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| Ricky Velez: Here's Everything |
Hola! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 23!
Tonight's Top Pick is the latest stand-up special from the Home Box Office. This time it is Queens-raised actor-writer-comedian Ricky Velez (HBO, 10 p.m.). He was a correspondent on The Nightly Show and co-starred in The King of Staten Island.
Elsewhere, Batman has a Long Halloween, Hallmark has its first Christmas weekend of 2021, Danger Force is back on patrol, YouTube save Earth, the Devil made The Conjuring do it, and the Ted Lasso guy returns to Saturday Night Live.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Dear Earth / Climate Games (YouTube, 9 a.m.): Dear Earth is a 100-minute celebration of our planet and a look at how to save it. People from President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, and Desmond Tutu to Billie Eilish, Anitta, and Lil Dicky will be featured alongside those who are helping to save Earth. Climate Games features YouTubers and athletes.
Frankie Drake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): Fierce competition and sexism stymie the gal's murder investigation at a female fencing trial.
INTERNATIONAL NOTICES:
Blue Period (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Episode 3
BRIEFLY: Fergie's Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); Hatton Gardens (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); The Haunted Museum (Discovery+, 3 a.m.)
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 An Autumn Romance (GAC Family, 8 p.m.): A woman tries to save a small, historic hotel from developers, but she soon realizes that the man she's falling for is behind the hotel's development plans.
🎥 Boyfriends of Christmas Past (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): Marketing executive Lauren must learn to open her heart with the help of four ghosts of ex-boyfriends who visit her leading up to Christmas.
🎥 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (HBO, 8 p.m.): I tell myself this is a crossover between The Conjuring and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Danger Force (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. Rick Twitler returns with a new plan to control Mika's mind through a spooky VR video game. It's up to Danger Force to exorcise the Rick Twitler out of Mika before they're all plunged back into the Dark Ages for good.
Side Hustle (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): It's Halloween and the kids open a haunted house, recruiting Mad Scientist Fisher to use unorthodox technology to bring a stuffed bear to life. Supernatural made it pretty clear that stuffed bears come to life don't lead good lives.
🎥 Switched Before Birth (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Couple Olivia and Brian's world is turned upside down when they discover that one of their two new babies conceived through in vitro fertilization is not a biological twin, but was implanted into Olivia by mistake.
NOTICES:
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): House of Frankenstein (1944)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, 8 p.m.): Heather Anne Campbell✔️
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🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
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.
📺 The (New) Twilight Zone (Decades, 9 p.m.): Spend the weekend with the first Twilight remake/reboot. In this episode, "two scientists must discover why the spirit of a woman is reliving a previous life within their holographic computer"
NOTICES:
AutoBiography (Motor Trend): Cunningham Corvettes
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🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 Christmas in My Heart (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): To prepare for the holiday concept, concert violinist Beth tutors the daughter of Sean, a reclusive country music star. They are brought together through the ⚡ POWER ⚡ of 🎶 music 🎶.
The Hotline (BET Her, 10 p.m.): SPECIAL. In the short Her Lyfeline, "London is a popular singer who is trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend."
⭐ Ricky Velez: Here's Everything (HBO, 10 p.m.): SPECIAL. Comedian Ricky Velez bares it all with his honest and down-to-earth perspective rooted in his Queens upbringing.
NOTICES:
NFL Icons (Epix): Jerome Bettis
NFL Icons (Epix): Jerome Bettis
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🎥 Batman: The Long Halloween, Parts 1 & 2 (Adult Swim, 12:30 & 2:30 a.m.): During the holidays, a brutal series of murders strike fear into the city of Gotham. Batman (Jensen Ackles) sets out to pursue the serial killer with the support of police officer James Gordon (Billy Burke) and district attorney Harvey Dent (Josh Duhamel).✔️
Fena: Pirate Princess (Adult Swim, midnight): There was a mission that Frantz left behind for Fena: hidden inside Eden was a line of painful choices made by the maidens that had been passed for many years.
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): "Ann's new movie role calls for a nude scene." The Girl gets X rated!
📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): "Planting a bomb in the time tunnel, saboteur Robert Duvall leads Tony and Doug on a chase through three epochs."
NOTICES:
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Sarah Jarosz, Billy Strings
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Jason Sudeikis, Brandi Carlile
BRIEFLY: True Nightmares: Tales of Terror (Investigation Discovery, 11:30 p.m.)
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💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
Happy watching, everyone!
(NOTICE: Saturday Night Live is tomorrow night, so the Sunday WOT will go up a few minute early.)
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