What to watch WEDNESDAY
Oct. 27, 2021
All times Pacific. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on your on-screen guide.
Wu-tang: An American Saga
Hulu Season Finale
The Clan makes big moves for Wu domination in the Season 2 finale.
Behind the Monsters
Shudder New Series
This six-part docuseries dives into cinematic horror icons — Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Candyman, Chucky and Pinhead — and featuring interviews with horror experts as well as the writers, directors and actors from the original films that made each the stuff of genre legend.
NBA Basketball
ESPN, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Live
The Atlanta Hawks are in New Orleans to take on the Pelicans. Following that game, the Memphis Grizzlies are in Portland to face the Trail Blazers.
The Wizard of Paws
BYUTV, 5 p.m. Season Premiere
In Season 3, animal prosthetist Derrick Campana again travels the country looking to help all kinds of animals in desperate need of his services.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Bravo, 8 p.m.
Waterworks time! Part 3 of the four-part reunion gets to the emotional stuff as sisters Kyle Richards and Kathy Hilton finally dig into their much-mentioned former estrangement and Crystal Kung Minkoff reveals the startling racism she encountered off-camera this season.
Moonshiners
Discovery Channel, 8 p.m.; also streams on discovery+ Season Premiere
Season 11 of the reality series catches up with outlaw moonshiners Tickle, Tim Smith, Josh Owens, Mark Ramsey, Eric (Digger) Manes as the backwoods economy that drives their beloved way of life is booming like it’s the Roaring ’20s all over again. But law enforcement is back on their game, forcing shiners to cross state lines to practice their craft and elude capture.
Married at First Sight
Lifetime, 8 p.m.
In “Memory Lane & A Dirty Little Secret,” only two weeks remain before Decision Day, but for one of the couples, the choice to stay wedded or walk away may come a lot earlier after a long-hidden secret resurfaces.
The Wonder Years ABC, 8:30 p.m.
When Coach Long and Bill take the boys on a camping trip as part of their newly formed scout troop, their starkly different approaches to the outdoors show Dean that his father isn’t good at everything. As a thunderstorm threatens an eerie quest through the woods, Bill leans into his expertise to save the day in “Be Prepared.”
NOVA Universe Revealed
PBS, 9 p.m. New Miniseries
This five-part NOVA stand-alone series delves into the vastness of space to capture moments of high drama when the universe changed forever. State-of-the-art animation delivers astonishing, photorealistic glimpses of the birth of the very first star, the chaos created as two galaxies collide and the power of a supermassive black hole as it flings a star across space so violently that it’s still traveling millions of years later. The program even takes viewers back on the ultimate time-travel voyage to witness the birth of space and time itself.
CSI: Vegas CBS, 10 p.m.
The CSI team investigates when a body is dug up in the luau pit of a Hawaiian-themed hotel in the new episode “Long Pig.”
Wholloween BBC America, midnight
Who is creeping around the corner? Why, it’s the Doctor! The sci-fi staple has had plenty of fear-inducing installments over the years. This multiday marathon kicks off with Season 2’s “The Girl in the Fireplace,” in which the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) takes down creepy androids in powdered wigs terrorizing an 18th-century French court.