TV Media Weekly
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March 4 - 10, 2017
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Sunday afternoon
romp through the space-time con-
tinuum.
"Time After Time" premieres on
the alphabet network Sunday,
March 5, but while both it and its
Fox-based competitor deal with
time travel and its consequences,
the similarities don't stretch much
further than that.
Based on the 1979 science-fic-
tion movie of the same title —
which itself is based on the novel
by Karl Alexander — "Time After
Time" investigates what might
have happened if 19th-century au-
thor H.G. Wells really had built a
working time machine, instead of
just writing about one.
Freddie Stroma ("UnREAL")
stars as a young Wells, whose
time-twisting invention is stolen
by legendary serial killer Jack the
Ripper, played by Josh Bowman
("Revenge").
What follows is a race through
time, ending in modern-day New
York. While the Ripper adjusts
quickly to the 21st-century world,
Wells finds it all a bit overwhelm-
ing — that is, until he meets Jane
(Genesis Rodriguez, "Identity
Thief," 2013), a captivating wom-
an who immediately steals his
heart.
With the Ripper picking up his
murderous habit in a new century,
the famed novelist is the only one
who knows his identity, and what
develops is a thrilling game of cat
and mouse between the two,
while Wells's romance with a thrill-
ingly modern woman heats up the
screen. "Time After Time" pre-
mieres Sunday, March 5, on ABC.
Untrue crime: True crime an-
thologies are also hot commodi-
ties, from Netflix's "Making a Mur-
derer" to "The People v. O.J. Simp-
son: American Crime Story" on FX.
NBC's new "Trial & Error" takes
the genre in a different direction,
though: a comedic one. Premiering
Tuesday, March 14, the series is
structured similarly to a true-crime
anthology, but there's no true
crime here. This is fiction, through
and through, even if the trappings
do make it look like it could be real.
Nicholas D'Agosto ("Gotham")
stars as big-city lawyer Josh Simon,
whose ambition and idealism
leads him to a small southern
town where an eccentric poetry
professor stands accused of mur-
dering his wife.
John Lithgow ("The Crown")
stars as John's client and the ac-
cused murderer. But, despite being
innocent until proven guilty, his ac-
tions around town sure don't
make him look like an innocent
man. Jayma Mays ("Glee"), Ste-
ven Boyer ("The Wolf of Wall
Street," 2013), Krysta Rodriguez
("Smash") and Sherri Shepherd
("The Soul Man") round out the
cast as the locals involved in the
case.
Like a "real" anthology, the aim
of "Trial & Error" is to wrap up the
murder mystery and trial by the
end of the first season, with each
season focusing on a new crime.
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