
Plunge into the intense world of Broadway musicals in this new series co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The story centers on a songwriting team (Debra Messing, Christian Borle) as they work on a new production based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Anjelica Huston plays the hard-nosed producer, with Katharine McPhee as Karen, the cornfed Iowa girl who might just be the star they''re looking for.
ESPN''s annual college basketball Rivalry Week festivities start with this Big East matchup between the defending national champion Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals at Louisville''s KFC Yum! Center. Coach Jim Calhoun''s Huskies have talented players in Roscoe Smith, Shabazz Napier, Jeremy Lamb and big man Andre Drummond. Top players on the floor for coach Rick Pitino''s Cardinals include Kyle Kuric, Russ Smith and Gorgui Dieng.
In this new episode, Roger and Aaron are in Nashville, where they face off with the Tennessee Titans' Jordan Babineaux over a chicken dish with the ominous name of Satan's Tongue, with the loser getting cooled down NFL-style. Also on the menu are a couple of comfort foods spiced to not-so-comfy levels. Don't look for a beverage to cut the heat; these guys are drinking something called the Vodka of Doom.
It's "Truth-Up Day" at school, and the girls are looking for answers. Spencer (Troian Bellisario) wants to know what's up with Jason and her father (Drew Van Acker, Nolan North). Aria (Lucy Hale) grills Holden (Shane Coffey) on his activities during their "date nights," and Hanna (Ashley Benson) tries to figure out Kate's (Natalie Hall) situation. Emily (Shay Mitchell) gets help with her bid to rejoin the swim team in the new episode "The Naked Truth."
House's (Hugh Laurie) unconventional approach to medicine gets results, but it's also been known to get him in trouble. In this new episode, a violent incident involving a patient leads to a review by the chief of neurology (guest star Jeffrey Wright). He hears each diagnostic team member's take on the events at hand before coming to a decision on the department's future in "Nobody's Fault." Robert Sean Leonard and Jesse Spencer also star.
Jennifer Coolidge reprises her role as Sophie, who lives upstairs from Max and Caroline (Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs). She has a cleaning business and would like the girls to work for her, but first she has to see if they have the skills she requires in the new episode "And the Blind Spot." Garrett Morris also stars.
Barbara lives in a million-dollar neighborhood, but her home is filled with items she's scrounged from alleys and trash bins. Needless to say, her neighbors aren't happy. This new episode also pays a visit to Fred and Mary, whose cockroach-infested home is probably the cause of Fred's end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Ethan (Blair Redford) is implicated in a crime and flees with Sutton to the reservation where he grew up with his father (Gil Birmingham). When things get tense between Ethan and his dad, Sutton has to play mediator, which makes her uncomfortable, but she appreciates seeing a different side of him. Back home, Emma must pretend to have witnessed something she never saw. Alexandra Chando plays twins Sutton and Emma in the new episode "Reservation for Two."
A big dance is coming up, but Zoe (Rachel Bilson) doesn't want to attend with Judson (Wes Brown) because it's too early in their relationship, so she plans a sleepover with Rose (McKaley Miller) instead. George (Scott Porter) is in trouble with Lemon (Jaime King) when he misplaces the save-the-date notices for the wedding. Lemon secretly sets up her father (Tim Matheson) with a date for the dance in the new episode "Sweetie Pies & Sweaty Palms."
Not every Alcatraz alumnus resurfacing in San Francisco came from behind the bars. In this new episode, one of the prison's guards (Jim Parrack) reappears. He's a good guy who's being roped into committing some bad acts if Madsen (Sarah Jones) and her colleagues can't stop him in "Guy Hastings." Jorge Garcia and Robert Forster also star.
Bo (Anna Silk) seeks Kenzi's (Ksenia Solo) help in getting over being rejected by Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), who is leaning on Hale (K.C. Collins) for support. Bo meets a fury who tries to hire her to kill a human, but she refuses, with scary consequences, in the new episode "Faetal Attraction."
Mention the Underground Railroad, and most people will think of Harriet Tubman, although she was only one of many who helped slaves escape to freedom in the mid-19th century. This new special tells the story of another. William Still, a free black man based in Philadelphia, helped hundreds of slaves, many traveling in crates as "human cargo," get across the border to Canada. The records he kept became one of the definitive books about the Underground Railroad.
In this new episode, viewers meet Dorothy, who was neglected by her own alcoholic mother and is now addicted to alcohol, drugs and hurting herself. Ivan had a promising career as a rapper until his immersion in the thug life led him into an addiction to PCP.
The series following lawbreakers through their first days behind bars concludes with "Cell Block Threats," in which a teenager accused of phoning a bomb threat into a school is terrified of retribution from his fellow inmates. A college student with anger issues who is arrested for driving under the influence comes close to starting a riot. And a Vietnam veteran finds life in jail especially challenging.
Brad and Gary are in Milan, Italy, for Men's Fashion Week in this new episode. While Gary experiences his first runway shows, Brad has his first meetings with top designers without Rachel along. He also must fit in his ongoing blogging duties for Details magazine and come up with a dress for actress Jessica Alba to wear on the red carpet in "Ciao, Brad!"
Castle and Beckett (Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic) investigate the murder of a treasure hunter that turns out to be connected to an unsolved homicide from 1947. To crack the current case, Castle realizes they have to solve the old one. Flashbacks bring it to life, featuring Castle as a hard-boiled '40s private eye and Beckett as a femme fatale, in the new episode "The Blue Butterfly."