📺 What to Watch Tonight: Friday, July 18, 2025 Dexter’s Back, Queens Are Slaying, and Aliens Are Weird Again

Your one-stop scroll for what’s hot, hyped, and totally happening in TV today — from lip syncs and lightsabers to love gone wrong and aliens gone rogue.

What to Watch Tonight

🔥 STREAMING ALL DAY: Binge Before Breakfast

Because who needs sleep when your watchlist looks this good? What to watch tonight.

🎭 The Chi (Paramount+ Premium)

💥 Drama | Episode Drop: 3AM ET Gun violence meets block party realness. Emmett is hitting rock bottom, Pastor Zeke is literally preaching peace with a block party, and Alicia’s making moves on Detective Toussaint. Meanwhile, we’re all dying to know: Will Tiff choose peace, passion, or petty?

🩸 Dexter: Resurrection (Paramount+ Premium)

🧠 Thriller | Episode Drop: 3AM ET Dex is back — and the Dark Passenger is punching the gas. As Dexter tracks down his blood-soaked legacy, Harrison’s diving deeper into daddy’s drama. 🚨 Certified Fresh by The TV Cave readers with an “A” grade! You will get hooked.

🪐 Foundation (Apple TV+)

🚀 Sci-Fi | Episode Drop: 3AM ET Galactic plotting? Check. Dystopian brain games? You bet. Gaal and Hari are stirring cosmic drama on Ignis while Empire is sweating over a prediction they did not see coming. Also… who exactly is the Mule?

💔 I Love You Forever (HBO Max | Streaming Premiere)

🎬 Romantic Drama | Movie Drop: 3AM ET It starts with swoons… ends in screams. Sofia Black-D’Elia stars as a law student who thinks she’s met “The One” (Ray Nicholson). Spoiler alert: this love story is anything but forever. Pour the wine, this one’s juicy.

👑 RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (Paramount+)

💄 Reality | Season 10 Finale | 3AM ET It’s Lip Sync for the Freakin' Crown time! The final queens — and a surprise Wild Card — are ready to sashay, slay, and maybe even snatch wigs in the most epic finale yet. Category is: Legendary Realness.

💣 Smoke (Apple TV+)

🔥 Crime Drama | Episode Drop: 3AM ET Gudsen hits the road, Calderone hits the panic button, and Freddy? He’s serving cold revenge with a side of chaos. If you're not watching Smoke, what even are you doing?

🥊 TKO (Tubi | Movie Premiere)

👊 Sports Drama | 3AM ET Robert Ri’chard is a down-but-not-out dad who turns from fighter to father figure when his son enters the ring. Think Creed meets This Is Us. Just with more punching.

🎤 Zarna Garg: Practical People Win (Hulu)

🤣 Stand-Up Comedy Special | 3AM ET Zarna’s back and bringing the immigrant mom fire 🔥 in her hilarious new special. Relatable, sharp, and unapologetically savage — your inner auntie will thank you.

🌆 PRIMETIME PICKS: Where to Park It Tonight

🎹 Billy Joel: And So It Goes (HBO | 8PM ET)

🎶 Docuseries Premiere Get ready to feel all the feelings. This two-week event deep-dives into the Piano Man’s life, music, heartbreak, and triumphs. Perfect for fans of the keys and the chaos behind them.

📈 The Fixer (FOX | Series Premiere | Two Episodes | 8PM ET)

🛠️ Reality Biz Fix Show Marcus Lemonis is here to fix your failing business, your broken brand, and maybe your will to keep trying. He’s bringing the “3 P’s” (People, Process, Product) — and probably some tough love.

🏀 WNBA 3-Point and Skills Challenge (Disney+ / ESPN | 8PM ET)

🏆 Live Sports The fiercest in the W are taking center court for this All-Star Weekend kickoff. Expect buckets, badassery, and buzzer beaters. (Psst: The All-Star Game airs Saturday at 8:30PM on ABC.)

🎬 LATE NIGHT LOVIN’: If You're Still Awake... You’re Winning

💸 BMF (Starz | 9PM ET)

🚘 Crime Drama Terry’s turf war in St. Louis? Total disaster. Back at home, Lucille and Charles are navigating post-divorce drama. Spoiler: It’s complicated. And probably illegal.

😂 Totally Funny Animals (The CW | Time Slot Premiere | 9PM ET)

🐻 Comedy Dumpster-diving bears? Check. Sneezing cats? Obviously. This is low-stakes, high-laugh, peak "my brain is mush but I need a giggle" viewing.

🛸 Resident Alien (Syfy & USA Network | 10PM ET)

👽 Sci-Fi Comedy Harry’s got some proving to do — and it’s not to Earthlings. Someone from his alien past shows up, and you just know it’s gonna get weird. (Weirder than usual.)

🎉 And that’s your July 18 TV cheat sheet from The TV Cave 🎉

Don't forget to hydrate, charge your remote, and avoid spoilers like they’re the plague. Catch ya tomorrow, TV lovers! 💋

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