TUESDAY
OCTOBER 17
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TBS, 3:30 p.m. ET

Game 3. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs in the first two games of this year’s National League Championship Series, both of which were played at Dodger Stadium. Today, the action shifts to one of the most famous ballparks in all of baseball: Chicago’s Wrigley Field, where home-field advantage shifts to the Cubs. And it’s a day game, too, which for someone old enough to remember when all postseason games were played as the sun shone, is something magical.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last night’s opening Battle Round was a good one, ending with a duel that carried unexpected resonance beyond the performances themselves. The song selected by coach Adam Levine as a duet battle for his final two contestants of the night was “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” When these Battle Rounds were taped, Tom Petty, who recorded this hit song with Stevie Nicks and the Heartbreakers, was still alive and well. Hearing the song as an unintentional posthumous tribute was especially powerful – as was the rendition by Adam Pearce and Whitney Fenimore. He won, and she was saved by a “steal” from judge Miley Cyrus, so both singers will be around for the next phase.

 
  
 
 

Fox Sports 1, 8:00 p.m. ET

Game 4. Home field has been good to the American League as well this season. The Houston Astros, hosting the first two games against the New York Yankees, won them both. Game 3, played Monday night at Yankee Stadium, was won by the home team as well – with the Yankees trouncing the Astros, 8-1. And now comes Game 4, played once again in New York.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s This Is Us features an injury, a confrontation, and a quiet triumph – but not necessarily in that order, and definitely not to the same siblings.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Frances Conroy, the Six Feet Under co-star who appeared in the very first edition of American Horror Story, shows up in this latest story cycle, Cult, for the first time -- this time as a brunette.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.