WHAT TO WATCH
All times listed are Eastern/Pacific Time. Shows air one hour earlier in Central/ Mountain Time.
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show
Apple TV+ h Season Premiere Star/cocreator Jack McBrayer’s kids series returns for Season 2, again offering examples of creativity, imagination, positive change and the ability to spread compassion.
Werewolf by Night
Disney+
Marvel Studios gets spooky in its first special, a live-action adaptation of Werewolf by Night, a character and title that was part of Marvel Comics’ supernatural/horror line of comics that began in the 1970s.
Hellraiser
Hulu h Original Film
This year’s Huluween includes the return of Pinhead. David Bruckner ( The Night House) directs this reimagining of Clive Barker’s 1987 horror classic.
Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
Netflix h New Series
This three-part docuseries explores the warped mind of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer through newly unearthed recorded interviews with his legal team, revealing the ways that approaches to race, sexuality, class and policing allowed him to prey upon Milwaukee’s marginalized communities.
The Redeem Team
Netflix
This film tells the story of the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team’s quest for gold at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, following the previous team’s shocking performance four years earlier in Athens. The documentary offers a fascinating portrait of team-building and features insightful interviews.
S.W.A.T.
CBS, 8 p.m. h Season Premiere
During a trip to Bangkok to train alongside Thailand’s premier S.W.A.T. team, Hondo (Shemar Moore) and his former military buddy, Joe (guest star Sean
Maguire), find themselves on the run from a powerful drug kingpin.
iHeartRadio Music Festival, Night 1
The CW, 8 p.m.
Ryan Seacrest hosts this star-studded music festival recorded over two days in September at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena and featuring performances from LL Cool J, Halsey, Lionel Richie, Black Eyed Peas and many more.
The Lincoln Project Showtime, 8 p.m. New Series
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This five-part docuseries follows a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project, the fastest-growing super PAC in America, as they take on the task of “saving democracy” and defeating their own party’s sitting president.
Fire Country
CBS, 9 p.m. New Series
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Max Thieriot stars as Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining an unconventional prison release firefighting program in Northern California.
Blue Bloods
CBS, 10 p.m. h Season Premiere
The family cop drama begins Season 13 with “Keeping the Faith,” in which Eddie and Jamie (Vanessa Ray and Will Estes) find themselves in a dangerous situation when they work on a domestic violence case that has ties to an investigation led by Danny and Baez (Donnie Wahlberg and Marisa Ramirez).