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From HBO to documentaries to reality TV, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
Feel as though there’s a void in your life ever since The Walking Dead went dark on its bloody seventh season? Luckily, this spinoff is back for a third instalment, and hopefully they’ve learned from the mistakes their parent show has made in the past.
We all remember when Rick and co. spent half a season on Hershel’s farm, culminating in that barn scene when a certain missing little girl resurfaced in traumatic fashion. While the scene itself was certainly memorable, most of the time on the farm was not. So we were a little concerned when we heard that Madison and her family are headed to a Mexican ranch full of folks who’ve been prepping for doomsday since before the first ambulatory corpse starting ambling—just because the set-up sounds a tad too similar to that accursed farm.
That said, we’re at least somewhat comforted by the fact that the show has enlisted former Deadwood cowboy/Sons of Anarchy sheriff Dayton Callie as the ranch’s owner, Jeremiah Otto; and we’re very much of the opinion that a little more Dayton Callie is never a bad thing. ?In somewhat less exciting news, producers have also hired Daniel Sharman (The Originals) and Sam Underwood (The Following) as his sons. Although the trio certainly seems like a group of allies anyone would like to have (experts as they are in living off the land, using solar energy, staying off the grid), Madison and her crew have a thing or two to teach them about the zombie apocalypse.
If the original series has taught us anything though, it’s that people who try to coexist in a camp such as this eventually get caught up in a power struggle. The real question here is, will these ranchers recognize the wisdom of our heroes or wind up dead from their own stupidity?
One of the most ambitious, artful, downright moving shows of TV’s current golden age ends its three-season run, as Kevin Garvey and the rest of the Rapture survivors make one last desperate grab at existential meaning in creator Damon Lindelof’s 75-minute series finale.
When this fifth season of the Canadian culinary battle first debuted, we were pretty excited to see so many returning faces that we had loved watching ?in the past—even if some of them had drastically changed. While it? was heartbreaking to see some of? the competitors not really bring their A games this time around (whether for personal reasons like Connie or because of a new outlook on life like Jonathan), most of the others were the same great, fan-favourite chefs we remembered. And they were out to prove that they deserved this second chance in the kitchen more than most, too. Through cool new methods (the portable smoker Dustin used?) and frenzied last-minute risks (pretty much everything Nicole made all season long), it’s been anyone’s guess as to who could go home next.
So naturally heading into this week’s finale, it’s anyone’s game. Both Dustin and Nicole have been frontrunners in the competition from the get-go, but Trevor has built a lot of momentum the past few weeks. Regardless, all three of the finalists will have a chance to impress during a high-stakes Quickfire challenge for judges Mark McEwan and Mijune Pak, as well as host Eden Grinshpan. In it, they’ll have to prepare one meal they would want to eat before a big battle; fitting, since for one of these chefs, this will be a last meal. Then, in the last cook-off of the season, the remaining two chefs will face off in an epic five-course meal consisting of an amuse-bouche, an appetizer, two mains and a dessert.
Hosts (and original network staples) Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis are ?back in the kitchen to kick?off the 13th season of this culinary competition, which aims to find the next great TV chef.
With two-screen experiences and social media at the forefront of our culture nowadays, they’re looking? for someone who can hook—and keep—an audience with charm as well as culinary know-how. To aid them in their noble casting quest, the hosts are bringing in a few of their foodie friends, including Robert Irvine, Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli, to help identify and mentor the top contenders. From the outset it’s hard to tell which of these 12 competitors will have what it takes to become the next Guy Fieri or Jeff Mauro, but that’s the beauty of this show: it’s all about finding the hidden gems.
Sure, Jimmy Kimmel is funny all year long, but for the devout basketball fans, it’s Kimmel’s primetime specials during the NBA finals that are worth waiting a year to see, mostly for the cavalcade of celebs who stop by to crack wise and talk hoops.
The news of? Ryan Seacrest’s anointment as Kelly Ripa’s permanent co-host was a surprising one to many who follow the daytime circuit. After all, it seemed as though the show might try to switch it up on the heels of Michael Strahan’s show-shaking departure, maybe opting for another female as Kelly’s new partner-in-crime. But after watching her and Ryan together?for a few weeks now,? it’s hard to deny they’ve got the chemistry. Heck, sometimes they’re so in synch they even act like they’re the same person.
Well, any Canadians interested in experiencing that chemistry firsthand will have the opportunity this week when the show returns to Niagara Falls? to film two episodes. This marks the third time Live has travelled north of the border to film at the Ontario side’s Oakes Garden Theatre (they were there?in 1996 and 2006), and it comes just in time to help commemorate Canada’s 150th birthday. Needless to say, we’re expecting more than a few Canadian shout-outs and guest stars, as they film on the precipice of the gorgeous American and Horseshoe Falls.
Director David Fincher’s ice-cold gaze mixes sublimely with Aaron Sorkin’s crackling dialogue in this scathing portrait of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), who connected us all while alienating everyone in his own life.
You may have seen the documentary Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller, but you haven’t seen this new program, which—although it contains some material from that doc—focuses in particular on Burns’ various one-off documentaries and short series.
If you’ve ever heard James Corden speak, then you know that his country of origin lies across the pond, but that hasn’t kept him from finding success on the late-night landscape. Still, when one lives so ?far away from one’s birthplace, one does get to thinking about heading home for a visit, and in Corden’s case, he’s opted to go ahead and take his whole show with him. For three nights, The Late Late Show is filming at Westminster Cathedral Hall rather than at a proper television studio, so pulling it off turned out to be a far more tremendous manoeuvre than Corden had realized.
It always felt like bit of a pipe dream, if I’m being honest, he told the New York Post in May. It’s such an undertaking. Just moving the show to New York for a week is enough, but to move it a 12-hour flight away is insanity, really. It’s dawning on us now quite how ridiculous this is. As of press time, Corden was keeping mum about the guests viewers would be seeing on his U.K. episodes, but let’s be honest: the fun is going to be less about who’s on the show than about where the show’s taking place.
One thing you can count on, however, is Corden’s efforts to make sure that he still delivers the same sort of show while filming in England that he does when he’s in America. What we don’t want to do is go ?and try to make a show for a British audience, but a show for America being broadcast from London, he told the Post. We always try to make a show that will exclude no one.
The summer sci-fi favourite is back for a third season, as our memory-challenged survivors fight to stay alive following the annihilation of the EOS 7 space station and a? devastating betrayal by one of their own. Can the crew band together to pick up the pieces?
