What's On Tonight (Friday): The Continuing Mystery of What Nancy Drew...

 

Nancy Drew

 Nancy Drew is a show I assume I would like if I decided to start watching.  I have not decided to do that just yet.  Perhaps I will some day soon but I'll probably wait to see how season 3 is received.  My time is valuable and I can't dedicate it to just any Tom, Dick and Nancy show out there.  I must be discerning.  

Elsewhere we have a new Muppets special on Disney+.  I am normally ambivalent about any Muppets special as I always find them to pale in comparison to most of the films and original show, BUT this one stars Gonzo and Pepe, who are always hilarious.  If they throw in Rizzo the Rat it's a done deal.

Elsewhere we have concert films from Madonna and Justin Bieber, which I'm sure must appeal to someone somewhere, a new Apple series that is giving me extreme "Flamingo Kid" vibes, and a new multi-camera Netflix sitcom because they're cheap to produce.  There's other stuff too but I gotta wrap this up as today is my wedding anniversary and I don't want to spend too much of it telling people what they can watch on TV tonight, even though this is the only website on the entire internet that provides such a service.  Suck it up, buttercup.

TOP PICK(s)

⭐ 🕵️‍♀️ Nancy Drew✔️(CW, 9:00 PM) SEASON 3 PREMIERE. "The Warning of the Frozen Heart" - 'The body of a mysterious young man is discovered on the Hudson carnival grounds; the friends are drawn into the case by a host of confounding clues surrounding a new menace terrorizing the town.'

PREMIERES

Muppets Haunted Mansion

🔔 Jessy & Nessy (Amazon Prime, 12:01 AM) SEASON 2 PREMIERE.  'A series about Jessy, an innately curious little girl and her best friend, Nessy, a five-and-a-half-thousand-year-old purple sea monster. Jessy happens to see the world a little differently through her magical glasses called ‘Inspectacles’. Together this unlikely duo explore life’s curiosities and reveal how all of these seemingly everyday curiosities have fantastical answers'

🎵 Justin Bieber: Our World (Amazon Prime, 12:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. 'Takes viewers backstage and into the private world of the global superstar as he prepares for his NYE 2020 concert.  Bieber delivers an electrifying show on the roof of the Beverly Hilton Hotel for 240 guests - and millions watching via livestream.'

🔔 Acapulco✔️(Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIRE. 'Tells the story of twenty-something Máximo Gallardo (Enrique Arrizon), whose dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime as a cabana boy at the hottest resort in Acapulco. He soon realizes the job is far more complicated than he ever imagined and in order to succeed, he must learn to navigate a demanding clientele, a mercurial mentor, and a complicated home life, without losing his way to shortcuts or temptations.'

🔔 Get Rolling With Otis (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. ' This animated adventure series from 9 Story Media Group and Brown Bag Films welcomes young viewers to Long Hill Dairy Farm, home to Otis the tractor and all his friends. Otis may be little, but he has a big heart. Whenever he sees a friend in need, he hits the brakes asks how they're feeling, and rolls into action to help!'

🔔 Jacinta (Hulu, 12:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENATION. 'An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break free from an inherited cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime.'

👻 Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life✔️(Discovery+, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A GHOST RUINED MY LIFE shares the shocking stories of hauntings that have left emotional (and sometimes physical) scars on those unlucky enough to have experienced them. Equal parts terrifying and evocative, every hour-long episode will expose viewers to the real-life stories of survivors who have been dragged through hell and back and now struggle to rebuild their shattered lives.'

🔨 First Time Fixer (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) SECOND SEASON PREMIERE. 'First-time house renovators take their home renovation dreams into their own hands and experience the risk and reward that comes with trying something new.'

🔔 One Big Day Off (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. 'Everyone has a dream, and we're either chasing it or stuck in the what-ifs. Best-selling author and speaker Bob Goff takes big dreamers on a series of wild adventures of his design to push them outside their comfort zone and motivate them to believe their dreams are within reach.'

👻 Muppets Haunted Mansion✔️(Disney+, 3:01 AM) 'The Great Gonzo – world famous daredevil artiste, has done it all, seen it all, and survived it all. But on Halloween night, the fearless Gonzo takes on the greatest challenge of his life by spending one very daring night in the most grim grinning place on Earth …The Haunted Mansion.'

🔔 Family Business (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON 3/SERIES FINALE. 'After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.'

🔔 Grudge/Kin (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes embroiled in a fatal incident and uncovers a grudge-fueled plot that threatens his associates.'

🎥 My Brother, My Sister (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family.'

🎥 Pokemon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Koko grows up in the jungle with a solitary Zarude. When he meets Ash and Pikachu, he discovers the human world — and a plot threatening his home!'

🔔 Pretty Smart✔️  (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Book-smart Chelsea discovers she has a lot to learn about happiness when she's forced to move in with her bubbly sister and three roommates.'

🔔 A Tale Dark & Grimm✔️ (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm — and Grimm-inspired — fairy tales in this irreverent animated series.'

 

🔔 Madame X✔️(Paramount+, 3:01 AM) 'Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon's rare and rapturous tour performance, hailed by sold out theatrical audiences worldwide. The unprecedented intimate streaming experience will take viewers on a journey as compelling and audacious as Madonna's fearless persona, Madame X, a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom and bringing light to dark places.'

🦈 Shark Tank (ABC, 8:00 PM) SEASON 13 PREMIERE.

💀 Stalked in Paradise✔️(LMN, 8:00 PM) 'A woman's career of putting photos and videos of herself on stock photography websites suddenly leads to danger when a man starts stalking her and her husband.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:01 PM) SEASON 44 PREMIERE. "Chippendales Murder"

Stalked in Paradise

STREAMING

🔔 Pan y Circo (Amazon Prime, 12:01 AM) TBA

👻 Welcome to the Blumhouse (Amazon Prime, 12:01 AM) SEASON FINALE. "The Manor / Madres"

🎵 The Masked Singer (Japan) (Amazon Prime, 12:01 AM) TBA

🚀 Foundation (Apple TV+. 12:01 AM) "Barbarians at the Gate"

🌞 The Morning Show(Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) "Kill the Fatted Calf"

👀 See (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) "The Queen's Speech"

🔔 Ted Lasso (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) SEASON FINALE. "Inverting the Pyramid of Success"

🔔 Truth Be Told (Apple TV+, 12:01 AM) "The Untold Story"

🔔 An American Story (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) "Bonfires on the Bayou / Texas: Rodeo Cowgirls"

🔔 Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) "Jelly Bean, Neon Sign, Snowboard"

🔔 Home Work (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 In With the Old (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) TBA

🔔 Making Modern with Brooke and Brice (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) "Basement Overhaul Part 2: A Dungeon Becomes a Dream Home"

🔔 Point of View: A Designer Profile (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) "The Brownstone Boys"

👮‍♂️ Cops (Fox Nation, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Leverage (IMDb TVm 12:01 AM) SEASON FINALE. "Redemption: Part 2"

🔔 Explained (Netflix, 3:01 AM) TBA

🍰 The Great British Baking Show (Netflix, 3:01 AM) TBA

A Tale Dark & Grimm

SPORTS TONIGHT*

⚾ MLB Baseball: Atlanta Braves at Milwaukee Brewers (TBS, 4:30 PM)

🏈 High School Football: Teams TBA (ESPNU, 5:00 PM)

🏌️‍♂️ PGA Tour Golf: Shriners Children's Open, Second Round (Golf, 5:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Charlotte at Florida International (CBSSN, 7:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Temple at Cincinnati (ESPN, 7:00 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Chicago Sky at Connecticut Sun (ESPN2, 8:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Morgan State at Howard (ESPNU, 8:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: TBA at San Francisco Giants (TBS, 9:30 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Phoenix Mercury at Las Vegas Aces (ESPN2, 10:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Teams TBA (ESPN, 10:15 PM)

*Sporting Events Are Subject To COVID-Related Postponements.

EARLY PRIMETIME

💲 People Puzzler (GSN, 6:00 PM) 'A Beautiful State'

🍰 Disney's Magic Bake-Off (Disney, 7:00 PM) "Zombies"

🔔 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (Nickelodeon, 7:00 PM) "Camper Gary"

🔔 The Smurfs (Nickelodeon, 7:30 PM) "Smurf Your Seat Belts; Leaf It Alone"

Pretty Smart

🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

👮‍♂️ S.W.A.T. (CBS, 8:00 PM) "Madrugada"

🔔 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (CW, 8:00 PM) "Magic With a Wolf"

🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (Fox, 8:00 PM) 

🐟 Treehouse Masters: Ultimate Builds (Animal Planet, 8:00 PM) "Glampers Paradise"

💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) "Crash and Berm"

🔔 Sydney to the Max (Disney, 8:00 PM) "The Hunt for the Rad October"

💧 Drain the Oceans (NGC, 8:00 PM) "Pacific's Deadly Triangle"

🔔 The Casagrandes (Nickelodeon, 8:00 PM) "Squawk in the Name of Love; Date With Destiny"

🔔 Yellowstone Supervolcano: American Doomsday (Science, 8:00 PM) "Underground Secrets"

🔔 Gabby Duran &the Unsittables (Disney, 8:30 PM) "Beware the Fright Master!"

🔔 Tooned In (Nickelodeon, 8:30 PM) "Julian vs. Mia vs. Robyn"

Acapulco

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🎭 The 34th Hispanic Heritage Awards (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'Recognizing excellence in a variety of fields, from arts to STEM.'

🔔 Magnum P.I. (CBS, 9:00 PM) "The Harder They Fall"

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM) TBA

🔔 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (CMT, 9:00 PM) "Social Media Dilemma"

🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives (Food Network, 9:00 PM) "Triple D Nation: From Chicken to Chowder"

👽 Ancient Aliens (History, 9:00 PM) "Top Ten Alien Artifacts"

🕷 The Black Widow (ID, 9:00 PM) 'In Pensacola, Florida, a mother screams in anguish when her disabled son drowns in a canoe accident. Three years later, in the same town, an investigation into a car bombing uncovers a series of untimely deaths that all seem to be linked.'

👻 These Woods are Haunted (Travel, 9:00 PM) "I See It Landing in Our Backyard and I Was Trapped"

💖 Love After Lockup (WE, 9:00 PM) "Life After Lockup: Not One to Mess With"

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🎭 Great Performances at the Met (PBS, 10:00 PM) "Three Divas at Versailles" - 'Sopranos Ailyn Pérez and Nadine Sierra and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, along with pianist Vlad Iftinca and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, perform arias and scenes from the Royal Opera of Versailles in France.

👮‍♂️ Blue Bloods (CBS, 10:00 PM) "Times Like These"

🧛‍♂️ Eli Roth's History of Horror (AMC, 10:00 PM) "Infections"

🔔 Tha God's Honest Truth With Lenard "Charlamagne" McKelvey (Comedy Central, 10:00 PM) 

🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) TBA

🔔 48 Hours on ID (ID, 10:00 PM) "The Deliveryman Murder"

🔔 Ancient Americas (NGC, 10:00 PM) "Holy Temples, Killer Jungles"

🤼‍♂️ All Elite Wrestling: Rampage (TNT, 10:00 PM) TBA

👽 The Alaska Triangle (Travel, 10:00 PM) "The Ghosts of Independence Mine and Alaskan Yeti"

👮‍♂️ The First 48: Scared Silent (A&E, 10:01 PM) "A Killer Fight; Do the Right Thing"

👽 The Proof is Out There (History, 10:03 PM) "Solar Spaceship & Invisibility Cloak"

A Ghost Ruined My Life

LATE NIGHT

😂 The Graham Norton Show (BBC America, 11:00 PM) 'Graham is joined by Dave Grohl, Kadeena Cox, Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Greg Davies, Jack Savoretti and Nile Rodgers.'

🔔 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM) 'Actor Jason Momoa; actress Ana de Armas; Big Red Machine performs.'

🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) TBA

🔔 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS, 11:35 PM) 'Actors Brian Cox, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen and J. Smith-Cameron.'

🔔 Nightline (ABC, 12:37 AM) TBA

🔔 The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS, 12:37 PM) 'Lizzo; Billie Piper'

🔔 Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Actor Ike Barinholtz; actress Jenny Slate; Andē sits in with the 8G Band.'

Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO Binge

📺 The Andy Griffith Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM); The Golden Girls (Hallmark, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (VH1, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM); ER (Pop, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM); Roseanne (CMT, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Living Single (TVONE, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Friends (TBS 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM); King of Queens (CMT, 12:00 PM - 43:00 PM); Hawaii Five-0 (Ion, 10:00 AM - 2:00 AM); Gunsmoke (TVLand, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM); Law and Order (Sundance, 1:00 PM - 2:00 AM); House (Pop, 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM); Barney Miller (Antenna, 8:00 & 8:30 PM); Mom (CMT, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM); Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Land, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 9:00 & 9:30 PM); Coach (Antenna, 11:30 PM) 

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) 'Actor Peter Falk; actor Victoria Principal; actor Robert Klein; Linda Monteleone.'

Madame X

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Zap2it; Netflix; Wikipedia; Horrornews.net; Sysfy.com; hollywoodreporter.com
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