“Legacy” – The team works with the DEA and their iron-jawed leader, Mack Boyle (guest star Timothy Hutton), to stop a ruthless cartel boss waging war on the streets of Los Angeles as he exacts revenge on those who killed his son, on part two of the sixth season finale of S.W.A.T., Friday, May 19 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. Pictured: Shemar Moore as Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson. Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Best-bets for May 16: the end of an eight-year run

1) “SWAT” series-finale, 9-11 p.m., CBS. An eight-year, 163-episode run is ending. First an auto-carrier is hijacked, sparking a frantic chase and a search for a mysterious, $60-million car. Also, Hondo (shown here in a previous episode) confronts a violent thief he thought was dead. Then he finds that Russian mercenaries have planted bombs throughout Los Angeles. Read more…

1) “SWAT” series-finale, 9-11 p.m., CBS. An eight-year, 163-episode run is ending. First an auto-carrier is hijacked, sparking a frantic chase and a search for a mysterious, $60-million car. Also, Hondo (shown here in a previous episode) confronts a violent thief he thought was dead. Then he finds that Russian mercenaries have planted bombs throughout Los Angeles.

2) “Yellow Face,” 9 p.m., PBS. As the Tony Awards near (June 8), we can see nominees for best play revival, actor (Daniel Dae Kim) and supporting actor (Francis Jue, as his dad). Still, this comedy is broad and stagy; David Henry Hwang offers a fictional version of what happened to “Face Value,” the flop he wrote after his hit, “M. Butterfly.”

3) “Greatest @Home Videos,” 8 p.m., CBS. For the next couple Fridays, CBS will have this occasional show, with Cedric the Entertainer offering an amiable collection of videos. Tonight, he adds a new segment, asking viewers to guess if videos are real or a fake.

4) “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” finale, 8 p.m., NBC. This overwrought sorta-soap-opera has been a disappointment, both in ratings and in quality. NBC won’t be bringing it back, but there’s still an outside shot at a deal elsewhere. Meanwhile, we see aftershocks of the gala fracas.

5) ALSO: A sports surge has basketball on ESPN (men) and Ion (women), plus hockey on TNT and the United Football League on Fox. And Turner Classic Movies has a tough-guy “film noir” marathon (6 p.m. to 7 a.m.) encasing the clever noir satire “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (1982), written by director Carl Reiner, star Steve Martin and George Gipe.

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