What's On Tonight (Friday): Larry David has a Message for the Founding Fathers

Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness

Today's Top Pick is the premiere of the Larry David/Obama collaboration Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, though I am dubious about how much input the Obamas had on this.  Essentially this is Drunk History with a bigger budget, no drunk narrators and Larry David is in all the sketches.  Some of the reviews say it's a bit hit and miss, but the trailer cracked me up many times.  

⭐🔔 Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO, 9:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'President and Mrs. Obama wanted to honor America's 250th anniversary and celebrate the unique history of our nation on this special occasion. ...But then Larry David called.' ✔️

Elsewhere...

Chris & Martina: The Final Set

 PREMIERES

😂 Des Bishop: Bridge & Tunnel (Hulu, 12:01 AM) 'Filmed at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, Bishop embraces his inner “bridge and tunnel,” diving into the joys of not having kids, surviving Gen X dating, growing up Irish with a New Yorker’s attitude, and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood.'

🔔 Alliance (Amazon, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A competitive captive reality show blending high-stakes strategy, economy and psychological warfare. Sixteen celebrities are split into four teams, battling through physical and mental challenges to earn points-the only currency inside a mysterious HQ run by the System.'

🔔 What Would You Rather: Decide to Survive? (Amazon, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Romesh Ranganathan hosts ten UK online stars playing Would You Rather for real. Fiendish dilemmas decide everything, from hilarious supersized games to how they eat and sleep.'

🎥 Forbidden Fruits (AMC+ / SUNDANCE NOW, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'Free Eden employee Apple leads a secret witch cult with coworkers Cherry and Fig. New hire Pumpkin questions their sisterhood, forcing them to confront inner darkness or meet violent ends.' ✔️

🔔 The Doomies (Disney+, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'When best friends Bobby and Romy accidentally open a portal to evil, their tranquil coastal town transforms into a hotspot for terrifying creatures of doom.' ✔️

🎥 Paul Simon: The Quiet Celebration Concert (Disney+ / Hulu, 3:01 AM) 'Recorded live at McCaw Hall in Seattle during the legendary singer-songwriter's recent acoustic tour.'

🎥 Undertone (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape.'

🔔 Agent Kim Reactivated (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'When an unassuming dad's daughter goes missing, he dusts off his old black-ops skills to track her down — only to attract the wrong kind of attention.'

🎥 Chris & Martina: The Final Set (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Explores Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova's decades-long dominance of women's tennis and a friendship even cancer couldn't upset.' ✔️

🎥 Little Brother (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A famous real estate agent's carefully curated world is upended when his eccentric "little brother" unexpectedly reappears.' ✔️

🔔 Notes from the Last Row (Netflix, 3:01 AM) LIMITED SERIES. 'A failed writer-turned-professor finds rare talent in a student's writing — and grows obsessed with his draft as their private lessons go off course.'

🎥 Strung (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 'A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams and even her sanity.' ✔️

🎥 The Woman with Three Husbands (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'A woman discovers her brother is living with a killer after he joins an isolated polyamorous family.'

RETURNING SHOWS

🔔 Camp Snoopy (Apple, 12:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🏆 Esports World Cup: Level Up (Amazon, 12:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

👹 Pokémon Horizons: Season 3: Rising Hope (Netflix, 3:01 AM) PART THREE.

Little Brother

STREAMING

🔔 Cape Fear (Apple, 12:01 AM) 

⭐ Star City (Apple, 12:01 AM) 

🔔 Sugar (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Downer Town" 

🔔 Sidemen Presents: Side-Menu (Amazon, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Proud (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Ultras: Passion and Death (HBO Max, 3:01 AM)

💖 Love Island (UK) (Hulu, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 The Chi (Paramount+, 3:01 AM) "When Truth Thaws" 

🐴 Dutton Ranch (Paramount, 3:01 AM) "Whiskey Limits" 

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

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

🧼 Days of Our Lives (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 

❄️ Snowball Earth (Hulu, 11:31 AM) 

👮🏻 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

💖 Love Island (Peacock, 9:01 PM) 

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌🏻 KPMG Women's PGA Championship: Round 2 (Golf, 11:00 AM)

⚽ 2026 FIFA World Cup: France vs Norway (Fox, 2:45 PM)

🏌🏻 PGA Tour Golf: 2026 Travelers Championship - Round 2 (Golf, 3:00 PM)

🥎 Athletes Unlimited Softball: Utah Talons vs. Carolina Blaze (CBSSPT, 6:00 PM)

🏌🏻 KPMG Women's PGA Championship: Round 2 (Golf, 6:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox (ESPN App, 7:10 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Portland Fire vs. Chicago Sky (Ion, 7:30 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers (Apple, 7:45 PM)

⚽ 2026 FIFA World Cup: Spain vs Uruguay (Fox, 7:45 PM)

⚽ NWSL Soccer Challenge Cup: Gotham FC vs Kansas City Current (Amazon, 8:00 PM)

🏂🏻 X Games Sacramento 2026 (ESPN2, 8:00 PM)

🥎 Athletes Unlimited Softball: Cascade vs. Volts (ESPNU, 8:00 PM)

🍌 Savannah Bananas Baseball: The Texas Tailgaters vs. The Loco Beach Coconuts (TruTV, 8:00 PM)

🏈 CFL Football: Toronto Argonauts at Saskatchewan Roughriders (CBSSPT, 9:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego Padres (Apple, 9:45 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Atlanta Dream at Golden State Valkyries  (Ion, 10:00 PM)

⚽ 2026 FIFA World Cup: Belgium at New Zealand (Fox, 10:45 PM)

Strung

🕖EARLY PRIMETIME🕖

🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 5:00 PM) 'Squidward must figure out whodunit after a mysterious stranger vandalizes Mrs. Puff's Boating School. Squidward enters a gardening competition.'

🪨📃✂️ Rock Paper Scissors (Nickelodeon, 5:30 PM) 'Paper and Scissors struggle to make Rock's outlandish half-birthday wish that he can fly come true. Scissors stays home when Rock and Paper go cherry picking.'

🕖8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🦀 Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel, 8:00 PM) 'When Sig's crane blows a hydraulic line, Clark ascends the rig in 20-foot seas for a critical repair; the Cornelia Marie crew battles a fire as Jake's engine room fills with smoke.'

🐴 Dutton Ranch (Paramount, 8:00 PM) 'After Beulah Jackson collapsed at the Ten Petal celebration, Episode 8 picks up with that plotline and delves into the family drama between her adopted son, Joaquin, and her biological son, the villainous Rob-Will.'

🔔 Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Starz, 8:07 PM) 'Raq and Marvin launch their new operation as Kanan and Breeze's business grows stronger; Jukebox takes a big risk to protect the family.'

🎥 The Woman with Three Husbands (LMN, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Belle Collective (OWN, 8:00 PM) 

👮 On Patrol: First Shift (Reelz, 8:00 PM) 

🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (USA, 8:00 PM) 
💖 Love After Lockup (WE, 8:00 PM) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🪓 The Last Woodsman (Discovery Channel, 9:00 PM) 'After an all-hands push to Devil's Chute, Jared and his crew build a massive convoy, starting a 20-mile climb to the final logging grounds.'

👽 The Unexplained (History, 9:00 PM) 'Dinosaurs have fascinated scientists for nearly two centuries, and in all that time, we have yet to answer even the most basic questions about how these animals lived, how they died, and what became of them.'

👂🏻 The Listeners (Starz, 9:01 PM) 'Unable to experience The Hum the way the others can, Claire has a crisis.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO, 9:00 PM) ✔️
👮 On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 Zillow Gone Wild (HGTV, 9:30 PM) 
💖 This is Poly (WE, 9:30 PM) 

Forbidden Fruits

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) "Guests are Vice President JD Vance, Senator Raphael Warnock and comedian and writer Larry Wilmore."

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM) 

LATE NIGHT

🍽️ Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman (USA, 11:00 PM) 'Braun crashes Miami to smash burgers and visit the legendary Phuc Yea with his buddy Mike Piazza.'

🔔 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM) 'Singer Nick Jonas; actress Amy Sedaris; Violet Grohl performs.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Singer Lizzo; actor Jake Shane.'

🤼 WWE: Made in America (USA, 11:00 PM) 
😂 Comics Unleashed (CBS, 11:35 PM) 
🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 
🔔 Nightline (ABC, 12:37 AM)
😂 Funny You Should Ask (CBS, 12:37 PM)

📺Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO BINGE📺

South Park (Comedy Central, 5:00 AM - 2:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths Show (Sundance, 5:00 AM - 2:00 PM); Law & Order (Pop, 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM); Living Single (TV One, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Friends (TBS, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM); Gunsmoke (TVLand, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM); Seinfeld (Comedy Central, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM); The Big Bang Theory (TBS, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths 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); Three's Company (Antenna, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Barney Miller (Antenna, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM);  Everybody Loves Raymond (TVLand, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM); One Day at a Time (Antennae, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM); Sanford & Son (Antenna, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM); The Golden Girls (Hallmark, 10:00 PM - 3:00 AM); The King of Queens (TVLand, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM); Becker (Antenna, 12:00 - 1:00 AM); Wings (Antenna, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM) 'Actor Dan Aykroyd; comic Bobby Kelton; actress Helen Shaver.'

The Doomies

Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Rotten Tomatoes; YouTube; TV Guide; TV Passport

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