The remaining singers perform live for America’s vote on The Voice. The cozy British whodunit The Madame Blanc Mysteries returns for a fifth season. Dr. Ron (David Alan Grier) returns to St. Denis Medical after his heart surgery, while The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins challenges the football star’s entourage to stand on their own two feet.
The Voice
Following last week’s massive cut, the remaining 12 singers on the four teams move on to the live shows, performing for America’s vote. With the singing competition reduced to a 60-minute time slot to accommodate the network’s returning comedies in the preceding hour, only two teams will compete this week, following the announcement of a 13th singer, saved by viewers’ votes. (The remaining two teams perform next Monday, with results announced the same night.) The playlist gets nostalgic with songs reaching back to Y2K and the turn of the century. (Can it really be 26 years ago?)
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
Season Premiere
There’s a holiday vibe in the fifth season of the British cozy mystery series starring co-creator Sally Lindsay as Jean White, a widowed antiques dealer who solves crimes in the picturesque French village of Sainte Victoire. Jean and taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge) are planning a Christmas wedding, but in the tradition of Jessica Fletcher, wherever she goes, so goes murder. In the opener, that explains how the town’s mayor is found dead in Sainte Victoire’s fountain. While Jean looks for answers alongside Police Chief Caron (Alex Gaumond), Dom is surprised by the return of his very pregnant daughter, Claudie (Ella Dale).
St. Denis Medical
Emergency doc Ron (David Alan Grier) returns to work in the hospital comedy after his heart surgery, welcomed back with open arms — and an unwelcome device to monitor his heart rate, with milquetoast Keith (the reliably funny David Theune) tracking his vitals. Which inevitably spike when a particularly gnarly case involving a snapping turtle presents itself. Elsewhere, Val (Kaliko Kauahi) cashes in her IOU with a frustrated head nurse Alex (Allison Tolman), while Bruce (Josh Lawson) frets upon realizing he and fellow surgeon/love interest Brooke (Ariana Madix) haven’t established inside jokes in their relationship. As usual, the joke’s on him.
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
The great André De Shields (Tony winner for Hadestown) makes a cameo as Arthur’s (Daniel Radcliffe) mentor, reminding the hapless documentarian of his credo: “Great art requires suffering.” So how to explain Arthur living in the lap of luxury while his subject, disgraced football star Reggie Dinkins (Tracy Morgan), foots all the bills? Arthur’s not the only one doing some soul-searching, after Brina (Precious Way) lights into Reggie’s sidekick Rusty (Bobby Moynihan) for mooching off of his friend. Not that Reggie minds in the least.
Things get radioactive when the team tracks down a thief who stole toxic material from a medical disposal facility. Eva (Juliana Aidén Martinez) finds trouble of her own aboard the Staten Island Ferry while heading out to see her mom. Followed by CIA (9/8c), where FBI‘s Jeremy Sisto (as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine) stops by to help the spies pursue assassin Felix Vincente (Sasha Roiz) after an explosion kills an international arms dealer.
- Monday Night Football (8 pm/ET, ABC and ESPN): The Buffalo Bills play the Minnesota Vikings.
- Name That Tune (8/7c, Fox): Former GMA3 co-anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes compete to identify songs identified with weddings. Followed by Celebrity Weakest Link (9/8c), where Jane Lynch badgers good sports and world-champion athletes, including Nancy Kerrigan, Johnny Weir, Ryan Lochte, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Lolo Jones, Shawn Johnson, Breezy Johnson, and Elana Meyers Taylor.
- Foul Play with Anthony Davis (9/8c, TBS): Prank victims include the NFL’s Jayden Daniels and Braden Fiske, caught unaware when a fight breaks out while making a senior citizen PSA, and Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell, whose brother-in-law, NBA guard Zach LaVine, sets him up during a motion-capture session for a video game skin.
- Line of Fire (10/9c, NBC): Mike (Peter Krause) uses the Zenith Ball as an opportunity to prove his theory about the former president’s assassination attempt, while daughter Claire (Kat Cunning) works with the task force’s Nia Wallace (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy) to stop a terrorist group.
- Doozie’s Doghouse (streaming on Netflix): Gabby’s sister Doozie gets her own show in a spinoff of the children’s series Gabby’s Dollhouse.
- Power (streaming on Netflix): The streaming giant has licensed all six seasons of the crime drama (2014-2020) that spawned an empire of spinoffs.
- Charmed by a Southern Monster (streaming on Peacock Mobile App): The first scripted microdrama from Bravo stars Nicole Mattox as Maeve, a corporate fixer assigned to seduce suspected murderer Hunter (Craig Conover) into selling his family’s estate. When she begins to question his guilt, who’s seducing who?
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