MONDAY
MAY 18
2015

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NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. This is the night when the remaining four contestants – one for each judging chair – sing for the right to appear again tomorrow night and the chance to walk away a winner. Whatever happens to one of these Final 4, one of them, Sawyer Fredericks, already has attracted the attention of Belle from Beauty and the Beast – well, Paige O’Hara, anyway, who starred as Belle in the classic animated Disney film. She’s asked TVWW to pass on a personal message for the 16-year-old Sawyer, whom she feels “has a magical quality that none of the others could even come close to.” I’ve known Paige since she was younger than Sawyer, and she’s so wrapped up with rooting for the charismatic youngster (“I do know greatness when I see it”), she’s hoping Sawyer will get, as the finals approach, this personal message from her: “Belle from Beauty and the Beast is totally your fan… and hopes to have a chance someday to sing with you.” I’ve done my part. The rest is up to Sawyer. Let’s hope he Googles himself, or has at least one friend or relative who reads TV Worth Watching…

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

So many great movies were made in 1939 – and here’s one of them, for sure. Charles Laughton stars as a deformed bell-ringer at the grand Paris cathedral, with Maureen O’Hara as the beautiful gypsy woman who catches his bulging eye.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: It’s over. Unless, like some of the characters on this somewhat sadistic, logic-defying series, apparent death is only a temporary impediment to a return appearance. But let’s hope The Following has, as announced by Fox, breathed its last – because clearly, this is a warning, not a recommendation, for tonight’s expanded two-hour finale. Kevin Bacon stars.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

In 2009, photojournalist Gillian Laub took pictures in Georgia of an event that sounds more common to an era more than 50 years earlier: segregated high-school proms. Her photographs prompted an end to that shockingly existent policy in Montgomery County – but when she returned the following year to document the area’s first integrated prom, she encountered angry and physical resistance from local police. She also stumbled upon an even bigger story in a nearby Georgia county: a shooting of a young black man by an older white man, and the racial tensions that erupted afterward. Justin Patterson was 22 when he was shot and killed by Norman Neesmith. But the story’s complicated, and the older white man’s motives may have little, or nothing, to do with race…

 
  
 
 

CBS, 11:35 p.m. ET

Tonight, with three shows to go, Letterman’s special guest tonight is Tom Hanks, who, according to CBS, is making visit No. 60 to one of Letterman’s talk shows. Another guest tonight is Eddie Vedder, who plans to perform, backed by Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.