1) “St. Denis Medical” season-finale, 8 p.m., NBC. Dr. Ron (David Alan Grier) has been a curmudgeon, resisting warmth. Now he faces triple-bypass surgery and insists he just wants to be ignored … leaving others (shown here) to fret. Put that alongside another story — the aftershocks from Matt and Serena’s passionate kiss — and you have a terrific episode, rippling with humor and sentiment. Read more…
Is it too early to worry about season-finales?
Maybe, but CBS is ready. It will wrap up one season this month (“Matlock,” shown here, April 23) and some others in the first half of May,
Most of these will be back in the fall, with a few exceptions: “The Neighborhood” had already said this is its last season; CBS won’t be bringing back “DMV,” “Watson” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and has given no word on “America’s Culinary Cup” or “Hollywood Squares.”
But for 17 others, this is just a summer break; the finale dates are:
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PBS will be back on Broadway next month.
It will stuff four Fridays in May with “Great Performances” shows. That includes two full musicals — “Suffs” (shown here) and “Top Hat” — plus a documentary and a Nicole Scherzinger concert.
This has become a tradition, for the month leading into the Tony awards. Each year, “Great Performances” puts new specials alongside ones from London. In this case, “Top Hat” and the Scherzinger concert were filmed in England, the others in the U.S. The line-up, all at 9 p.m., is: Read more…
1) Musicals. Amid a day of biblical films, Turner Classic Movies pauses for “Easter Parade” (1948), at 8 p.m. ET; the film has little to do with Easter, but does have Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and great Irving Berlin songs, Also, the Oscar-winning “Sound of Music” (shown here) is 6:45 p.m. on Freeform and 8:10 and 11:16 p.m. on BYUtv. Read more…
