INSIDE THIS ISSUE Horoscopes ........................................................... 2 Now Streaming ...................................................... 2 Puzzles ................................................................... 4 TV Schedules ......................................................... 5 “The Hunt” seeks “Mrs. America” Traveling and Top 10 ................................................................... 6 6 out savage satire 7 starts a movement 7 eating out by proxy Home Video .......................................................... 7 April 11 - April 17, 2020 Peacock shows its feathers as streaming service premieres BY JAY BOBBIN and “Parenthood” also among series choices. The “Battlestar Galactica”: Executive producer Sam Its debut date was set before people likely started Universal movie library will provide a wide range of Esmail’s (“Mr. Robot”) take on the sci-fi saga pits doing their viewing at home more than ever, and a selections, with “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Jurassic humans against evil Cylons again. new streaming service is about to become another Park” and “Schindler’s List” (all directed by Steven “Brave New World”: The classic Aldous Huxley option for them. Spielberg, as it happens) as several of the available novel gets a new treatment starring Alden Ehrenreich NBC Universal launches its direct-to-consumer titles. (“Solo: A Star Wars Story”), Demi Moore and Jessica Peacock – named in tribute to the NBC network’s Different takes on current TV offerings will be on Brown Findlay. the Peacock menu, too, with viewers able to watch classic logo – in the first of two waves Wednesday, “Division One”: Besides “Parks and Recreation,” “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” and “Late April 15. The customer base of NBC Universal parent Amy Poehler supplies something new to Peacock as Comcast gets it first, then the service will go wide on Night With Seth Meyers” several hours earlier. Also, executive producer of this sitcom about a women’s July 15. “Best of” editions of CNBC’s “Mad Money” and college soccer team. Peacock will mix television and movie classics along the syndicated “Access Hollywood” and “The Kelly “Dr. Death”: Jamie Dornan (“Fifty Shades of with original productions, plus sports, and consumers Clarkson Show” are included. Grey”) plays a Dallas doctor whose increasingly lethal can choose between versions of the service. At its New shows on Peacock’s docket include reboots most basic, Peacock will have “thousands of hours” of several series that have existed within the NBC methods are probed by two peers (Alec Baldwin, of programming available – with commercials – for Universal universe previously, and here’s a look at Christian Slater) in this podcast-inspired melodrama. free to Comcast customers and at cost to other several. “Punky Brewster”: Soleil Moon Frye plays an adult consumers, and a paid “Premium” plan will offer even “Angelyne”: Emmy Rossum (“Shameless”) stars in Punky in a continuation of the original sitcom. more, commercial-free. the true drama of a Los Angeles icon. “Saved by the Bell’: Another much-beloved sitcom “The Office” (which won’t appear until 2021), “A.P. 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