“Easy Pass” – Colette is tasked with giving Noa his driving test and Ceci helps Barb get camera-ready for her new manager portrait, on DMV, Monday, Oct. 27 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Pictured L to R: Tony Cavalero as Vic, Samantha Helt as Hot Kristen, and Tim Meadows as Gregg. Photo:Bertrand Calmeau/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Best-bets for Oct. 20: great new comedy, not-great old one

1) “DMV” (shown here in a different episode), 8:30 p.m., CBS. This episode, like last week’s debut, is fast and fun. On a scorching day (shown here), these Department of Motor Vehicles workers are banned from touching the air-conditioning. Naturally, Colette obsesses on it … and on making sure the cute guy doesn’t quit. Read more…

1) “DMV” (shown here in a different episode, 8:30 p.m., CBS. This episode, like last week’s debut, is fast and fun. On a scorching day (shown here), these Department of Motor Vehicles workers are banned from touching the air-conditioning. Naturally, Colette obsesses on it … and on making sure the cute guy doesn’t quit.

2) “TV We Love,” 8 p.m., CW. “Brady Bunch” was a loud mess, critics said. Robert Reed, who played the dad, agreed: It was “one gag line after another.” For good or bad, it was the “sitcom-iest” of situation comedies, a professor says. But it eventually found a young audience, via late-afternoon reruns; here’s an interesting profile.

3) “Name That Tune,” 8 p.m., Fox. Chris Harrison and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton are fun contestants in the first half-hour, but the game still has basic flaws, including a structure that makes early rounds almost irrelevant. Also, this will be bumped if the Mariners and Bluejays need a seventh game in the baseball playoffs; check Sports.

4) More sports: There’s a football doubleheader: The Bucs (5-1 this season) and Lions (402) at 7 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN; the Texans (2-3) and Seahawks (4-2) at 10 on ESPN. Also, baseball has (if needed) a Dodgers-Brewers game at 5:08 p.m. on TBS and that Mariner-Bluejays one at 8:08.

5) “Brilliant Minds,” 10 p.m., NBC. Last week’s episode (which had strong drama work from “Name That Tune” host Jane Krakowski) had a flash-forward, showing that a young doctor will scheme to destroy Dr. Wolf. For now, there’s an immediate crisis: Two patients arrive, hovering near death.

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