What's On Tonight (Saturday): The horror, the horror

Uzumaki

[*slides into your DMs*]! Here's what's on television for tonight, Wednesday, September 28!

 

Our Top Pick tonight is the series premiere of Uzumaki (Adult Swim, 12:30 p.m. / Max, Sunday). This is another attempt by Adult Swim to provide a horror anime to its Toonami lineup. Shoutout to 2022's Housing Complex C, which started strong but couldn't quite deliver on its premise. The 4-part series, based on a late '90s manga, is a Cartoon Network co-production and certainly has plenty of horror vibes in the previews I've seen.

Elsewhere, SNL kicks off the big Five-O, Johnson changes the menu, Mark McKinnon has News, Hallmark goes West, One Piece wants a Smile, Lifetime solicits private pics, and 48 Hours goes to the tub.

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

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EARLY STREAMING & EVENING

📺 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (Catchy Comedy, all weekend): TELEVISION for $300: A gas station attendant on "The Andy Griffith Show" enlisted & became this, the title of the spinoff (July 14, 1988)

WHAT ELSE IS ON

⚾ Baseball Night in America (Fox, 7 p.m.): New York Mets at Milwaukee Brewers; season finale

🏈 Big Ten Saturday Night (NBC, 7:30 p.m.): Illinois at Penn State 

Chef Swap at the Beach (Cooking Channel, 7 p.m.): Season finale

⚽ NWSL Soccer (Ion, 7:30 p.m.): Houston Dash at Orlando Pride

🏈 Saturday Night College Football (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Georgia at Alabama

Sports!

🕗 PRIMETIME 🕚

48 Hours (CBS, 10 p.m. / Paramount+, Sunday): In "The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard," Former Idaho state trooper Dan Howard is charged with murdering his wife 3 years after her death in a... Walmart parking lot? Nope, it was in a bathtub.

🎥 He Slid Into Her DMs (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): A 17-year-old social media influencer agrees to sell private photos to an online fan named Mason. Then things start to messy. Is it a romcom? A romance drama? A crime thriller? Tune in to find out.

Johnson (Bounce TV, 8 p.m.): Omar depends on JB to impress Joc's Investors. Greg changes up the menu at Georgia Bistro leading to some unhappy customers. Keith gets the cold shoulder as he registers to run for city council. Jarvis' Rolex is located.✔️

🎥 Mystery by the Book (Great American Family, 8 p.m.): A bookstore owner and a book cover model feud but will eventually kiss because that's just how life works.

🎥 The Real West (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m. / Peacock, Sunday): A family vacation to a working Ranch introduces Professor Rebecca to Jake West. Rebecca is a widower chasing tenure and Jake is a handsome cowboy who never settled down. Can these opposites fall in love without driving each other crazy?

WHAT ELSE IS ON

All Elite Wrestling: Collision (TNT, 8 p.m.)

Disaster Autopsy (National Geographic, 10 p.m.)

Have I Got News for You (CNN, 9 p.m. / Max, Sunday): Mark McKinnon, Negin Farsad

Love & Marriage: Detroit (OWN, 8 p.m.)

⚽ NWSL Soccer (Ion, 10 p.m.): Portland Thorns FC at San Diego Wave FC

🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): Dead of Night

Wrestlemania XL: Behind the Curtain (The CW, 8 p.m.): Special

Johnson (via Giphy)

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

📺 2 Stupid Dogs and the Secret Squirrel Show (MeTV Toons, 11 p.m.): A cat comes between the dogs. Secret vs. a Voodoo Goat. The dogs guide Kenny through romance. 

📺 Freakazoid (MeTV Toons, 11:30 p.m.): "Freak must defeat evil computer genius Armondo Guitierrez."

One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Luffy and Law are caught in a trap. The Tontattas help Franky break in to the Smile factory.

Saturday Night Live (NBC & Peacock, 11:29 p.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. And SNL likes to kick... stretch... and kick! It's 50! Multiple Emmy-winner Jean Smart hosts the season opener and Jelly Roll continues trying to convince me he can sing.

⭐ Uzumaki (Adult Swim, 12:30 p.m. / Max, Sunday): SERIES PREMIERE. "A town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin."✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Kacey Musgraves; season premiere

📡 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba (Adult Swim, 1 a.m. / Netflix, now)

🏈 Fox College Football (Fox, 11 p.m.): Oregon at UCLA

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

🇰🇷: Korean Drama
🎥: Movie

🏈🏀⚽🎾🏌️🏒🏎️: Sportsballs

📺: Throwback

✔️: Video/gif/photo included

Happy watching, everyone!

Reminder: SNL is tomorrow, so the Sunday WOT will be posted a few minutes early!