What's On Tonight (Friday): Hello Larry!

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Other highlights: The U.S. Open, a documentary about voting rights and yet another day of seemingly endless dumps from the streamers for Friday, September 18th.

Top Pick
🔔 Wilmore (Peacock, 3:01 AM) Four years after the cancellation of The Nightly Show less than 2-1/2 months before the 2016 election, Larry Wilmore returns to late night just in time to shepherd us through the home stretch of the 2020 election.

Highlights
🔔 All In: The Fight For Democracy (Amazon, 3:01 AM) Documentary from Liz Grubus and Lisa Cortés about the fight against voter suppression. Featuring Stacy Abrams, Eric Holder, Eric Foner and Andrew Young.

🔔 American Barbecue Showdown (Netflix, 3:01 AM) More quality programming.

🔔 Antebellum (VOD Including AppleTV+) The Janelle Monáe-starring film has been garnering mixed-to-negative reviews, including from Vulture, which called it a 'noxious tour of historic violence against Black folks in service of a story that has nothing novel to say about the obliterating function of whiteness and anti-Black racism.'

🔔 Becoming (Disney+, 3:01 AM) From executive producer LeBron James, a look at how celebrities became celebrities. 'Each episode of the documentary-style series, shot in vérité, will visit a celebrity’s hometown, touring important locations that were central to their upbringing.'

🔔 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Series premiere.

🔔 Fernando Torres: The Last Symbol (Amazon, 3:01 AM) Documentary film about the former professional footballer.

🔔 Long Way Up (AppleTV+, 3:01 AM) The third installment of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's travel series drops three episodes; watch the trailer here.

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🔔 PEN15 (Hulu, 3:01 AM) Second season premiere, with seven new episodes.

🔔 Ratched (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Sarah Paulson stars as the titular character in this origin story for the villain of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Coming from the mind of Ryan Murphy, the customary warning 'don't get your hopes up' applies.

🔔 Ted Lasso (Apple TV+, 3:01 AM)

🔔 🏌🏻‍♂️ U.S. Open Golf Championship (Golf Channel, 9:30 AM/NBC, 2:00 PM/Peacock, 5:00 PM) Second round coverage.

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🔔 Masters Of Illusion (The CW, 8:00 PM) 'Insane Twists On The Classics.'

🔔 River Monsters: Deadliest Man-Eaters (Animal Planet, 8:00 PM)

🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue (VH1, 8:00 PM)

🔔 WWE Friday Night SmackDown (Fox, 8:00 PM)

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)

🔔🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 PM) 'Chicken & Pie.'

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🔔 🎭 Great Performances (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'Now Hear This' kicks off a second series of four new episodes with 'Haydn: King Of The Strings.'

🔔 Love Island (CBS, 9:00 PM)

🔔 🏀 NBA Basketball (TNT, 9:00 PM) Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, with the Nuggets against the Lakers.

🔔 🐳 World's Deadliest Whale (National Geographic, 9:00 PM)

🔔 World's Funniest Animals (The CW, 9:00 PM) Series premiere.

🔔 Selling The Big Easy (HGTV, 9:00 PM)

🔔 🎭 Art In The Twenty-First Century (PBS, 10:00 PM) 'British history and modern upheaval come together in the works of London artists.'

🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM)

🔔 New York Times Presents: The Hurricane Of Fire (FX, 10:00 PM) Australia's battle against the fires that devastated the continent in the early part of 2020.

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🔔 Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, actress and activist Jane Fonda, Tim Miller of The Bulwark and Republican Voters Against Trump and Trae Crowder, billed as 'the liberal redneck.'

🔔 Room 104 (HBO, 11:00 PM) 'The Last Man.'

Blast From The Past
🎥 Beavis And Butthead Do America (MOMAX, 9:00 PM) Classic and surprisingly well-reviewed juvenile comedy from the mind of Mike Judge.

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