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“Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise” Tom Selleck picks up where he left off.
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Tool expert, avid do-it-yourselfer and TV personality.
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step in the Turks’ plan to invade and conquer Italy. History books tell us the initial siege was successful and the city fell to the Turks but the Italians took it back the following year. In the series, Leo must ally with old foes, mend friendships, discover hidden secrets and resume a dangerous quest to protect everything he loves, knowing that his most formidable foe is likely himself.
s the third and final season of Starz’s “Da Vinci’s Demons” gets underway Saturday, Oct. 24, the Kingdom of Naples is being invaded by the Ottoman Turks during the Battle of Otranto. As the city is pillaged and his Italian countrymen are slaughtered, Leonardo da Vinci realizes some of his inventions are being used against them and the designs for them were stolen by someone he trusted. And for the first time in two-plus seasons, the artist, genius and solver of the world’s mysteries feels utterly defeated.
Returning stars include Laura Haddock as Lucrezia Donati; Blake Ritson as Count Girolamo Riario; and Elliot Cowan as Lorenzo Medici.
It’s a storyline the actor who portrays the great master, Tom Riley, was itching to play. “I kept pushing time and time again to see Leonardo fail,” the amiable 34-year-old Briton explains. “It’s great to play the guy who’s always the smartest man in the room and always knows the best way to squirrel out of any situation. But in this case, it was getting to the point where if the audience always knows he’s going to win and he’s going to beat whoever else is around him, then where’s the drama? And our producer came around and said, ‘Well, how about if he actually has to face the smartest man in the room? He has to face himself and he has to take down himself and he’s always one step ahead of himself. How can he possibly beat that guy?’ And that’s why I think (this is) our best season.” The new season revolves around the battle that took place in 1480-81, which was the first
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Calling da Vinci the “role of a lifetime” for its many facets, Riley demurs on further details on the series’ final season. But creator David S. Goyer has promised that there will be “symmetry to the entire series – between the first episode and the final one,” and Riley says there will be closure for the fans in more than 150 countries.
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“That’s been the most exciting thing, how impassioned the fans are,” he says. “The people who know the show love it so much, so it’s been great. And I think people have been very disappointed to hear that it’s over but I think they’ll be happy with how we’ve managed to end it on our own terms. You know, people aren’t going to feel like they’re being cut off in the middle, that all the characters will come to the end of their arcs and the story will come to a satisfying conclusion. So we’re paying the fans back for their investment like that.” Pictured: Tom Riley
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CELEBRITY Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
JamesBrolin of ‘Life in Pieces’ Monday on CBS
Your “Life in Pieces” character had an attention-getting start as the subject of a mock funeral. Was that uncomfortable for you to play? I had heard about people doing this in the past, trying to pull this off where everybody gets to speak about your life before you’re dead ... but in reading this script, what fascinated me mostly, it was like a blackout show where the punch line is funny. The scene isn’t ended when you cut out of it, (it’s) almost serialized. That’s what I love about this show. You never quite are satisfied, but you end up wanting more. I only hope we keep up with the qualities that the first (episode) had and we’re here a lot longer than 13. What’s the main appeal for you in doing comedy? I love characters, first of all. As you know, I’ve played a few. Every once in a while, they hire me for something decent. Sitcom is not my area of expertise, although I was raised in a family that was never serious about anything. My dad had a 5:00 post-time with these pina coladas with these umbrellas and a big piece of pineapple, and everything was just kind of a cute answer. Everything my dad taught was just silly. How did your wife – whose name happens to be Barbra Streisand – respond to the news of your going back to series work? Oh, she says, “Oh, boy, great! Go to work. Get out of the house. Get out of that hammock.” Malibu in the summer in the hammock? Even in the winter, it’s just too good. I’m just surprised I’m working.
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Is your character, Missy, thinking of her family’s sudden riches as a ride to be enjoyed while it lasts or a permanent situation? Missy came from money. Missy went to an Ivy League school. She’s never lacked for anything, so I think this is very interesting to watch this family, the family of her husband, come into this money and sort of try to temper them a little, like “Hey, this may be a smarter way to handle things” or be the moral center at times. But yeah, it doesn’t faze her in any crazy kind of way because she’s always had money, she’s always been OK.
Was that your real hair being cut in the season premiere? No. Absolutely not. ... I went through that experience personally where I did really cut my hair, from my own life. But on the show we use wigs and more wigs and more wigs to depict that. But I was really excited that they decided to go with that (storyline). Particularly with women of color, exploring who they are outside of your ... ideals of beauty has never really been shown to us on television. So I told (executive producer) Mike O’Malley, “You don’t understand how important this is.” If I would have had something like this when I was going through this to know that what I’m feeling and what I’m dealing with is not exclusive to me, it would have helped me in so many ways. So I’m so excited that they’re actually going to explore that.
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CELEBRITY George Dickie’s Q&A
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In addition to the sets, the costumes must help bring you back to that time, no?
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You talked to some of the people who actually lived in Los Alamos in 1945. That had to be fascinating. It was incredible and so moving. You know, we’ve been reading all sorts of material, everything we could get our hands on, especially during Season 1. It was something that was so viscerally moving in a way that you can’t read about. The women walked around the set. ... One of them walked into our house and suddenly went (gasps), and we were like, “What?” And she just said that the cabinets looked exactly the same and it was sort of startling for her to look into our kitchen and see the cabinets. And she just had this very visceral reaction to the way that they looked. Page 6 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote October 18 - 24, 2015
The costumes, hair and makeup. The sets. It’s all been this incredible unity of things ... . I feel like we’re cheating. We don’t have to do anything but show up and be in the moment and know our incredible lines that tell the story for us. ... And on top of that, New Mexico is a very strange state, thanks in part to ... there are two important histories that happened there. There’s a very extensive Native American history that happened all across New Mexico. And also the Manhattan Project, I think, so greatly affected the energy in that state. Truly, you can feel it everywhere. There are a lot of very spiritual people in and across New Mexico, which we’ve all had different experiences with. And they all have a very deep connection to the land there and how strange it is and how it feels to be shooting there. It just adds a layer of authenticity to everything we’re doing. And most of us had never been there before either.
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ramps up the pressure on Food Network’s ‘Chopped: Impossible’ Expect tempers to flare, tears to be shed and trash to be talked when Food Network’s newest four-part tournament of “Chopped” begins Thursday, Oct. 22. “Chopped: Impossible” brings back 12 “Chopped” champions to compete against one another in a four-part tournament that features the show’s traditional ingredient baskets. The three chefs that emerge victorious from the first trio of episodes advance to the finale, where one will win $15,000 and the chance to go up against chef Robert Irvine, one of the series’ judges, in a wild-card round and possible earn another $25,000. On the panel of judges with Irvine are Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant, Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli, Aaron Sanchez, Chris Santos and Geoffrey Zakarian. Ted Allen is the host.
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“I don’t have to be nice,” Irvine says of his role as competitor. “It’s a competition to go against me. I smack talk a lot with the people in a very professional manner, critique the way I would critique any restaurant or any chef and expect the same back. You know, it’s not a one-way street. So it’s the voice of a chef going against the voice of a chef and everybody has an opinion, so the pressure, I can tell you, is literally like a pressure cooker and I mean that. I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw some tears, you saw some frustration or some anger.” The degree of difficulty is also ramped up here, as the infamous baskets contain even more bizarre and incongruous ingredients. In the premiere episode, that means whipped topping, offal and something called “stinky cookies.” “They have the toughest baskets that I’ve ever seen,” Irvine says, “and rightly so because these guys are professional chefs, they’re all champions and the like. But it’s just a very intense competition from day one. “And it’s interesting,” he continues, “any competition, everybody’s nice and friendly at the beginning and they all laugh and joke and talk and kiss and talk and, you know, make up. And then you see as the competition goes on and it gets tougher, they’re not so nice because they all want to win. This is a big prize. It’s $40,000 total if you win against me and bragging rights till you beat me.”
What book are you currently reading? “I’m reading ‘Fit Fuel,’ my new book that I wrote. It just launched. ... It’s a chef’s guide to being healthy but a contract with yourself.”
What did you have for dinner last night? “I had roast chicken and mashed potatoes in (Washington), D.C., at the Wardman Park hotel. I was actually cooking a dinner. I had chicken, they had steak.”
What is your next project? “I have a food line that’s in the military. I have a food line that’s in retail and I’m just about to launch a clothing line, an athletic clothing line, to retail and all the proceeds go into my 501C3 charity that I work with Gary Sinise on to build homes for our wounded warriors, our veterans.”
When was the last vacation you took, where and why? “My last vacation was in Aruba last year with my wife at Christmas for 11 days. It was amazing. I stayed at the Radisson there and, oh my goodness, what an amazing place. Amazing people. It’s great. Love it.”
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CELEBRITY George Dickie’s Celebrity ScooP
Jeff Gordon
NASCAR and winemaking are two words you don’t normally see in the same sentence – unless that sentence is about Jeff Gordon.
Yes, the 44-year-old four-time Sprint Cup champion, future racing retiree and competitor in the Sunday, Oct. 18, Hollywood Casino 400 (on NBC), is the owner and proprietor of Jeff Gordon Cellars, which has been producing award-winning small-lot boutique wines since 2004. But his interest in wines and vineyards dates back much farther. Full name: Jeffrey Michael Gordon
Date of birth: Aug. 4, 1971 Birthplace: Vallejo, Calif. Hometown: Pittsboro, Ind. Height/weight: 5 feet 7 inches/150 pounds Family: Has two children, 8-yearold Ella and 5-year-old Leo, with second wife Ingrid Racing credentials: Cup champion in 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001; three-time Daytona 500 champion; third on all-time wins list with 92 career Cup victories; five-time Brickyard 400 winner; 80 career poles (third all-time)
“Well, I’m from Vallejo, California, which is the next town over from Napa,” Gordon explains. “And as a kid, just driving through the vineyard area and wondering what it was all about and just being kind of in awe of the beauty in that area and then later in life, getting the chance to enjoy some great meals and some great wine. And a good friend of mine in the business who was handling our PR at the time was into wine, and he said, ‘Hey, have you ever thought about doing your own wine?’ And he kind of talked me into doing it and so we’ve been doing it since 2003-2004 and have enjoyed.” Gordon initially got into wine after winning his first Cup title in 1995. He was at a restaurant in London celebrating the milestone when he was handed a wine list. After taking one sip of the white burgundy he ordered, his love of fine wine was born. And though he started out as a white drinker, these days he prefers red. “I like a really good blend with a cabernet sauvignon base and maybe a little merlot/syrah blend in there,” he says. “But some of the best wines in the world are blends even though we don’t always know it and they don’t always say that on the bottle, even some of the top bourdeaus. I mean, I definitely love cab but I prefer just to mix it with a little bit of something that you can blend it with that just kind of smooths it out and really creates great balance.”
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- Born on Sept. 24, 1967.
- He grew up in the Chicago area and moved to Denver in the mid-’90s where he began to pursue an acting career. - As an actor and improv performer, including stints with Second City in Los Angeles and Denver, and sitcoms on ABC and NBC, he has been making people laugh for years – mostly intentionally. - In November 2007, his show “Cool Tools,” which demonstrates and highlights various tools in a fun way, premiered on DIY Network. - In 2010, he became host of the DIY competition series “DIY Dominator.” - He was also the host of “Home Strange Home” where he took viewers on a voyeuristic indoor and outdoor tour of the country’s most eccentric and bizarre homes.
Tool expert, avid do-it-yourselfer and TV personality Chris Grundy can currently be seen on Travel Channel’s “50/50” and DIY Network.
- As host of “Blog Cabin,” which is an interactive series that asks Internet users to vote on the design features for a real vacation getaway, he and other expert hosts transform the property, which is then given away to a lucky sweepstakes winner. - Earlier this month, “50/50” his newest series which he co-hosts with Samantha Brown, premiered on Travel Channel. The show surprises unsuspecting bystanders with a 50-hour adventure worth $50,000. - He has been a longtime supporter of Rebuilding Together, which provides crucial home repairs, safety modifications and energy efficiency upgrades to qualified homeowners and community centers in need. - In his downtime he enjoys fishing, ice hockey and other outdoor activities.
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Tom Selleck
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Tom Selleck again plays the small-town lawman in Sunday’s new Hallmark Channel movie “Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise.” Story on next page
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continues a career Hallmark in new ‘Jesse Stone’ mystery By Jay Bobbin “Two years. Where you been?” It’s actually been three years-plus in real time, but those are the first words spoken – by William Devane, back in his role as a therapist – to Tom Selleck’s (and late novelist Robert B. Parker’s) loner-lawman title character in “Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise,” the new Hallmark Channel movie reviving the franchise in which Selleck made eight previous films for CBS. Debuting Sunday, Oct. 18, the drama also will be shown the following Sunday on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Also co-written by Selleck with Michael Brandman (his fellow executive producer on the “Stone” movies as well), the new story takes the personally troubled small-town police chief to Boston to consult on a murder case. The presumed perpetrator has been captured, but Stone believes there’s more to the matter that imperils more lives. Gloria Reuben also reprises her part from earlier ”Stone” tales, with Leslie Hope (who has appeared with Selleck on CBS’ Friday drama series “Blue Bloods”) and Luke Perry as cast additions.
Selleck and Sony Pictures Television made with Hallmark. “I kind of said, ‘I won’t do it otherwise,’ ” the “Magnum, P.I.” Emmy winner muses. “Let alone play this guy again, I haven’t written this kind of thing in a long time. I was faced with a blank page, which was kind of frightening. It just was a lot, and I was going, ‘Can I do this?’ By the time I finished the script, I felt very, very good about it.” The movie was made in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last spring (for “about a million” dollars less than Selleck had to work with previously, he allows) while the star was on hiatus from his weekly job ... which came in handy for another pivotal piece of “Lost in Paradise” casting. A cafe owner is played by Amelia Rose Blaire, also seen last season on “Blue Bloods” (now in its sixth year on CBS) as a survivor of family murders who was given away at the altar by New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck). “I was absolutely blown away by her,” Selleck recalls. “In the time you have to do television, I said, ‘This actress is wise beyond her years.’ I was in the middle of writing this ‘Jesse Stone’ then, so guess what? I wrote for her. I gave her a boxed set of the (earlier) movies and said, ‘Just know the part’s going to come to you first,’ and I was able to write to her talent. And she took it and made a really three-dimensional character.”
“We owe a lot to Hallmark,” Selleck says. “They’ve been running ‘Jesse Stone’ marathons on weekends, and they do it over and over again – and they perform. It was a real blessing that they let us pick up where we left off. I think they’re trying to broaden their array of movies, and this certainly has a lot more edge than some of the things they’ve done. And they let us do it.” With usual director Robert Harmon also back, “Lost in Paradise“ is the first in a two-picture “Jesse Stone” deal
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A sign of what keeps “Jesse Stone” unique for television is the “Lost in Paradise” opening, a Selleck-Devane conversation that lasts about three minutes before the credits appear. That helps reintroduce what Selleck terms “the mystery of Jesse and where he’s at – and that’s a big deal, with his toxic problems. That seems to hold the audience until the mystery of what he’s involved in takes hold. With three years passed, we had to re-establish this universe before we could get into the story.”
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cinema’s ‘Trailblazing Women’ Illeana Douglas hosts the “Trailblazing Women” film series Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout October on Turner Classic Movies. Story on next page Page 12 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote October 18 - 24, 2015
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showcases film’s ‘Trailblazing Women’ in TCM series By Jay Bobbin A woman’s place is in film: So believes Illeana Douglas, and she has the background to say it. The granddaughter of the late actor Melvyn Douglas has made her own place in entertainment as an actress, producer and director, in projects including “GoodFellas” and her 1996 showcase “Grace of My Heart.” She wants more female employment in films – a big reason she’s showcasing those who have come before as the host of “Trailblazing Women,” a series of related movies and interviews running Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout October on Turner Classic Movies. She’ll return with more editions the next two Octobers, in a partnership between TCM and Women in Film/Los Angeles. “I have more than the usual tie to female directors,” Douglas notes, “and I’ve really gone out on a limb to try to support them and work with them. I’ve seen sexism firsthand, how troubling it is. I lost a directing job, and I ran into the people (behind the project) a few months later, and they said, ‘Well, we didn’t go with a woman. But we went with a gay man, which was maybe just as close.’ And I thought, ‘Hmm. That’s not exactly a woman, but ... OK.’ “Some of the things that were happening in films (previously, where female talents were concerned) are still happening today,” adds Douglas. “As we got into the 1980s and 1990s, we got to this peak of, ‘Gee, it feels like we’ve arrived.’ In the 1930s, there was Dorothy Arzner, then there was Ida Lupino – and there wasn’t another female director until Elaine May at the start of the 1970s. (The aim is to) present that to people in a way that is shocking, because it should be.” Two filmmakers who made their marks after that, Amy Heckerling (“Clueless”) and Julie Dash (“Daughters of the
Dust”), are Douglas’ ‘Trailblazing Women” co-hosts the week of Oct. 18. Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own,” the late Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” and Leslie Harris’ “Just Another Girl on the IRT” are among the contemporary attractions screened. However, Douglas reasons that now, “It’s as if we’re back to the 1930s with, ‘Well, there’s one woman director. Why do we need any more?’ I think we have to figure out how we got here, to understand what happened. You can’t just assign a woman to a project, then go, ‘OK, we’re done.’ ” Also the author of a memoir being published next month (“I Blame Dennis Hopper”), Douglas surely isn’t alone in championing more female hires in the movie and TV industries. Last May, the American Civil Liberties Union filed grievances over the alleged lack of opportunities for women directors, and according to a recent report, less than 4 percent of the American Society of Cinematographers’ membership is female. “What concerns me,” Douglas reflects, “is that you’re missing out on the work of Amy Heckerling. You’re missing out on the work of Allison Anders (who directed ‘Grace of My Heart’). You’re missing out on the work of Martha Coolidge (‘Valley Girl’). Their bodies of work, I feel, have been cut short in a way that seems unfair.”
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Fishing, Hawaiian style on ‘Pacific Warriors’ By George Dickie
Pictured: Isaac Brumaghim
For those for whom fishing in frigid double-digit seas in the Bering Sea or off the U.S. East Coast isn’t dangerous enough, there is “Pacific Warriors.” Premiering Friday, Oct. 23, on Discovery Channel, the six-episode hourlong series follows the efforts of seven teams of men and women as they fish for big game from sea kayaks in the waters around Hawaii, using little more than rods, reels, harpoons and their bare hands. For some, this has been a way of life in their families for generations. Some do it for recreation or to feed their families; others sell their catch. A 100-pound yellowfin tuna, for instance, can fetch $1,500 on the open market. But the dangers are many for these men and women in their paddle-powered crafts. Sharks, of course, are an ever-present threat; so are high seas. There is also the prospect of being towed out to sea by a monster fish in what the locals call a “Hawaiian Sleigh Ride.” And then there are the humpback whales. That’s right, humpback whales. “It has never happened to me or anybody I know,” says Isaac Brumaghim, one of the fishermen who appears on the series, “but I see whales out there, I see them jumping. It’s all about luck and hopefully it’s not a matter of time before it smashes a person but they’re out there jumping around. I have no idea if they know where they’re
jumping or if they really care, if they’re laughing at us. So yeah, anytime I see a whale launching out of the water, it’s time to just like dig out, go paddle somewhere else and get out of his range.” For Brumaghim, who came to fame in 2013 when his YouTube video of a shark jumping after a tuna he was fighting went viral, kayak fishing was self-taught. With no elders to teach him, the Oahu native befriended divers, boaters and anglers and sought their wisdom. From there, he applied what he learned to fishing from a kayak – a relatively new sport at the time – and eventually started his own tournament. For him, it’s a way of providing for himself and a source of fun. “It’s really a connection back to my culture of being Hawaiian,” he says. “It reminds me of ancient Hawaiians, they paddle out with no motor, being out there in the ocean. Those things really take me back, and I love to just sit out there sometimes and imagine what it would be like to be in ancient Hawaii on a canoe – until my phone rings or something.” “One of the greatest things for me always is to come home with fish and not always just sell it. A lot of times it’s to share it and to make other people happy. That’s what drives me to go out there and continue doing what I do.”
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tries to explain the universe via Weather Channel series By Jay Bobbin
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If she didn’t already, Kait Parker feels like she’s really in weather heaven now.
experimenting with thunderstorms on them. Safely, of course! My dad was a firefighter for 34 years, so that was really cool for me.”
Seen regularly as a weekend-morning anchor, the lively Weather Channel meteorologist is getting free rein for her enthusiasm for forecasting in “Kait Parker Explains the Universe” ... a component of the Facebook page for “Three Scientists Walk Into a Bar,” the channel’s recently returned Sunday series that explains various elements of weather simply.
Musing that she knows she’s “an animated person,” Parker uses a plasma ball to illuminate a light bulb and puts liquid nitrogen on whipped cream (“It produces smoke out of your mouth ... it’s so neat”) in some of her other “Three Scientists” segments.
Just watch Parker discuss lightning, using bountiful body language and self-generated sound effects, and it’s clear how much she’s enjoying the gig. “It’s a dream come true for me,” she confirms. “I love the idea that media is evolving. I’m so excited about what the future holds for it, and I love having a platform to be able to let my nerd side fly. Words cannot describe how much fun having the ability to experiment and to explain these phenomena of the universe is for me.” Parker also will appear in the on-air Nov. 22 episode of “Three Scientists,” which centers on “Electric Weather” as she teams with Anthony Carboni (a host of the series, along with Travis Taylor and Tara Long). “We were in Decatur, Ala.,” Parker reports, “and we had the local fire department come out. We used some of their rookies as test subjects, and they were trying so hard to keep their composure as we were
Formerly employed by television stations in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Montgomery, Ala., she maintains her “ultimate life goal” is to help people understand weather better. “My mom is a math teacher, so I’m sure you can imagine the very nerdy conversations we always had at the dinner table. I think she’s a tremendous influence on me, because she is so passionate about her students and explaining things. “I think you can make everything digestible,” notes Parker. “This isn’t a series for kids, but hopefully, there are students out there who see this and it inspires them to be their weird and passionate selves – and to explore more about the world around them. Learning is inherent in our human nature, and we just have so much love for it. Unfortunately, mine comes off a little exuberantly sometimes.”
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Buck’s back!
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Full Name: Ezekiel Elliott
Position: Running back
Born: July 22, 1995
No.: 15
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
Class: Junior
Height/Weight: 6 foot/230-pounds
Honors and Achievements: CFP National Champion and offensive MVP, 2015; Sugar Bowl Champion and offensive MVP, 2015; Big Ten Champion, 2014
Team: Ohio State Buckeyes
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By Dan Ladd As much as the attention went to the quarterback during Ohio State’s 2014-15 college football post-season run, the real workhorse of the Buckeye’s offense was then sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott. Ohio State visits Rutgers Saturday, Oct. 24, on ABC. Certainly the heroics of Elliott’s teammate, third string quarterback Cardale Jones, can’t be denied. However, it was Elliott’s legs that did the real damage to opposing defenses, thus setting up Jone’s passing game. In the Big Ten championship game, with the Buckeyes hopes of making the first college football playoff still in the balance, Elliott ripped off 220 yards and two touchdowns in a blowout win over Wisconsin that propelled Ohio State into the Final Four. In the semi-final victory over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl he scored another pair of touchdowns and galloped for 230 yards. Saving his best for last, he found the end zone four times and rushed for 246 yards in the Championship game thrashing of Oregon. Winning the National Championship capped a miraculous season in which Elliot gained 1,878 yards and scored 18 touchdowns while averaging 6.9 yards per carry; the second best overall season by a Buckeye’s running back behind Eddie George.
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While the 100-yard games keep piling up this season, Elliott’s efforts have once again been over-shadowed by the Buckeye’s multiple quarterback situation. Still, when duty calls those quarterbacks can just hand the ball to this likely future NFL-er and let him take it from there. That’s as good a formula as any if the Buckeyes intend to defend their crown. October 18 - 24, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 17
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MOVIES JAY BOBBIN's Theatrical movie review review
Johnny Depp is a riveting Whitey Bulger in ‘Black Mass’
It’s a given that Johnny Depp is going to own “Black Mass,” but it’s impressive how much solid support he gets. By its nature, the true story of South Boston mob figure James “Whitey” Bulger has to give the actor in that role plenty to sink his teeth into, so complex is the character ... alternately tender and brutal, depending where and at whom he’s aiming his attention at any given time. Depp makes the most of the opportunity, helped to no small end by the makeup team, but the emotional force he gives the part is all his. His tale is mirrored largely through others in his universe – former associates who inform on his activities, or those who have other connections to him. A prominent one is the FBI man played by Joel Edgerton, a childhood friend who sees Bulger as a great avenue to bring down an Italian underworld faction. In turn, Bulger basically gets a free pass on his own illegal activities. Then, there’s Bulger’s brother Billy (Benedict Cumberbatch), a bigwig in Massachusetts politics who also turns the other cheek when it comes to his sibling’s actions. When you see how many people were enablers for Bulger, with their own agendas for being such, you understand how he could evade prosecution for so long.
Of course, that came to an end a couple of years ago, but director Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”) keeps his focus on the earlier aspects that have given Bulger such notoriety. Kevin Bacon, Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey”), Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Nicholson, Corey Stoll and Jesse Plemons (“Friday Night Lights,” “Fargo”) are among the other performers contributing skillfully to “Black Mass,” but there’s no question the movie is built for Depp. Whether it’s Captain Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands or any of the other screen challenges he’s tackled, when he immerses himself fully, the effect generally is breathtaking. That’s surely the case with his Whitey Bulger, who turns from sympathetic to vicious on a dime ... and Depp unquestionably is headed toward award territory for his work here. If you look at “Black Mass” as a whole, it has much in common with other modern gangster pictures that are iconic – “The Godfather” and “GoodFellas,” very notably – so the total film might seem less remarkable than it should. Cooper knows what he’s doing, though, and not the least of that is to let Depp do what Depp does. That alone makes “Black Mass” one of the season’s most important, and potentially most enduring, movies.
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“JURASSIC WORLD”
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The franchise roared back to strength – and then some – with this latest Steven Spielbergproduced chapter, in which the resort’s owners try to goose interest and attendance by introducing a new hybrid creature, the Indominus Rex. And if you know anything whatsoever about “Jurassic Park,” you can bet it will start running amok in 3 ... 2 ... 1. Though it’s hard to take your eyes off the dinosaurs, Chris Pratt is enjoyable as a motorcycleriding “dinosaur whisperer,” with Bryce Dallas Howard as an ambitious executive who’s hosting her nephews at the site when mayhem erupts anew; BD Wong returns from the original movie, and Vincent D’Onofrio, Jake Johnson and Judy Greer also appear. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; deleted scenes. ››› (PG-13: P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
Pictured: Bryce Dallas Howard
upcoming DVD releases
Coming Soon on DVD... “MAX” (Oct. 27): A military dog is adopted by the family of his handler, who was wounded in Afghanistan; Josh Wiggins, Lauren Graham and Thomas Haden Church star. (PG: P, V) “PIXELS” (Oct. 27): A former video-game champ (Adam Sandler) helps his childhood friend, the U.S. president (Kevin James), counter an alien attack. (PG-13: AS, P) “SOUTHPAW” (Oct. 27): A troubled boxer (Jake Gyllenhaal) gets a shot at redemption in the ring; Forest Whitaker and Rachel McAdams co-star in the Kurt Sutter-written drama. (R: AS, P, V) Pictured: Josh Wiggins
“INSIDE OUT” (Nov. 3): A youngster’s emotions take over, quite literally, when she moves to a new town in this animated Disney-Pixar tale; voices include Amy Poehler and Bill Hader. (PG: AS) “TERMINATOR GENISYS” (Nov. 10): He’ll be back, all right: Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in a reboot of the sci-fi saga. (PG-13: N, P, V) “TRAINWRECK” (Nov. 10): A sports doctor (Bill Hader) prompts a free-spirited journalist (Amy Schumer) to consider commitment. (R and unrated versions: AS, N, P)
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HALLOWEEN SHOWS
Airing Tuesday 9 p.m. on CW
SUNDAY 12:00 Midnight BBC AMER The Rocky Horror Show Show creator Richard O’Brien, who starred as Riff Raff in the original stage production and movie, steps into the role of The Narrator in this new 40th anniversary production of the kinky musical, which was filmed during a September limited engagement at London’s Playhouse Theatre. The production also includes guest contributions from Stephen Fry (“Jeeves and Wooster’’), Anthony Head (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer’’), Adrian Edmondson (“The Young Ones’’) and Spice Girls member Emma Bunton. 9 p.m. FOX Bob’s Burgers While Louise (voice of Kristen Schaal) maintains she’s never been frightened as the new episode “Hauntening’’
begins, she may not be able to say that by the end. The Belchers mark the Halloween season by visiting an allegedly haunted house, and it doesn’t take much for the fear factor to kick in for all of them. Let’s just say that they may end up thinking poltergeists are real. H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman and John Roberts also are in the voice cast. MONDAY 9 p.m. on CBS Scorpion Though it’s not Halloween yet, the members of Team Scorpion do some masquerading in the new episode “Super Fun Guys.’’ They go to Kazakhstan and the location of a movie that’s filming there, but as might be expected, serving as costumed extras for the picture isn’t their main
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mission. They’ve been dispatched to deactivate a nuclear missile that terrorists are trying to market. Peri Gilpin (“Frasier’’) and Kevin Weisman (“Alias’’) continue their guest roles. TUESDAY 8 p.m. on ABC FAMILY Monica the Medium In the new episode “Finals Week,’’ Monica starts to feel the relentless pressure of always encountering people in desperate need of a reading, which makes it hard for her to cram for her finals. To the dismay of her roommates and family, she is so convinced that she tanked her exams that she seriously considers dropping out of school, reasoning that she already knows what she wants to do with her life and it’s not the sort of
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HALLOWEEN SHOWS thing she can learn in a classroom. 9 p.m. on FOX Scream Queens Chanel’s (Emma Roberts) bid to keep herself safe from the killer turns out to be a boon for Zayday (Keke Palmer) in the new episode “Seven Minutes in Hell.’’ The sorority members stage a slumber party in order to band together in supposed safety -- but that’s still not enough to guarantee that everyone will make it through the night. Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Oliver Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Skyler Samuels and Nasim Pedrad also star. 9 p.m. on CW Supernatural Jensen Ackles, alias the series’ Dean Winchester, takes on additional duty as director on the new episode “The Bad Seed.’’ The tale puts his character and Sam (Jared Padalecki) on the trail of a baby who could be the key to stopping the Darkness -- which Crowley (Mark Sheppard) hopes to exploit for his own purposes. Rowena (guest star Ruth Connell) wants to grow her power for self-protection. Castiel (Misha Collins) attempts to heal. 9 p.m. on SYFY Ghost Hunters The TAPS team travels to North Adams, Mass., to investigate the handsome but apparently haunted Houghton Mansion, which now houses a Masonic temple. In 1914, a car accident claimed the lives of patriarch Albert Houghton and his daughter, Mary, and drove their guiltstricken chauffeur to commit suicide. The TAPS paranormal investigators try to discern whether that tragedy is connected with extensive reports of uncanny phenomena on the property in the new episode “Houghton Hears a Who?’’ WEDNESDAY 10 p.m. on FX American Horror Story: Hotel A tense Alex (Chloe Sevigny) feels that she is reaching the end of her rope after Scarlett stirs up some
painful memories of Holden in a new episode called “Mommy.’’ Donovan (Matt Bomer), meanwhile, is thrust into jeopardy by a dangerous rival of the Countess (Lady Gaga). Kathy Bates and Wes Bentley also star.
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attacks soon follow. Juliet Stevenson also stars.
SATURDAY 9 p.m. on SYFY The Hollow In this 2015 thriller, three sisters who THURSDAY are seriously in need of more tranquility 10 p.m. on SYFY in their lives move in with their aunt, but Paranormal Witness instead of peace and security, they find Linda Coddington sought a sanctuary themselves menaced by a mysterious for herself and her daughter when creature born of a century-old curse. she moved the two of them into The entity threatens to kill everyone an apartment in Washington, Mo. in their tiny island town on the night Unfortunately, the boarded-up fireplace before Halloween. Deborah Kara Unger, in the seemingly cozy flat concealed Stephanie Hunt, Alisha Newton and the sinister presence of a witch’s familiar who had lived there long ago in Sarah Dugdale star. 9 p.m. on HALLMARK the new episode “The Fireplace.’’ Good Witch In a special new two-hour episode FRIDAY called “Something Wicked,’’ the town 10 p.m. A&E of Middleton prepares for the annual The Enfield Haunting Harvest Festival, but for once Cassie In the finale to this three-part (Catherine Bell) and her family are just miniseries, Maurice (Timothy Spall) is aghast to read a news report that Janet not feeling very excited about what is usually their favorite haunted holiday. and Margaret (Eleanor Hafner, Fern Sam (James Denton), meanwhile, Deacon) faked the haunting, but the women assure him they said that just to is going to need a powerful spell of fend off other psychic investigators. Guy his own to reach an accord with his (Matthew Macfadyen) uses Joe’s ashes troubled son, Nick (Rhys Matthew Bond), while Abigail (Sarah Power) in an attempt to exorcise any malign uses her witchy wiles in a bid to spirits from Janet, but despite initials signs of success, more paranormal become the next Festival Queen. By Jay Bobbin and John Crook
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By John Crook
1) What Academy Award-winning actress starred as vampire-loving telepathic barmaid Sookie
6) Based on a 1950s comic-book series, what 1989-96 horror anthology series was hosted by a
2) What was the name of the young witch played by Alyson Hannigan in the cult hit “Buffy the Vampire
7) What popular cable reality series features RotoRooter plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson
3) Spirit medium James Van Praagh helped develop what 2005-2010 CBS Friday hit about a young woman 4) What famous TV butler rarely spoke, except to say, “You rang?
8) What breed of dog was high-strung ghostbuster Scooby-Doo? 9) Hope Lange won two Emmy Awards for playing a wistful widow in love with a ghostly sea captain in what
5) Steven Spielberg directed what film legend in a “Night Gallery” episode about a wealthy blind woman
10) What was the name of the charismatic vampire played by Jonathan Frid on the 1966-71 gothic soap
Stackhouse in the HBO series “True Blood”?
Slayer”?
who saw dead people?
who purchases a poor man’s eyes?
puppet called The Cryptkeeper?
moonlighting at investigating locations said to be haunted?
1968-70 sitcom?
opera “Dark Shadows”?
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HALLOWEEN ©Zap2it
“Frankenstein” (1931): The original,
which spawned at least 14 takeoffs, is a blackand-white film of true beauty. Yes, it’s a bit slow at times, but Boris Karloff became a star from this, as the man/ monster made from spare parts. Based on Mary Shelley’s chilling book, this has several poignant scenes, such as when the lonely blind man befriends the monster and when he accidentally drowns the little girl.
“Dracula” (1931):
This wonderful movie also gave the world the Hungarian accent now associated with vampires. Bela Lugosi, who plays the vampire in an elegant yet melancholic way, was from Austria-Hungary and had a thick accent. Lugosi had honed the character, based on Bram Stoker’s chilling novel, by playing him on Broadway for three years before taking him to the screen, and it’s the part with which he was forever identified.
“King Kong” (1933):
Forget those pale impersonations that came later. Sure, the Jessica Lange vehicle of 1976 now feels oddly sentimental because of the World Trade Center scenes. And the less said about Peter Jackson’s version two years ago, the better, but really, an ice-skating Kong? Watch the real deal, as the big ape scales the Empire State Building and tears down elevated trains. Watch with the lights out, and marvel at what early filmmakers did with a small model and stop-motion camera work. Ah, it was beauty that killed the beast.
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“The Wolf Man” (1941):
Lon Chaney is superb in this tragic tale of an innocent besieged by urges over which he has no control. As Sir John Talbot says, “Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954): Well, we’ve had a monster made from spare parts, one who lives off the blood of others, a humongous gorilla and a man who’s also part wolf, certainly we need a monster from the deep to round out the group.
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HALLOWEEN Check out our favorite project from DIY network! Brought to you by
Make a Wreath with Scary Googly Eyes Create a spooky entrance for guests this Halloween season with a decorative wreath that will make even the prettiest door seem downright scary. TOOLS 3Paintbrush 3Hot-glue gun MATERIALS 3Styrofoam wreath form 3Black acrylic paint 3Black feather boa 315 to 20 Ping-Pong balls 3Permanent markers in various colors (or paint pens) 3Floral pins
Paint wreath form Paint wreath form with black acrylic paint. Set aside. You don’t have to get super-even coverage as most of the form will be camouflaged by the feather boa. Draw Pupils While waiting for the paint to dry on the wreath, start working on the creepy eyeballs. Use a permanent marker to draw a circle with a little notch taken out of it (almost like a Pac-Man shape) in the middle of a Ping-Pong ball. This will create a catch-light in the eye which makes it look more realistic. Color in the shape. Make It Pop Choose an eye color (blue, green or brown) to make the iris. Follow the circle that you already created for the pupil with the colored marker. To complete the catch-light, create another notch in the iris, lined up with the notch you already made in the pupil. This should give you a full circle of white in between the pupil and iris.
Add Creep Factor To make the eyeballs look a little creepy, use a red marker to draw veins on the side of the eyeball. Start at the bottom of the eye going upward toward the pupil and iris. Repeat the whole process until you have enough eyeballs. Attach Pin Add a bead of hot glue to a floral pin, and attach the floral pin to the back of the eyeball. Repeat for the rest of the eyeballs. Attach the Boa When the paint on the wreath is dry, wrap the feather boa around it and secure it with floral pins. Attach the Eyeballs Using the pins on the back of eyeballs, attach the eyeballs randomly around the wreath. Happy Halloween! Greet trick-or-treaters in style with your door wreath.
Don’t Skip the Details Add a darker color to the iris to create detail in the eye. If you started with light blue, use a darker blue to add extra lines and marks like a real iris. Source: DIY network. click here for more fabulous decorating ideas FROM DIY network Page 24 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote October 18 - 24, 2015
HALLOWEEN Check out our favorite HALLOWEEN RECIPE from FOOD network!
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Make Deviled Ham Eyeball Sandwich Ingredients
20 slices white bread, such as Arnold Brick Oven White Sandwich Bread 2 cups smoked cooked ham, chopped (about 8 ounces) 1/3 cup mayonnaise 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon pickled relish 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 3 dashes hot sauce, such as Tabasco Kosher salt 10 pimento-stuffed green olives, sliced in half Ketchup, for squirting Special equipment: 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter
Directions
Punch out rounds from the bread using a 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter. Lay out the rounds on a baking sheet. Set aside. Add the ham, mayonnaise, honey, mustard, relish, Worcestershire and hot sauce in the bowl of a food processor. Sprinkle with salt and pulse until finely chopped, but still chunky. Spoon a tablespoon at a time of the ham mixture onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Roll each spoonful into round balls. Stuff 1 olive into the center of each ball for eyes. Lay the balls in the center of the bread rounds. Squirt ketchup around the edges of the bread to mimic veins. Serve to kids and pray they don’t cry from how scary these are. Recipe courtesy of Jeff Mauro and Food Network.
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The Simpsons When Bart reads a set of symbols, he and Lisa find themselves transported to an alternate universe. FOX 7:30 pm Halloween Sweets Unwrapped Door to door searching for Halloween sweets. COOK 8 pm 30 Days of Night (2007) Hungry vampires descend on an Alaskan town. IFC 8:30 pm SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob and Patrick get caught in the feud between ghost pirates and the Flying Dutchman. NICK 8:30 pm Bob’s Burgers (N) When Louise reveals that she hasn’t been scared before, the Belchers visit a haunted house. FOX 9 pm Halloween Wars (N) The three remaining teams create displays that capture the horror that results from robbing a grave. FOOD 9 pm Halloween’s Most Extreme The best of what Halloween has to offer. TRAV 9 pm Halloween Baking Championship The bakers take on sculpted scary treats and devilishly delicious desserts. FOOD 11 pm
That ’70s Show Things go terribly wrong as the gang prepares Halloween festivities. IFC 8 pm
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Bloodthirsty mutants hunt fresh meat. IFC 8 pm
The Hollow (2015) A mysterious creature terrorizes three sisters on an island. SYFY 9 pm
Toy Story OF TERROR! When Woody, Buzz and the gang stop at a motel, one of them goes missing. ABC 8:30 pm
Harvey Beaks (N) The Squirrels swear to make this year’s corn maze the scariest ever; telling scary stories. NICK 8 pm
No Tell Motel (2012) Friends become stranded in a haunted motel. TMC 9 pm
Stitchers (N) The team probes the suicide of a man who was a suspect in a college student’s disappearance. FAM 9 pm
Jeepers Creepers (2001) A flesheating entity pursues sibling college students. IFC 10:30 pm
The Middle Sue holds a seance; the football team stops Axl from attending the Halloween party in his room. HALL 10:30 pm Tremors 4: The Legend Begins A man hires a mercenary to destroy gigantic worms. (2004) AMC 12:45 am The Thaw (2009) Ecology students discover a deadly prehistoric parasite. TMC 1:10 am
OCT. 21
Jessie The Ross kids become concerned after a scary old doorman tells them a story. DISN 9:30 pm
OCT. 22
Liv and Maddie A magical amulet turns the twins into triplets, producing a frightening sister named Helga. DISN 9:30 pm
Modern Family Claire prepares to make the Dunphy house spooky for Halloween; Cameron does not like the holiday. USA 11 pm
Child’s Play (1988) AMC 10 pm Jessie Stuart tells the Ross kids about a ghost named Abigail. DISN 10 pm
OCT. 19
Legion (2010) God sends forth an army of angels to wipe out mankind. FX Mid.
Guy’s Grocery Games A pumpkin bowling contest; a red light special ingredient in the final round. FOOD 8 pm Halloween Baking Championship (N) Creepy, dangerous donuts; the bakers dig deep with graveyard pumpkin desserts that are to die for. FOOD 9 pm Chopped Halloween-themed ingredients including real blood and fake eyeballs are featured in the first round. FOOD 10 pm Leprechaun’s Revenge (2012) An evil leprechaun seeks terrible retribution upon his former captors. SYFY 1 am
OCT. 20
Tremors 2: Aftershocks Handymen battle huge man-eating worms plaguing an oil field (1996) AMC 8 pm
Frasier Frasier throws a Halloween party at which Niles shows up dressed as Martin. HALL 1:30 am BloodMonkey (2007) A professor and his students encounter a deadly creature. SYFY 2 am
OCT. 23
Liv and Maddie A magical amulet turns the twins into triplets, producing a frightening sister named Helga. DISN 7 pm Halloween II (2009) Unstoppable Michael Myers continues his murderous rampage. AMC 7:30 pm Liv and Maddie Maddie and Willow join in on the Senior Scare, in which high school seniors scare middle schoolers. DISN 7:30 pm
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Umbrella Corp.’s T-virus continues to ravage the Earth. TNT 8 pm Sanjay and Craig Tufflips hosts a spooky, strange and shoddy half-hour Halloween special. NICK 8:30 pm Day of the Dead (1985) AMC 10 pm Mysteries at the Museum A man’s attempt to bring back his love from the dead. TRAV 10 pm
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn The Quads and their parents are all excited for the Halloween dance; Ricky and Dicky compete. NICK 9:30 pm Chopped A freaky gummy and a funny mummy; scary offal; spider webs made with pretzels and blue cheese. FOOD 10 pm Leprechaun 3 (1995) An evil Irish fairy travels to Las Vegas to seek his pot of gold. AMC 11 pm Rogue (2007) A giant crocodile eats stranded riverboat travelers. TNT 12:45 am
Creepshow (1982) Tales spotlight a nagged professor and a tycoon with cockroaches. IFC 12:30 am
Leprechaun 4 in Space Powerhungry leprechaun holds alien princess hostage. (1996) AMC 1 am
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Freddy Krueger terrorizes the filmmakers who created him. (1994) SYFY 1 am
Evil Dead 2 (1987) Demons terrorize the inhabitants of a remote forest cabin. STARZ 1 am
OCT. 24
Jessie Stuart tells the Ross kids about a ghost named Abigail. DISN 7 pm K.C. Undercover Ernie and Judy travel to New York during the Central Park Spooktacular to catch an evil wolf serum. DISN 7:30 pm Lab Rats: Bionic Island Principal Perry brings back a skull from a neighboring island. DISN 8 pm Henry Danger When Jasper dresses as Kid Danger for Halloween, he is mistaken for the real Kid Danger. NICK 8 pm Game Shakers (N) Double G asks Babe and Kenzie to help him scare Triple G on Halloween. NICK 8:30 pm Leprechaun 2 Evil Irish fairy seeks bride in California. (1994) AMC 9 pm Kirby Buckets The boys dig up an ancient mascot and Fish gets possessed. DISN 9 pm 100 Things to Do Before High School (N) CJ wants to end Principal Hader’s dislike of Halloween in time to rescue the school’s festivities. NICK 9 pm
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Hostel (2006) Two men visit a Slovakian hostel that has a gruesome secret. SYFY 1 am Butcher Boys (2013) Friends go head to head with a group of cannibals. TMC 1:30 am
HALLOWEEN
Halloween The Exorcist marathon (1973) BBC America 11 pm on AMC Halloween: Resurrection (2002) 7 pm
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ABC 8 pm
Halloween (1978) 9 pm Halloween II (1981) – 11 pm Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) 1 am
Amityville marathon on AMC The Amityville Horror (1979) 8 pm Amityville II : The Possession (1982) 10:30 pm
Edward Scissorhands (1990) STARZ 7:10 pm
Sleepy Hollow (1999) FAM 8:30 pm
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) FAM Mid.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) SYFY 8 pm
Amityville 3-D (1983) 1 am I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) FAM Mid.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) TCM 8 pm The Fall of the House of Usher (1949) TCM 12:45 am
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Saw marathon on IFC Saw – (2004) 3:15 pm Saw II – (2005) 5:30 pm Saw III – (2006) 7:30 pm Saw IV – (2007) 10 pm Saw V – (2008) 12:15 am Saw VI – (2009) 2:45 am Saw: The Final Chapter 3D – (20010) 4 am The Fog (2005) SYFY 11 pm
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) TCM 2 am
Quiz Answers from page 22:
1) Anna Paquin 2) Willow Rosenberg 3) “Ghost Whisperer” 4) Lurch on “The Addams Family” 5) Joan Crawford
6) “Tales From the Crypt” 7) “Ghost Hunters” 8) A Great Dane 9) “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” 10) Barnabas Collins
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