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June We Break Down The Month’s Biggest And Best Programming So You Never Miss A Must-See Minute.

1 C.B. Strike, Cinemax — New Miniseries

3 Succession, HBO — New SeriesWrong Man, Starz — New Series

4Dietland, AMC — New SeriesWhose Line Is It Anyway?, The CW — Season PremiereSo You Think You Can Dance, FOX — Season PremiereThe Real Story With María Elena Salinas, Investigative Discovery — Season PremiereLive PD Presents: Women on Patrol, Lifetime — New Series

5Humans, AMC — Season PremiereTeachers, TV Land — Season PremiereYounger, TV Land — Season Premiere

6The Fosters, Freeform — Series Finale

7Imposters, Bravo — Season FinaleNashville, CMT — New EpisodesThe Four: Battle for Stardom, FOX — Season PremiereMarvel’s Cloak & Dagger, Freeform — New SeriesFrench Open Tennis: Women’s Semifi nals, NBCAmerican Woman, Paramount Network — New SeriesLip Sync Battle, Paramount Network — New Episodes

8French Open Tennis: Men’s Semifi nals, NBC

9GOTTI: Godfather & Son, A&E

French Open Tennis: Women’s Finals, NBCHorse Racing: Belmont Stakes, NBCWelcome to Sweetie Pie’s, OWN — Series Finale

10Celebrity Family Feud, ABC — Season PremiereThe $100,000 Pyramid, ABC — Season PremiereTo Tell the Truth, ABC — Season Premiere72nd Annual Tony Awards, CBSFood Network Star, Food Network — Season PremiereFrench Open Tennis: Men’s Finals, NBC

Billions, Showtime — Season FinaleClaws, TNT — Season Premiere

11American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja, USA Network — Season Finale

12The Last Defense, ABC — New SeriesIn Contempt, BET — Season Finale

13Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back, FOX — New SeriesBrockmire, IFC — Season Finale

14Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Bravo — Season PremiereU.S. Open Golf, FOX & FS1World Cup Soccer: Group Stage (June 14-28), FOX & FS1Alone, History — Season PremiereMarlon, NBC — Season Premiere

17NBA Finals: Game 7 (if needed), ABCShades of Blue, NBC — Season PremiereThe Affair, Showtime — Season Premiere

19Love Is __, OWN — New Series

20Yellowstone, Paramount Network — New Series

21The Gong Show, ABC — Season PremiereDetroiters, Comedy Central — Season PremiereQueen of the South, USA Network — Season PremiereShooter, USA Network — Season Premiere

22The Great British Baking Show, PBS — Season Premiere

24Preacher, AMC — Season PremiereEndeavour on Masterpiece, PBS — Season Premiere

25Penn & Teller: Fool Us, The CW — Season Premiere

30World Cup Soccer: Round of 16 (June 30-July 3), FOX

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Take a trip back to the 1970s as Paramount Network’s new American Woman follows the challenges of a single mom (Alicia Silverstone) during this revolutionary decade

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Gordon Ramsay Hits The RoadHot-headed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay takes his talents on the road in his latest new restaurant fi xer-upper series.

7 Her “Claws” Are OutAfter an epic Season 1 fi nale, Niecy Nash gives us the dirt on the new season of Claws and how Desna may be making a move to be the boss.

21 NEXT MONTHBased on the book by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects – starring Amy Adams — is this summer’s must-watch.

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Meet THE CREW

JEFFFirst on my list to DVR: C.B. Strike on Cinemax

Favorite fictional private eye: Philip

Marlowe

RYANFirst on my list to DVR: American Woman on Paramount Network

Most cherished VHS tape: The Best of Eddie

Murphy: Saturday Night Live

KELLIEFirst on my list to DVR: Dietland on AMC

Diets — love ’em or hate ’em? Hate them,

but need them.

BARBFirst on my list to DVR: Succession on HBO

Best TV recipes: The Pioneer Woman on

Food Network

LORIFirst on my list to DVR: The Great British Baking Show Season 5 on PBS

Favorite GBBS challenge: The

showstopper. Go big or go home, baby!

NEWS & VIEWS

The World Will Be WatchingSo what is TV’s top-watched sporting event? The Super

Bowl? Nope. World Series? No chance. Olympics? Getting close. It’s football’s (that’s soccer to us Americans) most elite tournament — the FIFA World Cup — an event that happens once every four years and draws billions of viewers worldwide. This

month marks the start of the 21st World Cup, taking place June 14 to July 15. As I’m sure most of you know, the United States won’t be in attendance as they were eliminated last year in the qualifi ers. It’s the fi rst Cup the U.S. has missed since 1986. Brazil is actually the only country that has never missed a World Cup, winning fi ve of them. While I wouldn’t call myself a diehard soccer fan, I will be tuning in and cheering on Brazil (the country I was a foreign exchange student to) and England (we’ve got several friends and colleagues from there — they are the diehards!). Even if you aren’t a passionate fan of the sport, it’s going to be hard to

avoid the excitement and enthralling storylines surrounding the games. Inside, we’ve got a special section that breaks down the coverage (pages 246-247).

Also exciting this month is the premiere of Kevin Costner’s new drama series Yellowstone, which he discussed in depth with Lori Acken (see page 10); Mena Suvari and Alicia Silverstone’s new 1970s drama American Woman; the C.B. Strike miniseries based on the crime novels penned by J.K. Rowling under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith; the dark comedy series Dietland starring Joy Nash and Julianna Margulies; and more.

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Include your address when you write or email us, and we’ll most likely send you something. We’re not promising, we’re just saying. Also, if you didn’t know this, the letters and opinions above refl ect the views of our readers, so don’t go crazy on us because you don’t like what someone else said.

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“Outlander” Season 4Has Outlander been canceled? I hope not. I love the show. — SherryCaitriona Balfe (Claire Randall) was recently seen filming scenes in Glasgow for the upcoming run of this popular time-traveling show. The series returns to Starz this November for a fourth season. It’s based on the fourth book in the “Outlander” series, “Drums of Autumn,” which sees Claire and Jamie facing challenges as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American Colonies.

Your Thoughts On Shows You Would Recommend For Others To Check Out ...

The Big Bang TheoryTwo short years ago I didn’t know anything about the aforementioned show until I fi nally asked my friend, “What are you laughing at?” He says, “The Big Bang Theory.” “I’m not a fan of that show,” I tell him. He replies,

“C’mon, Ellis, you are one of the funniest people I know. Watch one episode with me. You won’t be disappointed.” I’ve been a fan ever since. That show deserves to be the No. 1 comedy on television. So yes, I recommend The Big Bang Theory! — Ellis

My List Is LongIt’s really diffi cult for me to narrow down all the shows I like to just one to recommend, so I’m just going to share with you what shows I would recommend: 1.) Homeland, 2.) Good Behavior, 3.) Fargo, 4.) Billions, 5.) Power, 6.) Animal Kingdom, 7.) The Knick, 8.) The Alienist, 9.) Happy!, 10.) Narcos, 11.) Into the Badlands, 12.) Chain of Command, 13.) Live PD and 14.) Taboo. — TheoSome recent news regarding these shows: “Homeland’s” upcoming eighth season will be its last, but “Chain of Command” was renewed.

QUESTION OF THE MONTH:Did you go to high school with someone famous? Tell us your story.Email us at letters@ntvbmedia.com

Missing Pauley PerretteWhat were you thinking? Pauley Perrette is leaving NCIS after 15 seasons, the No. 1 favorite show according to your reader survey, and you don’t even mention her last two episodes in the April or May issue? She is one of the best characters on NCIS. I will miss her. No one can replace Abby Sciuto. — Jeanne At the time of publishing our May issue, we didn’t have the confirmed airdate of Pauley Perrette’s last episode. As for Perrette, she told our sister publication, “TV Guide Magazine,” why she decided to move on. “I believe in God and the universe so firmly, and it just suddenly became blindingly apparent that now was the time,” Perrette said. “After a lot of thought, I decided to announce it myself on Twitter because I didn’t want it to be turned into anything ‘shocking.’ Abby leaving is more than a cheap TV ploy.”

Editor’s Note:I Didn’t Really Say ThatWe published a rant a few months back from an anonymous reader where we misinterpreted a portion of their letter. We’re not going to repeat it because the reader found it offensive. We are sorry these weren’t your intended words. Kindly forward us your contact information, and we can mail your original letter back to you.

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CELEBRATING BROADWAY’S BEST Friends Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles share fi rst-time honors this year as cohosts of the 72nd Annual Tony Awards, which will air on CBS on June 10. Big entertainment brands lead this year’s nominees with the musicals Mean Girls and SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical topping the honors, each earning 12 nominations, along with the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child getting 10 nods. Frozen and The Band’s Visit also received nominations for Best Musical, and The Children, Farinelli and the King, Junk and Latin History for Morons for Best Play. Revivals also fared well, with Angels in America and Carousel getting 11 nominations and My Fair Lady getting 10. As for star power, Denzel Washington, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Diana Rigg, Tony Shalhoub and Michael Cera all were nominated. One confi rmed winner this year is Bruce Springsteen (currently starring in Springsteen on Broadway, which has grossed over $55 million), who is receiving an honorary Tony.

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The toughest and bravest “boys in blue” aren’t always boys. That’s why A&E’s hit series Live PD — which takes viewers on an

unedited ride-along with some of America’s busiest police forces — has expanded to its sister network Lifetime, giving female law enforcement offi cers the spotlight and a show of their own.

In each episode of Live PD Presents: Women on Patrol, which premieres June 4, viewers ride shotgun with female cops already featured on Live PD, plus additional brave, badge-wearing women from departments in Jackson, Wyo.; Wilmington, N.C.; Tempe, Ariz.; and Stockton, Calif., to experience fi rsthand a night’s patrol in their jurisdiction. Raw and unfi ltered, the Live PD sister series lends clear-eyed insight into the rewards and challenges of enforcing the law in a deeply confl icted America.

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HYPEHYPE

Remember when word of mouth and water-cooler talk were how you discovered new TV shows, good restaurants and your next great read? Now we’ve got recommendation engines matching us up to what to watch next. Here we keep it simple.

If You LIKE … TRYIF YOU LIKE THIS TRY THIS

Empire Succession on HBO

Reverie on NBC

American Woman on Paramount Network

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1What three things do you have to have in your fridge or pantry at all times?Champagne, ice cold; amazing parmesan, stunning parmesan; and

eggs. Here’s why. You know, eggs, when you’re on a great date, is the perfect breakfast.

2 If your TV had only three shows on it, what would you be watching?Narcos, House of Cards and World of Dance.

3 What has been one of your strangest or funniest fan encounters?I was at a book signing in Vegas. There was 3,000 people at a

dinner that we had, to do a meet and greet. A lady asked me to sign her left bosom.

4What was a time when you were completely starstruck?

When I met and had a chance to cook for Nelson Mandela for his 90th birthday. It was the most extraordinary moment, where I thought, “Do you know what? Sod the menu. I’ll cook whatever you want, sir.” And I did. I cooked for him twice: once in Hyde Park, and once in South Africa.

5 What would you choose for your last meal?

My last meal? The only thing I’d request at my last meal? That it’s not through a @#$%ing tube. … I have to be honest.

5 QUESTIONSWith GORDON RAMSAYBy Kellie Freeze

elebrity chef Gordon Ramsay adds to his TV empire with his latest FOX series, Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. The series fi nds Ramsay driving his state-of-the-art mobile kitchen and

command center, Hell on Wheels, cross-country on a mission to help struggling restaurants. He and his team will have 24 hours to transform these eateries with renovations, new menus and tough love. Ramsay will dish up the tasty new series on Wednesday, June 13, after a new episode of his MasterChef; in the meantime, he serves up our “5 Questions.”

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Returning Favorites The A� air Showtime (June 17)Alone History (June 14)Celebrity Family Feud ABC (June 10)Claws TNT (June 10)Endeavour PBS (June 24)The Four FOX (June 7)Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Bravo (June 14)GLOW Netfl ix (June 29)The Gong Show ABC (June 21)The Great British Baking Show PBS (June 22)Humans AMC (June 5)Marlon NBC (June 14)Marvel’s Luke Cage Netfl ix (June 22)Nashville CMT (June 7)The $100,000 Pyramid ABC (June 10)Penn & Teller: Fool Us The CW (June 25)Preacher AMC (June 24)Queen of the South USA Network (June 21)Sense8 (series fi nale) Netfl ix (June 8)Shades of Blue NBC (June 17)Shooter USA Network (June 21)So You Think You Can Dance FOX (June 4)Teachers TV Land (June 5)To Tell the Truth ABC (June 10)12 Monkeys Syfy (June 15)Younger TV Land (June 5)

They’re Back, Baby!: Recently Renewed ShowsMore good news for Allison Janney, who recently won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for I, Tonya — her hit CBS sitcom Mom, in which she costars with Anna Faris, has been renewed for a sixth season to debut in 2018-19. … In other CBS news, the network renewed freshman dramas SEAL Team and S.W.A.T. for second seasons, while long-running hit NCIS has been renewed for its 16th season, with star and executive producer Mark Harmon signing a new agreement to continue with the drama. … The CW has given 10 series early renewals — Arrow, Black Lightning, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, The Flash, Jane the Virgin, Riverdale, Supergirl and Supernatural will all return in 2018-19.

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Here and Now is one and done at HBO. … NBC’s Taken will be taken off the air when Season 2 ends. … Ash vs Evil Dead met an untimely death after three seasons on Starz. … CBS canceled 9JKL and will burn off the remaining episodes of Living Biblically. … There will be no second season for Netflix’s Seven Seconds. … Ghost Wars on Syfy has given up the ghost. … OWN serves up the series finale of Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s June 9. … The third and final season of NBC’s Shades of Blue debuts June 17.

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plans to cancel the series in 1968 after two

seasons, a massive letter-writing campaign and demonstrations outside of the NBC corporate offi ces convinced studio execs to grant the sci-fi series a third and fi nal season.

QUANTUM LEAPAfter NBC moved Scott Bakula’s time-traveling, body-jumping series to the dreaded Friday night time slot, “Leapers,” as fans of the series were known, sent 50,000 letters to NBC offi ces. The move prompted then NBC Entertainment President Warren Littlefi eld to return the series to its Wednesday night time slot.

CAGNEY & LACEYCBS canceled the female-police drama starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly in 1983 after its second season received low ratings. But a letter-writing campaign promoted by Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem and the National Organization for Women overwhelmed CBS brass and led to the show being renewed, airing for seven seasons and winning a total of 14 Emmy Awards.

JERICHOIn 2007, after the postapocalyptic drama Jericho was canceled following its fi rst season, fans shipped over 20 tons of nuts to CBS network offi ces. The nutty presents were in reference to a line in the season fi nale cliffhanger, where Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich), told to surrender his town, defi antly replies, “Nuts!” The stunt prompted CBS to renew the series for a second season and to donate the salty snacks to U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

CHUCKInstead of engaging in a letter-writing campaign, fans of the NBC spy dramedy Chuck put their money where their mouths were — literally. After ratings slumped in the series’ second season, fans showed their support by buying Subway sandwiches. Star Zachary Levi even led a “fl ash mob” of 600 hungry fans to one local shop, where they chowed on footlongs. The support helped convince the fast-food chain to help cover the costs of the show’s third season.

TIMELESSIn 2017, NBC’s freshman drama Timeless received so much fan support that it won USA Today’s annual “Save Our Shows” poll. NBC execs cited the poll as a factor in a surprise second-season renewal that came two days after the network had initially axed the show.

ONE DAY AT A TIMEThe Netfl ix comedy starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno faced the cancellation ax after its second season, but a spring 2018 letter-writing campaign and social media blitz from the series’ producers, fans, TV critics and advocacy groups, including the National Hispanic Media Coalition, prompted the streaming service to renew the comedy from producer Norman Lear for a 13-episode third season.

SAVE OUR SHOWSHow Letter-Writing Can Save Your Favorite Series From Cancellation. By Kellie Freeze

Each year we publish the mailing and email addresses of broadcast and cable networks so our readers can contact them directly and provide feedback on shows they love and shows they hate. But these addresses are also provided to help facilitate an annual rite of spring — the fan-led letter-writing campaigns in support of shows on the cancellation bubble. If a show teeters on the verge of ending, the passionate pleas of a program’s most loyal supporters can sometimes tip the hand in the series’ favor. Here are a few examples of times when fan support helped save a series.

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“We’re in uncharted territory. The time for caution has long passed.”

This quote from main character Jack Parsons (played by Jack Reynor, pictured above) as featured in a trailer for the new Ridley Scott-produced series Strange Angel (full screeners for the series were unavailable at presstime) is loaded with meaning for a couple of reasons.

As it applies to the story, it is quite fi tting. Strange Angel is based on a book by George Pendle that tells the true story of how the brilliant Parsons, while working as a janitor in 1930s Los Angeles, began dreaming up the then inconceivable discipline of American rocket science, and maintained the even wilder notion of one day sending people to the moon with those rockets.

As Parsons wrestles with his groundbreaking ideas, he does indeed fi nd that playing it safe is not an option when no one else can even begin to comprehend his vision. He defi nitely takes a nontraditional route toward achieving his goals when he is pulled

into an occult religion created by the notorious Aleister Crowley, performing “sex magick” rituals in hopes that they will bend the world to his will and make his fantastic dreams a reality.

Just as Parsons realizes that the “time for caution has long passed,” CBS All Access itself might have thought the same thing when proceeding with this unique series. Until now, the streaming service has generally stayed with safe, recognizable titles and personalities for its original content — notably the Good Wife spinoff The Good Fight and the latest entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery.

Now that eyeballs for those series, and for the service itself, have been drawn in, it appears to be a good time for CBS All Access to take a chance with an unconventional show like Strange Angel.

Strange Angel > CBS All Access > New episodes available Thursdays beginning June 14

A look at the best shows and movies to stream online.

STREAMING PICKS!

SEX, MAGICK & ROCKETS

Science Meets The Occult In “Strange Angel.” By Jeff Pfeiffer

FOR MORE STREAMING OPTIONS, SEE PAGE 36

GOODBYE TO THE CLUSTERNetfl ix’s “Sense8” Gets The Send-O� Fans Demanded.

Last year, when Netfl ix announced it was canceling Sense8 after two seasons, the fan reaction was swift and intense. The sci-fi series was one of those shows that had developed a relatively small yet passionate cult following, and those people made themselves heard instantly.

It’s certainly not uncommon for hardcore fans to react strongly to a show’s cancellation and desperately try to bring it back (read more about this on page 8). Sometimes it works, and a series returns either on its original network or elsewhere. More often it is not successful, and fans are left hanging.

In the case of Sense8, Netfl ix has sort of met fans halfway. While the series is not returning, fans will be able to at least get a sense of closure to their beloved characters with a one-off series fi nale special.

As for what to expect in that fi nale, a release states that “personal lives are pushed aside as the cluster, their sidekicks and some unexpected allies band together for a rescue mission and BPO takedown in order to protect the future of all Sensates.” — JP

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evin Costner is dancing with TV audiences once again.

In his fi rst television project since his Emmy-winning role in History’s record-breaking Hatfi elds & McCoys, the 63-year-old actor — who ascended from movie-star heartthrob to bona fi de power player when he helmed and starred in 1990’s Oscar-winning Dances

With Wolves — returns to his favored frontier sensibility for Paramount Network’s sweeping drama series Yellowstone. Costner plays widower John Dutton, proprietor of the modern-day Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, his family’s Rhode Island-sized Montana sprawl of big business, modern technology and Wild West skill sets. Invulnerable to outside forces for generations, the estate’s prime location in the shadow of Yellowstone National Park now renders it a target for land developers, oil and logging corporations, the neighboring Indian reservation, and locals who feel that the Duttons’ interests have usurped their own progress.

“There’s people that fi ght for ‘God and country,’ and there’s people that fi ght for the land that they actually live on,” says Costner of Dutton’s world, where a vicious brand of frontier justice still reigns. “If you’ve ever fought for the land and the people on it — where you sleep, where you feed yourself — you feel the difference. I’m not saying one’s better than the other, but this guy’s fi ghting for his way of life and his property against a lot of forces. Tricky ones. And he’s got one foot in one century and the other foot in another.”

The series is the creation of acclaimed fi lmmaker Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water), who grew up on ranches and has described the series as a sort of modernized Bonanza or “The Great Gatsby on the largest ranch in Montana.” He fi lmed on Chief Joseph Ranch, 60 miles south of Missoula, which sometimes put the actors in close proximity with the natural perils they were committing to fi lm. But it also imbued them with the spirit of a landscape most of us know only from pictures and, well, the movies. Which means we don’t really know it at all.

“It’s not a world that we’ve explored very much, to be quite honest,” says Costner, who eschews Hollywood for a bucolic Aspen homestead. “And it’s something that I’m attracted to, with modern-day ranching and the issues that go with that — land use, water rights, the pressures on the people who have the land to keep it and the pressure that people who want it are putting on them. It represents a way of life, and [Taylor] has a grasp of that.

“I’m hoping that what I like, other people like,” Costner continues. “I’m hoping that what surprised me will surprise other people. There’s not much daylight between me and what I think the audience wants. … You dance with the prettiest girl. You go to the best script. And the best script was Yellowstone.”

Costner On Dutton Family Values“The evolution of John Dutton and his family is such that, for four generations, all the children wanted to do was take over, inherit and advance the ranch. John was able to do that, to

grow the ranch in a way a CEO would, but he also is steeped in the tradition of ranching. … The kids have other interests that take them away from the ranch. So, the thing that you’re fi ghting to save, to advance, to keep going, you’re not even sure who you’re trying to save it for anymore. … John Dutton

is, in a sense, the most capable guy from the beginning of the Dutton generations, and yet, he’s the most poised to

lose it all because of modern-day issues that can attack him and a dysfunctional family that’s made him vulnerable.”

On The Dutton Kids“One son [Dave Annable’s Lee Dutton] is very content to just be a wrangler. It’s diffi cult for John — that’s not what he needs. He needs somebody to inherit one of the great ranches of all

time, but Lee doesn’t have the ambition for it, and you see that very clearly. He has another son [Wes Bentley’s Jamie]

who has political aspirations and, while John understands the nature of politics and its modern-day place in these things, he despises that. Another son [Luke Grimes’ Kayce] had diffi culty growing up — issues of violence, bad choices made, pregnancies early in their teens — and went off to war. He’s been a little disenfranchised by war. And John’s daughter

[Kelly Reilly’s Beth Dutton] lost what a mother can be to a daughter. As hard as it is to raise a daughter [Costner has

three], imagine a cowboy trying to raise a daughter as wild and as beautiful as Beth.”

On Not Going Down Without A Fight “[Dutton] can’t deal with the morality outside the ranch, but on the ranch, he decides the morality. That can be harsh. It can be biblical. It can be whatever it is. … ‘I don’t care how other people do things — on my land, it’s done this way.’”

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With Wolves — returns to his favored frontier sensibility for

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When Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling began tackling a quite different storytelling genre — crime novels — she wanted to do so without any of the expectation or hype that would come with her famous name. To accomplish this, she used the male pseudonym “Robert Galbraith” when she wrote what has become, to date, the three-book series of detective novels featuring London private investigator Cormoran Strike.

The fi rst Strike novel Rowling published as Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling, came out in 2013 to acclaim from reviewers and fellow crime writers. Rowling’s identity as the author of that novel didn’t remain a mystery for long, but she went on to write two other Strike books under the Galbraith name to maintain the distinction from her other writing.

However, Rowling is credited under her real name as an executive producer on the TV adaptation of her books, which aired in the U.K. last year under the title Strike, and which debuts in America on Cinemax this month as C.B. Strike.

No matter what it’s titled, the series is worth a watch, not just for fans of the books or of Rowling herself, but also for people who enjoy old-school detective series with a modern twist.

In its style and tone, and its relatively understated presentation, C.B. Strike combines the best of classic British mystery series like Inspector Morse with elements from American fi lm noir detective dramas of the past to come up

with something original. It’s a highly compelling series in which the two main characters — Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike and Holliday Grainger as Robin Ellacott — can be an even more intriguing focus than the mysteries.

“I think [it] kind of harkens back to the retro ’70s detective TV shows,” Grainger told us. “It’s like technology or social media or whatever doesn’t really play a part in it, so there is this kind of retro classic feel to it.”

When we fi rst meet Strike, he seems like he will be the usual rumpled type of private investigator we’ve become used to seeing in many movies and TV shows. But we quickly learn that the investigator — a former military policeman who lost part of his leg in Afghanistan — has intelligence, moral clarity and pain beneath the surface.

“He’s a bit of a fugitive from his past,” Burke revealed to us about Strike. “When I fi rst [was cast], he seemed like this bloke who [just] ate pies and drank bitter at his regular pubs. But underneath all that was something incredibly unusual, and exotic, and fragile. I don’t think anybody’s just a big bloke who drinks beer.”

In his performance, Burke expertly and subtly conveys that fragility of Strike’s over the course of the fi rst season, which is composed of seven episodes. The fi rst three hours make up The Cuckoo’s Calling, an adaptation of Rowling’s fi rst book; there are then two hours each devoted to the follow-up novels, The Silkworm and Career of Evil.

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Each ensuing episode of the series lets us a little more into the secrets of Strike’s past — not just his days in the military, but also his personal background as the son of a famed rocker father and a groupie mother.

“You understand how that thick skin has grown over all that stuff,” Burke explains of the audience’s insights into Strike’s past, which are every bit as revealing as the clues uncovered for a particular case on which he is working.

We also delve more into Grainger’s character. Robin starts out as a temporary assistant to Strike, but she quickly proves her own case-solving mettle and struggles between fi nding a “real job,” which her fi ancé, Matthew (Kerr Logan), at fi rst wants her to do, versus staying on with Strike and following her real passion for casework.

Just as with Strike, our perceptions of who Robin is are turned around almost immediately. Many private-eye stories have a “girl Friday” sort of character, a female assistant who helps the detective and might get into some of the action on occasion, but about whom we end up learning little on

a personal level. That is not the case with Robin.

As the series progresses, we watch her trying to balance not only the hopes that Strike and Matthew have for her, but, more importantly, trying to fi gure out what she herself wants out of life.

“In some ways, she strikes me as a slightly more mysterious character,” Burke said of Robin.

“The thing I love about the characters,” said Grainger, “and love about how the book is written, is that the relationship between Strike and Robin is a slow-burning story. No matter what the main storyline of the mystery

is going on, the audience learns about Strike and about Robin as they’re learning about each other.”

That ties back to something interesting that Burke said about the series. Beyond the plots of the three murder mysteries, he explained that Rowling’s characterizations of the leads builds “the kind of framework for this other [kind of] mystery, which is the mystery between two human beings, between Robin and Strike, which is written in such a brilliantly gentle, nuanced way in the books.”

The series develops them in a similarly nuanced way, and after watching C.B. Strike, you may fi nd yourself wanting to follow these characters more. You wouldn’t be alone — both actors told us that they can’t wait to revisit these roles. But there won’t be another series until Rowling completes the latest Strike novel.

“There is a fourth book on the way,” Burke said. “[Rowling’s] told us about it. But, I don’t think I’ll necessarily be fi lming it until

2020. … I’d love to do more. I could quite happily do several more.”

Grainger concurred. “I would be onboard for Robin,” the actress said. “I can’t wait. I’m so excited. I believe that the fourth book is nearly fi nished being written, and I can’t wait to read it, because I would love to know — not even from an actor’s view, but just from a reader’s point of view — I’m desperate to know what happens with Strike and Robin in the next book.”

C.B. Strike > Cinemax > Fridays beginning June 1

I think [it] kind of harkens back to the retro ’70s detective TV shows. It’s like technology or social media or whatever doesn’t really play a part in it, so there is this kind of retro classic feel to it. — Holliday Grainger

Holliday Grainger as Robin Ellacott

By Any Other (Pen) Name …J.K. Rowling writing her Strike novels under the pen name of Robert Galbraith is only one of the most recent examples of an author using a pseudonym . Here are other notable examples of writers and their pen names:

Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot) Like Rowling, Evans was an Englishwoman who used a male pseudonym, under which she wrote classics like The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch. Unlike Rowling, Evans had to do it for an unfortunate reason: She worked in the 19th century, when being a woman could be much more of an impediment to getting published than it still admittedly might be.

Nora Roberts (pen name J.D. Robb) Similarly to Rowling, Roberts — known best under her real name as the author of one popular form of fi ction, romance novels — went for a pen name when she tried stretching her craft toward writing in another genre. Since 1995, she has written the long-running …in Death series of police/crime novels as J.D. Robb.

Stephen King (pen name Richard Bachman)One of the most famous modern examples of a popular author writing different works under another name, King penned a number of novels under the Richard Bachman moniker before being “outed” as Bachman following the publication of Thinner in 1984. – JP

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Set in 1975 Los Angeles, Paramount Network’s new half-hour scripted dramedy American Woman is inspired by Kyle Richards’ (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) life growing up with her single mom and her two sisters. The

series follows three women — played by Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari and Jennifer Bartels — who are struggling to be strong and independent in an era when that wasn’t the norm. Meet the three fearless females:

Bonnie Nolan (Alicia Silverstone)Occupation: Mother/transportation manager (drives children both to and from school)Source Of Income: Husband’s fraudulent real estate businessRelationship Status: Married to a lying, cheating scumbagSilverstone Says: “Many things inspire me about this show, but one of them is this idea that we all have things we get stuck in our lives. You can accept things that aren’t working for you because there’s enough good, or it’s working just barely enough, and it’s too scary to break through — whether that’s in a relationship or your job or whatever it might be. And I really think that having that bravery to stand up and say, ‘I’m not going to do this anymore, and I don’t know what the future looks like. I don’t know if I’m going to crash and burn or if I’m going to fi nd my dream, but I’m going to say “no” to this and go to the bottom and deal with the pain and come out the other side.’”

Kathleen Callahan (Mena Suvari) Occupation: Crazy rich gal from TexasSource Of Income: DaddyRelationship Status: Unknowingly dating a gay manSuvari Says: “I actually loved this decade, and it was an absolute blast working with everyone. One of my favorite outfi ts that Bonnie wore, Twiggy had actually worn the exact same dress. I love fashion, so I had a lot of fun with it, and my character, Kathleen, really goes for it as well. It was a blast. I love that whole time period.”

Diana Vaughan (Jennifer Bartels)Occupation: Junior loan offi cer at second-largest Figueroa Bank branch in L.A. Source Of Income: Her underpaid, underappreciated job at second-largest Figueroa Bank branch in L.A.Relationship Status: Taking care of her momBartels Says: “This is something you get to see, a really clean snapshot of what women were dealing with in the workplace, trying to create their own fi nancial control, and how they were looked down upon, or they were treated differently. This was something really apparent with my character, Diana. I think personally, too, [about] the way women are viewed, objectifi ed or sexualized — the way it was viewed in the ’70s versus the way it is now. I think we’ve come a long way in a lot of regard to the things we talk about in the show like that, but I think there’s leaps and bounds to where we need to be.”

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HBO’s Family-Dynasty Drama Is Your New Summer Obsession. By Lori Acken

amous families. They enthrall us (say, the royals) and often infuriate us (you, Kardashians) with their power, wealth and privilege — and their ability to emerge unscathed from scandal. But what is it really like to be part of one? To have your forebears and family name be inescapable reminders of all you must live up to? Or try to live down?

HBO’s stellar new family-dynasty drama Succession examines the inner workings of the fi ctional Roy family,

proprietors of international media conglomerate Waystar Royco. Led by no-nonsense patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox, Churchill), a thrice-married, by-your-bootstraps octogenarian on the cusp of retirement, Waystar includes print and entertainment entities and theme parks but not enough new-media holdings for the Roy progeny’s collective taste. Especially middle son Kendall (Jeremy Strong, The Good Wife), the tightly wound heir apparent plotting to fast-track his destiny, whether his dad and three intriguingly disparate siblings approve or not.

Though comparisons to media’s most famous clans are expected and apt, series creator Jesse Armstrong says his writers room examined family empires from the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the Trumps and Bushes to fully explore the peculiar layers of loyalty and betrayal when power is passed down through bloodlines. There’s another facet to this tale, too. Via the Roys, Succession also considers the current state of the media,

its mercurial evolution and how the digital era impacts critical thinking and dwindling attention spans.

“A preoccupation of the show is about mortality and the end coming to human beings and to organizations,” says Armstrong. “There’s a number of successions going on. There’s the family succession. But we were also very aware of this era of Murdochs and Redstones, [Liberty Media chief] John Malone and [Comcast CEO] Brian Roberts — these big, individual controlling shareholders — as the media, the nexus for control of the stuff we consume, passes to the tech giants. We took that area as good meat and drink for the show.” And served it via a family where business is never off the table. Where a family birthday party turns into a father’s power play and an annual softball game becomes a showplace of passive-aggression with a stranger’s child as unwitting prop.

“In all great businessmen, there’s a narcissistic, controlling thing,” says Cox, who likens Logan to Macbeth. “This is what the story is deeply about — loss of perspective. For Logan, that loss of perspective has to do with how his own success and what he wants has inured him from everything else.”

With a roster of characters so fascinating even in their earliest moments, Succession is both timely and escapist — making pointed statements about wealth and power, nepotistic and otherwise, but not requiring a business degree to get caught up in the Roy family affairs.

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Siobhan’s schmoozy signifi cant other is only too happy to let Logan’s beloved girl be his entrée to wealth and power. “I was interested in who would choose to marry into a family like this,” says Armstrong. “We see a glimpse of Kendall’s ex-wife, who can see what it’s done to this person who she once loved. Tom is the other extreme.” “From Logan’s point of view, Tom is no match for his daughter,” Cox adds. “Logan ultimately recognizes that there is an innate goodness about Tom that is easily misled.”

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Suspect of new media and his children’s plan for the family business, the Scottish-born patriarch’s succession plans get shockingly interrupted. “It’s impossible for me to think of anyone other than Brian Cox playing him,” Armstrong says. “His unique qualities … and little bits of his actorly persona feed into the character.”

Elegant and unfl appable, Logan’s current wife is his trusted partner in life and in business — and is rewarded as such. “Logan realizes that

he is very alone, but he needs someone who can

empathize, if not sympathize, with that sense of loneliness,” says Cox. “That’s why the relationship is vital — because it’s trying to achieve, with her, some kind of peace of mind.”

Logan’s eldest son and only child from his fi rst marriage eschewed family business for farm life, deferring to his siblings in business matters and earning a grudging acceptance from his dad. “Logan knows Connor will survive because he has a wonderful fantasy world that he lives in,” Cox says. “Logan also knows that Connor will have problems forming relationships that are not based on some kind of fi scal arrangement.”

Logan’s eldest son from marriage No. 2 is introduced as a stereotype, a slang-spouting

white-collar cowboy with eye-roller vernacular and — though he’d never admit it — daddy as his spine. But the truth is soon revealed. “[Logan] knows that Kendall can’t be

trusted, because he will be at the mercy of people who will take him to the cleaners,” Cox says. “Even though Kendall thinks he’s in charge.”

KENDALL (Jeremy Strong)

ROMAN (Kieran Culkin)The youngest Roy brother and family clown prince cloaks his savvy with impish charm. “I wanted to posit a dynamic with these two perfectly possible [succession] candidates

and then have, around them, people who cast a different light on it,” says Armstrong of Roman and Kendall.

SIOBHAN (Sarah Snook)Logan’s sole daughter and favored youngest child is also his most confi dent. “She’s marked out her own territory in the most initially satisfactory way,” Armstrong explains of the political consultant. “The question for her is going to be the allure of what she’s been taught — [that] the most interesting thing you can do in the world is to be involved in the family business. Will she succumb to that, or could she really imagine a life totally separate from it? And can the people she meets in her profession imagine her as a person totally separate from this powerful family?”

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The immigrant Logan recognizes himself in the guileless grandson of his estranged brother. “Greg provides our eyes into a world of rarefi ed wealth and power,” says Armstrong. “Initially, Logan feels he can manipulate him quite easily, but he also has complete empathy with the whole notion of the country-bumpkin idea.” “He knows that Greg has an incredibly intuitive intelligence and ability to observe,” Cox adds. “He fi nds him a bit tedious, but he’s happy that Greg’s part of the fi rm because he’s family. That’s important. He’s family.”

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new satirical dramedy (based on the critically acclaimed 2015 novel by Sarai Walker), is aspiring journalist Plum Kettle’s coming-of-age reckoning. But its spiky soul is the agonizing battle women wage daily — with themselves, with each other, with unattainable beauty standards and oft-confusing messages about who they’re supposed to be in the workplace and the world in general.

The Rubenesque Plum’s real name is Alicia, but she doesn’t feel she’s earned the right to use it until the lap-band surgery she’s slavishly saving for is complete, rendering her as beautiful on the outside as she feels on the inside. Except she doesn’t feel that great on the inside either.

Played with heart by Joy Nash, Plum whiles away her days ghostwriting responses to letters penned by readers of the Teen Vogue-like Daisy Chain to Plum’s fl ame-haired boss, Kitty Montgomery (an unrecognizable Julianna Margulies, glorious in the role), who fans call “Wax Dracula” even as they beg her advice on everything from stretch marks to date rape. Plum herself works out of a cafe near her home, because her plus-sized body doesn’t fi t the Daisy Chain image. “It’s no accident that she’s a ghostwriter,” Nash muses.

Off the clock, Plum spends her time at humiliating “Waist Watchers” meetings and baking treats she won’t touch at the cafe where she feels wholly accepted. And then one day, a mysterious young woman follows her home and sets Plum on the path to her best life ever.

One that has nothing to do with makeup and weigh-ins.

Though she still works for the powerful Kitty — whose perfectly polished facade hides her own fear of being subjugated by her male colleagues, especially as she marches into a demo more AARP than Allure — Plum acquires a new pair of mentors. Julia (a splendid Tamara Tunie) catalogs the countless beauty products Daisy Chain features, while not-so-secretly eviscerating what they represent to women. And Verena (Big Little Lies’ Robin Weigert), whose folks invented the fraudulent diet which young Plum espoused, devotes herself to undoing that damage. “Plum goes through a lot of different evolutions, and that doesn’t mirror each of those women per se,” Nash explains. “She exists in response to each of them. Each

of them has things that are valuable and change her in huge ways. They’re equally transformative.”

There are some other gals, too. Ones with hidden faces and identical “Jennifer” tattoos, who capture and kill rumored rapists in newsmaking ways. While it might seem counterintuitive for

a girl-power series to condone murder without legal

conviction, Nash makes no apologies. “To see people being held accountable for their actions, I think that’s the shocking part,” she

says. “Because abuse has been happening

always, but to see people caring about it and trying to change things, that’s what’s

new and different.”As is the message (augmented

by sobering facts) that Plum, like the rest of us, has nothing to lose but her insecurities.

“It’s about a fat girl who is looking for her life to change and thinks her body needs to change for that to happen, but it doesn’t,” says Nash, whose body-positive “Fat Rants” went viral in 2007. “I’d never seen a story like that — that wasn’t about a physical transformation.”

And that makes Dietland beautiful.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013, ABC) Cloak & Dagger (2018, Freeform) Daredevil (2015, Netfl ix) The Gifted (2017, FOX) Iron Fist (2017, Ne tfl ix) Jessica Jones (2015, Netfl ix) Legion (2017, FX) Luke Cage (2016, Netfl ix) The Punisher (2017, Netfl ix) Runaways (2017, Hulu)

Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph star in Freeform’s Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger, the youth-centric network’s fi rst foray into the superhero genre and the live-action adaptation of the 1980s Marvel comic. The coming-of-age story follows teens Tandy Bowen (Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Joseph), who come from very different backgrounds but whose lives are repeatedly drawn together through a series of interconnected events. When they discover that they share superpowers related to the yin and yang-like forces of hope and fear, they grow even closer.

Tyrone’s powers rise from the discovery of a mysterious cloak that allows him to teleport, and the realization that, through touch, he can look into a person’s soul and see their deepest fears. Tandy learns that with a single touch, she can uncover a person’s most intimate hopes and dreams and can summon daggers of pure light from the palms of her hands. “It sort of takes you to a fantasy land for

a little bit, but it’s also empowering,” the actress reveals of her luminous weapons. “I love that there could have been any power the dagger could have had, but it’s a dagger made out of pure light and hope, and I just fi nd that special and unique.” And with opposing powers of darkness and light, both Tyrone and Tandy must come to the understanding that they’re much stronger together than they are apart.

Season 1 of the series will likely focus on Tyrone and Tandy’s exploration of their new powers, so it’ll be a while before they fully embrace their superhero personalities of Cloak and Dagger. But nevertheless, Holt reveals she’s reveling in joining the Marvel family. “I’ve been a massive fan of Marvel ever since I was a kid,” she shares. “So to be able to portray such a classic Marvel character is exciting and exhilarating.”

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger > Freeform > Thursdays beginning June 7

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Two Teen Heroes Find Unity With Their Opposing Powers. By Kellie Freeze

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GOTTI: GODFATHER & SON“Biography” Event Traces The Gambino Crime Family. By Ryan A. Berenz

“My father was very easy to idolize, and it’s almost impossible to measure up to a John Gotti. It was just too much for me,” says John Gotti Jr. His father was the “Tefl on Don,” the Gambino crime family boss who received a life sentence in 1992 and died in a federal prison medical facility in 2002.

A&E’s four-hour, two-night Biography event GOTTI: Godfather & Son follows the ascension of Gotti Sr. in organized crime, and how his son eventually severed ties with the family business. During their fi nal meeting, Gotti Jr. informed his terminally ill father of his intentions to quit, and the documentary features exclusive video and audio of that encounter, revealing the complex relationship between a father and son who were both raised among gangsters.

“I have to either follow my father to the end, or I’ve got to protect my family the best way I can,” Gotti Jr. says. “No matter what they say, I’m my own man, and I wanted to move on with my life.”

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THE LAST DEFENSEViola Davis And ABC Dig Deep Into Death Row Cases. By Kellie Freeze

Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner Viola Davis and her husband, actor Julius Tennon, are among the executive producers of ABC’s seven-episode docuseries The Last Defense, which examines two legal cases resulting in death row convictions and exposes fl aws in the American justice system.

The series looks at the cases of Julius Jones, an African-American college student sentenced to death for the 1999 carjacking murder of a white father of two, and Darlie Routier, who in 1997 was sentenced to death for the stabbing death of her young son. Both maintain their innocence and claim to have new or never-before-presented evidence that could exonerate them.

“These are people who are on death row, [where] there is enough evidence that suggests that they could be innocent,” says Davis.

“We’ve always liked the crime space — especially when it deals with social justice,” explains Tennon. “Part of our mantra is ‘being a voice to the voiceless,’ and when you look at cases like this, when people fall through the cracks, you realize that they need somebody who’s gonna re-examine these cases.”

The Last Defense > ABC > Tuesdays beginning June 12 Stream on: abc.com

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THE LAST DEFENSEViola Davis And ABC Dig Deep Into Death Row Cases.

Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner Viola Davis and her husband, actor Julius Tennon, are among the executive producers of ABC’s seven-episode docuseries examines two legal cases resulting in death row convictions and exposes fl aws in the American justice system.

sentenced to death for the 1999 carjacking murder of a white father of two, and Darlie Routier, who in 1997 was sentenced to death for the stabbing death of her young son. Both maintain their innocence and claim to have new or never-before-presented evidence that could exonerate them.

suggests that they could be innocent,” says Davis.

explains Tennon. “Part of our mantra is ‘being a voice to the voiceless,’ and when you look at cases like this, when people fall through the cracks, you realize that they need somebody who’s gonna re-examine these cases.”

Executive producers Julius Tennon and Viola Davis

WHAT’S NEW

In each episode, Mara is inserted into a wildly different version of the virtual reality program. “I’ve always sort of described the show as Inception meets Alice in Wonderland because every episode is a new world, a new Reverie that I enter, and I have to learn the rules that each user has created,” says Shahi. “I defi nitely fall down the rabbit hole of this loopy, crazy, sci-fi world that I’m trying to get myself out of.”

Each of the people who Mara tries to save is seeking an escape from reality, and it’s a situation that she understands, having faced her own personal tragedy. “I wanted to play somebody who was hurt. I wanted to play somebody who was vulnerable, who had to struggle,” the actress says, and shares that her character understands the siren song that Reverie sings, tempting users to stay within its manufactured perfection. Mara uses her skills in hostage negotiation, but instead of coaxing releases from kidnappers, she’s using her skills to free prisoners of technology. As we ourselves become more and more connected in the virtual world and less and less connected to actual people, it’s an easy parallel to draw between the near-future world of Reverie and our own.

The visuals within the Reverie program are sumptuous, and the series’ special effects are on par with those at your local cineplex, helping Reverie be a frenetic and fantastic TV ride. “From start to fi nish, you’re on the edge of your seat,” says Shahi. “You’re gonna cry for sure, you’re gonna laugh, you’re gonna feel scared. ... It literally is a roller coaster from start to fi nish, and I think, what better time to have that feeling than the summertime?”

Reverie > NBC > Wednesdays beginning May 30 Stream on: nbc.com

BC’s summer sci-fi thriller Reverie — with its eye-popping visuals courtesy of Amblin and a high-concept storyline from Mickey Fisher (Extant) — is unlike

anything else on TV, according to series star Sarah Shahi. Shahi stars as Mara Kint, a former hostage negotiator

and human behavior expert who is recruited by a high-tech company to save people who have become “stuck” in an immersive virtual reality program that allows the user to live out his or her wildest dream and relive cherished memories.

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RETURNING FAVORITES

Let’s get the girly stuff out of the way. This season it’s all about press-ons, no more acrylic nails.Niecy Nash: The fi rst season everything was custom, everything was acrylic. It took a lot to pull that off. This go-around everything is custom press-on. Now, getting my nails done is the thing that takes the least amount of time, to be honest.

While Niecy’s own wardrobe has provided inspiration for her character Desna, this season we’ll notice a change. First season they would go through my personal Instagram and be like, “What about something like this?” And I was like, “So you just want me to bring my real clothes to work?” I didn’t realize that Desna and I — in their minds — had so much in common. For Season 2, I think they pretty much got a handle on her style and her vibe, and it’s a little elevated because Desna’s making money now, which is different than when the Dixie Mafi a had control over us, and we were getting pinched.

After the shocking showdown with the Russians that left Juanda dead and Uncle Daddy (Dean Norris) and Desna agreeing to 100 percent of

their business going to the Russians in exchange for Jen’s (Jenn Lyon) daughter, we originally thought we knew where Season 2 might head. But, then they hit us with that fi nal jaw-dropper, which revealed that Desna’s main squeeze Dr. Ruval (Jimmy Jean-Louis, “The Haitian” on Heroes) really wasn’t who she thought he was. What’s going on?!Going into Season 2, we pick up the story a month after the Russians have taken over. We’ve been back for a month. I think initially you fi nd Desna at a place of resolve. This is my life. And I made a deal with these people based on trying to save Jen’s daughter, which all kind of unraveled at my hands, so I feel so much responsibility, so much guilt, to try to make the best out of the situation that I’m in. Not to give it all away, but I hang out with a very unlikely mentor. And this mentor really gives me insight of how to be a boss and how to gain respect. And it’s through that relationship that a lot of the unraveling takes place in Season 2. And just like viewers found out that Dr. Ruval really wasn’t what he’s saying … it takes a while for Desna to see it.

Claws > TNT > Sundays beginning June 10

CLAWSNiecy Nash Takes Her Twisted Role To A New Level. By Barb Oates

When Niecy Nash was 9 years old, she had a chance run-in with Ed Asner on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Recognizing him, she excitedly exclaimed, “I know you!” And then

she told him her plans. “I’m gonna be famous one day, and my name is gonna be right here on the ground. My name is Niecy!” Well, that very young Niecy knew what she was talking about, as next month (July 11), the former Reno 911! and current Claws star will be honored with her own star on Hollywood’s famed boulevard. Here Nash helps us decompress the epic Season 1 fi nale of Claws and gives us her insights on where things are headed for the sophomore season.

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Scrummy news, GBBS fans! The BBC hit that’s as addictive

as a homemade Jaffa Cake returns to PBS this month with a fi fth season (U.K. Series 3, if you’re keeping track) that’s new to American fans. Though the original experienced a shakeup in 2016, losing cherished judge Mary Berry and jocular cohosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins in a move to rival network Channel 4 — “We’re not going with the dough,” said Giedroyc and Perkins in a joint statement — the new PBS outing features all three, plus notorious, sapphire-eyed “Male Judge” Paul Hollywood.

Over the course of four PBS seasons, the kindest and gentlest of food competitions cooked up a rabid U.S. following, introducing Yanks to a whole new world of baking — measuring by weight, baking “fan” (in a convection oven) and a veritable catalog of treats unheard of stateside. Even kitchen-averse types considered taking up the sweeter side of the culinary arts if we could do so in a candy-colored workspace housed in a tent on an impossibly lush countryside estate,

with a bunch of U.K. charmers for companions.

Populated with an admirably diverse and largely lovable cast of amateur bakers, GBBS hasn’t been without its minor dust-ups, mostly due to shared appliances, time constraints, epic exhaustion and nerves. Past contestants have spilled a few other secrets, as well. Bakers secure their own transport to the series, no matter how far-fl ung they are, and pay for some ingredients. No phones are allowed, to prevent peeking at recipes and photos or SOS texts. And contestants taste each other’s wares, post-judging, and most often agree with the results.

The most charming feature of the series? Each season’s victor is crowned at a picnic attended by most of the season’s contestants and their families, earning an engraved crystal cake stand, an artful bouquet and international adoration for their efforts — and a lucrative opportunity to knead, frost and fi ll their way from amateur baker to worldwide fame.

The Great British Baking Show >PBS > Fridays beginning June 22

The Tasty Brit Competition Returns To PBS With Its Original Quartet! By Lori Acken

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GBBS “Buy” The Book On your mark. Get set. BAKE!

RICHARD BURR — PBS Season 1 fi nalistThe charming professional builder and equally precise baker published B.I.Y.: Bake It Yourself in 2015.

CHETNA MAKAN — PBS Season 1 fan favoriteChristened the Queen of Flavor by Paul Hollywood, Makan has her own YouTube

channel, “Food With Chetna,” and published The Cardamom Trail: Chetna Bakes With Flavours of the East in 2016 and Chai, Chaat & Chutney: A Street Food Journey Through India in 2017.

MARTHA COLLISON — PBS Season 1 fi nalistJust 17 when she competed, the sweet and confi dent English rose published Twist: Creative Ideas

to Reinvent Your Baking in 2017, with Crave: Brilliantly Indulgent Recipes due this month.

FRANCES QUINN — PBS Season 2 winnerKnown for her fi erce loyalty to themed bakes, Quinn published Quinntessential Baking in 2015.

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Remember Betty Buckley as Eight Is Enough’s ever-patient and loving stepmom Abby? You’re gonna need to get over that, Preacher fans.

This month, the versatile actress joins AMC’s deliciously subversive dramedy Preacher as the current-day version of Jesse Custer’s freaky “Gran’ma.” No cuddly cookie baker, this one. Instead, Gran’ma’s a spell-casting, dead-raising, enterprising spiritist with a loyal pair of enforcers (Falling Skies’ Colin Cunningham and Nashville’s Jeremy Childs), a thirst for eternal youth — and her long-lost grandson on her doorstep, ostensibly to bring his beloved Tulip (Ruth Negga) back among the living, no matter what

the cost. Picking up where Season 2’s fi nale left off, Jesse’s continued mission to track down God (or maybe claim the title for himself) has led him to, yes, the one place he dreads most: Angelville, the creepy Louisiana plantation where he was raised under, er, less-than-ideal circumstances. Not surprisingly, he quickly discovers that no amount of time can erase some grudges, even as new obligations abound. And, as ever, Gran’ma means business. Need a spell or spirit? Pay a fee — or pay with your soul.

But are these kin really kindred spirits?

Preacher > AMC > Sundays beginning June 24

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In June, Freeform’s GLAAD, Teen Choice and TCA award-winning series The Fosters says goodbye with a three-night fi nale event. The drama follows the lives of the diverse, multiethnic Adams Foster family, led by lesbian mothers Stef (Teri Polo) and Lena (Sherri Saum), which includes biological and adopted children. In its over 100 episodes, the series has tackled issues ranging from breast cancer and the BRCA gene to immigration and DACA to LGTBQ storylines, including the defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act and teens coming out to their parents.

The three-part fi nale fi nds the Adams Foster family preparing for the

destination wedding of eldest son Brandon (David Lambert). Executive producer Joanna Johnson, who also directs the series’ fi nal two episodes, shares, “We start at home and we end at home, but we thought it would be fun to do a special event around the show.” So the entire production headed to Turks and Caicos.

Johnson admits that despite the show’s tropical send-off, it’s still hard to say goodbye to the groundbreaking drama. “The very last shot of the series, I started to well up with tears. I didn’t want to say, ‘Cut.’ I didn’t want to say, ‘That’s a wrap.’ It was tough.” But she reveals the three-part special event is the perfect

mix of memories, surprises and fun that fans are clamoring for, and that the series deserves.

But the end of the series isn’t the end of the Adams Foster family’s story. A yet-unnamed spinoff, starring Cierra Ramirez and Maia Mitchell, is in the works at Freeform and will follow their characters as they move out on their own and into young adulthood. “We’re focusing on Callie and Mariana, but we’re not forgetting our family, and we never will,” Johnson promises. “We are going to see our family members, and we are going to have family episodes at times, so they’re not gone.”

The Fosters series fi nale >Freeform > June 4-6

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Freeform Preps For An Epic Series Finale. By Kellie Freeze

(L to R) Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Hayden Byerly, Cierra Ramirez, Maia Mitchell, Noah Centineo and David Lambert

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NEW RELEASES

Sherlock Gnomes(Family) Gnomeo and Juliet are in a new garden where they were supposed to live happily ever after. But mystery is afoot, and when their friends go missing, there is one individual to turn to: Sherlock Gnomes. Voices of Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, James McAvoy (PG, 1:26) (HD) Premieres June 12

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Love, Simon(Drama) Simon is living the typical high-school life: friends, homework, teachers, a quirky vice principal and lots of iced coffee. But Simon has one big secret he hasn’t told anyone: He’s gay. Coping with longing for love and trying to keep his secret will make Simon’s senior year diffi cult. Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner (PG-13, 1:50) (HD) Premieres June 12

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Pacifi c Rim Uprising(Action) Jake Pentecost, the son of Stacker, reunites with Mako to lead the latest generation of pilots against a new Kaiju threat. John Boyega, Rinko Kikuchi, Scott Eastwood (PG-13, 1:51) (HD)

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The Strangers: Prey at Night(Horror) When a family arrives at a mobile home park to visit relatives, they fi nd it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths — the Strangers — terrorize the family as they struggle to survive. Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson (R, 1:25) (HD)

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At-A-GlanceJune Movies On Demand

PREMIERES BEGINSAffairs of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/15All Between Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5All Summers End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/1Back to Burgundy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Before We Vanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Bernard & Huey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/8Billy Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/15Black Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/29Brothers of the Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19China Salesman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26Compulsion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Dad Crush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12The Dating Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Death Wish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5The Debt Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Delirium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Discreet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/1Distorted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/22The Domestics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/29The Endless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26Escape Plan 2: Hades . . . . . . . . . . 6/29Every Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5A Fairy’s Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/1Flower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Frat Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Funeral Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Furious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Gemini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26Gringo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5The Haunted House

on Kirby Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Hooked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5How to Get Rid of a Body

(and Still Be Friends) . . . . . . . . . . 6/5The Hurricane Heist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5I Can Only Imagine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Ideal Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/29In Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Incident in a Ghostl and . . . . . . . . . . 6/22Jet Trash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19The Jurassic Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Kirk Cameron: Connect . . . . . . . . . 6/5Leaning Into the Wind:

Andy Goldsworthy . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26

Love, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Loveless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Matthews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Midnight Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19The Mimic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12Monster Hunt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26Mrs. Hyde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Not Such a Bad Guy:

Conversations With Dabney Coleman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12

Oh Lucy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/1Pacifi c Rim Uprising (3-D) . . . . . . . 6/19Paul, Apostle of Christ . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Pressing On:

The Letterpress Film . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19Prodigals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19The Quest of Alain Ducasse . . . . . 6/8The Rake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Shaquille O’Neal Presents

All-Star Comedy Jam — I’m Still Laughing . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26

Sherlock Gnomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/12The Strangers: Prey at Night . . . . . 6/12Thoroughbreds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5Tomb Raider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/122036 Origin Unknown . . . . . . . . . . 6/8211 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/8Tyler Perry’s Acrimony . . . . . . . . . . . 6/26Unsane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/19A Wrinkle in Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6/5

ALSO AVAILABLE ENDS Annihilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/29Black Panther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/3Early Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/30The 15:17 to Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/30Fifty Shades Freed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/24Game Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/3Peter Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8/15Red Sparrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/3112 Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/9Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11/30

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The DEPTH CHARTU.S. Open GolfThe 118th U.S. Open Championship golf tournament takes place at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y., June 14-17 on FS1 and FOX. Brooks Koepka is defending champion.

Belmont StakesDepending on the outcome of the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y., could have the excitement of a Triple Crown contender, or it could just be another reason for people to gamble. NBC airs the race June 9.

NBA FinalsABC’s exclusive coverage of the Association’s best-of-seven-game championship series continues with Game 2 on June 3. Game 7, if necessary, is scheduled for June 17.

French Open FinalsThe 2018 French Open singles champions are decided at Roland Garros in Paris with the women’s semifi nals and fi nals June 7 and 9, and the men’s semifi nals and fi nals June 8 and 10, all on NBC.

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WORLD CUP GROUP DRAWS

Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay

Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran

Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark

Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria

Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia

Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Korea Republic

Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England

Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan

WORLD CUP SCHEDULE

Group Stage June 14-28, FOX & FS1

Round of 16 June 30-July 3, FOX & FS1

Quarterfi nals July 6-7, FOX & FS1

Semifi nals July 10-11, FOX

Third Place Match July 14, FOX

Final Match July 15, FOX

We can’t blame the Russians for meddling in this outcome.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament begins this month in 11 Russian cities, but the U.S. Men’s National Team won’t be playing in any of them. That’s because the USMNT’s streak of seven consecutive World Cup appearances dating back to 1990 was snapped after a stunning loss to Trinidad and Tobago in CONCACAF qualifying last October. It’s a tough blow to U.S. Soccer’s cred on the global stage, and it doesn’t help advance the game’s popularity among casual fans in the States.

Until the USMNT redeems itself, bereft soccer fans in the U.S. might consider adopting an underdog team like Iceland, the smallest country by population to ever qualify

for the World Cup. Other teams just happy to be there include Panama, which is playing in its fi rst World Cup, and Peru, which is playing in its fi rst World Cup since 1982.

Teams with the best chances of hoisting the World Cup include Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, France and Spain. Germany defeated Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

This marks the fi rst World Cup for FOX Sports, which won the rights from longtime broadcaster ABC/ESPN. FOX Sports airs all 64 matches live, with 38 matches on the FOX broadcast network and 26 on FS1. All matches can also be streamed live via FOX Sports GO and FOX Soccer Match Pass. Spanish language broadcasts will air on Telemundo.

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1 C.B. Strike, Cinemax — New Miniseries

3 Succession, HBO — New SeriesWrong Man, Starz — New Series

4Dietland, AMC — New SeriesWhose Line Is It Anyway?, The CW — Season PremiereSo You Think You Can Dance, FOX — Season PremiereThe Real Story With María Elena Salinas, Investigative Discovery — Season PremiereLive PD Presents: Women on Patrol, Lifetime — New Series

5Humans, AMC — Season PremiereTeachers, TV Land — Season PremiereYounger, TV Land — Season Premiere

6The Fosters, Freeform — Series Finale

7Imposters, Bravo — Season FinaleNashville, CMT — New EpisodesThe Four: Battle for Stardom, FOX — Season PremiereMarvel’s Cloak & Dagger, Freeform — New SeriesFrench Open Tennis: Women’s Semifi nals, NBCAmerican Woman, Paramount Network — New SeriesLip Sync Battle, Paramount Network — New Episodes

8French Open Tennis: Men’s Semifi nals, NBC

9GOTTI: Godfather & Son, A&E

French Open Tennis: Women’s Finals, NBCHorse Racing: Belmont Stakes, NBCWelcome to Sweetie Pie’s, OWN — Series Finale

10Celebrity Family Feud, ABC — Season PremiereThe $100,000 Pyramid, ABC — Season PremiereTo Tell the Truth, ABC — Season Premiere72nd Annual Tony Awards, CBSFood Network Star, Food Network — Season PremiereFrench Open Tennis: Men’s Finals, NBC

Billions, Showtime — Season FinaleClaws, TNT — Season Premiere

11American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja, USA Network — Season Finale

12The Last Defense, ABC — New SeriesIn Contempt, BET — Season Finale

13Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back, FOX — New SeriesBrockmire, IFC — Season Finale

14Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Bravo — Season PremiereU.S. Open Golf, FOX & FS1World Cup Soccer: Group Stage (June 14-28), FOX & FS1Alone, History — Season PremiereMarlon, NBC — Season Premiere

17NBA Finals: Game 7 (if needed), ABCShades of Blue, NBC — Season PremiereThe Affair, Showtime — Season Premiere

19Love Is __, OWN — New Series

20Yellowstone, Paramount Network — New Series

21The Gong Show, ABC — Season PremiereDetroiters, Comedy Central — Season PremiereQueen of the South, USA Network — Season PremiereShooter, USA Network — Season Premiere

22The Great British Baking Show, PBS — Season Premiere

24Preacher, AMC — Season PremiereEndeavour on Masterpiece, PBS — Season Premiere

25Penn & Teller: Fool Us, The CW — Season Premiere

30World Cup Soccer: Round of 16 (June 30-July 3), FOX

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