RUNNING 8:30am/7:30c, ESPN 128th Boston Marathon Follow some of the world’s elite endurance runners (and grand marshal Rob Gronkowski) in the prestigious race. WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30/6:30c, ESPN WNBA Draft The Indiana Fever have the first pick in the W

@damianholbrook Cheers to Top Chef for giving new host Kristen Kish a seat at the table. As Padma Lakshmi’s successor, the Season 10 champ has both the chops and chill needed to stand the heat on the Bravo competition. Cheers to Jeopardy! for celebra

SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c, Starz “If I looked like you, I’d rule the f---ing planet.” So says Julianne Moore’s scheming Mary Villiers, countess of Buckingham, to her beautiful son George (Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine, above center, with Mo

8/7c, CBS Kelsea Ballerini is nominated for three awards while hosting for the fourth year in a row. Top nominees Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Megan Moroney also share three noms apiece. SERIES PREMIERE 9/8c and 10/9c, CNN An American

It all started with a Big Bang Theory. Now, CBS’s prequel series Young Sheldon—which signs off on May 16—is passing the torch to a fresh Chuck Lorre comedy. The untitled Young Sheldon spinoff plans to focus on Sheldon’s older brother, Georgie Cooper

Supervisory Special Agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula) and his unit investigate military criminal cases in CBS’s NCIS offshoot. Pride’s bar, the Tru Tone, is set in the real-life R Bar and Royal Street Inn, and foot chases wind through landmarks like

@TVGMMattRoush Some of TV’s best mysteries don’t take themselves all that seriously Thursday, April 4, 9/8c and (regular time period) 10/9c, CBS COLUMBO WOULDN’T KNOW what to make of the technicolored outfits sported by amateur snoop Elsbeth Tascioni

@TVGMMattRoush Is it my imagination, or is Ghosts hiding Rose McIver’s pregnancy by having her wear jackets, holding items, sitting behind her laptop, etc. so as not to write her pregnancy into the show? —Adrienne O., Winter Garden, Florida MATT ROUS

2/1c and 9/8c, HDNet Movies 35TH ANNIVERSARY! Tommy Lee Jones delivered quite an ultimatum on the set of this miniseries, according to our 1989 TV GUIDE MAGAZINE feature. The avid rider and polo player—who at the time raised horses and cattle on his

“I’ve written on the front of my script, ‘Does Colin bring trouble, or does he bring fun, or is it both? It’s both!’” Ulrich says. Recently released from jail after 17 years, Colin is an old friend from Gray’s criminal days who approaches him for hel

SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c and 8:30/7:30c, NBC Did that intervention organized by a worried Mayan (Mayan Lopez) in last May’s Season 1 finale help sober up her unruly father, George (George Lopez, Mayan’s real-life dad)? Yes, but a sober George isn’t so ha

9/8c, CBS He’s the entertainer, another serenader—and now folks from all over can forget about life for a while with The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden—The Greatest Arena Run of All Time. Joel’s (left) first broadcast special, taped durin

Retro Pick 11/10c and midnight/11c, get. Come for the passion, stay for the intrigue! In this two-part tale from 1981, the title private eye (Tom Selleck) has been surveilling a philandering husband when his camera lens lands on a beautiful woman…who

THURSDAY, APRIL 4 ORIGINAL DRAMA Few characters could ever be as cold and fascinatingly calculating as the one introduced in Patricia Highsmith’s revered 1955 psychological crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. This adaptation from Oscar winner Steven

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Parish SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, March 31, 10:15/9:15c, AMC THE WRONG WAY IS THE ONLY WAY OUT for New Orleans native Gracian “Gray” Parish (Giancarlo Esposito), a reformed thief and getaway driver who’s reluctantly pulled back into the dark underworld

ANOTHER FAN-FAVORITE SERIES is getting the podcast treatment. Dear Felicity, which launched March 13, celebrates 25 years of the hit WB series by diving into themes, story arcs and the TV industry during the late ’90s. Stars Greg Grunberg and Amanda

SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, 9/8c and 10/9c, National Geographic Happy Earth Day! Following Secrets of the Whales and Secrets of the Elephants, James Cameron’s latest natural history series uncovers the lives of one of the most alienlike animals on the plan

Movie Picks 8/7c, TCM Pearls are the gift of choice for this anniversary, and TV’s premier home of classic movies offers plenty in its monthlong celebration. Thursday titles in April will be chosen and introduced by network staffers, from execs to re

10/9c, Syfy and USA Season 3 of the scariest toy story ever resumes right after last October’s bloodbath at the White House Halloween party. “It gets bad for the president,” reveals Devon Sawa, whose commander in chief James Collins has no idea that

Two-time Daytime Emmy winner Eileen Davidson, no stranger to dramatic tales since her soap debut as Ashley on The Young and the Restless in 1982, is tackling one of her biggest acting challenges to date, playing Ashley’s dissociative identity disorde

DR. PHIL MCGRAW (above) goes from daytime to primetime with the launch of Merit Street Media, a new cable TV network hailing directly from the Emmy Award–winning executive producer and host. Boasting original and acquired programming, the channel wil

NCIS Episode 1,000: Monday, April 15, 9/8c, CBS 464 EPISODES AIRDATES Sept. 23, 2003– THE BRIEF “What makes NCIS so damn special?” That question is furiously put to Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) by his estranged son, Jared (Spence D. Moore II),

The schools superintendent on The Simpsons appears in the issue’s puzzle at left. It has the letters A C E H I L M R and S. LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTION ■