Oct. 18 – Oct. 24
A Night with Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick goes on a deadly date & Reba’s new show…with her boyfriend!
FRIDAY, Oct. 18
Happy’s Place
New Reba McEntire sitcom (above) about two half-sisters running a restaurant also features her former Reba costar Melissa Peterman, and Belissa Escobedo—and Reba’s actor boyfriend, Rex Linn (8 p.m., NBC).
Hysteria!
Campy new horror thriller series takes aim at ‘80s-era paranoia—when parents thought heavy metal music was a vessel for demons to infect young ears—and stars Julie Bowen, Anna Camp, Milly Shapiro and Bruce Campbell (Peacock).
Woman of the Hour
Anna Kendrick makes her directorial debut and stars in this based-on-a-true-story drama about an aspiring actress whose life intersected with a serial killer on TV’s The Dating Game. Tony Hale plays the show’s “Jim Lange”-ish host (Netflix).
SATURDAY, Oct. 19
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Annual awards ceremony will feature the induction of Cher, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Ozzy Osborne, Kool & The Gang, Mary J. Blige and the Dave Matthews Band into the hallowed hall (streaming live on Disney+).
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
You can stream the perennial 1966 Halloween TV classic free tonight (and tomorrow night), and watch Charlie Brown prep for a costume party, Snoopy set his sights on the Red Baron, and Linus patiently waiting for a pumpkin patch miracle (AppleTV+).
SUNDAY, Oct. 20
Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles
How dangerous was LA in the 1970s? This new series takes back to a heyday of gangs and crack cocaine and the reign of a mysterious killer known as the Southside Slayer (7 p.m., Oxygen).
Sam + Coby
The YouTube horror creators buy a haunted schoolhouse and pledge to sleep there for a whole week. Can they do it? (Samandcolby on YouTube).
MONDAY, Oct. 21
Tokyo Uber Blues
A filmmaker becomes an Uber Eats bike deliverer in Tokyo to chip away at his $40,000 student debt in this documentary (above) filmed with smartphones and GoPros (PBS).
A Night With Bill Murray
The versatile actor hosts a night of films in which he’s appeared, plus a personal favorite, along with inside stories about them all. Is Caddyshack one of them? Stripes? Meatballs? You’ll have to tune in to find out! (8 p.m., TCM).
TUESDAY, Oct. 22
Uncharted
Two-night documentary takes you inside the world of songstress Alicia Keys and her efforts to help young black and brown women trying to break into the music biz (Paramount+)
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23
Nature
The acclaimed docuseries returns tonight following a filmmaker as he documents efforts to habituate a notoriously protective 500-pound silverback gorilla in an effort to save him and his fellow apes in the African Congo from extinction (8 p.m., PBS).
Breath of Fire
Go behind the scenes of the multi-million-dollar Kundalini yoga industry and the scandalous rise and fall of its charismatic leader guru (9 p.m., HBO).
THURSDAY, Oct. 24
Canary Black
A CIA operative is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her country to save her kidnapped husband. With Kate Beckinsale and Rupert Friend (Prime Video).
Before
Billy Crystal, Rosie Perez and Judith Light lead the cast of this supernatural mystery series (above) about a child psychologist who loses his wife but finds a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to his past (AppleTV+).
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Animated comedy series returns tonight for its fifth and final season about a work crew charged with repairing space potholes Paramount+).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Feel like you’re taking a guided tour of the Big Apple without ever leaving your big comfy couch with New York Nico’s Guide to NYC (Dey Street Publishing), a compendium of celebration about the greatest city in the world and its greatest offerings of shops, eateries, things to do and characters. Author Nico (Nicolas Heller) is a filmmaker and social media creator with millions of online followers hailed as the city’s “unofficial talent scout,” so you’re getting his recommendations of the best things to see, do and experience.
BRING IT HOME
The acclaimed Emmy-award-winning political comedy series Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as a female U.S. president with a mostly incompetent team (Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Gary Cole), now comes packaged with all 65 episodes and special features (Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment).
Blow winds, blow! Twisters (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment), the follow-up to the 1990s action-packed hit, is another twister-y tale of tornado chasers in the Midwest, this time led by Glen Powell, Daisy-Edgar Jones and Anthony Ramos. Plus lotsa cool-io bonus features, including a guided tour of the movie set by Powell.
The Media Tourist 