Best-bets for Dec. 3: lots of music, Christmas and beyond

1) “CMA Country Christmas,” 8-9 p.m., ABC. Here’s a seasonal blend. There are contemporary Christian songs from Amy Grant (shown here in a previous performance, CeCe Winans and King + Country. And holiday-pop songs from Trisha Yearwood (who co-hosts with Grant), Cody Johnson, Ashley McBryde, Jon Pardi and Brittney Spencer. Read more…

1) “CMA Country Christmas,” 8-9 p.m., ABC. Here’s a seasonal blend. There are contemporary Christian songs from Amy Grant (shown here in a previous performance, CeCe Winans and King + Country. And holiday-pop songs from Trisha Yearwood (who co-hosts with Grant), Cody Johnson, Ashley McBryde, Jon Pardi and Brittney Spencer.

2) “The Voice,” 9 p.m., NBC. On Monday, the show finally went live; eight semi-finalists (two per judge) performed and viewers voted. Now we learn the top four vote-getters who advance to next week’s finals. The others perform one more time, with viewers giving one a quick save,

3) “The Irrational,” 10 p.m., NBC. The show enters the lively world of K-Pop songs, when a superfan is killed. The hour is oddly short of music (except for a brief ballad at the end), but has a fairly good mystery, with an impasse: Alec suspects someone who has been a client of his girlfriend Rose.

4) “Accused” season-finale, 8 and 9 p.m., Fox. The first hour, like too many “Accused” tales, is somber; Ken Jeong plays a guy with an idealized view of his wife. But the second brings a sharp change. It’s a futuristic tale, with artificial intelligence everywhere. A too-busy woman (Sonequa Martin-Green) gets her husband (Mike Colter) an “intimacy companion.”

5) ALSO: At 8 p.m., NBC’s “St. Denis” has an OK episode, with much ado about Ron’s favorite candy bar. At 9, ABC has the cartoon “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town.” And at 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies has “Sounder” (1972), a richly crafted portrait of a Black sharecropping family in the ‘30s.

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