The Milwaukee Brewers host the Tampa Bay Rays for the first game of the 2026 World Series. Real-life couple Téa Leoni and Tim Daly are Newlyweds in a new NBC sitcom. Great Performances salutes the late country-music legend Tammy Wynette in an all-star music special. The Roku Channel revives the Battle of the Network Stars franchise for a streaming audience.
The World Series
The Dodgers and Yankees, who? Scrappy underdogs rule in this year’s Fall Classic, as smaller-market victors Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays vie for what would be the first national title for either team. The Brewers represent the National League, which holds a 4-2 World Series advantage since 2020, the last time the Rays made the best-of-seven finals. It’s the Brewers’ first repeat visit since 1982, when the team was still part of the AL and lost in a tight seven-game battle against the St. Louis Cardinals. After Saturday’s Game 2 at Milwaukee’s American Family Field, the action moves Monday to Florida’s Tropicana Field.
Newlyweds
Series Premiere
No one can say Téa Leoni and Tim Daly lack chemistry. They had plenty to spare on Madam Secretary, becoming a real-life couple while playing husband and wife. Having officially wed in July 2025, they’re at it again in a traditional sitcom as opposites who attract on a blind date, taking the plunge after a whirlwind courtship. The pilot episode stages the meet-cute between messy widow-with-grown kids Jeanie and uptight divorced-with-no-kids philosophy prof James, who hit it off instantly and give love a chance later in life the second time around. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars as James’ flamboyantly intrusive and preening ex, Claudia. But the real scene-stealer is physical-comedy pro Bill O’Neill as Arvid, James’ eccentric teaching assistant from Norway who becomes quite attached to this romantic couple.
Great Performances
Special
Still basking in the afterglow of Wednesday’s Dolly Parton tribute? Another country-music legend gets her due in an all-star concert special, titled Tammy Wynette: Forever Yours, recorded in March at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. This tribute, introduced by daughter Georgette from Wynette’s marriage to George Jones, features her breakout hits “Stand by Your Man” (performed by Heart‘s Ann Wilson) and “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” (KT Tunstall), with a roster including Wynonna Judd, Lorrie Morgan, Gretchen Wilson, Kimberly Perry, Patty Griffin, Debby Boone, and more.
Battle of the Streaming Stars
Series Premiere
A TV staple of the 1970s and 1980s, the Battle of the Network Stars franchise has been rebooted several times over the decades, so it was only a matter of time before it entered the streaming universe. Roku’s version, from Peyton Manning‘s Omaha Productions, adopts a three-team format featuring actors, comedians, reality, and social media personalities. America’s Got Talent‘s Terry Crews hosts the good-natured competition, with the ever-game Yvette Nicole Brown as referee. The players, some of whom could give Dancing With the Stars‘ casting directors a run for their who’s-that money, include Akbar Gbajabiamila, Kel Mitchell, Tituss Burgess, Skylar Astin, Real Housewives‘Dorinda Medley and Sonja Morgan, Loni Love, Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay, Nikki Bella, Josh Richards, Ben Hollingsworth, and Lizzy Mathis.
MobLand
The Harrigan crime family enjoys a change of scene after barely escaping an assault on their English country compound by the devilish Frankie Cooper (Johnny Flynn). Retreating to the lavish Majorcan villa owned by bastard daughter Seraphina’s (Mandeep Dhillon) family, the not-very-happy family regroups and plots their uncertain future, with matriarch Maeve (Helen Mirren) lashing out at loyal fixer Harry (Tom Hardy). He’s more worried about his estranged wife Jan (Joanne Froggatt), who was left behind in London, and he has good reason. This war is far from over.
- Happy’s Place (8/7c, NBC): The sitcom’s third season opens with tavern owner Bobbie (Reba McEntire) giving her half-sister Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) her own office while setting up a “friend zone” with her former beau Emmett (Rex Linn).
- Outlander: Blood of My Blood (8/7c, Starz): While Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) is treated to some questionable hospitality after being carted against her will to Leathers, her beloved Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) embarks on a rescue mission to the notorious Fort William to save her brother Dougal (Sam Retford). And you’ll never guess who they meet!
- Winter Wonderlanes (8/7c, Hallmark Channel): It’ll be all strikes and no split in this holiday romance when pop-up restaurateur Audrey (Ashley Newbrough) returns home to save her family’s bowling alley, working alongside her high-school boyfriend Jason (Franco Lo Presti) to revive a Winter Wonderlanes youth tournament.
- Sheriff Country (8/7c, CBS): Sheriff Mickey (Morena Baccarin) tries to stop the spread of a deadly drug that’s infesting Edgewater’s college community. Followed by Fire Country (9/8c), where Bode (Max Thieriot) champions the town’s new volunteer firefighting program and recording artist INK plays at Smokey’s Bar.
- True Crime Watch: Returning for the eighth time to the Lori Vallow Daybell case, Dateline NBC (9/8c, NBC) features Keith Morrison‘s exclusive interview with one of her targets, former nephew-in-law Brandon Boudreaux. On ABC‘s 20/20 (9/8c), Linsey Davis reports on the 2021 disappearance of Michigan businesswoman Dee Ann Warner from her farm.
- Tip Toe (9/8c, Starz): The tension between neighbors Leo (Alan Cumming) and Clive (David Morrissey) reaches a peak in the penultimate episode of the British drama.
- Boston Blue (10/9c, CBS): Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) look for answers after a subway shootout leaves a fellow detective injured.
- The Rainmaker (10/9c, USA Network): Rudy (Milo Callaghan) takes his young client Victor’s (Asher De Land) case to court.
- S.W.A.T. Exiles (10/9c, Starz): The team steps into action after an assassination attempt on a visiting princess.
- Lupin (streaming on Netflix): The acclaimed French heist thriller returns for a fourth season.
- Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (streaming on Netflix): Judd Apatow co-directs a revealing profile of the comedian, who reflects on her mental health struggles in her hilariously raw stand-up performances.
- Tulsa King (streaming on Paramount+): Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) reels from personal tragedy but puts on a brave face, though it’s anything but business as usual with a new adversary (Gretchen Mol) in the governor’s office.
- Yaga (streaming on AMC+): Opening with back-to-back half-hour episodes, a mystery laced with supernatural undertones stars Schitt’s Creek‘s Noah Reid as a cocky private eye who teams with a local policewoman (Clark Backo) to investigate the disappearance of a spoiled billionaire heir (Heated Rivalry‘s Hudson Williams) whose housemate is an almost exact doppelganger. Weird stuff happens. Carrie-Anne Moss is terrific as a seductive professor with ties to the case.
- Dark Matter (streaming on Apple TV): Jasons 1 and 2 (Joel Edgerton) square off in the penultimate episode of the mystifying sci-fi drama’s second season.
- Last One Laughing: Halloween (streaming on Prime Video): The British comedy competition adds seasonal props as an extra incentive to make the contestants break.
- The Cycle (streaming on Shudder): Genre veteran Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood, Daredevil) stars as a forensic scientist who works with cadavers and is thrown when the latest mangled body is that of her long-missing father.
- The Invite (streaming on HBO Max): Olivia Wilde directs and stars with Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton in a drama making its streaming debut about two neighboring couples whose dinner party leads to unexpected revelations. The movie debuts Saturday on HBO at 8/7c.
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