Daily Best Bets

Best-bets for Nov. 22: football games/romance

1) “Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story,” 8-10 p.m., Hallmark. Last year, Hallmark scored with a love story set among Kansas City Chiefs fans. Now we meet adamant Buffalo Bills fans. Morgan and Gabe (shown here) don’t seem to realize they should be a couple. Then she learns that a mysterious benefactor helped her uncle (Joe Pantoliano) long ago. The Bills help her search. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 21: Rebels win; Grinch doesn’t

1) “The American Revolution” finale, 8 p.m., PBS, rerunning at 10:11. Both sides had thought a British victory was inevitable. Now life flips: Washington makes false documents, saying he’ll attack New York; then he lets them be stolen. Instead, he marches South, joining the French navy to trap the enemy and (depicted here) triumph. Soon, an epic war — and a brilliant Ken Burns documentary — conclude. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 20: woe in Nashville and Valley Forge

1) “9-1-1: Nashville,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. The Thursday dramas are resting; they’ll be back, with new episodes, on Jan. 8. For tonight, we can catch up on this show’s first three episodes. The opener has a tornado threatening a country-music festival. The second sees the storm batter a water tower; the third has a child in a trailer, hanging off a bridge. LeAnn Rimes (shown here) co-stars as a struggling country-music singer. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 18: a grimly gorgeous hour

1) “Murder in a Small Town,” 8 p.m., Fox. Beautifully directed by Amanda Tapping (the “Stargate” star), this is as gorgeous visually as it is nasty emotionally. Short on sleep, Sid crashed his police car into a woods; Karl (left, the police chief), fresh from an argument with Cassandra, is in Seattle to confront the artist/serial killer (center) he arrested. The rest is grimly compelling. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 16: A masterful epic begins

(Here are the five TV best-bets for Sunday, Nov. 16; feel free to use in any form — all or some, print and/or web)

1) “The American Revolution” opener, 8 p.m. PBS; repeats at 10. Ken Burns’ masterful film opens with 13 colonies having little in common — until they’re linked by a hatred of British taxes. This first (of six) chapters takes us through Lexington, Concord and the siege of Boston. Some Englishmen expected a quick, easy war; it would take eight brutal years. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 15: Glen, Paul and football

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Glen Powell hosts, with his career in overdrive. His “Running Man” action film opened Friday in theaters — where he scored with “Twisters” and (shown here) “Anyone But You.” He also has the Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers” and the Netflix drama “Hit Man.” Olivia Dean is tonight’s music guest. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 14: broad comedy, new and (very) old

1) “Stumble,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. In last week’s opener, an intense cheer-team coach (Jenn Lyon) was fired from Sammy Davis Senior Junior College, where her husband is the football coach. She went to a nearby school and assembled a makeshift team, which collapsed (literally). Now (shown here), she shares a media event with her old school. Sight gags — some of them quite funny — abound. Read more…

Best-bets for Nov. 13: “Elsbeth” leads a night of drama

1) Elsbeth,” 10 p.m.. CBS. Tony Hale, a familiar chump on “Arrested Deveolpment and (with two Emmys) “Veep,” plays a tech billionaire who frets about an uprising of the masses. He builds a home bunker … then finds nasty uses. Elsbeth (shown here with her police colleagues) probes the case, in a fairly good episode that also sees her deal with the widow of her nemesis, Judge Crawford. Read more…