{"id":885956,"date":"2026-10-17T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885956\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:14:09","slug":"tv-schedule-what-to-watch-the-week-of-october-18-2026-new-shows-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885956\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Schedule: What To Watch The Week Of October 18, 2026 \u2014 New Shows &#038; Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a08 p.m. &#8220;Professor T&#8221; Season 5 (PBS)<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a09 p.m. &#8220;Maigret&#8221; Season 2 (PBS)<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a010 p.m. &#8220;The Gold&#8221; Season 2 (PBS)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5\u00a08 p.m. &#8220;Amish Revenge&#8221; (Lifetime movie)<br \/>A widowed Amish mother (Boti Bliss) takes in a handsome young man (Brigdon York) who claims to be homeless, only to discover that he isn&#8217;t who he says he is.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5\u00a08 p.m. &#8220;Mr. &amp; Mrs. Christmas&#8221; (Hallmark Channel movie)<br \/>A holiday display expert (Brendan Penny) relocates with his children to a quaint town, where reviving its Christmas Market brings him together with a practical accountant (Pascale Hutton) hoping to prove she&#8217;s ready for a new leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, OCTOBER 19<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Signora Volpe&#8221; Season 3 finale (Acorn TV)<br \/>\ud83c\udfc0 8 p.m. WNBA Finals Game 2 (USA Network)<\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a0&#8220;Phony&#8221; (Hulu, two-episode premiere)<br \/>A teenage boy (Sam Nivola) wakes up after a car accident convinced that his mother (Connie Britton) is an impostor.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0\u00a03 p.m. &#8220;Coast 2 Coast Tuesday&#8221; (NBC)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a09 p.m. &#8220;Vanderpump Rules: Lisa Las Vegas&#8221; (Bravo, two-night event)<br \/>Lisa Vanderpump takes on her biggest Las Vegas venture yet as she and her team race to ready her namesake boutique hotel for its lavish grand opening.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a010 p.m. &#8220;The Golden Life&#8221; (E!)<br \/>Kelly Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer trade New York for Palm Beach, Florida, as they reconnect and embrace a new chapter in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd23 &#8220;Theo Von: I&#8217;m Doing Fine&#8221; (Netflix comedy special)<\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;All the Queen&#8217;s Men&#8221; returns (Paramount+, two episodes)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;The New Stanford Prison Experiment&#8221; (Netflix, six-episode binge)<br \/>In this modern reimagining of the infamous study, 30 people enter a real prison for two weeks and shifting power dynamics expose what they&#8217;re capable of.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Slow Horses&#8221; Season 6 finale (Apple TV)<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;The Terminal List&#8221; Season 2 (Prime Video, eight-episode binge)<br \/>\ud83c\udfc0 8 p.m. WNBA Finals Game 3 (USA Network)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a09 p.m. &#8220;I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton&#8221; (ABC\/Disney+ special)<br \/>This live, two-hour special celebrates the life and legacy of Dolly Parton through performances, archival footage, and personal stories.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 &#8220;Moana&#8221; (2026) (Disney+)<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Cooper and Fry&#8221; Season 1 finale (BritBox)<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Nobody Wants This&#8221; Season 3 (Netflix, 10-episode binge)<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Time&#8221; Season 3 (BritBox)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 &#8220;Swipe Right on the Devil&#8221; (Hulu documentary)<br \/>When 24-year-old Sydney Loofe disappears after a Tinder date, what begins as a missing-person case quickly spirals into a haunting mystery.<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Battle of the Streaming Stars&#8221; (Roku)<br \/>In each hour-long special, three teams of four battle it out through several rounds in pursuit of a single prize: the Golden Roku Remote; Terry Crews hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Judy Justice&#8221; series finale (Prime Video)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa &#8220;Yaga&#8221; (AMC+, two-episode premiere)<br \/>A private investigator (Noah Reid) arrives in a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of a powerful fishery&#8217;s young heir (Hudson Williams), putting him at odds with a local detective (Clark Backo) and a charismatic university professor (Carrie-Anne Moss) as he encounters secret lives, enigmatic suspects, and ancient magic.<\/p>\n<p>\u26be\ufe0f\u00a07 p.m. MLB World Series Game 1 (Fox)<br \/>\ud83c\udfc0\u00a07 p.m. &#8220;NBA on Prime&#8221; Season 2 (Prime Video)\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcfa 8 p.m. &#8220;Happy&#8217;s Place&#8221; Season 3 (NBC)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa 8:30 p.m. &#8220;Newlyweds&#8221; (NBC)<br \/>A free-spirited woman (T\u00e9a Leoni) and a buttoned-up professor (Tim Daly) marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship; executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis recurs.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa\u00a09 p.m. &#8220;Scariest House in America&#8221; Season 3 finale (HGTV)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 &#8220;The Invite&#8221; (HBO Max)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 &#8220;Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story&#8221; (Netflix documentary)<br \/>Beloved for blurring performance and personal crisis, Bamford unpacks the mental health journey behind her fearless comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5\u00a08 p.m. &#8220;Winter Wonderlanes&#8221; (Hallmark Channel movie)<br \/>A pop-up restaurateur (Ashley Newbrough) tries to save her late grandfather&#8217;s beloved bowling alley by reviving its youth tournament, teaming up with a local reporter (Franco Lo Presti) who just happens to be her high school boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc0\u00a01 p.m. WNBA Finals Game 4 (NBC)<br \/>\u26be\ufe0f\u00a07 p.m. MLB World Series Game 2 (Fox)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 8 p.m. &#8220;A Christmas Prayer Tradition&#8221; (Great American Family movie)<br \/>As Natalie prepares to launch her new children&#8217;s book, a family&#8217;s quiet mission to answer the prayers of neighbors reminds Bellford Falls that some of God&#8217;s greatest works begin with simple acts of faith and kindness; Shae Robins and Christopher Russell star.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 8 p.m. &#8220;Forgotten Holiday&#8221; (Hallmark Channel movie)<br \/>An antiques buyer (Janel Parrish) helps her boyfriend (Daniel Lissing) retrace their romance after a car accident wipes away his memories of the past year \u2014 including his love of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 8 p.m. &#8220;Secrets of Mercy Hospital&#8221; (Lifetime movie)<br \/>A military officer (Judy Reyes) returns to her working-class hometown for her estranged mother&#8217;s funeral and is drawn into an understaffed hospital, where she must confront the secret of the daughter she gave birth to and left behind at 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcfa\u00a08 p.m. &#8220;Professor T&#8221; Season 5 (PBS)\ud83d\udcfa\u00a09 p.m. &#8220;Maigret&#8221; Season 2 (PBS)\ud83d\udcfa\u00a010 p.m. &#8220;The Gold&#8221; Season 2 (PBS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":["post-885956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}