‘Sunny’ Finale, ‘Voice’ Battles, ‘Below Deck’ Sails Again, ‘Thin Man’ Marathon

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

One thing you never hear them say on this unhinged sitcom: “I’ll be there for you.” (Apologies to Friends.) In the Season 18 finale of the long-running comedy, all Dee (Kaitlin Olson) asks for is someone to spend the night at her place after she’s temporarily blinded by Lasik surgery. But no, the guys take her sleepover suggestion and have one of their own, no women included. Though Dennis (Glenn Howerton) argues, “We’re getting a little too old for that stuff,” Charlie (Charlie Day) and Mac (Rob Mac) and especially Frank (Danny DeVito) beg to disagree as they embark on slapstick misadventures that lead to predictably cataclysmic consequences. How soon before FX orders a 19th season?

The Voice

The Blind Auditions are in the rearview mirror as the singing competition moves into the Battle Rounds. The coaches pick two singers from their team to go head-to-head, with only one moving on, though each coach has a single steal. Before the performances, the singers get guidance and advice from established Battle Advisors, including supreme diva Patti LaBelle for Queen Latifah‘s team and Carly Pearce for Riley Green‘s. Both have appeared on the show before: LaBelle as Christina Aguilera‘s Battle Advisor in Season 10, and Pearce as Michael Bublé‘s Playoff Advisor in Season 26. New to the show: Alex Warren for Adam Levine‘s team and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) for Kelly Clarkson‘s team.

Below Deck

The scenery is beautiful, but fans of this reality-TV franchise know the real action is happening onboard. The 13th season relocates to Phuket, Thailand, for the first time since 2019, with Capt. Kerry Titheradge welcoming crewmates old and new aboard the motor yacht Azul V. Chief Stew Fraser Olender and Second Stew Rainbeau de Roos are back, with Chef Moe Vilomar keeping things hot in the galley. All aboard!

The Thin Man

Star of the Month Myrna Loy, celebrated each Monday in October, reached the zenith of her popularity as Nora Charles, martini-swilling partner to debonair Nick (William Powell), the most sophisticated of sleuths in a series of light mysteries that began with The Thin Man in 1934 and ended with Song of the Thin Man in 1947. All six movies air consecutively as part of the month-long tribute.

FBI

The squad unravels a series of cover-ups while investigating the murder of an undercover NYPD officer. Maggie (Missy Peregrym) finds herself pulling double duty, working with a new partner (Roland Buck III) while secretly helping OA (Zeeko Zaki) on his undercover assignment. Followed by CIA (10/9c), where Colin (Tom Ellis) and Bill (Nick Gehlfuss) team with a dying Russian spy to take down the duplicitous comrades who poisoned him.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• Monday Night Football (8 pm/ET, ABC, ESPN): The Buffalo Bills play the Los Angeles Rams.
• American League Championship Series (8 pm/ET, TBS, truTV, streaming on HBO Max): The series opens with the Tampa Bay Rays facing the Cleveland Guardians. (Game 2 of the NLCS series airs at 5 pm/ET on Fox.)
• Private Eyes West Coast (8/7c, The CW): While Shade (Jason Priestley) and Angie (Cindy Sampson) scour a campus looking for a missing student, Will (David Kaye) interviews nanny candidates for their baby Declan. Followed by Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (9/8c), where the investigation into the stabbing of an IT professional reveals a data breach worth killing for.
• Name That Tune (8/7c, Fox): A blast from the network’s 1990s past when Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Brian Austin Green plays opposite Melrose Place‘s Daphne Zuniga. In the second game, the tone shifts to Halloween when a paranormal investigator competes against a writer of supernatural fiction. The spooky vibes continue on The Weakest Link (9/8c), featuring contestants with horror resumes, including horror host Cassandra Peterson, The Exorcist star Linda Blair, and A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Heather Langenkamp.
• Contraband: Seized at the Border (8/7c, Discovery Channel): The docuseries depicting searches and seizures at the nation’s border returns for a 10th season.
• Line of Fire (10/9c, NBC): FBI agent Clare (Kat Cunning) bristles when her Secret Service agent dad Mike (Peter Krause) is the latest family member to step into her lane, interfering in her investigation after a bomb threat disrupts the wedding of a cabinet member’s daughter. Also at odds: brothers Micah (Tommy O’Brien) and Russ (Taylor Bloom), whose weekend plans are being ruined by depositions.
• Harlan Coben’s Final Twist (10/9c, CBS): The true-crime series follows an Alaska state trooper’s 12-year crusade to get justice for her 18-year-old daughter, whose death was initially declared a hiking accident.

ON THE STREAM:

• Instadocs: AI Gone Wild (streaming on Netflix): A timely report explores the July cyberattack on the AI platform Hugging Face.
• Free Leonard Peltier (streaming on Netflix): American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier spent nearly 50 years in prison after a controversial conviction in the shooting deaths of two FBI agents during a 1975 siege of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation. A documentary revisits the case and the decades of protests and appeals on his behalf.
• Clown Panic (streaming on Hulu): Pennywise, anyone? A bizarre true-crime documentary unpacks the national obsession with killer-clown sightings that went viral a decade ago.
• This Is Not a Murder Mystery (streaming on Acorn TV): 1930s Surrealists including Magritte (Pierre Gervais), Dali (Iñaki Mur), and Man Ray (Frank Bourke) are trapped in a posh British mansion with a serial killer in a fanciful Belgian mystery series.