TVLine’s What To Watch Monday: FBI, CIA, And Law & Order: Toronto Return, Private Eyes Spin-Off, And More runs through the week’s biggest new episodes, from a spin-off set on the West Coast to a Halloween special that sends Brian and Stewie to Hell. Here is everything hitting screens today, organized by time and channel.
The Day’s Big Premieres
The headline act is the return of Law & Order: Toronto: Criminal Intent, plus the spin-off Private Eyes West Coast and the season two premieres of CIA and Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. Here is how they break down:
- Law & Order: Toronto: Criminal Intent — Season 2 premiere on The CW, with Graff and Bateman investigating the stabbing death of a Toronto encampment leader in a downtown park.
- Private Eyes West Coast — Spin-off premiere on The CW, starring Matt Shade (Jason Priestley) and Angie Everett (Cindy Sampson). Their quiet life is shaken when a night out lands them at the scene of a murder.
- CIA — Season 2 premiere on CBS, with Bill making a shocking discovery after his father’s death and the team enlisting FBI Special Agent Stuart Scola (John Boyd).
- Harlan Coben’s Final Twist — Season 2 premiere on CBS, where a church-going mother named Betsy Faria is found stabbed to death in her quiet Missouri home, with police initially suspecting suicide before evidence points elsewhere.
The Cable Schedule
The day also brings the season finale of Below Deck Mediterranean, the penultimate episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and a new episode of Family Guy’s Hulu Halloween special. Below Deck Mediterranean wraps its eleventh season with a drag-show send-off for its final guests. It’s Always Sunny sees Paddy’s sponsor a local Little League team in an attempt to clean up its image.
The Family Guy Halloween special finds Brian and Stewie in Hell itself, paying for 24 seasons’ worth of bad behavior. They end up in charge after annoying the Devil himself.
Streaming and Broadcast
Acorn TV launches Season 3 of Signora Volpe, where the murder of a vineyard owner entangles Sylvia in a web of local feuds and dark family dynamics. ET’s schedule includes the season finale of Below Deck Mediterranean, the season 9 premiere of FBI, and the season 2 premiere of Harlan Coben’s Final Twist.
Food Network airs Sweet Deceit: Trick or Treat, with teams hunting for hyper-realistic sweets hiding in plain sight for a chance to win up to $12,000, hosted by Josh Peck. The Halloween Baking Championship asks bakers to create a dessert resembling an assigned classic ruin and representing the monster who haunts it.
The Football Game
Monday Night Football airs on ABC and ESPN, with the Atlanta Falcons facing the New Orleans Saints. Name That Tune features Billy Billingham and Jason “Foxy” Fox competing against an Air Traffic Controller and a member of the Navy.
The Voice continues blind auditions in front of coaches Queen Latifah, Riley Green, Adam Levine, and Kelly Clarkson. Celebrity Weakest Link pits eight “ballers” — including Tiki Barber, Brandi Chastain, Michael Irvin, Jonathan Papelbon, Jalen Rose, Nick Swisher, Sheryl Swoopes, and Nick Young — against each other for charity.
A Full Running Order
The day’s schedule runs from early morning through late evening, with broadcasts and streams overlapping throughout. Here is the rough breakdown:
| Time | Channel | Show |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | Acorn TV | Signora Volpe Season 3 premiere |
| Midday | Food Network | Sweet Deceit: Trick or Treat premiere |
| Early Afternoon | CBS | FBI Season 9 premiere |
| Late Afternoon | The CW | Law & Order: Toronto: Criminal Intent Season 2 premiere |
| Late Afternoon | The CW | Private Eyes West Coast spin-off premiere |
| Evening | ABC, ESPN | Monday Night Football: Falcons vs. Saints |
| Evening | Food Network | Halloween Baking Championship |
| Evening | The CW | Harlan Coben’s Final Twist Season 2 premiere |
| Evening | CBS | CIA Season 2 premiere |
| Evening | NBC | The Voice Blind Auditions |
| Evening | Fox | Celebrity Weakest Link |
Key Facts Box
- Private Eyes West Coast — starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson
- Sweet Deceit: Trick or Treat — prize up to $12,000
- Below Deck Mediterranean — season 11 finale
- It’s Always Sunny — FXXPenultimate Episode
- CIA — Season 2 premiere with John Boyd as Stuart Scola
What We Make Of It
This is a broad, scattered lineup, and it reads as a mix of obligation and opportunity. The spin-off and the Law & Order return are the clearest bets, but the day also leans heavily on procedurals and competition shows. There is no single theme holding it together — it is a grab bag of genre and platform.
The football game anchors the evening for viewers who want sports, while the baking championship and the Weakest Link offer a lighter counterweight to the procedural heavyweights. It is a busy day, and it rewards a remote or a streaming app over a single channel.
The standout, in our view, is the Private Eyes spin-off. Matt Shade and Angie Everett leaving their P.I. firm for the West Coast is a natural pivot, and landing a murder scene on their first night out is a sharp hook. The Law & Order premiere is solid too, with a stabbing in a downtown park giving the show a clear hook.
The weakest link, if there is one, is the sheer sprawl. Between the football game, the baking championship, and the voice auditions, the evening fragments into a dozen small windows of attention. A viewer who wants all of it will need a plan.
The Bottom Line
Monday is a full slate, and it rewards curiosity. The spin-offs and the procedural premieres offer the strongest reasons to tune in, while the competition shows and the football game round out a day that has something for nearly every taste.
It is a stormy day up North, and it is also a day of baked desserts, football games, and a trip to Hell. Pick your poison, and enjoy the chaos.
Source material: “What To Watch Monday: FBI, CIA, And Law & Order: Toronto Return, Private Eyes Spin-Off, And More,” TVLine.
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