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Sumter Scene: October 28, 2023

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

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“Jurassic Park” still brings the thrills

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Operatic opposition: HBO period drama lifts curtain on Season 2

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The wishing wall: Contestants leave their fortune up to fate in ‘The Wall’

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

October 29 – November 03, 2023

Back home again: ‘SEAL Team’ returns to CBS

BY JAY BOBBIN

The need for fall programming caused by the enter-

Bravo Team; also an executive producer of the show,

episodes that will be new to them, all six existing sea-

tainment-industry strikes has led to some interesting re-

Boreanaz has directed a number of episodes as well

sons are available on Paramount+.

purposing, including the return of one show from the

(he handled two of the fifth-year stories that CBS is

streaming world to the broadcast network it left.

about to air).

For Boreanaz, “SEAL Team” is marking the continuation of a television career that now has spanned

“SEAL Team” started its fifth season still airing on

Former cast regular Jessica Paré (“Mad Men”)

26 years continuously, among several series. That run

CBS in 2021, but after the first several episodes, it

returned to direct a Season 5 story, and though he

began with his role as vampire sleuth Angel, first on

moved to Paramount+, which showed the remainder

didn’t handle any of the directing that year, co-star

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997-2003) and then in

of that season exclusively … leading to much con-

Max Thieriot has also called the shots at times on the

his own spinoff, “Angel” (1999-2004). He followed

versation about whether viewers would pay to keep

series. It’s highly possible that he simply didn’t have

that by playing a more earthly detective, FBI Special

watching a program they previously had gotten for

the time for that extra duty then, since he was busy

Agent Seeley Booth, on “Bones” (2005-2017), and

free (or as part of a basic-cable subscription) on a

prepping his own show — CBS’s “Fire Country,”

then came “SEAL Team.”

broadcast network. Evidently, enough of them did,

which had a successful launch last fall and was re-

since the show earned a sixth year from Paramount+,

newed for a second season.

and a seventh has been ordered.

Boreanaz isn’t the first in his family to be a television personality: His father, who has used the profes-

The “SEAL Team” cast also includes Neil Brown

sional name Dave Roberts, was a weathercaster on

Jr. (“Insecure”), A.J. Buckley (“CSI: NY”), Toni Trucks

stations in Buffalo, N.Y., where Boreanaz was born,

previously are ending up on that network after all,

(“Corporate”), Judd Lormand (“Big George Foreman,”

and Philadelphia. Now, the son continues to uphold

with their broadcast run starting Thursday, Nov. 2.

2023) and Raffi Barsoumian (“The Code”). While

the general family business — and to make CBS sat-

David Boreanaz continues to star as Jason Hayes,

fans who haven’t seen the series since it moved from

isfied – by bringing his latest series back to where it

the leader of the elite group of Navy SEALs known as

CBS likely will be glad to see it back there, with

started, literally.

However, the Year 5 episodes not shown on CBS

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