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Impractical Jokers and Jameela Jamil Team Up For The Misery Index

ALSO: The Voice, Jenny Slate, Martha & Snoop’s Potlock Dinner Party, Mayans MC, and more
  • Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano, Jameela Jamil, James Murray, and Brian Quinn in The Misery Index (TBS)
    Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano, Jameela Jamil, James Murray, and Brian Quinn in The Misery Index (TBS)

    TBS has been working on their new game show for quite some time now. Based on the card game Sh*t Happens, The Misery Index was co-created by Andy Breckman (Monk) and features the stars of Impractical Jokers squaring off against contestants as they rank dreadful life events on a scale of 1-100. Other highlights today include this season's penultimate set of Battle Rounds on The Voice, Jenny Slate's comedy special debut, and Halloween fun with Martha and Snoop Dogg.
     
    SERIES PREMIERE: Premiering with back to back episodes, The Misery Index asks contestants to catalog a slate of truly horrific real life events as they compete for $30,000. Jameela Jamil (The Good Place) hosts. Watch the preview. 10:00 PM ET on TBS

    NEW EPISODE: The Battle Rounds continue on the The Voice, with Normani, Darius "Hootie" Rucker, Usher, and will.i.am preparing their teams for competition. 8:00 PM ET on NBC

    COMEDY SPECIAL: Jenny Slate is an alt comedy powerhouse, so how it that she's never had her own standup special? Netflix rights that wrong today, with the quirky and affecting Jenny Slate: Stage Fright. Watch the previewStreaming on Netflix

    NEW EPISODE: It's a Halloween food fight on Martha & Snoop’s Potlock Dinner Party as our hosts are joined by Eve, Lil Pump, and Tami Roman. 8:00 PM ET on VH1

    NEW EPISODE: Hard knuckle negotiations commence tonight on Mayans MC when a deal is presented to the group, but it's offscreen drama that put the show in the headlines this week after creator Kurt Sutter was been fired for abusive behavior. 10:00 PM ET on FX

    ALSO TONIGHT

    • This is Us finds Randall (Sterling K. Brown) trying to make his family feel at home. Meanwhile, Rebecca (Mandy Moore) has company over for dinner. 9:00 PM ET on NBC
    • New Amsterdam forces Iggy (Tyler Labine) and Bloom (Janet Montgomery) to make a difficult choice, as case hits a nerve with Sharpe (Freema Agyeman). 10:00 PM ET on NBC
    • Mixed-ish sees the kids attending their very first school dance. 9:00 PM ET on ABC

    Mike Attebery is Senior Editor at Primetimer and the author of seven mystery thrillers. Follow him on Twitter at @mikeattebery.

    TOPICS: The Misery Index, TBS, Impractical Jokers, Jameela Jamil, Game Shows