TBS, 4:00 p.m. ET
The Los Angeles Dodgers face, and visit, the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 2. The Cards won the first game in this series, but today’s another day. And it is, indeed, a day game – the way all baseball games used to be, long ago.
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s the Detroit Tigers at Fenway, the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox, for this Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Either you’ve gone on every step of this J.R.R. Tolkien cinematic journey, or you’ve stayed away deliberately. If it’s the latter, there’s no real reason to check in to this latest, separate installment of the Rings cycle – but if it’s the former, you’ve found already that these movies can be Hobbit-forming. Martin Freeman plays young Bilbo Baggins, and Ian Holm reprises his role, from the early films, as the more mature version.
Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET
The two most powerful women in this tale, Margaret and Queen Elizabeth, begin jockeying for position in a serious way, plotting against each other in hopes of establishing themselves royally under the new order. So does just about everyone else in tonight’s drama, which is why King Edward should watch his back, and everything else. The episode’s not necessarily prescient title? “Long Live the King.”
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
Bruce Willis is this week’s guest host – and the musical guest is Katy Perry, who follows, and shouldn’t have a hard time trying to outdo, last week’s musical guest, Miley Cyrus. Then again, Cyrus also did double duty as host, so that victory is hers from the start.