Best-bets for March 20: “Bachelor,” “Bob,” “Blood”

1) “The Bachelor,” 8-10 p.m., ABC. It’s “fantasy suite” time, when Zach Shallcross invites the final three women to each spend a night with him. This season started with lots of women from serious fields – four nurses, a nursing student, two other health-care people and a therapist. Now most are gone, but Kaity Biggar, 27, a Canadian travel nurse, remains. So do Ariel Frenkel (shown here, center, with Biggar and Shallcross), 28, and Gabi Elnicki, 25, who are marketing and account executives. Read more…

1) “The Bachelor,” 8-10 p.m., ABC. It’s “fantasy suite” time, when Zach Shallcross invites the final three women to each spend a night with him. This season started with lots of women from serious fields – four nurses, a nursing student, two other health-care people and a therapist. Now most are gone, but Kaity Biggar, 27, a Canadian travel nurse, remains. So do Ariel Frenkel (shown here, center, with Biggar and Shallcross), 28, and Gabi Elnicki, 25, who are marketing and account executives.

2) “Bob (Hearts) Abishola,” 8:30 p.m., CBS. Bob has finally reached the point he was building toward – making socks in Detroit instead of overseas. At first, however, things go badly. Also, Abishola tries to put things behind her, at the funeral of a much-hated aunt.

3) “All American: Homecoming,” 9 p.m., CW. Last week, deputies stopped a team bus, saw the Black tennis players and searched all the luggage. That reflects a real case, but the rest – a forfeit because the team wouldn’t get to the tournament on time – was wildly unrealistic. So are parts of tonight’s story, which also eyes the baseball championship. It’s all well-meaning, but badly written and – especially with one guest star – poorly acted.

4) “The Watchful Eye,” 10 p.m., Freeform. Setting up next week’s season-finale, Elena is ready to grab some money and run; then her plan wobbles. There’s a surprise visitor … and two people find poorly hidden secrets … and some major developments, in the final minutes of fairly good hour.

5) “True Blood,” 10 and 11 p.m., TNT. For viewers, this is a fine mini-trend: After airing in pay-extra places, some shows move to basic-cable. “Under the Banner of Heaven,” a Hulu crime mini-series, is now at 10 p.m. Tuesdays on FX; this show, which had seven great years on HBO, moves (in cleaned-up version) to TNT. Next week, it will be benched by soccer coverage, but tonight has the final episodes of the first season, with Sookie finding the serial killer.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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