What's On Tonight (Friday): Bruce Springsteen Writes You A Musical Letter

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 Borat, Bruce and beasts are the stars of the night.

Top Pick

 🔔 Bruce Springsteen's Letter To You (Apple TV+, 3:01 AM) A documentary about the making of the latest studio album from The Boss. 

Highlights
🔔 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Amazon, 3:01 AM) A sequel to the 2006 mockumentary; your mileage may vary.

🔔 The Great British Baking Show AKA The Great British Bake-Off (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'It's Pastry Week and the bakers put their stamp on a Cornish classic in the signature, go retro in the technical, and make a showstopping classic tart hidden within a cage made entirely from pastry.'

🔔 Long Way Up (AppleTV+, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 The Magic Of Disney's Animal Kingdom (Disney+, 3:01 AM) 'Aardvark Love.'

🔔 Once Upon A Snowman (Disney+, 3:01 AM) Frozen's Olaf gets an origin story.

🔔 Over The Moon (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to prove the existence of a legendary moon goddess.'

🔔 The Queen's Gambit (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.' Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp and Marielle Heller.

🔔 The Right Stuff (Disney+, 3:01 AM)

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

🔔 🏈 College Football (ESPN, 7:30 PM) Tulsa at South Florida.

🔔 Beast-Kept Secrets (Animal Planet, 8:00 PM)

🔔 ⛸ Christmas On Ice (Lifetime, 8:00 PM) 'A former figure skater and a former hockey player work together to stop the mayor from closing the local skating rink.'

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🔔 🏈 College Football (CBSSN, 8:00 PM) Louisiana at Alabama-Birmingham.

🔔 ⛸ Figure Skating (NBCSN, 8:00 PM) Live.

🔔 The First 48: Catching A Killer (A&E, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM)

🔔 The Greatest #AtHome Videos (CBS, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Love After Lockup (WE, 9:00 PM)

🔔 Masters Of Illusion (The CW, 8:00 PM) 'Supercharging Your Very First Magic Tricks.'

Schitt's Creek (Comedy Central, 8:00 PM)

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Secrets Of The Zoo (National Geographic, 8:00 PM) 'The team teaches baby otters to swim before they make their television debut.'

🔔 Shark Tank (ABC, 8:00 PM)

🔔 Trapped By My Father's Killer (Lifetime Movies, 8:00 PM) 'Five years after sending Louis to jail for the murder of her father and fiancé, Diana returns home to find that he has escaped from prison and has come to confront her. However, Louis wants to convince her that she put an innocent man away.' Sounds like a doozy.

🔔 ⚾ World Series (Fox, 8:00 PM)

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

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)

🔔 The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock, 9:00 PM)

🔔🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 PM) 'Farm-To-Table Fresh.'

🔔 🎭 American Masters (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'The life and career of Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony and conductor laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra.'

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🔔 American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself (Showtime, 9:00 PM)

🔔 😻 Ready To Love (OWN, 9:00 PM)

🔔 River Monsters: Deadliest Man Eaters (Animal Planet, 9:00 PM)

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

🔔 Wilmore (Peacock, 9:00 PM)

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

🔔 Undercover Boss (CBS, 9:00 PM) The CEO of Smoothie King is this week's wig wearer.

🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM)

🔔 House Hunters (HGTV, 10:00 PM)

🔔 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) Jack Benny and Rich Little headline.

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🔔 😻 Put A Ring On It (OWN, 10:00 PM)

🔔 Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) Matthew McConaughey, OMG WTF founder Ben Sheehan, former Senator Heidi Heitkamp and Anthony Scaramucci.

🔔 Warrior (Cinemax, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 House Hunters International (HGTV, 10:30 PM) 

🔔 The Graham Norton Show (BBC America, 11:00 PM)  Arsène Wenger, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Dawn French, Freddie Flintoff and Michael Kiwanuka.

Blast From The Past
🎥 The Birds (BBC America, 8:00 PM) Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. 

'Dumbo' Is Released On October 23rd, 1941

Sources: Zap2It, Futon Critic, Netflix, TV Guide, OnThisDay, Rotten Tomatoes, Apple TV+, Collider, Wikipedia, PBS, Amazon, IMDB, Sports Media Watch, Channel 4.