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7 Adam Richman takes his act international with ‘Secret Eats’

18-19 The NFL is back!!! Pro Football Hall of Fame Game airs Sunday on ESPN

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4 John Dickerson is his mother’s son as ‘Face the Nation’ anchor and CBS News political director

5 Christian Slater lets ‘the chips fall where they may’

6 Jack Osbourne found the value in asking questions for his new series

8 Alyson Hannigan has fun watching Penn & Teller get fooled

9 Getting to know French Pastry Chef Florian Bellanger

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the Story!3 This week, US swimmer Michael Phelps seeks to add to his trophy case as he vies in three events. George Dickie speaks with former Olympic swimmer and NBC commentator Rowdy Gaines about what to expect.

12-13 This season, Sean McDonough joins ESPN’s Monday Night Football booth alongside Jon Gruden and his first game is Sunday’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts. George Dickie speaks with McDonough about how the preseason helps broadcasters get the kinks out of their game, much as it does for players and coaches.

14-15 In an acting stint that may be one for the British TV record books, Kevin Whately has played Detective Sgt/Detective Inspector Robbie Lewis for nearly 30 years, first on “Inspector Morse,” and more recently on his own hit spin-off series. As the latter opens its eighth and final season, John Crook talks with the affable English actor about why he decided it was time to leave his popular role.

17 ABC is back on the Saturday medical-reality-series beat this summer with the second season of “Boston EMS.” Jay Bobbin talks with executive producer Terence Wrong about the special relationship his shows have had with that city, and about the particular lure of showcasing its first responders.

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A quick look at the all-time medal count in Olympic swimming underscores just how absolutely dominant the United States has been.

Since the first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896, the U.S. team has taken home 520 medals, 230 of them gold, for an average of 20 and about nine per Olympics over 26 Summer Games. That’s almost three times the country behind them Australia, with 178 and 57. And since 1960, the U.S. has topped the medal count every year except one, topping out at a gaudy 52 (21 gold) in 1968.

Yes, the last 60 or so years has truly been the golden age of U.S. swimming, and this week the Americans will be looking to add to its medal count in the first full week of action in the Rio Olympics on NBC and other outlets.

Probably the swimmer looking to gain the most is Katie Ledecky. By the age of 19, the Washington, D.C., native has amassed an impressive resume that includes a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle in the 2012 Games in London, nine world championships and world records in the 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle.

And Rowdy Gaines, himself a three-time gold medal swimmer and now a commentator for NBC, sees big things for Ledecky at these Games.

“I don’t think there’s any athlete, except for maybe Serena Williams, that is as dominant as Katie Ledecky is,” Gaines says. “She’s just incredible. And at least in her two events, the 400 and 800 ... that she has the world record in and has been so dominant over the last four years, she hasn’t lost. I mean in four years, she hasn’t lost a race, so to me that’s complete domination.”

But, says Gaines, Ledecky could have some American company on the podium in those two events.

“Certainly Leah Smith is going to be a huge factor for the United States, and really kind of came out of nowhere – a 4:03 or something like that a couple of months ago,” he

says. “But she went 4:00 and actually was closer to Katie than any athlete has been in four years and she was still a second and a half behind or two seconds behind. But she narrowed the gap a little bit. So she definitely has a shot to get on the medal stand both in the 400 and the 800. Right now she’s second, two and a half seconds ahead of anybody else. So the U.S. looks really good in the distance events. There’s no doubt about it.”

In men’s swimming, the big story is the last hurrah of Michael Phelps. At 30, he’s the graybeard of the men’s team and will be looking to add to his all-time record of 22 medals (18 gold) as he vies in the 200-meter individual medley and the 100- and 200-meter butterfly. And in the 100-meter butterfly, he’ll have tough competition versus the likes of Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and Chad le Clos of South Africa in what Gaines is calling the race of the meet.

“You know, Michael has won three successive gold medals in the 100-meter fly by 28 on-hundredths of a second – a total of three races,” he says. “They’ve all been by an eyelash, and this one’s not going to be any different.

“You know, I’ve seen him dominate events, winning by two, three, four seconds but this 100-meter fly has always been the diciest for him, and I think it’s going to be the same here. I think it’s going to come down to the touch and Michael has had magic in that race. He’s won three of them in a row and I’m certainly not going to bet against him in Rio, that’s for sure.”

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Your mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a trailblazing network-news reporter who also covered politics for CBS (and then NBC) during the 1960s. To prepare for “Face the Nation” and your other duties as CBS News’ political director, have you watched much professional footage of her?

Yeah, I’ve seen quite a lot of it, and it’s really wonderful. One of the great things about the “Face the Nation” job is that we have access to lots of the archives, so even (with) the years that she didn’t cover, we sit around and watch the footage – which is great fun.

What do you think your mother would make of the election year we’re in?

She would certainly recognize there was nothing ever like it. I’m sure she would draw some parallels to 1964 and the Republican Convention at the Cow Palace outside San Francisco, although that was a very different situation.I think she’d be scratching her head like the rest of us, with the way this campaign has gone ... on the Republican side, certainly. On the Democratic side, it’s a more familiar narrative, even though many people didn’t predict Bernie Sanders was going to do as well as he did.

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You were among debate moderators this political season. Do you think it helped to have as many debates as there were?

I think so. Not everybody was behaving themselves in the debates in a way that added glory to them, but I’m a fan of debates. They’re opportunities to get candidates to really say where they stand on things. I like them, so I think it was good. On the Democratic side, there probably could have been more.

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Having done several series that didn’t get nearly the buzz nor the acclaim of “Mr. Robot,” how are you finding the Golden Globe-honored ride you’re on now?This journey certainly started with South by Southwest, going to that festival. We screened the show, and you never know how people are going to respond ... but then, when it won the audience award there, that was pretty exciting. I’m always sort of, “So far, so good,” proceed with caution and just put one foot in front of the other and really let the chips fall where they may and just take it as it comes.When we made this pilot, the subject matter of hacking certainly wasn’t as prevalent as it became. After we made the pilot, the Sony hack happened. Then as we were shooting the (first) season, there were things happening in the media and in the world that were mirroring things that we were actually shooting on the day. It was great for the show, but scary to be living in a world where those things were happening.

How do you assess your previous series efforts now?Every time I’ve gotten involved with something, it’s always been with the best intention. I love to work, I love this business, and you just keep going – just keep striving and struggling and saying “Yes,” even though you might be a little afraid. You feel the fear and do it anyway, basically.

What has making “Mr. Robot” done in terms of your own precautions against being hacked?Doing a show like this, it raises your level of awareness and paranoia about those things. Updating passwords is vitally important, and using complicated things. (Using) pet names is a killer ... don’t do that. And my new password is “Golden Globe.”

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How did you come up with the idea for “Ozzy and Jack’s World Detour”?I basically got a phone call from a friend who worked at a TV network and we started spit-balling ideas about, “Hey, would your dad ever want to do a history show?” And I was like, “Ah, my dad doesn’t want to do TV anymore but we could try and get him. We could ask. Who knows?” And we asked my dad and he was like, “Yes, I’d do that. That’s awesome.” And I was like, “Oh, OK.” I figured I’d ask just to ask and the next thing you know he’s on board and then we actually had to figure out what the TV show was. And so we got a team assembled and sold it to History ... .

What kind of history does Ozzy like?He really kind of likes 20th century history going from World War I to present ... so there is a decent amount of World War II sprinkled in the series as well as the space race stuff and the atomic age, things like that. Those are things that he was kind of witness to growing up and the things that he really kind of gets into and excited about and has more or less studied for most of his adult life. I mean, you go into his library and it’s just all kinds of 20th century military history for the most part.

One of your stops was Cuba. Was Ozzy recognized there?He was but we managed to keep things controlled a little bit more. ... Everyone was just super respectful. You know, there were a lot of tourists there so there’s that. But as far as the locals go, it was great and we managed to kind of do what we wanted to do with relative ease.The amazing thing about Cuba is that as it’s a communist nation, everything is the people’s. So we’d go to these museums where there’s artifacts from the Cuban Missile Crisis ... . I mean, my dad got a photo at Castro’s old desk, like the equivalent of the Oval Office, sitting down at the desk, just like hanging out, you know, picking up the phone. Totally do whatever. ... I’m like, “Where’s the guard telling me to get back?”


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When was the last vacation you took, where and why?

“That is a great question. The last proper vacation – when did I get one of those? You know what I usually do? I do the Hawaii Food and Wine Festival every year and I love Hawaii, and I usually tack on an extra week for me. So I guess that has to count. And Hawaii is kind of my reset button. It’s the right kind of magic I need.”

What book are you currently reading?

“Syd Field’s screenwriting book.”

What did you have for dinner last night?

“Tapas at Tapas Brindisa in Suffolk, not far from the theater.”

What is your next project?

“Hopefully another season of this show (chuckles). I’m filming a special for ‘Secret Eats’ in Sturgis (S.D.) coming up and I have two more books in the works.”

In the first season of the Travel Channel series “Man Finds Food,” host Adam Richman went off the beaten path in cities across the United States to find unusual and unique eateries and dishes that only the locals know about.

Now retitled “Secret Eats With Adam Richman” and premiering Monday, Aug. 8, the show goes international as Richman visits locations ranging from Hong Kong and Bangkok to Mexico City and Moscow to experience some of the most mysterious and intriguing culinary hideaways.

And this time around, the crew gets in on the on-camera action.

“You know, you can’t ignore the fact that you have a bunch of Americans with cameras in Moscow,” the 42-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., native says. “It would be foolish and I think it would rob the viewer of part of the experience, that it’s not just borscht and varenikis; there’s a lot more to it. So I think in kind of breaking the fourth wall more, involving the crew, them reacting to things around us, us talking amongst ourselves ... learning phrases in other languages, I think it takes a sort of showiness out of it and makes it a genuine journey, which I personally dig the most.”

But of course, the “Eats” are the thing, and in Monday’s opening episode, he and his crew visit London, where they encounter a detective agency that serves as a front for a secret speakeasy restaurant, a Soho diner with an unusual requirement for ordering a sundae, and an architectural salvage shop that doubles as a restaurant.

“In this store, tucked into one of the rooms, they’ve made a dining room called the Eisenhower Room. Everything’s for sale ...,” Richman explains. “They cook inside a closet and it’s just amazing. And literally while you’re eating, people will come by and it’s the funniest thing, they’ll look at the price of the lamp on your table or the picture right above your head. It’s super awkward but it reminds you you’re sitting in a store eating this delicious meal that was cooked in a closet. But it’s awesome.”

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Work is truly magical for Alyson Hannigan these days.

In her former part as Willow Rosenberg on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the actress got to practice some prestidigitation herself, but she’s now watching others try to impress – and confound – two masters of the trade as she plays host on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” Wednesdays on The CW. In a career that also has given her series roles on “How I Met Your Mother” and TV Land’s projected version of “The First Wives Club,” the spirited Hannigan allows that her current job is a new and unexpected turn.

“There was actually one magician where I figured it out, and Penn & Teller didn’t,” she says with pride about a contestant who stumped the title duo. “I should have really just gone home after that. I mean, that was the highlight

... it’s never gonna get better than that. Basically, I was involved in the act, and it was this cool kind of mentalist thing. I think Penn & Teller were overthinking it, and I was like, ‘No, I really think he was just looking at my hands and he could tell which one had the coin in it.’ ”

Hannigan got to stay, though. She notes with bemusement that the show’s stars “weren’t rude, because they’re very sweet, but I would definitely that they were dismissive of my idea. And they were still trying to figure it out.”

Among the most enjoyable aspects of the “Fool Us” gig for Hannigan is her participation in aspiring magicians’ performances – which doesn’t mean she doesn’t cringe at certain moments.

“One was a sword swallower,” she reports, “and he made me pull the sword out of his mouth! I can still feel the nausea. He was telling me things like, ‘If you don’t do this right, you’ll probably cut my heart out.’ That’s not a collapsible knife; it’s a sword, and I could feel it. I think it makes for some very funny television, because I was very grossed out.”

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Birthdate: March 24, 1974

Birthplace: Washington, D.C.

Current residence: Los Angeles

Family info: Married to actor Alexis Denisof; they have two daughters

Other television work includes: “How I Met Your Mother,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “American Dad!” (voice only), “Robot Chicken” (voice only), “The Simpsons,” (voice only), “King of the Hill” (voice only), “Veronica Mars,” “That ’70s Show,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Rugrats” (voice only), “The Wild Thornberrys” (voice only), “Picket Fences,” “Almost Home,” “Roseanne,” “Free Spirit”

Movie work includes: “American Reunion,” “Love, Wedding, Marriage,” “Date Movie,” “American Wedding,” “American Pie 2,” “Boys and Girls,” “American Pie,” “Dead Man on Campus,” “My Stepmother Is an Alien”


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FLORIANBELLANGER- Born April 20, 1968, in Saint Denis, France.

- Not only did he indulge in decadent cakes and pastries as a child, but he often spent his free afternoons in the kitchen, baking them for his family. A childhood allergy to chocolate ironically prevented him from relishing such treats for nearly six years, but luckily he outgrew it.

- At the age of fifteen, he applied to Paris’s prestigious pastry school, L’Ecole de Paris des Métiers de la Table. Although his application was rejected because he was a year too young to enroll, in 1983 the future chef was accepted and graduated with a degree in pastry arts and a specialty in chocolate and ice cream.

- Once he reached age 18, he joined the military as all young men in France had to do then. He ended up as a pastry chef in the French Military Officer’s Club in French Guyana.

- In 1995, he married Anna Louisa, whom he met while they were both working in Qatar. They moved to Manhattan in 1996 after he won a prized job as executive pastry chef of one of the world’s most acclaimed restaurants, Le Bernardin.

- He was named one of the 10 best pastry chefs in America in 2004 and 2003 by “Pastry Art & Design” magazine. He was also awarded a lifetime achievement award in the 2013 U.S. Pastry Competition and was a hall of fame inductee for the “Dessert Professional Magazine” in 2013.

- He is an executive chef and co-owner of Mad Mac Macarons an acclaimed French cookie and pastry company, which he helped found in 2006.

- In June 2010, Food Network’s hit competition series “Cupcake Wars” premiered and he became a permanent judge on the reality-based competition show.

- His technical expertise and tough critiquing have led to him being called “the Simon Cowell of cupcakes.”

- In 2011, his wife Anna passed away unexpectedly, Ieaving him to raise their three sons, Roman, Aldrin, and Evan on his own.

- He has served as the president of the jury for the U.S. Pastry Competition since 2007, is a member of City Harvest’s Food Council and a guest chef faculty member at the French Culinary Institute.

Florian Bellanger is a world renowned pastry chef, TV personality and judge who

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“That’s what I look for (while performing a concert), that connection – that feeling of all of us together, singing music that we love and that moves us and makes us feel good. That’s a high unlike anything else, and it inspires me to continue to write songs that make people travel thousands of miles to come to Nashville to sing their hearts out.” – Brett Eldredge, seen recently on “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” on ABC

“We were all about to go on stage, and ABC ran the first 12 minutes of it at the Upfronts. I’ve never seen an entire place just shut down and lock in watching part of a pilot. Every actor, every executive, even the most jaded person in the business … we were all riveted. I think that could easily be my new favorite show, it just looks so good.” – Chris Harrison of “Bachelor in Paradise” on ABC, about Kiefer Sutherland’s upcoming “Designated Survivor”

“Social media has been a great way to stay connected with the people who have been supporting me for so long, and to be able to see instant reactions in real time is so cool … and to share things that I care about, and even to provide inspiration to some people. Just to be able to engage on a more personal level is incredible.” – Victoria Justice, seen recently on Teen Choice 2016 on Fox

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Dan Patrick of the Rio Olympics on NBC and multiple outlets“Too many. ... I watch the ‘Million Dollar Listing: New York’ and ‘LA.’ I’ve been watching ‘The Americans’ with Keri Russell. I watched ‘The Night Manager’ with Tom Hiddleston. I watched the ‘House of Cards’ series. ‘Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,’ of course. That’s probably my wheelhouse.”

NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson of the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen on USA Network“ ‘Game of Thrones.’ I have plenty of kids programming on there. The only thing that we seem to stay up with of late has been ‘Game of Thrones.’ ”

Walton Goggins of “Vice Principals” on HBO“The answer to that question would have been different five years ago but now I have a child, so I record ‘Curious George’ and ‘The Dinosaur Trains.’ ‘60 Minutes’ ... ‘Octonauts’ (laughs) and, last but not least, ‘Downton Abbey,’ the latest.”

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Carla Hall of “The Chew” on ABC“What do I record? Ha! I just saw a new show (‘The Night Of’). It was on HBO. ... ‘Game of Thrones.’ I tape ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’ ‘Mr. Selfridge.’

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BY GEORGE DICKIEPreseason is a time for getting the kinks out.

There’s getting to know new teammates, becoming acquainted with a new playbook and determining where the mistakes will be made and how to avoid them.

Same holds true for broadcasters, as Sean McDonough knows. He joins the Monday Night Football booth this season as play-by-play man alongside analyst and former NFL coach Jon Gruden, so the two preseason games they’re doing this summer will serve as a shakedown cruise of sorts for when the real action begins in September.

His first broadcast with Gruden comes Sunday, Aug. 7, when ESPN broadcasts the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts from Canton, Ohio.

“The exhibition games will be fun and I think a great opportunity for Jon Gruden and I to get a little time together in the booth and hopefully build a little chemistry,” McDonough says. “A lot of play-by-play broadcasting of events is just developing a rhythm and a flow and a comfort level with your partner in the booth, so I think that’ll be the benefit of the exhibition games.”

But that rapport is built not just by doing games, but also by spending time off air. Toward that end, McDonough and Gruden have already put in their time getting to know each other earlier this year, in New York at an ESPN advertising event and at Gruden’s home in Tampa, Fla., where the two talked football, how to cover it and their philosophies of television.


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“You know, a lot of the camaraderie that you have on the air is really a product of the time you spend together off the air getting to know each other,” he says. “... So we’ve been trying to build chemistry by spending time together off the air, which I think will help when we get on the air. I mean, the better you know somebody the easier it is to have a comfortable conversation, whether it’s on or off the air. And it’s easy to get to know Jon because he pretty much is what you see on TV. I mean, he’s a very energetic, fun, likable guy.”

One of the stories sure to get considerable play Sunday will be the Hall inductions that happened the previous evening. This year, Packers quarterback Brett Favre and Colts coach Tony Dungy and wide receiver Marvin Harrison will join five others as the Hall’s newest members, so expect to see many of them – as well as scores of Packers and Colts fans – during the telecast.

“I think we’ll be interviewing many of them,” McDonough says of the inductees, “and a lot of that game will be spent giving them their due, particularly the guys who are aligned with the Packers and the Colts. You know, Brett Favre and Tony Dungy and Marvin Harrison. I’m looking forward to seeing Eddie DeBartolo. I think that’s a fascinating story, his selection into the Hall of Fame and the chance to kind of revisit the successes and the glory years of the San Francisco 49ers when he owned them. So I think in that first game a lot of our time will be spent talking about the inductees into the Hall of Fame.”

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BY JOHN CROOKAs “Masterpiece Mystery!” launches the eighth and final season of “Inspector Lewis” Sunday, Aug. 7, on PBS (check local listings), Lewis and Hathaway (Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox) find themselves drawn into a macabre world of taxidermy and avant-garde artists in the new episode “One for Sorrow.”

It’s a crackling and unsettling entry in this police series that consistently delivers both in terms of its scripts and performances. Maybe because we know going in that these are the final three “Lewis” mysteries, however, a valedictory air hovers over these stories.

Even for the characters, things are in transition. Jean Innocent no longer is running the department (owing to fan favorite Rebecca Front’s filming commitments elsewhere), replaced by new Chief Supt. Joe Moody (Steve Toussaint). Moody has no history with Lewis, so he’s seriously considering laying him off to save money.

“That’s something that happens in the police force now,” Whately explains. “They’re chucked out at 55, and they might get one more year as a consultant, but not more than that. It’s a weird thing, isn’t it, all that experience just being heaved out on the junk heap?”

As for Hathaway, he spends most free time he has this season with his estranged father, Philip (guest star Nicholas Jones), who is battling encroaching dementia.

Off-camera, both actors were ready to move on from their long-running characters, Whately because he wanted to spend more time with his family and Fox because his career star is on the rise elsewhere.

“I didn’t feel especially sentimental about leaving, because I had done it before,” Whately says. “I left ‘Morse’ three years, I think, before we finished that and then came back for the last one.”

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Whately created the role of Lewis on “Inspector Morse” in 1987 and continued with that show for a decade. Now 65, the actor is older than “Morse” star John Thaw was at the time of his death, at 60, in 2002.

As much as anything, though, Whately says he just thought Robbie Lewis was getting to an age where it made little sense for him to continue in police work.

“We have several series over here, and you’ve seen some of them, with quite ancient police leads in them,” Whately says, chuckling. “I didn’t want to be playing a 70-year-old cop.”

While the series finale provides closure, it also doesn’t rule out a future “Lewis” stand-alone movie, but Whately says at the moment he’s inclined to just let it go. He also thinks a “Hathaway” spinoff for Fox, while viable, would be unlikely.

“Laurence could easily carry his own show, but I hope they will find him something else rather than more Hathaway,” he says.

He’s currently enjoying what he says is “my first summer off since 1981,” but isn’t permanently retiring.

“These 30 years seem to have gone by in a flash, but I hope to be back eventually in something else – maybe as a senior partner in something,” Whately says.

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Post-conventions and pre-election is a good time for a big dose of presidential history, and “American Experience” is equipped to provide it.

The venerable PBS series has presented profiles of many U.S. chief executives over the course of its own history, and several of them are repackaged into a two-week event that begins Monday, Aug, 8 (check local listings). ”JFK” leads the first week on Monday and Tuesday, followed by “LBJ” on Wednesday and “Nixon” on Thursday. The second week offers “Jimmy Carter” (Monday), “Reagan” (Tuesday and Wednesday) and “George H.W. Bush” (Thursday).

“We’ve been producing presidential biographies for much of our 28 years on PBS,” says “American Experience” executive producer Mark Samels. “We’ve done 16 total, and a few times over the years, we’ve collected and presented them in different (combinations) together. There’s a nice synergy that’s created when you see some of the ideas that carried from one presidency to another, so this is another good opportunity for us to take stock of the presidency.”

Historian Timothy Naftali, who has written books about John F. Kennedy and the first President Bush, ran the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum for several years. He appears in the “American Experience” programs on Kennedy and Bush, and he reasons that in watching those and the others now, “You have an opportunity to think about the enormous responsibility you’re about to place on someone’s shoulders. And if that makes people more serious about the choice they make in November – and more determined to make a choice, because the best thing to come out of (this) is that you vote – then the shows have a civic purpose,

besides being wonderful confections of education and entertainment.”

“American Experience” aired a similar portrait of Bill Clinton in 2012, and Samels allows it “would have been included if Hillary Clinton were not running for president. We just felt it was a little bit too much of a thumb on the scale, with the election so close. In selecting this lineup, we were very careful to have both Republican and Democratic representation.”

While “The Presidents” gives PBS cohesive counter-programming to the Olympics, Samels agrees with Naftali that it comes at arguably the

most telling time for the electorate. “These looks into the people who occupy the White House are really important and revealing windows onto the challenges that anyone faces when they lead a country like ours,” Samels notes, ”the political challenges, the foreign-policy challenges, the economic challenges and even the social challenges. I think it’s a really great way to understand not only an individual, but our country as a whole.”

Inevitably, “American Experience” also will present presidential biographies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, but Naftali believes it will take some time to get there. “When you do a portrait right after a presidency,” he reflects, “the narrative is going to be what the media and the public assume it will be, the high points and the low points. If you try to give a president’s perspective, that takes a while to develop. You need their memoir, because sometimes, that shows you the perspective is a little different from what you thought it was. I could see the structure of a George W. Bush or Barack Obama documentary, but I’m not sure we’d really get at the heart of the matter this soon.”


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‘American Experience’ offers a crash course in modern presidencies

BY JAY BOBBIN

Pictured: John F. Kennedy


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BY JAY BOBBIN

By now, it’s a tradition for a medical documentary series

to be part of ABC’s summer programming.

That’s thanks largely to one executive producer: Terence

Wrong, who has given the network “NY Med,” “Boston

Med,” “Hopkins” and “Save My Life: Boston Trauma” in

past years. He’s now back in the Saturday ABC lineup

with the second season of “Boston EMS,” profiling a

number of that city’s first responders – many of whom,

expectedly, share stories of working the immediate

aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings as

they tend to current emergencies.

“We’re gratified that ABC has been so supportive of us,

and particularly the news division,” Wrong says of his

long run with such series. “There have been a bunch of

different leaders at that division and the network since

these series were initiated, but everybody has found this

to be a unique and valuable contribution that you can’t

really see anywhere else.

“These are amazingly hard shows to make, and they’re

exhausting for us,” notes Wrong. “When we deprogram,

we’re like, ‘Do we really want to do another?’ And then,

we start to miss it ... the adrenalin and the intimacy that

we get with these series that we don’t seem to be able to

replace with anything else. It’s very personal to all of us,

and we’ve all used the contacts and information we’ve

gotten from it in our own lives and with our own families.”


The true exploits of

‘Boston EMS’ are back on

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Wrong’s relationship with Boston through several shows stems from his connection to its late mayor Thomas Menino, with whom he made a project at the start of the 2000s. “That gave us the street cred,” Wrong reasons. “We did a good job and we had his support, so we were able to go back and do subsequent series there. And (Boston) is kind of the medical capital of the United States; with the conglomeration of top-level medical centers there, nowhere else equals it.”

The decision to showcase the city’s Emergency Services team in “Boston EMS” was easy for Wrong, who reflects, “The Boston Marathon bombing was almost a textbook illustration of how an EMS should deal with a mass-casualty situation. My favorite story about it is how Mayor Menino called in the chief of the Boston EMS that evening. They’d had three dead at the scene and dozens in hospitals with missing limbs and massive bleeds, and the mayor asked, ‘How many are going to be dead by morning?’ The chief said, ‘Quite a few more’ – but in fact, nobody else died.”

“That’s because they had evacuated the wounded very meticulously to half a dozen trauma centers,” Wrong explains, “keeping in mind who had spare trauma surgeons and extra plasma supplies. They made choices in the moment, and I find it hard to come up with another city that could have handled a situation like that as efficiently. They’re really extraordinary, and that makes them compelling to us. They’ve all been touched by that event the way the fire and police departments in New York were touched by 9/11.”

STORY


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FULL NAME: Ryan Kelly

BORN: May 30, 1993

BIRTHPLACE: West Chester, Ohio

HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6-foot, 4-inches/313-pounds

COLLEGE: Alabama

DRAFT: 2016; Round 1, 18th pick

TEAM: Indianapolis Colts

POSITION: Center

NO.: 78

HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS: NCAA Champion, 2011, 2012, 2015; Rimington Trophy, 2015; All American, 2015

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SPORTS

Rookie Ryan Kelly steps up for the Colts


The 2016 NFL preseason officially begins with the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts. The game will be televised from Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio on Sunday, Aug. 7 on ESPN; exactly six months since Super Bowl 50.

It’s highly doubtful that starters like Aaron Rodgers and Andrew Luck will take the field, since the game will be more about getting a look at the rookie class. Among those new players is Ryan Kelly who was the Colts’ first round pick in the NFL draft in May – he was eighteenth overall. Kelly is fresh off a collegiate National Championship season with the Alabama Crimson Tide and is very accustomed to playing on a winning team.

The Colts, who missed the playoffs in 2015 for the first time since the Luck era began in 2012, just gave their quarterback a monumental contract and protecting him will be paramount; thus the expenditure of a high draft pick on Kelly. For Kelly, the Hall of Fame Game will be a homecoming of sorts as he grew up outside Cincinnati, merely a four hour drive from Canton.

Played since 1962, the game is the culmination of the Hall of Fame weekend and this year both teams have some notable inductees. Former Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre, Colts’ receiver Marvin Harrison and former coach Tony Dungy are among the inductees that also include Ken Stabler, Kevin Greene, Orlando Pace, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. and Dick Stanfel.

BY DAN LADD

SPORTS


Even in these times of raunchier movie humor, the simplest comedy ideas can surprise you.

A picture like “There’s Something About Mary” or “Wedding Crashers” can give you hope. A picture like “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” can diminish that hope. It’s not a complete loss, but it also doesn’t rise all that far above the expectations for it going in.

And there is reason for hope initially. Not only is the film based on a true story of brothers who really did advertise online for proper dates to their sister’s wedding, one of said dates is played by the very talented Anna Kendrick. Her comedic sensibility suggests she could do much for any premise, but she’s also has the clear intelligence of a number of her past characters to work against.

She’s reunited with “Pitch Perfect” co-star Adam Devine, who plays Mike while Zac Efron, sort of a veteran of this genre thanks to the “Neighbors” movies (and, to a lesser degree, the heinous “Dirty Grandpa”), is Dave. They get responses to their ad from the equally reckless characters played by Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza, and it’s off to the races. Or, more accurately, to the wedding.

Just about everyone has been to one of those family gatherings where a relative becomes a problem – too loud, too crude, too “something.” The notion that someone could be such a problem continually at nearly every event, as with the brothers here, is an amusing one (unless you’re a member of that family, of course).

Though the main focus is on the central quartet, the wedding set-up also permits other relatives to have their moments, letting director Jake Szymanski bounce around a bit (though Judd Apatow still is the king of this sort of filmmaking). That doesn’t hurt the film, since a constant 90 minutes with the principal four could get to be a bit much ... and the supporting characters are kept wisely in their lanes, giving just that, support.

It takes a certain alchemy for a concept like “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” to work. Let your brain take something of a rest for this hour-and-a-half, and there’s a chance you’ll find it, though it could be stronger.

JAY BOBBIN'S THEATRICAL MOVIE REVIEW

‘MIKE AND DAVE’ could use more than wedding dates

MOVIES

Our Take

Pictured: Adam Devine (left) and Zac Efron

“GOD’S NOT DEAD 2” (Aug. 16): A teacher (Melissa Joan Hart) runs into professional trouble over a student’s (Hayley Orrantia) religion-based query. (PG: AS)

“THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE” (Aug. 16): The popular app is expanded into a full-length animated feature, with Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage supplying voices. (PG: AS)

“THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR” (Aug. 23): Battling sisters (Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt) pose big challenges for the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and his true love (Jessica Chastain). (PG-13: AS, V)

“ROOTS” (Aug. 23): The remake of the landmark miniseries about author Alex Haley’s family background features Forest Whitaker and Laurence Fishburne. (Not rated: AS, V)

“MONEY MONSTER” (Sept. 6): A televised financial adviser (George Clooney) is held captive by a vengeful investor (Jack O’Connell); Julia Roberts also stars. (R: AS, P, V)

“CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR” (Sept. 13): Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) lead opposing factions of Marvel superheroes. (PG-13: P, V)

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JAY BOBBIN'S MOVIE REVIEW MOVIES TO WATCH

Top PickDVD

Pictured: Melissa Joan Hart

“SUPERGIRL: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON”The top heroine to hail from Krypton fuels this series in the engaging persona of Melissa Benoist (“Glee”), who proves as facile at action – and she definitely gets roughed up in many episodes – as she does at slightly daffy humor while playing the Girl of Steel’s alter ego, Kara Danvers. Calista Flockhart goes for laughs more clearly as Kara’s supremely self-involved media-mogul boss, with Mehcad Brooks (playing “James” Olsen) and Jeremy Jordan (“Smash”) as office cohorts, and Chyler Leigh (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as Kara’s Earth sister. One story that’s particularly fun teams Benoist’s Supergirl with Grant Gustin as The Flash ... which now looks like foreshadowing, since this series is moving from CBS to The CW for its new season. ››› (Not rated: AS, P, V)


Family Viewing Ratings

AS Adult situations P Profanity V Violence N Nudity GV Graphic Violence

MOVIES

Pictured: Melissa Benoist

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Justin Chatwin stars in “American Gothic”

Jack McBrayer is featured in “Match Game”

SUNDAY 7 p.m. on NBC

Rio OlympicsAs the Summer Games continue from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, events available for coverage include: Cuba vs. Russia and Argentina vs. Iran in men’s volleyball; men’s preliminary matches in beach volleyball; Day 2 of gymnastics, featuring women’s qualifying rounds for such countries as Canada, France and Japan; and several events in swimming, including the women’s 100m butterfly final, the men’s 100m breaststroke final and the women’s 400m freestyle final. New

8 p.m. on ESPN

NFL Preseason FootballThe NFL returns with the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition contest between the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts. Don’t expect to see the likes of star quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers of the Packers or Andrew Luck of the Colts. This game will be more about getting a look at rookies and backups while honoring HOF inductees Brett Favre, Marvin Harrison and Tony Dungy who played and coached for these teams. New

10 p.m. on ABC

Match Game“Saturday Night Live’s” Leslie Jones is on the panel of celebrities who have to fill in the blanks in this episode. So is Josh Charles, dryly humorous on “Sports Night” before starting his much more dramatic run on “The Good Wife.” Host Alec Baldwin also calls upon Leah Remini and “30 Rock” alum Jack McBrayer, among others.

MONDAY 9 p.m. on LIFETIME

Devious MaidsIn “Grime and Punishment,” the season finale, Zoila (Judy Reyes) stumbles across something that helps Rosie (Dania Ramirez) fit together the final pieces in the puzzle of Peri’s murder. Carmen and Danni (Roselyn Sanchez, Sol Rodriguez) find themselves in a dangerous situation, while Marisol (Ana Ortiz) feels the need to get some closure with Peter (guest star James Denton). Elsewhere, Genevieve (Susan Lucci) makes a new fiend, while Adrian (Tom Irwin) plans to share some big news. Season Finale New

10:01 p.m. on ABC

MistressesGuest star Lynn Whitfield (“Greenleaf”) returns as April’s (Rochelle Aytes) mother in the new episode “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and it’s not a happy visit. Mom isn’t pleased about her daughter’s relationship with Marc (Rob Mayes), and added complications involving the elder woman’s health arise. Karen (Yunjin Kim) has doubts about new nanny Lydia (guest star Alanna Masterson). Joss (Jes Macallan) is stunned to learn who Kate’s (Tabrett Bethell) new beau is. New

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obvious Daliyah has mixed emotions on the subject. Leila’s (Moran Atias) relationship with Cogswell (Chris Noth) drives a wedge between her and her sister. New

10:31 p.m. on ABC

blackishWord of layoffs in his firm panics Dre (Anthony Anderson), who fears both losing his job and having his idealized family image tampered with, in “The Johnson Show.” Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) believes she can handle a school auction all on her own, but she ultimately has to turn to her children (Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner, Miles Brown, Marsai Martin) for help. Guest stars include Nicole Sullivan (“MADtv”) and Brittany Daniel (“Joe Dirt”).

THURSDAY 9 p.m. on CW

Beauty and the BeastVincent (Jay Ryan) is put to the test — actually, a whole battery of them — in the new episode “Means to an End.” The would-be beast buyer wants to see just what he might be getting, but Vincent plays it cagey in a bid to avoid confirming his true nature. Cat, JT and Heather (Kristin Kreuk, Austin Basis, Nicole Gale Anderson) continue their efforts on the intended behalf of Vincent. New

10 p.m. on FX

Sex&Drugs&Rock&RollGigi (Elizabeth Gillies) tries to deal with the situation as Johnny’s (Denis Leary) charity anthem catches on in the new episode “Tramps Like Us.” Elsewhere, Flash (John Corbett) makes another important decision,

while Rehab (John Ales) feels very unhappy with his contribution to the hip-hop musical “Feast” as rehearsals get under way. Elaine Hendrix also stars. New

FRIDAY 8 p.m. on FOX

MasterChefThe beginning of the two-hour presentation “Gordon Ramsay Masterclass/Vets, Jets and Home Cooks” is all about lobster, as chef, host and judge Ramsay shows how to separate one for culinary purposes. Seeing leads to doing for 16 contestants, since they have to emulate what Ramsay did. Then, the remaining competitors are divided into two squads to serve just over 100 military veterans a steak dish that also involves two sides and a sauce.

8 p.m. on CW

Masters of IllusionThe title “Classic Magic Mashups” suggests that each act will involve several familiar aspects of prestidigitation, likely causing the featured illusionists to reach beyond their usual comfort zones to incorporate other elements. The performers showcased here are Les Arnold and Dazzle, Chris Randall, Jason Bishop, Johnny Ace Palmer, Sittah and Greg Frewin. Dean Cain continues as host. Another episode follows.

SATURDAY 8 p.m. on CBS

Rush HourIt’s one thing to be harassed, but when the targets are power players and the source of the problem seems to be the same person in all cases, it becomes a matter for Carter and Lee (Justin Hires, Jon Foo) in the new episode “The Dark Night.” The detectives’ probe reveals that the victims have plenty of skeletons they’d rather leave in their respective closets. Wendie Malick, Aimee Garcia and Page Kennedy also star. New

Gordon ramsay hosts “MasterChef”

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TUESDAY 8 p.m. on FREEFORM

Pretty Little LiarsIn the new episode “Original Gangsters,” a concerned Jason (Drew van Acker) comes to town to warn Ali (Sasha Pieterse) not to trust Mary (Andrea Parker), while Ezra (Ian Harding) receives a call about a figure from out of his past and Noel Kahn (Brant Daugherty) grows more suspicious. Elsewhere, the girls find a storm cellar that is fairly loaded with clues. New

9 p.m. on ABC

Bachelor in Paradise: After ParadiseSince many people like to talk about the events of a “Bachelor in Paradise” episode right after it airs, ABC again is providing a relevant outlet this summer with the return of this after-show. It wouldn’t be a “Bachelor” or “Bachelorette” program without host Chris Harrison, and he’s back again to lead the conversation, which involves contestants from the series, viewers — via social media and telephone — and franchise-fan studio guests. Season Premiere New

WEDNESDAY 10 p.m. on CBS

American GothicJack (Gabriel Bateman) falls prey to potential danger, without the recovering Cam’s (Justin Chatwin) guidance and under the influence of a new friend (guest star Aviv Cohen), in the new episode “Kindred Spirits.” A reporter who’s become a problem for the Hawthornes is the focus for Garrett and Alison (Antony Starr, Juliet Rylance). Brady (Elliot Knight) advances the probe of the Silver Bells Killer. Virginia Madsen and Megan Ketch also star. New

10 p.m. on FX

TyrantIn the new episode “Truth and Dignity,” Barry’s hardline policies put Daliyah (Melia Kreiling) in serious danger, while Al-Qadi (Annet Mahendru) offers a risky plan in a bid to move toward peace. Fauzi (Fares Fares) puts his heart on the line, but it’s

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