What's On Tonight (Saturday): Stay human at the City Limits

Austin City Limits

A brand new life around the bend! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 16!

Tonight's Top Pick is Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.) where jazz musician Jon Batiste will perform. Maybe you know him better as the bandleader of Stay Human, the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. TBH, I don't care for him as a late-night sidekick, but I'm confident he will put on a great concert.

Elsewhere, Mr. Robot is live from New York, Meerkats finish their first season revival, Adult Swim hosts Batman Ninja, Discovery concludes the Earthshot Prize, HBO wishes Me Dead, Frankie Drake searches for wine, The Weeknd returns to the weekend, and Keegan-Michael Key has a Line.

(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)

DAYSIDE ON THE SITE

🤔 Thoughts On: The Women of 1988 (8 a.m.): Who's the Boss? It was Angela.

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

Frankie Drake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): Frankie and Trudy search for a stolen bottle of wine.

INTERNATIONAL NOTICES:

Blue Period (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Episode 2

Misfit: The Series (Netflix, 3 a.m., season one): Netherlands

BRIEFLY: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); The Haunted Museum (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); Reno My Rental (Discovery+, 3 a.m.)

🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL

🎥 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): After the death of her husband, Kristine navigates the sweating of being a single mother and the pressure as the new face and voice of the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff brand.

Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty (BBC America, 8 p.m.): SEASON FINALE. No synopsis again. BBC America, this is absurd!

Side Hustle (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): Lex, Presley, and Munchy have missed a Tedward payment and are desperate when they get asked by the worst girl in school to organize a dance-posal for a boy whom Lex likes.

🎥 Those Who Wish Me Dead (HBO, 8 p.m.): Murder witness Finn Little finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness. But he also has survival expert Angelina Jolie protecting him. However, there's also a 🔥🌳🔥🌳🔥forest fire🔥🌳🔥🌳🔥.✔️

NOTICES:

🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, 8 p.m.): Keegan-Michael Key

BRIEFLY: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (Discovery Channel, season finale); Henry Danger: Behind the Dangerverse (Nickelodeon, special); Outgrown (HGTV); Snapped (Oxygen)

Those Who Wish Me Dead (via Tumblr)

🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL

🎥 Advice to Love By (Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.): When a love advice author and a dating columnist cross paths, attraction blooms into smashing confrontation that is really flirtation.

🎥 Slumber Party Massacre (Syfy, 9 p.m.): A Syfy original remake. "A slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill disrupts the fun."✔️

This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.

📺 Wonder Woman (Decades, 9:30 p.m.): Spend the weekend with the original screen Diana! In this season one episode set in 1942, "Andros, an observer from a council of alien planets is sent to Earth to pass judgment on the primitive, warlike human race." But the Nazis capture him.

BRIEFLY: Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (Nat Geo Wild) Pawn Stars (History); Stalked: Followed by Fear (Investigation Discovery, season finale); World's Funniest Animals (The CW); The Zoo (Animal Planet)

🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL

Arctic Vets (Nat Geo Wild, 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. "Follows a team of veterinarians as they treat arctic animals in Canada's north."

Born Mucky: Life on the Farm (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. "Documentary series following three British farmers trying to run three very different family farms across the UK reveal the challenges and rewards that come with making a living off the land."

🎥 Fighting for Her Life (Lifetime, 10 p.m.): "A woman becomes determined to see her pregnancy to term after she's diagnosed with a life-threatening blood disorder."

NOTICES:
NFL Icons (Epix): Vince Lombardi

📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Daniel Craig, The Weeknd (7 Mar 2020)

BRIEFLY: 48 Hours (CBS); Family or Fiancé (OWN); Rhodes to the Top (TNT); True Nightmares: Tales of Terror (Investigation Discovery)

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⭐ Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): The Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste takes to the big stage for an ACL concert.

🎥 Batman Ninja (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Batman, along with his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.✔️

🎥 Batman: Under the Red Hood (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Batman faces a vigilante who aims to clean up Gotham City but does not follow his moral code.

Fena: Pirate Princess (Adult Swim, midnight): The crew reach the place filled with hidden treasure, but the British Navy attacks. Yukimaru and Fena, who had ventured into the far depths, come face to face with Abel who had chased them down.

📺 The Rookies (Heroes & Icons, 2 a.m.): "The dangers of owning a gun are explored when the rookies have to avenge the accidental shooting of a man who bought a gun to protect his family." 

📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): "A psychiatrist evaluates Ann and the Baumans."

📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): "In 1805, the travelers try to escape from a pirate's Barbary Coast lair before it is shelled by U.S. warships."

NOTICES:

Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Rami Malek, Young Thug

Batman Ninja (via Gizmodo)

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; J! Archive; TV Passport; Zap2it

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Happy watching, everyone!

(NOTICE: Saturday Night Live is tomorrow night, so the Sunday WOT will go up a few minute early.)