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2 Homecoming, Amazon — New SeriesWatergate, History — New MiniseriesHouse of Cards, Netfl ix

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4 Mickey’s 90th Spectacular, ABC The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bravo

— Season PremiereOutlander, Starz — Season Premiere

5 Mama Medium, TLC — New Series

6 College Basketball: Kansas vs.

Michigan State, ESPN College Basketball: Kentucky vs.

Duke, ESPN

7 The Real Housewives of New Jersey,

Bravo — Season PremiereClique, Pop TV — New Series

9 College Basketball: Arkansas vs.

Texas, ESPN Room 104, HBO — Season Premiere

10 College Football: Florida State at

Notre Dame, NBC

12 MARS, National Geographic

— Season Premiere

StarTalk With Neil deGrasse Tyson, National Geographic — Season Premiere

13 Real Country, USA Network

— New Series

16 The Kominsky Method, Netfl ix — New Series

17 Christmas at Graceland, Hallmark

Channel — Original Film Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle,

SundanceTV — New Miniseries

18 The Clinton Affair, A&E

— New MiniseriesMy Brilliant Friend, HBO — New SeriesEnemies: The President, Justice & the

FBI, Showtime — New MiniseriesEscape at Dannemora, Showtime

— New SeriesAmerica in Color, Smithsonian Channel

— Season PremiereChristmas on the Coast, UP TV

— Original Film

19 The Little Drummer Girl, AMC

— New Miniseries

21 Christmas at the Palace, Hallmark

Channel — Original Film My Christmas Inn, Lifetime

— Original Film

22 NFL Football: Chicago at Detroit, CBS NFL Football: Washington at Dallas,

FOX Christmas at Grand Valley, Hallmark

Channel — Original Film The Christmas Contract, Lifetime

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC NFL Football: Atlanta at New Orleans,

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Virginia, ESPN Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe,

Hallmark Channel — Original Film Poinsettias for Christmas, Lifetime

— Original Film NHL Hockey: Philadelphia vs. N.Y.

Rangers, NBC

24 College Football: Michigan at Ohio

State, FOX Christmas Everlasting, Hallmark

Channel — Original Film Every Day Is Christmas, Lifetime

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25 Dirty John, Bravo — New SeriesA Shoe Addict’s Christmas, Hallmark

Channel — Original Film Welcome to Christmas, Hallmark

Movies & Mysteries — Original FilmJingle Belle, Lifetime — Original Film

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CONTENTS 11.18

Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and his time-traveling wife Claire (Caitriona Balfe) try to make a home for themselves in the dangerous new world of Colonial America in Season 4 of Outlander

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Mickey Turns 90!Where did that time go? ABC celebrates the iconic cartoon character — Mickey Mouse — in a two-hour special.

6 The Little Drummer GirlBig Little Lies and True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård talks to Kellie Freeze about his latest TV thriller.

16 NEXT MONTHThere will be plenty of treats, including an expansive Holiday Programming Guide. Plus, we’re cleaning out our closets and giving away fun prizes.

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Meet THE CREW

JEFFFirst on my list to stream: The Kominsky Method on Netflix

My Thanksgiving Day NFL picks: Chicago over

Detroit; Washington over Dallas; New Orleans over Atlanta

RYANFirst on my list to DVR: Watergate on History

The hero we need now is: Swamp Thing

KELLIEFirst on my list to DVR: MARS on National Geographic

Would I travel to Mars? As much as I’d love to

visit the red planet, I’d rather go crater-hopping on the moon.

BARBFirst on my list to DVR: Dirty John on Bravo

This month’s most shocking

TV documentary: Jonestown: Terror in the

Jungle on SundanceTV. Why would so many people agree to kill themselves?

TAYLORFirst on my list to DVR: Outlander on Starz

Which time period would I travel to?

Paris in the ’20s. I could paint the town with

Hemingway, Picasso, the Fitzgeralds — all the greats!

NEWS & VIEWS

Lessons To Be LearnedThere are some pretty incredible, just down-to-earth

people in the TV industry doing cool things to inspire us all. We had the opportunity to talk to a handful of them this month, including Shark Tank’s female sharks — Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner and Sara Blakely — who share some of their life stories and words of wisdom. We went back to Budapest, where Kellie Freeze visited the massive set of MARS and found that the series’ Olympus Town has grown from a small subterranean outpost to a vibrant community — complete with an indoor park to help the scientists maintain their circadian rhythms. They also got a space dog! See page 22. And, the always lovely

and charming Connie Britton and Eric Bana take us inside the ripped-from-the-headlines true story of Dirty John.

Enjoy the issue! Enjoy your Thanksgiving!Blessings to all of you.

Barb Oates, Editor in Chief

Things To Note:• There’s so much holiday programming beginning already

this month that we added the present icon in your daily grids to help you find it!

• Game Show Network, formerly known as just GSN, has updated their call letters to GMSHW (apparently they don’t like vowels).

• Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2am, so move your clocks back one hour and enjoy some extra sleep.

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What’s A Movie That Still Haunts You Today?Oddly, my younger sister had nightmares about Bob Hope in a Santa suit long after seeing The Lemon Drop Kid. (Yeah, I never got that either.) The movie that haunted me until 2016 was Creature From the Black Lagoon. Lately, though, it’s been The Manchurian Candidate. — Vicki

The long movie version of Salem’s Lot. — Anthony

We had one of those great old movie theaters in the town I grew up in in central Wisconsin, and on most Saturdays, we would go to a double feature while my mom would have her hair done at the beauty shop around the corner. One Saturday in October I saw the 1963 fi lm The Haunted Palace

with Vincent Price and Debra Paget. That movie was so scary I tied the arms of my sweatshirt around my eyes and barely saw 10 minutes of it. Later, when we got home from the movies, I was still so spooked that I didn’t even trust my mom and swore she was possessed by something. Even Village of the Damned with Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley scared me, and I watched that on television. I think it has something to do with creepy, possessed kids. — JJ

The movie that still haunts me today is The Order starring Heath Ledger. The fi lm has some Latin words in the beginning that I wish were translated into English. — Clemens

TCM’s Summer Under The StarsI just wanted to write to you and let you know just how much our family enjoys TCM’s Summer Under the Stars every August and to congratulate the magazine on doing such a great job on the article dedicated to the whole month, showcasing a different star every day of the month with their picture and one of their movies underneath their photo. I know for the last few years your magazine did this great feature, and we sure hope you will continue to do this for many years to come. We also enjoy your year-end issue with the celebrities’ obituaries it contains. Keep up the good work!!!! — A Happy Reader

Look for our Remembrances feature in our December 2018 issue.

Thanks, Reader Rewards!Thank you for the Shark Week ice cube swag. What a surprise! I enjoy your magazine every month/every section. Thanks again. Cheers. — Liz

A Change In Show SchedulingHow dare you take off the best shows and replace them with the dumb shows!! Taken off: Mama’s Family. Replaced by: Gilligan’s Island. Then my very favorite program: The Odd Couple. Replaced with: M*A*S*H. Whenever you decide to drop a show, you replace it with M*A*S*H. I’m so sick of M*A*S*H — take that off permanently! I enjoyed Sunday afternoon with various shows. Now I won’t watch MeTV on Sundays. You really SPOILED SUNDAY AFTERNOONS! Your station is going to go downhill. Please go back to your old schedule. — Dorene

Thank you for your letter, Dorene, but we do not have the power to schedule programming on MeTV or on any network. We’re sending you our Where To Write section with MeTV’s address so you can write them directly.

Halloween ProgrammingSuggestion: Publish a list that only contains the movies and TV programs (by day) that are preceded by the Halloween (skull) icon. If such a list exists, where is it? Thank you. — Lauren

Thanks for all of your letters and suggestions! We are sending you a free copy of our sister publication “ReMIND.”

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Include your address when you write or email us, and we’ll most likely send you something. We’re not promising, we’re just saying. Also, if you didn’t know this, the letters and opinions above refl ect the views of our readers, so don’t go crazy on us because you don’t like what someone else said.

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O n Nov. 18, 1928, co-creators Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks’ iconic cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his big-screen debut in the animated short

fi lm Steamboat Willie. Mickey has been entertaining audiences ever since,

not only in other big-screen shorts and features, but also on television (notably as the namesake behind the beloved The Mickey Mouse Club) and in comics, books, toys and video games. He (and his ears) has become famous as a symbol of the Disney corporation and of America itself at times, with the character instantly recognizable across borders.

This month, in a two-hour special airing from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, superstars from music, fi lm and television will be on hand to help Mickey celebrate his 90th birthday with musical performances, moving tributes and never-before-seen short fi lms.

Famed live-television producer Don Mischer, whose company has been behind everything from Super Bowl halftime shows to Academy Awards ceremony broadcasts and more, is producing and directing Mickey’s 90th Spectacular (Nov. 4 on ABC).

Mischer’s production partners, Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare, will also help bring the special to television. In a joint statement, Haykel and Hare said: “It’s remarkable how strongly Mickey Mouse connects with people around the world, and it’s an honor for us to help celebrate such a beloved global icon.”

At presstime, announced performers for Mickey’s celebration include Josh Groban, NCT 127, Leslie Odom Jr., Meghan Trainor and Zac Brown Band. There will also be appearances by Kristen Bell, Sofi a Carson, Tony Hale and Sarah Hyland, with more expected.

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MICKEY!Disney’s Legendary Creation Celebrates 90 YEARS.

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Returning Favorites America in Color Smithsonian Channel

(Nov. 18)Baroness Von Sketch Show IFC (Nov. 8)House of Cards Netflix (Nov. 2)MARS National Geographic (Nov. 12)Murder Made Me Famous REELZ

Channel (Nov. 3)Outlander Starz (Nov. 4)People Magazine Investigates

Investigation Discovery (Nov. 5)The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Bravo (Nov. 4)The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Bravo (Nov. 7)Room 104 HBO (Nov. 9)StarTalk With Neil deGrasse Tyson

National Geographic (Nov. 12)StartUp Sony Crackle (Nov. 1)Vikings History (Nov. 28)

They’re Back, Baby!: Recently Renewed ShowsFollowing its most-watched season, E!’s WWE reality series Total Bellas has been renewed for Season 4. … At Showtime, the comedy Shameless — which returned for Season 9 in September — extended its current season to 14 episodes. Currently on hiatus, the season will resume with its second half on Jan. 20. … Netflix’s well-received reboot of Queer Eye has been picked up for a third season, to debut in 2019, with the Fab Five helping people in Kansas City, Mo. … HBO has renewed comedies Insecure and Ballers for fourth and fifth seasons, respectively. … Jamie Foxx and daughter Corinne will return to challenge contestants on a third season of the FOX game show Beat Shazam. … The E! reality series Very Cavallari, which follows the lives of Kristin Cavallari and husband Jay Cutler in Nashville, will return for Season 2 in 2019. … RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars has been renewed for a fourth season by VH1.

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1 If your TV had just three shows or networks on it, what would

you be watching? Fargo, for sure, on FX; Bloodline and Narcos on Netfl ix; and Casual on Hulu.

2 What three foods do you have to have in your fridge

or pantry? Blueberries, kale and tomatoes. [Laughs] I’m starving, I haven’t eaten all day. I’m not going to eat today. It’s this weird thing: We drank so much beer in Dublin this weekend [that] I’ve just chosen not to eat food today.

3 When was a time when you were completely starstruck?

I met Harrison Ford at the Golden Globes a couple of years back. I was tripping-over-my-own-tongue starstruck. It was pretty cool. He was cranky, but in a great way. I met him another time a couple of years later, and he was the same guy. I didn’t take it personally at all. He’s just Harrison Ford!

4 Tell us about a strange or funny fan encounter. We

had one in Dublin this weekend. This woman, a big Chicago Fire fan, just could not get over the fact that I was in Dublin. She was like, “What are you doing here?!?” I’m like, “I’m hanging out in your great city; I’m enjoying myself.” She thought it was so bizarre that I was there because she didn’t expect to see somebody from the Chicago shows just wandering around Dublin.

5 What do you think you’d do for a living if you weren’t an

actor? I think I’d be a farmer. I grew up in the country on a farm, and I like the lifestyle. I like the modern angle that farming is taking. There’s a lot of progress in farming technology that keeps it cleaner and healthier and better and puts more back into earth than it takes out, and those are things that are very interesting to me. I think I may end up a farmer.

This month National Geographic returns to the red planet with the second season of its groundbreaking documentary/drama hybrid MARS. (Read more about MARS on page 22.) “There’s a new colony coming to Mars, and they will be there to look for profi t to exploit,” says actor Jeff Hephner, who joins the cast in Season 2. “I play Kurt Hurrelle, the commander of that group.” And though capitalism is coming to Mars, Hephner answered our “5 Questions” gratis.

5 QUESTIONSWith JEFF HEPHNER Of “MARS” By Kellie Freeze

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AMC had its fill of dark comedy Dietland after only one season. … American Woman won’t come hanging around Paramount Network’s door. It’s Season 1 and done for the dramedy set in the

’70s. … USA Network’s Mr. Robot will deactivate after Season 4 in 2019. … HBO will drop The Deuce after Season 3, likely airing next year. Don’t worry about James Franco. We think he’ll be fine.

YANKED!: Recently Canceled ShowsThe Deuce

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large dose of humor along with her astounding abilities. Not only is she a medium, but she’s also a psychic, an empath and a fourth-generation clairvoyant.

“Being psychic means that I can see the future,” Jennie Marie explains. “Being a medium means that I talk to passed loved ones. Being clairvoyant is how I receive my messages. So when I’m speaking to someone that’s passed, I see images. I tell people I play charades with dead people! … My third gift is I’m empathic, and that means I can literally feel energy. So if people are in a room with me, I can feel how they feel.”

Based out of Rochester, N.Y., Jennie Marie is a wife and mother of four sons, three of whom have inherited some of her abilities. She was only 7 years old when she started speaking with her great-grandmother who had passed, a woman she had never met before. At 12, the things she saw started coming true. But it wasn’t until her late 20s that her gift grew

strong enough to conduct readings on herself and eventually individuals and groups.

Sometimes her messages arrive in unexpected ways. “I’ve had my phone go off in the middle of the night, but I had the ringer off. I look up, and it’s because a spirit’s trying to get my attention.”

Of course, there are always those who refuse to believe. “I tell skeptics, ‘Meet me at my event, come to a group, talk to me afterwards. Because guess what? I’m gonna change your mind.’ It’s a challenge, I love it.”

Each episode of Mama Medium (Mondays beginning Nov. 5) showcases Jennie Marie’s abilities and gives viewers a look at what it’s like in her home with a gifted mom, gifted children and a husband keeping up with the chaos. “Every day in our lives, one of the children is talking about either my gift or their gift. So is it completely normal every day for us to talk about dead people or being a psychic? Absolutely 100 percent.” The show is relatable, emotional and funny — just a day in the life of a comedic medium!

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1 Theresa CaputoLong Island Medium

(TLC, 2012-present)

2 Tyler HenryHollywood Medium

(E!, 2016-present)

3 John EdwardCrossing Over With

John Edward (2000-04)

4 Allison DuBois NBC’s Medium (2005-11) was based on her life.

5 Sylvia Browne One of the first and most controversial TV mediums.

Here’s a look at some of the most popular TV mediums.

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Douglas, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, TV used to generally be something that — if you were involved with it at all — you had used as a steppingstone to reach the ultimate prize of feature-fi lm stardom. And once you made that move from the small- to big screen, you certainly didn’t return, at least not on a regular basis.

The TV-vs.-movie dynamic has greatly changed in a relatively short period of time, starting with the increase in production value seen on linear cable networks like HBO, AMC and TNT over the past decade-plus, but with streaming services also upping the ante in recent years.

Netfl ix transformed itself into an entertainment powerhouse and pioneer of streaming television production that now heavily relies on and invests in producing shows for viewers to binge online, with a vast and continually growing library of productions that rivals and surpasses many standard networks.

And Netfl ix has been joined in this by other services like Amazon and Hulu that are quickly fi nding themselves and many of their shows becoming household names, along with smaller services that seem to be popping up all the time.

Viewers have grown to understand, and enjoy, the fact that streaming is the wave of television’s future, but they are not the only ones who realize this. High-profi le actors are increasingly being drawn to the high artistic quality of many streaming productions.

This fall season in particular has seen big-name movie stars who have either never appeared regularly on television, or who haven’t in a long time, turning up with lead roles in impressive new streaming series.

In September, Oscar winner Sean Penn, who has never had a regularly starring role on TV before, headlined Hulu’s new series The First, which is still streaming on that service.

This month, other megastars follow Penn’s lead in two impressive new streaming series:• Homecoming — Amazon, Season 1 available Friday,

Nov. 2. Julia Roberts appears in her fi rst regularly starring TV role in this psychological thriller based on the popular podcast and directed by Sam Esmail (creator of Mr. Robot). She plays Heidi Bergman, a former caseworker at a facility that helped soldiers transition back to civilian life. Years later, events cause Heidi, now working as a waitress, to begin realizing that there’s a whole other story behind the story she’s been telling herself about her time spent at that facility. Sissy Spacek, Dermot Mulroney (who costarred with Roberts in the fi lm My Best Friend’s Wedding) and Bobby Cannavale also star.

• The Kominsky Method — Netfl ix, Season 1 available Friday, Nov. 16. The last time Oscar winner Michael Douglas regularly starred in a TV series was over 40 years ago, in the ’70s crime drama The Streets of San Francisco. But he is back on the small screen — and in great form — alongside fellow Oscar winner Alan Arkin in Chuck Lorre’s (The Big Bang Theory) endearing half-hour comedy that follows the lives of a once-famous actor and his longtime agent. Nancy Travis and Sarah Baker also star.

FOR MORE STREAMING OPTIONS, SEE PAGE 36STREAMING STAR POWER

A look at the best shows and movies to stream online.

STREAMING PICKS!

Hollywood’s Biggest Film Stars Are Being Drawn To The Small Screen For High-Quality Streaming Productions. By Jeff Pfeiffer

Julia Roberts in Homecoming

Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas star in The Kominsky Method

Becoming a billionaire or millionaire takes some smarts, but you don’t

have to be book-smart brilliant to be successful. One thing Shark Tank’s

leading ladies will tell you is that success takes drive, motivation,

passion, creativity, persistence — and often a really good idea. This month,

ABC’s multi-Emmy-winning series Shark Tank (airing Sundays) will

celebrate the upcoming Women’s Entrepreneurship Day with a series

fi rst. The Nov. 18 episode will be the fi rst time that women outnumber men

on the shark panel as real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, “the queen of QVC”

Lori Greiner and self-made billionaire (hello, Spanx!) Sara Blakely are all in

the tank. Instead of me gushing on how inspiring, funny, generous and

awesome these ladies are, I’ve whittled our conversations down to the best

“shark bites” and bits of wisdom we all can benefi t from.

Loves To … “While I am an inventor and was creating my own products and running my own company, I was also always helping others along the way. Once I went on Shark Tank, it was a great opportunity for me to give back and help aspiring entrepreneurs grow their businesses and companies in a bigger way. I love being able to help people make their dreams come true!”

The Importance Of This Upcoming Episode … “It’s important to inspire and give courage to women, to know that they can do anything they set their minds to. Having three women who have created their own destiny on the panel together is representative of this and, I think, encouraging to all women.”

Her Favorite Investments (Not Necessarily The Most Successful) … “That’s like picking a favorite child. My Shark Tank entrepreneurs are like one big family, and I truly love them all. I can share humbly that the top three most successful products in Shark Tank history are my Scrub Daddy, Simply Fit Board and Squatty Potty.”

A Perfect Day For Her Would Be … “Being on vacation, typically by a pool, with great food, good wine, playing games and having a great time with people I love!”

LORI GREINEROne of the most prolifi c inventors of our time, with over 120 patents to her name.

SHARK BITES“Shark Tank’s” Sara Blakely, Barbara Corcoran And Lori Greiner Tell It As It Is As They Celebrate Female Entrepreneurs And Some Darn Good Ideas. By Barb Oates

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Her Early Days … “My troubles in school began in kindergarten, and by seventh grade, I still wasn’t reading. I just couldn’t learn to read, and I couldn’t learn to write, but little by little I got there, and I can read and write today. School was torture for me.’’

She Credits … “I had a phenomenal mother. She loved every one of her 10 kids and treated us equally, and she told me I had a wonderful imagination. … What I had was two parents who really loved me, and where does most of your confi dence really come from long-term in life? I just believe it’s about the love your parents give you.”

Learning How To Negotiate … “I had 22 jobs before I was 23, and I did very well in every job. I mean, they weren’t important jobs. They were all menial, hourly jobs, but I was always well thought of. ‘You work hard. You’re good. You’re nice.’ I got all this great feedback. I’ve worked since I was 11. I don’t think I would have had those jobs if I was a great student. I could study for 10 hours and not get a passing grade, so I didn’t bother. I just gave up on it. … I learned how to fi nesse, how to cover mistakes. I learned how to negotiate.”

Her Personal Crusade … “I like to make this story public, because I know for every 10 smart kids in class, there’s one kid that’s thinking he’s not so smart. There’s all kinds of smarts. Book smarts isn’t necessarily what gets you through life and makes you a fortune. People smarts, a winner. Street smarts, another winner. Fast on your feet is another kind of smart. Book smarts are good for certain occupations, and you can do very well in life and get the accolades that you’ll collect as you go, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be the king of the jungle.”

What She Wished She Knew In High School … “I wish I knew that the popular, pretty, smart girls don’t necessarily run the world. The plugger and the worker run the world. I wish I had known that my acne would go away by 21 — it seemed like a long haul to have acne. I wish I had known that life changes, and the nerd sometimes wins.”

Her Favorite Investments (Not Necessarily The Most Successful) … “Daisy Cakes, because [the founder is] a ball of sunshine. … Cousins Maine Lobster — two drop-dead gorgeous guys out of Maine. Great businessmen, making a ton of money for themselves and for me. So much fun to work with. … Grace & Lace because of the tragedy of [the founders] losing their fi rst child and how they turned it into a victory by creating the brand as a result of it. They have my respect for their optimism and for turning their life around, which I don’t think I would have had the strength to do.”

BARBARA CORCORANShe turned $1,000 into a multibillion-dollar business.

SARA BLAKELYOne of the world’s richest. Spanx inventor. Mom to four kids.

As A Kid … “I was always inventing games, so everyone in our neighborhood would come to my house for the game that day, and I would invent it for everyone to play, so I had a very active imagination.”

Her First Job … “I was the cabana pool girl at a local hotel. I grew up on Clearwater Beach in Florida, and I did it for three days. … After three days, I started a business because I had identifi ed that there wasn’t anything that people could do with their children, so I went home and I made a fl yer that said ‘Parents, enjoy the sun while your kids have fun with Sara,’ and I quit my job as the cabana girl, and I went up and down the beach and introduced myself to families. … I charged $8 a child. And I did it every day from 1pm to 3pm and made so much money and never asked for permission. It was just unbelievable to think I ran a business like that for three summers.”

A Better Way To Business … “When I started Spanx, a lot of people … Men told me, ‘Business is war. Good luck. I hope you’re ready to go to war.’ And I just remember I went home to my apartment that night and thought, ‘Why do I have to go to war? There’s got to be a different way. There’s got to be a better way,’ and I approached my business journey very differently. So I feel it’s important to share that with other people, that there are other ways to go about business.”

The Importance Of This Upcoming Episode … “As a female entrepreneur, the statistics are pretty dismal still. We have a long way to go. Only 2 percent of funding goes to female entrepreneurs, and for women of color it’s 0.2 percent. I’m a female inventor, and there aren’t enough female inventors out there either. Only 8 percent of patents have a woman as the primary patent holder. So I’m using my journey and my story to kind of shed some light and serve as an example to other young women and girls.”

Words Of Wisdom … “When I was in school, I found that the school didn’t address the whole person, and I started listening to Wayne Dyer. … It was the fi rst time that I realized that someone was teaching me how to think instead of what to think. … I feel like the inner work that you can do on yourself is just as important or more important than feeling like you have to be at the top of your class and ace everything. I had trouble with reading and comprehension my whole journey at school, so that was always something that just didn’t come naturally to me. I’m a bigger believer in paying a lot of attention to teaching children not to care what other people think about them so much. How to overcome failures, how to fi nd courage, how to visualize where they want to go in their life and how to set goals.”


1. Christmas Joy (Hallmark, Nov. 3)

A young woman returns to her hometown to care for her injured aunt, reunites with her former crush and takes over her aunt’s role in the town’s massive Cookie Crawl. Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt Long

2. Road to Christmas (Hallmark, Nov. 4)

A TV producer’s plan to reunite her successful host with her sons during a live broadcast goes awry. Stars: Jessy Schram, Chad Michael Murray, Teryl Rothery

3. Marrying Father Christmas (Hallmark Movies &

Mysteries, Nov. 4)In the third fi lm in the Father Christmas franchise, a woman preparing for her Christmas wedding receives information about her late parents. Stars: Erin Krakow, Niall Matter, Wendie Malick

4. It’s Christmas, Eve (Hallmark, Nov. 10)

Country superstar LeAnn Rimes stars and performs three original songs in this tale of a school music program that needs a funding miracle. Stars: LeAnn Rimes, Tyler Hynes

5. Christmas in Love (Hallmark, Nov. 11)

A small-town crafter who works in a bakery clashes with the company’s new CEO and teaches him that the secret to the succes of their famous Christmas Kringle is the bakery’s loyal employees. Stars: Brooke D’Orsay, Daniel Lissing, Mary-Margaret Humes

6. A Veteran’s Christmas (Hallmark Movies &

Mysteries, Nov. 11)A decorated veteran returns home and fi nds herself stranded in a small town. She is offered a place to stay and discovers what she’s been missing. Stars: Eloise Mumford, Sean Faris

7. Chandler Christmas Getaway (UP TV, Nov. 11)

When December’s weather turns unseasonably warm, the Chandler family heads to a cabin for wintry fun. Stars: Malinda Williams, Victoria Rowell, Gregory Alan Williams

8. Christmas at Graceland (Hallmark, Nov. 17)

The holiday music of Elvis Presley forms the soundtrack of this Memphis-set movie in which Kellie Pickler plays a busy Chicago exec who rediscovers her love of the blues. Stars: Kellie Pickler, Wes Brown

9. Return to Christmas Creek (Hallmark Movies &

Mysteries, Nov. 17) A successful woman returns home for the holidays, reunites with her childhood best friend and examines the rift that tore her family apart. Stars: Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar, Steven Weber, Kari Matchett

10. Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa

(Hallmark, Nov. 18)Lisa Palmer’s trip home to Evergreen for the holidays fi nds her shepherding an effort to save the town’s beloved general store. Stars: Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin

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11. A Godwink Christmas (Hallmark Movies &

Mysteries, Nov. 18)A woman — torn between the love of two very different men — discovers an unexpected happenstance was God’s way of “winking” and showing her which path to take. Stars: Kimberly Sustad, Paul Campbell, Kathie Lee Gifford

12. Christmas on the Coast (UP TV, Nov. 18)

When a big-city novelist suffers a string of fl ops, she heads to her small hometown on the coast of South Carolina to fi nd her creative mojo. Stars: Julie Ann Emery, Burgess Jenkins, Bonnie Bedelia

13. Hope at Christmas (Hallmark Movies &

Mysteries, Nov. 20)A newly divorced single mom seeks a fresh start in a small town. Stars: Scottie Thompson, Ryan Paevey

14. My Christmas Inn (Lifetime, Nov. 21)

The life of a busy woman gets turned upside down when she inherits a cozy inn in Alaska. Stars: Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Rob Mayes, Jackée Harry, Tim Reid, Erin Gray

15. Christmas at Grand Valley (Hallmark, Nov. 21)

A stressed-out artist rediscovers her love of art when a handsome single dad includes her in his favorite hometown holiday traditions. Stars: Danica McKellar, Brennan Elliott

16. Christmas at the Palace (Hallmark, Nov. 22)

A former professional ice skater travels to a foreign kingdom to help a princess prepare for a skating performance, and she and the king fall into a forbidden love. Stars: Merritt Patterson, Brittany Bristow

17. The Christmas Contract (Lifetime, Nov. 22)

When a young woman heads home for the fi rst time since a messy breakup, her best friend’s fl aky brother tags along, and they both must follow a Christmas contract. Stars: Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley, Danneel Ackles, Antwon Tanner, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner, Jason London

18. Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe

(Hallmark, Nov. 23)A woman’s path to success intersects with her old hometown rival. Based on Melissa de la Cruz’s book. Stars: Lacey Chabert, Brendan Penny

19. Poinsettias for Christmas

(Lifetime, Nov. 23)A woman rushes home to her family’s poinsettia farm and enlists the help of a cute local botanist to determine why the poinsettias haven’t turned red. Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Marcus Rosner, Lauren London, Sharon Lawrence, John Schneider

20. Christmas Everlasting (Hallmark, Nov. 24)

The 262nd fi lm entered into the Hallmark Hall of Fame follows a busy exec who learns that the will of her recently deceased older sister has an unusual holiday stipulation. Stars: Tatyana Ali, Patti LaBelle, Dennis Haysbert, Dondre Whitfi eld

21. Every Day Is Christmas (Lifetime, Nov. 24)

Toni Braxton stars in this Christmas Carol-inspired fl ick as a shrewd money manager who embraces the holiday spirit when her past, present and future collide. Stars: Toni Braxton, Gloria Reuben, Towanda Braxton, Michael Jai White

22. Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Nov. 24) When a group of adult children gather to go through their childhood home before selling it, they uncover a hidden surprise that demonstrates the depth of their deceased parents’ love. Stars: Alicia Witt, Colin Ferguson

23. A Shoe Addict’s Christmas (Hallmark,

Nov. 25)When a woman is accidentally locked in a department store overnight, she meets her quirky guardian angel in the store’s shoe department and gets love and life advice. Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Luke Macfarlane

24. Jingle Belle (Lifetime, Nov. 25)

A singing star returns to her small hometown and discovers that her ex-boyfriend is directing the annual Christmas Eve pageant. Stars: Tatyana Ali, Cornelius Smith Jr., Loretta Devine, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tempestt Bledsoe

25. A Very Nutty Christmas (Lifetime, Nov. 30)

After hanging the last ornament on her tree and going to bed, a woman wakes to discover a handsome soldier — who may or may not be the Nutcracker Prince from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker — in her living room. Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Barry Watson, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Conchata Ferrell, Rizwan Manji

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YOU KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN when you follow your heart, not your head. Or when something seems too good to be true, yet you just can’t walk away. There’s an eerie lesson that speaks to just that in Bravo’s new true-crime drama Dirty John. The cautionary tale is adapted from the addictive Los Angeles Times podcast by journalist Christopher Goffard. The podcast, which is an investigative journalism piece, was all the rage when it debuted to immediate success last fall with more than 10 million downloads in just six weeks.

Bravo’s eight-episode psychological thriller has all the ingredients of a can’t-miss TV series, including big stars — Eric Bana, Connie Britton, Jean Smart and Julia Garner (Ozark’s Ruth Langmore) — romance, secrets, seduction and betrayal.

Bana stars as John Meehan, a.k.a. Dirty John, a con man who abused and manipulated women for the better part of four decades. In late 2014, he preyed on Debra Newell (played by Britton), who he had met on a dating site for singles over 50, and from there their twisted relationship began.

Having spent the better part of his career on the big screen, Bana’s roles have varied through the years, ranging from a brutal murderer in The Forgiven and a ferocious but funny criminal in Chopper to the endearingly romantic Henry in The Time Traveler’s Wife, a complex Mossad agent in Munich and a Trojan prince in the epic Troy. Bana now turns to TV and dives into the complex and intriguing mind of John Meehan.

“I realized early on that this was someone whose character traits I loathe,” Bana tells us. “The one thing I’ve learned from this subject matter in the short time that I’ve been exposed to it, which is I guess sort of six or eight months now, is that it’s never really a fair fi ght. On the one side you’ve got someone who is basically making a side career out of their deception, and they’re incredibly well-versed and experienced, usually coming up against someone who maybe is coming across a person of that type for the fi rst time. I think the series will be quite challenging for a lot of people, and I think it will create a lot of really interesting dialogue, because all of us like to think that we could never fall victim to someone, that our instincts are very strong and so forth, but it’s also worth bearing in mind that the person who is going after the victim is extremely experienced at what they’re doing, and it’s quite often not a fair match.”

Britton, who we last saw regularly as an emergency dispatcher on 9-1-1 and for fi ve seasons as Rayna Jaymes on Nashville, had the opportunity to meet with the real Debra Newell and gushes about what a kindhearted, positive person she is.

“I’ll just call her up out of the blue and be like, ‘Hey, can you tell me about your experience with this?’

or whatever, and she’s been so incredibly generous and forthcoming and really honest and just very, very sweet and lovely,” Britton shares. “I mean she really is just incredibly warm and sees the good in people. That’s one of the fi rst things she’ll tell you, she sees the good in everyone.”

But, unfortunately, those same endearing characteristics can also make you vulnerable to a con. It’s easy to see how Debra, a mother of four grown children who was 59 when she met John, fell head over heels in love with him. Debra ran a fl ourishing interior design fi rm and, despite being married and divorced four times, was looking for a man to share her success with. John was handsome and charming, doted on her every need and claimed he was an anesthesiologist who just spent a year with Doctors Without Borders.

“I don’t think it’s possible to not feel for how she fell into John’s lap. I don’t think there is any way of being overly judgmental about how that occurred,” Bana adds. “I think for most people, the judgment begins in terms of at what point did she realize something was not right, and why didn’t she leave. That seems to be the thing that people struggle with the most, and I think that’s the real interesting conversation. And that’s obviously a really complicated one to answer as well.”

“I actually was more unnerved by how easy it is to be conned,” Britton says. “And then the fl ip side of it is, when I was listening to Debra, how she described her experience of him and the choices that she made, I could recognize her priorities as a woman. Her priorities are to take care of others and to be committed to the man that she’s married and that she really wants to feel love in her life and that she sees the best in everyone. All of those things I think are very, very strong pulls for women. I can see how you would be pulled in by those things. I just found it to be a really disturbing story and a good caution. As women, we need to value ourselves more, and even though we feel a sense of, ‘Oh, I can take care of everyone, and I can make everything better,’ we need to know that fi rst and foremost we need to take care of ourselves.”

Dirty John > Bravo > Sundays beginning Nov. 25

ALL OF US LIKE TO THINK THAT WE COULD NEVER FALL VICTIM TO SOMEONE, THAT OUR INSTINCTS ARE VERY STRONG ... IT’S QUITE OFTEN NOT A FAIR MATCH.

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ESCAPE AT DANNEMORAThe True Story Of How Two Killers Escaped From State Prison. By Taylor Neumann

Showtime’s new series Escape at Dannemora is based on the stranger-than-fiction prison break in June 2015. Two convicted murderers escaped from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York, spawning a three-week statewide manhunt. The

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prisoners were aided in their getaway by a married female prison employee who carried on months-long affairs with both men.

Benicio Del Toro (Sicario) plays Richard Matt, a creative and manipulating force within the prison who masterminds the escape. Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) is unrecognizable as Joyce Mitchell, a working-class wife and mother who supervises the prison tailor shop and becomes sexually involved with both Matt and his reluctant partner, David Sweat (Paul Dano, There

Will Be Blood). Mitchell eventually agrees to hide hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to help the pair get out. According to a report from the Office of the Inspector General in New York, a total of 20 uniformed and civilian employees at the prison enabled the escape in some way.

The eight-hour series is directed by Ben Stiller, who attempts to tell the true story as accurately as possible. “We were able to get a meeting with the governor of New York. Gov. Cuomo sat down with us, and we told him what

we were doing,” Stiller said. “And he was kind enough to say, ‘Hey, you know what? Why don’t you shoot at the real prison?’” Del Toro, Dano and Arquette also spoke to Sweat himself, who was recaptured following the escape. The crew shot on location at the Clinton Correctional Facility in the village of Dannemora, and the script incorporated transcripts from interviews with the actual persons involved.

Escape at Dannemora Showtime Sundays beginning Nov. 18

ohn le Carré’s 1983 spy novel The Little Drummer Girl comes to AMC as a six-part miniseries event certain to satiate the action genre’s hungriest fans. The story unfolds over three consecutive nights and

follows Charlie — a young British actress on vacation in Greece (played with mesmerizing perfection by Florence Pugh) — as she meets and is wooed by Becker, a beguiling man who turns out to be a cunning Israeli spy (Alexander Skarsgård). Becker recruits the fi rebrand to act as bait in an international espionage plot to ensnare a foreign terrorist. The deeper Charlie falls into the charade, the harder it becomes for her to discern reality from fantasy, leaving her to wonder: Is this the role of her life, or a role for her life?

Simon Cornwell, one of le Carré’s sons and a producer of The Little Drummer Girl, explains that it is far more than a period spy tale. “I think it’s a very powerful book, it’s a very layered piece of storytelling, and I’d like to think it does transcend its genre. It’s also a very contemporary story in lots of ways in terms of the roles, particularly the role of Charlie.”

Pugh was drawn to Charlie because she wanted to offer her take on le Carré’s only female protagonist, and was excited to embody a woman so adept at lying and performing that she’s able to out-spy the spies. “The main thing that attracted me was the fact that she wasn’t of that world,” she says. “You’ve taken this really strong, loud girl out of her comfort zone, and she’s kicking back just as hard as the spies are, and I just loved that. … Every time someone tries to manipulate her, she actually gains more power.”

Skarsgård reveals that his education into the world of le Carré started young. His father Stellan read The Spy Who Came in From the Cold as a teen and has been a lifelong fan of the writer. “Even to this day, when Dad talks about le Carré, his face lights up, and he gets super excited,” the younger Skarsgård shares.

When Skarsgård read the scripts for The Little Drummer Girl, he found them utterly irresistible. “Suddenly it was 3 in the morning!” he laughs. “So, I was very tired that

day, but I just found it was such an incredible script and a very interesting story. I was fascinated by the characters, so I couldn’t put it down.”

Pugh shares that a highlight of the globe-trotting series was a nighttime shoot at the Acropolis. “That was really magical,” she sighs wistfully. “We were the fi rst crew that’s been up there to fi lm. [There were] around about 50 of us, just basically roaming the Acropolis alone at night with all the lights on. And Alex and I got to dance up there. It was totally stunning. That doesn’t happen in the fi lming world. Usually you’re in a studio, and they’ll put it in digitally in post and you have to pretend. But I really got to have a camera in my face whilst I saw the Acropolis for the fi rst time.”

Fourteen of le Carré’s novels have been translated onto the big and small screens. AMC’s 2016 adaptation of The Night Manager was wildly popular, critically lauded and highly awarded, so it’s no surprise that the network would want to follow up with another of his novels. The Little Drummer Girl has been adapted before; it was turned into a theatrical fi lm in 1984, starring Diane Keaton and Klaus Kinski. But Cornwell admits, “If truth be told, [we were] rather disappointed with the movie adaptation. And the opportunity to revisit it, explore it again through a contemporary lens and with a quite extraordinary director [South Korean fi lmmaker Park Chan-wook], was something very special indeed.”

Le Carré famously said, “Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes,” and Pugh appreciates that expanding The Little Drummer Girl for television allows the cast, the fi lmmakers and even the audience the luxury to fully explore the story. “Because of the six-parter, we have more time to understand,” the actress says. “I think what our version is being able to do is it gives the audience time to feel, to empathize, to follow the characters, and, because of that, I think you have a bigger and better understanding of maybe why the characters do what they do.”

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Story of the Lost Child (2015) — have been enjoyed worldwide because of the universality of their themes. “They talk about something very simple, and very profound, and very common to everybody — which is friendship,” says Italian fi lmmaker Saverio Costanzo, who directs the series. “Who is the demon that provokes you to overtake your limits? Most of the time, it’s your best friend. Someone you envy and you love at the same time.” The competition

between Elena and Lila drives them to achieve heights that they wouldn’t have been able to reach had they not had each other.

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Schuur, one of the lone Americans involved in the project, admits to being “a wild, obsessed fan” of the books and shares, “I had actually written a letter to Elena Ferrante, just a love letter, just telling her how much I loved her books, and what they meant to me, and what I saw in them. I have no clue if she ever read it.” In addition to not knowing if the famed author read her letter, Schuur doesn’t know Ferrante’s identity; in one of modern literature’s best-kept secrets, Ferrante works under a pseudonym.

The sweeping saga of Lila and Elena’s friendship demanded a

production that matched it in scope. Since postwar Naples has since modernized, the production created 215,000 square feet of sets including 14 exterior apartment buildings, fi ve interior sets of apartments, a church and a tunnel for the girls’ childhood neighborhood, the setting for much of the series.

Almost 9,000 children and 500 adults from Italy’s Campania region who all speak the Neapolitan dialect auditioned for the series’ 150 roles and 5,000 parts for extras. Costanzo reveals that the hyper-specifi c needs for the series’ main roles meant that he was hoping for lightning to strike — not once, but four times. He reveals with a laugh that, ultimately, “these four girls are the only option we had. It’s a miracle, somehow. We did not have a second choice. We just have them. And that’s it.”

Schuur agrees and marvels, “I’m sure there is one man, or woman, who has experienced that in their life — being hit by lightning four times — but it’s very rare, so we got lucky.” And when My Brilliant Friend premieres on HBO, the effects of those lightning strikes will be blinding in their brilliance.

My Brilliant Friend > HBO >Sundays and Mondays beginning Nov. 18

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lena Ferrante’s bestselling quartet — dubbed “the Neapolitan novels” — comes to HBO in the network’s

inaugural foray into foreign-language programming. The beautiful series follows the 60-year friendship of Elena Greco and Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo as they grow from poor schoolgirls

in postwar Naples through adulthood and into old age.

Season 1 is based on the

book My Brilliant Friend and follows the girls from

childhood through their teen years. It stars a quartet of young actresses whose raw talent is spellbinding: Elisa del Genio and Ludovica Nasti are jaw-dropping as the child versions of Elena and Lila, while Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace beautifully portray them as teenagers.

Since it was published in 2012, My Brilliant Friend and the books that followed it — The Story of a New Name (2013), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2014) and The

HBO Bids “Buon Giorno!” To Stunning Adaptation Of Elena Ferrante’s Novel. By Kellie Freeze

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REAL COUNTRYThe country music industry is searching for a new generation

of rising stars, and music superstar Shania Twain, singer-songwriter Jake Owen and music legend Travis Tritt know that they’re the ones to fi nd them. “I feel it’s time for me to add my own support in fi nding our greatest undiscovered talent,” reveals Twain, who is not only country music’s bestselling female artist of all time, but who also serves as an executive producer of Real Country. “I’m on a mission to fi nd artists who will keep country music diverse and dynamic.”

In each hourlong episode, Twain, Owen and Tritt hand-select emerging solo artists, duos and groups to perform in a music showcase that spotlights a specifi c country genre. And every week, the panelists and host Graham Bunn welcome a special celebrity guest — including Trace Adkins, Wynonna Judd, Big & Rich and country icon Willie Nelson — to the show to lend their advice to the music hopefuls. The best artists from each showcase will perform in a grand fi nale for the chance to be named one of country music’s next breakout acts.

Real Country > USA Network > Tuesdays beginning Nov. 13

Country Music Royalty Searches For Legends In The Making. By Kellie Freeze

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I n the dark new U.K. import Clique, university students and best friends Holly (Synnove Karlsen) and Georgia (Aisling Franciosi, The Fall) are looking to join a glamorous group of girls led by economics professor Jude McDermid (Louise Brealey, Sherlock). The goal is a successful fi nance job for a powerful corporation and a new social status among the elite. But as the girls progress up the corporate ladder, they encounter a sinister path fi lled with secrets, betrayal and deadly consequences.

The six-episode series is partly based on the college experiences of creator Jess Brittain, a writer for the popular British show Skins, who wanted to convey the feeling of not

being good enough, grownup enough or successful enough as new generations attempt to establish themselves in an accelerated world. Brittain doesn’t dumb down or patronize her characters just because they’re young; she treats them as adults struggling with ambition and relationships. Age no longer precludes making sacrifi ces, and Brittain and her creative team have a fi rm grasp on female friendships and the aspirations of modern society.

Though it can look like the pages of a glossy magazine, Clique is a compelling take on a high-stakes psychological thriller, and you’ll fi nish each episode eager for the next.

Clique > Pop TV > Wednesdays beginning Nov. 7

You Know You Want To Join. By Taylor Neumann

Pop TV’s new series follows childhood best friends Georgia (Aisling Franciosi, Game of Thrones, center in blue dress) and Holly (Synnove Karlsen, Medici: The Magnifi cent, Magnifi cent, Magnifi centblack dress) as they join a mysterious, elite clique of interns


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Three Documentary Series Explore Notable Presidential Wrongdoings. By Jeff Pfeiffer

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Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the impeachment proceedings of former President Bill Clinton, this six-part, three-night documentary event from director Blair Foster (Emmy-winning producer of George Harrison: Living in the Material World) and producer Alex Gibney examines that political scandal and the twisted, intertwined series of events that led to the proceedings.

The Clinton AffairA&EPremieres Sunday, Nov. 18

Watergate HistoryPremieres Friday, Nov. 2

Airing over three consecutive nights, the documentary features interviews with journalists, senior Nixon administration offi cials, members of Congress and prosecutors. Interview subjects include Daniel Ellsberg, Elizabeth Holtzman, William Ruckelshaus, Dan Rather, Lesley Stahl and the late Sen. John McCain, among others.

The series’ interviews are combined with existing archival material including the taped conversations recorded by Nixon and other members of his administration, footage from congressional hearings, interviews conducted during the investigation, transcripts from criminal trials, Supreme Court arguments and other legal proceedings, and written fi rst-person accounts from people involved in the scandal.

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ShowtimePremieres Sunday, Nov. 18As the ongoing clashes between the Trump administration, the Department of Justice and the FBI continue to make headlines, Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Alex Gibney’s (Taxi to the Dark Side) four-part documentary series provides an in-depth look into the long history of confl ict between American presidents and the FBI, from Nixon and Hoover to Trump and Comey. Enemies tells the story

of the epic confrontations between the president and the FBI. Using the present as a prism, the documentary looks back to see which lessons held up, which didn’t and how the current investigation of the Trump administration might turn out. Along with rare archival footage and stylized re-enactments, the series will include intimate interviews with current and former offi cials, including those who were present for these moments in history, as well as interviews with journalists who broke the stories.

Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI

Forty-fi ve years after perhaps the biggest criminal political conspiracy of all time — which ultimately caused the resignation of President Richard Nixon, found over 40 government offi cials charged and some jailed, and led to the ensuing addition of the suffi x “-gate” to many future scandals — this three-part, six-hour documentary series directed by Oscar winner Charles Ferguson looks at the events behind what is now known simply as “Watergate.”

Weaving together never-before-seen archival footage with exclusive new interviews from those closest to the events — including former White House intern and staffer Monica Lewinsky, former independent counsel Ken Starr and former Bill Clinton political strategist James Carville — Foster’s documentary explores broader topics stemming from the scandal, including media, feminism, sex, politics, power and ideological warfare.

“I thought I knew a lot about President Clinton’s impeachment because I lived through it,” Foster said. “However, when I began this project, I quickly realized much of what I thought I knew was incomplete, or worse, inaccurate. … My goal for this series was to dive into the facts and speak to as many people as possible. The deeper I got, the clearer it became that this is as much about the present day as it is about the 1990s.”


JONESTOWN: TERROR IN THE JUNGLEHow The Rev. Jim Jones Convinced Hundreds To Die For Him. By Ryan A. Berenz

“Drinking the Kool-Aid” — meaning a total, unquestioning obedience to a person or a cause — gets heedlessly bandied around in present-day “post-truth” political discussions.

Seems like an appropriate time to refl ect on the phrase’s horrifi c origin, which occurred 40 years ago when more than 900 members of the Rev. Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple died from drinking Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide and other toxins. Most perished willingly at Jones’ behest, while others — mostly infants and elderly people — had the poison forced on them.

SundanceTV’s two-night documentary Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle examines how Jones transformed his Peoples Temple from an inclusive church in Indianapolis to a socialist commune ruled by fear and violence in the remote jungles of Guyana. With stunning archival footage and new interviews with survivors, former Temple members, and Jones’ own family, this is the defi nitive account of the Jonestown massacre. It’s also a study of how a cult of personality can convince rational people to commit the ultimate act of loyalty.

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I’ll get you on that Greyhound bus, even if you don’t have a penny! And

I’ll give you the fi nest room you ever saw! Just get on my bus, and I’ll take you to the promised land!

The Words Of Survivors ...I think there’s an opinion that these people who went down there were

off, they were a little crazy, they weren’t like us. When all they were were people who wanted a better life and thought they were going to get it. — Vernon Gosney

I felt like I was part of this incredible community that put self aside because there was a greater good. — Leslie Wagner-Wilson

What my father was doing was building a little kingdom for himself.— Stephan Jones


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MARSNational Geographic’s documentary/drama hybrid

MARS returns for a second season and continues to imagine what life will be like for Mars’ fi rst inhabitants. Fictional drama scenes starring an international ensemble cast — including South Korea-born musician Jihae, Argentine Alberto Ammann, Parisian Clémentine Poidatz, Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca and Nigerian-born American actor Sammi Rotibi — are intercut with interviews with scientifi c big thinkers like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Andy Weir (author of The Martian), former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin and futurist Michio Kaku. Both parts of the series explain how life in Martian territory is no longer an “if,” but a “when.”

“It’s not even sci fi , because it’s grounded in reality, which I really dig,” says Season 2 showrunner Dee Johnson, who draws from her experience as a producer of ER to help explain complex scientifi c principles to laypeople. “The documentary elements help explicate these issues that we’re exploring so our characters don’t have to.”

Season 2 jumps fi ve years ahead to 2042, when Mars has developed beyond a space outpost into a vibrant, fully fl edged colony called Olympus Town, and the scientifi c focus has shifted from survival to terraforming Mars into a more habitable planet with an Earth-like atmosphere. “They’re in a good place … and then the others come,” laughs Jihae.

Scientists are no longer the red planet’s only inhabitants. A crew of miners, funded by the for-profi t corporation Lukrum Industries, is about to set up shop in the hope of monetizing Mars. But this phenomenon isn’t limited to MARS; exploitation following on the heels of exploration is a cycle that has been repeated throughout history, from the colonization of the United States to California’s gold rush to the current oil boom below the surface of the Arctic Ocean.

The focus of Mars’ inhabitants shifts to the interpersonal confl icts that arise once scientifi c hurdles are overcome and money is at stake. The result is a sophomore season that is as dramatic and dangerous as the surface of the Martian planet itself. Actor Jeff Hephner joins the cast as the leader of the Lukrum miners and shares, “A lot of great drama comes from when two different ideologies are put into this very confi ned space. They’re going to bump up against each other, and they’re going to have to learn to organize and function in that small space and with limited resources to make it work.”

Esai Morales, who plays Lukrum’s Earth-based and silver-tongued CEO, explains that while science fuels exploration, commercial sustainability funds it. “It’s a symbiotic relationship,” he says. “Science develops the technology and the know-how that fuels capitalism, and capitalism funds the research and development that scientists need. It can be a real catch-22.” And he warns against viewing all scientifi c intentions as noble and dismissing those interested in profi t as villains, saying, “People will either see the capitalists as robber barons or genius saviors. It’s just a matter of perspective.”

As science and industry try to establish a peaceful, however uneasy, coexistence, interpersonal confl icts grow and issues like illness, death, contamination and the birth of the fi rst Martian baby come into play. “Just because humans move to a different planet doesn’t change human nature,” says Johnson. “The underlying theme of this season is, are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes that we’ve made on Earth?” But despite the man-made drama that humanity is bringing to space, Mars may have the last laugh when it unleashes a life-altering natural disaster.

MARS > National Geographic > Mondays beginning Nov. 12

Are We Doomed To Repeat The Same Mistakes That We’ve Made On Earth? By Kellie Freeze

The red planet is about to get more crowded when Jeff Hephner, Esai Morales, Akbar Kurtha, Evan Hall, Gunnar Cauthery and Roxy Sternberg join the cast for the six-episode second season of MARS

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I t’s been so long — just over a year to be exact — since the sassy Sassenach and her rugged 18th-century highlander boarded a boat to the land of opportunity that we need a

refresher before Outlander’s 13-episode Season 4 lands on Starz this month.

When we last left the time-traveling lovers, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) were racing to save young Ian from Geillis, who was convinced that Claire was tracking her all these years to stop her from putting a Scot on the throne. Ultimately, it was Brianna’s life Geillis wanted, and in their fi nal showdown, Claire easily defeated and killed her former BFF in a bloody near-beheading. But the drama was far from over, as when Claire and Jamie set sail from Jamaica, a gnarly wave hit their boat and catapulted Claire overboard. Jamie, once again, rescued her, and the two were washed ashore on the coast of Georgia.

In the Season 4 opener “America the Beautiful,” we catch up with the Frasers four months into their lives in Colonial America and already trouble is afoot for one of their friends. The Frasers are quick to rekindle their passion (steamy spoiler alert), along with making acquaintances with the governor (it’s back to the fancy attire). While wealth, prosperity and opportunity surround them, in future episodes we will see Claire speaking out against slavery, Jamie building her a homestead and the American Revolution quickly approaching. “We will be on the wrong side of history again,” Claire warns in the series’ sizzle reel. As for the 20th century, Brianna (Sophia Skelton) and Roger’s (Richard Rankin) romance is in fl ux as they search for proof that her parents reconnected in the past. The drought is over, Outlander fans!

Outlander > Starz > Sundays beginning Nov. 4

Season 4 Heads To The Land Of Opportunity, But Nothing’s Ever Easy For These Lovers. By Barb Oates

Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan in Season 4, based on Diana Gabaldon’s Drums of Autumn

The second part of Vikings’ Season 5 opens with Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) declaring himself the ruler of Kattegat and a god on Earth. He has sworn revenge on those who have betrayed him, including Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), last seen as a shadow of her Viking warrior self. Kattegat must also contend with the arrival of the notorious Duke Rollo (Clive Standen).

Expect the last half of Season 5 to bring back old enemies as the sons of Ragnar must make new allies to challenge the ruthless Ivar. Lagertha fl ees with Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) and Bishop Heahmund (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), still believing she will one day return as Kattegat’s rightful ruler. As Ivar reigns over Scandinavia, a new Dark Age begins. (Fans shouldn’t be too worried — Season 6 is already in production in Ireland.)

Vikings > History > Wednesdays beginning Nov. 28

VIKINGS A New King Awaits. By Taylor Neumann

Alex Høgh Andersen stars as Ivar the Boneless


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T he two biggest heavyweights of their sport go head-to-head in Las Vegas on pay-per-view, but it isn’t

boxing. It’s golf, and it’s Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson in a live match-play event with the winner getting $9 million.

Woods and Mickelson will duel against each other over 18 holes in The Match at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas on Black Friday, Nov. 23. While this event might not have the same appeal it would’ve had 10 years ago, Woods and Mickelson have a combined 19 major championships between them and remain golf’s biggest draws, even in the later stages of their careers.

“We’re going to have fun doing something that’s never been done before,” Woods told reporters in August after the event was announced. Though there is precedent with made-for-TV golf events like the Showdown at Sherwood, the Battl e at Bighorn and the Battle at the Bridges that aired on ABC from 1999-2005, The Match is made for the age of social media and online streaming. “I think it’s going to be fun for everyone. We’re in a different era than we were in those days. We’re able to showcase golf at a different time and on different platforms,” Woods says.

Adding a little more excitement to

the match, Woods and Mickelson will make side bets and challenge each other on things like longest drive and closest to the pin. Money from their side bets will be donated to charity — so it’s not a total cash grab — and both players and their caddies will wear microphones to capture any trash talk or banter between shots.

In addition to televised pay-per-view, The Match will air live on Bleacher Report’s B/R Live premium streaming service. HBO will go behind the scenes with its 24/7 documentary series beginning Nov. 13, and TNT will offer additional programming hyping the event.

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