The Brainerd Dispatch TV Week September 20th 2020

Sports this week

Sunday, Sept. 20

9:00 a.m. ESPN NFL Countdown (Live) (3:00)

GOLF PGA Golf Final Round U.S. Open. (Live) (2:00)

9:30 a.m. FSN Vikings Game Plan (0:30)

10:00 a.m. (9) KMSP Vikings GameDay Live (Live) (1:00)

11:00 a.m. (7) KCCO The NFL Today (Live) (1:00)

(11) KARE PGA Golf U.S. Open Championship. (Live) (6:00)

GOLF LPGA Golf Round 3 Portland Classic. (3:00)

Noon (7) KCCO NFL Football N.Y. G at Chi. (Live) (3:25)

(9) KMSP (15) KVRR NFL Football Min. at Ind. (Live) (3:00)

ESPN2 A.U. Softball Women’s Blue vs. Orange (Live) (2:00)

FSN Cape Cod: A Journey to the Bigs (0:30)

TBS MLB Baseball N.Y. Y. at Bos. (Live) (3:00)

12:30 p.m. FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)

1:00 p.m. FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Chi.C. (Live) (3:00)

NBCSN Inside MotoAmerica (1:00)

2:00 p.m. (5) KSTP WNBA Basketball

Was. vs. Con. (Live) (2:00)

ESPN Baseball Tonight (Live) (1:00)

ESPN2 College Football Final (1:00)

GOLF CHAMPS Golf Final Round PURE Insurance Championship. (Live) (3:00)

3:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Fox NFL Post-game Show (Live) (0:30)

ESPN MLB Baseball S.F. at Oak. (Live) (3:00)

3:25 p.m. (7) KCCO NFL Football Blt. at Hou. (Live) (3:05)

3:30 p.m. (9) KMSP FOX 9 Post Game (Live) (0:30)

4:00 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (1:00)

FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)

4:30 p.m. FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)

5:00 p.m. ESPN2 Strongman Wild Card World Ultimate. (1:00)

FSN Boondock Nation (0:30)

GOLF Live From the U.S. Open (Live) (2:00)

NBCSN Horse Racing Natalma Stakes. (Live) (2:00)

TNT The Arena (Live) (1:00)

6:00 p.m. (11) KARE Football Night in America (Live) (1:20)

ESPN MLB Baseball Min. at Chi.C. (Live) (3:00)

ESPN2 SportsCenter (1:00)

FSN Strongman Stage 9 2017 Champions League. (1:00)

TNT NBA Playoff Pre-game (Live) (1:00)

7:00 p.m. ESPN2 SportsCenter (1:00)

FSN WPT Poker Borgata Winter Open. (1:00)

GOLF LPGA Golf Final Round Portland Classic. (2:00)

NBCSN UCI Cycling Stage 21 Mantes- la-Jolie - Paris Champs-Élysées Tour de France. (3:00)

TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)

7:20 p.m. (11) KARE NFL Football N.E. at Sea. (Live) (3:15)

8:00 p.m. ESPN2 UFC Unleashed (1:00)

FSN WPT Poker Borgata Winter Open. (1:00)

9:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

9:30 p.m. FSN Breaking Par (0:30) 10:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

10:30 p.m. FSN Swing Clinic (0:30)

10:35 p.m. (9) KMSP Vikings PostGame Show (Live) (0:45)

Monday, Sept. 21

1:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

ESPN2 Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

1:30 p.m. ESPN2 Highly Questionable (0:30)

2:00 p.m. ESPN NFL Rewind (Live) (1:00)

ESPN2 NBA: The Jump (Live) (1:00)

NBCSN Mecum Top 10 (0:30)

2:30 p.m. NBCSN Mecum Top 10 (0:30)

3:00 p.m. ESPN NBA Countdown (Live) (1:00)

4:00 p.m. ESPN NBA Courtside (Live) (0:10)

4:10 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:20)

4:30 p.m. ESPN2 Pardon the Interruption (0:30)

5:00 p.m. ESPN2 Monday Night Countdown (Live) (2:00)

5:30 p.m. GOLF

6:00 p.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)

6:30 p.m. ESPN Countdown (Live)

GOLF Me and My Golf (0:30)

7:00 p.m. (5) KSTP Night Kickoff (Live) (0:15)

ESPN2 Football (3:00)

GOLF USGA Golf Final Round U.S. Open. (5:00)

NBCSN Poker After Dark (1:00) USA WWE Raw (Live) (3:00)

7:15 p.m. (5) KSTP ESPN NFL Football N.O. at L.V. (Live) (3:00)

Tuesday, Sept. 22

12:30 p.m. GOLF Golf Films (1:00)

1:00 p.m. ESPN Jalen & Jacoby (0:30) ESPN2 SportsCenter (1:00)

1:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)

2:00 p.m. ESPN NBA: The Jump (Live) (1:00)

2:30 p.m. ESPN2 Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

3:00 p.m. ESPN NFL Live (Live) (1:00)

3:30 p.m. ESPN2 College Football Live (Live) (0:30) 4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)

A.U. Softball Women’s (Live) (2:30)

p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30) 5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30) NBCSN NHL Live! (Live) (2:00)

6:30 p.m. ESPN2 A.U. Softball Women’s (Live) (2:00)

7:00 p.m. GOLF Golf Payne’s Valley Cup. (4:00)

NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Live) (3:00)

8:00 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)

SHOW Inside the NFL (1:00)

9:00 p.m. ESPN MLB Baseball (Live) (3:00)

Wednesday, Sept. 23

9:00 a.m. ESPN First Take (Live) (2:00)

10:00 a.m. GOLF CHAMPS Golf Final Round PURE Insurance Championship. (2:00)

10:15 a.m. HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00) 11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)

5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

ESPN2 Daily Wager (Live) (1:00)

FSN #InsideTheAssociation (0:30)

GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing

Whelen Modified Tour (1:00)

5:30 p.m. FSN Good Sports (0:30)

GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

6:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (0:30)

ESPN2 UFC Archival (1:00)

FSN #VikingsConnected (0:30)

GOLF PGA TOUR Champions Learning Center (0:30)

NBCSN AMA Motorcycle Racing American Flat Track Williams Grove Half-Mile I. (1:00)

ESPN2 Highly Questionable (0:30)

NBCSN eSports U.S. Regional (1:00)

3:30 p.m. ESPN2 College Football Live (Live) (0:30)

4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)

ESPN2 NFL Live (1:00)

NBCSN eSports European Regional (1:00)

4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)

FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)

5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

ESPN2 Daily Wager (Live) (1:00)

GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

NBCSN NHL Live! (Live) (2:00)

5:30 p.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)

GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

6:00 p.m. ESPN College Football Countdown (Live) (0:30)

6:30 p.m. ESPN NCAA Football UAB vs. S. Ala. (Live) (3:00)

7:00 p.m. ESPN2 WNBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:00)

NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Live) (3:00)

8:00 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)

9:00 p.m. ESPN2 WNBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:00)

Friday, Sept. 25

Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)

12:30 p.m. NBCSN The Rich Eisen Show (Live) (1:30)

1:00 p.m. ESPN Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

1:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)

2:00 p.m. ESPN Boxing Card TBA Top Rank. (Live) (2:00)

GOLF PGA Golf Round 2 Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. (Live) (3:00)

ESPN NCAA Football Fla. at Ole Miss (Live) (3:00)

11:30 a.m. (11) KARE EPL Soccer CHE at WBA (Live) (2:00)

Noon (7) KCCO NWSL Soccer Wash. vs. Chi. (Live) (2:00)

GOLF Feherty (1:00)

12:40 p.m. HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:05)

1:00 p.m. GOLF Golf Central Pre-game (Live) (1:00)

1:30 p.m. (11) KARE Premier League Goal Zone (Live) (0:30)

NBCSN FA-WSL Soccer (2:00)

2:00 p.m. (5) KSTP ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)

(11) KARE PGA Golf Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. (Live) (3:00)

GOLF Feherty (1:00)

2:30 p.m. (5) KSTP ESPN ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)

(7) KCCO NCAA Football MS St. at LSU (Live) (3:30)

(9) KMSP (15) KVRR NCAA Football Tex. at Tex.Tech (Live) (3:30)

4:00 p.m. GOLF Feherty (1:00)

5:00 p.m. GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

5:30 p.m. (5) KSTP ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)

6:00 p.m. (5) KSTP College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)

(9) KMSP MLB Baseball (Live) (3:00)

(15) KVRR MLB Baseball Mil. at St.L. (Live) (3:00)

ESPN NCAA Football Ala. at Mo. (Live) (3:00)

ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)

FSN Pro Football Weekly (0:30)

GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. (3:00)

Noon (9) KAWE Classical Stretch: By Essentrics (0:30)

12:30 p.m. GOLF PGA TOUR Champions Learning Center (0:30)

1:00 p.m. ESPN Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

ESPN2 The Best of This Is SportsCenter (0:25)

GOLF PGA Tour: The CUT (0:30)

1:25 p.m. ESPN2 Serie A Soccer (Live) (2:05)

1:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)

GOLF Me and My Golf (0:30)

NBCSN RFU Rugby English Premiership. Sale vs. Nor. (Live) (2:30)

2:00 p.m. DISC Dodgeball Thunderdome (1:00)

ESPN NBA: The Jump (Live) (1:00)

GOLF PGA Tour: The CUT (0:30)

2:30 p.m. GOLF Swing Expedition With Chris Como (0:30)

3:00 p.m. ESPN NFL Live (Live) (1:00)

GOLF LPGA Golf Final Round Portland Classic. (2:00)

3:30 p.m. ESPN2 College Football Live (Live) (0:30)

4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)

ESPN2 NFL Live (1:00)

NBCSN Dale Jr. Download (1:00)

7:00 p.m. ESPN2 MLB Baseball St.L. at Kan. (Live) (3:00)

GOLF Golf’s Greatest Rounds (3:00)

NBCSN Monster Jam (1:00)

TNT All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (2:00)

USA WWE NXT (Live) (2:00)

7:30 p.m. ESPN NBA Courtside (Live) (0:10)

7:40 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:20)

8:00 p.m. (29) WFTC Under Center With Kirk Herbstreit (0:30)

DISC Dodgeball Thunderdome (0:58)

9:00 p.m. DISC Dodgeball Thunderdome (1:00)

Thursday, Sept. 24

1:00 p.m. ESPN Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

1:30 p.m. ESPN Highly Questionable (0:30)

2:00 p.m. ESPN NBA: The Jump (Live) (1:00)

ESPN2 First Take Extra (0:30)

GOLF PGA Golf Round 1 Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. (Live) (3:00)

NBCSN eSports Canada Regional (1:00)

2:30 p.m. ESPN2 Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)

3:00 p.m. ESPN NFL Live (Live) (1:00)

3:00 p.m. ESPN2 NFL Live (Live) (1:00)

3:30 p.m. FSN Rooster Tales (0:30)

3:45 p.m. HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:05)

4:00 p.m. ESPN Around the Horn (0:30)

4:30 p.m. ESPN Pardon the Interruption (0:30)

5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)

5:30 p.m. GOLF Golf Central (0:30)

6:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (0:30)

7:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR WWE SmackDown (Live) (2:00)

ESPN2 MLB Baseball Chi.C. at Chi.W. (Live) (3:00)

7:40 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:20)

Saturday, Sept. 26

8:55 a.m. NBCSN EPL Soccer NEW at TOT (Live) (2:05)

9:00 a.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR Big Noon Kickoff (Live) (2:00)

10:00 a.m. ESPN2 SportsCenter (1:00)

10:30 a.m. FSN Made for the Outdoors (0:30)

11:00 a.m. (5) KSTP ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)

(7) KCCO Off-Road Racing Lucas Oil Series Pro Lite and Pro2 (1:00)

(9) KMSP (15) KVRR NCAA Football Kan.St. at Okl. (Live) (3:30)

NBCSN Countdown to Green (Live) (0:30)

6:30 p.m. (5) KSTP Nissan Pre-game Rush (Live) (0:07)

NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Xfinity Series Alsco 300. (Live) (2:30)

6:35 p.m. (5) KSTP NCAA Football (Live) (3:15)

7:00 p.m. (11) KARE NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Live) (3:00)

8:00 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs. (Live) (2:30)

8:30 p.m. (29) WFTC Whacked Out Sports (0:30)

9:00 p.m. ESPN ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)

GOLF PGA Golf Round 3 Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. (3:00)

9:30 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (0:30)

ESPN NCAA Football Troy at BYU (Live) (3:00)

ESPN2 NCAA Football (Live) (3:00)

10:30 p.m. FSN Vikings Game Plan (0:30)

TNT Inside the NBA (Live) (1:00)

11:00 p.m. (23) WUCW Ring of Honor Wrestling (1:00)

FSN #VikingsConnected (0:30)

11:30 p.m. NBCSN Monster Jam (1:00)

Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Sep 20, 2020 to Sep 26, 2020

Extreme Sudoku

theme. I believe the four nights are “Famine,” “Pestilence,” “War” and “Death.”

It was announced last night that the GOP will not write a 2020 platform. Well, that makes sense given how much Trump struggles to get down from platforms.

Instead of cool videos and location shoots, the RNC was mostly a single location with

speakers taking turns at the podium. The evening looked like a racist spelling bee!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

I saw that Uber and Hyundai are teaming up to make a flying taxi. It’s perfect if you’ve ever been in the back of an Uber and thought, “I wish this half-asleep driver was a thousand feet off the ground.”

Late Laughs

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Just like the Democrats, the GOP has given each night of the convention a different

By Rachel Jones TV Media

F am, glam and controversy take center stage in Fox’s latest satirical drama series premiering Monday, Sept. 21. “Filthy Rich,” featuring “Sex and the City” star Kim Cattrall, is now one of the network’s fall entries after its original May premiere was bumped, like so many other things, by the pandemic.

The project, created by Tate Taylor (“The Help,” 2011), is not only Cattrall’s first network TV series as an actor, but also as a producer. This isn’t her first time in the producer’s chair, though: in 2014, she shared executive producer duties on the BBC black comedy “Sensitive Skin,” a series in which she also starred. Her work on that show landed her a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award.

While her producing skills will no doubt be an asset to the series, it’s her acting that will have fans eager to watch the series. “Filthy Rich” is a southern Gothic family drama.

Cattrall plays, Margaret, the matri arch of the Monreaux family and host and co-founder of the Sun shine Network. She is keen on con trolling the company completely, at any cost, now that her husband has died. Playing her two children are Aubrey Dollar (“Battle Creek”) as Rose, a fashion designer who has made a lifestyle out

of avoiding her mother, and Corey Cott (“The Good Fight”) as Eric, the family-owned network’s VP and aspiring heir.

The cracks in the family are clearly visible from the start, as anything and everything comes between them. The show follows the aftermath of the death of the rich and famous family’s patriarch, Eugene (Gerald McRaney, “This Is Us”), who founded an extremely popular Christian television network. He secretly sired three illegitimate children, who are all written into his will, and when those secrets are revealed after his death, serious drama ensues. As the series rolls on, it becomes clear that everyone has an ulterior motive, and no one is willing to

Colorado marijuana grower Jason Conley; and Melia Kreiling (“Salvation”) as Las Vegas cocktail waitress Ginger Sweet. Also in the series are Broadway actor Aaron Lazar (“J. Edgar,” 2011), Steve Harris (“The Practice”) and Olivia Macklin (“The Young Pope”).

“Filthy Rich” has been an entirely novel experience for Cattrall, who is neither from the South nor raised in a religious household. But, of course, the star plays the scheming matriarch to perfection.

Fox announced two years ago that it had given the production a pilot order, with Taylor writing and executive-producing the show. Taylor is an American filmmaker and actor whose most prominent work includes “The

Rich,” which is Taylor’s first major foray into the television world.

“Filthy Rich” was meant to air back to back with the hip hop family drama “Empire” and was among five other Fox drama pilots, including “Prodigal Son,” and “Deputy,” all five of which were major undertakings and drew a lot of interest. Unfortunately, scheduling issues got in the way of “Filthy Rich,” and it was delayed long past the premieres of the other shows in its initial cohort.

The series is based on a New Zealand comedy-drama TV series of the same name that premiered in February 2016. The New Zealand parent series is also a tale of three illegitimate children finding out about the wealth of their recently

From the list, find each word and circle its letters in the puzzle to reveal a message relating to this week's theme

Iconic Black Characters

Kim Cattrall stars in “Filthy Rich”

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Videoreleases

Babyteeth

When Milla (Scanlen), a terminally ill teenager, meets Moses (Wallace), a drug dealer, she falls in love after his acts of kindness. The pair soon begin to date, much to the chagrin of Milla’s traditional parents, who strongly disapprove of her new boyfriend. But they cannot deny Moses’ effect on their daughter, who seems more invigorated than ever.

Director:ShannonMurphy.Stars: ElizaScanlen,MichelleLotters, TobyWallace,EmilyBarclay,EugeneGilfedder,EssieDavis,Ben Mendelsohn,AndreaDemetriades, ZackGrech,GeorginaSymes. 2020.118mins.Dramedy.

Babysplitters

Jeff (Pudi) and Sarah (Chang) can’t seem to find a compromise when it comes to having a child. Jeff fears

that having a baby will commit him to his dead-end job, while Sarah wants to conceive before her biological clock ticks too much further along. Their friends Don (Alfano) and Taylor (Walsh) have a similar problem, with Taylor against childbearing for the sake of her dancing career, while Don runs a successful fitness business and is ready to be a dad.

Director:SamFriedlander.Stars: DannyPudi,EmilyChang,Maiara Walsh,EddieAlfano,BenGoldsmith,MarkDohner,DioneKuraoka.2019.119mins.Comedy.

Eliza Scanlen in “Babyteeth”

CHANNEL GUIDE

By Jessica Gosse TV Media

WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX

“Enola Holmes” (2020)

Everyone is familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, but on Wednesday, Sept. 23, the world is introduced to his rebellious teenage sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown, “Stranger Things”), as this action-packed film premieres on Netflix. Raised in the countryside by her eccentric mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown”), Enola’s upbringing was far from standard. Rather than learning skills such as embroidery and how to be a “proper lady,” she learned about science and observation and how to fight (whether it be hand-to-hand or with a sword). However, her happy life is suddenly changed when, on her 16th birthday, she wakes up to discover that her mother has disappeared, leaving behind only an assortment of unusual gifts. Now, Enola is placed in the care of her genius (and famous) brothers, Sherlock (Henry Cavill, “Justice League,” 2017) and Mycroft (Sam Clafin, “Me Before You,” 2016). Despite having spent minimal time with them in the past, Enola is sure that her brothers will lend their skills

to helping her find their mother. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes clear they have no intention of helping her, but rather intend to ship her off to finishing school so she can become a proper lady. Realizing she’s on her own, Enola does the only thing she can: she runs away from finishing school and uses her own sleuthing skills to find her mother before her brothers can track her down and bring her back. Based on the series of novels by Nancy Springer, don’t miss this intriguing film when it premieres this Wednesday.

WHAT’S NEW ON HULU

“The Addams Family” (2019)

In the early 1960s, an entire generation fell in love with a spooky and kooky family in the live-action television series “The Addams Family.” Thirty years later, in the 1990s, the phenomenon was repeated when the acclaimed Addams Family movies starring Anjelica Huston (“Smash”), Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future,” 1985), Christina Ricci (“Penelope,” 2004) and Raul Julia (“Presumed Innocent,” 1990) hit theaters.

Now, once again, the eccentric and macabre family is back in the 2019 animated film coming to Hulu on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Charlize Theron (“The Old Guard,” 2020) and Os-

car Isaac (“A Most Violent Year,” 2014) lend their voices to Morticia and Gomez Addams, who live in a Gothic mansion on a hill near the suburbs along with their two children, Wednesday (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, “If I Stay,” 2014) and Pugsley (voiced by Finn Wolfhard, “It,” 2017), as well as Grandma (voiced by Bette Midler, “Hocus Pocus,” 1993), Uncle Fester (voiced by Nick Kroll, “The League”), cousin It (voiced by Snoop Dogg, “Starsky & Hutch,” 2004) and their loyal butler, Lurch (voiced by Conrad Vernon, “Shrek,” 2001). Despite being on the edge of the suburb, the family’s home is technically part of the community. This doesn’t sit well with reality TV host Margaux (voiced by Allison Janney, “Mom”), who is trying to build a perfect neighborhood and sees the Addams family as a blight on the community — she will stop at nothing to get rid of them. Tensions only rise between the two families when Wednesday befriends Margaux’s daughter, Parker (voiced by Elsie Fisher, “Castle Rock”), who begins to adopt Wednesday’s dark style, causing Margaux to come up with a devious plan to turn the entire neighborhood against the Addams family.

WHAT’S NEW ON DISNEY+ “Secret Society of SecondBorn Royals” (2020)

As a royal, if you aren’t first in line to inherit the crown, is there really anything special about your title? Numerous books and movies have seen characters become villains purely because they are the second

born (or, in the case of some, even further down the line). However, on Friday, Sept. 25, Disney shows that second-born royals have a lot more going for them than they think in the premiere of this fun family film. The film centers on Sam (Peyton Elizabeth Lee, “Andi Mack”), a teenage princess who has no interest in the royal way of life since it’s her older sister who will become Queen of Illyria, not her. As a result, Sam’s rebellious tendencies often get her into serious trouble. Just as her latest escapade lands her in police custody, she is introduced to Prof. James Morrow (Skylar Astin, “Pitch Perfect,” 2012), who recruits her to a top-secret training program. There, she meets January (Isabella BlakeThomas, “Johnny English Reborn,” 2011), Matteo (Faly Rakotohavana, “Raven’s Home”), Roxana (Olivia Deeble, “Home and Away”) and Tuma (Niles Fitch, “This Is Us”), all of whom are second in line to their respective thrones. They are all shocked when James informs them that, as second-born royals, they each have a special gene that has given them a unique superpower, and it is their job to learn how to harness that power and protect the world from evil. Now, the five unlikely friends band together as James trains them to use their gifts before evil strikes.

WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME “Utopia”

Inspired by the British series of the same name, this conspiracy thriller is set to premiere Friday, Sept. 25, on Prime. The show follows a group of people — Becky

ity’s downfall, the rest of the group laughs, thinking she’s simply a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But, when some of their other friends with an interest in “Utopia” suddenly die, the group quickly realizes that Samantha’s theories were right. Now, the ragtag group must fight for their own survival while working to bring down the corporation that is creating these viruses. Rainn Wilson (“The Office”) and John Cusack (“Never Grow Old,” 2019) also star in this intense new series.

“Judy” (2019)

(Ashleigh LaThrop, “Fifty Shades Freed,” 2018), Wilson (Desmin Borges, “You’re the Worst”), Samantha (Jessica Rothe, “Forever My Girl,” 2018) and Ian (Dan Byrd, “Cougar Town”) — who, despite having never met in person, become online friends thanks to their shared love of a graphic novel called “Utopia,” which depicts the creation of man-made viruses that can be used for biological warfare and ultimately lead to the end of the world. When the group meets up at a convention and discusses the novel, Samantha points out that it accurately predicted a number of diseases that have ravaged humanity. As she explains her belief that the comic books hold hidden meaning and predict human-

Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger (“Chicago,” 2002) stars as the legendary singer and actress Judy Garland in this biographical drama that joins the Prime lineup on Friday, Sept. 25. Based on Peter Quilter’s stage play “End of the Rainbow,” the film follows Garland in 1968, 30 years after the success of “The Wizard of Oz,” as her career is beginning to dwindle and she is finding it harder and harder to take care of her two children. When she is offered a deal performing at the “Talk of the Town” nightclub in London, she makes the hard choice to leave her kids with her ex-husband and take the job so she can support them. As she takes on the five-week engagement, she struggles with the combined pressures of fame, parenthood and money problems, coping in the only way she knows how –- alcohol, substance abuse and throwing herself into her latest marriage to her longtime friend Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock, “American Horror Story”).

Henry Cavill, Millie Bobby Brown and Sam Clafin star in “Enola Holmes”

Skylar Astin in “Secret Society of Second-Born Royals”

Dan Byrd, Desmin Borges, Jessica Rothe and Ashleigh LaThrop as seen in “Utopia”

To boldly go

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ makes the jump to prime time

By Kyla Brewer TV Media

As TV networks scramble to fill their fall slates amid production delays caused by COVID-19 restrictions, at least one broadcaster has come up with a strategy to use content originally created for its streaming service, giving more sci-fi fans access to a fresh series from an iconic franchise.

Sonequa Martin-Green (“The Walking Dead”) stars as Michael Burnham, a disgraced officer who’s recruited to work as a science specialist on board a Starfleet ship, despite committing mutiny on another ship, in the first season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” which kicks off Thursday, Sept. 24, on CBS. Set 10 years before the events of the 1960s-era original series, “Discovery” has been airing on the subscription service CBS All Access since its premiere in 2017, but now CBS will bring it to an even broader audience.

Science fiction fans who haven’t been able to watch the series because they don’t have CBS All Access will likely be thrilled by the move. When the network added “Star Trek: Discovery” to its fall schedule, CBS executive Kelly Kahl made no bones about the fact that it was broadcasting the show while it was waiting for other series to get rolling.

“This is hardly a traditional fall season, but we are prepared with a strong slate of original content while our regular scripted series begin production,” Kahl explained.

It’s lucky that CBS could pull the popular series despite the fact that it wasn’t designed to air on traditional broadcast television. When it was announced in 2015, “Star Trek: Discovery” was set to be the first new series in the franchise since “Star Trek: Enterprise,” which ended its run on UPN in 2005. “Discovery” was the first series to be ordered for the thenfledgling CBS All Access service, and it’s been a big draw. To pique the interest of potential subscribers, CBS initially aired the show’s first episode on its broadcast network way back in 2017, so, techni-

cally, this week’s airing isn’t a premiere. However, subsequent episodes will be broadcast debuts in the United States, though they have aired in other countries on specialty channels.

With a strong Black female lead, “Star Trek: Discovery” seems perfectly poised for the times as the Black Lives Matter movement sweeps around the world. In the July 2017 issue of EW, show creator Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies”) explained the inspiration behind the character.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about how many Black people were inspired by seeing Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of a ship,” he explained in reference to Nichols’ portrayal of communications officer Nyota Uhura, a groundbreaking role at the time as it was one of the first times a Black character was seen in a non-menial role on American television.

Unlike other series in the sci-fi franchise, “Star Trek: Discovery” is not told from the point of view of the ship’s captain. MartinGreen’s Burnham is the foster sister of original series character Spock (Leonard Nimoy, “Mission: Impossible”), having been raised by Sarek (James Frain, “Gotham”) after her parents were killed by Klingons. She became the first human to attend the Vulcan Learning Center and the Vulcan Science Academy, where she excelled before joining the crew of the USS Shenzhou prior to her science post on Discovery.

Burnham is just one of the fascinating characters who populate the series. Writers introduced a new alien race to the franchise with Saru (Doug Jones, “The Shape of Water,” 2017), the first Kelpian to enter Starfleet. He serves as the first officer of the Discovery and quickly becomes one of Burnham’s allies.

Burnham also befriends her new roommate, Ensign Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman, “Longmire”). Tilly works alongside chief engineer Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp, “The Good Fight”), the first openly gay main character in a Star Trek series. A specialist in the study of fungi in space, the character was inspired by the real-life mycologist of the

same name. Stamets is married to medical officer Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz, “My So-Called Life”). In the first season, Burnham becomes involved with Discovery security officer Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif, “Penny Dreadful”). Capt. Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” 2002) com-

mands the bridge of the Discovery in Season 1, only to be replaced when Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount, “Hell on Wheels”) shows up and temporarily takes command in Season 2. For all its success, the series has seen quite a bit of turmoil behind the scenes. Fuller left the series in 2016

due to creative differences with CBS, and Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts took over for him as showrunners. In June 2018, CBS fired Berg and Harberts as the second season was being produced. Executive producer Alex Kurtzman took over as showrunner for Season 2, and writer Michelle Paradise has been promot-

ed to co-showrunner with Kurtzman for Season 3.

That’s right — Season 3 is in the works and still set to premiere on CBS All Access on Thursday, Oct. 15. Until then, fans can catch Season 1 of “Star Trek: Discovery” by watching it unfold beginning Thursday, Sept. 24, on CBS.

Sonequa Martin-Green stars in “Star Trek: Discovery”