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8 Cover Story: Series Finales
We say a heartfelt goodbye to five broadcast shows signing off this spring: On ABC, firehouse drama Station 19 and Freddie Highmore’s The Good Doctor. And on CBS, we bid adieu to two action spinoffs—NCIS: Hawai‘i and CSI: Vegas—and The Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon.

84 TV Insider NEW! Intel on Season 3 of Netflix’s megapopular Bridgerton from star Nicola Coughlan; the Josh Brolin Western Outer Range gets “even weirder” in Season 2 on Prime Video; and science and religion cause chaos on the last season of Evil on Paramount+.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

FIRST SHOWN LIVE on TV as part of Ford Star Jubilee in 1955, then filmed by Robert Altman in 1988, Herman Wouk’s courtroom classic (adapted from his 1951 novel) is of special interest in its latest version as the final film directed by Oscar winner William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist).

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Lessons in Chemistry

PART JULIA CHILD, part Marie Curie, with the movie-star glow of a Kim Novak, brilliant chemist Elizabeth Zott (the luminous Brie Larson) is ahead of her 1950s times.

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POST-STRIKE UPDATE

THE JOKES FLEW fast and furious on Monday, October 2, from late-night hosts back at work after the 148-day writers’ strike had come to an end.

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DAVID MCCALLUM

WHEN MARK HARMON first met David McCallum in 2003 while filming the backdoor pilot for NCIS (which aired on JAG), he gushed, “I can’t imagine I’m shaking the hand of Illya Kuryakin.”

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Harry Wild

We're just wild about Harry...and so are viewers. They've turned this Dublin-set series-about a rambunctious retired literature professor (Jane Seymour) who solves mysteries-into a success, and its star couldn't be happier.

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Loki

Time hasn’t progressed much at all for the ancient god of mischief Loki (Tom Hiddleston) since Season 1’s cataclysmic finale cliffhanger. The cunning trickster was pushed through a time door by vengeful Loki variant/ally Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) just as the sacred timeline began splitting apart into countless branches.

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World on Fire

This engrossing British drama about ordinary people trying to survive World War II is back after a four-year absence.

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Annika

The chief of Scotland's Marine Homicide Unit tries to keep her head above water after that big reveal in last year's finale.

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SEAL Team

WHERE WE LEFT OFF Team leader Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz, below) and his patriotic, do-or-die unit were last seen on CBS back in 2021 in the fourth episode of Season 5 before the action drama moved to Paramount+. (Those four episodes will restart the whole season run before the rest play out.)

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Magnum P.I.

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) have bested murderous baddies and skirted numerous will-they-won’t-they cliffhangers. Now, Oahu’s top PIs are a team in all ways, but are they ready to face the ultimate test—parenthood?

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Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap wouldn’t be Quantum Leap without Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) jumping into other people’s bodies in various time periods. So, you guessed it, he didn’t make it home after that cliffhanger and has continued leaping. (The premiere, with Ben on a plane that crash-lands in 1978 Russia, reveals what happened.)

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Survivor

It’ll be hard to top the reality hit’s previous season: Carolyn’s big personality made every episode fun, and perennially uplifting winner Yam Yam felt truly deserving.

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Celebrity Name That Tune

Hit it! The musical game show hosted by 30 Rock vet Jane Krakowski swings back for a fresh season of stumping stars as they try to guess Top 40 classics and more, all for charity.

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FBI True

3 THINGS TO KNOW

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Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

WHAT SHE DOES As task producer for the celebrity boot-camp competition, her first to-do item is to scout out a base for the action.

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The Irrational

SO WHAT’S NEW? That’s a question being asked by many viewers, surveying a fall season of patchwork lineups on the broadcast networks. A fresh scripted series (not counting imports from other countries) is almost as rare as a camera-shy Kardashian, but NBC’s The Irrational would be worth a look in any season, with a charismatic star (Law & Order veteran Jesse L. Martin) and an intriguing premise.

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The Morning Show

“WE SHOULD DO the news, not be the news,” declares Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup), the CEO and Machiavellian master of damage control at the fictional UBA network. Does he even know what show he’s on?

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BOB BARKER (1923-2023)

YOU CAN’T PUT a price on personality. Bob Barker’s was beyond compare, a display of unflappable charm, graciousness and good humor no matter the circumstance.

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ORLANDO BLOOM: TO THE EDGE

“I never feel so alive being so close to death. I’m ready to take my life to the edge,” Orlando Bloom, star of the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchises, confesses in the first of this three-episode adventure series

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BUDDY VALASTRO'S CAKE DYNASTY

Buddy Valastro wants to show the world that he’s not just about constructing impossibly extravagant desserts

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SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF

Hello again.... The Scott Pilgrim universe is expanding. Originally a series of six graphic novels by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim became a cult classic with the 2010 live-action film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

Two young people on opposite sides in World War II are drawn together in this four-part limited series based on Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2014 novel

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THE SPENCER SISTERS

Back to the Future icon Lea Thompson camps it up as vivacious mystery novelist Victoria Spencer, who ropes her estranged daughter, Darby (Stacey Farber)—a former cop—into pairing up as crime- solving “sisters” in this high-spirited dramedy

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PAIN HUSTLERS

Struggling, unemployed single mom Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) thinks she’s found the perfect route to an improved life for herself and her sick daughter Phoebe (Chloe Coleman) the day she meets charismatic pharmaceutical rep Pete Brenner (Chris Evans)

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Explorer: Lost in the Arctic Thursday, Aug. 24, 10/9c, National Geographic

“WHAT WOULD YOU do? If your friend died and you were starving, would you eat him?” National Geographic Explorer Mark Synnott (inset) mulled the unthinkable while trying to solve one of history’s greatest seafaring mysteries: what happened to the 129 men of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition whose ships got trapped in the Arctic ice while the sailors were trying to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage

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The Winter King SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Aug. 20, 9/8c, MGM+

CHIVALRY IS NOT dead—at least onscreen. See: the countless film and TV versions of the medieval King Arthur legend, in which good and brave knight Arthur Pendragon battles for the heart and soul of a kingdom

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Untold AVAILABLE NOW

ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES It's Round 3 for this acclaimed series where controversial sports figures talk-sometimes exhaustively-about the line between their fame and infamy

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COMEDY ALL-STARS

How legendary sitcom director James Burrows spins classic TV gold

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ELVIS FOREVER

More secrets from the triumphant '68 comeback special that turned Presley into the King

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Run the Burbs - SERIES PREMIERE Monday, July 31, 8:30/7:30c, The CW

THE SUBURBS HAVE gotten a bad rap.

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