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TV Media Weekly
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March 17 - 23, 2018
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Sunday afternoon
celebrates some of the smartest
kids in America.
"Genius Junior" premieres
Sunday, March 18, on the peacock
network, with host Neil Patrick
Harris ("How I Met Your Mother")
overseeing 12 teams of little ge-
niuses competing to win a pretty
big financial grant.
In each one-hour episode, the
teams of three — which have hi-
larious names such as "The Fast
and the Curious," "The Brainy
Bunch" and "The Dork Side" —
compete in a series of rounds,
each one more difficult than the
last. With a clock ticking down,
the kids are challenged with doing
complex math equations, memo-
rizing the country's whole high-
way system and spelling compli-
cated words backwards.
It should be pretty clear that
these kids can't just be geniuses in
one subject — they need be mas-
ters of them all. In the final round,
the team that's done the best over
the course of the episode takes on
The Cortex, where its members try
to build up their prize fund, but
this test makes the earlier chal-
lenges look like kindergarten.
The smartest kids on television
all come together in one place in
"Genius Junior" with Neil Patrick
Harris on Sunday, March 18, on
NBC.
Pilot investigator: CBS has
found its Magnum. The network,
which has already greenlit a re-
boot of "Murphy Brown" for the
2018-19 TV season, is also work-
ing on pilots for reboots of "Mag-
num, P.I." and "Cagney & Lacey."
Neither of them has yet received
an order for a full series.
Jay Hernandez ("A Bad Moms
Christmas," 2017) has been cast
in "Magnum P.I." as the titular
hero, a role that was famously
played in the 1980 to 1988 series
by Tom Selleck ("Blue Bloods").
Whether he'll wear open-but-
toned Hawaiian shirts, a Detroit Ti-
gers ball cap and sport an impres-
sive mustache like Selleck did re-
mains to be seen. If picked up to
series, "Magnum P.I" will be Her-
nandez's first series regular role
since he starred in the Fox drama
"Gang Related" in 2014.
In the potential reboot, Thomas
Magnum is an ex-Navy SEAL who
returns home from a series of
missions in Afghanistan and be-
comes a private investigator. Of
course, the series is still in the pi-
lot stage, when the studio and
network test out a potential new
show's formula, so keep in mind
that any of these details can
change between now and a po-
tential series premiere.
"Magnum P.I.'s" pilot is being
written and produced by Peter
Lenkov, the man who brought re-
makes of "Hawaii Five-0" and
"MacGyver" to life. With "Hawaii
Five-0" currently in its eighth sea-
son and "MacGyver" in its sec-
ond, if anyone can recreate the
Magnum magic for a modern au-
dience, it's probably him.
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