What's on Tonight (Sunday): Carpin' all them diems

Rick and Morty

Wubba-lubba-dub-dub! Here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, October 22!

Our Top Pick tonight is Rick and Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m.). The show returned last week and now features Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden voicing the title characters after the dismissal of co-creator, voice actor, and major creep Justin Roiland. Recent seasons of this once-brilliant series have been wildly uneven. I expect that to continue since Roiland wasn't involved in production.

Elsewhere, Family Guy doesn't like his reverse mortgage, Winter King seeks peace, Billions feuds, a sportsball team could be a champion, Billy the Kid vs. smallpox, and Mr. Chow gets documentary treatment.

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

ON THIS SITE

Cancellation League (Morning): One week you're up, the next week you're down.

EARLY STREAMING & EVENING

60 Minutes (CBS, 7:30 p.m. / Paramount+, Monday): FBI Director Christopher Wray and intelligence chiefs from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand... One of the five American prisoners freed from Iran... Pop star Pink... The longest-running and most dangerous motorcycle race on earth.

📺 The John Larroquette Show (Rewind TV, 6 p.m.): John's plans for romance with a yoga instructor are derailed when he spots Catherine with her old beau.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

The Circus (Showtime, 7 p.m.)

Collector's Call (MeTV, 6:30 p.m.)

🇰🇷 Strong Girl Nam-Soon (Netflix, 9:30 a.m.)

🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL

Billions (Showtime): Chuck, Axe and Wendy square off against Prince as the campaign intensity increases. The Prince Cappers' loyalties are tested as the battle comes to a head.

🎥 Country Hearts (UPtv): The daughters of country music and rock & roll royalty are torn between following their dreams or helping their father run their horse breeding business.

Krapopolis (Fox, 8:30 p.m. / Hulu, Monday): Tyrannis creates a court system to absolve Shlub of a goat eating crime he didn't commit. Hippocampus creates a sprinkler system for Killass to get back at Deliria.✔️

🎥 The Neighbors Are Watching (Lifetime): Then you better close the curtains, unless you're into that sort of thing.

The Simpsons (Fox / Hulu, Monday): Homer thinks he's being tricked into buying a sports car. Meanwhile, Lisa neutralizes Nelson after he goes on a bullying spree.

🎥🎄 Under the Christmas Sky (Hallmark Channel / Peacock, Monday): Many eons ago the large then-distant island of Lunape became connected to the Christmas continent thanks to the receding Unami Strait. The punxsutawnis, natives of Lunape began to migrate out of their homeland to new lands. They are a prideful people, ruled within a city-state system, but none was more powerful and popular than the southern city of Woodchuck. With new lands to see and peoples to trade with, punxsutawnis now mingled with pixies, whos, yetis and brownies. However, it was the tufte person named Plurs that catches the eye of the Lady Filipa. Yet intermarriage was forbidden under punxsutawni law, especially Filipa, who's father is King Buckeye. No matter, the two begin an affair for the ages, living in the new, untamed Christmas lands that were once the Unami Strait. Soon enough, her father comes searching, dragging her back to Woodchuck. Her affair quickly becomes public knowledge and the strict people demand action for her crime. When Plurs makes his way to the city, he is soon outed and put in prison. The King's lack of punishment weakens his control and soon chaos ensues. In the madness, Filipa sees Plurs in prison but the mob comes for him only to find her, too. Both are killed and Buckeye's rule is overthrown in the days to come. Only later, is it discovered that Filipa was pregnant, which doesn't change opinion in its day, but many generations later, she is seen as a martyr and icon of the punxsutawni peoples.

Villains of Valley View (Disney Channel): Havoc and Flashform go to Centropolis to stop an imposter from stealing Havoc's identity. Eva and Vic manipulate Hartley's charity auction.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

⚾ 2023 MLB American League Championship Series, Game 6 (Fox Sports 1): 🤠 at 👨‍🚀

90 Day Fiancé (TLC / Max, Monday)

📡 Hotel Portofino (PBS / PBS Passport, now)

Naked & Afraid (Discovery Channel / Max, Monday)

🏈 Sunday Night Football (NBC & Peacock, 8:15 p.m.): 🐬 at 🦅

🎥 The Wonderful World of Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas (ABC / Disney+, now)

Krapopolis (via Giphy)

🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL

🎥 AKA Mr. Chow (HBO & Max): "Michael Chow overcomes childhood trauma, personal loss and systemic prejudice to become an actor, artist and restaurateur."

Billy the Kid (MGM+): The war has started, but John Tunstall is hospitalized by a smallpox outbreak. HIs BodY, hIs ChOIce!✔️

Bob's Burgers (Fox / Hulu, Monday): Bob and Linda help Gretchen throw her sister's bachelorette party. Tina forces Gene and Louise to play a board game they found on the street that I can only assume is Jumanji.

Family Guy (Fox, 9:30 p.m. / Hulu, Monday): When Peter loses the Griffins' home in a reverse mortgage, he and Mayor West travel to confront the mustached man advertising the scheme, Tom Selleck.

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC & AMC+): "Strand fights to maintain the peace of his new life after the sudden arrival of an old friend threatens it with ghosts of the past."

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Halloween Wars (Food Network / Max, Monday)

The Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo / Peacock, Monday)

📡 Ruby and the Well (BYUtv / BYUtv.com, now)

📺 Toy Story of Terror (ABC, 9:30 p.m.)

The Toys That Built America (History): Mind games (Scrabble, Clue, Yahtzee, etc.)

📡 World on Fire (PBS / PBS Passport, now)

Billy the Kid (via Giphy)

🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL

The Winter King (MGM+): Arthur believes that Bedwin will be able to negotiate peace with Gorfydd. However, when Morgan and Derfel arrive in Powys, they discover a horrific site.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

📡 Annika (PBS / PBS Passport, now): 

Big Brother (CBS / Paramount+, Monday)✔️

The Great Halloween Fright Fight (ABC / Hulu, Monday): Season premiere

Sister Wives (TLC / Max, Monday)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo, 10:15 p.m. / Peacock, Monday): Dorinda Medley, Luann De Lesseps

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

📺 Kojak (Get TV, 1 a.m.): "A father forces his son to conceal a setup he had arranged for revenge."

⭐ Rick and Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m.): "The Jerrick Trap" is the episode title. There's no synopsis for it, but you can watch the opening here. Body swap gone... wrong.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO & Max, 11 p.m.)

Big Brother (via Giphy)

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it
⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
📡: Linear broadcast

🇰🇷: Korean Drama
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback

✔️: Video/gif/photo included

Happy watching, everyone!