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David Letterman’s decades-old segment is back—in bulk! TBS’s Stupid Pet Tricks series, hosted by comic Sarah Silverman, carries on the legacy of showing off how impressive—and gut-busting—animal-kind can be. In the Sunday, February 11, opener (5/4c o

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MAYBE IT WAS the booming baritone voice, honed by Shakespearean training. Or possibly the piercing eyes, which riveted you to the screen with every glare, or the sly grin that escaped to reveal the warm man beneath the intense performance. No questio

MY ADOLESCENCE IN the 1970s coincided with TV’s coming of age. Along with the rest of America, I watched the medium grow up before my very eyes—in large part thanks to the genius of Norman Lear. His oh-so-human comedies brought the real world into ou

NORMAN LEAR CHANGED the face, tone and breadth of TV comedy with acclaimed and hugely popular breakthrough series in the 1970s. Veering from the safe and antiseptic sitcoms of the past, Lear’s shows tackled the issues of the day with wit, passion and

WHEN WILL YOUR broadcast TV favorites—or that exciting new series you’ve been looking forward to—finally show up on your screen? It’s only a matter of time, but you’ll have to be patient. While filming schedules were able to resume following November

@TVGMMattRoush A British police drama pits a young officer against a veteran detective with secrets SERIES PREMIERE Wednesday, Jan. 10, Apple TV+ WHEN YOU’RE STAGING a classic catand-mouse game, it helps to have absolute beasts on hand to portray the

Please welcome our new soaps expert, Stephanie Sloane. Stephanie has been covering the drama of daytime TV for more than 30 years as a writer and editor at Soap Opera Digest. With her unparalleled access to all the stars, producers and creators, you

PREMIERES 2024, Starz Outlander heartthrob Sam Heughan temporarily hangs up his kilt for this dark psychological thriller about sexual entanglements in the suburbs of England. In the six-parter, he plays traffic cop Danny, who lives in an upscale com

PREMIERES Thursday, Feb. 8, Netflix Pencil this in: July 15 is the date to remember in this serialized adaptation of David Nicholls’ 2009 love story. The bittersweet tale follows Brits Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall, The White Lotus) and Emma Morley (Amb

PREMIERES Sunday, Feb. 11, 10/9c, CBS; moves to 9/8c Sunday, Feb. 18 This Is Us ended its six-season run in 2022, but Justin Hartley didn’t have to look far for his next project once he read Jeffery Deaver’s The Never Game at the urging of Ken Olin,

PREMIERES Friday, March 15, Apple TV+ While true crime stories are hardly un  common, Manhunt stands out by taking us back nearly 160 years to a murder that changed the course of U.S. history: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, f

PREMIERES Friday, Feb. 2, Prime Video When Atlanta’s Donald Glover called Francesca Sloane suggesting they cocreate a series inspired by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s hit 2005 film, Sloane wasn’t sure it would work. “But then he explained the idea o

PREMIERES Tuesday, Feb. 27, 10/9c, FX This beautifully shot and acted reboot of 1980’s blockbuster miniseries Shogun—based on the James Clavell bestseller about John Blackthorne, a British ship pilot marooned in early 17th century feudal Japan—is “ve

PREMIERES Thursday, Feb. 29, 10/9c, CBS “She’s unique and unorthodox. She’s colorful. She’s a scatterbrained genius.” Can’t wait to meet the character detailed by Emmy winner Carrie Preston? You already have! Elsbeth Tascioni, Preston’s scrappy Chica

RETURNS Thursday, Jan. 18, 8/7c, 9/8c and 10/9c, NBC On the docket for the criminally good hit franchise: new faces on the job and at home, plus a major milestone. LAW & ORDER (8/7c) Reid Scott (Veep) is in as Det. Vincent Riley, following Jeffrey Do

PREMIERES Wednesday, Feb. 14, Apple TV+ “All I ever wanted to do was design the most beautiful women’s clothing that ever existed,” muses Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) in the premiere of this 10-episode series depicting his rise to fashion fame, hi

PREMIERES Sunday, March 17, 9/8c, PBS “She wasn’t easy, she didn’t suffer fools, so I can see she might have put people’s backs up,” says Helena Bonham Carter of British soap star Noele “Nolly” Gordon, her bold character in this true-life, three-part

RETURNS Wednesday, Jan. 31, 10/9c, FX Based on Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the anthology series’ latest round chronicles writer Truman Capote’s time among New York City’s most elite so

PREMIERES Sunday, March 3, 9/8c, HBO Kate Winslet has inhabited one fascinating character after another, a successful run that continues in this six-episode limited series from Succession scribe Will Tracy. As fierce Elena Vernham, she’s the chancell

RETURNS Sunday, Jan. 14, 9/8c, HBO It’s been five years since we’ve seen this winning anthology, which follows haunted police detectives solving grisly crimes. And the chilling fourth iteration goes about as far as one can from 2019’s Arkansas locale

RETURNS Thursday, Feb. 1, 9/8c, National Geographic This dual biography tracks the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two fighters for equality who, despite their differences, wanted the same outcome for humanity. Here are examples of

PREMIERES Tuesday, Jan. 16, Hulu A murder aboard a lavishly restored vintage Mediterranean ocean liner loaded with rich, glamorous guests unites an unlikely pair of sleuths in this lush drama. One half of the duo is initially the prime suspect: young

PREMIERES Sunday, Jan. 14, 9/8c, AMC Immortalized by Humphrey Bogart in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, hard-boiled private eye Sam Spade goes Gallic in this thriller from Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Street) and Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit). Cl

PREMIERES Thursday, March 21, Netflix “It’s a history of humanity from the point of first contact with an alien civilization all the way to the end of the universe,” says executive producer and writer Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy, True Blood) of

PREMIERES Sunday, Feb. 25, 9/8c, AMC The zombie franchise’s star-crossed, blood-splattered lovers—former leader Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his warrior wife Michonne (Danai Gurira)—finally reunite in this six-episode limited series. But first, t

PREMIERES 2024, Paramount+ Buddy comedies don’t get much stranger or sillier than this series, an expansion of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe that boasts Idris Elba’s return as the voice of Sonic’s foe turned ally Knuckles. Introduced in 2022’s bloc

PREMIERES Friday, April 12, Prime Video You don’t need to have played the globally popular video game Fallout to fall for this live-action adaptation. Prime Video’s big-budget take—from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy—is filled with da

PREMIERES Fall, Disney+ Who’s been pulling every evil string? The cackling Marvel sorceress played by Kathryn Hahn in 2021’s WandaVision is up to no good yet again in this witchy spinoff. Westview residents Dottie (Emma Caulfield Ford) and Mrs. Hart

PREMIERES Tuesday, Jan. 9, 9/8c, Disney+/Hulu Audiences first met Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) in the 2021 action series Hawkeye. Now they can find out where it all began for the formidable, complex fighter known as Echo, who holds the distinction of bein

PREMIERES Wednesday, March 20, Apple TV+ “Everybody has a chance to score,” says an awestruck Carol Burnett of working among a heavy-hitting cast of scene-stealers—the famous faces include Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin and Laura Dern—in

“The bones of Deal or No Deal are there, so fans of the original game will be happy,” promises Joe Manganiello (True Blood, Magic Mike), who hosts this juiced-up, island-centric version of the game show. Yes, the briefcases containing big bucks are b

PREMIERES Sunday, Feb. 4, 8/7c, National Geographic “Because it’s there” isn’t the only motivation for elite climber Alex Honnold (Free Solo) in this three-part documentary chronicling his 2022 Eastern Greenland expedition to ascend one of the world’

Some 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries converge on the City of Light this summer for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, and anticipation of greatness is, naturally, high. With only a six-hour time difference between New York City and Paris,

RETURN Monday, Feb. 12, 9/8c and 10/9c, CBS Old buddies “TNT”—that’s NCIS: Hawai‘i boss Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and brave NCIS agent Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama)—each ended their seasons tripped up by someone from their past. Tennant will su

RETURNS Sunday, Jan. 21, 9/8c, Hallmark Channel Coming soon: more time travel and tribulations for the Landry family—and more insight for fans. “We left our audience with a lot of questions at the end of Season 1,” admits Alexandra Clarke, The Way Ho

RETURNS Wednesday, Feb. 7, 9/8c, ABC Class is back in session at last! And Season 3 of the Philadelphia-set comedy picks up mid–school year just as Career Day is happening. “Gregory gets a botanist [to visit], which he is very excited about,” says Ty

RETURNS Early 2024, Paramount+ As if Evil weren’t ominous enough, in the thriller’s Season 4, demonic Leland (Michael Emerson) is nurturing a baby he believes is the Antichrist to bring forth the Apocalypse! Psychologist Kristen (Katja Herbers) disco

RETURNS Summer, HBO Civil war is coming. In the sophomore season of this fantasy drama adapted from George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), who considers herself the rightful ruler of Westeros, faces off against her half

RETURNS November, Paramount Network We have needs! Here’s what we’re hoping to see before TV’s most popular drama, featuring the dysfunctional cattle-ranching Dutton clan, rides off into the sunset. 1 Beth and Rip adopt Carter. OK, Beth (Kelly Reilly

8 Blank Slate GSN NEW 90 Day Diaries TLC Secrets of Polygamy A&E NEW 9 Big Little Brawlers Discovery NEW Echo Disney+/Hulu NEW La Brea NBC 10 Criminal Record Apple TV+ NEW Prison Brides Lifetime NEW The Trust: A Game of Greed Netflix NEW 11 Boy Swall

RETURNS Tuesday, Jan. 9, 9/8c, NBC Time travel, love triangles and a T. rex come into play as the cleverly crafted drama that sent a bunch of Angelenos back to 10,000 B.C. ties things up. RETURNS Sunday, Feb. 4, 10/9c, HBO “As Curb comes to an end, I

THURSDAY, JAN. 25 ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES Pablo Escobar may have been history’s most notorious drug lord, but there’s one person he admitted to being afraid of: Griselda Blanco (Sofía Vergara, above), whose glamorous, violent life as a cocaine cartel

Society of the Snow (2023) NETFLIX ORIGINAL Heroic retelling of how stranded members of a Uruguayan rugby team survived for months after a 1972 plane crash in the Andes. Lift (2024) NETFLIX ORIGINAL Kevin Hart (above) fronts a team of high-tech thiev

1 Night Court actress Markie 5 None too bright 8 Gullible folks 12 “Looks like trouble!” (hyph.) 13 Historic stretch 14 Storyline 15 Father 16 Best friend on Blossom 17 Kristin Kreuk on Smallville 18 Margaret’s nickname on M*A*S*H (2 wds.) 20 Mork &

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