NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES FINALE: Part 1 of 2. Adjusting to the pandemic, and being one of the few broadcast TV series that has managed to keep producing episodes during this crisis, has been a hallmark of the 2020 cycles of NBC’s musical competition show. Tonight’s installment features the five surviving contestants of this latest cycle of The Voice – and in this new dangerously infectious environment, “surviving” has an entirely different and more somber subtext – who perform live tonight in hopes of advancing to tomorrow’s ultimate episode of the season. Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, John Legend and Kelly Clarkson are the judges this cycle, and at this point each of them still has at least one team member in the race.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Laurel and Hardy month continues on TCM tonight, and prime time this evening presents another solid-gold double feature. Starting things off at 8 p.m. ET is 1937’s Way Out West, in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (pictured) are ordered to deliver the deed of a gold mine to the daughter of a recently deceased prospector. Then, at 9:30 p.m. ET, comes 1938’s Block-Heads, in which Stan returns to the home front, and to best friend Ollie, after 20 years at war – having been isolated, and uninformed that WWI had ended decades before. Are these early sound comedies still funny, if you give them a chance and slow down your internal clock a bit? Yes, indeed. Or, in the case of Way Out West, yes – in deed.