Best-bets for June 9: Country stars, drama crises

1) “CMT Awards,” 8 p.m. , CMT, MTV, Paramount, more, rerunning at 10:30 on CMT. There will be lots of stars in lots of places. Kelsea Ballerini (shown here) and Kane Brown perform and host, introducing acts scattered around Nashville. That includes Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Maren Morris, Luke Combs, Mickey Guyton, Chris Young, Lauren Alaina, Dierks Bientley, Gabby Barrett and more, including Brothers Osborne, Lady Antebellum and rock great Gladys Knight. Read more…

1) “CMT Awards,” 8 p.m. , CMT, MTV, Paramount, more, rerunning at 10:30 on CMT. There will be lots of stars in lots of places. Kelsea Ballerini (shown here) and Kane Brown perform and host, introducing acts scattered around Nashville. That includes Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Maren Morris, Luke Combs, Mickey Guyton, Chris Young, Lauren Alaina, Dierks Bientley, Gabby Barrett and more, including Brothers Osborne, Lady Antebellum and rock great Gladys Knight.

2) “A Million Little Things” season-finale, 9-11 p.m. ABC. Sophie, a teen-ager, has already been shaken twice by suicide – first her dad, now a young student of the same music teacher who abused her; she seeks justice. Also, Rome and Regina face big changes, Eddie goes to extremes to fight for his family and Maggie finally forces Gary to take a hard look at himself and his relationships.

3) “MasterChef” and “Crime Scene Kitchen,” 8 and 9 p.m., Fox. Curtis Stone, the Australian chef, gets the full night. He’s the “MasterChef” guest, helping Gordon Ramsay and others judge food from home chefs. (Last week’s amiable opener, with Emeril Lagasse, ranged from a construction worker to a dueling mom and daughter.) Then comes his regular duty on “Crime Scene Kitchen”: Contestants survey crumbs and clues, guess what was being baked and then try to duplicate it.

4) “The Bold Type,” 10 p.m., Freeform. This show – a good one, usually – flubbed with Sutton’s romance. The story of young women, on their own and on the rise, was short-circuited by a mariage to a guy already on the top. Last week, he said he’s divorcing her; now we see the complicated aftershocks. There are other stories – a good one (Kat and her ex-lover work to help ex-cons rebound) — and an awful one: The usually clever Jane keeps acts foolishly at work.

5) “Queen of the South” series finale, 10 p.m., USA. It’s been a busy, five-year rise, taking Teresa from a fleeing victim to the head of a drug cartel. Now the finale has Pote, Kelly Anne and James trying to disappear. First, they must fend off an attack from Devon and Boaz.

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