Screentime January 29–February 4, 2023

By Jay Bobbin Football-championship

season can mean good news for certain series.

Networks often decide to give extra postgame airings to shows they want to boost ... and on Sunday, Jan. 29, CBS’ “Fire Country” receives such treatment, as the Max Thieriot-starring drama gets a showcase outside its usual Friday slot, following the AFC Championship contest. In the new story, a plane crash sparks a blaze that Bode Donovan (Thieriot) and other firefighting volunteers among Northern California prison inmates unite to battle.

Thieriot recently ended his connection to “SEAL Team” with the death of his character on that show, now seen on Paramount+, so he’s now exclusive to “Fire Country”

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— something that could have been foreseen, since he’s also a creator and executive producer of the latter series. He claimed at the start of the television season that he had the energy to keep doing both programs, but his larger commitment clearly was to the latter one.

Having based “Fire Country” (which already has been renewed for a second season) on his own experiences growing up in the Sonoma County region that the show concerns, Thieriot reflects, “I’d say the stuff that’s kind of most memorable right now is the stuff that’s really occurred in the past few years ... obviously, a large portion of the Santa Rosa being destroyed, Coffey Park and all those neighborhoods, all the lives that were tragically lost. It was a really,

really devastating fire, so I think that one probably has the biggest impact on me emotionally.”

Additional “Fire Country” stars include Diane Farr, Billy Burke, Jordan Calloway, Kevin Alejandro (who also directed a recent episode), Jules Latimer, Stephanie Arcila and W. Tre Davis. For viewers who may not have seen the show yet — one aim of the afterfootball scheduling being to draw more viewers to it — executive producer Tony Phelan says they shouldn’t worry about not being able to get up to speed quickly. “We conceived of it as having some serialized elements,” he allows, “but I think it will be easy for the audience to come in if they if they have missed some

episodes. There are obviously fire events, rescue events. Our firefighters battle wildfires from the Oregon border all the way down to Mexico. They also do water rescue; there’s all sorts of stories to tell. And we’ve got quite a few mysteries at the center of our town.”

Thieriot confirms that giving the fictional characters of “Fire Country” is fulfilling his goal to give their reallife counterparts weekly TV attention. “They do these amazing incredible heroic rescues,” he notes, “and they’re constantly saving the world (within their immediate area), but I think they’re just also really kindhearted people. That’s something that’s important in the world today in general.”

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“Koala Man”

“Nate Bargatze: Hello World”

The Tennessee-born and -bred comic gives his take on such topics as growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, the hardest part of marriage and saying dumb things in a stand-up performance recorded this past September before a live audience at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix. (ORIGINAL)

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From downunder comes this animated comedy about a family man whose only superpowers are following the rules and snuffing out petty crime in his suburban Australia community But when cosmic and man-made evils rear their ugly heads, he’s ready to swat them down. Hugh Jackman, Michael Cusack (the series’ creator), Sarah Snook, Jemaine Clement and Demi Lardner head the voice cast. (ORIGINAL)

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“Movie: Dog

Gone”

When a young man loses his beloved dog on the Appalachian Trail, he and his father begin a desperate search to find him before it’s too late in this true story that’s based on the book “Dog Gone: A Lost Pet’s Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home” by Pauls Toutonghi. Johnny Berchtold, Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams-Paisley star (ORIGINAL)

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“My Dad the Bounty Hunter: Season 1” (Netflix — series premiere, Feb. 9) This original animated action-comedy series from executive producers Everett Downing Jr. (“We the People”) and Patrick Harpin (“Clarence”) follows the hyper-space adventures of two kids who discover their seemingly average dad is actually an intergalactic bounty hunter. Laz Alonso, Yvonne Orji, Priah Ferguson and Yvette Nicole Brown head the voice cast.

Host Mike Rowe apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us in “Dirty Jobs,” airing Sundays on Discovery Channel. Catch up on all past seasons at www. discovery.com/ shows/dirty-jobs

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

(Feb. 1)

From Marvel Studios and Ryan Cooper, director of 2018’s “Black Panther,” comes this 2022 actioner that follows the people of Wakanda as they fight to protect their home from intervening world powers while they mourn the death of King T ’Challa. Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Danai Gurira head the cast. (ORIGINAL)

Sports Zone

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12:00 p.m. WGRZ-2 WICU12 IMSA Weathertech

Sportscar Championship

Rolex 24 at Daytona. (N)

(Live) Å

FS1 College Basketball Providence at Villanova. (N)

(Live) Å USA College Basketball

Saint Joseph’s at George Mason. (N) (Live) Å

12:15 p.m. WIVB-4 WSEE35 College Basketball

Michigan State at Purdue. (N) (Live) Å

1:00 p.m. WKBW-7 X Games Aspen 2023 (N) (Live) Å

ESPN2 Women’s College

Basketball South Carolina at Alabama. (N) (Live) Å

MSG NBA G League

Basketball Grand Rapids

Gold at Westchester Knicks.

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Basketball Towson at Stony Brook. (N) (Live)

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Championships. (N) (Live)

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NFL Football NFC Championship: Teams TBA.

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ESPN Women’s College

Basketball Notre Dame at NC State. (N) (Live) Å

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Drake at Belmont. (N) (Live)

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4:00 p.m. FS1 Horse Racing

America’s Day at the Races.

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4:30 p.m. GOLF Golf APGA

Tour: Farmers Insurance

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6:30 p.m. WIVB-4 WSEE35 NFL Football AFC

SNY Women’s College Basketball Connecticut at Providence. (N) (Live)

7:30 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Brooklyn Nets at Boston Celtics. (N) (Live) Å

TNT NHL Hockey Carolina Hurricanes at Buffalo Sabres. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) Å

8:30 p.m. FS1 College Basketball Villanova at Marquette. (N) (Live) Å

9:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Å

10:00 p.m. ESPN NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Phoenix Suns. (N) (Live) Å

10:30 p.m. FS1 College Basketball New Mexico at Utah State. (N) (Live) Å

3:30 a.m. GOLF DP World Tour Golf Ras al Khaimah Championship, First Round. (N) (Live) Å

Thursday

3:00 p.m. GOLF PGA Tour Golf AT&T Pebble Beach

Pro-Am, First Round. (N) (Live) Å

7:00 p.m. ESPN2 College

Basketball Michigan at Northwestern. (N) (Live) Å

FS1 College Basketball Wisconsin at Ohio State. (N) (Live) Å

SNY College Basketball Elon at Stony Brook. (N)

(Live)

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Basketball Memphis Grizzlies at Cleveland Cavaliers. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) Å

8:30 p.m. ESPN Women’s College Basketball Maryland at Iowa. (N) (Live) Å

9:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Basketball Houston at Wichita State. (N) (Live) Å FS1 College Basketball Washington at UCLA. (N) (Live) Å

10:00 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Los Angeles Clippers at Milwaukee Bucks. (N Subject to Blackout) (Live) Å

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BY GEORGE DICKIE

Jaquez Jr. leading Bruins’ push to the Final Four

From role player as a freshman to John Wooden Award candidate as a senior, Jaime Jaquez Jr. has stepped up to become a leader of his UCLA Bruins squad.

Indeed, the product of Camarillo (Calif.) High School has transformed himself from low four-star recruit to one of the nation’s best players on a team with designs on a national championship.

Through early January, Jaquez was averaging a career-high 17.2 points per game to go with 6.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 steals. He’s also greatly improved as a shooter, connecting on 53.5 percent of his attempts, up from his previous career-best of 48.6 percent in his sophomore year of 2020-21. And he’s taking fewer shots from three-point range, instead opting for shooting efficiency from closer in. But what makes the 21-year-old swingman such a threat is his 6-feet-7 inch, 225 pound size, which creates match-up problems for other teams, and the wide range of moves he can put on his opponents, as he uses fakes and up-and-under moves to break down defenders. And though he may not be the quickest player on the court, he makes up for that with smarts, patience and knowledge of his own strengths. With the Bruins ranked in the top 10 in the nation and leading the Pac-12 standings, Jaquez will be integral to the Bruins’ push to make it to the other side of March Madness. He and UCLA can be seen in action when they play host to the conference rival Washington Huskies in a game airing Thursday, Feb. 2, on FS1.

FULL NAME: Jaime Jaquez Jr. BIRTH DATE: Feb. 18, 2001 BIRTHPLACE: Camarillo, Calif. HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6 feet, 7 inches/225 pounds

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11:00 p.m. FS1 College Basketball Washington State at USC. (N) (Live) Å

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3:00 p.m. GOLF PGA Tour Golf AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Second Round. (N) (Live) Å USA Premier League Soccer Chelsea vs Fulham. (N) (Live) Å

7:00 p.m. ESPN 2023 NHL All-Star Skills Competition (N) (Live) Å ESPN2 College Basketball VCU at Saint Louis. (N) (Live) Å

SNY Women’s College Basketball Hofstra at Monmouth. (N) (Live)

9:00 p.m. ESPN2 Women’s College Gymnastics UCLA at Utah. (N) (Live) Å

FS1 College Basketball Boise State at San Diego State. (N) (Live) Å

10:00 p.m. ESPN Boxing Top Rank: Navarrete vs. Wilson. (N) (Live) Å

11:00 p.m. FS1 College Basketball Fresno State at UNLV. (N) (Live) Å

3:30 a.m. GOLF DP World Tour Golf Ras al Khaimah Championship, Third Round.

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7:30 a.m. USA Premier League Soccer Everton vs Arsenal. (N) (Live) Å

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12:00 p.m. WNYW-5 WUTV29 College Basketball Michigan State vs Rutgers.

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WPIX-11 College Basketball Livingstone at Claflin. (N) (Live)

COLLEGE: UCLA (2019-present)

POSITION: Guard/forward NO.: 24 HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: First-team

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FS1 College Basketball Connecticut at Georgetown.

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GOLF PGA Tour Golf AT&T

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TNT College Basketball Morgan State vs Delaware State. (N) (Live) Å

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FS1 College Basketball Butler at Marquette. (N) (Live) Å

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2:30 p.m. WNYW-5 WUTV-29 College Basketball Illinois at Iowa. (N) (Live) Å

USA College Basketball George Mason at LoyolaChicago. (N) (Live) Å

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WKBW-7 2023 NHL All-Star Game (N) (Live) Å

3:30 p.m. TNT College

Basketball Hampton vs Norfolk State. (N) (Live) Å

4:00 p.m. WGRZ-2 WICU12 Track and Field New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. (N) (Live) Å CNBC Horse Racing Road to the Kentucky Derby. Featuring Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park and Robert B. Lewis race at Santa Anita Park. (N) (Live) Å ESPN ESPN2 College Basketball Teams TBA. (N) (Live) Å

BEST JON VOIGHT MOVIES

“Midnight Cowboy” (1969) Well, of oight had done television and stage work, but there was no question that the screen arrival of hustler Joe Buck also marked the arrival of a major new star.

“Deliverance” (1972) Along with Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, Voight made viewers think twice about taking camping trips for a while. And possibly still does. The film version of James Dickey’s novel leads off a night of Voight films Friday, rner Classic Movies.

“Conrack” (1974) A heartfelt Voight performance fuels this fine account of novelist (“The Prince of Tides”) days as a teacher in the South.

“Coming Home” (1978) A richly deserved Oscar went to Voight as a heelchair-bound, war-opposing veteran

who becomes involved with the wife (fellow Academy Award winner Jane Fonda) of another military man (Bruce Dern).

“Runaway Train” (1985) To witness an actor’s complete dedication to a role, watch Voight as an escaped convict who refuses to back down in his quest for independence, even when he’s trapped with others aboard the title vehicle.

“Heat” (1995) Voight’s scenes as a lowkeyed facilitator of a master felon’s (Robert De Niro) crimes are among the best in this superbly sprawling saga.

“Mission: Impossible” (1996) This update of the classic TV series is best-known as a Tom Cruise vehicle, but Voight does a marvelous job of redefining IMF leader Jim Phelps, both in playing him traditionally and in adding twists.

All-Pac-12 (2022); Second-team

All-Pac-12 (2021); Pac-112 AllDefensive Team (2021, 2022)

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“Anaconda” (1997) He may chew all of the scenery when the giant reptile isn’t chewing on him, but boy, is Voight fun as this piece’s villain.

“Varsity Blues” (1999) If you’re a school athlete, you don’t want a coach as heartless and manipulative as the one played by Voight ... which actually is a tribute to the effectiveness of the performance.

“Ali” (2001) He certainly gets a big assist from the makeup department, but it also takes Voight’s typically committed acting to flesh out the image of sportscasting icon Howard Cosell.

“Getaway” (2013) As a whole, this is far from a great movie – but as a showcase for Voight’s distinctive voice, as the unseen mystery man who forces hard-driving Ethan Hawke through his paces, it’s top-notch.

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“Fire Country” on CBS

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‘NIGHT COURT’ ON NBC

BY JAY BOBBIN

As you return to the role of Dan Fielding in the new revival of “Night Court,” do you feel the new cast is coming together as the original one did?

It takes a while. You stumble about for a while. Someone – it might have been (veteran TV comedy director) Jimmy Burrows – once told me, “When you do a new sitcom, you basically do the pilot 13 times.” People really become confident in their assumptions about the characters, so the first batch of episodes is getting to know them over and over again. And the stories intertwine them.

Were you able to talk with anyone else associated with the first “Night Court” about revisiting it?

Markie (the late actress Markie Post) and I actually had talked about this. I contacted her when it was offered, and I was thinking, “This is not a good idea. I can’t be the physical comic that I was; I can’t jump off tables anymore.” And she said, “No, you’ve got to do this. You have to find out what happened, where Dan’s life went.” And I helped to sort of create his journey.

Are you satisfied with how that journey turns out?

Yes, I would say that it’s interesting. We find out that he’s a widower; he had a great love in his life, so whatever shenanigans he was up to as a young man were put aside when he found someone who truly loved him.

The people who are writing this are not that familiar or steeped in the mechanisms of four-camera comedy. The audience has a lot to do with the timing, and it’s a different style of writing and a different kind of acting. You have to be aware of the audience, and it’s like being on a stage doing a play. You have to go for the laughs, and you can’t trample over them. There’s a lot to learn about it, and I’ve done it a lot.

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In Focus

Puppy Bowl XIX (Animal Planet — new special, Feb. 12) These puppies can’t wait to take to the gridiron in the Puppy Bowl Stadium and show off their moves on the field. The full player lineup from Team Ruff and Team Fluff will leave fantasy leagues barking up the wrong tree. This year, the game celebrates more puppies, more animal shelters and rescues, and more inspiring adoption stories than ever before. Which team will win the Lombarky trophy?

Crossword Puzzle

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