SETH MEYERS: CLOSER LOOK
NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET
SPECIAL: Here’s a newly added highlight for tonight. NBC has made room for a live prime-time special: Seth Meyers: Closer Look, based on his smart and sharp topical news monologues on Late Night with Seth Meyers. And since Meyers is performing live, he will be able to react to the very latest current events, and there have been a lot of them in the last week or so alone. Revelations about President Donald Trump’s meager federal tax payments. Trump’s interruptathon during his first televised presidential debate with Joe Biden. More than 20 members of the White House inner circle, including the president himself, contracting COVID-19. Trump being hospitalized. Trump leaving the hospital temporarily to wave from his car to supporters gathered outside. Trump returning to the White House, declaring himself cured, but gasping for breath after ascending the White House balcony steps. Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris debating on national TV last night. And already today, plans for a second presidential debate are revised to make them a remotely, separately televised event between the two candidates – which Trump already has said he intends to boycott, and perhaps stage one of his rallies instead. That’s all in about a week, and Meyers will be able to take aim at all of it. How time flies. And speaking of flies…