Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
After Game 4’s wild conclusion tied this year’s World Series at two games apiece, the Los Angeles Dodgers handled the Tampa Bay Rays relatively undramatically in Sunday’s Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead. Tonight is Game 6 – and either the Dodgers will win the championship, or the Rays will force yet another Game 7. Which, in this very competitive postseason year, somehow seems fitting.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
We’re getting near the end of this mammoth salute to female filmmakers. Tonight is installment nine of the Women Make Film documentary series, and the chapters of female film focus this week are called “Politics,” “Gear Change” and “Comedy.” (“Gear Change”? What the hell is that?) And afterwards, the films televised tonight and tomorrow by TCM include 1978’s Girlfriends, directed by Claudia Weill (at 12:15 a.m. ET), Parker Posey starring in 1995’s Party Girl (pictured), directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer (2 a.m. ET), and, Wednesday morning at 7:45 a.m. ET, the 1914 silent film Martha’s Strange Predicament, directed by Mabel Normand.
NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: This This is a big deal. Tonight’s two-hour Season 5 premiere, which rushed production to complete the episode in time to televise it the week before next Tuesday’s election, is NBC’s first scripted drama series to present a new episode for fall – and pretty much anyone’s.