By Rick Gables
The Goldbergs continues its yearly movie homage season premiere tradition with a nod to the ’80s classic comedy, Airplane!. The episode airs Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC, as part of a one-hour event with back-to-back episodes of the long-running comedy. Despite the challenges, ups, downs, twists and turns of life together, everyone’s favorite ’80s family, the Goldbergs, proves that life will be sweet. The series stars Wendi McLendon-Covey as Beverly Goldberg, Sean Giambrone as Adam Goldberg, Troy Gentile as Barry Goldberg, Hayley Orrantia as Erica Goldberg, Sam Lerner as Geoff Schwartz, with George Segal as Al “Pops” Solomon and Jeff Garlin as Murray Goldberg.
Emmy, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman and Emmy nominee Hugh Grant star in HBO’s six-part limited series The Undoing, debuting Sunday, Oct. 25, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The limited series follows Grace (Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family. Donald Sutherland plays Franklin Reinhardt, Grace’s father, a retired financier and loving grandfather who is tasked with protecting his family when turbulent revelations come to light.
Unscripted comedy series Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party returns to truTV on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. ET/PT with 10 new celebrity-packed episodes. Each week, Joe Gatto, James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn, and Sal Vulcano invite viewers back to their dinner tables where they safely, and hilariously, sit down to break bread from their respective homes. New dinner guests include Wayne Brady, Edie Falco, Kane Hodder, Colin Jost, and DJ Marshmello, as well as a reunion with their Impractical Jokers: The Movie co-star, Paula Abdul, among others.
