Trevor Noah Returns to South Africa, ‘Good Doctor’ Winter Finale, Mandy Moore Explores Her Roots
A critical checklist of notable Monday TV:
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Self-Deportation Edition (11/10c, Comedy Central): It will be a very special homecoming for the Daily Show host, who returned to South African to host Sunday’s Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 at Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium. (The lineup was scheduled to include Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams & Chris Martin and Usher, among many others.) In the special edition of The Daily Show, Noah revisits haunts from his hometown and looks at Nelson Mandela’s lasting legacy on South Africa and beyond.
The Good Doctor (10/9c, ABC): All hands on deck to handle a medical crisis in the winter finale of the popular medical drama, which returns from hiatus on Jan. 14. When Shaun (Freddie Highmore) and Dr. Park (Will Yun Lee) treat two patients who collapsed at the airport with symptoms suggesting an airborne infection, the staff works to keep the infection from spreading to other ER patients. Can you say Happy Quarantined Holidays?
Mars (9/8c, National Geographic): An outbreak also endangers the interplanetary settlers in the sci-fi portion of this fascinating series, when a mysterious illness sickens (in one case fatally) colonists from the science and mining camps. The scientists scramble to discover the source of the transmission. Present-day documentary segments follow a Greenpeace activist who’s trying to expose a health crisis being covered up by the Russian government to protect its oil interests in Siberia.
Who Do You Think You Are? (10/9c, TLC): The Emmy-winning genealogy series is back with four new celebrity-driven episodes, starting with This Is Us star Mandy Moore. She is surprised to learn about ancestors from Australia, which occasions a far-flung research trip to discover how they got there and what they sacrificed along the way.
My Brilliant Friend (9/8c, HBO): In another gorgeous but unsettling episode of this evocative coming-of-age period piece, the demure Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) turns 15 while spending the summer on the island of Ischia, where she helps tend to a family from Naples and relives a childhood crush. Back home, the spirited Lila (Gaia Girace) resists the aggressive wooing of neighborhood stud Marcello (Elvis Esposito), which sets her family on edge — especially after the rich kid brings a brand-new TV into their home!
Inside Monday TV: Acorn TV imports the Irish comedy Finding Joy for a six-episode run, starring Amy Huberman (Striking Out) as Joy, whose well-ordered life is upended when her boyfriend dumps her and hew new job as a vlogger propels her into a series of misadventures, romantic and otherwise… In a takeoff on Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, CBS’s The Neighborhood (8/7c) finds Tina (Tichina Arnold) less than enchanted when son Marty (Marcel Spears) brings his new girlfriend (Alexander Chando) home for a family meal… HBO’s documentary Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (10/9c) takes a hard look at the tragic case of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American from Chicago who was arrested in 2015 in a small Texas town for a traffic violation and three days later was found hanging in her jail cell. HBO describes Say Her Name as a “legal thriller and a parable about race in America.”
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"who returned to South African"
Pat, I'd like to sell an "n"...
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I wish this site would get rid of the annoying video that appears after each article and before the comments. Very annoying.
I'll be watching The CW tonight, with Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, which is a fun show.
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I've complained before about that thing above the comments. That combined with the Find & Remind thing at the top have frozen my browser and even caused it to crash several times. Anything that blinks or flashes like that really infuriates me.
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Do you have adblocker? It is indispensable to navigate some sites. I turn it on for sites that have the intrusive and harmful type of ads.
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No, I don't have it yet. I'm still setting up this computer, and I haven't checked into the ad blockers for Chrome yet. I hope it works as good as the version I used to have for Firefox.
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It does.
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The Find and Remind doesn't bother me... it's off to the side and I easily ignore it. The video above the comments doesn't flash, but it does have movement. It doesn't seem to slow down the site for me at all.
BTW, speakiing of slowing down... I know you check the TV Guide listings every day, I assume on the TV Guide Online site? I can't visit that site any more. Things load very very slowly... I click on something, but siince the site is still loading, my "click" registers on something else, that I don't want. It's very, very annoying, so I just avoid TVGOnline altogether.
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No, I use the listings on the Zap2it site (the same site with the daily ratings) at: tvlistings.zap2it.com
I stopped using the TVG site a few years ago because of all those problems with it. I still look at their News though which doesn't have those problems.
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See my post to DonMi bellow.
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Believe me, I use an ad blocker--can't stand to look at computers that don't have them. This video isn't affected by it.
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Legends of Tomorrow and Good Doctor are all that's left of my fall shows on Monday. I didn't see episode 1 of Nightflyers yet, so I won't be watching episode 2 tonight.
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Skip it. I tuned out 45 minutes into ep 1.
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It really didn't look very interesting to me, but I'd like to watch at least one episode before I make up my mind.
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Remember that super boring critically acclaimed cable "horror" show The Terror a season or two back? I I gave that several episodes and couldn't stay awake! Nightflyers will likely be sleep inducing as well.
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I was totally bored by The Terror too. I didn't make it through the 2nd episode of that one.
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It was really a terror of tedium to watch this show to the end. I endured, but you were smart to escape.
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I watched the first 2 (or 3) episodes...then it got backed-up on my DVR...and I DELETED its Season Pass...
Did ANY monster EVER show up???
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Yes, It appeared on the 5th episode, looked like a huge polar bear, well done but not very creative.
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That was no polar bear. It was Roseanne Barr in a fur coat!
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The crossover event with Arrow, Flash and Supergirl looks fun- read a big article about it in the TV Guide magazine. Great thing about those episodes is that the storylines are bottled and have very little to do with the standard episodes, so even if you don't watch Arrow and Sugergirl anymore, it doesn't matter. I used to watch all DC/CW shows regularly now I just check in time to time to get a feel of what's going on.
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The crossover doesn't start until Sunday.
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I'll be watching that for sure. Last season was the best one yet.
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You mean the musical one? I hated most of the musical numbers. The only one I really liked was Cisco (Carlos Valdes) who really surprised me.
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Nah, not the musical! The action pact big budget time shifted Nazi crossover. Was that last season or the one before?
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Oh, I can't remember what was when. I'm lucky if I remember last week's episode!
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The musical episodes were a smaller crossover between Supergirl and Flash. Last season's big one, Crisis on Earth-X, aired in December as Invasion! did before it and this year's will. Supergirl last night had an end-of-episode tease for it that had me doing a little (and mostly internal) happy dance.
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I kinda' disagree with Dicazi and Fred...(about Nightflyers)...
Once you figure out who/what the Volcryn are...what a "genetically enhanced human" is...what a "telepath" is...the fact that the Captain always appears as a hologram...what a "gender-fluid crew member with physical enhancements" is...and that the "xeno-biologist who deals with synthetics" IS the guy who goes "mad" in the opening scene...then...it's pretty INTERESTING...
I DEFINITELY will be checking out Episode 2...
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I figured it would be rather divisive. People seem to either love SyFy's series or hate them. There's seldom anyone who says they're just alright. Please stop posting such blatant spoilers. I'm glad I just skimmed your post to avoid finding out the whole plot ahead of time.
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Well Don...had you READ the post rather than just SKIMMED it...you'd have seen that it contains NO spoilers...
It's only DESCRIPTIONS...(from the SYFY Nightflyers site)...to help CLARIFY the characters...for those who have yet to enjoy Episode #1...
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Sorry, but I consider those spoilers too. If I know going in that someone is an android, it spoils finding that out as the story evolves. That's why I don't read the previews before seeing the shows.
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