Y’ALL, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY IS TOTALLY EXPLORING PARALLEL UNIVERSES. Be careful out there, the Upside Down could just appear at any moment, apparently.
Is this going to be the dragonpit on Game of Thrones next season? Maybe!
Hey, Jesse Watters, let Ronny Chieng and The Daily Show teach you how to 1. talk to folks in Chinatown about this election and 2. be funny, you racist halfwit.
I’m getting real tired of your bullshit, Robert Kirkman.
Because they will be premiering against the second Presidential debate this weekend — yep, Trump and Clinton go at it again on Sunday, so hold on to your hats — HBO has made the premieres of Insecure, Divorce and the second episode of Westworld available to stream right now.
Thanks to the robbery that took over the internet this week, Keeping up with the Kardashians has halted production for a little while. But breathe easily, it’s still expected to premiere on October 23.
Burke Ramsey is suing the crap out of that pathologist who said Burke killed his sister in that CBS true crime special.
Can someone bring David Letterman back to TV, please? Just for one episode so he can interview Donald Trump.
LOL, OK. Nice try, guys.
Woah, The Simpsons will be celebrating its 600th episode. That’s so many episodes.
In your good news of the morning, Black Mirror will have a fourth season on Netflix. Bonus! Here’s the trailer for season three:
In your shrug-worthy news of the morning, Stitchers has been renewed for a third season by Freeform.
Someone continues to employ Jim Belushi.
Amazon and one of the producers of The Walking Dead are turning the horror podcast, Lore, into an anthology series and it sounds right up my alley.
In other development news:
- Jay-Z and Spike are working on a docuseries about the tragic story of Kalief Browder and the criminal justice system.
- ABC bought The Good Doctor, a medical drama being produced by the guy who created House and Daniel Dae Kim. I don’t think Kim is going to star in it, but Hawaii Five-0 can’t stay on forever.
- NBC bought Flight Risk, which is being described as a “thriller with comedic elements” from the executive producers of Shameless.
- The guy who created Mad Love sold Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices, a blended family comedy to CBS.
- NBC bought a “haunted house procedural drama” from the guys who wrote Paranormal Activity. “Haunted house procedural drama.”
- FOX bought Type-A, a comedy from the guy who created Life in Pieces.
- MTV is turning the dark fairy tale comic, Freaks of the Heartland, into a series.
- History is developing Blue Book, an alien drama, from Robert Zemeckis.
R.I.P. Austin Kalish, writer on All in the Family and Maude.
WATCH THIS
Saturday Night Live: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Twenty One Pilots and I guess I’m blogging this thing again. 10:30 p.m., Saturday, NBC
The Real Housewives of New Jersey: There’s no description up for this episode, so I’m going to go with “yelling.” 7 p.m., Sunday, Bravo
Westworld: The Man in Black is still poking around looking for the secrets of Westworld. 8 p.m., Sunday, HBO
Friday
13th: This documentary, named for the 13th amendment, takes a hard look at our prison system and mass incarceration problems. Netflix
The Ranch: Season premiere. Netflix
Sunday
The Second Presidential Debate: Can. Not. Wait. 8 p.m., ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, CNBC, CSPAN
Divorce: Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Hayden Church star in this series from about a couple whose marriage is falling apart. Most notably, it is from Sharon Horgan, the creator and star of Catastrophe so that is promising. Series premiere. 9 p.m., HBO
Insecure: This new series by Issa Rae is so good and so funny. If you watch only thing on this entire list make it the Presidential Debate. But then if you could pick a second, make it this. Series premiere. 9:30 p.m., HBO
Late Night: Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Friday): Tyler Perry, Abigail Spencer, Van Morrison The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: (Friday): Diane Lane, Aja Naomi King, Sebastian Maniscalco Watch What Happens Live (Sunday): Colin Jost, Michael Che
| FRI. | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
| ABC | Last Man Standing (new) |
Dr. Ken (new) |
Shark Tank (new) |
20/20 (new) |
| CBS | MacGyver (new) |
Hawaii Five-0 (new) |
Blue Bloods (new) |
| CW | iHeartRadio Music Festival (new) |
Local |
| FOX | Hell’s Kitchen (new) |
The Exorcist (new) |
Local |
| NBC | Timeless (repeat) |
Dateline NBC (new) |
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| SAT. | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | 11:00 | 11:30 |
| ABC | College Football: Florida State at Miami (live) |
News/Local |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (repeat) |
NCIS: New Orleans (repeat) |
48 Hours (new) |
News/Local |
| FOX | College Football: Washington at Oregon (live) |
News/Local |
| NBC | NASCAR: Sprint Cup (live) |
News/Local | Saturday Night Live (Lin-Manuel Miranda & Twenty One Pilots ) |
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| SUN. | 6:00 | 6:30 | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
| ABC | America’s Funniest Home Videos (new) |
Once Upon a Time (new) |
The Presidential Debates (new) |
| CBS | NFL Football (live) |
60 Minutes (new) |
The Presidential Debates (new) |
| FOX | The Simpsons (repeat) |
Bob’s Burgers (new) |
The Simpsons (new) |
Son of Zorn (repeat) |
The Presidential Debates (new) |
| NBC | Sunday Night Football: Giants at Packers (live) |