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During the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is making some temporary changes to our print sections. The prime-time TV grid is on hiatus in print but an expanded version is available in your daily Times eNewspaper. You can find a printable PDF online at: latimes.com/whats-on-tv.

Big Brother (N) 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice Gwen Stefani joins returning coaches Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Blake Shelton for a new season of the singing competition. 8 p.m. NBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Charles Esten. (N) 8 p.m. CW

Dancing With the Stars (N) 8 p.m. ABC

L.A.'s Finest Syd and Nancy (Gabrielle Union, Jessica Alba) must get fentanyl into police custody without leaving a clue as to their involvement in this new episode of the police drama. 8 p.m. Fox

One Day at a Time After Alex (Marcel Ruiz) catches his mother (Justina Machado) in a compromising position, she decides its time for a talk about healthy human sexuality in the first of two back-to-back episodes of this rebooted comedy. Rita Moreno also stars. 9 and 9:30 p.m. CBS

Penn & Teller: Fool Us Featured magicians include Anna Ferris Simpson, Pierre Ulric, Garrett Thomas and Francis Menotti. 9 p.m. CW

Filthy Rich Rose (Aubrey Dollar) offers the home as a sanctuary for Ginger and Tina (Melia Kreiling, guest star Rachel York) in the aftermath of the stalker incident. Also, Margaret (Kim Cattrall) is forced to recruit some unlikely allies following threats from Rev. Paul (Aaron Lazar), who is conspiring with Eric (Corey Cott) and some Sunshine Network investors. (N) 9 p.m. Fox

Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan Jennifer Garner. (N) 9 p.m. KOCE

Halloween Baking Championship Carla Hall invites the five remaining bakers to a party in the haunted ballroom, where they must create impressive costume cakes to win a spot in the finale. 9 p.m. Food Network

The Third Day (series finale) (N) 9 p.m. HBO

Manhunt: Deadly Games After the FBI identifies Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston) as the serial bomber, he flees into the forest. Gethin Anthony, Arliss Howard and Kelly Jenrette also star. 10 p.m. CBS

Weakest Link (N) 10 p.m. NBC

Emergency Call Emergency call takers in Austin, Texas; Wasilla, Alaska; and Ogden, Utah, receive a series of bone-chilling or sometimes just bizarre calls, including a terrified mother who hears an intruder trying to break into her home; passersby threatened by a gun-wielding, erratic driver who creates a six-hour wave of confusion and destruction; and residents of a neighborhood bewildered by the sight of an injured man licking a stop sign. Luke Wilson is the host. 10 p.m. ABC

Independent Lens Filmmaker Arthur Jones award-winning documentary Feels Good Man recounts the story of how San Francisco artist Matt Furie saw his lighthearted cartoon character Pepe the Frog hijacked by racist alt-right groups that rebranded the image as a symbol of hate during the 2016 U.S. presidential election season. 10 p.m. KOCE

Soulmates (N) 10 p.m. AMC

Enslaved The series finale documents the politics that brought to an end the enslavement of Africans in the West. 10 p.m. Epix

The Big Bake In this new episode three baking teams have five hours to create the most sensational monster cakes the judges have ever seen. 10 p.m. Food Network

We Are Who We Are Sarah (Chlo Sevigny) is thrilled to learn of Frasers (Jack Dylan Grazer) new friendship with Jonathan (Tom Mercier) and encourages the two to spend more time together, to Maggies (Alice Braga) puzzlement. Scott Mescudi and Jordan Kristin Seamn also star. 10:02 p.m. HBO

American Humane Hero Dog Awards: 10th Anniversary Celebration Carson Kressley returns to host this special honoring working dogs from across the United States. Naomi Judd, Vivica A. Fox, Cameron Mathison, Marcus Scribner, Alison Sweeney, Ariel Winter and Debbie Matenopoulos join Robin Ganzert of American Humane. Lisa Loeb performs and Richard Marx offers a special video message. 8 p.m. Hallmark

NFL Football The Kansas City Chiefs visit the Buffalo Bills, 2 p.m. Fox and NFL; the Arizona Cardinals visit the Dallas Cowboys, 5:15 p.m. ESPN

CBS This Morning Author Alicia Garza; musician Peter Frampton. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Sara Gilbert (The Conners). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Dr. Oz. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

Home & Family (N) 10 a.m. Hallmark

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Luke Wilson; Rumer Willis guest cohosts. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

Tamron Hall (N) 1 p.m. KABC

The Drew Barrymore Show (N) 2 p.m. KCBS

The Kelly Clarkson Show Blake Shelton; Cynthia Nixon. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

The Doctors Amy Robach; ketogenic recipes. (N) 2 p.m. KCOP

Dr. Phil A woman disapproves of her 49-year-old father having a relationship with a 23-year-old woman. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Marlon Wayans (On the Rocks); guest host Tiffany Haddish. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Author Chelsea Clinton (She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game); Jo Koy (In His Element); artist Nikkolas Smith. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

To the Contrary With Bonnie Erb 6 p.m. KVCR

Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Trevor highlights the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 11 p.m. Comedy Central

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Gwen Stefani; Swizz Beatz and Timbaland; Bebe Rexha and Doja Cat perform. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Joy Reid; Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live! 11:35 p.m. KABC

Late Night With Seth Meyers Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); Ego Nwodim; Todd Sucherman. (N) 12:36 a.m. KNBC

The Late Late Show With James Corden 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

Road to Perdition (2002) 8 a.m. IFC

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 8:04 a.m. Starz

Ray (2004) 8:10 a.m. HBO

Mogambo (1953) 8:30 a.m. TCM

The Terminator (1984) 8:50 a.m. Epix

Inglourious Basterds (2009) 10:30 a.m. IFC

North by Northwest (1959) 10:45 a.m. TCM

Taken (2008) 10:49 a.m. and 7:26 p.m. Encore

Insidious (2010) 11 a.m. AMC

Matilda (1996) 11 a.m. Freeform

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Noon FXX

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) Noon TMC

Mud (2013) 12:30 p.m. Epix

Hustlers (2019) 12:30 p.m. Showtime

Gremlins (1984) 1 p.m. Freeform

In a Lonely Place (1950) 1:15 p.m. TCM

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 2 p.m. IFC

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) 2:12 p.m. Starz

Paranormal Activity (2007) 2:30 p.m. Showtime

Love & Mercy (2014) 2:45 p.m. Epix

Casper (1995) 3:30 p.m. Freeform

Scarface (1983) 4 p.m. Sundance

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019) 4:04 p.m. Starz

Crimson Peak (2015) 4:05 p.m. Cinemax

Raging Bull (1980) 4:55 p.m. Epix

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) 5 p.m. TCM

Deadpool 2 (2018) 5:30 p.m. FX

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 5:30 p.m. Showtime

Catch Me If You Can (2002) 5:30 p.m. TMC

9 to 5 (1980) 5:33 p.m. Encore

Horror of Dracula (1958) 6:30 p.m. TCM

Just Mercy (2019) 6:40 p.m. HBO

The Help (2011) 7 and 10:15 p.m. Paramount

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 7:30 p.m. TNT

Top Gun (1986) 8 p.m. TMC

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) 8:50 p.m. Cinemax

About Last Night (2014) 9 p.m. VH1

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 9:30 p.m. Freeform

Blazing Saddles (1974) 10 p.m. Sundance

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) 10 p.m. TCM

Risky Business (1983) 10 p.m. TMC

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) 10:40 p.m. Cinemax

Private Parts (1997) 11:02 p.m. Encore

Coming to America (1988) 11:30 p.m. VH1

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If you were to just glance at the TV listings this week, you might not be all that impressed with what's out there because of a lack of big-name releases, aside from the comfort food of network television welcome back, The Goldbergs (Wednesday, 8/7c, ABC) that returns this week. But dig a little deeper and expand your typical preferences, and you'll find some good shows and movies you otherwise might not have noticed. Actually, we did the digging for you, as seen below, so all you really need to do is turn the TV on at the right time. See how easy that was?

Our full list of editors' picks for the week are below, but if this isn't enough and you're looking for even more hand-picked recommendations, sign up for our free spam-free Watch This Now newsletter that delivers the best TV show picks straight to your inbox, or check out the best shows and movies in October on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.

Series finale Sunday at 10/9c on HBOHBO's terrifying look at the NXIVM cult wraps things up in Sunday's series finale, following up on the penultimate episode that looked at cult leader Keith Raniere's rampant misogyny with a satisfying end chapter that shows his comeuppance. It's a timely episode as Raniere's due to be sentenced soon, but it isn't all about Raniere's downfall. His victims and stars of the documentary, Mark and Bonnie, begin their healing in an emotional return to where it all started.

Volume 2 premieres Monday on NetflixThe popular Netflix continuation of the true crime series returns with more of those grisly details of murder and mystery that you just can't get enough of. This time around, episodes cover the unsolved mystery of former white house aide Jack Wheeler, who was found dead in a landfill; the yet-to-be-solved case of an unidentified woman who died of a gunshot in a luxury hotel; the unanswered question of a killer who ditched authorities while on furlough; and the not-quite-figured-out conundrum of ghostly spirits from Japan's 2011 tsunami.

Monday at 10/9c on PBSThe unofficial internet mascot for right-wing and white supremacist groups, Pepe the Frog, wasn't supposed to be anything but a dumb amphibian from a fun web comic. This documentary tracks the transformation of web comic artist Matt Furie's creation from silly character to internet meme to symbol for hate groups, as well as tracing Furie's attempts to reclaim the character after it was stolen from him by goons. Can Pepe be redeemed?

Friday on NetflixIf you haven't had a chance to see what all the fuss is about Anya Taylor-Joy cinema's upcoming Furiosa in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel and no doubt a future Oscar winner this miniseries is as good a showcase for the young actress as you'll find. Taylor-Joy plays an orphaned chess genius working her way up to chess grandmaster in an adaptation of the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis. Beyond the chess (and chess metaphors, natch!), The Queen's Gambit-- created by Godless' Scott Frank also dives deep into mental illness, the instability of genius, feminist issues, and substance abuse with deftness. It's great and has a real shot at popping up during awards season.

Series premiere Friday at 11/10c on HBO and HBO MaxNews that Nathan Fielder, of Comedy Central's genius Nathan For You, was executive producing this alt-comedy docuseries instantly catapulted it up my watchlist, but even with such high expectations I was unprepared for the flurry of emotions I would feel from watching the premiere episode. Videographer John Wilson walks through New York City with a camera and an infinite amount of patience as he examines the human condition through simple and profound voiceover in much of the same ways Nathan For You did in its most vulnerable moments. Like Fielder, Wilson is also a wizard of loneliness exposing the commonalities of all human beings, and the resulting emotions aren't specific to anyone, but shared among our whole species. This is enjoyably weird and incredibly insightful.

Friday on Amazon Prime VideoIt's a wonder that Sacha Baron Cohen could ever bring back his Borat character into the public for a few minutes let alone long enough to make a new film, but apparently not all of America go the memo about this guerilla journalist who exposes the horrors of Americana through prank and parody. This time, the Kazhakstan doofus has even more to work with, given the divide in American politics, the upcoming election, and COVID-19. It should be a hilarious look at a depressing situation.

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London: A senior British official said Sunday the door is "still ajar" for post-Brexit talks to continue with the European Union if officials in the bloc change their position on key points. Michael Gove's comments came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said Friday that the trade talks are "over" unless there is a "fundamental" change of position from the EU. With just weeks to go until the end-of-year deadline, Johnson said the U.K. needed to get ready for leaving the EU with no trade deal.

But Gove on Sunday left room for talks to agree on a deal so that the U.K. can avoid the high trade tariffs it faces from Dec. 31, when the transition period ends.

He accused EU officials of not being serious about making compromises, and said they would have to back down if chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier is to resume negotiations in London this week.

"We're certainly not saying that if they do change their position we can't talk to them," he told the BBC.

Britain officially left the EU on Jan 31, but remains part of its economic structures until Dec 31. The two sides have been trying to strike a deal on trade and other relations before then, but months of talks have been stalled on the issue of fishing and rules to ensure fair competition.

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ATLANTA Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger met with diplomats and representatives from the European Union Consular Corps based in Atlanta to discuss elections in Georgia. The meeting was coordinated by the Georgia Department of Economic Development and was a diplomatic exchange that increased ties between Georgia and democratic partner nations in the European Union.

Meeting with members of Atlantas European Union diplomatic contingent provided a chance for my office to explain American democracy to our friends and partners abroad, increasing ties and building important relationships, Raffensperger said in a news release. Discussions like these are key to ensuring free flow of ideas and best practices between us and our fellow democracies around the world.

Georgias Consular Corps plays a critical role in our states international economic development efforts, Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson said. Our team collaborates with our international partners to ensure open communications on a daily basis, and we sincerely appreciate the time Secretary Raffensperger took to help us further deepen these relationships.

Raffensperger sat down with representatives from five EU nations to discuss how elections in Georgia work and to answer questions from the diplomats about the election process. During the meeting, the secretary of state lauded the good work of Georgias local elections workers and explained the important role they play in successfully executing elections in the state. During the discussion, the EU consular officials compared and contrasted the elections process in their own countries, asking questions both about the elections infrastructure and the American cultural and historical points that shaped them. The meeting lasted an hour.

Heike Fuller, Consul General, Germany and current chair of EU Consuls General;

Michel Gerebtzoff, Consul General, Belgium;

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Ciara OFloinn, Consul General, Ireland;

Esther Smith, Senior Economic Officer, The Netherlands;

Emily Rives, Executive Assistant to the Consul General, France;

Abby Turano, Deputy Commissioner of Marketing, Communications, and International Engagement, GDEcD;

Nico Wijnberg, Director of International Relations and Chief of Protocol, GDEcD;

Coryn Marsik, International Relations Manager, GDEcD.

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In much media coverage of Brexit Britain is cast as perfidious and deluded, and the EU as moderate and pragmatic. Britains post-Brexit future is seen as dim. But a realistic analysis would look first at the EU, and how its irrational and obsolete Eutopianism is threatened by the new challenges of the contemporary world. The real question is how long Eutopianism can survive in the absence of democratic legitimacy.

Much of the public debate over Brexit has perhaps understandably focused on Britains fortunes now that we have left the EU, and what we might face once the transitional period has come to an end. Will there be a deal between Brussels and London? How will we conduct our diplomacy? How will we trade and relate to the rest of the world? Will we succumb to autarky and isolation, or can we improve on our connections with the outside world? The notion of sovereign autonomy has frequently been derided as a mirage in a world of highly interdependent economies. In much of the financial press and liberal media, scepticism over Britains future is rampant. This is evident in much of the British coverage of negotiations with the EU, in which the EU is always cast as moderate, restrained, reasonable and pragmatic, while Britain is frequently cast as perfidious, irrational, unrestrained and undependable.

Given how frequently this picture is skewed, it is worth looking at events through the other end of the telescope. Instead of thinking about Britains future outside the EU, we should also reflect on Brexit by considering the future of the EU. How will this Cold War artefact of the twentieth century, boosted into supranationalism in the flush of optimism following the end of the Cold War, adapt to the world of the twenty-first century, with its new geopolitical rivalries? Doubtless there is much idealism, hope and perhaps even naivety in Britain over the challenges of a post-Brexit future. If this is true of Britain, it would be fair to say that it is at least if not more true of the EU. Idealism, naivety and magical thinking occludes rational and sober discussion of the EU and especially of the Eurozone at least as much as Brexit. In my recent book on the crisis of liberal international order, I call this particularly virulent strain of magical thinking that attaches itself to the EU Eutopianism. Eutopian thinking is far more important to sustaining the EU than any ideology libertarian or nationalist is to Brexit. Without the Eutopian belief in a harmonious future in which the interests of all the EUs member-states magically converge, the EU is a paltry and ramshackle thing. How else can we explain the belief in a monetary union without fiscal union, without recourse to magical thinking?

Consider how Eutopian thinking beguiles its believers. Eutopians will insist that Brexit means autarky, poverty, isolation and insular imprisonment, at the same time as they commit to a view of supranationalism that is itself an afterglow of the era of liberal globalisation that is rapidly receding into history, and whose passing will be accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. To cling to this 1990s vision of economic globalisation that necessitates a superstructure of post-national politics is to cling to a fantasy. Or consider the contrast in political vision. Eutopians have frequently derided Brexit as an empty process, absent of political goals and substantive vision, puffed up with the vain conceits of Global Britain. Yet the same question can be turned on the EU what is its end-point, its telos? Securing political sovereignty and seeking autonomy through Brexit is precisely that seeking the possibility of an open-ended process of national self-government that grants us the capacity to make and remake our political and social life as we choose, rather than having it suspended in ossified supranational structures. By contrast the EU is, by its nature, a post-sovereign political system it cannot claim a future of political autonomy for itself because there is no single actor at its core to claim it, and it is in any case based on rejecting sovereignty.

Although it continues to exercise many Brexiters, the truth is that EU federalism is a spent force, and in its place there is little more than a series of inter-governmental bargains propped up by Eutopian illusion. If ever there was a time to propel the EU towards fiscal and political unity to complement monetary union, by rights it should have been the financial crisis that has roiled the EU since 2015. The fact that no such vision materialised and the EU plumped for a punishing regime of austerity instead, exposes the delusional character of Eutopianism. Yet despite the evidence to the contrary, Eutopians continue to believe that the EU will eventually pull itself out of the swamp by its own hair, like the fairytale Baron Munchausen. The froth over the EUs so-called Hamiltonian moment, the agreement for partial mutualisation of the EUs debt earlier this year (supposedly analogous to the nationalisation of the US debt under Alexander Hamilton in 1791), exposes further the emptiness of Eutopian hopes: invoking Alexander Hamilton in the battered Eurozone of 2020 is to flee a troubled present by seeking refuge in an imagined, providential future.

At the core of Eutopian hopes is the belief in a liberal harmony of interests the view that political disagreement and competition over power is temporary friction that can be overcome through greater institutionalised cooperation. From this imagined vantage point, we are always transitioning to a deferred future in which all national interests ultimately align and intertwine. Yet the closer we get to the Eutopian horizon, the further it recedes in the distance. If Brexit is based on idealism, it is an idealism rooted in democratic majoritarianism. By contrast Eutopianism thrives in the absence of democracy. The fragile harmony of interests that European leaders have constructed in the form of the EU is essentially a network of inter-elite agreement; it only lasts as long as mass democracy is kept at bay. Doubtless Brexit Britain will be sorely tested in years to come. But when considering the future of Brexit Britain and the future of the EU, the right question to ask is, how long can Eutopianism survive in the absence of democratic legitimacy?

Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. He is author most recently of The New Twenty Years Crisis 1999-2019: A critique of contemporary international relations (McGill-Queens University Press, 2020).

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