What to Watch on TV This Week: Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Cupertino, VisionQuest, and More

The week of November 8th starts with shows airing at special times and ends with one of the year’s first holiday specials. 

Both CBS and Fox are mixing things up and airing one of their shows at special times. CBS is airing a bonus episode of Cupertino on Sunday, in addition to an episode of the series at its normal Thursday time slot.

Less dramatically, Fox is bumping up this week’s episode of Animal Control to 8/7c instead of its normal 8:30/7:30c. 

Elsewhere, Disney+ drops the VisionQuest finale and premieres a Proud Family holiday special. Those looking for new shows can check out The Good Daughter on Peacock and 12 12 12 on Apple TV.

Find our full list of suggestions for What to Watch on TV this week below. Mark your calendars accordingly!

What to Watch on TV This Week:

The Institute – Sunday, November 8th

The Institute Season 2 Episode 1 premieres Sunday, November 8 on MGM+.

Season description: In the wake of their climactic escape from Dennison, Luke and his friends search for a way to end the Institute for good. Meanwhile, The Director enlists a new ally, tech billionaire Nolan Reeves, to help him rebuild, and Sigsby’s life as a fugitive pushes her to seek a way back “in.”

Animal Control – Sunday, November 8th

Animal Control Season 5 Episode 6 airs Sunday, November 8 at 8/7c on Fox

Episode description: Emily and Shred host thier first party as a couple.

Cupertino – Sunday, November 8th

Cupertino Season 1 Episode 6 airs Sunday, November 8 at 8/7c on CBS.

Episode descprition: When Christy’s roommate is denired a transplant due to an AI algorithm swapping the order of the list to put a wealthy man above her, Michael and Olivia race to get a judge on board to stop the surgery.

VisionQuest – Tuesday, November 10th

VisionQuest Season 1 Episode 8 streams Tuesday, November 10 on Disney+.

Episode Description: After fully accepting his memories, emotions, and grief over Wanda, Billy, and Tommy, Vision must face Ultron in a high-stakes showdown if he is going to rescue Jocasta and save Lisa.

We Choose to Go to the Moon- Tuesday, November 10th

We Choose to Go to the Moon premieres Tuesday, November 10 at 8/7c on PBS.

Series description: Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, historian John Monsky tells the exhilarating story of America’s journey to the Moon and the heroes in and outside of NASA who made it possible. Featuring iconic music from the 1960s and ’70s performed by Broadway stars and a live orchestra, alongside rare archival imagery and historic flags, this living documentary brings the Space Race vividly to life.

Rivals – Wednesday, November 11th

Rivals Season 2 part 2 premieres Wednesday, November 11 on Hulu.

Part 2 description : The residents of Rutshire are rocked by tragedy, scandal and betrayal as the battle between Venturer and Corinium reaches breaking point.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Wednesday, November 11th

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 Episode 1 premieres Wednesday, November 11 on Prime.

Episode description: In Season Three, Middle-earth is at war. Five years have passed since the fall of Eregion. Sauron’s armies have marched across the whole of the world, conquering all in their path. Only a few isolated pockets stand between the Dark Lord and total victory – Khazad-dûm, where the Dwarves are now sealed deep within their mountain halls, and the elven realms of Lindon and Rivendell, which are protected by their Three Rings. But deep in the land of Mordor, in his newly completed tower of Barad-dûr, the Dark Lord toils day and night, obsessed with harnessing a power that will bring the last of his enemies to their knees: One Ring to rule them all… Now, all the free peoples of Middle-earth – Dwarves, Elves, Men, and Wizards alike – must find a way to come together, in a race against time to prevent Sauron from achieving his goal of utter domination of all life…

The Good Daughter- Thursday, November 12th

The Good Daughter Season 1 premieres Thursday, November 12 on Peacock.

Seres description: The Good Daughter is a suspensful crime drama where sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn have spent the last twenty-eight years tryinging to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witnees on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, both she and Samantha find themselves wondering if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.

12 12 12 – Friday, November 13th

12 12 12 Season 1 Episode 1 premieres Friday, November 13 on Apple TV.

Series description: Each episode of 12 12 12 unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist and the 12 days following it. The series follows a disgraced FBI agent and an American career criminal as the play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid  on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich.

A Proud Family Wizmas – Saturday, November 14th

A Proud Family Wizmas premieres Friday, November 14 on Disney+.

Special description: When Penny Proud’s rant about Wizmas and the commercialization of Christmas causes Santa to quit on Christmas eve, Penny finds herself guilted into putting on the red suit and replacing him. And in the process of delivering Yuletide cheer with the help of Santa’s irreverent elves, she discovers that indeed the Christmas spirit is still alive. 

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