TV Guide Magazine October 10, 2022

HAPPY READERS Just got my TV GUIDE MAGAZINE with Tom Selleck and Bridget Moynahan on the cover [September 26]. And I totally agree about the superb storyline and wonderful acting on AMC’s Dark Winds! The Native American culture is very interesting. —Barb Thank you for your cover story on CBS’s Blue Bloods! My husband and I really missed seeing the delightful Reagan family’s Sundaynight dinners on television all summer long. —Carol TV ICON I was so happy to be able to relive the great comedy of Norman Lear [Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music & Laughter, September 22 on ABC]. I’m convinced he made it to 100 years old because he not only had a daily dose of comedy in his life but also because his purpose in life is not over.…

Smart Watch Spend 38 minutes on this documentary Director Frank Chi revisits the story of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin in 38 at the Garden, chronicling Lin’s 2012 season and the cultural impact of being an Asian American basketball star. Tuesday, Oct. 11, 9/8c, HBO If you have an hour, watch this game show Olympic medalists Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir go for the gold (frying pan) in Guy’s Ultimate Game Night, competing in fun food challenges to win money for their charities. Wednesday, Oct. 19, 9/8c, Food Network and Discovery+ If you have a free evening, check out this movie Kristoffer Polaha (Jurassic World Dominion) and Marisol Nichols (Riverdale) star in We Wish You a Married Christmas as a couple who head to a cozy Vermont inn to reconnect over the holiday. Saturday,…

What could those tight-knit Waltons be transfixed by in A Waltons Thanksgiving? “It’s the stunning fireworks display that closes out our Harvest Festival Fair,” says Bellamy Young (rear center, with, clockwise, Teddy Sears as John, Christian Finlayson as Jason, Tatum Sue Matthews as Erin, Callaway Corrick as Elizabeth, Marcelle LeBlanc as Mary Ellen, Samuel Goergen as Jim Bob, Vivian Lee-Boulton as Edith and Logan Shroyer as John Boy). Young returns as matriarch Olivia Walton for this “beautiful Thanksgiving adventure” airing November 20 at 8/7c on The CW, but it’s not all pyrotechnics and games. As she teases, “trouble can be lurking around every corner.” —Jim Halterman The Show We’re Talking About in the Office After Rogue One: A Star Wars Story premiered in 2016, no one thought they would see Cassian Andor…

@TVGMMattRoush Magpie Murders SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Oct. 16, 9/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org) A MYSTERY LOVER’S delight, Magpie Murders is a whodunit wrapped in a whodunit, an homage to the genre’s most revered classics that adds clever twists of its own. Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War) adapts his bestselling novel, and if the Masterpiece Mystery! TV version lacks some of the book’s formal brilliance and literary showmanship, it’s still a superior brainteaser. “Is there anything more useless than a whodunit without the ending?” barks veteran editor Susan Ryeland (the delightful Lesley Manville) when she discovers the latest manuscript by her most famous mystery writer is missing its final chapter. Worse news, the author soon turns up dead, a suspected—though suspicious—suicide. Few except the publishing house’s profit-minded investors are mourning the loss of the viciously temperamental…

@TVGMMattRoush What is the status of ABC’s A Million Little Things? I did not see it mentioned in the Returning Favorites issue [September 12]. —George MATT ROUSH: This is one of several renewed shows that are being held back until midseason 2023. Here are some of the other returning scripted series waiting in the wings: on ABC, The Wonder Years; on Fox, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Fantasy Island and House broken; on NBC, Magnum P.I. (picked up from CBS), The Blacklist, American Auto and Grand Crew; on The CW, The Flash, Nancy Drew, Superman & Lois and Riverdale. Say it isn’t so! Did I really watch the series finale of Grantchester on PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery! with Will getting married and the rest of the gang living happily ever after? I love this show. —J.…

The Winchesters SEASON PREMIERE Tuesday, Oct. 11, 8/7c, The CW SUPERNATURAL FANS CAN now rejoice. We know you’ve been missing TV’s longest-running fantasy series, but good news: There’s plenty of monster hunting, road tripping, rock ’n’ roll, sarcastic quips and guest stars from the mothership ahead as the cult horror show prepares to welcome a new prequel, The Winchesters, to the massively beloved SPN universe. And it’s in great hands. Jensen Ackles, SPN’s beer-swilling demon hunter Dean Winchester, older brother to Jared Padalecki’s bookish Sam, is executive producing, alongside his wife, Danneel (SPN angel Sister Jo), and SPN producer Robbie Thompson. Ackles notes that the “winning formula” for a great Supernatural series, however, goes deeper than the details—it’s about family and love. “All the demons and the car and the music and the…