Sumter Scene: January 09, 2022

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Horoscopes ........................................................... 2 Now Streaming...................................................... 2 Puzzles ................................................................... 4

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‘Point Break’ still furnishes land, air and sea excitement

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John Cena is ‘Peacemaker’ again in HBO Max series

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A couple takes care of business & family on ‘Married to Real Estate’

TV Schedules ......................................................... 5 Top 10 ................................................................... 6 Home Video .......................................................... 7

January 8 - January 17

Call her ‘Kat’ again: Mayim Bialik’s Fox sitcom returns

BY JAY BOBBIN

These days, there’s little question that Mayim Bialik is one of television’s busiest talents.

play in, and Alissa is taking it to its next level. I think

of the show, along with fellow “Big Bang Theory”

people will be very pleased that there’s a real deep-

alum Jim Parsons – was excited to bring her former

Not only is the actress continuing her duty as a “Jeopardy!” host – splitting the syndicated weeknight version with Ken Jennings, and also presiding over special ABC editions (including a college championship coming in February) – she’s starting Season 2 of her sitcom follow-up to “The Big Bang Theory.” Returning Sunday, Jan. 9, Fox’s “Call Me Kat” resumes as Bialik’s cat-cafe owner is thrilled when her site is visited by Joey Lawrence, Jenna von Oy and Michael Stoyanov ... co-stars of Kat’s favorite childhood show, “Blossom,” on which Bialik played the title character.

ening of all the characters. Everybody is just really

“Blossom” cohorts aboard for the season premiere.

shining this season, and it’s great.”

“We really grew up together,” she acknowledges. “We

With another showrunner (Alissa Neubauer) guiding “Kat” for its sophomore round, Bialik reflects that in adapting “Kat” from the British series “Miranda,” former executive producer Darlene Hunt “created all of these fabulous characters and this world for us to

friends who come together, even though they have

been upsides to this past year of my life and career

parts missing.”

that I never would have predicted,” she notes. “I’m

Two characters now have Kat in the middle of a love triangle, since she has to decide between longtime pal Max (Cheyenne Jackson) and new beau Oscar (Christopher Rivas). “I think a lot of our show rings true for women in particular,” Bialik reasons, “but also for anyone who’s ever felt like they’re a little bit on the outside of what ‘the norm’ is. Cheyenne Jackson has said that our show is about different kinds of lonely people. They sort of build their own community of

Kyla Pratt, Julian Gant and Emmy winners Swoosie

were each other’s social group, and we have a similar sense of humor and way that we speak. It’s like having siblings around. Devoting three weeks of each month to filming “Call Me Kat,” Bialik – also very visible now in commercials in her real-life “role” as a neuroscientist – uses the other one for her podcast (“Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown”) and her “Jeopardy!” work. “There have

sort of getting to have an open mind and see where

Kurtz and Leslie Jordan also continue as “Kat” co-

all of these aspects will take me. It’s been like a really

stars. Expectedly, Bialik – also an executive producer

good roller coaster.”

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