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• FOR THE WEEK OF SEpTEmbER 4 - 10, 2023 • YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO TV ENTERTAINmENT Norman Reedus in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" It's another exciting weekend for Formula One fans as the Italian Grand Prix kicks into gear Sept. 1-3, at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy. Practices, qualifying runs and race-day coverage air live on ESPN. As the Formula One season travels to Italy, naturally, Charles Le- clerc and Team Scuderia Ferrari quickly come to mind. Looking to avoid reliving subpar performances from last season, this year Ferrari has remained in the hunt for a World Championship, in large part thanks to Leclerc. Prior to the summer break, the Monégasque driveronly had two retirements with a couple of minor accidents in Baku and Miami during qualifying, including two podium appearances in four races. And while teammate Carlos Sainz has performed well himself, Leclerc remains Ferrari's most reliable driver to get the job done, beating Sainz 8-4 in qualifiers and losing to him three times while beating him six times in races. As points become tougher to attain, individual and overall team performances are paramount down the stretch, and for Leclerc and Ferrari to remain in the hunt, they'll need to get past Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, with Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez seemingly running away with the World Championship. Going into this weekend, Leclerc has gone over 12 months without a Formula One victory. Look for Leclerc and Team Fer- rari to put together a good strat- egy and avoid taking any further steps back on the grid. Ferrari and Leclerc look to keep consistency going in Italy By Roberto Jozef playerprofile By Adam Thomlison Q: What has Shawn Ash- more been doing since the X-Men movies? I thought he was on the cusp of movie stardom, but hav- en't seen him much since. A: That's because you're looking for movies. After making a name for himself as Bobby Drake (also known as Iceman) in the 2000s X-Men movies, Canadian actor Shawn Ashmore pivoted to TV. And he's been doing pretty well for himself. He actually started the shift before he was even done with the Iceman role. When his final X-Men movie, "Days of Future Past," was released in 2014, Ashmore was already starring on a high-profile TV series, Fox's "The Following." When that ended in 2015, he wasted little time jumping to another network drama, ABC's "Conviction." That only lasted a season, though, which freed him up to join his big- gest series yet, ABC's smash-hit cop drama, "The Rookie." He's been playing attorney Wes- ley Evers on the show since its launch in 2018, also appearing in a crossover episode of its spinoff, "The Rookie: Feds." Ashmore's still dabbling in movies — mostly low-budget indie dramas and thrillers such as 2020's "Darkness Falls" — but it's clear that his focus is on TV. Between the starring roles I listed, he's shown up on other big shows, such as Prime's "The Boys" and CBS's "S.W.A.T.," and starred in Microsoft's experi- mental half-show half-game, "Quantum Break." Shawn Ashmore ON ABC celebrityUpdate OF THE ROOKIE

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