a crummy sleeper is my biggest stuff that came on at 10pm or after. YANKED!: talent. Yes, I know. Dubious Talent And I liked a lot of it. I had time to watch No. 1 and Dubious Talent No. 3 are the stuff that had been collecting (and Recently probably related. But I switch to decaf collecting mold) on the DVR, too. And Canceled Shows by midafternoon. And I was a crummy then Jimmy Fallon took over The Tonight A&E quietly canceled crime drama sleeper long before I became Folgers Show, tempting me with performances, Longmire after three seasons, guzzler par excellence. interviews and stunts guaranteed to be though the show could end up Realizing that I am a much better water cooler talk the very next morning, elsewhere. ... TBS cut CeeLo mother, spouse, colleague and friend which rendered the DVR no help. Green’s The Good Life short after with a good night’s rest, I eventually That was all she wrote. With a one season because of low ratings sought the help of my doctor. I took my non-negotiable 6am alarm and an equally (and CeeLo’s regrettable tweets). ... medicine. I kept my bedtimes and wake non-negotiable Fallon addiction, I’m back After three seasons, TNT canceled times constant and made sure that each to bad sleep. And frequently coming to its reboot of Dallas. were as reasonable as a parent of four at 3am, facedown on the sofa with the can manage. I left the job at the offi ce, remote in my hand and a deeply annoyed What Happened the cellphone on the counter, the laptop cat at my feet. To The Hub? on the desk and hauled the TV out of our You should see how much coffee I Discovery Communications and bedroom, too. Then I realized I was never can choke down now, with n-n-n-nary a Hasbro offi cially changed the name going to fold, iron and put away the shake to my hand! of The Hub to Discovery Family laundry if I didn’t have Snapped reruns But since many of the insomnia- Channel (DFC) on Oct. 13. The to accompany the job, so I hauled the TV related maladies in Sleepless in America arrangement gives Discovery right back in. But I stuck to reading after I hit mighty close to home — some a dead- 60 percent ownership in the network, hit the sack, I swear. on bull’s- eye — I’m rethinking my priorities with Hasbro’s share decreasing to Soon enough, the kids grew up and and my late-night TV consumption, too. 40 percent, in an effort to broaden its moved out and I stopped sleeping with So open wide, little DVR. And no one tell programming focus to serve families in primetime. Illustration: Credit: Nate Reysen. one eye and ear open. I chilled out. The me what happens on Fallon.

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MSO 04_05 MSO 1114.indd 5 10/16/14 8:33 AM {HYPE} Kid-Chen Up Talented Tweens Storm In The Kitchen For Season 2 Of “MasterChef Junior.” By Kellie Freeze The While most parents shudder at the thought of their children handling cutlery, and most tykes subsist on a Air diet of macaroni and cheese, a handful Nik Wallenda Attempts Another Death-Defying of kids are already exploring the world of haute cuisine. Under the tutelage of Wire-Walk. By Jeff Pfeiffer and judged by chef Gordon Ramsay, restaurateur Joe Bastianich and chef After making around 13 million on helicopters), as well as a fi rst for him Graham Elliot, pint-size chefs will television viewers’ hearts stop during — walking up a considerable incline on compete in Season 2 of FOX’s culinary last year’s gripping wire-walk across the wire. competition MasterChef Junior. a portion of the Grand Canyon, Nik “I spent a lot of time on rooftops Like the grownup version of the Wallenda is ready to have audiences looking around in the evening, and this show, MasterChef Junior is a search wracking their nerves again. was one that just really showcased the for America’s best home cooks. But “I love challenging myself,” city. It was absolutely beautiful. And here, the cooks are ages 8-13, and one Wallenda tells us in an interview. just to make it a little more dramatic, I of the 16 kid-testants will take home a That is obvious when one hears decided to walk uphill at a 15-degree $100,000 prize. about his latest wire-walking attempt, incline. So rather than walk from one Chef Gordon Ramsay is not as which will be covered in the live rooftop to another directly across, or harsh on his smaller contestants as he Discovery Channel special from one rooftop into the window of is in his other FOX shows, MasterChef Skyscraper Live With Nik another, which I’ve done in the past, and Hell’s Kitchen. He’s actually playful Wallenda. Wallenda will be I decided to create a little more of a and his interactions with the witty kid- engaging in a two-part walk challenge for myself.” testants are the highlight of the show. between notable Chicago This is the fi rst time Wallenda has The kids are precocious and exude buildings (the second part of walked on an incline such as this, and it culinary confi dence that belies their which will fi nd him blindfolded). required a new sort of training for him. tender years. And of course, there’s This is the highest skyscraper “It’s a lot about strengthening the the food; within minutes of the start walk in the famed history of the of the fi rst mystery box challenge, 220 legs,” he says. “Normally, the hardest Wallenda family — more than part of walking the wire, believe it or not, kids are chopping, mixing and searing countries food that outclasses anything that 50 stories high. the part that strains the quickest are your will air I’ve served lately. Maybe I need to “I wanted to do arms because of that balancing pole. Wallenda’s something in a big city,” take notes when I watch, for I have With this one, it’s a combination of my walk live explains Wallenda. “One of little doubt that some day, these mini arms and my legs.” the fi rst attractions to Chicago was the cooking stars will be earning Michelin And, heaven forbid, if his arms [nickname], the Windy City ... because stars. and legs give out, or a sudden burst of as a wire walker, of course your biggest wind knocks him around on the wire, MasterChef Junior > FOX > enemy is the wind.” Wallenda explains his “out.” Tuesdays beginning Nov. 4 And Chicago in November is “My entire life I’ve trained that if likely to have a good amount of wind, there’s ever an issue, that I go down and especially when Wallenda says that grab that wire. The wire is always a safe they chose the windiest area of the haven; it’s always at my feet, and I would city. But the drama of Skyscraper Live go down and grab that wire and hold on. won’t be limited to Wallenda merely balancing on the wire. He explains the I’ve got rescue teams that can be to me breathtaking view of the area (which within minutes anywhere on that wire.” the TV audience will see via dozens of Skyscraper Live With Nik Wallenda cameras positioned around the city and > Discovery Channel > Live Nov. 2 On The Menu: © Turner Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved. Networks, Warner Credit: CHRISTOPHER Inc. A Time Menu: © Turner On The BEYER MasterChef Junior: © 2013 FOX Credit: Greg Gayne Skyscraper Live: Credit: Discovery

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MSO 06_07 Hype 1114.indd 6 10/16/14 8:33 AM Questions 7 With … Ty Pennington of TNT’s “On The Menu.”7 By Barb Oates Last month TNT introduced us to the fi rst cooking competition series where viewers actually get to taste each week’s winning dish in On the Menu, which airs Fridays. Ty Pennington hostsQ the series and legendary chef Emeril Lagasse lends his expertise to the everyday cooks. The day after each episode, you can go to the featured restaurant chain and actually try the winning dish! Upcoming episodes include Emeril’s (Oct. 31), The Cheesecake Factory (Nov. 7), Cabo Wabo Cantina/Sammy’s Beach Bar & Grill (Nov. 14), Outback Steakhouse (Nov. 21), Buca di Beppo (Nov. 28) and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit (Dec. 5). Pennington, who tells us he’s “a sucker for any exciting competition” and “I LOVE good food,” is the perfect fi t as host. Here he answers our “7 Questions.”

You’re at a magazine rack and can tried and, if so, how honestly do you only pick three titles. Which ones let them know what you think? Is it 1do you choose? hard for you to give criticism? Dwell, Rolling Stone, Surfer and Ha! No, I love delivering a little National Geographic. funny criticism — it’s my favorite part because I want these cooks to do the If your TV carried just three best they can. But in the end it doesn’t shows or networks, what would matter what I think because it’s the they be? 2 people in the restaurant that have the TNT, HBO, ESPN. most brutal and What are three things you have honest reactions to have in your fridge or pantry? to the dishes and 3Fresh-squeezed tangerine juice, ultimately sway the arugula, Ritter Sport chocolate bars. decision of which What’s a movie you can watch dish ends up over and over again? on the 4 Spinal Tap. menu. Tell us about a time when you were starstruck. 5When Halle Berry stopped by the opening-night party of my store in Venice years ago, and I had to stare Available at the ceiling so my eyes wouldn’t drift below eyeline and be fi xed on her This Month fl awless fi gure. What has been your strangest fan encounter? 6A group of Italian tourists at JFK thought I was Bear Grylls — we took pictures and the whole nine yards. It was hilarious ... for me! In On the Menu, have you had an instance yet where you really 7didn’t care for something you’ve On The Menu: © Turner Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved. Networks, Warner Credit: CHRISTOPHER Inc. A Time Menu: © Turner On The BEYER

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NAT 07 1114.indd 7 10/16/14 11:22 AM {POPQUIZ} TURKEY TIME After giving thanks and stuffing your tummy, push back from the table and take our gobbling-good PopQuiz to see how well you know your turkey-day TV. By Kellie Freeze

In what year was the Macy’s Name the medical malady Thanksgiving Day Parade fi rst affl icting the staff of the televised nationwide? 4077th in the M*A*S*H episode “The Yalu Brick Road” (1979). True or False: In The Cosby Show’s Season 6 Thanksgiving How many Thanksgiving dinners did episode, Cliff (Bill Cosby) is Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory repeatedly sent out into a (Alexis Bledel) eat in Gilmore Girls’ “A blizzard to buy forgotten groceries. Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving” (2002)? A) 0 B) 2 C) 4 D) 6 In the memorable Friends In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973), episode “The One With All the what food was not served in Charlie’s Thanksgivings” (1998), which backyard Thanksgiving dinner? two characters shove A) Buttered toast C) Popcorn turkeys onto their B) Jelly beans D) Turkey heads? In Seinfeld’s This Is America, Charlie Brown A) Chandler 1994 (1988) identifi es the Mayfl ower and Joey Thanksgiving passenger who fell overboard and B) Joey and Monica episode was rescued. Who was he? C) Ross and Phoebe “The Mom and Pop Store,” which famous A) Military offi cer Myles Standish D) Rachel and Ross parade balloon does Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) B) Manservant John Howland accidentally pop? What happens C) Barrel-maker John Alden A) Woody Woodpecker C) Garfi eld at the end of D) Colony doctor Samuel Fuller B) Betty Boop D) Superman the Cheers Name the comedian who episode “Thanksgiving cowrote and performed How Did 8-10 Gobble gobble! Orphans” (1986)? “The Thanksgiving Song” on YOU 5-7 Have seconds. Saturday Night Live in 1992. Score? 1-4 Eating leftovers.

Short Takes Industry News, Opinion & More. By Barb Oates The Story Behind “The Slap” Mary-Louise Parker. The miniseries is based on the 2011 NBC’s upcoming event miniseries The Slap gives an Australian series and 2008 novel by Christos Tsiolkas. unfl inching look at how one little slap can have a huge impact. The suburban drama centers around Hector, who Karen Kingsbury’s Bestsellers is celebrating his 40th birthday while navigating family Come To Hallmark politics, awkward friendships and the younger woman he’s Karen Kingsbury’s The Bridge and A Time to Dance will be secretly seeing on the side, when his hotheaded cousin translated into fi lm as part of a development deal Hallmark slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. This moment Channel made with the New York Times best-selling will ignite a chain of events that will uncover long-buried author. The Bridge is planned for a 2015 holiday premiere. secrets within this group ... and challenge the core values “I am beyond thrilled to begin this partnership. My readers of everyone involved. Already signed on to the NBC drama will count down the days till the fi rst of these two future are Zachary Quinto, Brian Cox, Peter Sarsgaard and classic movies,” Kingsbury says.

ANSWERS: 1. 1948; 2. False. Cliff was sent out into a rainstorm; 3. B) Joey and Monica; 4. A food fi ght; 5. D) Turkey; 6. B) Manservant John Howland; 7. Adam Sandler; 8. Salmonella; 9. C) 4; 10. A) Woody Woodpecker A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: © 1973 United Feature Syndicate Inc. All rights reserved. Credit: NBC United Feature Friends: Newscom/ZUMAPRESS.com Macy’s Parade: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: © 1973 Credit Globe Photos

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NAT 08_09 Hype 1114.indd 8 10/16/14 11:22 AM A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: © 1973 United Feature Syndicate Inc. All rights reserved. Friends: Credit: NBC Macy’s Parade: Newscom/ZUMAPRESS.com Credit Globe Photos NAT 08_09 Hype 1114.indd 9 { N Returns to “The Exes.” After A HealthScare, KristenJohnston A LittleLessGoofy spend 22minutes.” minutes ofseriouslyfunnyactingandit’sjustajoyfulwayto the world,”shelaughs.“Butitis,inmyhumbleopinion,22 old andnew.“It’snotbrainsurgery—we’rechanging work. ShelooksforwardtosharingTheExeswithherfans, lupus isnowinremission,andshe’sthrilledtobebackat a byproductofmeandwhatI’vegonethrough.”Johnston’s a littlemore—there’sactuallysomedepthtoher,whichis deeper, inaweirdway.Iseemlittlelessgoofy,she’sjust is introspective.“Therolehaschanged,”shesays.“It’sgotten through sitcoms,we’reverygratefultothem.” “For thoseofusintheworldwhomakeourbreadandbutter Cleveland. “AtTVLand,theylovecomedy,”saysJohnston. paired TheExeswithanotherTVLandsitcomsmash,Hotin direction thatituppedtheseasonfrom12to24episodesand finale, butTVLandwassoenamoredwiththeshow’ point endswithaweddingandthat’sallI’llsay.” about Holly…andgettingmarried.[Laughs]Themidway she calls“aforeverfriend.” and Johnstonisexcitedtosharescreentimewithawoman returns forfiveepisodestocompletehercharacter’sstoryar in tofillthevoidleftbyherdeparture.Thisseason,Remin disease, LeahRemini(TheKingofQueens)wasbrought system attacksherspinalcord. an autoimmunediseaseinwhichherbody’simmune illness waseventuallydiagnosedaslupusmyelitis, could onlyworkforanhouratatime,”sherecalls.Her and Icouldn’tholdmyheadupwithoutabrace,so unreliable. “Itwasalmostimpossibletorememberlines having difficultymovingherbodyandmemorybecam as alienSallySolomonon3rdRockFromtheSun,started her inthebuildingsheowns. Knight andDavidAlanBasche)wholiveacrossthehallfrom three recentlydivorcedroommates(DonaldFaison,Wayne (Kristen Johnston),hersunnyassistant(KellyStables)andthe season oftheriotousanticsdivorceattorneyHollyFranklin HYPE}

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Channel Guide Magazine 9 10/16/14 11:22 AM The Exes: Credit: TV Land. THE 3RD ANNUAL CHANNEL GUIDEGUIDE MAGAZINEMAGAZINE VIEWERS VOICE AWARDS WINNERS If there’s anything we learned in this year’s Viewers Voice Awards, it’s that you love Sleepy Hollow and that Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) has one serious fan base. Almost 50,000 votes helped secure the no-nonsense, all-too-relatable detective from TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles as the 2014 Top TV Cop. Other fun fi ndings included Todd Chrisley and Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) beating out Kim Kardashian in the “Most Drool-Worthy Wardrobe” category. Find out who else won top honors from fans across the country in Channel Guide’s 2014 Viewers Voice Awards.

TV’s Top Cop/Detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon), Rizzoli & Isles ...... 97% Leroy Gibbs (Mark Harmon), NCIS ...... 1.0% Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), Castle . . . . . 0.8% Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), Sherlock ...... 0.2% Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg), Blue Bloods ...... 0.1% Little love was given to Criminal Minds’ Spencer Reid, Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Jake Peralta, The Following’s Ryan Hardy and a few others. Instead, it was all about Jane. Here’s what readers had to say: “I don’t understand why Rizzoli & Isles is constantly ignored when awards Best Drama time comes around. The show has excellent actors and great scripts. I never Sleepy Hollow, FOX ...... 20.1% miss a minute of this wonderful series on TNT.” — Norma Game of Thrones, HBO ...... 15.4% “I’ve been watching Rizzoli & Isles for fi ve years and every awards show they The Good Wife, CBS ...... 15.2% have, Rizzoli & Isles has never been acknowledged — that must be changed.” Criminal Minds, CBS ...... 14.8% — Rosetta The Walking Dead, AMC ...... 10.1% Grey’s Anatomy, ABC ...... 7.5% Scandal, ABC ...... 7.5% Orphan Black, BBC America ...... 5.1% Best New Series Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family ...... 2.6% The Blacklist, NBC ...... 27.7% Masters of Sex, Showtime ...... 1.7% Sleepy Hollow, FOX ...... 15.5% The freshman series from FOX, now in its second season, took Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC . . 13.4% top honors. We talked to the star of the series, Tom Mison, who Fargo, FX ...... 12.5% shared a secret ritual he does to slip into his character of Ichabod True Detective, HBO ...... 9.5% Crane. “No one in the world knows this,” Mison said, dropping his Brooklyn Nine-Nine, FOX ...... 6.0% voice a bit conspiratorially. “I have a little Sleepy Hollow playlist Tyrant, FX ...... 5.4% on a day when the wig and coat are not enough, and that playlist Masters of Sex, Showtime ...... 3.9% helps a lot.” He listens to Tom Waits — because who screams The Lottery, Lifetime ...... 3.6% “Revolutionary era” more than the gravelly voiced singer? Satisfaction, USA Network ...... 2.1% The Knick, Cinemax ...... 0.6% While Red Reddington (James Spader) may not have taken the Best Baddie Most Chilling/Creepiest TV Series award, he did help secure The Blacklist as 2014’s Best New Series. “There’s Sleepy Hollow, FOX ...... 35.2% no question that on our show we attempt to turn things on their ear when we’re The Walking Dead, AMC ...... 32.1% able to,” Spader said. He also teased that there will be several cliffhangers this The Strain, FX ...... 17.8% season, including the midseason fi nale, as well as in a two-part, post-Super Penny Dreadful, Showtime ...... 11.9% Bowl episode. The Returned, SundanceTV...... 3.1% The Blacklist: © 2013 NBCUniversal Media, LLC Credit: Patrick Ecclesine Sleepy Hollow: © 2014 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: James Dimmock Rizzoli & Isles: ™ & © Turner Entertaiment Company. All Rights Reserved © 2013 NBCUniversal Blacklist: The Network, Warner Credit: James White Inc. A Time Rizzoli & Isles: ™ © Turner Broadcasting Co. Credit: James Dimmock Media, LLC Ecclesine Sleepy Hollow: © 2014 Fox Credit: Patrick 10 Channel Guide Magazine Note for you math whizzes: Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. N

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Most Drool-Worthy Best Family Values Wardrobe Jen Arnold and Bill Klein, The Little Todd Chrisley, Chrisley Couple, TLC ...... 59.8% TV’s Most Devastating Moment Knows Best ...... 45.4% The Goldbergs, The Goldbergs, ABC ...... 13.8% The Good Wife — Will Gardner taking Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), The Duggars, 19 Kids and Counting, TLC . . . . 6.7% a bullet to the neck ...... 29.1% White Collar ...... 28.1% The Browns, Alaskan Bush People, Supernatural — Dean’s demon-eyes Kim Kardashian, Keeping Up Discovery Channel ...... 5.3% reveal ...... 25.0% With the Kardashians . . . . . 10.0% The Chapmans, Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, The Walking Dead — Carol telling Lizzie to look Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling), CMT ...... 5.2% at the fl owers before putting her down . . 20.0% The Mindy Project ...... 6.7% The Starks, Game of Thrones, HBO ...... 4.9% American Horror Story: Coven — Delphine NeNe Leakes, The Real The Lannisters, Game of Thrones, HBO . . . . . 3.0% LaLaurie’s (Kathy Bates) beheading . . . . . 9.1% Housewives of Atlanta . . . . 5.0% The Thompsons, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Game of Thrones — When Daenerys locks Morgan Stewart, #RichKids TLC ...... 1.3% up and leaves her dragons...... 8.8% of Beverly Hills ...... 4.7% Homeland — Brody’s hanging ...... 7.9% Best Paranormal/ Monster Series Other 2014 Supernatural, Best Redneck Series Duck Dynasty, A&E ...... 46.7% The CW ...... 33.3% WINNERS Call of the Wildman (Turtleman), Under the Dome, CBS . . 26.9% Animal Planet ...... 17.0% Falling Skies, TNT ...... 17.8% Most Bewitching Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, TLC . . . . . 13.5% The Leftovers, HBO . . . . . 7.8% Witch Alaskan Bush People, Queen Regina (Lana Parrilla), Ghost Hunters, Syfy . . . . . 7.4% Discovery Channel ...... 13.1% Once Upon a Time . . . 56.1% Finding Bigfoot, Party Down South, CMT ...... 9.6% Animal Planet ...... 5.8% Best Game Show Mountain Monsters, Destination America ...... 1.0% Family Game Night . . . . 33.3% Best Person To Keep Best TV Flashback Best Besties You Up At Night The Goldbergs ...... 29.5% Jane and Maura, Rizzoli & Isles ...... 83.6% Craig Ferguson Maggie and Emma, Playing House ...... 15.6% ...... 72.0% Best Kitchen Troy and Abed, Community ...... 0.2% Jimmy Fallon ...... 14.5% Conundrum Leslie and Ann, Parks and Recreation ...... 0.2% David Letterman . .4.3% Hell’s Kitchen ...... 30.5% Aria, Spencer, Emily and Hanna, Jimmy Kimmel . . . .4.1% Pretty Little Liars ...... 0.2% Jon Stewart ...... 2.1% Best Talent Test Morgan and Dorothy, Stephen Colbert . .2.0% Dancing With the

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For dramatic purposes, we have to have her be a little off the rails.

— Katherine Heigl on her character’s risky behavior

Katherine Heigl Briefs Us On Her Daring New Political STATE OF AFFAIRS Thriller. By Ryan A. Berenz Ah, there’s nothing quite like coming home to relax after a highest-priority national security hot spots. But she also has a hard day of work in Kabul, Afghanistan. tragic personal link to POTUS Constance Payton (played with “I fi nished work early today,” Katherine Heigl says. “I can power and pathos by Alfre Woodard): Charlie was engaged to sit down and watch TV because my kids are at school and my Payton’s son and witnessed his violent death during a terrorist husband is off working, so I fi nally have a quiet house.” ambush in the Middle East. Foreign policy is a personal matter Kabul, in this case, is a fi lm set in Santa Clarita, Calif., for Charlie and her commander in chief, and both struggle where Heigl is shooting fl ashback scenes for her new NBC internally with their trauma. For Charlie, it’s trying to fi ll in the political thriller State of Affairs, from executive producer/director emptiness with drinking and casual sex. Joe Carnahan (The Blacklist). “I think you need some connection with these people on Heigl stars as Charleston “Charlie” Tucker, a top CIA a personal level to delve into their world and see them as real analyst responsible for assembling the President’s Daily Briefi ng human beings and not just robots going about the business of

(PDB or “The Book”) informing the president of the day’s analyzing,” Heigl says of Charlie and her cohorts. The realism State Parmelee/NBC of Affairs: Credit: Michael

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Ascension of the characters and their cloak-and- Tricia Helfer Goes Retro, Returning To Her Sci-Fi dagger world is achieved in part due to Roots For “Ascension.” By Eric Kohanik contributions from real CIA veterans Henry Crumpton and Rodney Faraon, who shared Tricia Helfer admits she has somewhat of a soft spot for science fi ction. their experiences and let Heigl into the “inner But there’s a good reason. circle” of the intelligence community. “I started my career with Battlestar Galactica,” the 40-year-old actress “You’re getting to work at 2 in the explains. “And I got lucky for my fi rst job to be on something that was so morning preparing the brief for the day, and character-driven and something that made people think.” you usually brief the president sometime in It was that combination of strong characters and storylines that drew the morning,” Heigl says, “and then you’re Helfer to her latest TV project: Ascension, a six-hour series inspired by done until 2 in the morning. So they would Project Orion, a real top-secret space mission authorized by President John go to this bar in Maryland and just get F. Kennedy. hammered and blow off steam, which is Ascension is a complex drama ensconced in sci-fi slightly terrifying if you think about it!” adventure and wrapped up in a murder mystery. The So the CIA briefs POTUS with a story revolves around the inhabitants of the USS hangover? “These guys are serious CIA. Ascension, a massive spacecraft that has been on a They do not come into work hung over,” covert mission since the height of the Cold War in Heigl reassures us. “Charleston will, on the 1960s, sending 600 men, women and children occasion. For dramatic purposes, we have to into space on a 100-year quest to save the human have her be a little off the rails.” race by populating a new world. State of Affairs is a bold venture for “I was fascinated by the idea,” says Helfer. “I Heigl, who is royalty among rom-com movie thought it’s interesting to have this alternate reality, stars but has not done a TV project since sort of a ‘Plan B’ for humanity. For me, it was all leaving Grey’s Anatomy in 2010. She has about the characters and the ‘what if’ stories. What if grown up personally and professionally in these people were in space on this journey?” the past four years. “I took a couple of years The series opens 50 years into the mission, off to just really be with my family,” she says. with those aboard the USS Ascension contending “And I needed that time. I needed to be a with a number of confl icts, including the fi rst mom and be a wife and be a friend and really ever homicide on the spaceship. Brian Van revel in that and remember what it is I feel so Holt stars as William Denninger, the current passionate about in this industry.” captain of the ship. Helfer costars as his In addition to starring, Heigl also shares wife, Viondra. State of Affairs’ executive producer credit. “She is very manipulative and wanting It’s her fi rst TV series experience at this to make something out of her life,” Helfer level, and she says it took about a week explains. “She gave up the right to have of fi lming before she found a nice balance children, so she feels that she is sort of between acting and all the behind-the- the mother of the people on the ship — scenes duties. “I didn’t realize exactly what I the mother of humanity in a way.” was walking into. But I’ve loved it. It’s really The Denningers have both been satisfying and exciting work for me,” worked their way up from lower-class she says. beginnings to the top of the ship’s “I’m having the time of my life. I love hierarchy. And although the show is set in every bit of this. I feel immensely connected the present, Ascension is fi lled with lots of retro to the show. I feel immensely connected to elements in terms of fashion, music and attitudes. Tricia Helfer my character. I feel immensely connected to “A lot of their morals and their values that we’re the success of it or the failings of it. It’s so a dealing with are still from the early ’60s,” Helfer part of me because I got to be so a part of it points out. “The ‘woman behind the man’ is still on these levels.” much more [common] than we would see in our society here on Earth today.” State of Affairs > NBC > Mondays

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A high-stakes world of covert espionage awaits Tom Hughes in “The Game” SLEEPLESS In America NGC Reveals Why The “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” Mentality Could Actually Kill You. By Lori Acken

Did you know that at this been screaming into the wind,” very moment there exists a single, says John Hoffman, Emmy-winning enormously effective weight- producer of Children in War, The loss aid, chronic disease fi ghter, Alzheimer’s Project and The Weight mental health booster and student of the Nation, whose The Public achievement enhancer — and it’s Good Projects teamed up with available to everyone and free for National Geographic Channel, the the taking? NIH and leading sleep researchers All you have to do to reap to produce the eye-opening NGC these benefi ts is get eight hours of documentary Sleepless in America. “I uninterrupted shut-eye. hope that we can be an amplifi er for The Game You just groaned, didn’t you? them, a megaphone to make people Tensions Are High In We humans are the only species that understand that this is far more willfully deny ourselves sleep and serious than they’re aware.” BBC America’s New — cellphones, remotes and tablets “The elastic band of sleep Spy Thriller. in hand and in bed — Americans are deprivation can stretch only so By Jacqueline Cutler experts at it. Forty percent of the far before it snaps,” Dr. Walker BBC America’s six-episode series nation’s adults and a whopping 70 explains, “and I think that’s exactly The Game stars Tom Hughes percent of its high-school students what this documentary is going to (Dancing on the Edge) as MI5 are chronically sleep-deprived demonstrate. We’re starting to see agent Joe Lambe, a young man according to National Institutes of this weathering of that elastic band haunted by his lover’s murder Health (NIH) guidelines. of sleep deprivation in numerous and his own betrayal against And it’s not just making us medical conditions: anxiety, his country. “He is a bit of an exhausted and irritable. It’s killing us. depression, stroke, cardiovascular enigma,” Hughes says of his “We are tapping into a moment disease, diabetes, cancer. My hope character. “He’s a man that where sleep is getting a level of is that the documentary starts to possesses hidden and mysterious attention and recognition that people break down some of that stigma in talents that he spent his life like Dr. Matt Walker [director of the industrialized nations that getting lying about — what he is truly Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory suffi cient sleep is equivalent to thinking and feeling.” Creator at the University of California, laziness.” Toby Whithouse (Being Human) Berkeley] have long been yearning “The answer isn’t hard,” captures the tensions and mood for in terms of sitting on this Hoffman concluded. “You have to get of 1972, and to ensure accuracy, growing body of evidence that there more sleep. You just have to do it.” he interviewed actual spies. are serious consequences to the Sleepless in America > National “Perhaps, not surprisingly, they sleep-loss epidemic — but they’ve Geographic Channel > Nov. 30 tend to be quite circumspect about their methods,” Whithouse says. “Someone from MI6 Sad News Add Sleep, thanked me for creating an Researchers are now discovering Subtract imaginary world. It is almost like that sleep disorders aren’t just Pounds the supernatural — the only ones a byproduct of mental health University of Pennsylvania who know it are in it.” All of it feels disorders like depression and research has shown that very real, and viewers will be lured anxiety. “Based on modern-day skipping sleep increases in to see what this Soviet plot is research, we’re starting to understand that sleep cravings for fatty foods by 33 and who is involved. abnormalities make a signifi cant contribution to percent, adding an extra 500 The Game > BBC America > the development of those psychiatric frequently empty calories to Wednesdays beginning Nov. 5 conditions,” Dr. Walker reveals. the diets of poor sleepers. The Game: © 2014 BBCThe Credit: Des Willie Science of Sleep graphic: NGC 14 Channel Guide Magazine N

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Devise A Better Plan One thing everyone can do to get a better night’s sleep — leave the electronics out of the bedroom. Sixty percent of us bring our cellphones and other electronic devices along when we retire for the night. “The problem is that we can’t resist the stimulation — it’s too rewarding,” says Hoffman. “It’s exceeding anything that we were designed to experience, so it’s keeping us up beyond what we’re designed for.”

Sleeper, Heal Pills Aren’t The Answer Twenty percent of Americans regularly take sleep Thyself medication. “One of the most important parts of the documentary is to reveal that “Sleep is we now have good, non-drug-related methods for improving sleep specifically called cognitiv critically essential behavioral therapy for insomnia [CBTI],” says Dr. Walker. “When you stop sleep medications, for most all body functions most people go back to bad sleep again; when you stop sessions with a CBTI therapist and you and one of those is your continue to practice those methods, you continue to obtain good sleep for the long term.” immune health,” says Dr. Walker. “We know that there are a number of immune The Kids Aren’t Alright Shifting Our View system components that With most high schools starting Of Shift Work help fight malignancy — fo before 8am, sleep has become an Nearly half of the example, one called natural elective for American teens. “There 15 million people killer cells. These will actually are school systems that have delayed who work the night latch onto tumors and release their start time and the positives that shift are sleep deficient. Dr a protein into them that result are just fantastic,” Hoffman says. Walker says the link between destroys the tumors. After “SAT scores going up. School sports teams performing sleep loss and cancer is one night of sleep deprivation, better. Fewer kids in car accidents. But if we’re going to pay so strong that the World there is about a 70 percent more attention to traffic patterns and school bus schedules Health Organization has now reduction in your natural killer then we’re going to have all these kids who are suffering. classified shift work as cell activity.” What are our priorities?” probable carcinogen.

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Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins Olive Kitteridge HBO And Frances McDormand Bring Elizabeth Strout Bestseller To Poignant Life. By Lori Acken

Like many readers of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer of what we do. The second is that we both have a Prize-winning 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge, actress background in theater. And third, we’ve both been married Frances McDormand fell in love with the character-rich to the same people for over 30 years. We both believe in examination of small-town secrets and happily shared the institution of marriage, and we both intend to die with it with her friends. One longtime pal called her soon our chosen partners. That was the story we wanted to tell.” after, wondering if McDormand would fi nd a way to play So, while Henry is often the target of Olive’s harshest the plainspoken Olive onscreen. McDormand said no, observations, Jenkins instantly grasped their bond. “These unwilling to dilute the power of Strout’s words. two really got a lot from each other that neither one of “For me, acting has always been just a social them had in themselves,” he muses. “And Olive is right extension of my private reading life,” says the lifelong most of the time. You understand these people because book collector, “so I was never interested in reading you see yourself in them.” books as material to develop into other projects.” McDormand says she and Anderson especially A serendipitous encounter with The Wire creator connected with Olive’s relationship with the Kitteridges’ David Simon, however, convinced McDormand that only child, Christopher (John Gallagher Jr.), who can limited-series television could serve the kind of deeply stomach neither his mother’s rigidity nor his father’s felt, woman-centric stories she longed to produce — peacemaking nature. including that of Olive Kitteridge. McDormand (wife and “I have a son, he’s my only child, and Jane has a son muse of legendary fi lmmaker Joel Coen) optioned the exactly the same age,” says McDormand. “She’s been with book, tapping screenwriter Jane Anderson to help her her partner for as long as Joel and I have been together, condense its 13 interwoven narratives down to the novel’s and both our sons went off to college the summer we did very essence — a quarter-century in the marriage of Olive, Olive Kitteridge, so we were going through so much of whose eccentric ways mask a wounded soul, and her this as we were writing it together. We found solace in the husband, Henry, a warmhearted pharmacist who does work and it helped us back off of our sons. Olive is better his best to care for his wife and cushion others from her at other people’s problems than her own, so she’s never candor. going to be successful with Christopher, because she’s Five years in the making, McDormand’s extraordinary too close. She’s too afraid of failing him.” four-part Olive Kitteridge debuts this month on HBO, McDormand’s Moonrise Kingdom cohort Bill Murray featuring her Burn After Reading costar Richard Jenkins shines as widower Jack Kennison, Olive’s unlikely late-in- life ally. “Isn’t he just gorgeous?!” she trills. “Bill never left as Henry. his inner child — his inner child has been his outer child “I tear up every time I think about him,” says forever — but Jack is a full-fl edged grownup. A grieving McDormand of Jenkins, with whom she spent weeks grownup. That was heaven for Bill to play.” rehearsing before either set foot on set. “We have three And — like the rest of Olive Kitteridge — for viewers fundamental things that moored us as Olive and Henry. to behold. One is that we are not movie stars. We are working

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17 10/16/14 8:37 AM THE COMEBACK COMEBACKValerie Cherish Is Back — And This Time, She Will Be Heard. By Lori Acken

Kudrow on her returning costars: Juna (Malin Akerman): Chris (Kellan Jane (Laura Silverman): Gigi (Bayne Gibby): “Juna is a big movie star Lutz): “She runs “We got her back in the second “For certain people, it’s like now and she’s always into Chris at a episode. She had won an Oscar cameos. Valerie runs into them, working and not Juna party and he’s for a documentary on lesbians like you do in life. She runs into always in the country, a big movie star, too. in concentration camps, but she’s Gigi, and she also goes to see but when she’s around, And Kellan literally grew inches dropped out. Valerie’s trying to talk Tom Peterman and we get a little they see each other.” from nine years ago!” her into coming aboard for this.” interesting backstory.”

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MSO 18_19 Kudrow 1114.indd 18 10/16/14 8:37 AM all it TV’s comeback of the King continues. “When I did Sex and the do that. Oh, right. It’s not me,’ and all the decade — because 10 years City, the thought that single women were things that come with that.” is nearly how long HBO’s treated like lepers was already in people’s “We are trying to refl ect the current rule-breaking series The minds. I always felt we were the fi rst television landscape, so it’s a complicated Comeback has taken to people to say it, but we just gave voice mix of comedy and sex and tragedy and make its much-discussed, to that thought. With The Comeback, drugs,” King says. “But our main goal is to Chighly anticipated return to the network. we were ahead of the thought process. have Valerie evolve. It might not be what In the summer of 2005, former People got confused because they never you think is a big evolution, but Valerie is Friends star Lisa Kudrow, her producing saw things like The Real Housewives, so becoming self-aware — How much of you partner Dan Bucatinsky and Sex and the they didn’t know what Lisa was doing — ‘Is is for sale? What is more important to City’s Michael Patrick King debuted the she Lisa or is she Valerie?’ But Lisa said Creators Michael Patrick 13-episode, dual-camera series, which to me, ‘Michael, this is exactly what we set King and Lisa Kudrow starred Kudrow as fading actress Valerie out to do.’” Cherish, who allows a reality TV crew to So where will tthe new season pick capture her humbling return to the small up, now that Val has had nine reality- screen in a hormonal teen sitcom. Critical saturated years to thicken her skin? acclaim — and three Emmy nominations — Kudrow says the very fi rst one opens with followed. So did cancellation. a montage of clips that reveal her path Problem was, limited series were to her current adventure, creating a pilot a premium-cable novelty at the time and pitch for Bravo’s Andy Cohen and a group reality TV was in its infancy. Viewers of USC students — including her husband simply did not know what to think of Mark’s nephew — with a wizened eye Valerie Cherish and her world. toward the super-famous Housewives she “We were working on something sees ruling the television landscape. That and Michael just stopped everything and is, until she gets wind of an even bigger you, your career or your marriage? Where looked at me and said, ‘We might be too opportunity. One that reunites her with her does your heart take over your ego? far ahead of the curve,’” Kudrow recalls. “I former producer Paulie G (Lance Barber). These are things that I wanted to explore went, ‘Whaaaaat?’ And he said, ‘It’s good “To me, that was unfi nished as a person being in television for so long.” to be a little ahead of the curve, but not business: What was his problem with Season 2 also features Valerie’s too far ahead … and what if we’re, like, her?” says Kudrow. “The reality cameras serenely awkward adventures in self- too far ahead?’ I said, ‘Oh, nonsense!’ and were annoying, but there was something promotion, social-media style. “What’s we got back to work. But I’ll never forget that felt deeper and more personal, that fascinating to me is now everybody is in that, and the past nine years we’ve had a we never really addressed, which made their own microcosm of showbiz because lot of time to think about what happened.” me feel like that was not fair to the human they are all creating a character called “I got nervous that the rhythm and being that was underneath Paulie G. So them on Facebook and Twitter,” King energy was like nothing I had ever seen we explore that. A lot.” says. “That is all a part of Valerie: ‘Do before,” King explains. “There had never Turns out Paulie is fresh out of a you approve of me? Am I selling you the been a show where the main character is second stint in rehab and exorcising his version of me that I want you to see?’ never offscreen. It was a very complicated demons via an autobiographical dramedy That is why Valerie is still valid in 2014 — new palette, and because Lisa is so he’s sold to HBO called Seeing Red, because everybody is a little bit Valerie. brilliant at feeling something and letting which details his travails with a neurotic, “It remains to be seen if we really you feel it and then covering it up with the redheaded actress while running a sitcom. went too far again,” King muses, “but if ‘Valerie veneer,’ it was asking the audience “There’s this version of her written we were really coming back, we wanted to fi gure it out themselves. We did not tell in a scripted show and Valerie’s like, to give people a show. A bigger show. people how to think. There is no laugh ‘Well, that’s not right!’ — until there’s A darker, deeper show. But this time track or music until the end credits. an opportunity to get the role,” Kudrow hopefully we are not too far ahead of the “And the other thing that made me smiles. “Then the actor in her is like, ‘It’s a curve. On second thought, I hope we are! nervous was that no one had seen a good role … OK, it’s not me.’ But it was But maybe just a little bit — not too far.” woman put herself in front of the camera you. ‘It’s not me. It’s a character.’ And The Comeback > HBO >

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Jimmy Burrows (James Mickey (Robert Mark Berman (Damian Young): Billy (Dan Bucatinsky): Burrows): The veteran Michael Morris): Yes, Valerie’s still married to her The former Scandal producer is back as a brass- Valerie’s stylist Love Ball and the couple still lives in star does double time tacks version of himself. “The has embraced his the same Bel Air home. “Of course on the series, serving guy who said, this isn’t your homosexuality and is they could have moved in nine as executive producer show. You’re not It anymore. That even more certain that he is years, but there is something great and playing the role of Billy, brutal guy.” indispensable to her life and career. about having that house back!” Valerie’s put-upon publicist. {MOVIES ON DEMAND} NEW RELEASES © Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved. © 2013 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Maleficen 22 Jump Street (Fantasy) We’ve long heard the story of Princess Aurora, cursed to a (Comedy) Schmidt and Jenko are back, and Capt. Dickson is sending deep sleep. After being robbed of her youth, Maleficent tries to ge them to college. It’s the same plot as in 21 Jump Street — find the dru even with the man she loved, only to find that maybe the person sh dealers to get to the suppliers. But we get a bigger budget in this film was cursing was someone who had the key to peace. Told through so expect louder explosions and a keg full of collegiate laughs. This Maleficent’s eyes, this will not be the story that you have come t sequel knows where to hit the funny bone and goes right after it. Stay know. It is a visual spectacle to be seen. Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, through the credits for one last scene. Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Sharlto Copley (PG, 1:37) (HD) Premieres Nov. 4 Cube (R, 1:52) (HD) Premieres Nov. 18

Jersey Boys If I Stay (Drama) The rise and struggles of (Drama) A tragic accident has Mia Hall The Four Seasons are told through fighting for survival. As she is walkin this film from legendary director Clin the fine line between life and death, he Eastwood. Frankie Valli had a voice reasons to live and to die explode in that made people take notice. When front of us, from relationships to family he was growing up in New Jersey, he and friends and so much more. Will met the friends who would eventually she stay with the living or has her time become the group behind countless come? Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille hits. John Lloyd Young, Vincent Enos, Jamie Blackley (PG-13, 1:47) Piazza, Christopher Walken (R, (HD) Premieres Nov. 18 2:14) (HD) © 2014 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES INC. © 2014 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND ENTERTAINMENT RATPAC Premieres Nov. 11

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A Million Ways to The Purge: Earth to Echo Die in the West Anarchy (Family) A small community is (Comedy) The Old West is a (Horror) The annual Purge takes moving as they make way for a tough land to live in; people place in an effort to decrease new freeway. When a group of die around every corner. When crime. For 12 hours, all crime young friends discover a map on the lovely Anna comes to town, is legal, including murder. their smartphones, they decide Albert will need to throw caution Surviving the night is all that to have one last hurrah and to the wind and win the girl. Seth matters. Frank Grillo, Carmen follow it. What they find is a ver MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Ejogo, Zach Gilford (R, 1:43) special visitor just trying to get Liam Neeson (R, 1:56) (HD) (HD) home. Teo Halm, Astro, Reese Hartwig (PG, 1:31) (HD) © 2014 Universal Pictures. All Rights Reserved. © 2014 Universal Pictures © 2013 RML Films, LLC Echo © 2014 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. All Rights Reserved.© 2014 Walt

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MEOW Humbug! FALLEN STAR Internet’s Cranky Kitty Lifetime’s Long-Awaited Stars In Her First Film. Aaliyah Biopic Is Here. By Kellie Freeze By Lori Acken Aaliyah Haughton — better known as Aaliyah — was the multitalented Brooklyn native who paved the way for superstars like Beyoncé and Rihanna. By the time she boarded a chartered aircraft back to the U.S. after a 2001 Bahamian video shoot, the 22-year-old stunner was a multiplatinum-selling recording artist beginning to make a splash in feature fi lms. And when the America’s favorite sourpuss is talk. The twosome form a close bond, dual-engine plane leaping from the world of Internet memes work together to thwart a dognapping, plummeted to the to the small screen in her fi rst movie, and Grumpy Cat learns the real meaning ground shortly Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. of Christmas. after takeoff, Alexandra Shipp Grumpy Cat found stardom when a Despite the frenzied buzz killing everyone picture of the kitty with the permanent surrounding the family fl ick, Grumpy Cat aboard, one of entertainment’s most scowl fi rst appeared online. And when is taking the attention in stride. “She promising stars was extinguished. owner Tabatha Bundesen posted a was born a star, but she’s pretty much Now Lifetime chronicles Aaliyah’s YouTube video, she reveals, “Within 36 indifferent to the fame. She could care journey — from her debut on Star hours we had over a million views, and less,” confesses Bundesen. Search at age 10 through the personal within three days, we were getting media Actress Aubrey Plaza, whose Parks and professional controversies requests.” and Recreation character April Ludgate that surrounded her as she rose But Grumpy the cat is actually not is a deadpan youthful curmudgeon, will to fame — in the biographical fi lm grumpy. “She’s actually very calm and provide the frowning feline’s voice in Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B. Starring sweet,” says Bundesen. “Grumpy is the fi lm. When asked what Grumpy Cat Alexandra Shipp, the fi lm is based actually only a reputation.” would think of her fi rst fi lm experience, on the bestseller Aaliyah: More Than In the Lifetime holiday fi lm, Grumpy Grumpy’s owner riffed, “I made a movie a Woman by former Time magazine Cat lives in a mall pet shop and meets once, and I hated it. music editor Christopher John Farley. a young girl who realizes that she is the Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Aaliyah: The Princess of only person who can hear this unique cat Ever > Lifetime > Nov. 29 R&B > Lifetime > Nov. 15

and that’s enough to get us to dive in. Whale Of A Tale By Jeff Pfeiffer The production is a retelling of the sinking of “From the network that brought you the Nantucket whaling ship Essex in 1820 after Mermaids,” read the title card ahead of the trailer being struck by a sperm whale. The crew was left for Animal Planet’s self-described “scripted event” to spend months adrift in the South Pacifi c, with The Whale: Revenge From the Deep. That may be eight survivors eventually being rescued. The fi lm is enough to either intrigue or dissuade any number of based on the accounts of the ordeal written by fi rst people who either liked or disliked Animal Planet’s mate Owen Chase and the captain, George Pollard previous forays into scripted fare like Mermaids, Jr. The sinking of the Essex by a great whale was but the trailer does look promising (a completed said to be an inspiration for Herman Melville’s version of The Whale was not ready for us at classic novel Moby-Dick. presstime). Add to that the fact that Martin Sheen The Whale: Revenge From the Deep > headlines the fi lm based on a gripping true-life tale, Martin Sheen Animal Planet > Nov. 26 Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever: © 2014 A&E Television Networks, LLC. All rights reserved Whale: © BBC © 2014 A&E Television of R&B: ©2014 Lifetime Photo Credit Christos Kalohoridis The Credit: Justin Stephens Aaliyah: Christmas Ever: Princess Wall The Credit: Nick Grumpy Cat’s Worst

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THE DEPTH CHART College Football Top games on the college gridiron include Notre Dame vs. Navy and Florida vs. Georgia (CBS, Nov. 1), Ohio State at Michigan State (ABC, Nov. 8), LSU at Texas A&M (ESPN,

After four seasons, four Nov. 27), and Stanford at UCLA (ABC, NBA Finals appearances Nov. 28). and two NBA titlestitles inin Return Of The Miami, LeBron James College Basketball returns to Cleveland The seventh annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon airs Nov. 17-18 with games on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU. Nov. 18 includes the State Farm Champions Classic with Michigan State vs. Duke and Kansas vs. Kentucky on ESPN. LeBronKING James Proves You Can Go Home Again. By Ryan A. Berenz NHL Thanksgiving Showdown A good old-fashioned rivalry is in store Call it “The Undecision.” After taking his talents to South Beach in 2010, LeBron for Black Friday’s good old hockey James takes his talents back to the place where he fi rst took them, the Cleveland game between the N.Y. Rangers and Cavaliers. King James joins Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving to try to win a title for his Philadelphia Flyers Nov. 28 on NBC. hometown Cavs, while the rest of the NBA’s elite try to spoil his homecoming. Circle these nine dates to watch the Association’s biggest displays of star power: NASCAR Ford EcoBoost 400 The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Oct. 30 Knicks at Cavaliers and Thunder at Clippers (TNT): It’s LeBron’s fi rst Cup comes down to four fi nalists at game back in a Cavs uni, and it’s vs. Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks. Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Nov. 19 Spurs at Cavaliers and Lakers at Rockets (ESPN): The champion Spurs the driver with the best fi nish wins the visit LeBron’s Cavs, and Kobe Bryant’s Lakers visit Dwight Howard’s Rockets. season championship. ESPN (Nov. 16) Dec. 25 Wizards at Knicks (ESPN), Thunder at Spurs and Cavaliers at Heat Thanksgiving Day NFL (ABC), Lakers at Bulls and Warriors at Clippers (TNT): Five big Christmas If there aren’t enough divisional rivalries gifts, including a West fi nals rematch, LeBron back in Miami and the Bulls’ Pau among your Thanksgiving guests, Gasol vs. his former team. the NFL provides three more Nov. 27: Chicago Jan. 19 Pistons at Hawks (ESPN), Mavericks at Grizzlies (NBA TV), Bulls at at Detroit (CBS), Cavaliers and Lakers at Suns (TNT): Four big MLK Day games, highlighted by Philadelphia at Derrick Rose’s Bulls vs. LeBron’s Cavs. Dallas (FOX) and Jan. 25 Heat at Bulls and Thunder at Cavaliers (ABC): Luol Deng takes on his Seattle at San Francisco former Bulls teammates, followed by Kevin Durant vs. LeBron. (NBC). Feb. 8 Clippers at Thunder and Lakers at Cavaliers (ABC): Chris Paul vs. KD, followed by Kobe vs. LeBron? We’ll watch that. How ’bout them Cowboys? March 12 Cavaliers at Spurs and Knicks at Lakers (TNT): LeBron and the Cavs Tony Romo take another shot at the champs, then Knicks president Phil Jackson and tries to upend coach Derek Fisher revisit L.A. the Eagles on turkey day. March 25 Clippers at Knicks and Thunder at Spurs (ESPN): Frontcourt fi ght with Blake Griffi n’s Clippers vs. Melo’s Knicks, plus another West fi nals rematch. March 31 Spurs at Heat and Warriors at Clippers (TNT): A Finals rematch is followed by the rock’em, sock’em Warriors-Clippers rivalry. LeBron James: Credit: Robert Duyos/Sun-Sentinel/ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom. Romo: Credit: Andrew Dieb/Icon Tony Sportswire CEY/Newscom.

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