For the Fox network, this is a tricky question:
What happens when the sports surge ends? What will it be like without the OK ratings from the World Series and the huge numbers from Thursday-night and Sunday-afternoon football?
Now there are answers, adding one old show (Tim Allen’s “Last Man Standing,” shown here) and several new ones, In particular, Fox will use football as a launching pad; for instance: Read more…
1) “The Conners”(shown here), 8 p.m. Tuesday, ABC. Here’s the start of a holiday deluge — eight ABC comedies in two days, each with a Halloween episode. This show savored the holiday when it was “Roseanne” ; now the Roseanne character is dead and her sister tries to re-open their Lunch Box diner. “Bless This Mess” (8:30) has bat-bite scares; “Black-ish” (9:30) has a family-costume dispute. And on “Mixed-ish” (9 p.m.), Rainbow, one of the only blacks in school, is asked to go as Tootie from “Facts of Life,” Read more…
1) “The Walking Dead,” 9 p.m., AMC, rerunning at 11:04 p.m. and 1:08 a.m. “Our real enemy is outside,” someone argues. That’s an understatement. Outside Alexandria’s make-shift walls, there are zombies and “Whisperers,” pretending to be zombies. But inside, more hatred builds. It’s aimed at young Lydia, who was once (shown here a Whisperer with her parents; and it’s aimed at her friend Negan, former head of the evil Saviors. It’s a strong, tense hour, spiced with moments of high-octane action. Read more…
