Day: October 19, 2023

Week’s top-10 for Oct. 23: dance, drama and baseball

1) World Series begins, 5:07 p.m. PT Friday and Saturday, Fox, with pre-game at 4. Baseball (shown here) finally gets the spotlight, continuing on Oct. 30 and 31 and (if needed) Nov. 1, 3 and 4. That’s in a year of surprises: The five teams with the best records imploded in the play-offs, losing 13 of 14 games. In the regular season, four of them had 99 or more wins. By the final round before the Series, none of the survivors had more than 90 regular-season wins. Read more…

Best-bets for Oct. 21: Bad Bunny and (maybe) good humor

1) “Saturday Night Live, 11:29 p.m., NBC. After a 23-week gap, “SNL” finally returned last week and … well, brought scattered laughs. There were some great early moments from host Pete Davidson, some good ones on “Weekend Update” and brief surprise visits from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce; there were also lots of so-so sketches. Now Bad Bunny (shown here), who’s had two No. 1 albums and 11 top-10 singles, will double as host and music guest. Read more…