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Any questions?! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 29!
Our Top Pick tonight is the long-running paranormal spooks docuseries Ghost Hunters (Travel Channel, 9 p.m.). The supernatural-seeking show is currently in its 15th season and on its 3rd network, but it is also back to a sturdier form with some original hunters returning in this latest incarnation. This Travel Channel season is its first on the network. Last year it was Discovery+-first.
Elsewhere, Jack Harlow pulls Live double-duty, an Airbnb house is full of Barbarians, Parker McCollum is at the City Limits, Fletch is suspected of murder, and Omarion does Magic.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
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STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): A traveling salesman crashes his car and is pronounced dead at the scene, but it wasn't the crash that killed him.✔️
📺 Doctor Who (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The Master plans to restore his life force by disrupting a power source that'd destroy Gallifrey and the Doctor, who is currently companion-less.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Chef Swap at the Beach (Cooking Channel, 7 p.m.)
The Hair Tales (Hulu, midnight / OWN, 9 p.m.): Ayanna Pressley
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🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 An Amish Sin (Lifetime): Refusing to marry the man who abused her as a child, an Amish teen runs away to a neighboring city and tries to adjust to life in the modern world.
🎥 Barbarian (HBO): A young woman discovers the rental home she booked is already occupied by a stranger. Against her better judgment, she decides to spend the night but soon discovers there's a lot more to fear than just an unexpected house guest.
🎥🎄 Catering Christmas (GAC Family): Hermey, the new governor of Husnisse, is preparing for his province's annual ball where power players can rub elbows with the government bigwigs. For Hermey, a former dentist, it will be a balancing act. The nisse-dominated province has always elected someone with all or nearly-all nisse blood until his election – he is half-nisse, half-elf. Nisses are also natives to Christmasia, unlike elves, gnomes, and most other Christmasia beings. He might have won the vote, but he had many dissenters. Working the event is the National Macaroon's Catering Company, which wasn't properly vetted – so much of Hermey's staff is new to such lofty positions – as it works both sides of the War on Christmas. CEO Frank Shirley is a Krampus sympathizer and constantly turns a blind eye when new hires have little experience but are highly recommended by his hiring staff. The Koal Federation's Harry Liime has done a marvelous job of filling the company with spies. Now he can get eyes inside a top-level Christmasia event. As long as his agents – Peter, Earl, Alice, Burton – don't give themselves away to the last-minute, not-so-undercover Christmas counterintelligence, this will be a big payoff to undermine an entire territory.
Finding Happy (Bounce TV): Yaz's co-worker Chanel books It's Ya Girl Yaz for a designer's flagship launch, and encourages Yaz to try a bold new look for the big event. D-1 Media execs tell Porter that Princess Charles needs more development, which is good news for Yaz.
🎥🎄 Jolly Good Christmas (Hallmark Channel): Holly Jolly, chief curator at National Christmasia Institute, gives us an in-depth look at the founding of Christmasia with a look through old documents and first-hand accounts of people who were there as Jack Frost, Alabaster Snowball, Dasher I, Rubbels, and the elder statesman Julenissen gathered together and attempted to form the Kingdom of Christmasia in the bloody aftermath of the War of the First Noel. It took months of talks, but Christmasia was finally formed. Jolly will also tackle one of the biggest questions: Was Julenissen’s death – 3 days before the formation became official – the crux that made the nation possible or was it already a done deal before his death? While Julenissen is abundantly popular today, he had numerous naysayers in his day, especially in the regions dominated by native Christmasians – nisses, pixies, yetis, etc.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars (The CW): Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Omarion
Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Count Yorga, Vampire
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 Confess, Fletch (Showtime): While investigating a case of stolen paintings, the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch (Jon Hamm) becomes the prime suspect in a murder. To prove his innocence, he must sift through a long list of suspects, including his own girlfriend.
⭐ Ghost Hunters (Travel Channel): TAPS braces for a storm of paranormal activity when they visit the renowned Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Alongside guest investigator Steve Shippy, the team takes over the cavernous structure to help explain the frightening events shaking employees.
📺 Planet of the Apes (Decades): The first day of the network's Weekend Binge is dedicated to the short-lived Planet of the Apes TV show, which is an average show that probably plays better if you're a big classic Apes fan. It follows two astronauts who crash on an advanced ape society that uses human slaves. They find some chimp allies and go underground. In this episode, "a scientist tries ancient brainwashing techniques on captured Burke." The show died quietly against Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Deadly Affairs (Investigation Discovery): Season premiere
Pit Bulls and Parolees (Animal Planet)✔️
Weather Gone Viral (The Weather Channel)
World's Funniest Animals (The CW)
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🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥🎄 Christmas Bedtime Stories (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries): Magee, Buddy, Wayne, Patch, and Eubie gather together to form the first Storytellers Council, which is a national project that aims to gather the classic lore from the people and cultures of Christmasia. There stories tonight are all ones that were to be told to children as they went to sleep. Magee shares a story about how pumpkin and spice were first combined, Buddy tells about the punxsutawney woman who died and accidentally made fruitcake, Wayne speaks of the origin of pixies and mistletoe, Patch shares the tale about the first Yule Log, and Eubie sings some classic songs performed on period instruments – if you're not a fan of leprechaun chants, you'll probably want to bail on the last 10 minutes.
📺 The Rockford Files (Get TV): Rockford is hired to check out a tycoon's prospective son-in-law.
Home Is Where the Farm Is (National Geographic Wild)
NFL Icons (Epix): Tony Dungy; season finale
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Jon Hamm, Coldplay (25 Oct 2008)
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📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m.): The Enterprise must stop an ancient doomsday weapon that is capable of destroying entire worlds, and has already totaled one Constellation-class cruiser.
📺 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 2 a.m.): Admiral Nelson and Commander Crane become the prisoners of foreign scientists who convert them into bitter enemies.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Parker McCollum, Robert Earl Keen
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Jack Harlow✔️
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Happy watching, everyone!
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