Dear newsletter friends,

Good Monday morning! How is that we are in the final third of October already, especially when it feels like every week actually lasts for several hundred years?

Or maybe it's just that we need several hundred years to process the news, never mind all of the new television. And—segue alert!—there is a lot of new reality television this week. So I'm going to stop wasting time and just get to your look at what's premiering this week.

Tonight, HGTV debuts a competition between four of the network's stars, who will each have $175,000 to renovate identical homes.