What to watch MONDAY
Oct. 18, 2021
All times Central. Start times can vary based
on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Tough Love With Hilary Farr
discovery+ New Series
Popular HGTV interior designer Hilary Farr
(Love It or List It) uses her design expertise and life experience to help families with unique challenges renovate their homes to better suit their needs.
The Neighborhood CBS, 7 p.m.
In the new episode “Welcome to Your Match,” Calvin and Tina (Cedric the Entertainer
and Tichina Arnold) enlist the services of a professional matchmaker for Marty (Marcel Spears), and they can’t help but get too caught up in the process.
9-1-1 FOX, 7 p.m.
The members of the 118 face an awkward rescue call when they arrive on the scene of a man who has overexerted himself exercising in the new episode “Peer Pressure.”
The Voice NBC, 7 p.m.
In “The Battles Part 3,” the battle rounds continue as the coaches enlist music-industry powerhouses Jason Aldean, Kristin Chenoweth, Dierks Bentley and Camila Cabello to prepare their artists to go head-to-head in hopes of advancing to the knockouts. Each coach has one steal and one save at their disposal.
The Big Leap FOX, 8 p.m.
Watching this freshman drama, set behind the scenes of a dance reality series also called The Big Leap, you can’t help but root for single mom Gabby Lewis (Simone Recasner). Seven years ago, she was captain of her high school dance team when she learned she was pregnant with her son, Sam (Crew Kingston Miskel), and gave up a scholarship to NYU. She’s managed to keep the identity of his father a secret — until tonight in “We Were Just Babies,” when the reality show’s evil-genius exec producer, Nick Blackburn (Scott Foley), sends Gabby and the rest of the Big Leap amateur dance troupe to her old high school
to teach the current squad a new routine. “It throws her into a deep, deep, deep loop that brings up a lot of memories she has shoved under the carpet and not been able to process in the open,” says Recasner, noting that this time Gabby can at least lean on her bestie and fellow graduate Justin Reyes (Raymond Cham Jr.). The experience is a turning point for another reason, too: “It sparks a part of her she hasn’t felt since she was 17 — she was a leader.” Gabby choreographs a moving number (to the song “Youth” by Daughter), which, Recasner adds, was shot at a school without air conditioning. “The sweat is real.”
Wakefield Showtime, 8 p.m.
New Series
This eight-episode psychological drama is inspired by Australian showrunner Kristen Dunphy’s personal experiences. The series follows psych nurse Nik Katira (Rudi Dharmalingam), who has a gift for soothing and reaching the unreachable but slowly begins to lose his grip.
NCIS: Hawai’i
CBS, 9 p.m.
NCIS must help avert a diplomatic crisis after a Japanese sailor is killed on American soil in the new episode “Gaijin.”
Ordinary Joe NBC, 9 p.m.
In “Mask On Mask Off,” Halloween events affect each world in profoundly different ways. While some are putting on a mask to hide from reality, others are shedding theirs and
confronting past choices.