TV Guide Magazine March 27, 2023

Priyanka Chopra Jonas (right, Quantico) returns to the espionage life in Citadel, a new Prime Video spy series premiering Friday, April 28. On the sexy show, she plays Nadia Sinh, an elite agent of the global Citadel organization whose memory—along with that of fellow agent Mason Kane (Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden)—was wiped when a powerful shadow syndicate known as Manticore destroyed the agency. Now, years later, the former parters must remember their past lives to stop rampaging Manticore from taking over the world.…

Our second issue of TV INSIDER is on newsstands now! Peacock’s Poker Face (with our April cover star, Natasha Lyonne) is one of the most popular new streaming shows, and it owes some success to Columbo, a classic from five decades ago. The ’70s hit—featured on The NBC Mystery Movie with Banacek, McCloud, The Snoop Sisters, McMillan & Wife, Quincy, M.E. and more—showcased Peter Falk as a rumpled police lieutenant who always got his man. As with Columbo, criminals underestimate Lyonne’s Charlie Cale. Her gift is knowing instantly when someone is lying—but her shaggy hair and thrift-store style, not to mention a throaty lounge singer’s voice, disarm the killer every time. Poker Face is just one streaming murder mystery taking top billing on TV. We also love Only Murders in the…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, catch this premiere Ultra-patriotic agent Stan Smith (Seth MacFarlane) is back for an 18th year of American Dad. This season the animated show’s guest voices include Jason Alexander and Pete Davidson. Monday, March 27, TBS, 10/9c If you have a free hour, watch this new series Before Sandy, Frenchy, Marty, Jan and Rizzo, there was a different Rydell High girl gang—and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies chronicles their (musical) rise to notoriety. Thursday, April 6, Paramount+ If you have a free night, tune in to this film Witness the historic start of the beloved puzzle-based game as Rocketman’s Taron Egerton takes on the role of video game salesman and entrepreneur Henk Rogers in Tetris, Friday, March 31, Apple TV+ If you have some free hours, binge this comedy Jury Duty…

@TVGMMattRoush I recently watched the trailer for Hulu’s new dramedy UnPrisoned. I do not get why this show isn’t on ABC. It would be on Hulu (majority owned by Disney) hours later anyway. It has a beloved big star (Kerry Washington, previously on ABC’s Scandal) in what looks like a unique family comedy (about a single mom whose career-criminal dad moves in after he’s released from prison). —Marc MATT ROUSH: Fair question. While Onyx Collective (the brand producing this series) is developing shows primarily for streamers including Hulu and Disney+, this raises the larger issue of how a company decides which show goes where, and there’s no doubt these corporations are favoring their streaming platforms at the expense of their legacy broadcast networks, often leaving them high and dry when it comes…

@TVGMMattRoush Up Here SERIES PREMIERE Friday, March 24, Hulu I’M A SUCKER for musicals, but despite some very catchy tunes and the considerable charms of its adorable leads, there were times I wanted to beg Up Here to unplug the jukebox in their heads. This eight-part rom-com, based on a 2015 stage musical by the award-winning team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen, WandaVision), is saddled with an off-putting gimmick. Both Lindsay (Parenthood’s Mae Whitman), a would-be writer who fled her dull fiancé in Vermont to discover herself in New York, and Miguel (The Flash’s Carlos Valdes), a love-shy fledgling investment analyst who would rather design video games, are constantly besieged by inner voices, a wet-blanket Greek chorus of nagging parents and obnoxiously scornful observers. Our heroes know they’re being held back by these…

General Hospital Weekdays, check local listings, ABC A STUNNING BRIDE marries her love, hops in a limo and is blown to smithereens. Joy, scandal, tragedy—and returning from the dead, of course—have kept General Hospital fans tuned in since its 1963 debut. Today, ABC’s GH is one of four soaps still standing—with CBS’s The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives on Peacock—and remains a perfect shot of afternoon intrigue. It even grabbed a record 15th Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2022. “General Hospital always explored stories not told in primetime,” executive producer Frank Valentini says. What’s the secret serum that’s made GH a winner? We visited with show VIPs to find out. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY During the 1976–77 season, GH ranked a lowly No. 10…