Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
The audience won’t be in the stands, much, but on TV, this pandemic World Series might well set viewing records. After all, what else is new? (Literally.) And there are two teams worth rooting for, both of which survived a Game 7 pennant series in their respective leagues to get here. Tonight, Game 1, with the Tampa Bay Rays against the Los Angeles Dodgers – pitting the two teams with the best records this season against one another for the 2020 crown.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight is installment eight of Women Make Film, and the chapters of female film focus this week are “Home,” “Religion,” and “Work.” For films that are set in a convent, you hit all three topics at once. Among the films shown tonight after the documentary: At 5:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, the jaw-droppingly ambitious 1906 silent film by Alice Guy-Blaché, the 30-minute The Birth, The Life, and the Death of Christ (pictured), based on illustrated tableaux from a bible of hers. She was the first female filmmaker in cinema history, and this is just one side of her talent. She also made comedies, Westerns, and silent films about pregnant cravings and feminist fantasy.
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
Before he provided the narration for ABC’s
The Untouchables, Walter Winchell was a super-successful, very influential gossip columnist. The power he wielded, and the way he wielded it, are the subject of this new
American Masters cultural profile.
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David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and
Mike Hughes' Open Mike.