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Haunted Hotel

There were a lot of contenders for Top Pick today.  Apple has Matchbox the Movie, which appears to have very little to do with Matchbox cars other than the main characters played with them when they were kids.  Netflix has the Ben Affleck directed political/kidnapping thriller Animals.  Paramount has the premiere of the latest Avatar: The Last Airbender spinoff, Avatar: Seven Havens.  We also have the return of the entire CBS Friday night line up plus the streaming premieres of Disclosure Day, Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger and V/H/S/Mixtape.  What is the selector of today's Top Pick to do?  

I'll tell you what he does, he bestows Top Pick upon the second season of Haunted Hotel because he knows he'll actually watch it and probably be done before the end of the weekend.  I watched the first season, and though I didn't love it, I liked it enough to keep with it and it got better as the season went along.  Also, it's nice when Netflix actually produces a series where the seasons are released only one year apart the way God intended.

⭐👻 Haunted Hotel (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO. ' Katherine and her family find their groove as more paranormal problems come looking for vacancies. But can a haunted hotel ever really feel like home?'

Elsewhere...

Matchbox the Movie

  PREMIERES

🎥 Matchbox the Movie (Apple, 12:01 AM) 'An action-packed, globetrotting adventure about a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world.'

🎥 V/H/S/Mixtape (AMC+ / Shudder, 3:01 AM) 'Cranking the volume on horror with a blood-soaked collection of cursed music videos, performances, and found footage. Press play. Pray it stops.'

🎥 Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (Disney+, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'Charts Liam and Noel Gallagher's triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live '25, one of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of our time. The film is an unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025, capturing the experience and emotions of the band and their fans across the world.'

🎥 Animals (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'When their son is kidnapped, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife find themselves drawn into a web of deception. As they scramble to raise the ransom payment, they're forced to make choices that could tear their world apart. Starring Ben Affleck, who also directed, and Gillian Anderson.'

🔔 A Day Like No Other (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Tells the story of renowned Spanish singer Raphael like never before. From his humble beginnings in post-war Spain to conquering the world's greatest stages, the series portrays the unstoppable rise of an extraordinary artist - his deepest passions, greatest successes, personal struggles, and the ghosts that have accompanied him throughout his life.

🔔 Doctor X: Mafia in White (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'In a hospital dominated by ego and corruption, an enigmatic but brilliant surgeon arrives - taking on seemingly impossible cases amid fierce opposition.'

⚡💖 Take Charge of My Heart (Netflix, 3:01 AM) LIMITED SERIES. 'A corporate heir with an artificial heart meets a woman who conducts real current. Their contract could spark his battery — and something between them.'

🔔 Avatar: Seven Havens (Paramount+, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A young Earthbender discovers she's the new Avatar after Korra – but in this dangerous era, that title marks her as humanity's destroyer, not its savior. Hunted by both human and spirit enemies, she and her long-lost twin must uncover their mysterious origins and save the Seven Havens before civilization’s last strongholds collapse.'

🎥 Disclosure Day (Peacock, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people.'

🎥 R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'When a new Pumpkinhead curse awakens in Redhaven, Sam and Becka must stop it before it claims the entire town.'

🎥 Center Stage for Murder (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'After suffering a tragic accident, a ballerina finds safety, comfort and intimacy in the arms of her physical therapist. However, she soon becomes a prisoner in her own home when she discovers he's the one responsible for her injury.'

🔔 OWN Spotlight: Mothers & Daughters: Torn Apart with Iyanla Vanzant (OWN, 9:00 PM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. ' Iyanla welcomes a live studio audience of women to witness healing in real time as she works with three generations of mothers and daughters determined to confront painful truths and break destructive cycles.'

🎵 Great Musicians of Our Time (PBS, 10:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Offers intimate portraits of six of the most influential and celebrated classical music artists: violinists Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, guitarist Andrés Segovia, and pianists Vladimir Ashkenazy, Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov.'

RETURNING SHOWS

🔔 Benefits with Friends (Amor Da Minha Vida) (Disney+, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🔥 Rage (HBO Max, 3:01 AM / HBO Latino, 8:00 PM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

🍰👻 Is It Cake? Halloween (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

👮 Sheriff County (CBS, 8:00 PM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

🧑‍🚒 Fire Country (CBS, 8:00 PM) SEASON FIVE PREMIERE.

🏔️ Rocky Mountain Wreckers (Discovery, 9:00 PM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

👮 Boston Blue (CBS, 10:00 PM) SEASON TWO PREMIERE.

Animals

STREAMING

🔔 Dark Matter (Apple, 12:01 AM) "The Pyramid" 

🍽️ Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars (Apple, 12:01 AM) 

⚖️ Judy Justice (Amazon, 3:01 AM) "Inheritance Interrupted" 

🔔 Kill Jackie (AMC+, 3:01 AM) "Episode 2"

     

🔔 4 Blocks Zero (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔥 Fired Up! (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) "Episode 11"

🔔 Paolo (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) "Episode 3" 

🔔 The Producer (HBO Max, 3:01 AM)

👻 Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights (HBO Max, 3:01 AM)

🍰 The Great British Baking Show (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Mobland (Paramount, 3:01 AM) "Blank Curtain" 

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

🔔 Tokyo Revengers (Disney+ / Hulu, 2:01 PM) 

 

👮🏻 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌️ DP World Tour Golf: 2026 Open de España - Round 2 (Golf, 8:00 AM)

🏌️ PGA Tour Champions Golf: 2026 Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS - Round 1 (Golf, 1:00 PM)

⚽ English Football League Championship: Queens Park Rangers at West Ham United (CBSSPT, 3:00 PM)

🏌️ Korn Ferry Tour Golf: 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Championship (Final 4) - Round 2 (Golf, 3:00 PM)

🏎️ NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series: Charlotte Motor Speedway Oval Course (Fox, 5:00 PM)

⚽ Women's College Soccer: North Carolina Tar Heels at Florida State Seminoles (ESPNU, 6:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Florida State Seminoles at Louisville Cardinals (ESPN, 7:00 PM)

🏀 2026 WNBA Playoffs: Atlanta Dream at New York Liberty (ESPN2, 7:30 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball Playoffs: TEAMS TBA (ESPN2 / Peacock, 8:00 PM)

🏐 Women's College Volleyball: Florida Gators at Missouri Tigers (ESPNU, 8:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Wyoming Cowboys at San Jose State Spartans (CBSSPT, 9:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Washington State Cougars at Utah State Aggies (CW, 9:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Iowa State Cyclones at BYU Cougars (ESPN, 10:15 PM) 

🏌️ PGA Tour Golf: 2026 Baycurrent Championship - Round 3 (Golf, 11:00 PM)

Avatar: Seven Havens

🕖EARLY PRIMETIME🕖

🏠 The Loud House (Nickelodeon, 5:30 PM) 'When more Louds move in across the street, Mr. Grouse's peaceful life is turned upside down; Lynn turns her obsession with scoring baseball tickets into a sports vlog.'

⭐ The Patrick Starr Show (Nickelodeon, 6:00 PM) 'When Patrick is left home alone, he protects the house from burglars. Squidward and SpongeBob need Patrick to earn one Seagull Scout badge.'

🕖8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

👮 Sheriff County (CBS, 8:00 PM) 'Sheriff Fox must save a troubled young woman getting caught up in a dangerous criminal operation.'

🔔 Outlander: Blood of My Blood (Starz, 8:05 PM) 'Ellen and Grace ride across the Highlands in search of Brian and Dougal's forces.'

💲 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (ABC, 8:00 PM) 

💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) 
🎵 Jay-Z in 8 (HBO, 8:00 PM) SEASON FINALE. 
🎥 Center Stage for Murder (LMN, 8:00 PM) 
💖 Ready to Love (OWN, 8:00 PM) 

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

🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (USA, 8:00 PM) 
🥊 The Ariel Helwani Show (Vice, 8:00 PM) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🧑‍🚒 Fire Country (CBS, 8:00 PM) 'A catastrophic sinkhole traps residents underground and forces Station 42 into a high-stakes rescue.'

🎵 Austin City Limits (PBS, 9:00 PM) 'Singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo performs highlights from "You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love."'

👻 Scariest House in America (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 'Retta's journey takes her to the Mysterious Midwest where four homes contend for a chance at a $150,000 makeover by designer Alison Victoria! It includes a ghostly home with a history of squatters and a Victorian full of ghosts and dolls.'

👽 Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd (History, 9:00 PM) 'A bleeding house; a near-boiling river; a desert of unexplained encounters; these are peculiar places on Earth.'

🩰 Tip Toe (Starz, 9:05 PM) 'Leo suspects someone's been inside his house; when Clive brings his son Saul to work in Leo's bar, events soon reach a shocking conclusion.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM) 
🏔️ Rocky Mountain Wreckers (Discovery, 9:00 PM) 
🍽️ Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 OWN Spotlight: Mothers & Daughters: Torn Apart with Iyanla Vanzant (OWN, 9:00 PM) 
👮 On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
💖 Love After Lockup: Relationship Rehab (WE, 9:00 PM) 
💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 9:01 PM) 

Disclosure Day

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

👮 Boston Blue (CBS, 10:00 PM) 'Danny and Lena race to stop a copycat killer before he strikes again.'

🎵 Great Musicians of Our Time (PBS, 10:00 PM) 'Follows Itzhak Perlman in his early thirties, at the dawn of stardom.'

🔍 Anna Pigeon (USA, 10:01 PM) SEASON FINALE. 'With winter settling over the deserted park, Anna must answer a dangerous SOS call alone.'

🔔 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 10:00 PM) 
👮🏻 SWAT: Exiles (Starz, 10:00 PM) 
👽 Mysteries from Above (History, 10:03 PM) 

LATE NIGHT

🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 'Comic Jamie Foxx; actor Ke Huy Quan; Sara Niemietz sits in with The Cletones.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Actor Ethan Hawke; singer Zara Larsson.'

🔔 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 -10:45 AM); Law & Order (Pop, 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 12:30 PM); Living Single (TV One, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Friends (TBS, 9:30 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, 11:06 PM - 2:00 AM); Becker (Antenna, 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM); Wings (Antenna, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM)

Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM) 'Actor Michael J. Fox; Larry Miller; magician Harry Lorayne.'

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

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