Who knew rich and glamorous celebrities had so many hush-hush problems? Well, maybe they do in real life and maybe they don’t, but they sure keep “Ray Donovan’s” eponymous anti-hero busy. Last season’s finale episode included some uncommonly high notes for Hollywood’s problem solver and his rather dysfunctional family, but those sweet moments are fleeting. Catch the season 5 premiere of “Ray Donovan,” airing Sunday, Aug. 6, on Showtime.
Among the fictional elite, Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” 2009) is the guy you call if you need an unsavory problem dealt with quickly and quietly. A native of South Boston, he pulled himself up from his blue-collar roots to mingle expertly with the glitterati as he goes about his shady work making their problems discreetly disappear. He’s a firm family man at heart, though the various and sundry members of the Donovan clan are constantly clashing against one another.
The new season sees Ray turning his attention back to his celebrity fixer firm, after season 4 shifted focus to an ongoing crime plot line. A major client this year is played by a major talent: look for Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (“Thelma & Louise,” 1991) in a recurring role in season 5. Things were looking good for the Donovans at the end of last season. Ray avoided prison, and we were even granted an unusually lighthearted scene of him play-
ing video games with his kids. His wife, Abby (Paula Malcomson, “Deadwood”), announced that her cancer is gone, and that she wants the two of them to make a fresh start, while his daughter, Bridget (Kerris Dorsey, “Brothers & Sisters”), was accepted into NYU.
Don’t assume the good times will carry on throughout the new season, though. The cast and showrunners aren’t saying much about what happens this season, but, as Schreiber told Collider, “It’s
a very dark year for Ray.” He expanded on this in a promo clip:
“Fairly early in the season, something very profound and big has changed in Ray’s life — something I think is going to really shock a lot of people — and the impact of that on this family, and Ray himself, is pretty heavy.”
Schreiber, a presence both on the stage and screen, has earned a good deal of recognition for his role over the past four seasons. He’s received four Golden Globe nods and three Emmy nominations, the most recent of which could very well turn into a win in
It’s not just Schreiber who has seen success from the show. “Ray Donovan” opened to recordbreaking numbers, becoming Showtime’s biggest premiere of all time. It’s won a Critics’ Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy, among its many nominations, and averaged 1.2 million viewers
The well-known cast is one major draw of the show, with Schreiber being just one of a number of bigname actors.
Oscar winner Jon Voight (“Mission: Impossible,” 1996) plays Mickey Donovan, Ray’s abusive father who turns up
in the first episode after 20 years in prison. Though murderous, selfish and contemptible, Mickey is also charismatic and charming, and the character is a real fan favorite.
Eddie Marsan (“Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”) and Dash Mihok (“The Day After Tomorrow,” 2004) play Ray’s two brothers, Terry and Bunchy Donovan, who both have their own personal struggles to deal with throughout the series. Pooch Hall (“The Game”) rounds out the family as Daryll Donovan, Ray’s half-brother and Mickey’s son from an affair, who now works for Ray.
Each season has seen its share of talent among the guest stars and supporting cast as well. The likes of Elliott Gould (“Ocean’s Eleven,” 2001), Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”), Ann-Margret (“Grumpy Old Men,” 1993), Ian McShane (“Deadwood”) and Lisa Bonet (“The Cosby Show”) have graced the roster of supporting cast members, and there are some big names on deck for season 5 as well.
The biggest of these is surely the ubiquitous Sarandon. The award-winning acting powerhouse has held well over 100 roles between TV and film since launching her career in the early ‘70s, and the list of accolades attached to her name is dizzying.
She’s sure to be another feather in “Ray Donovan’s” already wellfeathered cap this season. She joins the cast as mogul Samantha Winslow, the legendary head of a motion picture studio, who employs Ray’s “fixing” services.
“Susan Sarandon plays someone who Ray comes to work for, who has a very, very, very profound effect on shifting Ray’s life,” Schreiber revealed in the Collider interview. Sarandon added to this in a Showtime promo: “They both are kind of outside the law, and so, she has a secret that brings Ray into her life.”
“We’re really dependent on story being generated by guest stars,” showrunner David Hollander told the Hollywood Reporter. “There is no big bad guy that Ray has to fight year in and year out, and there is no procedural element of whodunit. So we use new characters to bring in what we feel the zeitgeist is.”
See what else season 5 has in store when “Ray Donovan” returns Sunday, Aug. 6, on Showtime.
Over the weekend, Los Angeles experienced a massive heat wave. Some people were so desperate for air conditioning they actually went to see the new Transformers movie.
At this weekend’s G20 summit, President Trump and Vladimir Putin had a private 2.5-hour meeting. It’s probably not a good sign that it ended with Putin handing Trump a single red rose.
President Trump is being criticized now for allowing his daughter, Ivanka, to sit in for him at the G20 summit. At a press conference today, the White House press secretary’s 8-year-old daughter said, “It’s no big deal.”
We learned yesterday that, on June 9 of last year, Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. ... The meeting took place at Trump Tower, and included Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort — and proves that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help. So it’s not a smoking gun, but it IS a gun meeting with a Russian bullet about their mutual desire to smoke.
The president wasn’t alone at the G20 summit. His wife, Malaria, and his daughter, Ivanka, were with him. At one point, Ivanka sat in for Donald Trump during a meeting with world leaders ... of course, Twitter went nuts, and that’s the only thing he reads. He got very defensive. He wrote: “If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!” Which is very silly. Especially because if Hillary Clinton was president, she wouldn’t let anyone sit in that seat.
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NBCSN Diving U.S. National Championships. From Mccorkle Aquatic Pavilion-- Columbus, Ohio (Live) (2:00)
10:00 p.m. (29) WFTC Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron (0:30)
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10:15 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (0:20)
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11:35 p.m. (7) KCCO PGA Championship Highlights (0:30)
Saturday, Aug. 12
8:00 a.m. FSN Rooster Tales (0:30)
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8:45 a.m. SHOW ALL ACCESS (0:30)
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9:30 a.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
Friday, Aug. 11
8:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
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8:30 a.m. FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
9:00 a.m. ESPN First Take (Live) (1:00)
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FSN NFL Football Pre-season. Min. at Buf. From New Era Field-- Buffalo, N.Y. (3:00)
10:00 a.m. ESPN Baseball Midwest Regional Semifinal Little League World Series. (Live) (2:00)
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11:15 p.m. SHOW ALL ACCESS (0:30) Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Aug 6, 2017 to Aug 12, 2017
Aculinary favorite has returned.
After five years without new episodes, one of Travel Channel’s most loved series is back with new locations, new foods and a new host.
“Man v. Food” premiered in 2008 and became an instant hit, lasting four seasons (with the last one changing both its format slightly, and its name to “Man v. Food Nation”), and remains popular to this day in reruns.
For the new season, “Man v. Food” is returning to its roots, albeit with a new face on screen.
Former host Adam Richman (“Food Fighters”) has not returned, but actor, food lover and restaurant industry veteran Casey
Webb (“Part Timers”) is only too eager to take over in the Monday, Aug. 7, premiere.
For the revived series’s first episode, Webb checks out some of the biggest and most outrageous foods that the Big Apple has to offer. First, he pays a visit to Manhattan, where he tracks down a burger that’s stuffed with French fries and fondue. Then, he heads to Brooklyn for a taste of what might be the city’s most innovative eat: a pizza on a pizza, served in a box made out of (you guessed it) pizza.
Each episode of “Man v. Food” starts out like this: with the host paying a city a visit and experiencing some of its most outrageous foods. The real fun, though, comes in the second half of the episode when Webb takes on one of the host city’s food challenges.
For his New York visit, that challenge is at a little place on Staten Island called the Lunchbox. Here, he finds not just one but three extreme culinary tests: an eight-pound sloppy joe, a 151-ounce milkshake and a half-dozen wings doused with habanero ghost chili sauce that packs a million Scoville heat units (that’s a
lot). Unable to choose which challenge to take on, he leaves it up to chance before diving right in. And that’s where the show really lives up to its name. It’s Casey Webb v. Food in “Man v. Food,” with a whole new season of the fan favorite premiering Monday, Aug. 7, on Travel Channel.
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Not long after Uther Pendragon, King of the Britons (Bana), defeats a villainous warlock, he is betrayed by his own brother, Vortigern (Law), who stages a coup and murders his brother. Years later, Uther’s son Arthur (Hunnam) has grown into a man ignorant of his royal heritage, but when he successfully pulls the magical sword Excalibur out of its stone, the truth of his lineage is revealed. This draws the ire of King Vortigern, and the attention of an underground resistance movement whose members want
cerned that spies might be watching the Kaiser, they send soldier Stefan Brandt (Courtney) to guard him. Brandt soon finds himself deep in an intense and passionate romance with one of the Kaiser’s maids, a woman named Mieke (James), whom he soon discovers is both Jewish and passing along information to the British. His loyalties thus tested, he is forced to choose between his country and the woman he loves.
Director:David Leveaux.Stars:Jai Courtney,LilyJames,Christopher Plummer,JanetMcTeer,KrisCuppens.2016.107min.Drama.
Arthur to lead it in its fight to overthrow the tyrant. Vortigern, however, will stop at nothing to see his royal nephew captured and executed to preserve his own place on the throne.
Director:GuyRitchie.Stars:Charlie Hunnam,JudeLaw,AstridBergèsFrisbey,EricBana,DjimonHounsou,AidanGillen,FreddieFox, CraigMcGinlay.2017.126min. Action.
During the Second World War, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (Plummer) lives in exile in the Netherlands, where he dreams of one day returning to his homeland. When the German authorities become con-
