SUNDAY

OCTOBER 15

2017

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2017 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

TBS, 7:30 p.m. ET

Game 2. In last night’s opening game of the 2017 National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs, 5-2, with a relative lack of drama. Tonight, the second game in the series.

THE DEUCE

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

In tonight’s episode of The Deuce, new business propositions abound. Vincent has a proposition for the Times Square pimps, offering to house their women in indoor parlors not rousted by police. The pimps want to know how much Frankie will pay for their cooperation, and Frankie introduces the idea of the new economy: the pimps are expected to pay. And in another new-concept approach, one of the girls, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), begins learning about the underground world of short sex films, and sets out to produce some of her own.

RAY DONOVAN

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week upped the body count on Ray Donovan, with at least three corpses, by my count, revealed in the episode’s final moments. And for Ray (Liev Schreiber), there’s more death and danger on the horizon, and we’re still tracking, in flashbacks, the cancer-riddled descent of his wife, Abby, a story line that has been emotionally wrenching this season. And that goes for the show’s viewers as well as its characters.

THE BRIDES OF DRACULA

TCM, 9:45 p.m. ET

TCM’s Sunday tribute to Dracula movies continues, and tonight it includes an unusual addition to the Hammer horror film franchise from England. Peter Cushing, who appears in several Hammer films as vampire hunter Doctor Van Helsing, is a star of 1960’s The Brides of Dracula, which TCM televises tonight at 9:45 ET. But his co-star, this time, isn’t the famous Hammer Dracula as embodied by Christopher Lee. It’s David Peel, in his penultimate role before retiring from the industry while still a young man, playing the good-looking, harem-collecting Baron Meinster.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

This series has returned without missing a single comedic step. The cast is sharp, David’s plots and observations are as original as always, and the directors of these early episodes, including David Steinberg, have brought Larry David and his antics back in perfect form. Tonight, in an episode called “A Disturbance in the Kitchen,” Larry continues to don his anti-fatwa disguise – but there’s no disguising how hilarious this show continues to be.

WHITE FAMOUS

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. Oh, there are moments in this new series, in which former Saturday Night Live player Jay Pharaoh plays a comic trying to make it in movies in Hollywood, which work. But there are just as many that fall flat, and a few that flat-out don’t work at all. On balance, given the preponderance of modern sitcoms with this particular premise and focus, I’d say Pharaoh, and premiere guest star Jamie Foxx, could do a lot better. So could viewers. For full reviews, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

GOOD BEHAVIOR

TNT, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: For the Season 2 premiere, con woman Letty (Michelle Dockery, in a role far, far removed from her pampered part on Downton Abbey) is trying to start a new life in the suburbs, playing it straight and living the nuclear family life. But if that lasted for long, TNT wouldn’t have a series, so hang on… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER

HBO, 11:05 p.m. ET

Last week, John Oliver was the first late-night comic to get a firm crack at making jokes and comments about Harvey Weinstein. And Oliver did indeed take aim, and strike hard, This week, who knows what his targets will be? But, sadly, there are plenty of possibilities.

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

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