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The teams with the best records in each league meet in Milwaukee tonight at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. Jacob Misiorowski starts for the Brewers and Nick Martinez for the Rays, and neither franchise has ever won it all.
Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards play a 500-year-old vampire couple in Seattle in the new Thursday-night comedy from Ghosts creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman. Its premiere drew 4.1 million viewers.
The Godfather and Scent of a Woman star will be the 62nd recipient of the actors’ union’s highest honor, presented February 28, 2027, at a ceremony streaming live on Netflix.
Boosted by its Encore deluxe edition, The Life of a Showgirl has returned to the top of the Billboard 200, making Swift the first solo artist to log 100 career weeks at No. 1.
Sal Frelick’s game-tying homer and Cooper Pratt’s go-ahead single in the seventh gave Milwaukee a 5-4 comeback win. The series moves to St. Petersburg for Game 3 on Monday.
Gabby Williams scored 17 and Kiah Stokes grabbed 16 rebounds as Golden State won in Atlanta to even the series. Game 5 is Monday night in San Francisco.
Paramount’s Street Fighter opened No. 1 with $31 million, while A24’s You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, took $15 million from just 855 screens.
Cleveland beat the White Sox 2-0 in Game 5 to erase an 0-2 series deficit and will face Tampa Bay in the ALCS, while the two-time champion Dodgers visit 103-win Milwaukee in a rematch of last year’s NLCS.
Atlanta swept New York and Golden State swept defending champion Las Vegas, so the 2026 WNBA title will go to a franchise that has never won one. Game 1 is Saturday, October 17.
Universal’s Other Mommy took the weekend with an estimated $27.5 million despite a D+ CinemaScore, while Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning opened fifth with $5.5 million.