What To Watch Today
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Worth Watching
Get Toasted with Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted,’ John Mulaney in L.A., ‘Fire Country’ Has a Ball, Zillow Gone Wild
New Today
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA
Series Premiere
John Mulaney, who headlines at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, takes his idiosyncratic act onto the streets of Los Angeles, with field pieces exploring a city currently overrun with funny people, guests including David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Hader, and more.
S.W.A.T.
Tan (David Lim) goes Die Hard when he single-handedly tries to rescue his new paramour and her journalist colleagues when mercenaries disrupt a black-tie correspondents’ dinner.
Fire Country
Station 42 is having a ball—the Firefighters Ball, to be precise, an annual event where the Station crew and the Three Rock camp hope to convince the visiting governor (Catherine Lough Haggquist) that the embattled inmate program deserves to continue.
Zillow Gone Wild
Series Premiere
Jack McBrayer hosts a series based on the popular Instagram account showcasing lavish and/or ludicrous homes that have been put on the market, leading tours of the homes with an emphasis on their “wow factor.”
Unfrosted
Movie Premiere
Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut and a rare acting appearance in an origin story (co-written by Seinfeld) that takes us back to 1963, when Kellogg’s and Post were in a fierce competition to corner the breakfast market by developing a new pastry you could pop into the toaster.
Sports on TV
MLB Baseball
Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs
Division rivals face off at Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs host the Milwaukee Brewers on MLB Network.
NBA Basketball
NBA Playoffs, First Round: Cleveland Cavaliers at Orlando Magic
Friday’s Game 6 action features the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Clippers at the Dallas Mavericks.
Talk Show Guests
Simu Liu discusses AI in the sci-fi film Atlas and WILLOW describes the evolution of the sound of her music “symptom of life” and she performs.
Rebroadcast: Matt Damon features the band U2 and his onetime neighbor Bono in Kiss the Future, his new documentary about survivors of the siege of Sarajevo, and Danielle Pinnock describes her character on Ghosts as “a hot mess with a heart of gold.”
Rebroadcast: Zendaya talks about her family seeing the love scenes from her new movie Challengers, Freddie Miller and Uriel Valenzuela show the staff of a marijuana dispensary in the reality series High Hopes. Musical Guest is Olivia Dean.
Rebroadcast: Paul Rudd talks proton packs and his film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and Paula Pell tells about singing at The Plaza Hotel for the Girls5eva Season 3 premiere. Aric Improta sits-in with the 8G Band.
Winston Duke shares stories from the action-packed comedy The Fall Guy and Kim Fields stops by to discuss the new season of The Upshaws.
Max Thieriot talks about the season 3 renewal of Fire Country, and then it is “Stand Up at The Talk” with comedian Preacher Lawson.