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From Murphy's revival to Jennifer Love's return, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
Maniac is a darkly comedic miniseries about Annie and Owen (Emma Stone and Jonah Hill), two mentally afflicted strangers who forge a connection through a mysterious pharmaceutical trial they both take part in that promises a cure for whatever ails them—be it heartache, depression or schizophrenia. Julia Garner (Ozark) plays Ellie, sister to Stone’s character. There is a traumatic event that happens to the sisters that really affects Annie, says Garner, struggling to elaborate further. I don’t know how to explain without giving it away, she says. The title says it all: It’s manic.
Hard as it may be to describe the series, loosely based on a Norwegian show that deals with the stigma of mental illness, it is most convincingly sold by the pedigree of the people attached to the project. Co-starring Justin Theroux, Sally Field, Jemima Kirke and Gabriel Byrne, the miniseries is written by novelist Patrick Somerville, who last worked? on FX’s critically acclaimed The Bridge, and directed in its entirety by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who won an Emmy for his stunning work on season one of HBO’s True Detective.
This series revolving around the hectic lives of Los Angeles cops, firefighters and, yes, 9-1-1 operators was among last year’s breakout hits, which is no doubt why Fox has opted to double down on the Angela Bassett-Peter Krause-starring drama with a two-night rollout for this second season.
The action resumes on one of the hottest days? of the year, when the ?team deals with an array of emotionally charged calls including a road rage incident with a van full ?of tourists and a military veteran with a live grenade embedded in his leg. And there’s plenty of explosive drama off-duty, as well—most of it coming in the form of Officer Athena Grant (Bassett) and Fire Captain Bobby Nash’s (Krause) sizzlin’ new romance.
Gone this season is Connie Britton in the role of Abby Clark (producers maintain the door is open if ever she wants to return, but Britton’s keeping herself pretty busy these days). In her place are new series regulars Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays Buck’s sister Maddie—a rookie 9-1-1 operator, and Ryan Guzman (The Boy Next Door) as handsome firefighter Eddie.
In June, the world lost one of its most insightful, intriguing, beloved explorers when Anthony Bourdain took his own life. At the time, he was in the midst of filming season 12 of this hit travelogue, which CNN will now air (incomplete though it may be), following Bourdain to Kenya, Spain, Indonesia, Texas and New York.
Now 80, Jane Fonda has gracefully aged into a Hollywood grande dame, yet a new HBO documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts reminds us of her controversial activism during the Vietnam War, her impact on the world of fitness in the 1980s and how she transformed herself from Barbarella pinup girl to serious actress via Oscar-winning performances in Klute and Coming Home.
American Idol may be back and vying for its old throne as TV’s top singing competition, but The Voice isn’t the type of show to be usurped so easily—nor is it above rubbing ?a little salt in the wound. After welcoming original Idol Kelly Clarkson to its coaches panel last season, the NBC hit is doubling down with even more Idol-born star power in season 15, bringing back Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson for a second turn in the swivelling chair. (As ever, the last two spots on the panel will be occupied by series mainstays Adam Levine and Blake Shelton). Meanwhile a former Idol ?judge, Keith Urban, joins? Thomas Rhett, Halsey and ?original Voice coach CeeLo ?as Battle Advisers this year.? And of course we can’t forget? Carson Daly, who reprises? hosting duties as the Blind Auditions kick off this week.
As the family drama ?returns for season three, ?expect to learn a lot? more about the Pearson? patriarch, as the writers time-jump back to Jack’s days in Vietnam and his initial courtship of Rebecca. In other news, actress Lyric Ross (Beth and Randall’s foster daughter Deja) has been upped to series regular.
The halls of Grey Sloan Memorial will be a little emptier now that Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and April (Sarah Drew) have moved on, but that just leaves more soapy romance and medical intrigue for everyone else as the show returns with a two-hour premiere for season 15, dubbed the season of love by the writers.
The 20th season of the long-running crime procedural kicks off with a two-hour premiere. Later in the season, prepare for some new characters to be introduced, who will then be the focus of prospective spinoff Law & Order: Hate Crimes, based on an actual NYPD task force.
Given how commonplace series revivals are becoming these days it’s not surprising to hear? that a once-popular program is getting a second chance, but when one considers the current political climate there’s one question being asked about the return of Murphy Brown: what took so long?! We kind of toyed with the idea, almost jokingly, back in 2012 when Sarah Palin was running for vice president,” said series creator Diane English during this summer’s Television Critics Association press tour. That didn’t pan out, but when Warner Brothers recently offered English money up front to write a script—yes, really (and the assembled critics burst into laughter)—she decided to give it a go. Thankfully, the resulting material was strong enough to inspire Candice Bergen and the rest of the original cast to return.
In this new production of Shakespeare’s most devastating tragedy, madness, mayhem and death await an aging king (Anthony Hopkins) who decides to divide up his kingdom among his three daughters (Emma Thompson, Emily Watson and Florence Pugh) according to which professes to love him the most.
