“Mamma Bear” – In one of the most emotional reward challenges of the season, castaways fight for their chance to win letters from home. Alliances begin to crumble and individual plans emerge after players compete in a race of balance, speed and puzzle skills to earn immunity and a spot in the final five, on SURVIVOR, Wednesday, May 15 (8:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Jeff Probst serves as host and executive producer. Pictured (L-R): Ben Katzman, Kenzie Veurink, and Maria Gonzalez. Photo: CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Highest quality screengrab available.

Best-bets for May 22: “Survivor” leads surge of finales

1) “Survivor” finale and reunion, 8-11 p.m., CBS. Five people remain and one will be a million-dollar winner. Maria Shrive Gonzalez (shown here, right, in last week’s episode), 48, a parent coach, faces younger folks — Charlie Davis, 26, a law student; Kenzie Petty (center), 29, a salon owner; Liz Wilcox, 35, a marketing strategist; and Ben Katzman (left), 31, a “shred” guitarist in the band DeGreaser. Read more…

1) “Survivor” finale and reunion, 8-11 p.m., CBS. Five people remain and one will be a million-dollar winner. Maria Shrive Gonzalez (shown here, right, in last week’s episode), 48, a parent coach, faces younger folks — Charlie Davis, 26, a law student; Kenzie Petty (center), 29, a salon owner; Liz Wilcox, 35, a marketing strategist; and Ben Katzman (left), 31, a “shred” guitarist in the band DeGreaser.

2) More reality finals, 8 p.m. On ABC, this is the final night of “Jeopardy Masters,” pitting six masterful players. And on Fox, “The Masked Singer” has two more people to unmask – Goldfish and Gumball.

3) Scripted season-finales. All three “Chicago” shows (8-11 p.m., NBC) will be back in the fall. So will “Abbott Elementary” (9 p.m., ABC), but in a wobbly situation: It will be the only comedy in the network’s fall line-up, surrounded on Wednesdays by unscripted shows. “The Conners” (9:30, ABC) also concludes tonight; it will wait until mid-season tostart its seventh and final season.

4) “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars” opener, 9 p.m.,, Fox. People have been busy copying Mark Burnett’s shows lately. “Deal or No Deal Island” copies “Survivor”; this opening hour has a hint of “Apprentice,” then a lot of “Shark Tank”: Food entrepreneurs pitch their ideas – some brilliant, some wacky – to Ramsay and Lisa Vanderpump. Two teams are formed, so the “Appremtice” mode can return.

5) “Nova,” 9 p.m., PBS. For more than 46 years, the two Voyager crafts have surveyed our solar system and beyond, going 15 billion miles from Earth. What is astonishing, experts say, is how much we didn’t know previously. The Voyagers and others have found a dizzying array of planets, solar systems, dark holes and more. That’s recounted here with youthful scientific zeal.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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