TBS, 5:00 p.m. ET
TBS presents a doubleheader tonight, presenting the first games in the respective National League division series. At 5 p.m. ET, we see the first postseason appearances of the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET, the Washington Nationals, which won its wild-card game to advance, faces the Los Angeles Dodgers, which advanced to the postseason by winning its division in the West, as well as winning an amazing 106 games during the regular season.
CBS, 8:30 p.m. ET
Tonight’s schedule contains several examples of new prime-time broadcast series that presented likable premises and stars last week, and now have to show whether they’re worth watching on an ongoing basis. First case in point: Walton Goggins as a single-parent widower whose friends are pushing him back into the deep end of the dating pool.
NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET
Another case in point: Bradley Whitford, in last week’s series premiere, took the entire half hour to agree to coach a small-town choral outfit in an upcoming competition. So now what?
NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s season opener reassured me that the final season of The Good Place will be a delightful one, with a predictably unpredictable series of twists and laughs. Not that I was worried: The Good Place is my favorite broadcast TV series right now, and I laugh every time I see Maya Rudolph, evil Janet, or one of the hidden-in-the-background restaurant names, like the Italian place, shown again last week, called “Lasagna Come Out Tomorrow.” Those names remind me of the meticulously and hilariously detailed panels in old Mad magazine illustrations. The closer you looked, the more you were rewarded.
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s series premiere of Evil set up the premise: Now we’ll see what Robert and Michelle King can do with it. Because they’ve already done The Good Wife and The Good Fight, I expect more good things.