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If you have a half hour, watch this competition Jeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions kicks off with 21 contestants (including veteran game masters Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider) vying for the title of ultimate quiz champion. Monday, Oct. 31, Syndicate

The popular procedural, which originally ran from 2005 to 2020, was never shy about showing the darker side of the many cases the Behavioral Analysis Unit team worked on—and those storylines will be even more unsettling when Criminal Minds: Evolution

She scored her first of three Oscar nominations as a teenager. She went on to conquer the Great White Way, reaping five Tony Awards in a Broadway career spanning more than five decades. But Angela Lansbury, who died October 11 at 96, only truly becam

@TVGMMattRoush Fridays, Apple TV+ I KNOW FEW pleasures greater than digging into a fat, sprawling novel. Having come of age during the first golden wave of sagas translated into gripping 1970s miniseries (QB VII, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots), I still g

@TVGMMattRoush I recently saw a scene in Hulu’s Reboot set in an L.A. restaurant and focusing on a very elderly waiter who slowly shuffles past. This was identical to a running gag in Netflix’s The Kominsky Method. Is this an homage to a real person 

Thursday, Oct. 27, 9/8c, ABC It’s a busy All Hallows’ Eve at Grey Sloan Memorial. “Some doctors really get into the spirit, while others wind up having to heal patients who chose to party in all the wrong ways,” exec producer Jamie Denbo says. The ne

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2022 Ghosts Thursday, Oct. 27, 8:30/7:30c, CBS IS THERE ANY show with more right to a high-flying Halloween episode than Ghosts? The CBS comedy smash—a Groundhog Day of the Dead, in a sense—entered Season 2 with eager new B&B owners

TUESDAY, OCT. 25 ORIGINAL SERIES Horrors of all sizes—from a brain infection to a cosmos calamity—fill the drawers of this eerie, stylish anthology curated by Del Toro. Given the filmmaker’s eerie cred—he gave us popular oddities such as The Shape of

I Love You, Man (2009) Isn’t it bromantic? Yes it is! A friendless fiancé (Paul Rudd) in search of a best man befriends an oddball investor (Jason Segel) in this quotable comedy. Add a star if you love the band Rush. National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983

The Blacklist NBC DRAMA Someone wanted Liz killed, and Red (James Spader) uses all his criminal mastery to uncover his “daughter’s” murderer in Season 9 of the long-running drama. Everything Calls for Salvation ORIGINAL DRAMA And everything is also s

PICK OF THE WEEK! SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, Oct. 30, 9/8c, HBO THE EMMY-WINNING anthology may have switched its Hawaiian resort to a European hot spot, but the White Lotus luxury hotel chain still seems to attract tourists who have lost their way. Seas

8/7c, Fox Tonight’s hour: explosive! Aisha Hinds’ Hen Wilson (above) takes center stage when the LAFD paramedic and the 118 respond to an eruption at the lab where her wife, Karen (Tracie Thoms), works. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist—which Ka

100th EPISODE! 8/7c, Fox IF YOU THINK the power couple of Chastain Park Memorial Hospital can take a day off to tie the knot, think again. Urgent situations crop up for CEO Kit Voss and Dr. Randolph Bell (Jane Leeves and Bruce Greenwood, above) with

SEASON PREMIERE 10:30/9:30c, IFC Season 2 of the wildly inventive music-and-sketch series begins with guest star Issa Rae (above, with Bashir Salahuddin) talking fashion as supermodel Iman; then: a movie trailer for a lightsaber-wielding “Mary J. Bli

10/9c, CBS In tonight’s opening sequence, a thrilling Top Gun–style F-35 Navy training exercise turns into a nail-biter as a plane gets in trouble and the pilot ejects. Turns out it’s Special Agent Sam Hanna’s (LL Cool J, above) son! Aiden (Tye White

Movie Pick 9/8c, Showtime Retired investigative journalist Irwin M. Fletcher (a charmingly funny Jon Hamm, above) arrives in Boston on the trail of stolen artwork—and finds a dead body in his rental apartment. After calling the police, he’s asked why

PICK OF THE WEEK! Wednesday, Nov. 2, 10/9c, ABC IN HER ACCOMPLISHED 32-year acting career, country music icon Reba McEntire (above) had never played a villain until Big Sky. “That’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while,” she says. “I’m really lovi

10/9c, ABC Training a wild card probationary agent like Simone Clark (Niecy Nash-Betts) was not an assignment by-the-book Carter Hope (James Lesure) asked for when he joined the L.A. bureau’s new fast-response Special Investigative Unit. “Carter is d

10:30/9:30c, Comedy Central The Reno Sheriff’s Department returned to duty in 2020, and now, new episodes of the outrageous Cops-style mockumentary are home on Comedy Central. While it’s hard to imagine topping last week’s concealed-carry fashion sho

Retro Picks If you prefer to laugh your way through spooky season, don’t miss these episodes today. Start fright and early with six festive installments of Bewitched (10am/9c, FETV). One standout: 1965’s “Trick or Treat,” in which Darrin (Dick York)

SEASON PREMIERE 8/7c, A&E Season 23 of the docuseries, about the most crucial hours of any investigation, opens with Mobile, Alabama, homicide detectives searching for suspects after two murders occur hours apart in the same complex in 2020. Followin

SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, Starz This smart, steamy series may share a title with the Oscar-winning 1988 film starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich, but the equally lush production is a prequel. Gritty and glamorous prerevolutionary Paris is home to the

SERIES PREMIERE 8/7c, NBC THIS COMEDY IS George Lopez’s fourth time playing a fictional version of himself, but there’s something new: He’s costarring with his real-life twentysomething offspring, Mayan, who didn’t speak with him for about three year

MOVIE PREMIERE 8/7c, Lifetime Full House alum Jodie Sweetin (above) has another too-close-for-comfort situation in this lovely original that kicks off the cable net’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie season. She stars as a Chicagobased archi

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Fox’s new country music drama appears in this issue’s puzzle at left. It has the letters A C G H M N O R and U. LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTION ■

@damianholbrook Cheers to Peacock for giving us the Community movie we’ve been waiting for (returning stars include, above, Alison Brie, Joel McHale and Gillian Jacobs). What a feather in the streamer’s cap! Cheers to TV’s new wave of bloodsuckers. Y