Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for June 5: Debuts, openers … and Tonys

1) Tony Awards, 8 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS; preview 6:30 on Pluto. Each year, this is packed with great music numbers – usually from every nominated musical, new or revival. It briefly seemed doomed by the writers strike, but a compromise gives us a no-script show. Expect music from host Ariana DeBose (shown hosting last year’s Tonycast), plus “Sweeney Todd,” “Camelot,” “Into the Woods,” “Parade,” “Some Like It Hot,” “New York, New York,” Kimberly Akimbo,” “& Juliet” and “Shucked.” Read more…

Week’s top-10 for May 22: Farewell to Blake, Midge, more

1) “The Voice” finale, 9-10 p.m. today and 8-11 p.m.. Tuesday, NBC. In his last season, Blake Shelton has two finalists (shown here) – Grace West, 19, and NOIVAS, 30. They perform tonight, along with Gina Miles, 18; D.Smooth, 25; and the sister trio, Sorelle, plus guest performers Lewis Capaldi and Alex Newell. Tuesday has a recap (8-9 p.m.), then more guests (CeeLo Green, Maroon 5, Toosii and Diplo & Lily Rose), tributes to Shelton … and a winner. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for May 15: overflowing with finales

1) “Grey’s Anatomy” season-finale, 9 and 10 p.m. Thursday, ABC. One of the longest-running dramas in TV history wraps its 19th season. (Next year, it ties “Gunsmoke,” trailing only a pair of “Law & Order” shows.) The finale revolves around the wedding of Doctor Simone Griffith (shown here with her father) and Dr. 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…

Week’s top-10 for May 8: Amid finales, a peek at summer games

1) “Jeopardy Masters” debut, 8 and 8:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, ABC. After lots of season-finales, ABC gets an early start on summer fun-and-games. This show will go on for two more weeks (Mondays through Wednesdays), with Ken Jennings (shown here) hosting current “Jeopardy” leaders — from James Holzhauer (almost $3 million) to Sam Buttrey (around $150,000). Others are Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach and Andrew He. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for May 1: lots of finales … and a king

1) “A Million Little Things” (shown here) series-finale, 10 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. In the spirit of “This Is Us,” this has found strong drama in regular lives. Well, almost regular This show started with a suicide, then piled on some new crises. One character became paraplegic, two had cancer. There was deceit, despair, Alzheimer’s … plus redeemng bursts of humor and joy. Now the show ends as it had planned to — after five seasons, with most of the friends together. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for April 24: Carol, Corden and a lusty “Tom Jones”

1) James Corden farewell, 10 p.m. Thursday and 12:37 a.m., CBS. For nine years, Corden (shown here) has brought a fresh and zestful approach to latenight TV – plus occasional primetime incursions. Now he has his last new late show (with Will Ferrell and Harry Styles as guests), preceded at 10 by “The Last Last Late Late Show With James Corden.” During the evening, we’ll see a final “Carpool Karaoke” and (really) Tom Cruise in a “Lion King” musical number. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for April 17: Two shows end; Earth Day blooms

1) “Sanditon” series-finale, 9 p.m. Sunday, PBS. This began as a fragment of a story by Jane Austen. Two centuries after her death, filming began – then was delayed for two years via Covid and more. Still, it all works out. The finale has greats visuals, likable characters and a knack for resolving soap-type problems intelligently. There are plenty of those woes as this begins. Charlotte (shown here with her secret love Colbourne), Georgiana and others head toward doomed romances. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for April 10: Women, modern and not, face crises

1) “Single Drunk Female” season-opener, 10 and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Freeform. Sam (Sophia Black-D’Elia, shown here) starts the second season on her 29th birthday, 549 days into sobriety. She likes her job, tolerates her parents (Ally Sheedy and Ian Gomez) and clings to her AA sponsor. But now there are big changes at work and for her friends. The result is a sharp blend of clever dialog and quiet moments that give this comedy some sharp bits of drama. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for April 3: CBS has surf sounds, FBI, more

1) “A Grammy Salute to the Beach Boys,” 8-10 p.m. Sunday, CBS. Nine days after PBS’ Joni Mitchell tribute, here’s another nod to great songwriting. It again has Brandi Carlile (doing “In My Room” and, with John Legend, “God Only Knows”) and many more The music of the Beach Boys (shown here) is sung by people from country (Lady A, LeAnn Rimes, Little Big Town) and pop (Beck, Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Fall Out Boy, Norah Joneas, Mumford & Sons, etc.) Read more…

Week’s top-10 for March 27: Joni, country and a drama surge

1) “CMT Music Awards,” 8-11 p.m. Sunday, CBS. Once confined to cable, this is now a big-network event, stuffed with stars. Performers include the hosts – Kelsea Ballerini (shown here) and Kane Brown – plus Lainey Wilson (who leads with four nominations), Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Carly Pierce, Cody Johnson, Katelyn Brown (Kane’s wife) and many more. The CMT network, which created the awards, will have a red-carpet at 7. Read more…