TV Guide Magazine May 9, 2022

PERFECT FIT I can’t imagine anyone other than Ken Jennings gracing your cover for a story on who should be the permanent Jeopardy! host [April 25 issue]. Full marks to this brilliant, darling man—and to you, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE, for your powerful visual statement! —Lisa I only hope that the powers that be are paying attention. Ken Jennings is the perfect successor to the late Alex Trebek. —Ann THROWBACK LOVE The April 13 episode of ABC’s The Wonder Years, which has been a joy to watch, should be required viewing for anyone who saw the original series. The ending of the episode made me gasp, and I cried recalling the original’s very first episode with Kevin and Winnie. Kudos to everyone involved. —Janet GOOD GOING Wow! I have watched many series finales over the years, but…

Smart Watch If you have 30 minutes, see this season fiale Hilarious internet foodie duo Rhett and Link end their Inside Eats season at the Beyond Meat lab, making their offbeat food mixes and deciding if plant-based foods can taste like meat. Sunday, May 15, 11/10c, Food Network If you have an hour, watch this docuseries Has it been 40 years since the cyanide-tainted Tylenol murders? History’s Greatest Mysteries’ season finale looks at this unsolved 1982 case that’s as confusing as why we drank all that Tab. Monday, May 16, 9/8c, History If you have a free evening, check out this film Covering the Queen of Soul’s 20-year rise from prodigy to survivor, Respect is a musical drama tour-de-force starring Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin’s own pick to play her. With Forest Whitaker. Saturday, May 14, 10:55am/9:55c,…

In the winning dramedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, widowed teacher Nancy (Emma Thompson), who has never experienced true pleasure, hires young sex worker Leo (Daryl McCormack, above, with Thompson) to help get her there. Coming to Hulu June 17, the film is by turns sad, hilarious and charm ing, exposing the difficulties of dealing with intimacy, joy, shame and self-judgment. “You’re the only adventure I’ve ever had,” Nancy declares, and the two leads create a oneroom theatrical viewing adventure indeed. Needless to say, it’s for mature audiences, but after watching, you may never see yourself in the mirror the same way. —Robert Edelstein The Show We’re Talking About in the Office A Wyoming family is fighting to preserve their home. The patriarch defends his ranch from land grabs. The siblings…

@TVGMMattRoush Ridley Road Sundays (through May 22), 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) A POPULAR SONG in the 1960s quipped, “England swings like a pendulum do,” but during that flashy decade of rebellion, there was also a more sinister movement through the land toward neo-Nazi fascism. PBS’s Masterpiece revisits this uneasy time in the tense four-part limited series Ridley Road, featuring the exploits of a most unusual Mata Hari–style spy. We meet Vivien Epstein (an alluringly vulnerable Agnes O’Casey) as a restless young Jewish woman in Manchester, fleeing a dull potential arranged marriage to follow her dashing boyfriend, Jack (Tom Varey), to London, though he warned her not to. Finding work as a hairdresser in fashionable Soho, this romantic is in for a rude awakening when she discovers that Jack has gone underground…

@TVGMMattRoush I’m thinking about canceling my high-priced cable service and strictly going to streaming, since almost everything I watch is available this way. What do you think? —Gwenn MATT ROUSH: I think you’ll be joining a really big club. Most network and cable series are available for streaming (often the next day, sometimes sooner), and the amount of top-drawer programming being developed exclusively for streaming is formidable. This is the direction the entire industry is heading, and “cutting the cord” is no longer as revolutionary as it once seemed. I’m disappointed that one of my family’s favorite shows, Dancing With the Stars, is shifting over to streaming this fall on the Disney+ platform. We’ve watched it live on ABC since 2005, and after this shocking move, the immediacy factor is missing. What gives?…

CLIFF CROOKS FALL IN! CHEF Cliff Crooks (above) is back for a second tour as host of Chef Boot Camp, where the New York–based chef puts struggling professional cooks through a three-day gauntlet of drills designed to up their kitchen skills. If they’re lucky, they’ll be able to create something as mmm-mmm-good as his ricotta gnocchi dish (below) one day. And if we’re lucky, the insightful Crooks will send some our way. Is it true you’ve been working in restaurants since you were 15? Oh, yeah. I started in high school, and not even in the back of the house. I started up front [as a busboy]. I really just love the environment, the people and no two days are the same. Who was your culinary hero growing up? In terms of the upper echelon…