What's on Tonight (Friday): What Happens When Halloween Ends? November.

Halloween Ends

The only Halloween film I've seen more than once is the original.  Of the many sequels and remakes, the only one I've seen is the second film, and I remember almost nothing about it.  Still, I love Jamie Lee Curtis (she should get an Oscar nom for Everything Everywhere All at Once), and any franchise that keeps her working is fine by me.  I won't watch it, but I'll cheer it on from the sidelines.  

Elsewhere...

*Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam is back with a new series on Apple called Shantaram.  Hunnam plays an escaped convict hiding out in Bombay because that's what one does when one is an escaped convict.  There's a love interest, dirty dealings and actual on location shooting.  The most important thing though is Dr Bashir himself, Alexander Siddig, is also in the cast.  Will we find out halfway through the season that his character was actually a genetically modified super-genius the whole time?  

*Hulu has a film that tries to pull a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern with Romeo & Juliet by focusing on Rosaline, Romeo's former girlfriend who is only mentioned but never seen in the play.  There's no attempt at getting the characters to speak in verse, or to even act like they're living in whatever time period this is supposed to be, but it looks like it might be fun.  Personally, I hate Romeo & Juliet and am fine with anything that takes the piss.

*Peacock has a Caillou Halloween film.  Any Caillou fans out there?  No?  Moving on.

*Netflix's big entry this week is a Halloween comedy starring Marlon Wayans called The Curse of Bridge Hollow.  Wayans plays a father having to deal with a bunch of crazy bullshit nonsense when his daughter accidentally sets off a curse that makes all the Halloween decorations in town come to life.  Hopefully the jokes aren't as lazy as the plot.

I'm still getting caught up on Rings of Power and Great British Baking Show.  I'm not looking forward to the instantly infamous "Puerto Rico Day Parade" "Mexico" episode of the latter.  There will probably be a lot of face palms on my part during that hour.  On the other hand, I eagerly await the "Mexico" episode of Rings of Power.  Galadriel in a sombrero chowing down on a Doritos Cheesy Gordita Crunch is all I need in life.

TOP PICK

⭐🎥 Halloween Ends✔️ (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 'The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode comes to a spine-chilling climax in this final installment of the franchise.'

PREMIERES

Shantaram

🔔 Shantaram✔️(Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Follows a fugitive named Lin Ford looking to get lost in vibrant and chaotic 1980s Bombay. Alone in an unfamiliar city, Lin struggles to avoid the trouble he's running from in this new place. After falling for an enigmatic and intriguing woman named Karla, Lin must choose between freedom or love and the complications that come with it. Starring Charlie Hunnam.'

🔔 High School✔️ (Freevee, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A story about finding your own identity - a journey made even more complicated when you have a twin whose own struggle and self-discovery so closely mimic your own. Told through a backdrop of '90s grunge and rave culture, the series weaves between parallel and discordant memories of twin sisters growing up down the hall from one another."

🎥 Rosaline✔️(Hulu, 12:01 AM) 'A comedic retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," told from the point of view of Romeo's jilted ex, Rosaline, the woman Romeo first claims to love before he falls for Juliet.'

🦋 Black Butterflies (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past.'

🎥 The Curse of Bridge Hollow✔️ (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to life.  Starring Marlon Wayans.'

🔔 Everything Calls for Salvation (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A young man spends a week in a psychiatric ward, where he meets five other patients and must contend with research-happy doctors and cynical nurses.'

🔔 Holy Family✔️ (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans, and the past begins to catch up with them.'

Holy Family

🔔 Take 1 (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Renowned musicians pull out all the stops to give a song of their choice the greatest live performance they can muster — and all in a single take.'

🎥 Caillou: The Bravest Wolf Boy (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 'It's Halloween and Caillou is excited to attend a party at Clementine's, but he's afraid of the things about the party that he doesn't know.'

🔔 Martha Gardens✔️(Roku, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Welcome to Martha's Bedford Farm, the embodiment of the perfect farming and gardening life so many dream about! But just what does it take to keep up with more than 150 acres of gardens, pastures, greenhouses, orchards, animals, and more.'

🎥 The Shoplifting Pact (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'Sky can't wait to get back to the high school experience and make some friends. However, when her new pals seem to prefer shoplifting to hanging out, Sky wonders whether she's fallen in with the wrong crowd.'

🎵 CMT Artists of the Year (CMT, 9:00 PM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. 'Awards show that celebrates the biggest names in country music.'

🔨 Fixer Upper: The Castle✔️ (Discovery+, HBO Max & Magnolia, 9:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Chip and Joanna take on their biggest fixer yet: the famous castle in Waco, Texas. As they breathe new life into the historic landmark, they must also tackle its challenging infrastructure while preserving its original beauty.'

🎭 Next at the Kennedy Center (PBS, 9:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Spotlights critical contributions to the arts that continue to inspire contemporary artists. Over the next three years, this primetime series of performance specials will explore the enduring influence of artistic changemakers across art forms, genres, and backgrounds.'

🔨 The Home Team with Britt and Annie (Magnolia, 10:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Best friends and rookie renovators Annie Hawkins and Brittany Baker impressed Salt Lake City with their creative designs. With numerous clients knocking on their door, they're going from first-time to full-time with their own renovation start-up business.'

High School

RETURNING SHOWS

🔔 Mismatched (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🔔 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (CW, 8:00 PM) SEASON NINE PREMIERE.

🔔 Whose Line is it Anyway? (CW, 9:00 PM) SEASON NINETEEN PREMIERE.

STREAMING

⚔ The Rings of Power (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON FINALE.

🏠 Luxe Listings Sydney (Amazon, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 Bad Sisters (Apple, 12:01 AM) SEASON FINALE.

🔔 Central Park (Apple, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Where is Out Tax Money Going?"

👀 See (Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES FINALE.

👻 Ghost Brothers: Lights Out (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) "Trouble a-Brewin'"

👻 Haunted Scotland (Discovery+, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Who's Talking to Chris Wallace (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

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

🔔 The Mole (Netflix, 3:01 AM) "Week 2 of 3"

🔔 My Dream Quinceañera (Paramount, 3:01 AM) 

👻 Queer for Fear (Shudder, 3:01 AM) 

👮‍♂️ Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

SPORTSBALL TONIGHT/TODAY LIVE

⚽ Men's College Soccer: Wisconsin at Maryland (ESPNU, 5:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Brown at Princeton (ESPN, 7:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Navy at SMU (ESPN, 7:30 PM)

🏈 College Football: Texas-San Antonio at Florida International (CBSSN, 8:00 PM)

🏎 NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Alsco Uniforms 302, Qualifying (USA, 8:30 PM)

🏀 NBA Basketball: Denver Nuggets at Golden State Warriors (ESPN2, 10:00 PM)

🏌️‍♂️ PGA Tour Golf: ZOZO Championship, Third Round (Golf, 10:30 PM)

The Curse of Bridge Hollow

MIDNIGHT

🎵 Tallboyz (Fuse, 12:00 AM) "It's Hard Being Precocious"

EARLY PRIMETIME

🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 7:00 PM) 'Squidward ventures to Nosferatu's castle after accidentally receiving his mail; Nosferatu's minion Slappy kills some time around Bikini Bottom.'

💲 People Puzzler (GSN, 6:00 PM) 
💲 America Says (GSN, 7:30 PM) 
🔔 Big Nate (Nickelodeon, 7:30 PM) 

🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🦈 Shark Tank (ABC, 8:00 PM) 'A solution to make moving to and from college easier; an African-inspired home-decor line; a natural nonalcoholic beverage; a product for bringing clean air into homes; update on the Mad Rabbit tattoo aftercare line.'

🔔 Penn & Teller: Fool Us (CW, 8:00 PM) 'Featured magicians include Jon Mobley, the Van Hargen twins, Axel Adler and Chris Canfield.'

🔔 The Lincoln Project (Showtime, 8:00 PM) 'It's all smiles when "The New Yorker" comes out to profile the Lincoln Project, but Mike and the data team aren't even mentioned in the article; resentments surface amid accusations that other staffers are stealing credit.'

👮‍♂️ S.W.A.T. (CBS, 8:00 PM) 
🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night SmackDown (Fox, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 College Bowl (NBC, 8:00 PM) 
💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 The Villains of Valley View (Disney Channel, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 The Shoplifting Pact (LMN, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 The Smurfs (Nickelodeon, 8:00 PM) 
💖 Ready to Love (OWN, 8:00 PM) 
💀 An Unexpected Killer (Oxygen, 8:00 PM) 
👮‍♂️ On Patrol: First Shift (Reelz, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion (Disney Channel, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Rugrats (Nickelodeon, 8:30 PM) 

Fixer Upper: The Castle

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🔥 Fire Country (CBS, 9:00 PM) 'After Bode requests to be transferred to a different city, his future in Edgewater hangs in the balance; the crew join forces to protect the town from a treacherous storm.'

🍴 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food, 9:00 PM) 'It's a walk down memory lane in Morehead City, NC, when Guy Fieri stops at a place where the hushpuppies haven't changed a bit. He takes a look back at oxtail with an old buddy in New York City and real-deal Vietnamese like bo luc lac in Cincinnati.'

👽 The Unexplained (History, 9:00 PM) 'The question of the identity of Jack the Ripper has baffled police investigators, historians, and armchair detectives for over a century, even with media offering its own unique take on the killer's identity.'

🔔 Whose Line is it Anyway? (CW, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM) 
🎭 Next at the Kennedy Center (PBS, 9:00 PM) 
🎵 CMT Artists of the Year (CMT, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 Raven's Home (Disney Channel, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 My Lottery Dream Home (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Death Knocks Twice (ID, 9:00 PM) 
🔨 Fixer Upper: The Castle✔️ (Magnolia, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Homicide for the Holidays (Oxygen, 9:00 PM) 
👮‍♂️ On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Fatal Attraction: Last Words (TVOne, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 Life After Lockup (WE, 9:00 PM) SEASON FINALE.
🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:01 PM) 
🔨 Make Yourself at Home (Magnolia, 9:30 PM) 

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

👮‍♂️ Blue Bloods (CBS, 10:00 PM) 'Frank announces he will not endorse Erin's run for district attorney; Danny and Baez investigate a bloody crime scene at a hotel; Jamie begins a new job as a field intelligence sergeant that requires him to keep secrets from his family.'

👻 Eli Roth Presents: My Possessed Pet (Travel, 10:00 PM) 'When his daughter brings home a tarantula she won at a science fair, Clint makes the mistake of naming it after an ancient Greek monster. Enraged, the demon inhabits her namesake's body and calls forth a legion of spiders to infest the family's home.'

🏰 Saving the Manor (HGTV, 10:01 PM) 'A tree has been growing through the roof of a gorgeous yet dilapidated English estate, and now Dean and Borja work to make the manor watertight once again; they look to restore crucial stairway access and create a new bathroom and a secret door.'

🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) 
🔨 The Home Team with Britt and Annie (Magnolia, 10:00 PM) 
🤼‍♂️ All Elite Wrestling: Rampage (TNT, 10:00 PM) 
👽 The Proof is Out There (History, 10:03 PM) 

Martha Gardens

LATE NIGHT

🔔 The Graham Norton Show (BBC America, 11:00 PM) 

👻 Los Espookys (HBO, 11:00 PM) "El virus"

🔔 Late Night with Seth Myers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Comic Colin Jost; actor Paul Mescal; 5 Seconds of Summer performs; Tom Benko sits in with the 8G Band.'

🔔 The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM)
🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 
🔔 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS, 11:35 PM)
🔔 The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS, 12:37 AM)
🔔 Nightline (ABC, 12:37 AM) 

Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO BINGE

📺 The Andy Griffith Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (VH1, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Roseanne (CMT, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM); ER (Pop, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM); Living Single (TVOne, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); South Park (Comedy Central, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM); Hawaii Five-0 (Ion, 10:00 AM - 2:00 AM); Gunsmoke (TVLand, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM); Law & Order (Sundance, 1:00 PM - 2:00 AM); House (Pop, 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM); Seinfeld (Comedy Central, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM); Family Ties (Antenna, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM); The Office (Comedy Central, 5:00 PM - 12:00 AM); One Day at a Time (Antenna, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Three's Company (Antenna, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 8:00 PM -9:00 PM); Everybody Loves Raymond (TV Land, 8:00 PM - 11:05 PM); Barney Miller (Antennae, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM); King of Queens (TV Land, 11:05 PM - 2:00 AM); Designing Women (Antenna, 11:30 PM); Becker (Antenna, 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM); Wings (Antennae, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM); Alice (Antenna, 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM) 

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 10:00 PM) 'Actor Buddy Hackett; actor Dean Martin; actor Burt Reynolds; actor Don Rickles; actress Carol Wayne.'

Rosaline

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

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