TV Guide Magazine March 13, 2023

He said he’d be back, and he is. On Thursday, May 25, Arnold Schwarzenegger (right) debuts in his first starring role in a TV series. In Netflix’s FUBAR, an actioncomedy, the Terminator icon plays a CIA operative who, on the verge of retirement, learns a family secret that lures him back to the field for one last job. Amid thrilling blasts and lifeand-limb close calls, family dynamics add to the suspense. The knockout cast includes Fortune Feimster (The Mindy Project), Monica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick) and The Last of Us’ Gabriel Luna.…

Don’t miss your chance to get the very first issue of our brand-new streaming guide, TV INSIDER! It will be on newsstands until March 20. Kiefer Sutherland is on the magazine’s March cover and you can find the issue anywhere you normally pick up TV GUIDE MAGAZINE. TV INSIDER is the only real and comprehensive guide for streamers. You’ll find pages and pages of new shows, specials and movies for all the big streaming services, including Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, Apple TV+, Peacock, HBO Max and MGM+. Smaller services you can’t live without are also here, like BritBox, AMC+, Acorn TV, BET+, Sundance Now and Shudder. TV INSIDER scours streaming libraries for great shows you haven’t had time to binge yet. Read it and you’ll always “Know What…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, catch this sitcom Before The Goldbergs wraps its decade-long run in May, check out this episode, where the family implements superstitious protocols to help the Philly Flyers win the Stanley Cup. Wednesday, March 15, 8:30/7:30c, ABC If you have a free hour, stream this premiere Settle into the countryside of Kent in the summer of 1959 and join the warmhearted English family known as The Larkins, who return for another round of adventures. Monday, March 20, Acorn TV If you have a free night, catch this film The Almond and the Seahorse stars Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as an archaeologist and an architect who reevaluate life following traumatic brain injuries. Friday, March 24, AMC+ If you have a free day, binge this classic series Celebrating all things Irish?…

@TVGMMattRoush Marie Antoinette SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, March 19, 10/9c, PBS (check local listings) FORGET “WILL THEY or won’t they?” In this tongue-inrouged-cheek take on a period biography, the question is when will the diffident young Dauphin, later King Louis XVI, take his teenage Austrian bride, Marie Antoinette, to bed? Their relationship was shrug at first sight, but the gossipy 18th-century French court hangs on these political pawns’ every move. For much of the stylized first season, written by The Favourite’s Deborah Davis and ending well before the fateful Reign of Terror, Louis (gawky Louis Cunningham) flees at the sight of Marie (a splendidly saucy Emilia Schüle) in a sexual panic. She’s frustrated, but he’s sad and pitiful, to the delight of those elaborately bewigged vultures and ghouls who mock and taunt them. Subtlety is not a…

@TVGMMattRoush I know they’re on different networks now, but do you think a crossover is possible between Magnum P.I. (NBC) and NCIS: Hawai‘i (CBS)? —Darren MATT ROUSH: Never say never, but this is tricky since they originate from different studios. Logistics are a headache even when they’re on the same team. Did anyone else catch the reference on the February 23 Law & Order: SVU when Bradley Whitford’s character said Captain Benson had a face like Jayne Mansfield (Mariska Hargitay’s real-life mother, who died in 1967)? —Sue T. MATT ROUSH: I’d like to think anyone who knows showbiz history did.…

Ride SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, March 26, 9/8c, Hallmark Channel Death, deception and forbidden romance, right out of the gate? Hallmark Channel’s new rodeo drama Ride quickly ropes you in, so hold on to your horses! Like a Yellowstone with kinder locals and way less cussin’, this addictive tale centers on a Colorado ranching dynasty with deep roots in the rodeo circuit and close ties that bind them to their bustling stomping grounds. Cocreators and showrunners Rebecca Boss and husband Chris Masi had long been nursing an idea for a series that would capture their rural upbringings. (In her case, home was southeastern New Mexico.) While the couple worked on Fox’s glitzier Star and Our Kind of People, “[We] really wanted to write a show about families, for families,” affirms Boss. And what a brood they’ve…