ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEKEND

The Major League Divisional post season games began play today.  The TV schedule is complicated.  Here from Google AI:

Note: The schedule for games 3 through 5 for each series is still to be determined (TBD). 

National League Division Series

#4 Chicago Cubs vs. #1 Milwaukee Brewers 

• Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 4, 2:08 p.m. (TBS)
• Game 2: Monday, Oct. 6, 9:08 p.m. (TBS)
• Game 3: Wednesday, Oct. 8, TBD (TBS)
• Game 4 (if necessary): Thursday, Oct. 9, TBD (TBS)
• Game 5 (if necessary): Saturday, Oct. 11, TBD (TBS) 

#3 Los Angeles Dodgers vs. #2 Philadelphia Phillies 

• Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 4, 6:38 p.m. (TBS)
• Game 2: Monday, Oct. 6, 6:08 p.m. (TBS)
• Game 3: Wednesday, Oct. 8, TBD (TBS)
• Game 4 (if necessary): Thursday, Oct. 9, TBD (TBS)
• Game 5 (if necessary): Saturday, Oct. 11, TBD (TBS) 

American League Division Series

#4 New York Yankees vs. #1 Toronto Blue Jays 

• Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 4, 4:08 p.m. (FS1)
• Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 5, 4:08 p.m. (FS1)
• Game 3: Tuesday, Oct. 7, TBD (FOX/FS1)
• Game 4 (if necessary): Wednesday, Oct. 8, TBD (FOX/FS1)
• Game 5 (if necessary): Friday, Oct. 10, TBD (FOX/FS1) 

#6 Detroit Tigers vs. #2 Seattle Mariners 

• Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 4, 8:38 p.m. (FS1)
• Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 5, 8:03 p.m. (FS1)
• Game 3: Tuesday, Oct. 7, TBD (FOX/FS1)
• Game 4 (if necessary): Wednesday, Oct. 8, TBD (FOX/FS1)
• Game 5 (if necessary): Friday, Oct. 10, TBD (FOX/FS1) 

The game of the NCAA football week is Vanderbilt at Alabama  

• Game started at 3:30PM EDT.  
• Last year, Vanderbilt went to Alabama and upset the Crimson Tide.  At game time, Alabama was undefeated and rated #1 in the country.  First time Vanderbilt beat Alabama in 40 years.  This was so monumental that it earned a Wikipedia page.
• But this year, Vanderbilt is undefeated and Alabama has one loss.
• Alabama is favored to win by 11 or 12 points.

I avoid watching Wheel of Fortune because who wants to be known as someone who does that.  

• It always follows the local evening news program.
• Thus, when someone calls me soon after 6:30PM, I sometimes have not had a chance to change the station.  For those who called me, I'm not really watching that program.
• Wheel of Fortune was created by Merv Griffin and started on 6January1975, more than half a century ago.
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  It is the longest-running syndicated game show in the USA with more than 8000 episodes.
• Started with Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford.  In those days a contestant could get a Porsche valued at $14,000, but $4000 represented a sound win.

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  Pat Sajack, then a weatherman on L.A.'s KNBC, took over in 1981.
• Vanna White arrived in 1982.
• In 1997, Sajak and Alex Trebeck of Jeopardy traded jobs for one day.  Did you know that Merv Griffin also created Jeopardy?
• Ryan Seacrest became host in 2024, but Sajak's final episode of a celebrity edition was on 10June2025.

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  So anyway, all that above to report that Christina Derevjanik won a little more than a million dollars on Wheel of Fortune earlier this week.
• She can take a single lump sum of $660,000, or $50,000/year for 20 years.  
• Actually she in addition won trips to Montana and Tokyo.
• She won this fortune four months ago, but the show only went on this week.
• She kept this matter secret from her then new boyfriend for this period.
• Derevjanik is the fourth million dollar winner on the show.

Saturday Night Live returns tonight, hosted by that next Super Bowl halftime show guy, Bad Bunny.  Doja Cat is the musical guest.  Some of you, like me, don't know who they are.

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  Bad Bunny by Google AI:

• "I Like It" 

  (Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin): His first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 
• "Mía" 

  (with Drake): Another early #1 hit that same year, topping the Hot 100 for 16 weeks. 
• "Dákiti" 

  (with Jhay Cortez): This song was a massive success, debuting and peaking at #1 and staying there for 27 weeks on the Hot Latin Songs chart. 
• "Titi Me Preguntó" 

  and "Moscow Mule" (from Un Verano Sin Ti): Both were #1 hits from his 2022 album, which also produced numerous other hits. 
• "DtMF": 

  Another recent #1 hit, this time on the Billboard Global 200 and the TikTok Billboard Top 50

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  Okay Google AI, what about Doja Cat?

• "Paint the Town Red" 

  (2023) - This single from the album Scarlet was her most successful song and her first solo number-one on the Hot 100. 
• "Say So" 

  (2020) - The original single was a hit, but it was the collaborative remix with Nicki Minaj that reached number one, making them the first female rap duo to achieve this on the US singles chart

For the Hawaii TV audience, Saturday Night Live is on at 7:30PM, rather than the usual 10:30PM.

Go back 21 years to 2004, when Taylor Swift was 14 years old (yes, she is now 35 years old, and so is Travis Kelce), and was asked by Good Morning America if she'll someday become a star.  Watch that video.

There are two major ocean storms brewing in the West Pacific.  Typhoon Matmo went through the northern Philippines as a Category 1, diminished to tropical storm status when it entered the South China Sea, but re-strengthened into a Category 1, and will become a Category 2 when landfall is made over China, between Leizhou and Zhanjian.

Now only a tropical depression, Halong is poised to strengthen into a typhoon on Monday, then into a Category 2 on Tuesday, pass across some Okinawan northern islands, and make a right turn with a current path either Kyushu, Japan, or towards South Korea.  Careful if you're traveling to Busan or Kyushu late next week.

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