Friday, October 25, 2024

What's On Tonight (Saturday): We interrupt this documentary about migrating trees frogs for the following comedy presentation

Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking

Ya burnt! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 26!

Our Top Pick tonight is Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking (HBO & Max, 10 p.m.). Late-night TV fixture and father of 3 shuffles over to HBO for his second standup special, following Lobby Baby on Netflix in 2019. Meyers has been delivering the news for more than 18 years now, first becoming a Weekend Update anchor in 2006. Late Night with Seth Meyers crossed the 1,500th episode mark last year.

Elsewhere, Brittany Howard goes to the Limits, Los Angeles and New York fight, Descendants get into Halloween, 48 Hours gets strange, a Mormon Mom goes wrong, and Larry Wilmore has News.

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

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This Weekend in Pop Culture (9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.

EARLY STREAMING & EVENING

πŸ“Ί The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (Catchy Comedy, all day): '60s TV for $400: The first of the 3 series in which Lucille Ball starred during the '60s (10 Dec 1987, adapted)

WHAT ELSE IS ON
🏈 Big Ten Saturday Night (NBC, 7:30 p.m.): Penn State at Wisconsin
πŸŽ₯ Dinner and a Movie (TBS, 7:30 p.m.): The Goonies✔️
Ranma 1/2 (Netflix, 3 a.m.)
🏈 Saturday Night College Football (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): LSU at Texas A&M
πŸ‡°πŸ‡· A Virtuous Business (Netflix, 3 a.m.)
The Goonies (via Giphy)

πŸ•— PRIMETIME πŸ•š

48 Hours (CBS, 10 p.m. / Paramount+, Sunday): In "The Strange Shooting of Alex Pennig," Alex Penning is shot dead in her apartment. Investigators note unusual findings, raising doubt about whether it was a self-inflicted act or something more sinister.

πŸŽ₯πŸŽ„ A Christmas Castle Proposal (Great American Family, 8 p.m.): 1,100 years ago, King Thundersnow of the House of Snowflake rules the Kingdom of the Elves. The son of the family's first ruler, King Blizzard, Thundersnow and his wife Queen Candy seek to build a new residence. In the young capital city, they pick a large swath of land for their proposed castle. However, as plans proceed, this castle might be their undoing. The two fight constantly about the design. Everything from the number of rooms, the stone material, and the wall dΓ©cor to the room size, fortifications, and live-in staff space. Their future depends on finding that compromise, otherwise divorce is surely on the table. They bring in mediators but even they fail. Then lawyer Bran Alexander arrives to help the couple find a way forward.

πŸŽ₯πŸŽ„ The Christmas Charade (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m. / Peacock, Sunday): Peter Holliday is a young single man who works in a company mail room. He goes on a blind date at a local coffee shop with a young woman named Leah, but what neither knows they have the wrong person. Leah assumes this is her inside man, who regularly changes his name, for a covert op in the Poinsetta region. Peter has the wrong Leah. After a few sips, the date goes sideways as they are followed across Easthampton by an unknown. This Leah -- Leah Licorice -- needs that inside man to sneak her and another into a compound and find out what Willie "the Claus" Stokes is doing. With no training and in way over his head, a bumbling Peter accepts the challenge as Leah's partner, going in amateur style to crash Stokes' black-market arms purchasing.

πŸŽ₯ Mormon Mom Gone Wrong: The Ruby Franke Story (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): "A web series about Ruby's seemingly perfect family turns dark when the mother's marriage counselor moves in, creating a toxic environment that leads to child abuse and the eventual escape of the 12-year-old son."

⭐ Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking (HBO & Max, 10 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Emmy-winning writer, New York Times bestselling author and SNL alum Seth Meyers stars in his first HBO stand-up special."✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON
⚾ 2024 World Series, Game 2 (Fox, 7 p.m.): New York Yankees at Los Angeles Dodgers
All Elite Wrestling: Collision (TNT, 8 p.m.)
Have I Got News for You (CNN, 9 p.m. / Max, Sunday): Larry Wilmore, Adam Kinzinger
πŸŽ₯ I Am Alfred Hitchcock (The CW, 8 p.m.)
Philly Homicide (Oxygen, 9 p.m.): Series premiere
πŸŽ₯ Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): Invaders From Mars
πŸŽ₯ Trap (HBO, 8 p.m. / Max, now)
πŸŽƒ Wickedly Sweet: A Descendants Short Story (Disney Channel, 8 p.m.): 

πŸ’€πŸ˜΄ LATE NIGHT πŸ˜΄πŸ’€

πŸ“Ί 2 Stupid Dogs and the Secret Squirrel Show (MeTV Toons, 11 p.m.): The dogs are convinced they are asleep and need to wake themselves up. 

πŸ“Ί Freakazoid (MeTV Toons, 11:30 p.m.): Freak and Cosgrove are zapped inside a virtual reality game. 

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Brittany Howard✔️
Brittany Howard (via Giphy)

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Key SourcesThe Futon CriticIMDbTV PassportZap2it
⭐: Top Pick
πŸ’²: Game show
πŸ“‘: Linear broadcast
πŸ‡°πŸ‡·: Korean Drama
πŸŽ₯: Movie
πŸˆπŸ€⚾⚽🎾🏌️πŸ’πŸŽ️: Sportsballs
πŸ“Ί: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included

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