TV TOP PICKS
6 p.m. on HALL
Movie: Christmas Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses
Gifted interior designer Abbey Fuller (Jill Wagner) gave up the commercial uncertainties of her small business in favor of a less fulfilling 9-to-5 job that meshed better with the needs of Max (Wyatt Hunt), her 5-year-old son. Wanting to encourage Abbey to revive her true passion, wealthy widow Caroline Sinclair (Donna Mills) engages Abbey to redecorate Caroline’s grand family estate, which recently became home to her handsome son, Nick (Matthew Davis, Legacies).
7 p.m. on AP
Pit Bulls and Parolees
In the holiday-themed episode “Happy Howl-o-Ween,” Villalobos celebrates Halloween by throwing a costume party for pooches at the Tayho Tavern, with proceeds going to the rescue facility. An old friend from the show’s production crew arrives to adopt a new family member.
8 p.m. on TRAV
Destination Fear
Paranormal investigator Dakota Laden takes sister Chelsea and best friend Tanner Wiseman along on this new Halloween-friendly travel series, a 10-episode road trip to some of the most reputedly haunted abandoned locations in America. The premiere finds the trio on the road to Brushy State Penitentiary in Petros, Tenn., which was known as the Alcatraz of the South in its heyday. The prison, where Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray was once an inmate, is said to be a hotbed of uncanny activity.
9 p.m. on HBO
Movie: Greta
Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz both shine in Neil Jordan’s effective 2018 psychological thriller about a young waitress, Frances (Moretz), who returns an expensive handbag left on a subway train to Greta (Huppert), a French widow who gives piano lessons. Having recently lost her mother to cancer, Frances begins spending time with the older woman to keep her company, but Greta soon becomes disturbingly obsessed with her.
10 p.m. on PBS
Austin City Limits
Tonight’s new episode features an hour of music from Grammy Award winner Gabriella Wilson, better known professionally as H.E.R., (pronounced “her”), an acronym for Having Everything Revealed. Before adopting that stage persona in 2016, Wilson, 22, rose to fame in 2009 on Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing, a singing contest. In tonight’s concert, the singer-songwriter performs songs from her self-titled album and several EPs.