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Attorneys are put to the test as they face off in the Southern District of New York Federal Court in the season finale of “For the People,” airing Tuesday, May 22, on ABC. All eyes are on the lawyers as they tackle some of the most controversial cases in the nation, but they refuse to back down until justice is served.
Created by Paul William Davies (“Scandal”), the 10-episode Shondaland production stars Vondie CurtisHall (“Chicago Hope”) as Chief Judge Nicholas Byrne, Hope Davis (“About Schmidt,” 2002) as lead public defender Jill Carlan, and Ben Shenkman (“Royal Pains”) as Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Gunn. The talented group of young lawyers includes Jasmin Savoy Brown (“The Leftovers”) as Allison Adams, Susannah Flood (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”) as Kate Littlejohn, Wesam Keesh (“Awkward”) as Jay Simmons,
Regé-Jean Page (“Roots”) as Leonard Knox, Ben Rappaport (“Mr. Robot”) as Seth Oliver, and Britt Robertson (“Tomorrowland,” 2015) as Sandra Bell. Anna Deavere Smith (“The West Wing”) rounds out the cast as no-nonsense court clerk Tina Krissman.
The cast of the ensemble drama is now part of the Shondaland dynasty, which includes hits “Grey’s Anato my,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder.” The distinc tion was not lost on Rappaport, who spoke with tvinsider.com in early April about landing a role in “For the People.”
“I would describe get ting into Shondaland like getting an acceptance letter to an Ivy League school,” Rappaport ex plained. “You feel like you’re a part of a very special group and club. The whole company, top to bottom — I mean everybody — it’s just a great culture of respect.”
Rappaport plays one half of the show’s will-theywon’t-they couple,
Seth and Allison, who broke up after she used information gleaned from a private conversation to win a case against him. The tension between them is just one example of how the show delves into both the professional and personal lives of the characters. It’s a formula familiar to fans of Shonda Rhimes, who’s an executive producer of “For the People,” along with Davies, Betsy Beers (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Donald Todd (“This Is Us”) and Tom Verica (“How to Get Away With Mur-
“For the People” has continued the Shondaland tradition of primetime winners. It showed promise right out of the gate as the series debut pulled in ABC’s highest ratings in its Tuesday night time-slot in the key 18-to29-year-old demographic in five months, with more than 3.2 million
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viewers in the U.S. In fact, the show is now part of a Tuesday night lineup that’s earned ABC its longest winning streak in 11 years, thanks to a lead-in from comedies “Roseanne,” “The Middle,” “Black-ish” and “Splitting Up Together.”
A cut above other legal dramas, “For the People” has plenty to offer viewers in addition to the romantic tension between Oliver and Adams. There are stereotypical overconfident attorneys such as Adams and Knox, who need a healthy slice of humble pie, but there are also a couple of underdogs viewers can’t help but root for in Bell and Simmons. Wise leaders Carlan and Gunn offer audiences a look at both sides of the court cases as they attempt to inspire and motivate their charges in the wake of pressure from above. Meanwhile, brash clerk Krissman keeps everyone in line, and no-nonsense judge Byrne serves as the voice of reason.
One of the reasons the series works so well is the chemistry between the performers. Even viewers who might not be inclined to indulge in legal dramas may enjoy the richly developed relationships between the characters. In fact, the chemistry between the actors is so critical to the cast and crew, production shut down when two of the roles were recast within the first two episodes so writers could adjust dialogue and storylines to reflect the new on-screen personalities. Britne Oldford (“Skins”) was originally cast as Sandra and Lyndon Smith (“Parenthood”) played Allison, but both left the show early on.
While there’s no shortage of personal drama in “For the People,” there’s just as much excitement inside the courtroom as the lawyers argue cases and defend clients in controversial trials. Each episode tracks the lawyers as they debate such topics as mandatory minimums, whistleblowers, the opioid crisis and white supremacy.
In the season finale, Bell defends a scientist who’s been accused of spying for the Chinese government, but memories of a similar case from her past haunts her. At the same time, Simmons and Littlejohn go head to head in the courtroom in a case involving a drug-dealing PTA president whose clientele was comprised of students. Elsewhere, Adams receives a tempting offer, and Knox asks Littlejohn for advice.
Don’t miss the season finale of “For the People,” airing Tuesday, May 22, on ABC.
There’s a new royal baby. That’s exciting. Bookmakers are giving odds on the royal baby’s new name, and the name that came in dead last is “Wayne.” Which is too bad, because I’d love to hear the royal guards say, “Please rise for his royal highness, Lil Wayne.”
President Trump tweeted that he may pardon someone because Sylvester Stallone asked him to. The pardon is for the guy who wrote “Rocky V.” He was sentenced to death!
Today, in the Bill Cosby trial, the defense rested. And for once, Cosby had nothing to do with it.
A video of former president Obama making Melania Trump smile has gone viral. It’s historic — the first time a president has brought joy to Melania.
Today, Americans celebrated “National Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day.” And tomorrow, kids will celebrate “New Appreciation for Going to School Day.”
Subway just announced that they’re closing 500 restaurants. People were stunned — they were like, “Subway considers itself a restaurant?”
Tom Cruise said that while filming the new Mission: Impossible movie, he jumped out of an airplane 106 times. Then afterward, the director was like, “I think we’ll just use the first take.”
The president had a busy weekend, or rather his thumbs did, because the leader of the free world tweeted 25 times. I never thought I’d say this, but he should golf more.
According to a new report, Amazon is working on a robot that follows its owner around the house. It’s basically an Alexa on wheels. This is going to be a hot item. Here’s how you get one: you leave your Alexa and your Roomba alone in a bedroom and let nature take its course.
The president tweeted some weird stuff about Michael Cohen. Trump said he likes and respects Cohen and doesn’t see him “flipping” on him. Which, of course, warrants the question: you don’t see him flipping on you for what?
I happen to know for a fact that they vet the contestants on “The Bachelor” more closely than Donald Trump does his cabinet picks.
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ESPN2 Intentional Talk (Live) (1:00)
FSN Angling Buzz (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Fort Worth Invitational. From Colonial Country Club-- Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (3:00)
6:30 p.m. ESPN NBA Countdown (Live) (1:00)
7:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Phenoms (1:00)
7:30 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)
8:00 p.m. Mixed Martial Arts Rafael Carvalho vs. Greard Moussais Bellator 200. (Live) (3:15)
(9) KMSP (15) KVRR Phenoms (1:00)
ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central (0:30)
8:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Fort Worth Invitational. From Colonial Country Club-- Fort Worth, Texas (3:00)
9:00 p.m. FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Sea. From Safeco Field-- Seattle, Wash. (Live) (3:00)
9:30 p.m. (15) KVRR KVRR Sports Extra (0:30)
10:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (1:00)
ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN IAAF Track & Field Diamond League Prefontaine Classic. From Hayward Field-- Eugene, Ore. (Live) (1:30)
TBS ELeague (1:00)
Saturday, May 26
8:30 a.m. NBCSN RFU Rugby Final English Premiership. (Live) (3:00)
9:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 SEC Storied (0:30)
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FSN UEFA Soccer Semifinal Leg 2 Champions League. LIV vs. Roma (2:00)
10:00 a.m. NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing INDY 500 Carburation Day & Pit Stop Competition. From Indianapolis Motor Speedway-Indianapolis, Ind. (Live) (1:30)
11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN WNBA Basketball Dal. at Min. From Target Center-- Minneapolis, Minn. (2:00)
11:30 a.m. NBCSN Indy Lights (Live) (1:00)
Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)
ESPN Outside the Lines (Live) (0:30)
ESPN2 First Take (2:00)
GOLF CHAMPS Golf Round 2 Senior PGA Championship. From The Golf Club at Harbor Shores-- Benton Harbor, Mich. (Live) (3:00)
12:30 p.m. ESPN NFL Live (Live) (1:30)
NBCSN IndyCar Auto Racing INDY 500 Carburation Day & Pit Stop Competition. From Indianapolis Motor Speedway-- Indianapolis, Ind. (Live) (2:00)
3:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)
FSN Lindner’s Angling Edge (0:30)
4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
NBCSN NASCAR America (1:30)
4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)
FSN Backroads With Ron and Raven (0:30)
5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:30)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
5:30 p.m. FSN Three Wide Life (0:30)
NBCSN Grudge Race (0:30)
6:00 p.m. ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN MLS Soccer K.C. at MIN From TCF Bank Stadium-- Minneapolis, Minn. (2:00)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 2 Volvik Championship. From Travis Pointe Country Club-- Ann Arbor, Mich. (2:00)
1:30 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR UEFA Soccer Final Champions League. RMA vs. LIV From NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium-- Kyiv, Ukraine (Live) (2:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Lacrosse Semifinal Division I Tournament. From Gillette Stadium-- Foxborough, Mass. (Live) (2:00)
NBCSN Racer TV (0:30)
1:45 p.m. GOLF Golf Central Pregame (Live) (0:15)
2:00 p.m. (5) KSTP World of X Games (2:00)
(7) KCCO PGA Golf Round 3 Fort Worth Invitational. From Colonial Country Golf Club-- Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (3:00)
ESPN NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 Volvik Championship. From Travis Pointe Country Club-- Ann Arbor, Mich. (Live) (3:00)
NBCSN AMA Motorcycle Racing American Flat Track Arizona Mile. (1:00)
2:30 p.m. (9) KAWE Prairie Sportsman (0:30)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
LIFE NWSL Soccer Chi. vs. Orl. (Live) (2:30)
3:00 p.m. (11) KARE IAAF Track & Field Diamond League Prefontaine Classic. From Hayward Field-Eugene, Ore. (Live) (2:00)
FSN NHRA Drag Racing Topeka, Kan. (3:00)
NBCSN Indy 500 Parade (2:00)
3:30 p.m. ESPN2 NCAA Studio Update (Live) (0:30)
9:30 a.m. ESPN2 SEC Storied (1:30)
FSN Midwest Outdoors (0:30)
10:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
10:30 a.m. FSN Lindner’s Angling Edge (0:30)
11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 NCAA Lacrosse Semifinal Division I Tournament. From Gillette Stadium-- Foxborough, Mass. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
11:30 a.m. FSN In-Depth Outdoors (0:30)
GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
Noon (11) KARE PGA Golf Senior PGA Championship. From Harbor Shores-- Benton Harbor, Mich. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Sea. From Safeco Field-- Seattle, Wash. (2:00)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Fort Worth Invitational. From Colonial Country Club-- Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (1:45)
12:30 p.m. HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00)
1:00 p.m. (7) KCCO Fitness Regional CrossFit Games. (1:00)
(9) KMSP (15) KVRR UEFA Champions League Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Studio Update (Live) (0:30)
4:00 p.m. ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
5:00 p.m. GOLF Golf Central (1:00)
NBCSN AMA Motocross Lucas Oil Series Glen Helen National. San Bernardino, Calif. (Live) (2:00)
6:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR MLB Baseball (Live) (3:00)
ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN Focused (0:30)
GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Fort Worth Invitational. From Colonial Country Club-- Fort Worth, Texas (4:30)
6:30 p.m. FSN In the Spotlight (0:30)
7:00 p.m. FSN Golf Life (0:30)
TNT NBA Pre-game Show (Live) (1:00)
7:30 p.m. FSN Swing Clinic (0:30)
8:00 p.m. ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Softball Women’s Super Regional Division I Tournament. (Live) (2:00)
FSN 18 Holes (0:30)
TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)
8:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (0:30)
9:00 p.m. FSN MLB Baseball Min.
Two chefs enter the kitchen, and only one emerges a culinary champion — a classic format for a contest, to be sure, but when one of those competitors is an Iron Chef ... well, let’s just say that the lack of a home-field advantage is the least of the challenger’s hurdles.
“Iron Chef America” returns to Food Network on Sunday, May 20, with new challengers, a new floor reporter and all sorts of new secret ingredients. That spiffy freshness, though, is tempered by a return to what made the series great and oh-so popular in the first place.
After new episodes failed to materialize for several years de-
spite the show never officially being canceled, “Iron Chef” burst back onto the culinary scene last year with “Iron Chef Gauntlet,” a spinoff series that saw Chicago chef Stephanie Izard earn a coveted Iron Chef’s jacket. Not long after that, “Iron Chef Showdown” entered the fray: it was more or less the same show as the original “Iron Chef America,” but with the addition of a showdown between two non-Iron Chef hopefuls in the first half of each episode, battling each other for the right to challenge the Iron Chef.
Well, “Iron Chef Showdown” is no more — long live “Iron Chef America.” Alton Brown (“Cutthroat Kitchen”) is back as the competition’s host, spinning his vast culinary knowledge into play-by-play commentary for
those of us watching from home.
The Chairman, played by “Hawaii Five-0” actor Mark Dacascos, also returns, overseeing the competition and revealing each battle’s secret ingredient. Jet Tila (“Chopped”) takes over as the floor reporter, getting up close and personal with the chefs as they cook.
In this week’s premiere, chef Brittany Anderson of Richmond, Virginia, enters Kitchen Stadium to challenge Iron Chef Alex Guar-
naschelli. In classic “Iron Chef America” style, the Chairman will reveal the battle’s secret ingredient, and both the Iron Chef and the challenger then get 60 minutes to prepare five stunning dishes — and, of course, the secret ingredient must be the star in all of them.
It certainly isn’t an easy cooking competition, but it sure is riveting to watch. “Iron Chef America” returns to its roots on Sunday, May 20, on Food Network.
Friday, May 25
Saturday, May 26
a.m. (2) KTCA Essential Pepin 11:00 a.m. (2) KTCA Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen (N) TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations
11:30 a.m. (2) KTCA Sara’s Weeknight Meals
TRAV Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations Noon (2) KTCA Cook’s Country From America’s Test Kitchen (9) KAWE Cook’s Country From America’s Test Kitchen
TRAV The Zimmern List
12:30 p.m. (2) KTCA America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated
TRAV The Zimmern List
1:00 p.m. (2) KTCA Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
TRAV Food Paradise
1:30 p.m. (2) KTCA Nigella: At My Table
2:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
2:30 p.m. (8) WDSE Nigella: At My Table
3:00 p.m. (8) WDSE Martha Stewart’s Cooking School
TRAV Food Paradise
4:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
9:00 p.m. (8) WDSE The Great British Baking Show
Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Food May 20, 2018 to May 26, 2018
not all of the people involved are actors, and that the game and real life are intersecting in unpredictable and highly dangerous ways that make surviving the night unlikely.
Directors:John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein. Stars: Jason Bateman,Rachel McAdams,Kyle Chandler,Sharon Horgan,Billy Magnussen,Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury,Jesse Plemons. 2018.100 min.Comedy.
Accomplished Russian ballerina Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) struggles to make ends meet as she supports her ailing mother, especially after she suffers a
devastating injury that brings an abrupt end to her dancing career. Her uncle (Schoenaerts) recruits her to work as an asset for Russian intelligence in exchange for help with her mother’s expensive medical care, and she undergoes training to become a Sparrow, a spy skilled at seducing her assigned targets. When she’s given her first target, a CIA agent (Edgerton) based in Budapest, the two of them begin an intense romantic relationship that threatens the security of both nations.
Director: Francis Lawrence. Stars: Jennifer Lawrence,Joel Edgerton,Matthias Schoenaerts,Charlotte Rampling,Mary-Louise Parker. 2018. 140 min. Drama.
When his peaceful Stone Age tribe is driven out of its idyllic valley by a Bronze Age civilization led by Lord Nooth (Hiddleston), caveman Dug (Redmayne) challenges the “civilized” people to a high-stakes game of soccer, with ownership of the valley at stake. When he tries to whip his tribe into shape and teach them the
game, though, Dug fears that Nooth’s highly competitive team will effortlessly wipe the floor with them, leaving them exiled from their home valley until the end of time.
Director:Nick Park.Stars:Eddie Redmayne,TomHiddleston, MaisieWilliams,RichardAyoade, TimothySpall,MiriamMargoyles. 2018.89 min.Animation.