Weekly Previews

Week’s top-10 for June 26: ABC is busy, CW is purging

1) “The Bachelorette” opener, 9-11 p.m. today, ABC. Charity Lawson (shown here), 27, is a therapist with a master’s degree, so the show gives her lots of professionals as potential mates. The 25 guys (ages 24 to 33) include a doctor, a travel nurse, a medical specialist and two scientists. There’s an airplane pilot and a yacht captain, plus a tennis pro, a wrestling pro and (really) a jumper: Chris Spell, who’s 5-foot-9, set a world record with a vertical leap of 5-foot-7. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for June 19: Celebrate firefighters and Black music

1) “LA Fire & Rescue” debut, 8 p.m. Wednesday, NBC. The sprawling Los Angeles County ranges from a desert to an ocean; one firehouse is in the tough Compton area, at another, there’s talk of Kardashians or a Schwarzenegger. Producer Dick Wolf (“Chicago Fire”) offers a non-fiction view. (The photo here is of an L.A. firefighters, but not the ones in this show.) We get personal stories – this week, a cancer survivor – plus action. Most of it is medical, but the opener closes with a giant blaze that continues next week. Read more…

Week’s top-10 for June 12: no-rerun comedy, mysteries, zombies

1) “The Wonder Years” season-openers, 9 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, ABC. In a rerun-and-reality summer, here’s a surprise – a new season of a pleasant-enough comedy-drama (shown here in a previous episode), set in the late 1960s. Both episodes – one in New York, the other back in Alabama — have key guest roles. In the first, Travis Burgess is a surprising neighbor. In both, Phoebe Robinson (“Everything’s Trash” and “2 Dope Queens”) is Dean’s fun (and wild) aunt. Read more…

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…