What's On Tonight (Tuesday): Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom!

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The spotlight falls on Cleveland for a 'debate' between a barely sentient rotting squash and the former Vice President of the United States (there will be a live thread for those pulling their hair out at home). Many channels are countering with retro-reruns but there's also sports and a game show relaunch to be had for Tuesday, September 29th.

Top Pick
🔔 The First Presidential Debate (ABC/CBS/CNN/CSPAN/FOX/Fox News/MSNBC/NBC/PBS/Telemundo, 9:00 PM) Live from the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Clinic Campus and moderated by Chris Wallace.

Highlights
🔔 Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Stand-up comedy special.

🔔 Tooning Out The News (CBS All Access, 3:01 AM)

🔔 True Colors (Peacock, 3:01 AM) Documentary series profiling eight Hispanic trailblazers, including astronaut Ellen Ochoa, John Leguiziamo, Alex Rodriguez, AOC and Mario Lopez.

🔔 Welcome To Sudden Death (Netflix, 3:01 AM) Remake of the Jean-Claude Van Damme film, now starring Michael Jai White of Black Dynamite.

🔔⚾ MLB Baseball (ESPN, 7:00 PM) The American League Wild Card Game: Yankees against the Indians. 

🔔 🏀 WNBA Basketball (ESPN2, 7:30 PM) Connecticut vs. Las Vegas in the semifinals. 

The Comey Rule (Showtime, 8:00 PM) Showtime counter-programs the 2020 Presidential Debate with an encore of this two-part series about 2016 election ratfuckery.

Impractical Jokers (TruTV, 8:00 PM) Three-hour marathon.

🔔 Love Island (CBS, 8:00 PM) It's the finale, hope everyone found love amidst the many STDs.

🔔 Life Below Zero (National Geographic, 8:00 PM) 'Into The Night.'

Man Vs. Food (Cooking Channel) Three-hour marathon.

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Mom (CMT, 8:00 PM) If the debate makes you want to drink heavily, turn instead to back-to-back-back-to-back-to-back-to-back episodes of this wacky comedy about sobriety featuring Allison Janney and lots of canned laughter. 

Parks & Recreation (IFC, 8:00 PM) Revisit Pawnee for three hours from season four. 

🔔 Savage Kingdom (National Geographic Wild, 8:00 PM)

Rizzoli & Isles (Lifetime, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Trump V. Biden: The Main Event - A Special Edition Of 20/20 (ABC, 8:00 PM) By all means, let's hype this up like a prize fight. My money is on Ol' Handsome Joe Biden.

Tyler Perry's The Haves And The Have-Nots (OWN, 8:00 PM) Three encore episodes from season seven airing back-to-back.

🔔 The Weakest Link (NBC, 8:00 PM) Premiere. Jane Lynch hosts this reboot of the game show popular all the way back in the early 2000s.

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🔔 Women Make Film (TCM, 8:00 PM)

🔔 🍴 Chopped (Food Network, 9:00 P.M.) 'Want A Gnocchi Sandwich?'

🔔 Inside The NFL (Showtime, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Life Below Zero: The Next Generation (National Geographic, 9:00 PM) 

🔔 Tell Me A Story (CW, 9:00 P.M.) Finale.

🔔 Windy City Rehab (HGTV, 9:00 PM)

Chopped  (Food Network, 10:00 PM) 'Dine On A Dime.'

🔔 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) Kate Capshaw, Ed Begley Jr. and comedian Bobby Kelton.

🔔 Tosh.0 (Comedy Central, 10:00 PM) 

🏈 College Football Classic: 2014 Big 10 Championship, Wisconsin Vs. Ohio State (BTN, 11:00 PM) Spoiler Alert: This does not end well for the Badgers.

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Blast From The Past

🎥 Good Will Hunting (Showtime, 2:25 PM) Listen, it's slim pickings on the movie front today.

'Tom Jones' Premieres At The Venice Film Festival On September 29th, 1963

Source(s): Zap2It, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, The Futon Critic, Netflix, What's On Netflix, TV Guide, Discovery Channel, Variety, TCM, HGTV.