Fox Sports 1, 4:00 p.m. ET
The fight for the American League pennant continues, with Game 2 of the Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals contest – held, as was yesterday’s Game 1, in Kansas City.
TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
The fight for the National League pennant begins, with Game 1 of the Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets contest – held in Flushing, NY at Citi Field.
BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s episode marks the first of two guest appearances by Maisie Williams, which makes this a genre fan’s crossover dream. Williams is one of the stars of HBO’s Game of Thrones, playing vengeance-obsessed Arya Stark.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
A week after hosting Saturday Night Live, Amy Schumer presents her new standup special – on HBO, shot, and titled, Live at the Apollo. And guess who’s directing this special by the year’s hottest comic, at one of New York’s most valued and storied venues? Chris Rock.
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
A touching surprise at this year’s Emmy Awards was the unbilled appearance by Tracy Morgan, appearing on TV for the first time since almost dying after an auto accident in 2014 (he was a passenger). Well, here’s his second TV appearance: returning to Saturday Night Live, his former home, this time as guest host. Musical guest: Demi Lovato.
BBC America, 12:00 a.m. ET
SPECIAL: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, BBC America is presenting a Saturday midnight special: a new production of the original stage musical, The Rocky Horror Show, that spawned the movie, and all that midnight-movie interactive audience madness. Straight from its current run at London’s Playhouse Theatre, this Rocky Horror Show has relative unknowns as the stars – David Bedella in Tim Curry’s role of Frank N. Furter, for example, and Ben Forster and Haley Flaherty as Brad and Janet, played in the film by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon. But the guest narrators will be more familiar: Richard O’Brien, who wrote the show and played Riff Raff on stage and in the film, is one of them, and others include Stephen Fry and former Baby Spice Girl Emma Bunton. So get some toast and rice, and sit back and relax. Did I say sit back? You’d better stand, the better to do the “Time Warp” again. “It’s just a jump to the left / and then a step to the right…”
