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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (via Tumblr)

TOP PICK

⭐🎥 The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Max, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'The first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for a cinema audience. Porky and Daffy are our unlikely heroes and Earth's only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion.'

Elsewhere...

PREMIERES

🔥 Smoke (Apple, 12:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Inspired by true events, Smoke follows a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.  Starring Taron Egerton.'

🔔 Marry My Husband (Amazon, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A revenge drama that revolves around a cancer patient named Ji-won who catches her husband cheating on her with her best friend.'

🎥 The Woman in the Yard (Peacock, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'A woman is crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband. Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son and 6-year-old-daughter, alone in her rural farmhouse. Then one day the woman takes form in their yard. Ramona assumes the woman is lost or demented, but as the woman creeps nearer and nearer to the house, it becomes clear she is no ordinary figure, and her intentions are anything but peaceful.'

🎥 Please Don't Feed the Children (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'After a deadly viral outbreak, a group of orphans flees in search of a new life, only to be taken hostage by a woman hiding a sinister secret.'

🎥 My Mom Jayne (HBO, 8:00 PM) 'Mariska Hargitay was three years old when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, tragically died in a car accident at the age of 34; following Mariska as she seeks to know, understand, and embrace her mother for the first time.'

🎥 My Boyfriend's Wife is Dead (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'Helena starts a romantic relationship with glamorous couple Iris and Dean. However, when Iris is brutally murdered, Helena must fight to prove her innocence.'

🔔 Pride of Broadway (Fuse, 10:30 PM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION.

RETURNING SHOWS

👹 Pokémon Horizons: Season Two: The Search for Laqua (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON THREE.

🦑 Squid Game (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON THREE.

STREAMING

🏍️ Long Way Home (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Pinball and Pierogies" 

🤖 Murderbot (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Foreign Object" 

🎮 Esports World Cup: Level Up (Amazon, 3:01 AM) 

💖 Love Island (UK) (Hulu, 3:01 AM) 

⚽ Now or Never: FC Montfermeil (Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Super Sara (Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 The Chi (Paramount, 3:01 AM) "Unfinished Business" 

🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Paramount, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked (Paramount, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Our Movie (Hulu, 10:31 AM) 

👮 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

💖 Love Island (Peacock, 9:01 PM) 

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌️ LPGA Tour Golf: Dow Championship, Second Round (Golf, 11:00 AM)

🏌️ PGA Tour Golf: Rocket Classic, Second Round (Golf, 3:00 PM)

🏌️ LIV Golf League: Dallas, Round One (Fox, 2:00 PM) 

🏎️ NASCAR Cup Series: Quaker State 400, Qualifying (TruTV, 5:00 PM)

🏌️ 2025 U.S. Senior Open Championship: Second Round (Golf, 6:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: St Louis Cardinals at Cleveland Guardians (Apple, 7:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Tampa Bay Rays at Baltimore Orioles (Apple, 7:00 PM)

🏃 Grand Slam Track: Los Angeles (Peacock, 7:00 PM)

🏎️ NASCAR Xfinity Racing Series: Focused Health 250 (CW, 7:30 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Indiana Fever at Dallas Wings (Ion, 7:30 PM)

🏂 X Games Salt Lake City 2025 (ESPN2, 9:00 PM)

🏀 BIG3 Basketball: Miami 305 at Detroit Amplifiers (Vice, 9:00 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: New York Liberty at Phoenix Mercury (Ion, 10:00 PM)

🥊 Professional Fighters League: PFL World Tournament, Semifinal (ESPN, 10:30 PM)

EARLY PRIMETIME

🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 7:00 PM) 'When Patrick's Time Closet goes on the fritz, SpongeBob's history is re-written by time traveling interlopers.' 

🕖 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🦎 Planet Weird (NGW, 8:00 PM) 'Meech and Terry continue to focus on Stomping Ground Records - and on their full-court press to sign Purdy; in St. Louis, things are getting tense as their business partner creates more rivals than friends.'

🔔 Wylde Pak (Nickelodeon, 8:00 PM) 'Ellie and the kids investigate cryptic Mrs. Withers, but when Jack goes missing in her creepy home, Ellie and Lil must save him; eager to become master criminals, Lil and Jack help Chuck with his dirty laundry, but are they ready for a life of crime?'

💰 Gold Rush: White Water (Discovery Channel, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 My Mom Jayne (HBO, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 My Boyfriend's Wife is Dead (LMN, 8:00 PM)
👮 On Patrol: First Shift (Reelz, 8:00 PM) 

🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (USA, 8:00 PM) 
🤮 Mama June: From Not to Hot (WE, 8:00 PM) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🎭 American Masters (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'The life and work of Hannah Arendt, often referred to as the most influential and provocative political thinker of the 20th century.'

👽 The Unexplained (History, 9:00 PM) 'To what extent have spies altered the course of world events, what tools do they utilize to carry out their missions, and how do these agents of deception hide in plain sight?

🔔 BMF (Starz, 9:00 PM) 'Meech and Terry continue to focus on Stomping Ground Records - and on their full-court press to sign Purdy; in St. Louis, things are getting tense as their business partner creates more rivals than friends.'

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Killer Cases (A&E, 9:00 PM) 
💰 Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Jean (Discovery, 9:00 PM) 
🔨 Lakefront Bargain Hunt: Renovation (Magnolia, 9:00 PM) 
👮 On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:01 PM) 

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

👽 The Proof is Out There (History, 10:03 PM) 'Did a couple in Colorado spot Bigfoot from the window of a moving train? Are the spirits of soldiers still haunting the most famous Civil War battleground? Did a sheep farmer capture footage of a legendary Icelandic lake monster?

👮 City Confidential (A&E, 10:01 PM) 
🔔 Pride of Broadway (Fuse, 10:30 PM) 

LATE NIGHT

👽 Resident Alien (SYFY & USA, 11:00 PM) 'Harry and Heather reunite, but their relationship is more complicated than ever.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Myers (NBC, 12:37 AM) 'Actress Christine Baranski; comic James Acaster; chef Meredith Hayden.'

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

📺Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO BINGE📺

Law & Order (Pop, 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM); The Andy Griffith Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 1:00 PM); Futurama (Comedy Central, 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM); Roseanne (CMT, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM); Living Single (TV One, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); South Park (Comedy Central, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM); Gunsmoke (TVLand, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM); Seinfeld (Comedy Central, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM); The Andy Griffith Show (TVLand, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Family Ties (Antenna, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM); The Office (Comedy Central, 5:00 PM - 11        :00 PM); 227 (Antenna, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 7:00 PM -9:00 PM); Everybody Loves Raymond (TVLand, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM); Barney Miller (Antennae, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM); Becker (Antenna, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM); The King of Queens (TVLand, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM); Wings (Antenna, 12:00 - 1:00 AM); The Drew Carey Show (Antenna, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM) 'Actor Danny DeVito; animal advocate Joan Embery; John Searing.'

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

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