TV Guide Magazine December 19, 2022

TOP TEAM I am so excited about Criminal Minds: Evolution on Paramount+ [December 5 issue]. The actors are good together and the material is great, although at times scary. Thank you so much to the producers. —Teresa SWEET STUFF I love, love, love the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movie Three Wise Men and a Baby! The three actors (Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes and Andrew Walker) have been in multiple Hallmark films in the past—putting them together was genius. They each played a different personality and complemented one another. The baby was adorable too! —June VAMPIRE VALIDATION Kudos to Showtime’s Let the Right One In for portraying the human side of characters in a vampire show. It lets one have compassion for this struggling family. —Yvonne GIRL POWER I binge-watched Wednesday on Netflix and enjoyed…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, see this season fi ale Laurie Metcalf returns to guest star as a researcher and leading egg scientist in Seth MacFarlane’s adult animated comedy American Dad! as it wraps up its 17th year of episodes. Monday, Dec. 19, 10/9c, TBS If you have an hour, find this season premiere Judges Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman welcome a dozen young entrepreneurs in Kids Baking Champi onship…but only one winner will take home the grand prize. Monday, Dec. 26, 8/7c, Food Network/Discovery+ If you have a free evening, check out this movie Christmas in Wolf Creek stars Nola Martin and Tim Rozon as a struggling couple whose relationship is put to the test when a runaway reindeer threatens the town’s annual holiday play. Sunday, Dec. 25, 7/6c, UPtv If you have a…

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@TVGMMattRoush 1 Abbott Elementary Jumping to the head of the class is Emmy-winning star and creator Quinta Brunson’s (right) wonderfully funny, tartsweet ABC mock doc about the underfunded, overworked staff at a Philadelphia public school. Not a weak link in this superb ensemble, and as outrageously inappropriate principal Ava, a comedy star is born in scene-stealer Janelle James. 2 Severance It doesn’t get much more mindblowing than this. A dark and hypnotically weird workplace satire like no other, this sci-fi thriller from Apple TV+ is like Dilbert on acid, following an office of drones whose work identities are kept surgically separated from who they are on the outside. When the worlds begin to collide, Severance becomes edge-of-your-seat TV. 3 The White Lotus Writer-director Mike White’s Emmy darling relocates to scenic Sicily for its enthralling second season…

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan SEASON PREMIERE Wednesday, Dec. 21, Prime Video WITH TWO SEASONS of the acclaimed, action-packed series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan under his belt, you’d figure no surprises would await John Krasinski as filming began on Season 3. But having his seat belt unfastened so he could be tossed out of a Black Hawk helicopter high over the ocean? That shocked the normally steady star. “The stuntmen did a great job [on the scene] in the morning,” Krasinski recalls. “Then, one of the Navy SEALs we were fortunate to have with us said, ‘It would be a lot cooler if you did it.’ I said, ‘I’m good, but what would it look like if I did do it?’ And he answered, ‘It would look like me unbuckling you right now and throwing…

Bob Saget May 17, 1956–January 9, 2022 Audiences first fell for him as the always caring, forever clean Danny Tanner on Full House (1989–97). His quicksilver gift of gab and charming likability led to his hosting America’s Funniest Home Videos for nearly a decade. Starting in 2005, Saget was the voice of the older Ted Mosby narrating How I Met Your Mother; series star Josh Radnor gushed that Saget was the “kindest, loveliest, funniest and most supportive man.” He dedicated much of his time to drawing attention to scleroderma, a disease his late sister battled. Louie Anderson March 24, 1953–January 21, 2022 Anderson wore many hats in his career—comedian, Emmy-winning actor, author and game show host among them. The performer cocreated the animated Life With Louie and the sitcom The Louie Show and received a…