MMA

6:00p/5:00 Central

• Tonight’s another baseball twofer, and the National League Division Series may both wrap-up in sweep fashion. First up, Philadelphia looks to put a nail in the coffin of the Brewers World Series hopes in the NLDS Game 3.

8:00p/7:00 Central

• As I’m from the St. Louis area, the story of Shawn Hornbeck’s shocking rescue and recovery after his disappearance for years was followed pretty closely. While he’s been mostly quiet since, recouping with family, he’ll be speaking out for the first time about his captivity on CBS’s 48 Hours Mystery.
• FOX sticks to its guns as it has for two decades, offering up back-to-back Cops. And ABC goes with the old standby of Saturday Night College Football. Let’s face it, nobody’s at home watching TV on Saturdays anymore. That’s why MyNetwork TV is having movie night at home with Walking Tall.
• So is there a difference between A&E’s Flip This House and TLC’s Flip That House? Other than one word? It seems to me like it’s the same show. I would have at least tried to get a little more creative with the name. After that, tune into (gasp!) another design show, Over Designed, featuring someone who’s obsessed with an “African King” motif.

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MyNetworkTV

3:00p/2:00 Central

• The White Sox and the Rays finally get their ALDS Game 1 on. Then at 6:00p/5:00 Central Milwaukee tries to even up their series with the Phillies in NLDS Game 2.

8:00p/7:00 Central

• Ratings for NBC’s My Name is Earl are in the toilet. Were people that put off by the extended coma, marriage and jail storylines? It’s back to basics now. Tonight, Earl has to fill in for Joy because she’s stuck in a bubble and then make it up to Jerry Van Dyle for stealing his RV.
• Oliver Queen, discovering he has 24 hours to live, flashes back to his island origins on The CW’s Smallville. At ABC, while prepping her first issue as editor, Wilhelmina tries to lure Ugly Betty over to Mode.
• If competition is more your style, FOX has a full hour where you have to make your body fit the shape of a Hole in the Wall. Or, you can deal with CBS’s Survivor, where all you do is manipulate people, live off the land and perform in incredibly convoluted physical challenges every few days.
• How about fake competition? The premiere wrestling event of the past several decades comes to network television as MyNetworkTV presents WrestleMania XXIV. If ever something was going to put MyNet on the map, the WWE is it!

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ABC.com

3:00p/2:00 Central

• It really says something about the state of “America’s Pastime” that its playoffs have been kicked off of network television and over to TBS. Twelve hours of baseball starts with Milwaukee v. Philadelphia in NLDS Game 1, followed by another NLDS Game 1 with Dodgers v. Cubs at 6:30p/5:30 Central.

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