‘Wars’ galore on cable
A “new” show that is anything but, “Real Estate Wars” (10 p.m., Bravo, TV-14) knows what its viewers want. Two teams of real estate agents vie to buy and sell some of the most expensive property in California’s Orange County.
During the two-minute introduction to these horrible people, they utter few words that aren’t numbers, house prices or the phrase “number one.” Other choice words are unprintable here. If they seem like easy-to-loathe parodies, that’s entirely intentional.
One agent is seen driving an expensive sports car, dismissed by a rival agent as an overcompensating device. Another agent texts a client while undergoing a cosmetic surgery procedure.
Yes, it’s that kind of Bravo show.
› “Real Estate Wars” does not set out to challenge anybody’s idea of a cable series. Neither does the 13-episode shocker “Ghost Wars” (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-14). After a calamity, paranormal activity threatens to swamp a rural Alaska town.
Only local outcast Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia, “Tut”) has the psychic wherewithal to take on the mass haunting. But first, he must convince his neighbors to cooperate.
› “Rillington Place” begins streaming on Sundance Now, the subscription service from AMC Networks. Tim Roth (“Lie to Me”) stars as notorious killer John Christie. The title refers to the dreary apartment he shared with his long-suffering wife, Ethel (Samantha Morton), as he carried out a series of murders during the 1940s and ’50s.
“Rillington” begins with the wrongful execution of Timothy Evans (Nico Mirallegro) for Christie’s killings and flashes back to his exploits as seen from the point of view of three different characters.
Captivating but slow, “Rillington” plunges viewers into Britain during the war years and its aftermath, a bleak time of rationing and deprivation. Fans of period costume dramas should enjoy this, but some may find the audio muffled and the accents difficult to decipher.
› Also streaming, Crackle’s “SuperMansion: Drag Me to Halloween” presents a stop-motion animation holiday special featuring the voices of Bryan Cranston, Keegan-Michael Key, Jillian Bell, Lake Bell and Phil LaMarr.
› TCM puts the spotlight on young actors in literary adaptations, including the 1960 take on Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (8 p.m.), the 1950 version of Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” (10 p.m.) and the 1986 film “Stand by Me” (12:15 a.m.), based on a novella by
Stephen King.