What to watch FRIDAY
Oct. 15, 2021
All times Pacific. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
MLB Playoffs: AL Championship Series, Game 1
FOX, 5 p.m. Live
The American League’s two remaining playoff contenders meet tonight in Game 1 of the best-of-seven AL Championship Series. FOX and FS1 split coverage of the series.
S.W.A.T. CBS, 8 p.m.
Hondo (Shemar Moore) deduces that stolen architectural drawings might lead the crooks to a location that could put dangerous drugs back on the street. Plus: An EX-SWAT member (David Desantos) returns.
Her Boyfriend’s Deadly Secret
LMN, 8 p.m. Original Film
When a high school student starts dating a rebellious boy from a different school, she quickly finds herself in the crosshairs of someone trying to break them up ... or hide a dangerous secret. Stars Alicia Leigh Willis and Kalen Bull.
Home Sweet Home
NBC, 8 p.m. New Series
Ava Duvernay (Selma, Queen Sugar) is creator and executive producer of this unscripted social-experiment series that pulls back the curtain on 18 families from varying backgrounds. Each hourlong episode follows two families from completely different walks of life as they accept the challenge to explore a world unlike their own, discovering things like what food the other family has in their refrigerator and what shows are queued up on their DVR. At the end of the episode, the families reunite to share their eye-opening experiences.
Magnum P.I. CBS, 9 p.m.
Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Rick (Zachary Knighton) go undercover at a ritzy country club to investigate the case of stolen golf clubs in the new episode “Texas Wedge.”
Blue Bloods
CBS, 10 p.m.
Frank (Tom Selleck) weighs his options after his old friend Lenny (guest star Treat Williams) presents him with an exciting job offer in the new episode “Protective Instincts.”
Day of the Dead
Syfy, 10 p.m. New Series
Inspired by horror master George A. Romero’s 1985 film of the same name, which was the third film in the director’s Night of the Living Dead franchise, this 10-episode series follows six strangers as they try to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion. They’ll quickly learn that sometimes all it takes to bring people together is a horde of hungry zombies trying to rip them apart.