What's On Tonight (Friday): Why Does a Man Climb a Mountain? For the Clicks

 

The Last First: Winter K2

⭐🎥 The Last First: Winter K2 (Apple, 12:01 AM) 'Focusing on a 2021 expedition, this documentary follows Icelander John Snorri Sigurjónsson and the Pakistani father-son team of Ali and Sajid Sadpara, a party of mountaineers who set out to be the first to summit K2 in the winter, when the mountain’s conditions are the cruelest.  The men soon find themselves sharing the treacherous ascent with influencer climbers and their film crews, commercial expedition clients, and a Nepalese team no longer content to help Westerners achieve mountaineering glory.'✔️

Elsewhere...

Tip Toe

  PREMIERES

🎥 I Would Rather Die (Amazon, 3:01 AM) 'A teenager bitten by a zombie struggles between adolescence and undead transformation, navigating friendships, identity, and survival in a darkly comedic twist on growing up.'

🔔 Kill Jackie (AMC+, 3:01 AM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Jackie Price (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has been living a luxurious existence for the last twenty years – travelling the world, selling fine art and, above all, trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international drug smuggler. But just as life starts to feel a little boring, it takes a sudden lethal turn when she discovers that The Seven Demons, a squad of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her. Based on the novel The Price You Pay by Nick Harkaway.'✔️

🎥 Infirmary (AMC+ / Shudder, 3:01 AM) 'Recovered bodycam footage reveals a security guard's first night inside an abandoned hospital, where disturbing incidents and a sinister intruder send his shift spiraling out of control.'✔️

🧙‍♀️ Coven Academy (Disney+, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Follows three teenage witches and their dangerously charming warlock peers at an elite magic boarding school where power is currency, secrets are lethal and attraction is a liability.'✔️

🎥 Evil Dead Burn (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites--turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell--she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on... even in death.'

🔔 Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Junji Ito's nightmares enter the real world in live action, where ordinary lives twist into the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inescapable.'

🔔 The Torment (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A disgraced journalist returns to her hometown and sets out to investigate the unsolved disappearance of a childhood friend.'

💖 #love (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'What happens when chemistry meets compatibility? #love playfully explores the age-old debate as two unlikely partners embark on a unique challenge that brings them closer in unexpected ways.'

🎥 Doing Life (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A single mother fighting to survive and a reformed ex-con with untapped talent find in each other an unlikely second chance.'

🎥 Schumacher '94: The Birth of a Legend (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Michael Schumacher's first World Championship win roars to life through personal interviews and archival footage of the legendary 1994 Formula 1 season.'

🔔 Bite Size Terror (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'Brings a fresh take on the short-form horror format to Tubi previously explored in Hulu's Bite Size Halloween. Across the season, grief, ambition, intimacy, and vulnerability become entry points for something darker, as characters searching for connection, control, or a way forward find themselves confronting forces they do not understand.'

🦁 Africa: Earth's Wild Home (NGC / Nat Geo Wild, 8:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'A seven-part event series that brings African wildlife and landscapes to the screen like never before, using the latest technology to tell the most extraordinary stories from the continent and cutting-edge CGI to unearth the deep history and forces that shaped Africa's natural worlds.'✔️

💖 Love After Lockup: Relationship Rehab (WE, 9:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'The nine-episode series gathers five fan-favorite couples from the Love After Lockup franchise as they embark on a transformative journey with psychiatrist and nationally recognized relationship expert Dr. Ish Major, working to heal old wounds and rebuild their relationships.'

🔔Tip Toe (Starz, 9:05 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Leo (Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey) have lived next door to each other for almost 15 years. Just as life should be settling down for both, the world around them is growing more tense. Words become weapons, opinions become radicalized and gradually the two neighbors become deadly enemies in a tense, thrilling drama that spotlights the prejudices that have started to creep back into our lives, in a story that speaks not just to the queer community, but to the world at large.'✔️

Coven Academy

RETURNING SHOWS

🧙‍♀️ The Sisters Grimm (Apple,12:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🔔 Adventure Time: Side Quests (Disney+ / Hulu, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🦇 Batwheels (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) SEASON 3F. SEASON FINALE.

🔔 Gamechangers (Roku, 3:01 AM) "Mother/Athlete" SPECIAL PRESENTATION.

🔔 Tokyo Revengers (Disney+ / Hulu, 2:01 PM) SEASON FOUR PREMIERE.

💲 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (ABC, 8:00 PM) SEASON SIX PREMIERE.

💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) SEASON SEVENTEEN PREMIERE.

💖 Ready to Love (OWN, 8:00 PM) SEASON TWELVE PREMIERE.

👽 Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd (History, 9:00 PM) SEASON FOUR PREMIERE.

🔔 39th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards (PBS, 9:00 PM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION.

👽 Mysteries from Above (History, 10:03 PM) 

STREAMING

🔔 Dark Matter (Apple, 12:01 AM) "What the Universe is Made Of"

🍽️ Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Could You Imagine Losing One?"

⚖️ Judy Justice (Amazon, 3:01 AM) "The Lot That Hit Back" 

🔔 Celebrity Escape to the Country (BritBox, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 4 Blocks Zero (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔥 Fired Up! (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Paolo (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) "Episode 2"

🔔 The Producer (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

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

🔔 Physical 100: Italy (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON FINALE. 

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

🔔 Mobland (Paramount, 3:01 AM) "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" 

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

 

👮🏻 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

Infirmary

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌️ PGA Tour Champions Golf: 2026 Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic - Round 1 (Golf, 12:00 PM)

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

🏌️ PGA Tour Golf: 2026 Bank of Utah Championship - Round 2 (Golf, 5:00 PM)

🏒 NHL Hockey: New York Rangers at Detroit Red Wings (TNT / TruTV, 6:30 PM)

🏈 College Football: Liberty Flames at Delaware Blue Hens (CBSSPT, 7:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Pittsburgh Panthers at Virginia Tech Hokies (ESPN, 7:00 PM)

⚽ Women's College Soccer: South Carolina Gamecocks at Mississippi State Bulldogs (ESPNU, 7:00 PM)

⚽ NWSL Soccer: Orlando Pride vs San Diego Wave (Amazon, 8:00 PM)

🏀 WNBA Basketball: Playoffs: Teams TBA (ESPN2, 8:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Penn State Nittany Lions at Northwestern Wildcats (Fox, 8:00 PM)

🏌️ LPGA Tour Golf: 2026 LOTTE Championship - Round 2 (Golf, 8:00 PM)

🏒 NHL Hockey: St. Louis Blues at Dallas Stars (TNT / TruTV, 9:00 PM)

🏈 College Football: Montana State Bobcats at Idaho Vandals (ESPN, 10:30 PM)

🕖EARLY PRIMETIME🕖

🏠 The Loud House (Nickelodeon, 5:30 PM) The Morticians' Club accidentally unleashes a cursed cookbook on the school; Leni is torn between her dream career in fashion and her eco-conscious boyfriend.'

⭐ The Patrick Starr Show (Nickelodeon, 6:00 PM) 'Squidina and SpongeBob shoot advertisements to fund the Patrick Show. GrandPat takes over Death's job for a day.'

🥊 The Ariel Helwani Show (Vice, 7:00 PM) 

Kill Jackie

🕖8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🦁 Africa: Earth's Wild Home (NGC / Nat Geo Wild, 8:00 PM) 'Africa is an extraordinary continent, shaping the wildlife that call it HOME.'

🔔 Outlander: Blood of My Blood (Starz, 8:05 PM) 'Julia welcomes a new member of staff to Leathers and learns unsettling news; Brian and Dougal train their men for battle; Ellen calls on lessons from her father and uses her wit to defend her family and her clan.'

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

💰 Gold Rush (Discovery, 8:00 PM) 
🎵 Jay-Z in 8 (HBO, 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) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🦁 Africa: Earth's Wild Home (NGC / Nat Geo Wild, 8:57 PM) 'Africa's jungles hide creatures found nowhere else on Earth.'

👻 Scariest House in America (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 'Retta's journey to find scary takes her to the Eerie East where four homes vie for a chance at a $150,000 makeover by designer Alison Victoria! It includes a ghoulish home overrun with ghosts and a Victorian infested with spiders and apparition'

👽 Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd (History, 9:00 PM) 'A miracle cure with a deadly catch; A romantic gesture explodes in a president's face; A simple home repair spirals wildly out of control; Sometimes the biggest disasters begin with the best intentions.'

🩰 Tip Toe (Starz, 9:05 PM) 'Leo and Clive have been next-door neighbors for 14 years, but when a one-night stand goes wrong, a feud begins which quickly escalates into danger.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM) 
🔔 39th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards (PBS, 9:00 PM) 
🍽️ Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food, 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) 

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🦁 Africa: Earth's Wild Home (NGC / Nat Geo Wild, 9:59 PM) 'Africa's paradise islands are home to the strangest creatures on Earth.'

🔔 Voices on PBS (PBS, 10:00 PM) 'The story of ASCO, the groundbreaking Chicano art group formed in the 1970s that continues to inspire new generations of artists and activists.'

🔥 Roast My Rental (HGTV, 10:00 PM) 'What the shed?! In Topanga, California, wall-to-wall disappointment awaits Leslie and Jasmine as they contend with cramped spaces, poor design and an unfinished bathroom.' SEASON FINALE. 

🔍 Anna Pigeon (USA, 10:00 PM) 'A shooting hits close to home as Molly visits to find Anna's life more complicated than it seems.'

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

LATE NIGHT

🦁 Africa: Earth's Wild Home (NGC / Nat Geo Wild, 11:02 PM) 'Only the most determined animals can survive the largest desert in Africa.'

🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM) 'Musician Paul McCartney; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); Goose performs.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Actor Jon Hamm; actress Sabrina Impacciatore; comic Taylor Tomlinson.'

🔔 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); Law & Order (Pop, 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths Show (Sundance, 6:00 AM - 9:15 AM); Friends (TBS, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM); Living Single (TV One, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); 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)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM)

Africa: Earth's Wild Home 

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

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