SoCal TV, Sept. 29-Oct. 5: ‘Joan,’ ‘Artbound,’ ‘Industry,’ the Vice Presidential Debate and more
SoCal TV, Sept. 29-Oct. 5: ‘Joan,’ ‘Artbound,’ ‘Industry,’ the Vice Presidential Debate and more
TV shows, movies, sports and specials on broadcast, cable and streaming this coming week
Welcome to an all-new TV or Not TV roundup of new and noteworthy programming on broadcast, cable and streaming this week. I’m Matt Cooper, former listings coordinator for the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar.
Sunday — Sept. 29
Let’s go to the tapes! The long-running clip show “America’s Funniest Home Videos” launches its 35th season. Alfonso Ribeiro hosts. 7 p.m. ABC
Tom Hanks, Conan O’Brien, John Cena, Danny DeVito and “Community’s” Joel McHale voice their animated likenesses on the Season 36 premiere of “The Simpsons.” 8 p.m. Fox
There’s talk on the street, it sounds so familiar in the made-for-cable thriller “There’s a New Killer in Town.” With Kathryn Kohut. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Contestants must work together if they are to traverse the New Zealand Alps and share in the million-dollar prize in the new series “The Summit” hosted by “The Hobbit’s” Manu Bennett. 8:30 p.m. CBS
The animated series “Bob’s Burgers” and “Krapopolis” are back for their 15th and second seasons, respectively. 9 and 9:30 p.m. Fox
“The Walking Dead” spinoff “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” ambles in for a second season. With Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride. 9 p.m. AMC
The new series “Witches: Truth Behind the Trials” recalls six notorious cases from ages past where innocent women were charged with practicing black magic, consorting with the Devil, etc. 9 and 10 p.m. National Geographic
They are out of the gourds once more as past contestants return for a new all-star edition of the competition series “Outrageous Pumpkins.” 10 p.m. Food Network
Money talks and you-know-what walks in the Season 3 finale of the sexed-up London-set drama “Industry.” With Marisa Abela, Myha’la Herrold and Ken Leung. 10 p.m. HBO
Monday — Sept. 30
The new documentary “Patrice: The Movie” follows a disabled couple in their 50s whose dream of tying the knot could spell the end of the disability payments they each need to survive. Anytime, Hulu
With the 2024 election little more than a month away, “Independent Lens” attempts to explain the rather Byzantine inner workings of the Electoral College in the new episode “One Person, One Vote?” 10 p.m. KOCE
Tuesday — Oct. 1
They’re more ghoulish than girlish in a new season of the horror-themed drag competition “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula.” Anytime, Shudder
A small-town gal gets a glimpse of what life might’ve been like had she never been born in the not-exactly-Capraesque 2023 horror comedy “It’s a Wonderful Knife.” With Jane Widdop, Justin Long and the aforementioned Joel McHale. Anytime, Hulu
“Tim Dillon: This Is Your Country” catches the comic cracking wise about cryptocurrency, OnlyFans accounts and other contemporary cultural phenomena in this new talk show-style special. Anytime, Netflix
Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) meet in New York City for a Vice Presidential Debate moderated by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan. 6 p.m. CBS; other networks and streamers
Trash will be talked, drinks thrown, etc. in new episodes of the reality TV franchise entry “The Real Housewives of New York City.” 9 p.m. Bravo
Wednesday — Oct. 2
Noodles — they’re what’s for dinner in a new edition of the globetrotting culinary docuseries “Chef’s Table.” Anytime, Netflix
Skylab falling is the least of anyone’s problems in “The Last Days of the Space Age,” a new limited series set in Perth, Australia in 1979. With “Pitch Black’s” Radha Mitchell and “Game of Thrones’” Iain Glen. Anytime, Hulu
More sexy singles mix and mingle semi-anonymously before getting engaged sight unseen in the return of “Love is Blind” hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey. Anytime, Netflix
All mysteries are, by definition, unsolved, so to call them “Unsolved Mysteries” is somewhat redundant. Either way, the rebooted reality series is back for a fifth season. Anytime, Netflix
Return with us now to Nova Scotia for a second season of the Canadian-made romantic drama “Sullivan’s Crossing.” With Morgan Kohan and Chad Michael Murray. 8 p.m. The CW
“Game of Thrones’” Sophie Turner stars as a British woman whose efforts to make a better life for herself and her young daughter lead to her becoming a notorious jewel thief in the new fact-based 1980s-set crime drama “Joan.” 9 p.m. The CW
Venus and Mars are all right tonight but Pluto, not so much as “Nova” takes you on a guided tour of our little corner of the galaxy in the new five part-part series “The Solar System.” 9 p.m. KOCE
They’re turning plowshares into swords — and spears, axes, etc. — in new episodes of the blacksmithing competition “Forged in Fire.” 9 p.m. History Channel
Archaeologists descend on Mosul to see what ancient artifacts might have survived the Iraqi city’s devastating occupation by the terrorist group ISIS in “Returning to Babylon” on the season premiere of “Secrets of the Dead.” 10 p.m. KOCE
He must have the worst travel agent ever in the new paranormal investigation series “Destinations of the Damned With Zak Bagans.” 11 p.m. Discovery Channel
Thursday — Oct. 3
Those criminal critters from the kid-friendly 2022 animated comedy are looking for that next big score in the new Halloween special “The Bad Guys: Haunted Heist.” Anytime, Netflix
Don’t get them wet, don’t feed them after midnight and so on in new episodes of the animated series “The Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” based on the 1984 horror comedy. Anytime, Max
The romantic saga of Charlie and Nick continues in a third season of the British-made LGBTQ-themed coming-of-age drama “Heartstopper.” With Joe Locke and Kit Connor. Anytime, Netflix
Don’t “Hold Your Breath.” “Deadwood’s” Sarah Paulson stars this 2024 horror thriller set during the dark days of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Oklahoma. Anytime, Hulu
That restaurant is haunted — haunted, I tells ya! — in the 2024 terror tale “House of Spoils.” Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) stars. Anytime, Prime Video
One does not simply walk out of Mordor as the fantasy drama “The Rings of Power” based on the writings of “LOTR” author J.R.R. Tolkien wraps its second season. With Morfydd Clark. Anytime, Prime Video
The vampire strikes back! Twice a miniseries, the Stephen King novel “Salem’s Lot” is adapted yet again, this time as a feature-length 2024 horror flick. With Lewis Pullman and Makenzie Leigh. Anytime, Max
A therapist’s patient confesses to something sinister while under hypnosis in a second season of the British mystery drama “Suspect.” With Anne-Marie Duff and Dominic Cooper. Anytime, Britbox
The romantic saga of Zac and Fatima continues in a third season of the American-made drama “Zatima.” With Devale Ellis and Crystal Renee Hayslett. Anytime, BET+
Clung-clung! The procedural dramas “Law & Order” and its spin-off “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” return for their 24th and 26th seasons, respectively. 8 and 9 p.m. NBC
Mind your Ps and Qs then put your gray matter to good use with new series “Scrabble” and “Trivial Pursuit” based on the popular board games. Raven-Symoné hosts the former and LeVar Burton, the latter. 8 and 9 p.m. The CW
Those oh so rugged “Mountain Men” — and women — are back in a 13th season of this unscripted series. 8 p.m. History Channel
They once were lost, but now they’re “Found” in a second season of this procedural drama starring Shanola Hampton, Kelli Williams (“The Practice”) and “NYPD Blue’s” Mark-Paul Gosselaar. 10 p.m. NBC
Friday — Oct. 4
A chart-topping singer-songwriter looks to expand his skill set beyond that of your basic pop star in the eponymous new reality series “The Charlie Puth Show” Anytime, Roku
Return with us now to Briarstone Manor for a second season of the kid-friendly animated fantasy series “Curses!” featuring the voices of Reid Scott and “A Nightmare on Elm Street’s” Robert England. Anytime, Apple TV+
Get up close and personal with some of professional hockey’s finest in the new docuseries “Faceoff: Inside the NHL.” Anytime, Prime Video
College friends reunite for night of fun and games — although “fun” may not be the right word — in the brain-bending 2024 horror comedy “It’s What’s Inside.” Anytime, Netflix
Find out what happens when you are so unkind as to not rewind in “V/H/S/Beyond,” the 2024 entry in the long-running found-footage horror-anthology franchise. Anytime, Shudder
Dave’s not here, man. But Cheech & Chong’s Cheech Marin is, giving you a guided tour of the Riverside museum that bears his name and holds much of his vast collection of Chicano art on the Season 15 premiere of “Artbound.” 8 p.m. KOCE
After four seasons “Power Book II: Ghost,” the sequel/spinoff to the gritty 2014-20 crime drama “Power,” gives up the ghost in the series finale. Michael Rainey Jr. stars. 8 p.m. Starz
“Ugliest House in America” host Retta goes in search of the “Scariest House in America” in this spooky new Halloween-season spinoff. 9 p.m. HGTV
“Star Trek’s” William … Shatner returns to host … another season of the … paranormal investigation … series … “The UnXplained.” 9 p.m. History Channel
The new interview series “Fat Joe Talks” finds the Bronx-born rapper in conversation with such notables as Method Man, singer Mary J. Blige and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). 9 p.m. Starz
The recently divorced former co-star of the 1994-99 sitcom “Sister, Sister” tries to figure out where she goes from here in the new reality series “Tia Mowry: My Next Act.” 9:30 p.m. WE tv
The legendary Tito Puente is just one of the trailblazing Afro Cuban bandleaders saluted in “Mambo Legends: The Music Never Ends” on a new “Voces.” 10 p.m. KOCE
“Get Out” filmmaker Jordan Peele pulls double duty as both host and producer of a new reboot of the often unsettling 2003-13 hidden camera prank show “Scare Tactics.” 10 p.m. USA; also Bravo, E!, Syfy
Saturday — Oct. 5
Veteran Democratic political strategist James “The Ragin’ Cajun” Carville is profiled in the new documentary “Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid!” 4 and 7 p.m. CNN
A recently divorced innkeeper hooks up with the hunky CFO of a hotel chain in the new TV movie “Autumn at Apple Hill.” With Erin Cahill and Wes Brown. 8 p.m. Hallmark Channel
Reports of her demise were greatly exaggerated in the new fact-based thriller “The Girl Who Wasn’t Dead.” With Emma Tremblay and “Nikita’s” Lydnsey Fonseca. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Comic Nate Bargatze hosts and Coldplay performs on a new “Saturday Night Live.” 8:29 and 11:29 p.m. NBC
(All times Pacific; programming subject to change without notice)