World Series Begins, Simone Biles’ Olympic Return, Billy Crystal Gets Serious on Springsteen’s ‘Road Diary’ ‘Before’

World Series

One of baseball’s greatest rivalries resurfaces in the bi-coastal World Series, with star power driving both the Los Angeles Dodgers (Shohei Ohtani) and New York Yankees (Aaron Judge) as they face each other for the first game at Dodger Stadium. This was the 12th time the teams met in the Fall Classic, the first since 1981.

Simone Biles Rising

In July, to raise the curtain on the exciting Summer Olympics in Paris, Netflix released the first episodes of the documentary series about world-famous gymnast Simone Biles’ return to the sport after withdrawing from most of the Tokyo games in 2021. She followed up with victory in Paris, and the Netflix team followed her on a path to three more gold medals and another silver, making her the most decorated gymnast in history.

Before

Eli (a gloomy man) says: “My life has turned into a Dali painting.” Billy Crystal), a child psychiatrist haunted by his wife’s recent suicide (a ghostly Judith Light). Noah, a strange little boy (Jacobi Jupe) appears on his doorstep, which is covered in blood from scratching. Noah has worrying dreams, and his artwork suggests an eerie connection to Eli in this slow-burn psychological thriller. M. Night Shyamalan. It starts with two parts.

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band

Hit the road with the superstar who says, “Since I was 15, performing live has been a profound and enduring part of who I am and how I justify my existence on Earth.” Director Thom Zimny’s behind-the-scenes documentary chronicles Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band musicians with footage from his 2023-2024 global tour, in rehearsals and on stage, where they rock eager crowds for the first time since the pandemic shutdown. Springsteen also appears on BBC America The Graham Norton Show next to (11/10c) Amy Adams And Vanessa Williams.

Blue Bloods

Jake Weber (Middle) guests of the police drama as a British detective who takes on Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) to help search for an international fugitive, while Jamie (Will Estes) works closer to home to take down a fake sports gambling website. And once again, their police father, Frank (Tom Selleck) clashes with Mayor Chase (Dylan Walsh).

ON FRIDAY TV:

• Happy’s Place (8/7c, NBC): Tennessee bar Bobbie’s (Reba McAll) decides that he should mentor his half-sister and co-owner Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) on business roads.
• SWAT (8/7c, GIS): The Team of 20 joins the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s gang unit to stop a series of stash house robberies that leave no witnesses alive. following Land of Fire (9/8c), where Bode (Max Thieriot) seizes a potentially life-changing opportunity.
• sweet pea (8/7c, starz): Rhiannon (who gets away with two impulsive murders of scary people in a dark comedy thrillerElla Purnell) plots to take out her next target: longtime bully and wonderfully named Julia Blenkingsopp (Nicole Lecky), now plans to buy Rhiannon’s house and flip it. Not if Rhiannon gets to him first.
• Operation Nutcracker (8/7c, Hallmark Channel): An event planner (Ashley Newbrough) desperately searches for an antique nutcracker that went missing from a family’s Christmas charity auction and gets help from the family’s heir (Christopher Russell).
• True Crime Watch: Open ABC‘s 20/20 (9/8c), Deborah Roberts He investigates the 1987 murder of Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan, who was killed at her front door by a rose-delivery man in a murder-for-hire plot. Dateline NBC (9/8c) reports two potentially related murders.
• Fat Joe Talks (9/8c, starz): This week’s guest: Mary J. Bligehip-hop royalty and star of the network Power Book II: Ghost.
• Great Performances (9/8c, PBS): New York Philharmonic team with international cast for semi-staged oratorio ImmigrantThe story of two Jewish refugee brothers who escape to Shanghai during World War II.

IN STREAM:

• don’t move (stream on netflix): yellowstone‘s Kelsey Asbille In this real-time thriller, she stars as Iris, who is thwarted by a psychopath on a forest walk (Finn Wittrock) injects him with a serum that will slowly paralyze him over 20 minutes.
• La Maison (stream on AppleTV+): Amid New Year’s celebrations, the conspiracy between rival fashion houses shows no signs of slowing down in this addictive French drama. But LEDU’s new creative leader, Paloma (Zita Hanrot), his former boss Vincent (LambertWilson) retreats to the island, learning the tricks of the trade while others worry that he has fallen under his influence.
• Disclaimer (stream on AppleTV+): Catherine’s (Cate Blanchett) life continues to fall apart Alfonso Cuaron‘s multi-layered psychodrama, his arch-nemesis Stephen (Kevin Klein), fetches copies of The Perfect Stranger to the workplace: “The world needs to know who Catherine Ravenscroft really is.” So is this really Catherine? Stephen also targets his vulnerable son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in a diabolical catfishing scheme.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars (stream on Paramount+): In the finale, the remaining global drag stars compete for the $200,000 prize by creating the music video for the new track “Dance Like the World Is Watching” with the help of a choreographer. Jamal Sims.
• Trap (stream on Maximum): M. Night Shyamalan’s summer thriller makes its starring debut Josh Hartnett as a serial killer trying to evade capture while attending a pop concert with his daughter (Ariel Donoghue).