TiVo’s Best Bet Recordings: October 24, 2011

Hopefully, you’ve cleaned out your TiVo® DVR in preparation for this week’s TV shows. Start your Monday off with Host Nick Lachey on The Sing Off. Solve a mystery on Tuesday with a new episode of NCIS. Sure hope you’re hungry for Wednesday’s Top Chef: Just Desserts. On Thursday one day you’re in and the next day you’re out with Project Runway. Get a jump start to your Halloween weekend on Friday with a new episode of Supernatural. There are plenty of other great shows to check out this week. See our suggestions below…

Mike & Molly: When Molly (Melissa McCarthy) gets into a fight with her mother and sister (Swoosie Kurtz, Katy Mixon), Mike (Billy Gardell) tries to help, but his efforts just make things worse in the new episode “Victoria Runs Away.” Reno Wilson and Nyambi Nyambi also star.

Last Man Standing: Kristin (Alexandra Krosney) doesn’t want little Boyd to go out on Halloween night, but Mike (Tim Allen) misses the Halloweens the family used to have and decides to sneak the youngster out for trick-or-treating while his mom is at work. They stop at Ed’s (Hector Elizondo) house and are greeted by his girlfriend, Elvira. Yes, that Elvira. Cassandra Peterson guest stars in the new episode “Last Halloween Standing.”

NOVA: He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years and examined by scientists for the past 20. Yet today, Otzi the Iceman — the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps in the early 1990s — continues to keep many secrets. In the new episode “Iceman Murder Mystery,” through an autopsy unlike any other, scientists attempt to unravel more mysteries, revealing not only the details of Otzi’s death but an entire way of Copper Age life.

Whitney: Whitney (Whitney Cummings) wants to catch Alex (Chris D’Elia) in the act. No, not that act. We’re talking about speaking in a condescending tone — does he, or doesn’t he? Whitney asks Mark (Dan O’Brien) to help her rig a hidden camera in the apartment, then Lily, Roxanne and Neal (Zoe Lister-Jones, Rhea Seehorn, Maulik Pancholy) gather to watch the results. Later, a visit from Alex’s brother (Ken Marino) causes friction in the new episode “The Wire.”

The Dead Files: In “Hotel Hell — Ybor City, Fl.,” Amy and Steve investigate a historic hotel where the owners and guests have reported frightening visions. While Steve questions employees and local historians about the hotel’s past, Amy is rattled by her encounters with a succession of angry spirits desperate to escape.

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