STUMBLE -- "Lights Out" Episode 109 -- Pictured: Performance -- (Photo by: NBC)

Best-bets for Jan. 30: magic and blackout dazzle

1) “Stumble,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. After two straight hilarious episodes, here’s one that’s merely quite funny. Amid a town blackout, the cheer team can’t practice. Its coach fidgets, schemes and ignores her husband’s free-time suggestions. We miss seeing most of the cheer kids, but there’s a dazzling moment (shown here) near the end. Read more…

1) “Stumble,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. After two straight hilarious episodes, here’s one that’s merely quite funny. Amid a town blackout, the cheer team can’t practice. Its coach fidgets, schemes and ignores her husband’s free-time suggestions. We miss seeing most of the cheer kids, but there’s a dazzling moment (shown here) near the end.

2) Grammy preview, 8 p.m., CBS. Two days before the Grammy ceremony, Zane Lowe, a DJ from New Zealand, hosts this special. It will include interviews with Pharrell Williams, Reba McEntire and best-new-artist nominees Leon Thomas and Sombr, plus the re-united hip-hop duo Clipse.

3) “Happy’s Place,” 8 p.m., NBC. This is a double-Reba night; she’s on the Grammy preview and her own show. It starts well, showing how much fun there is when Bobbie and Emmett (McEntire and her real-life fiance, Rex Linn) are together. Then it contrives an arbitrary way to keep them apart.

4) “Masters of Illusion,” 9 p.m., CW. This perpetual show has the 20th and final new episode of its 11th season. The magic will continue, via reruns … and via “Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” which has a rerun at 8 p.m. today,.

5) “Boston Blue,” 10 p.m., CBS. Here’s a rerun of the opener. It’s a good one that sees Danny Reagan (from “Blue Bloods”) helping his son, a rookie Boston cop. He soon meets an extended family — cops, prosecutor, preacher — sort of like his own.

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