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AMERICA’S MOST WANTED Returns V.C. ANDREWS MOVIE SERIES EVENT

TREVOR NOAH To Host The 63rd Grammys

Credit: National Geographic/Kwaku Alston

Aretha Cynthia Erivo Is “Genius,” Showing The Glitz, Glamour & Grittiness Of The Queen Of Soul

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RETURNING FAVORITES

Good Girls City On A Hill New Amsterdam The Flash

Hype TV NEWS Hype Hype

If You LIKE... TRY Remember when word of mouth and water-cooler talk were how you discovered new TV shows, good restaurants and your next great read?

Now we’ve got recommendation engines matching us up to what to watch next. Here we keep it simple.

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IF YOU LIKE THIS Under the Dome, The X-Files

TRY THIS Debris (NBC)

Flowers in the Attic, Naomi Judd

Impractical Jokers, Punk’d

V.C. Andrews’ Ruby (Lifetime) Double Cross With Blake Griffin (truTV)

Impractical Jokers: Credit: truTV Debris: © 2020 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Credit: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC

The biggest night in music might have been delayed (it was originally scheduled for Jan. 31), but it’s finally here. The 63rd Grammys are airing this year live on Sunday, March 14, on CBS, celebrating the best in music from late 2019 to 2020.

The show will be hosted by The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah and will of course feature epic performances — the roster wasn’t available at presstime, but the night promises not to disappoint.

Beyoncé leads the nominations list this year with nine (making her the most nominated female in Grammys history), followed by Dua Lipa, Roddy Ricch and Taylor Swift with six each.

Also in the mix are Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes fame, with five nominations, and Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, DaBaby, Phoebe Bridgers, Justin Bieber, John Beasley and David Frost, all tied with four apiece.

Trevor Noah: Credit: Comedy Central

Trevor Noah

After A Brief Delay, Music’s Hottest Names Are Celebrated. By Taylor Neumann

Grammy Award Trophy: Credit: National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.

The 63rd Gram Grammys

In The Works

By Taylor Neumann

BEING WORKED ON AT ABC ABC is developing Kim Spa, a semiautobiographical comedy from Peter Kim (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Mad TV’s Bobby Lee, both of whom will star. In the show, a young man (Kim) returns home after his father dies to work with his brother (Lee) and the rest of their relatives at the family’s Korean spa business.

Karamo Brown: © 2020 Disney Enterprises, Inc. Credit: Vu Ong/Freeform via Getty Images.

NEW CRIME SHOW

The Sparrow: Courtesy of Ballantine Books.

This Is Us’ Justin Hartley is teaming up with director/executive producer Ken Olin to develop a first season based off of Jeffery Deaver’s 2019 novel The Never Game.

No network is attached yet, but Hartley will star in the project as Colter Shaw, a traveler who helps police solve crimes until he’s caught up in one that ends up personal.

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Genius: Aretha

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V.C. Andrews’ Movie Series Event

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What’s New

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Returning Favorites

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Understanding TV Everywhere

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On Demand

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New on HBO

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New on Showtime

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New on Starz

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New on Cinemax

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On Netflix

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Understanding TiVo

NOVEL ADAPTATION Scott Frank, cocreator, writer and director of The Queen’s Gambit, is adapting the 1996 novel The Sparrow into a limited series. The project will follow a group of Jesuit priests and scientists who are the first to come into contact with extraterrestrial life. The Vatican sponsors a trip to a faraway planet as part of a journey to prove the existence of God.

Justin Hartley © 2020 Getty Images. Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.

Peter Kim: © 2020 Getty Images. Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images.

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CASTING NEWS Karamo Brown, one-fifth of the hosts of Netflix’s Queer Eye, has joined another Netflix property in a recurring role. Brown will appear in the next season of Dear White People. Details of his role are being kept under lock and key for now, but the upcoming fourth season has already been announced as its last.

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Aretha

genius

After exploring Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in its first two installments, National Geographic’s Genius series presents the transcendent life, career and music of Aretha Franklin over a four-night, eight-episode third season.

Franklin sang gospel songs in her father’s church in Detroit in the 1950s, then blossomed into a pop singer in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, she was crowned “Queen of Soul,” and she would go on to leave an indelible legacy as performer, pioneer, activist and icon.

“Aretha had such an amazing and long career.

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Genius: Aretha: Credit: National Geographic/Kwaku Alston

Cynthia Erivo Embodies The Queen Of Soul In Nat Geo’s Anthology. By Ryan A. Berenz

Genius: Aretha: Credit: National Geographic/Richard DuCree

She lived a beautiful life that was full of peaks and valleys that led to her incredible success,” says Aretha showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks. “So many things that she went through — the highs, the lows — would have crushed a lesser being, in my opinion.”

Aretha was larger than life, and it requires an extraordinary talent to portray her. The honor of that challenge goes to Cynthia Erivo, a Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner and Oscar nominee (Harriet).

“I love Aretha. I’ve been listening to her since I was little.

I learned to sing and tell stories through song, by listening to her,” Erivo says. “I approached playing Aretha by listening to her music, paying attention to her voice, and honing in on how she communicates with her music. ... I’ve also been poring over her interviews to learn her cadence and the ways in which she spoke.

I’ve really enjoyed learning about Aretha as a person as well as her music. I allowed myself to be a geek about someone and something I really love — that’s how I’ve been getting to know her.”

“Just Cynthia being such a talented artist, a talented actor, it’s been nothing but fun to watch her really embody this character,” says executive producer and director Anthony Hemingway. “And if you

close your eyes and just listen to her sing, you are questioning, ‘Is Aretha in that booth, or is it Cynthia Erivo?’ But that’s the beauty in what I love seeing a real actor do.

They step out of themselves and really step into the shoes of the character that they are portraying.

And Cynthia is doing that.”

Guiding Aretha’s genius was her father, the reverend and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin. His “Million Dollar Voice” could be heard delivering powerful sermons on the radio, on recordings and on national ministry tours. He nurtured Aretha’s talent through what was sometimes a difficult home life and the discrimination she faced as a young Black woman.

Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), who plays Aretha’s father, believes the family was able to overcome

Malcolm Barrett and Cynthia Erivo

pop world and how difficult and fraught with dangers that was for folk. And how ‘Re Re’ had to navigate all of that, and then Papa had to navigate that with her.

There were no rules back then, especially for folks of color. There was no rule. We were operating the best we could. And based on

If you close your eyes and just listen to her sing, you are questioning, ‘Is Aretha in that — Anthony Hemingway booth, or is it Cynthia Erivo?’ by trusting in that powerful force that buoyed them: the music.

“The thing that’s constant is the music,” Vance says. “The church music, the fact that during this time period folks from the church were crossing over and going into the

that, this young lady — with all that she had against us, against her, against the odds — she rose to become the genius that she was.”

Premieres on Nat Geo Sunday-Wednesday, March 21-24

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NAOMI JUDD GRACES LIFETIME

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Naomi Judd: Credit: Russ Harrington.

n a remote part of Tennessee, Naomi Judd enjoys the beauty and privacy that the lush country hills offer. Living on a farm with her husband of 30plus years (Larry Strickland, a gospel artist and former backup singer to Elvis), she has surrounded herself with the people she loves most. Behind her house and just over the hill is the second half of the Grammy Award-winning duo the Judds, daughter Wynonna.

“She could get to me in about five minutes if she comes on her ATV,” Naomi tells. “And then Ashley [Naomi’s movie star and humanitarian youngest daughter] lives next door and it’s one minute from her house to my house. … That’s the way I’ve always wanted it.” Adding to that girl power is another music great, Reba McEntire, who lives just around the bend.

In their parts there are no streets; there are just simple roads.

It’s a serene place for a music icon whose younger days were filled with harsh family secrets and unthinkable hardships, yet Naomi is a survivor, a woman who has overcome countless obstacles and today continues to inspire others through her music, books and speaking. On this particular day in January, we connect with Naomi to talk about her role in V.C. Andrews’ Ruby; it’s the first of four films that are part of Lifetime’s V.C. Andrews Landry Movie Series Event.

The films follow Ruby Landry (Raechelle Banno), who, after being raised by her loving grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, is ensnared in a world of dark family secrets and betrayal when she discovers she has another family living in New Orleans.

“I find something in every character that they ask me to play,” Naomi says. “There’s got to be something.”

Naomi opens the four-film series starring as

Ruby, Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters, Hidden Jewel: © 2021 Lifetime.

A Conversation With The Music Icon Who Reminds Us That Family Is Everything. By Barb Oates

Ruby’s Grandmère Catherine.

“My first words — because I’m a shaman, I’m the medicine woman in the Bayou area — may be the first scene of the film. I walk up to this shanty that has a dirt floor. There’s a woman in agony, lying there, crying softly.

She’s holding a newborn baby, but it’s dead, as the baby died at birth. So they had me come in to reduce the evil spirits in the room,” she explains. “So when I walk in and I see her lying there on the ground, the floor, the first thing I do is holler [some foreign ritual language].”

The Landry book series — Ruby, Pearl in the Mist, All That Glitters and Hidden Jewel — is the secondhighest-selling series from V.C. Andrews, and Lifetime’s adaptation most likely will top ratings as did some of the other adaptations. Naomi, a bestselling author herself, wasn’t familiar with this book series but was quick to get sucked into the storyline. “As we kept going along, I’d get totally caught up in it. … In a way there were touchstones for me in the movie. And the fact that I’m a grandmother and I’m so protective.”

The Landry story has it all — horrible family secrets, an evil twin, an evil stepmother, lies, betrayal and everything else that has made V.C. Andrews’ stories so popular. Naomi said she did everything she could to stay in character and not be distracted by the typical adorations that graciously come her way while filming.

“My girlfriend Dolly Parton did a movie 9 to 5. I was talking to Dolly about making TV movies and everything, because the interesting thing is that when we’re onstage, we’re Dolly Parton or Naomi Judd or Wynonna Judd. But when making a movie this is fantasy, and we literally have to pluck our words out of whatever the heck is going on,” Naomi laughs. “It was unusual to know that [the stars of this film, Raechelle and Karina Banno] were twins. I’m in every scene with Raechelle … and that little squirt was so fun to work with. She was just delightful.”

And speaking of delightful, the Judds recently reunited this past holiday and did a virtual concert. It was the first time they performed together in almost 15 years.

So how is the duo’s relationship these days? “We’re really good,” Naomi says. “She’s the funniest person I know.” Naomi says she’s ready to perform more.

As for a much-needed updated biopic on the Judds or Naomi’s life, she’s not talking.

“I can’t talk about anything, but there is something.

And it’s really hard for me not to spill the beans all the time, because my mom was the biggest gossip in our little town where I grew up and I swore I’d never be like her. I try, but it doesn’t always work.”

For now, be satisfied seeing the icon happy and healthy, and hope for more to come.

THE BESTSELLING V.C. ANDREWS BOOK SERIES COMES TO LIFETIME RUBY

Saturday, March 20 Starring twins Raechelle Banno and Karina Banno, and Sam Duke.

Cast Notables You Know From …

• Naomi Judd (Grammywinning duo the Judds) • Gil Bellows (Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption, Billy in Ally McBeal) • Crystal Fox (Luann from In the Heat of the Night) • Deborah Cox (Grammynominated R&B/pop artist) • Lauralee Bell (Christine “Cricket” from The Young and the Restless) • Ty Wood (Billy from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

PEARL IN THE MIST Sunday, March 21 Cast Additions You Know From …

• Marilu Henner (Taxi, Evening Shade) • Richard Harmon (John Murphy from The 100)

ALL THAT GLITTERS Saturday, March 27 Cast Additions You Know From …

• Kristian Alfonso (Hope from Days of Our Lives)

HIDDEN JEWEL

Sunday, March 28 Cast Additions You Know From …

• Jennifer Laporte (Leigh van Voreen in V.C. Andrews’ Heaven) • Evan Roderick (Officer Anastas on Arrow)

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WHAT’S NEW

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Debris

NBA star Blake Griffin conspires with people who are tired of being the victim of pranks to help them get some sweet revenge on their unsuspecting prankster in an ultimate double cross. “These pranks aren’t cruel in nature, and they’re not malicious … they’re just fun,” Griffin tells us. “Given everything that’s going on, people need a distraction and entertainment and to be able to have fun and see these elaborate pranks and have a laugh.”

Premieres on truTV Friday-Saturday, March 19-20

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Debris: © 2020 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Credit: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC

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Double Cross With Blake Griffin

Double Cross With Blake Grifin: TM & © 2020 Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. A WarnerMedia Company. All Rights Reserved.

When wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft scatters across the Western Hemisphere, it soon becomes apparent the pieces are messing with the laws of physics, changing lives in ways we can’t comprehend. Two agents from a coalition called ORBITAL — the CIA’s Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker) and MI6’s Finola Jones (Riann Steele) — are tasked to work together to recover the debris, whose mysteries humankind is not quite ready for.

Premieres on NBC Monday, March 1

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Race to the Center of the Earth

Race to the Center of the Earth: Credit: National Geographic/Tim McAllister

Andy Cohen: Credit: Getty Images/Dimitrios Kambouris

The epic seven-part competition series pits four teams of three against one another in a nonstop sprint across the globe for a $1 million prize. These groups of adventurers, each starting from a different corner of the Earth, will race to a buoy holding the grand prize. Along the way, the teams will face untamed jungles, the frozen Arctic, arid deserts, bustling cities, treacherous mountains and vast oceans to reach the location where all four routes intersect. The first team to arrive at the buoy claims it all.

Premieres on Nat Geo Monday, March 29

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For Real: The Story of Reality TV

Hosted and executive produced by Andy Cohen, this seven-part limited event series explores different themes including celebreality, dating, competition, and extreme makeover series, among others, and shares shocking revelations from those industry executives, producers, and journalists who helped catapult reality programming into the pop culture zeitgeist.

Premieres on E! Thursday, March 25

Andy Cohen

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Extinction: The Facts

Sir David Attenborough hosts this fascinating, moving and alarming hourlong program that breaks down the threats of extinction that a million species around the world are facing, and how this crisis has consequences for us all, including putting us at greater risk of more COVID-like pandemic diseases.

Premieres on PBS Wednesday, March 31

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Wayne Brady hosts this new hybrid of game show and variety show that pits two teams of contestants against each other as they attempt to figure out the surprising, mesmerizing — and sometimes bizarre — hidden talents of the mystery performers. With more than $200,000 on the line, can the contestants spot the fire dancer from the spider wrangler or the gospel singer from the contortionist?

Premieres on FOX Wednesday, March 10

Game of Talents: © 2021 FOX MEDIA LLC. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX

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Farmhouse Fixer: Credit: HGTV.

Singer Jonathan Knight may be best known as a member of the Grammynominated band New Kids on the Block, but in this new series, he’ll share his renovation know-how by meticulously restoring centuries-old New England farmhouses that deserve a second chance. The sixepisode series will feature Jonathan, who has renovated more than 200 houses, as step by step he carefully preserves the original craftsmanship and historic charm of classic homes while he also modernizes layouts, updates interiors and gives his clients endless reasons to cheer.

Premieres on HGTV Wednesday, March 3

Game of Talents

Extinction: The Facts: Credit: PBS

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Farmhouse Fixer

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March Delilah

Maahra Hill (black-ish) stars as Delilah Connolly, a headstrong, highly principled lawyer who left her white-shoe law firm decades ago to take on cases the big firms ignore. She’s doing her best raising two kids alone and keeping her ties to family, friends and faith strong, all while seeking justice for those who need it most. She’s challenged, however, by the rich and powerful of Charlotte who will do anything to stop her. The series also stars Jill Marie Jones (Girlfriends) as Delilah’s confidante and best friend, and Susan Heyward (Orange Is the New Black) as Delilah’s newly hired, ambitious associate.

Premieres on OWN Tuesday, March 9

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Pooch Perfect

Delilah: Credit: OWN

Rebel Wilson: 2020 Getty Images. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain

Tina: © 1990 Getty Images/HBO. Credit: Dave Hogan

Hosted by award-winning actress Rebel Wilson, this new series is a dog grooming competition that will showcase 10 of the best dog groomers in the country, along with their assistants, competing in a series of pawsome themed challenges.

Premieres on ABC Tuesday, March 30

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Tina

This new documentary offers a revealing and intimate portrait of music icon Tina Turner. Interviews with Turner, conducted in her hometown of Zurich, Switzerland, and with those closest to her, combined with never-beforeseen footage, audiotapes and personal photos, reveal an absorbing story of the queen of rock ’n’ roll. Tina celebrates the immense talent and improbable journey of the legendary singer.

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RETURNING FAVORITES

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Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet

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America’s Most Wanted

The comedy/drama returns for Season 4.

It follows suburban moms Beth (Christina Hendricks), Ruby (Retta) and Annie (Mae Whitman), who try to solve their various crippling financial troubles by robbing a supermarket in a heist that attracts the attention of a local gang leader, Rio. The stakes get higher this season as the Secret Service closes in on the women’s counterfeit ring.

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America’s Most Wanted: © 2021 Fox Media LLC. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.

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Good Girls

Good Girls: © 2021 NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet: Credit: National Geographic/Variable

The classic show is back, this time hosted

by Elizabeth Vargas. Viewers will be able to participate in catching some of the country’s most evasive criminals via new technologies and methods.

Premieres on FOX Monday, March 15

Every day is a unique challenge for Dr. Michelle Oakley, the only all-species vet for hundreds of miles across the Great North. Whether wrestling bison, tracking ibex in the mountains, performing surgery on a wolverine or braving fierce landscapes to return moose calves to the wild, Dr. Oakley will do whatever it takes to keep the animals in her charge safe and healthy.

Premieres on Nat Geo Wild Saturday, March 13

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March Mayans M.C.

Mayans M.C.: © FX Networks/Courtesy Everett Collection. Credit: Prashant Gupta

City on a Hill: 2020 SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC. All rights reserved.

Running Wild with Bear Grylls: National Geographic. Credit: Jeff Ellingson

The 10-episode third season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff debuts with two episodes tonight. Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes (JD Pardo) and his brother, Angel (Clayton Cardenas), are closer than ever after uncovering the truth behind their mother’s murder. Meanwhile, their father, Felipe (Edward James Olmos), struggles to reconcile the choices he and his sons have made.

Premieres on FX Tuesday, March 16

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City on a Hill

In Season 2, Grace Campbell’s (Pernell Walker) efforts on behalf of her community are undermined by gang activity. Enter FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon), who is here to exploit Boston’s defective criminal justice system in a desperate attempt to salvage his own career. Unfortunately for Jackie, assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge) is onto his adversary’s latest misstep. In time, the personal antagonism between these two escalates to an all-out war between the offices of the U.S. attorney and the Suffolk DA. Premieres on Showtime Sunday, March 28

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Running Wild With Bear Grylls

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Breeders

World-renowned survivalist Bear Grylls returns to the wilderness eager to push the mental and physical limits of a brand-new slate of celebrities, including Anthony Mackie, Bobby Bones, Danica Patrick, Rainn Wilson, KeeganMichael Key, Terry Crews and Danny Trejo. Each week, a new celebrity guest leaves the luxury of their home to venture into some of the most extreme environments in the world to conquer their fears, test their limits and taste some of nature’s unique “delicacies.”

Premieres on Nat Geo Monday, March 29

In Season 2, there’s a time jump forward as Luke (Alex Eastwood) is now 13 years old and Ava (Eve Prenelle) is 10. Expect new and uncharted complications for parents Paul (Martin Freeman) and Ally (Daisy Haggard).

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Married to Medicine

Returning this season are Dr. Jacqueline Walters, Dr. Simone Whitmore, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Dr. Contessa Metcalfe, Toya Bush-Harris and friends of the cast Lisa Nicole Cloud, Quad Webb and Kari Wells. New cast member Anila Sajja joins this season as wife of Dr. Sajja, mother and fashion blogger.

Premieres on Bravo Sunday, March 7

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Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Season 20 marks the 14th year the series has been airing, and also marks its last. The reality juggernauts are finally ready to move on without documenting every second of their lives.

Premieres on E! Thursday, March 18 The Flash: © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

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The Flash

Tonight’s episode marks the return of the Scarlet Speedster for his seventh season.

Premieres on The CW Tuesday, March 2

New Amsterdam: © 2018 NBCUniversal Media, LLC

The hit medical drama starring Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin returns for Season 3. When Dr. Goodwin took over New Amsterdam, he asked a simple, revolutionary question: “How can I help?” In the new season, Max and his team face the daunting task of sustaining that optimism while dealing with a pandemic that exposed the gaping inequities in our healthcare.

Max is no longer content to fix a broken system — he’s determined to tear it down and build something better.

Premieres on NBC Tuesday, March 2

Keeping Up With the Kardashians: © 2016 E! Entertainment Media, LLC

New Amsterdam

RETURNING Understanding FAVORITES TV Everywhere August

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Midco’s TV Everywhere is a FREE feature included with your TV subscription that lets you watch a select group of networks and programs from your computer, tablet or smartphone — whenever and wherever you have an internet connection.

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The number of available TV Everywhere networks depends on your Midco TV package.

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Promising Young Woman

(Drama) A woman’s past leads her to seek vengeance on people who cross her path. Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie (R, 1:53) Premieres March 16

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Promising Young Woman: © 2020 Focus Features.

ON DEMAND

(Comedy) When a local man goes missing, the media is first on the scene. But upon further investigation, there just might be some other funny business going on instead of a missing person. Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Awkwafina (R, 1:36) Premieres March 2

(Drama) The perfect man or woman can be hard to find, but Jenn and Sol seem to be that perfect combination. But when bad news strikes, they will have to come together like they have never imagined and their love will have to prevail.

Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Marielle Scott (PG-13, 1:31) Premieres March 2

BEGINNING PREMIERES

Buoyancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/1 All My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Before I’m Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Black Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Breaking News In Yuba County. . . . . . 3/2 Colors Of Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Dementer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Dolphin Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Easter Dance: Chocolate Egg Hunt Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 400 Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 The Golden Goose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Half Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Hodge And The Lost Easter Egg . . . . . 3/2 Jurassic Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 Monster Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2

Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter: © 2020 Screen Gems.

All My Life

WHAT’S NEW THIS MONTH PREMIERES

All My Life: © 2020 Universal Pictures

Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County: © 2021 American International Pictures (AIP).

March NEW RELEASES

(Action) A sandstorm transports a captain and her unit to a different world facing a battle with monsters. It is there her team must join forces with the mysterious Hunter to defeat the beasts and save the world. Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman (PG-13, 1:39) Premieres March 2

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Pinocchio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 The World To Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/2 The Devil Below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/5 Dreamcatcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/5 Pixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/5 Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/5 Stray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/5 Adverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 Crucified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 The Dead Of Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 Russian Raid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 True Mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 Two By Two: Overboard! . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 Vanguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 The Winter Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3/9 Cosmic Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/12

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(Drama) The classic tale of a woodcarver who crafts the most magical puppet. But when the puppet heads out on his own adventure, he can only dream of becoming a boy. Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo (PG-13, 2:05) Premieres March 2

Adverse (Thriller) Tough times require loans from unsavory characters. When one man finds that his sister owes the wrong people money, it takes him deep into a world that is filled with danger. Thomas Nicholas, Mickey Rourke, Sean Astin (R, 1:34) Premieres March 9

News of the World

News of the World: © 2020 Universal Pictures .

Pinocchio: © 2020 Roadside Attractions.

Pinocchio

Adverse: © Lionsgate Entertainment.

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(Adventure) A man travels the state of Texas sharing the news of the world as printed in newspapers from far and wide.

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Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Mare Winningham (PG-13, 1:58) Premieres March 23

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(Drama) A young couple finding their way in the world are confronted with a lifechanging medical diagnosis.

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This twisty crime tale follows a police negotiator trying to talk down an escaped prisoner who is threatening to jump off a Manhattan hotel. Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell (PG-13) Premieres on HBO March 5

The Hundred-Foot Journey COVID Diaries NYC Madame Mallory runs a Michelin-starred restaurant and just had a new neighbor move in. Now she finds her restaurant competing with the delightful Indian cooking of a young upstart.

Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal (PG) Premieres on HBO March 8

Five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

(TV-14) Premieres on HBO March 9

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Gone: © 2012 Summit Entertainment, LLC. Credit: Saeed Adyani

Man on a Ledge: © 2011 Summit Entertainment, LLC. Credit: Myles Aronowitz

Amanda Seyfried stars as a woman who believes that the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned and taken her sister. Also stars Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter (PG-13) Premieres on HBO March 3

Man on a Ledge

The Hundred-Foot Journey: © DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC. Credit: Francois Duhamel.

Gone

COVID Diaries NYC: © 2020 Getty Images. Credit: Cindy Ord

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March

Becky

Vice

A teenager is looking for some bonding time with her father. Their trip is thrown into chaos when a group of convicts has other plans for the family. Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale (R) Premieres on Showtime March 6

Season 2 features more groundbreaking stories from a team of global correspondents, taking on a range of issues from police brutality in Nigeria to the continued shockwaves of President Trump’s foreign policy in Iran and Yemen.

(TV-MA) Premieres on Showtime March 7

Becky: © 2020 BECKY THE MOVIE, LLC

Vice: © 2020 Courtesy of VICE NEWS/SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC. All rights reserved. Credit: Jika Gonzalez

City on a Hill: © 2019 SHOWTIME Credit: Eric Ogden

Southside With You: © Roadside Attractions/Courtesy Everett Collection

SEASON PREMIERE

SEASON PREMIERE

City on a Hill Season 2 of this drama series centers on a federal housing project in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston that is plagued with drug violence and a rightful distrust of local law enforcement. Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Pernell Walker (TV-MA) Premieres on Showtime March 28

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Southside With You A fictional retelling of the summer day in 1989 when Barack Obama wooed his future wife, Michelle Robinson, on a first date across Chicago’s South Side. Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway (PG-13) Premieres on Showtime March 30

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Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words

Princess Diana embarks on a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodges (PG-13) Premieres on Starz March 11

Lucy always keeps something to remind her of past relationships. When she discovers other people do the same, she decides to open an art gallery of the artifacts. Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Utkarsh Ambudkar (PG-13) Premieres on Starz March 12

The Manchurian Candidate When Sgt. Raymond Shaw takes the political stage, Maj. Bennett Marco realizes that he must investigate the nightmares he is having about the ambush that made Shaw a hero. Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber (R) Premieres on Starz March 13

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Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words: Credit: Getty Images

The Broken Hearts Gallery

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The Broken Hearts Gallery: © 2020 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This documentary investigates how someone with three strikes against her can make her way to the highest court in the United States: the Supreme Court. (TV-PG) Premieres on Starz March 1

Diana

The Manchurian Candidate: ™ & © 2004 by Paramount Pictures. Credit: Ken Regan

PREMIUMS

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Motherless Brooklyn

Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is curious, indeed.

Born in his 80s at the end of World War I, he ages backward. Also stars Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond (PG-13) Premieres on Cinemax March 1

Edward Norton wrote, directed and stars in this 1950s crime drama that follows a loner private detective afflicted with Tourette syndrome who is committed to solving the murder of his friend.

Also stars Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw (R) Premieres on Cinemax March 2

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: © 2007 Paramount Pictures. Credit: Merrick Morton

Motherless Brooklyn: © 2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Credit: Glen Wilson.

Doctor Sleep: © 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Good Liar: © 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Credit: Chiabella James.

March

Doctor Sleep

The Good Liar

This next chapter in The Shining story finds a now-adult Dan Torrance trying to protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult who preys on children to remain immortal. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran (R) Premieres on Cinemax March 12

When career con artist Roy Courtnay meets and starts to fall for a well-to-do widow, what should be an easy swindle becomes the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life. Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey (R) Premieres on Cinemax March 16

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RETURNINGAccess FAVORITES NetflixAugust Through TiVo

Sky Rojo

The Crew

Moxie

Yes Day

Paper Lives

Space Sweepers

Animals on the Loose: A You vs. Wild Interactive Movie

Available March 10 Original Series Married or single, we’ve all heard it. “You could buy a house for the price of that wedding!” But have you ever stopped to think, what if you actually did? Nashvillebased wedding planner Sarah Miller and real estate agent Nichole Holmes are here to help couples make this decision.

Available March 19 Original Series This Spanish action/crime drama is filled with action, dark humor and pure adrenaline (the creators describe it as “Latin pulp”).

Coral, Wendy and Gina go on the run in search of freedom while being chased by Romeo, their pimp from Las Novias Club, and his henchmen.

Available March 12 Original Film Always feeling like they have to say “no” to their kids and coworkers, Allison (Jennifer Garner) and Carlos (Edgar Ramírez) decide to give their three kids a “Yes Day” — where for 24 hours the kids make the rules. Little did they know that they’d be going on a whirlwind adventure around Los Angeles that would bring the family closer.

The Crew: © 2020 Netflix, Inc. Credit: Eric Liebowitz.

Available March 3 Original Film This comedy/drama is directed and coproduced by, and stars, Amy Poehler. It follows Vivian, a shy 16-year-old who has always kept her head down. But when the arrival of a new student forces her to examine the unchecked behavior of her fellow students running rampant at her high school, Vivian realizes she’s fed up.

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Available Now Original Film This South Korean sci-fi film is set in 2092, when the spaceship Victory is one of the many that live off salvaging space debris.

After snatching a crashed space shuttle, Victory’s crew finds a 7-year-old girl inside.

They realize she’s the humanlike robot wanted by UTS Space Guards, and decide to demand a ransom in exchange.

Available Now Original Film Bear Grylls stars in this interactive movie for the whole family. When the protective fence surrounding a wildlife sanctuary mysteriously suffers a breach, he needs your help. Each decision impacts this interactive adventure.

Note: Customers must subscribe separately to Midco TiVo DVR service and Netflix.

Pacific Rim: Credit: Netflix.

Available March 12 Original Film This drama from Turkey is set in an impoverished old neighborhood in Istanbul, where Mehmet is a beloved man who runs the solid waste warehouse for the area.

One day, Mehmet meets an 8-year-old boy who appears in his best friend Gonzales’ garbage bag.

Marriage or Mortgage: © 2021 Netflix, Inc.

Sky Rojo: Credit: Netflix/ Tamara Arranz.

Available Now Original Series This comedy stars Kevin James as a NASCAR crew chief for the fictional Bobby Spencer Racing team. When the owner steps down and passes the team off to his daughter, James has to protect himself and his crew from her attempts to modernize the team.

Moxie: © 2020 Netflix, Inc. Credit: Colleen Hayes

Yes Day: © 2021 Netflix, Inc.

Available March 4 Original Series In this anime series based on Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim sci-fi film franchise, after Kaiju (giant monsters) ravage Australia, two siblings pilot a Jaeger (a giant robot) to search for their parents, encountering new creatures, seedy characters and chance allies along the way.

Space Sweepers: Credit: Netflix.

Marriage or Mortgage

Paper Lives: Credit: Netflix

Pacific Rim: The Black

Animals on the Loose: A You vs.Wild Movie: Credit: Duane Howard/Netflix.

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