NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Cycle 19 for The Voice. And while repetition led to fatigue regarding my enthusiasm for this series a few years ago, I’m interested this time – because this NBC musical competition show has to work with, and around, the pandemic from the start. The judges, this time around, are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani (the show’s accidentally generated loving couple), along with John Legend and first American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. But even in this photo, shouldn’t they be more socially distanced?
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Michael B. Jordan stars in this 2019 movie, playing a Harvard-educated lawyer who pursues dangerous and politically volatile pro bono cases by traveling to Alabama in the 1980s to defend the poor – in particular, a Death Row inmate played by Jamie Foxx.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
When people discuss 1939 as perhaps the greatest year for movies in the history of Hollywood, they roll off such titles as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Of Mice and Men. Which, in my mind, is more than enough ammo to win that particular debate. But most people neglect to add to that list 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, an excellent, entertaining version of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story. Basil Rathbone stars as Sherlock Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.