Daily Best Bets

Week’s top-10 for May 29: Summer starts with reality, Roosevelt, “Riverdale”

1) “America’s Got Talent” opener, 8-10 p.m. Tuesday, NBC. The summertime ratings champion (shown here is last year’s Mayyans victory) starts its annual auditions. Unlike CBS – which is delaying its summer reality shows until August – NBC hopes to start fast. Today (8-10 p.m. May 29), it has its third “American Ninja Warrior” women’s championship … on Tuesday is “AGT” … on Sunday, both rerun (7-9 and 9-11 p.m.) … and next Monday, the new “Ninja Warrior” season begins. Read more…

Best-bets for May 26: A marvelous finale; a sorta-great musical

1) “Great Performances: Anything Goes,” 9 p.m., PBS. Mix three immense talents – Sutton Foster, director Kathleen Marshall, songwriter Cole Porter – and you get … well, a fairly entertaining show. What’s missing is a good story; this one just has lots silly twists. Still, Foster and Marshall turn Porter’s clever songs into zestful blurs of song, dance (shown here) and general good cheer. Read more…

Best-bets for May 25: food, fantasy and “Fubar”

1) “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021), 8-11 p.m., ABC. Not long ago, Asians were scarce onscreen. Now? On Wednesday, Disney+ debuted “American Born Chinese,” which is both a teen comedy and an action drama; today adds “Shang-Chi” (shown here0, a Marvel adventure about a trained assassin trying to simply be Shaun. Both were directed by Destin Cretton; both have Chinese mythology and Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh. Read more…

Best-bets for May 24: “Survivor” and “Jeopardy” have champions; “Flash” fades out

1) “Survivor” finale, 8-11 p.m., CBS. On the final day of the official TV season, it’s time to pick the 44th winner, then hold a reunion of this season’s contestants. The finalists range from engineering student Carson Garrett, 20, to engineering manager Heidi Legares-Greenblatt, 43. Others are an elementary-school teacher (Lauren Harpe, 31, shown here), a salon owner (Yamil Arocho, 36) and a drug counselor (Carolyn Wiger, 35). Read more…

Best-bets for May 23: two champions and Blake’s farewell

1) “The Voice” finale, 8-11 p.m., NBC. Blake Shelton(shown here) has been with the show from the start. In 22 seasons, he’s had nine champions and 14 runners-up; three times, he’s had both. As the finals began Monday, he had two contenders (Grace West and NOIVAS), facing Gina Miles, D.Smooth and the sister trio, Sorelle. Here’s a recap (8-9 p.m.), then guest perforners (CeeLo Green, Maroon 5, Toosii and Diplo & Lily Rose), tributes to Shelton … and a winner. Read more…

Best-bets for May 21: an “Idol” winner and lots of finales

1) “NCIS: Los Angeles” series-finale, 9 p.m., CBS. On the final Sunday of the season, lots of shows wrap up for now … and this one ends its long run. “NCIS: LA” has been around for 14 seasons, putting it in the all-time top-10 among dramas. Anna (a former Chicago cop and the estranged daughter of a former KGB agent) and Callen were planning their wedding. (They’re shown here.) Then chaos intervened: A federal agent and some military-grade weapons are missing. Read more…

Best-bets for May 19: fiery finales for dramas

1) “SWAT” season-finale, 8 p.m., CBS. It’s been a hectic time for this show. At first, CBS canceled it; ratings were strong … but not strong enough to match the growing expense of a show nearing its seventh year. Then came quick negotiations; “SWAT” was given a final, 13 episode season. Tonight, it wraps a two-parter: A federal agent (Timothy Hutton) has a personal war on a drug cartel, sending Hondo (shown here) and others into battle. Read more…

Best-bets for May 18: Sheldon and Meredith lead finale flurry

1) “Grey’s Anatomy” season-finale (shown here), 9 and 10 p.m., ABC. One of the longest-running dramas in TV history wraps its 19th season. (Next year, it ties “Gunsmoke,” trailing “NCIS” and a pair of “Law & Order” shows.) The finale revolves around the wedding of Doctors Simone Griffith and Trey Delgado, in her grandmother’s backyard. That forces Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) to meet her ex-boyfriend Nick; it’s Pompeo’s first return since dropping out as a regular. Read more…