What's On Tonight (Friday): They Will Walk 500 Miles and They Will Walk 500 More (in Perpetuity)

  

The Long Walk

Today's Top Pick is the streaming HBO Max premiere of the The Long Walk based on the novel by Stephen King Richard Bachman.  The story is set in an alternate reality dystopian 70's and follows a group of teens taking part in a nationally televised walking contest.  They must keep walking at a minimum of 3 mph or be executed.  The last one standing will get a bunch of money and a single wish.  Reviews were good, but you probably already know if this is something you want to watch/endure.

⭐🎥 The Long Walk (HBO Max, 3:01 AM)  'A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.'✔️

Elsewhere...

 PREMIERES

Faces of Death

🎥 Faces of Death (AMC+ / Shudder, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'The exploration of the original film's infamous "is it real or not?" conceit continues as a woman working as a content moderator for a major video platform discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film.'✔️

🎥 Ikka (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Blackmailed into representing a criminal he previously put away, an attorney must compromise his morals. To save those he cherishes, he is compelled to bend every legal rule to liberate his adversary.'✔️

🎥 Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 Hours That Changed Spain (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Explores how Miguel Ángel Blanco's 1997 abduction turned fear into collective resistance and shaped Spain's fight against ETA terrorism.'✔️

🎥 Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Never-before-seen footage and survivor accounts trace the 2012 shipwreck of a luxury cruise and the disaster that ensued, in this immersive documentary.'✔️

🎥 Reminders of Him (Peacock, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'After a perfect outing with her boyfriend, Kenna makes an unbearable mistake that sends her to prison. Seven years later, Kenna returns to her hometown in Wyoming, hoping to rebuild her life and earn the chance to reunite with her young daughter, Diem, whom she has never known.'✔️

🎥 The One Next Door (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'When a mysterious stranger moves in next door to Robert and Tabitha, boundaries are tested, loyalty is questioned, and danger comes for all.'

🎥 The Night Everything Changed (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'When Tina's teenage daughter doesn't return home from a sleepover with her closest friends, she embarks on a frantic search to find her before it's too late. In the process, she unravels dark secrets of a forbidden romance and a tryst among BFFs.'

RETURNING SHOWS

🔔 Escape to the Country (Britbox, 12:01 AM) SEASON THIRTY-THREE PREMIERE.

Ikka

STREAMING

🔔 Cape Fear (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Mongrel" 

🔔 Silo (Apple, 12:01 AM) "It's All Good" 

⭐ Star City (Apple, 12:01 AM) "The Wolves" SEASON FINALE. 

🔔 Sugar (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Off 15" 

🔔 Alliance (Amazon, 2:31 AM) 

🔔 Deep Revenge (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Proud (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

💖 Love Island (UK) (Hulu, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Agent Kim Reactivated (Netflix, 3:01 AM) "Episode 5" 

🔔 The Chi (Paramount+, 3:01 AM) "Cold Hearted" 

🔔 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) 

👮🏻 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

💖 Love Island (Peacock, 9:01 PM) 

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🎾 2026 Wimbledon Championships: Gentlemen's Semifinals (ESPN, 8:00 AM)

🏌🏻 PGA Tour Golf: 2026 Genesis Scottish Open Round 2 (Golf, 11:00 AM)

🏌🏻 Kaulig Companies Championship: Round 2 (Golf, 2:00 PM)

⚽ 2026 FIFA World Cup: Quarterfinals: Spain at Belgium (Fox / Telemundo, 2:45 PM)

🏌🏻 PGA Tour Golf: 2026 ISCO Championship - Round 2 (Golf, 4:00 PM)

🏀 NBA Summer League Basketball: Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers (ESPN2, 4:30 PM)

🏀 NBA Summer League Basketball: Houston Rockets vs Denver Nuggets (ESPN2, 6:30 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Boston Red Sox at New York Mets (Apple, 7:00 PM)

🥎 Athletes Unlimited Softball: Blaze vs. Volts (ESPNU, 7:00 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Dallas Wings at Toronto Tempo (Ion, 7:30 PM)

⚽ NWSL Soccer: Orlando Pride vs Kansas City Current (Amazon, 8:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Atlanta Braves at St Louis Cardinals (Apple, 8:00 PM)

🥎 Athletes Unlimited Women's Pro Softball: Chicago Bandits vs Portland Cascade (CBSSPT, 9:00 PM)

🏀 NBA Summer League Basketball: Boston Celtics at Toronto Raptors (ESPN, 9:00 PM)

🥍 Premier Lacrosse League: Utah Archers at New York Atlas (ESPN2, 9:00 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Chicago Sky at Los Angeles Sparks (Ion, 10:00 PM)

Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 Hours That Changed Spain

🕖EARLY PRIMETIME🕖

🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 5:00 PM) 'To get closer to the secret formula, Plankton swaps bodies with Squidward and must learn to adapt to his new lanky form. Sandy teaches SpongeBob cowboy skills while they pan for bubbles, unaware that Krabs trails them in the hunt.'

🪨📃✂️ Rock Paper Scissors (Nickelodeon, 5:30 PM) 'Paper & Pencil inadvertently create a horde of Rock clones and decide to look after them together.'

⭐ The Patrick Star Show (Nickelodeon, 6:00 PM) 'After accidentally putting on doctor's clothes, Patrick believes that he is a medical professional.'

🐢 Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nickelodeon, 6:30 PM) 'Raph's love for fighting puts him at odds with his brothers as they try to stop a rampaging Bebop and Rocksteady from wrecking the city.'

🕖8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🐟 Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel, 8:00 PM) 'Sig teaches Sophia how to captain the Northwestern at the Russian line.'

🔔 Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Starz, 8:05 PM) 'Raq and Marvin navigate a precarious situation; Kanan and Breeze deepen their partnership; Jukebox hatches a plan.'

👀 Big Brother (CBS, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 The Night Everything Changed (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

🔔 Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO, 9:00 PM) 'Larry crashes a party in Boston Harbor. Jonesy makes a stop on the Underground Railroad. The Wright Brothers prepare for their first flight.'

👽 The Unexplained (History, 9:00 PM) 'Five centuries after the fall of the Aztec Empire, new discoveries are revealing that this lost civilization may have been far more sophisticated-and far stranger-than history has long suggested; what secrets remain buried beneath Mexico?'

👂🏻 The Listeners (Starz, 9:00 PM)   SEASON FINALE. 'As the outside world closes in on the group, one last group session ends in tragedy.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM)
🥊 This Is UFC: McGregor vs. Holloway (CBS, 8:00 PM) 
🐶 Totally Funny Animals (CW, 9:00 PM) 
🍽️ Diners, Drive-In's & Dives (Food, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 My Lottery Dream Home (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 
👮 On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 Zillow Gone Wild (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 
💖 This is Poly (WE, 9:30 PM) 

Reminders of Him

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🍽️ Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman (USA, 10:00 PM) 'After LA's biggest award show, Braun wins at eating, with friends Alexa Bliss and Ron Funches. / Braun calls in Ben Franklin for gourmet cheesesteaks in the birthplace of American Independence.'

👽 Mysteries from Above (History, 10:03 PM) 'Come across a set of disturbingly familiar stone monoliths in Colombia, then explore a lost city in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; puzzle over an ancient ruin in Corinth, Greece, and explore an old structure on a Maltese island.'

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM) 

LATE NIGHT

🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 'Guest host Tiffany Haddish; actress Octavia Spencer; TV host Jack Whitehall; Elmiene performs.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Professional basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns; actress Olivia Wilde; actor Stephen Root; chef Ham El-Waylly.'

⚽ FIFA World Cup on FOX After Hours with James Corden (Fox, 11:00 PM)
🔔 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM) 
😂 Comics Unleashed (CBS, 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 - 1:00 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 (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, 12:30 - 1:00 AM); Wings (Antenna, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM) 'Actor Richard Pryor; Roscoe Tanner; Floyd Jackson.'

Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea

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

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📺: Throwback
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