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Best-bets for March 19: the joys of chocolate and basketball

1) “Great Chocolate Showdown” (shown here) finale, 8 p.m., CW. Three pleasant-enough things – chocolate, Canada and reality-TV – combine. This Canadian show started with 10 people – half of them Americans – crafting chocolate goodies. Now it’s down to Casey Hallen from New York City, Renu Matthew from Alberta and T. Lawrence-Simon from Massachusetts. Each gets a previous contestant as an assistant, then fills a shop window with various temptations. Read more…

1) “Great Chocolate Showdown” (shown here) finale, 8 p.m., CW. Three pleasant-enough things – chocolate, Canada and reality-TV – combine. This Canadian show started with 10 people – half of them Americans – crafting chocolate goodies. Now it’s down to Casey Hallen from New York City, Renu Matthew from Alberta and T. Lawrence-Simon from Massachusetts. Each gets a previous contestant as an assistant, then fills a shop window with various temptations.

2) Basketball. The college tournament has been trimmed to 32 and CBS has half of today’s games. Those are at noon, 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m.; others are on TNT (6 and 8:30 p.m.) and TBS (7 and 9:30 p.m.). There are eight more games Sunday, leaving 16 surviving teams for next week.

3) “9-1-1,” 8 p.m., Fox. After a three-month break, the show returns to new episodes on Monday – where it will be alongside its “Lone Star” spin-off. First, here’s a rerun in which Michael makes a life-changing decision. Also, there’s a hospital explosion while Dr. David Hale is performing surgery.

4) “The Cleaning Lady,” 9 p.m., Fox. This has already finished its season, but now it has a reruns. Thony’s gangster friend knows she’s in contacted with the FBI; he takes advantage of that by feeding her misinformation. Also, Thony desperately scrambles for a way to get her son a transplant; she’ not sure she can trust the woman who might have a solution.

5) “The Many Saints of Newark” (2021), 8 p.m., HBO. In a “Sopranos” prequel, Michael Gandolfini plays a young version of Tony Soprano – the role his dad, the late James Gandolfini, mastered. You can make it a double feature by catching “Gandhi,” from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Turner Classic Movies; it’s richly cinematic, while telling a powerful, true-life story.

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