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March 18 - 24, 2018 WHATS UP! T5 BY ANDREW WARREN TV Media History lesson: It's an ori- gin story with which most pop culture consumers are no doubt familiar: an infant is sent fleeing from a dying planet in a spacecraft that crashes on Earth. He's found by a pair of childless farmers who raise him with a strong moral compass despite his otherworldly abili- ties, and when he grows up, he uses his superpowers to be- come humanity's greatest champion. Superman's beginnings have been visited time and time again both in comics and on screen, but what's been less ex- plored is just what was going on on his home planet of Kryp- ton in the decades before its de- struction. Syfy's new series "Krypton" aims to fill that void by following Seg-El, a young Kryptonian from a family with a tarnished reputation as trou- blemakers, who just so happens to be Superman's grandfather. The superhero drama pre- mieres Wednesday, March 21. The smouldering Cameron Cuffe stars as Seg-El in the first leading role for the young ac- tor, who's previously appeared in "Time After Time" and Brit- ish series "The Halycon." Star- ring alongside him is Shaun Si- pos ("Dark Matter") as a time traveler from the future who brings Seg-El a message about Krypton's future — and it isn't a pleasant one. Georgina Campbell ("Broad- church") stars as Lyta Zod, a warrior and Seg-El's secret lov- er, with Ian McElhinney ("Game of Thrones"), Elliot Cowan ("Da Vinci's Demons"), Rasmus Hardiker ("Thunder- birds Are Go") and Wallis Day ("Hollyoaks") rounding out the main cast. Kryptonians have been hot on screens in recent years. Al- though Superman movies "Man of Steel" (2013) and "Bat- man v Superman: Dawn of Jus- tice" (2016) both met with luke- warm reception from critics, they performed well at the box office, and CW's "Supergirl" continues to be a hit with crit- ics and audiences alike. "Krypton," though, peeks into the past to reveal the un- told story of what happened long before Superman was even born. The new series pre- mieres Wednesday, March 21, on Syfy. Little smart-alecs: Kids. Who hasn't felt a little bit dumb when one of them pulls out an obscure fact, corrects a spelling mistake or solves a math prob- lem while the adults are still fumbling for their calculators? There sure are some brainy children out there, and NBC's new summer game show cele- brates some of the smartest kids in America. "Genius Junior" premieres Sunday, March 18, on the pea- cock network, with host Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother") overseeing 12 teams of little geniuses com- peting to win a pretty big finan- cial grant. In each one-hour episode, the teams of three — which have hilarious names such as "The Fast and the Curious," "The Brainy Bunch" and "The Dork Side" — compete in a se- ries of rounds, each one more difficult than the last. With a clock ticking down, the kids are challenged with doing complex math equations, memorizing the country's whole highway system and spelling complicat- ed words backwards. It should be pretty clear that these kids can't just be geniuses in one subject — they need be masters of them all. In the final round, the team that's done the best over the course of the epi- sode takes on The Cortex, where its members try to build up their prize fund, but this test makes the earlier challenges look like kindergarten. The smartest kids on televi- sion 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 net- work, which has already green- lit a reboot of "Murphy Brown" for the 2018-19 TV season, is also working on pilots for re- boots of "Magnum, 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-buttoned Hawaiian shirts, a Detroit Tigers ball cap and sport an impressive mus- tache like Selleck did remains to be seen. If picked up to se- ries, "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 Afghani- stan and becomes a private in- vestigator. Of course, the series is still in the pilot 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 be- tween now and a potential se- ries premiere. "Magnum P.I.'s" pilot is be- ing written and produced by Peter Lenkov, the man who brought remakes of "Hawaii Five-0" and "MacGyver" to life. With "Hawaii Five-0" cur- rently in its eighth season and "MacGyver" in its second, if anyone can recreate the Mag- num magic for a modern audi- ence, it's probably him. AIRY ALLERGIES BIRDS BIRTH BLOOMS BLOSSOM BREEZE BUDDING BULB CALF CHICK CHIRPING EGG EQUINOX FARMING FERTILE FLORAL FOAL FURROW GALOSHES GRASS GREEN LAMB MELT MULCH PETALS POLLEN PUDDLES RAIN RENEWAL ROBIN SAP SEASON SEEDS SHOWERS SPRING BREAK SUN TADPOLE THAW WORMS Spring is in the Air Wallis Day as seen in "Krypton" WORD SEARCH STARS ON SCREEN Solution on page T23