Fall TV Preview (2014)

FALL TV PREVIEW FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF

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Selfie

GOTHAM Fall’s buzziest new series: the Batman prequel

Viola Davis ON HER EDGY NEW ROLE IN HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

Katherine Heigl STEPS INTO ANOTHER GRAY AREA: THE CIA

KAREN GILLAN AND JOHN CHO ON A MAKEOVER TALE FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE

From the Executive Producers of Scandal

NEW SERIES

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Love, sex, and ever y thought in between.

a new comedy

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A sneak peek at fall’s new shows featuring returning favorites, fresh faces, and surprising debuts. BY SHAWNA MALCOM

Marry Me NBC, Tuesdays

Madam Secretary CBS, Sundays

How to Get Away with Murder ABC, Thursdays

Gotham SAY HELLO TO FALL’S BUZZIEST NEW

MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS

series: the Batman prequel. Set in the Caped Crusader’s corrupt hometown, this ambitious drama puts a fresh spin on the DC Comics universe by focusing on the origin stories of a young Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), the rookie detective who’ll eventually become Gotham City’s police commissioner, and several notorious villains, including The Penguin and Catwoman. “I love origin stories more than any other aspect of the comic book world,” says executive producer Bruno

Heller, who found his entry point to the series when he wondered, “What if Gordon was the cop who investigated the death of Bruce Wayne’s parents?” Gordon’s kinship with Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) will drive the drama, as will the detective’s quest to rid the metropolis of crime figures like mob boss Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), despite the warnings of his partner, Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue). “But clearly, Gordon doesn’t do a very good job in the long run,” Heller says. “Otherwise, they wouldn’t need Batman!”

STATE OF AFFAIRS FORMER GREY’S Anatomy star Katherine

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[ CBS, PREMIERES SEPT. 22 ] Starring Elyes Gabel, Katharine McPhee, Robert Patrick

£ Inspired by a true story, this action-packed drama follows a group of offbeat geniuses as they work with Homeland Security to thwart high-tech threats to the United States.

JANE THE VIRGIN

[ THE CW, PREMIERES OCT. 13 ] Starring Gina Rodriguez

£ A chaste young woman discovers she’s pregnant after an artificial insemination mix-up at the doctor’s office in this comedic drama based on a Venezuelan telenovela.

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Heigl is stepping into another gray area: the CIA. As maverick analyst Charleston Tucker, she’s responsible for counseling the president (Alfre Woodard) on the nation’s most pressing threats while trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of her fiancé, the POTUS’s son.

Here, the outspoken Emmy winner and Affairs executive producer talks strong

women, the spy game—and her kids’ future therapy.

YOU’VE FOCUSED ON MOVIES SINCE LEAVING GREY’S ANATOMY IN 2010. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO RETURN TO TV?

Very scary! You don’t know if it’s going to succeed or fail. Recently

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I’ve been mostly just being a mom [to daughters Naleigh, 5, and Adalaide, 2] and having a more relaxed lifestyle, and TV’s a grind. I’m a little nervous about what that means for my kids, but hopefully, this will at least pay for their therapy.

WHY THIS PARTICULAR SHOW? I fell in love with the idea. The president actually does have a briefer who comes in every day and tells him what could be a threat.

I couldn’t believe there had never been a show about this side of the CIA. DO ANY RESEARCH FOR THE ROLE? Executive producer Rodney Faraon is ex-CIA and was the briefer to two presidents.

When he started telling me stories, I asked, “Am I allowed to know this stuff? Like, is there going to be a hit put out on me?”

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TUESDAY HIGHLIGHTS

MARRY ME 8:00

THE PREMISE: Six years

into a relationship, Annie (Casey Wilson) has an epic meltdown over the inability of her boyfriend, Jake (Ken Marino), to commit—just as he’s gotten down on one knee to propose.

Deciding that’s not the engagement story they want to remember, the couple attempts a NBC I 9 PM I PREMIERES OCT. more perfect do-over FOR BETTER OR WORSE: and begins a bumpy Caspe loosely based (but funny!) road toward the central characters matrimony. on himself and Wilson.

WHY IT’S BUZZWORTHY: “David is more rational The single-camera and I am much rom-com reunites more emotional,” says Happy Endings star Wilson. “Most actresses Wilson with that beloved are emotional—and cult comedy’s creator that’s a nice word and writer, David Caspe, for crazy.” Thankfully, who became her real-life the couple’s own husband in May. engagement was drama-free. “David had bought a house that

UTOPIA [ FOX, PREMIERES SEPT. 7 ]

£ Fifteen Americans leave their lives behind for a year in order to form a new remote society together in this reality series that’s based on a hit Dutch format.

(Special three-night series premiere. Regular weekly schedule Tuesdays and Fridays.)

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he restored for a year, and he proposed to me the first night he spent there,” Wilson recalls.

“He had my dad, brother, and his parents fly out, and [afterward], they came up the walk and we had dinner together.

It was pretty great.”

A HAPPY REUNION:

The actress is already saying “I do” to having

her Happy Endings co-stars appear on Marry Me—news that will no doubt thrill fans of the ABC sitcom, which was prematurely canceled in 2013.

“We were already talking about Adam Pally coming on as soon as possible,” Wilson says. “I’m sure a bunch of them will be around.

I love them all so much, it’s kind of ridiculous.”

[ ABC, PREMIERES SEPT. 30 ] Starring Analeigh Tipton, Jake McDorman

£ A cocky player (McDorman) and a wide-eyed New York City newcomer (Tipton) are set up on a blind date in this romantic comedy, which uses the would-be couple’s internal monologues to illustrate the differences between men and women.

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[ CBS, PREMIERES SEPT. 23 ] Starring Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Zoe McLellan

£ Bakula leads a team of

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You play Barry Allen, a nerdy CSI who discovers his Flash-y new powers as the series begins. Found anything to relate to?

I was this skinny kid from Virginia who did theater growing up, and I can’t believe I’m getting to play a superhero. Barry can’t believe what’s happening to him, either.

It scares him, but at the same time, it’s exciting. I know how that feels.

The Flash

How was putting on the costume for the first time? The first time, it was being pieced together on me. But when it was finished, it was pretty surreal. A memorable moment for sure.

Big Easy military investigators in the latest spin-off of CBS’s hugely popular procedural franchise.

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FOREVER [ ABC, PREMIERES SEPT. 23 ] Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Alana De La Garza, Judd Hirsch

£ New York City medical examiner Henry Morgan (Gruffudd) is brilliant at determining the cause of death of others, but after 200 years, he still can’t solve the mystery of his own immortality.

(Special sneak preview Sept. 22, 10 PM)

GLEE’S GRANT GUSTIN SUITS UP AS

a lightning-quick crime-fighter in this adaptation of the comic book series, a spin-off of the network’s hit show Arrow. We pinned him down long enough to get the scoop.

What kind of runner are you in real life?

Quite fast. But I’ve always hated running for any distance. I quit soccer when I was a kid because there was so much running involved.

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of not committing to her work. The 26-year-old actress buzzed off her long auburn locks to play a bald alien villainess in Marvel’s recently released film Guardians of the Galaxy. And to prepare for her role as a self-absorbed, designer label-loving social media addict in ABC’s new comedy Selfie, she ventured into the shallow waters of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. “I’d never seen it before,” she says of E!’s reality hit. “But I made myself watch it every night while I was shooting the pilot because I figured that’s what my character loved to do with her free time.” ¶ The question now is whether viewers will want to spend their Tuesday nights with Selfie, which revolves around a protagonist who may be adept at racking up Instagram followers, but isn’t exactly insta-likable. Even creator Emily Kapnek admits her lead character—Eliza Dooley, a twentysomething pharmaceutical sales rep whose humiliating breakup with a married man goes viral for all the world to mock—could be a tough sell were it not for the show’s My Fair Lady twist.

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Our story is a cautionary tale about what happens when one girl lets the online world eclipse the actual world and her journey back to having real relationships.

“I think the concern right off the bat is: Are we romanticizing these kinds of girls?” says the producer, who previously satirized the absurdities of life in the ’burbs with her ABC sitcom Suburgatory. “But the idea is that this character is obviously in need of a transformation.”

Which, thankfully, a humbled Eliza realizes within the first episode. To revamp her image, she turns to her company’s marketing whiz, Henry Higenbottam (John Cho), who encourages his new pupil to focus less on connecting with her Twitter followers and more with the people in her life. It’s a lesson Kapnek finds particularly apt in today’s increasingly Web-centric world. “Even though we’re now able to be in contact with everyone, we’re really more out of touch in some ways,” she says. “Our story is a cautionary tale about what happens when one girl lets the online world eclipse the actual world and her journey back to having real relationships.”

Finding an actress who could pull off being initially distasteful but ultimately sympathetic turned out to be easier than Kapnek expected. After mutual agents at United Talent Agency suggested the producer check out Gillan’s previous work, including her critically acclaimed turn as companion Amy

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Pond on the British sci-fi hit Doctor Who, “I just fell in love with her,” Kapnek gushes.

“She’s incredibly magnetic onscreen. Eliza is somebody who’s always felt alone and relies on social media to get attention, and Karen has the chops to hit the comedy in that, but also the heart.”

The opportunity to star in an American comedy proved irresistible for Gillan, who was born and raised in the Scottish Highlands, where she remembers obsessing over U.S. exports like Friends and Will & Grace. It didn’t hurt that she also felt an unexpected kinship with the character. “Eliza is awkward and unable to communicate with people very easily,” Gillan says. “And I really connected with that because I was incredibly shy growing up. I felt like I completely understood her straight away.”

Pinning down Selfie’s leading man took considerably more time. Originally, Kapnek envisioned Henry as a distinguished older British gentleman, not unlike the character in the original My Fair Lady stage musical and Oscar-winning 1964 film. But after extensive auditions failed to yield a modern-day Rex Harrison, the producer expanded her search to a multi-ethnic pool of actors, a

move endorsed by ABC, which boasts a notably diverse slate of new shows this fall.

South Korea-born Cho, who’s best known for his roles in the Star Trek film-franchise reboot and the Harold & Kumar movies, found himself eager to sign on after his own dry sense of humor clicked with Kapnek’s. “TV is always a leap of faith,” he says. “But I liked the concept, and when I met with Emily, I believed in her as a leader. She’s incredibly smart and clever, so I said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

With Cho onboard, expect Selfie to become not only a no-filter portrait of Eliza, but of the workaholic, relationship-challenged Henry as well. “In all the versions of My Fair Lady and stories where men turn women into what they believe they should be, you never really get to turn the lens back at the man,” Kapnek notes.

“But in our version, Henry has his own issues and Eliza is very quick to realize that.

“As Henry is lifting the mirror up to her,” Kapnek continues, “she catches a glimpse of him and says, ‘What about you, dude?’ I think there’s a lot they can learn from each other.

Hopefully, they’ll be leading each other toward having richer lives.”

As the social-media worshipping Eliza might put it, #Amen.

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THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA [ NBC, PREMIERES SEPT. 24 ] Starring Debra Messing, Josh Lucas

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ANDRE JOHNSON (ANTHONY ANDERSON) HAS a thriving career, a beautiful house in a middle-class neighborhood, and a happy family life with wife Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) and their four kids. But when his African-American son wants a bar mitzvah like his friends, Andre worries his children are losing their cultural identity.

Creator and executive producer Kenya Barris fills us in on the comedy that hits especially close to home.

THIS SHOW IS BASED ON YOUR OWN LIFE? It is.

My wife’s a doctor named Rainbow, and both of us had humble beginnings.

As our careers took off, we moved to different neighborhoods and got our kids in different schools [because] you’re taught to give them more than you had. But you start to wonder what are you

not giving them? We’re in this post-Obama age where kids have a very blended view of the world.

There’s something beautiful about that. But their parents have a harder time understanding it.

WHY GO WITH SUCH A PROVOCATIVE TITLE?

It’s a great conversation starter. And it’s an

homicide detective juggling a messy personal life that includes a cheating ex-husband (The Firm’s Lucas) and their troublemaking twin boys.

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ABC I 9:30 PM I PREMIERES SEPT. 24 honest [representation] of what we feel this show is about: identity and culture and the fact that, whether someone wants to admit it or not, those things are morphing every day. It’s being blended and blurred to where everything is becoming an “ish.”

LAURENCE FISHBURNE IS PLAYING ANDERSON’S DAD, EVEN THOUGH HE’S ONLY NINE YEARS OLDER.

[ FOX, PREMIERES SEPT. 17 ] Starring Octavia Spencer, Griffin Gluck, Dave Annable

£ The Oscar-winning Spencer plays a no-nonsense nurse working with teen patients in this Fault in Our Stars-esque hospital drama executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

I know! [laughs] But getting him was one of the most exciting things for me—the chance to, almost in an Alec Baldwin [in 30 Rock] way, have Laurence take a comedic turn. He’s incredible.

STALKER The Premise In this don’t-watch-it-in-the-dark thriller, a pair of detectives—guarded Beth (Maggie Q) and sketchy Jack (Dylan McDermott)—investigate stalking cases for the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD. Why It’s Buzzworthy CBS loves its crime dramas, and writer-producer Kevin Williamson (Scream, The Following) certainly knows how to execute a good CBS I 10 PM I PREMIERES OCT. 1

scare. He also knows what it’s like to be scared, due to a brush with his own stalker in 1998. “The police had to step in and I realized there’s an entire division that handles this stuff,” he says. “Through the years, I always had it in the back of my head: ‘I want to do this as a show.’”

Leading-Man Material In casting Jack, who may have too much in common with the criminals he’s hunting, Williamson found McDermott had the perfect edge: “He’s this handsome, charismatic guy, but he’s a little twisted. When you talk to him, it’s like, ‘Wow, dude, that’s intense.’”

THURSDAY HIGHLIGHTS

BAD JUDGE [ NBC, PREMIERES OCT. 2 ] Starring Kate Walsh

£ In this comedy co-created

by Will Ferrell, the former Private Practice star is a tough criminal court judge whose out-of-order partying may be curbed by the arrival of an eight-year-old boy whose parents she sent to jail.

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THE MCCARTHYS [ CBS, PREMIERES OCT. 30 ] Starring Tyler Ritter, Jack McGee, Laurie Metcalf, Joey McIntyre

£ Openly gay Ronny (Ritter, son of the late actor John) considers leaving behind his close-knit, sports-obsessed Boston clan for a new job in Rhode Island in this multicamera comedy, until his dad (McGee) unexpectedly offers him the opportunity to be his high school basketball team’s assistant coach.

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Gracepoint DAVID TENNANT COULD BE

forgiven for having a case of déjà vu. The Scottish actor, who starred as a haunted detective investigating the murder of a young boy in last year’s acclaimed British drama Broadchurch, is also playing the role in this ten-episode remake.

“We have the same writer, executive producer, and some of the same directing team, so why not one of the same actors?”

Tennant asks. “It’s something I was proud to have been a part of once and I’m equally proud to be a part of again.” Not that this

TWO-TIME TONY WINNER AND OSCAR NOMINEE

Viola Davis joins forces with über-producer Shonda Rhimes and creator/executive producer Peter Nowalk for this edgy legal thriller about a ruthless defense attorney/law professor.

Davis called to chat about her new role and why she couldn’t resist working with Rhimes.

YOU’RE STARRING

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I don’t feel any pressure whatsoever, and I’m wondering why because I’m hugely neurotic!

that hadn’t been offered to me in the past. She’s sexy and mysterious, and I needed that challenge.

And in a lot of material I do, I’m not the central character, and I was drawn to the fact that I was the lead in this.

WHY DO TV? I go where

YOUR CHARACTER,

the material is great, and I felt like this role was one

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version is a carbon copy of the original: The crime now takes place in a California seaside town, which is populated with a handful of new characters. Gracepoint also boasts what Tennant terms “a real Rolls-Royce” supporting cast, including Oscar nominee Nick Nolte and Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn as his cop partner.

The identity of the killer has also been changed, a tweak that Tennant, who uses an American accent this time around, was all for. “I am pleased with the new ending,” he says. “I read it with my jaw on the floor.”

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former Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones, this romantic comedy chronicles every step of a relationship between Andrew (Mad Men’s Feldman), an online matchmaker who believes in fate, and Zelda (How I Met Your Mother’s Milioti), his relationship-shy dream girl.

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That’s what’s attractive to me. I don’t think people in the past have seen black women as messy in movies and on TV. They’re always the people to go to for advice.

We’re steady. I like that Shonda Rhimes is redefining how we see women of color— and women of a certain age and size.

PILOT. HOW WAS FILMING THAT? Terrifying! I had

to remind myself that I was Annalise, not Viola, and try to get the image of my mother looking at this out of my brain. But I’m the type who wants to push the envelope in terms of how people see me.

That’s what got me through—that and a good glass of champagne!

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CONSTANTINE THE PREMISE: Based on the DC Comics antihero, John Constantine (Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior ’s Matt Ryan) is a hard-living, trench coat-sporting occult detective who battles literal and personal demons in a bid to save both humanity and his own condemned soul.

WHY IT’S BUZZWORTHY: Genre

master David S. Goyer, whose screenwriting credits include Batman Begins and Man of Steel, co-wrote the pilot and is an executive producer on the project,

which promises to stick closer to the Hellblazer comics than the widely panned 2005 Keanu Reeves film. In a way, this is a gig Goyer has been working toward for 30 years. “I started reading John Constantine back when he was introduced in Swamp Thing and actually had a letter about him published on the [comic’s] letters page when I was a teenager,” he says. “This character is very near and dear to my heart. I wouldn’t be able to look my family in NBC I 10 PM the eye if we screwed this up.”

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CRISTELA ALONZO STILL CAN’T

believe she’s the star of her own sitcom—and not just because her biggest previous acting credit was playing “Latin Woman #1” on an episode of Sons of Anarchy. Her semiautobiographical series didn’t seem destined for ABC’s fall schedule after the network passed on shooting a pilot. But then the producers decided to do something virtually unheard of in Hollywood—film one anyway, hoping executives would like what they saw enough to reconsider, which, in another unlikely twist, they did. “I call our show ‘the little zombie that could,” says Alonzo, a rising stand-up comic, “because it came back from the dead.”

Now she’s out to breathe new life into the multi-camera family comedy.

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law student whose ambition and wit land her an unpaid internship at a prestigious law firm—a gig her traditional MexicanAmerican clan, who wishes she’d get a “real” paying job or even get married and have kids, struggles to understand. It’s territory that Alonzo—a first-generation American who grew up in a small Texas border town––knows well: “I have trouble relating to stories about upperclass people whose biggest problem is trying to find Mr. Right. This show is about someone who’s in the middle of two cultures and trying to find the perfect balance.”

Ultimately, Alonzo hopes Cristela— which she co-created, writes, and coexecutive produces—will find a broad audience like a certain classic comedy from her childhood. “Roseanne was about a blue-collar family and they didn’t win all the time,” she says. “But man, when they did, it made you feel like you could win.”

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The Premise: In this multicamera sitcom inspired by his life, comedian and Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney plays a talented stand-up comic trying to advance his showbiz career while balancing a comedy-legend boss (Martin Short), a sage neighbor (Elliott Gould), and offbeat roommates, including SNL’s Nasim Pedrad. “This isn’t exactly what happened to me,” Mulaney says of the show, “but this is how crazy it felt.”

Why It’s Buzzworthy: Executive produced by Mulaney’s SNL boss Lorne Michaels, Fox’s only new fall comedy—originally developed for NBC—is already drawing comparisons to Seinfeld. “I grew up on Seinfeld and was a huge fan,” says the comic, who created, writes, and is an executive producer of his show. “I knew that comparison would come up when I decided to play myself as a comedian. But honestly, I’d rather that than play, like, an architect and have to pretend to know about another job.”

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MADAM SECRETARY THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT TÉA LEONI’S new drama? “There’s such strong talent involved,” says the actress of creator Barbara Hall (Homeland) and onscreen husband Tim Daly, “that I can say if this sucks, it’s my fault.” That’s unlikely, considering how fully she embodies the role of Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst living a quiet life as a college professor with her family until the president appoints her Secretary of State. Leoni recently opened up about friend and executive producer Morgan Freeman, two former female secretaries of state, and how this starring TV role differs from her last one in the 1990s.

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HOW’S THE REUNION BEEN WITH MORGAN, YOUR DEEP IMPACT CO-STAR? If you were to pick the coolest guy to hang out with in the ultimate dream high school, it’d be Morgan. I’m having him do my son Miller’s outgoing voicemail message.

He’s obsessed with Morgan’s voice.

WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO ELIZABETH?

I’ve always enjoyed playing a fish out of water, with the promise that I could get good at it. And in this case I have faith I’ll see her get good at this job.

DID YOU BASE YOUR PORTRAYAL ON

HILLARY CLINTON? No, because Hillary Clinton had political experience, and my character’s coming in with relatively none. But I did have coffee with Madeleine Albright. She’s a brilliant, funny, forthcoming woman. This is such a new world for me that to not [research] a little would’ve been irresponsible. Though I will admit I never did my homework as a tabloid reporter for The Naked Truth. I don’t even know how PREMIERES SEPT. 21 to put a lens on a camera!

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