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Time-Sensitive 2014 Viewers Voice Awards TV’s Top Cop WINNERS LIST INSIDE PERIODICALS Award Goes Class Publication ➧ To Jane Rizzoli Best New Series: The Blacklist ➼ Postmaster please deliver by the 1st of the month Channel Guide magazine Katherine Heigl +12 On NBC’s FAC T S “State Of On Sleep A f f a i r s ” & Why You pg. 12 Need More Of It! pg. 14 LIVE & channelguidemag.com UNTETHERED!!! OLIVE Nik Wallenda KITTERIDGE Attempts Highest Frances Skyscraper Walk McDormand pg. 6 Brings The Beloved Book To HBO pg. 16 FUNNIER THAN EVERLISA Available This KUDROW Month November 2014 November MAKES “THE COMEBACK” pg. 18 Tricia Helfer Talks Syfy’s New ASCENSION pg. 13 NAT FT_BK CVR 1114.indd 1 10/9/14 10:54 AM {SHORT LIST} 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: N Not all networks available in all areas. PBS programming varies regionally. Channel Guide Magazine 251 NAT 02_IBC 1114.indd 1 10/9/14 10:56 AM {CONTENTS} 11.14 CHANNELGUIDEMAG.COM 24 A Royal Christmas 16 Olive Kitteridge 12 State Of Affairs Features Favorites GET MORE ONLINE! 8 PopQuiz: Talking Turkey-Day TV 4 News & Views channelguidemag.com This month’s quiz is stuffed with fun 8 PopQuiz facts about Thanksgiving-themed What’s New specials and episodes — from 12 Questions or comments Charlie Brown to SNL! 20 On Demand Premieres about this magazine? 23 Movies Call us at 888-333-5388 10 2014 Viewers Voice 24 Family & Lifestyle or contact us at Awards Winners! 25 Sports [email protected] TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles scores decisive victories in our annual awards — chosen entirely by you! You can also write: Resources NTVB Custom Media Katherine Heigl’s New Attention: Editor 12 WHAT’S ON DAILY 1720 W. 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Get VIP Access! address, please visit your local Post Offi ce and Go to: channelguidemag.com/allaccess/ complete USPS Form 3575, or access the web Cover: Lisa Kudrow: © Gilles Toucas Photography. All Rights Reserved. Olive Kitteridge: © Jojo Whilden/HBO.Cover: Lisa Kudrow: © Gilles Toucas A Royal Christmas: © Crown Media United States, LLC. State Parmelee/NBC. of Affairs: Credit: Michael at moversguide.usps.com N Not all services are available in all areas. Channel Guide Magazine 3 NAT 03 1114.indd 3 10/16/14 11:21 AM {NEWS & VIEWS} 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.