This week, The Voice moves on to the Battle Rounds competition. This used to be the low point of the series, but it’s been massaged, over the years, to make it more of a showcase duet between contestants than a grab-the-spotlight show-off fest. So there’s reason to keep watching. Other reasons include: welcoming the guest mentors aiding the various coaches (Gwen Stefani, for example, brings along Celine Dion, and Adam Levine calls on John Legend). And checking out the outfit Stefani

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PSYCHO By David Bianculli

I’ve been marveling, with increasing enthusiasm, at how the actors, writers, producers and directors of the Bates Motel A&E prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film classic Psycho have made this final season so multilayered, inspired, and entertaining. The closer the TV show gets to the timeline of the movie, the better it’s gotten – and it was good to begin with. So tonight, at a pivotal time when the TV show and movie plots finally intersect on Bates Motel, TCM prefa

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

Last week, Freddie Highmore’s Norman Bates, still grieving the death of mother Norma (Vera Farmiga), went on a quiet “date” with Madeleine (Isabelle McNally), who had invited him to her house, with her boorish husband out of town, for a home-cooked meal. She even wore some of Norma’s old clothes, which Norman had creepily given to her. But as Madeleine and Norman were preparing some cake batter together, Norman’s manifestation of Norma appeared to grab a nearby kitc

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HUMANS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The Season 2 finale of HUMANS is presented tonight, as AMC squeezes the year’s final two episodes into one two-hour telecast. Last week, we learned that the formula to awaken the consciousness of all the synths had been completed. This week, we’ll learn whether it’s implemented – and, if it is, what consequences pulling that mental and emotional switch will have. Gemma Chan stars.

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Once again, here’s another link between different Best Bets offerings tonight. HUMANS, as a TV series, both preceded the HBO series Westworld, and shared its interest in exploring the awakening of consciousness of human-like androids programmed for the amusement and convenience of humans. But HBO’s Westworld, like AMC’s HUMANS, had a much older precedent: The 1973 movie Westworld, which starred Yul Brynner as an out-of-control robot gunslinger. The movie, shown tonight late at

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2017 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

So here we go… Today’s games begin at noon ET, with CBS coverage of the Midwest’s Michigan (seeded No. 7) vs. Louisville (No. 2), who thus far have advanced against lower-seeded teams. Next, at 2:40 p.m. ET, is the South’s No. 2 seed, Kentucky, facing No. 10 Wichita State, one of only a handful of double-digit seeds to make it into the second round. The CBS coverage continues at 5:15 p.m. ET with the Midwest’s No. 1 seed, Kansas, battling No. 9 Michigan State &ndas

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THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE BIGGEST STORY ON EARTH By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 1of The Circus was subtitled Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth. For Season 2, the subtitle is slightly different, for the focus is on governance, not campaigning. But the behind-the-scenes political insights and coverage by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann and co-creator Mark McKinnon are just as valuable – and these Circus animals are now attempting to offer same-week coverage of the President Donald Trump administration, with a news cycle that,

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

There was, indeed, a sudden death on The Walking Dead last week, after a relative though short-lived lull. What was less surprising than who died was the manner of death, and the person doing the killing – but that all sets up tonight’s escalation of tensions, when the Saviors pay a surprise visit to the Hilltop.

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BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

This is episode 5, and things are getting more and more roiled up, like the seaside surf this miniseries keeps returning to as a mood-setter. And nothing in Big Little Lies is more frothy or intense than the troubled marriage between Celeste and Perry, played by Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard.

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HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Last week’s Homeland ended with gunplay, and with one character dead and another very nearly killed. And that only adds to the paranoia of the surviving characters, who seem poised in this episode to reunite and to band together – but against whom?

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