With Toy Story 5 hitting theaters next week, ABC celebrates the franchise’s 30-year history. The U.S. Men’s National Team begins its World Cup journey with a match against Paraguay in Los Angeles. A mysterious, incessant sound haunts the troubled heroine of the eerie Starz import The Listeners. A bad apple returns to cause trouble on Dutton Ranch.
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Toy Story 30 Years and Beyond – A Special Edition of 20/20
The adventures of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their family of classic toys continue when Toy Story 5 hits theaters next week. In a synergy of anticipation, ABC (whose parent company Disney owns the Pixar studio) celebrates the franchise’s 30-year history while also tracking the growth and influence of the Pixar brand through the success of what made cinema history as the first full-length computer-generated feature. The special goes behind the scenes at Pixar Animation Studios, featuring interviews with cast members Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear), as well as Taylor Swift, who provides an original song on the soundtrack.
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World Cup
The World Cup comes home to the U.S. with Team USA playing the first match in Group D against Paraguay on home turf at Inglewood, California’s Los Angeles Stadium. (A three-hour pre-show begins at 6 pm/ET.) Earlier in the day, Group B action opens (3 pm/ET) with Canada facing Bosnia and Herzegovina in Toronto.
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The Listeners
“What’s the frequency” is more than a meme or a song title in this eerie five-part British import, starring Rebecca Hall (The Beauty) as Claire, a teacher whose life slowly unravels when she begins hearing a persistent low buzzing hum that’s seemingly inaudible to everyone else. Suffering nosebleeds, migraines, and all-around disorientation, Claire’s auditory nightmare begins to affect her family and work relationships. And then she discovers an aloof student, Kyle (Ollie West), who also has this gift — or is it a curse? And what does it all mean?
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Dutton Ranch
Last week’s episode teased the return of the murderous black sheep, Rob-Will Jackson (Jai Courtney), whose arrival is bound to cause trouble for Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) as they continue to insinuate themselves into matriarch Beulah Jackson’s (Annette Bening) ranching and beef business. Beth shows her “warrior and wildflower” side to Beulah when they head to the big city to woo a self-made businessman, whose appreciation for classic Western ideals is evident in his most prized possession: a prop from a legendary John Wayne movie. Back on the ranch, Rip proves his own value when violence erupts.
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Cape Fear
In the series version of Cape Fear, Anna (Amy Adams) adopts the “keep your enemies close” strategy when she travels to Atlanta with her nemesis, Max Cady (Javier Bardem), to negotiate a settlement with the prison where he was incarcerated. Back home, her lawyer husband Tom (Patrick Wilson) gets awfully cozy with a co-worker (Margarita Levieva) when he should be keeping an eye on his kids, who’ve both been targeted by shady characters.
Also on Apple TV: For All Mankind‘s Russian-set prequel spinoff Star City deepens the KGB investigation into the mole, who’s hiding in plain sight, while cosmonaut Sasha (Solly McLeod) is recruited for a top-secret space mission and his wife Anastasia (Alice Englert) rebels against her role as a figurehead when all she wants to do is go back into space. … In the penultimate episode of the Israeli thriller Unconditional, Oma (Liraz Chamami) returns to India to find an asset who might help free her daughter Gail (Talia Lynne Ronn) from a Moscow prison, only to discover disturbing new details about Gail’s secret life.
INSIDE FRIDAY TV:
- Power Book III: Raising Kanan (8/7c, Starz): Freud would groove on the mother-son dynamic in this drug-fueled melodrama, opening the fifth and final season of the Power prequel with the return of the notorious Raquel (Patina Miller) as an adversary to her once-cherished son Kanan (Mekai Curtis), who’s chasing his own kingpin dreams with a new business partner, Breeze (Shameik Moore).
- Dateline NBC (10/9c, NBC): José Díaz-Balart reports a new installment about the search for South Florida businesswoman Ana Knezevich in Madrid, where she disappeared in 2024, a few months after relocating.
ON THE STREAM:
- Maternal Instinct (streaming on Netflix): A true-crime documentary unpacks the bizarre story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy while living with an East Texas hog farmer. So where did her new baby, which she claimed she gave birth to in her car, come from?
- Proud (streaming on HBO Max): A prize-winning Polish drama series depicts the journey of a young gay man (Ignacy Liss) who puts his partying lifestyle on hold when he becomes guardian of his infant niece after his sister’s unexpected death.
- They Will Kill You (streaming on HBO Max): The ultraviolent horror-comedy from the producers of It makes its streaming debut, starring Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) as Asia, an ex-con who takes a housekeeping job in a historic Manhattan high-rise, which houses a cult that intends on making her their next human sacrifice. The movie makes its linear debut on HBO Saturday at 8/7c.
- Find Your Friends (streaming on Shudder): More horror in a shocker starring Helena Howard and Bella Thorne as participants in a girls’ trip to the desert of Joshua Tree, where the hostile locals show them the opposite of a good time.