TV Guide Magazine July 4, 2022

What’s your favorite TV time of the year? Well, that’s kind of a trick question. We’re pretty sure it’s fall! I’m writing this editor’s note on the first day of summer, which means it’s the longest day of the year. The sun popped up at about 5:30am and will take its time across the sky, not setting till 8:30pm. But my mind is already looking forward to the days that are a little shorter, when the nights are much fuller with new television. This issue’s cover story is a revealing first look at new and returning shows—on broadcast, cable and streaming—that are premiering in autumn. In fact, for most of the summer, the TV GUIDE MAGAZINE staff will be preparing our famous Fall TV issues that make us an indispensable guide…

Smart Watch If you have a half hour, watch this dramedy The Season 2 premiere of Edward Burns’ series Bridge and Tunnel returns us to the 1980s-set time capsule of hopeful young adults on Long Island looking to make it big in Manhattan. Sunday, July 10, 10/9c, Epix If you have an hour, watch this drama series An explosion and issues with Russia plague the British prime minister (Robert Carlyle) as Season 2 of the tense drama Cobra: Cyberwar bows in the U.S. Sunday, July 10, 10/9c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) If you have a free evening, stream this docuseries All six parts of The Last Movie Stars, Ethan Hawke’s documentary about the lives of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, include incredible archival material and interviews. Thursday, July 21, HBO Max If you have a…

No one chronicles the highs and lows of sex and the city like Darren Star, as his latest cocreation, Uncoupled (premieres Friday, July 29, on Netflix), works to get the smile back on the face of How I Met Your Mother’s Neil Patrick Harris (left), playing a real estate agent whose boyfriend of 17 years leaves him single and in his 40s. “I’m a dinosaur,” he woefully declares to the neardivorcée (a great Marcia Gay Harden) whose apartment he’s up for selling. There are plenty of jokes about late-life dating, but the ever-appealing Harris makes this worth the view. —Robert Edelstein The Show We’re Talking About in the Office FX’s gripping action thriller The Old Man could have been called The Old Men. Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase, a former CIA op who’s…

@TVGMMattRoush Only Murders in the Building Tuesdays, Hulu THEY’RE KILLING IT. Not literally, mind you. But if being slayed by laughter is your thing, Season 2 of mysterycomedy Only Murders in the Building delivers. Just watch Martin Short hog the tabloid spotlight when he and his truecrime podcasting buds (Steve Martin and Selena Gomez) become persons of interest in a bloody murder. “They were wrong: Oliver Putnam can get arrested in this town—and oh baby, does that feel wonderful!” Comic chemistry is a wonder to behold, and Murders displays it in abundance whenever Short’s has-been theater director mocks Martin as Charles, a sweetly befuddled former TV cop. “Oh, look at the wheels turn slowly. So slowly,” Oliver quips as Charles processes the latest plot twist. And there are many, as they once again try…

@TVGMMattRoush I thought the Lifetime movie Buried in Barstow was very good, but I was surprised at the unresolved ending when the screen read “To be continued” without any information on when and how. How can I watch the rest of the story? —Lil MATT ROUSH: That was meant to tease the fact that Barstow is intended to be the first in a projected series of TV movies. Lifetime hasn’t officially announced a timetable for the next chapter. But if the enthusiastic response in my mailbag is any indication, Lifetime and Angie Harmon could have a hit movie franchise on their hands. I found the reimagined Wonder Years to be emotionally honest, warm and funny. Why are they benching it until midseason, giving the wonderful Abbott Elementary the tired Goldbergs as a Wednesday…

Sunday, Nov. 13, Paramount+ and Paramount Network SYLVESTER STALLONE SWAGGERS into his first major television role as a New York City mobster, vital 75-year-old Dwight “The General” Manfredi, in this series with behind-the-camera talent as prestigious as its star: Tulsa King is conceived by hitmaker Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) and written by master of the Mafia genre Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos). The drama streams on Paramount+ but, as an enticement, Episodes 1 and 2 air on Paramount Network after Yellowstone’s first two Season 5 episodes. Stallone sets up the show: “Dwight Manfredi has a dark side, but he’s also witty and a real tactician. He was at the top of his game until he took the fall for someone else. During 25 years in prison, he goes through a revival and…