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Season Finale! The second season finale of this addictive fan favorite finds Matthew (Matthew Goode) and Diana (Teresa Palmer) facing an uncertain future as their time hiding in Elizabethan London comes to an end.
■ THE HOLZER FILES: “DEAD CALM”
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The team embarks on an investigation unlike any other aboard the completely empty and notoriously haunted Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif. They discover that an unsettling presence Hans Holzer confronted in 1976 has risen to the surface, and it just may pull them under.
■ SUPERSOUL
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New Series! This spinoff of OWN’S “Supersoul Sunday” features conversations between Oprah Winfrey and top thinkers, authors, visionaries and spiritual leaders exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, spirituality, conscious living and what it means to be alive in today’s world.
■ NASCAR XFINITY SERIES: PHOENIX 200
FS1, 5:30 p.m. Live
The up-and-coming drivers from the NASCAR Xfinity Series take to Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona, to compete in a 200-mile race on FS1.
■ NICKELODEON’S KIDS’ CHOICE AWARDS 2021
Nickelodeon, 7:30 p.m. The slime-happy awards show, emceed by “Saturday Night Live” star and Nickelodeon vet Kenan Thompson, soars to new heights as the network’s iconic orange blimp embarks on a worldwide tour. Stops include celebrities’ homes, outer space and Spongebob Squarepants’ underwater city, Bikini Bottom.
■ A HOUSE ON FIRE
Lifetime, 8 p.m. Original Film! Brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the curtain is a rocky marriage that includes Deb’s difficult bedside manner, her inability to get along with other doctors, an abuse of pills and alcohol, and major envy of her husband’s successful medical career and his easy social manner. Soon it all takes a terrible turn and leaves her family and marriage in ruin.
■ THE GOLDEN GIRLS: AGELESS
Reelzchannel, 8 p.m. Narrated by Valerie Bertinelli, this special celebrates the iconic ’80s sitcom “The Golden Girls,” its perfect cast and its ability to take on complex subject matter that was far beyond sitcom fodder at the time — tackling mental health, alcoholism and homelessness, all while never losing its potent and signature sense of humor. The special also examines offscreen hurdles, including star Estelle Getty’s heartbreaking battle with dementia and the simmering headbutting between stars Bea Arthur and Betty White. Viewers will also learn about the fandom surrounding the sitcom that continues to grow decades after the show premiered.
■ HOLMES & WATSON
TCM, beginning at 8 p.m. Catch a Classic! The game is afoot on Turner Classic Movies tonight with a double feature of some lesser-seen and enjoyable films featuring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson. First, “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” (1970), cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder, offers an affectionate and somewhat parodic look at Holmes (Robert Stephens), presenting a distinction between the “real” detective compared with the character readers know from Watson’s stories in The Strand magazine. Christopher Lee costars as Sherlock’s brother Mycroft in this film that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have said was an inspiration for their acclaimed series “Sherlock.” The second movie on tonight’s bill is “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1959), a gothic tale from Britain’s famed Hammer Studios that adapts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1902 novel featuring one of Holmes’ most famous cases. Peter Cushing stars as the detective, with André Morell as Watson. Christopher Lee also turns up as Sir Henry Baskerville.
■ DR. OAKLEY, YUKON VET
Nat Geo Wild, 9 p.m. Season Premiere! Dr. Michelle Oakley, vet to pretty much everything that moves in the Yukon, makes house calls across thousands of square miles, helping animals wild and domestic
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DEAR ABBY: My twin sister moved to another state years ago. We always kept in close contact through telephone calls. But since the invention of caller ID, call waiting, cellphones, texting, etc., things have changed.
Examples: She’ll cut off a conversation to answer another nonemergency call. She frantically texts that she needs to talk right now, then doesn’t call and won’t answer when I try to call her. She doesn’t return calls or texts for days.
When we do talk, she complains nonstop, and if I try to chime in about what’s happening in my life, she cuts off the conversation.
Also, we have a twohour time difference, so when she does call, it’s either super late or the dinner hour. If I can’t talk long, she gets mad and blocks me for days.
I don’t want to be the etiquette police, but something is off. Advice? —Just About Had It
In Illinois DEAR HAD IT: Has your twin always been this self-centered and rude, or is it relatively new behavior? Do not blame advances in technology for it. Accept that she may have a low level of tolerance for frustration and little interest in what is going on in your life.
If I were you, the next time she blocks you, do not repeatedly try to reach her. Wait until she calls back. If you haven’t already taken this up with her directly, you should, because her phone manners are atrocious.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are elderly. We live in a renovated shack I inherited from my family. The neighborhood is degrading, and I’m trying to decide whether to build a new home out in the country on property I own.
If I do, my family, which needs a better place to live, could live in my current house. But I’m worried about the physical and emotional toll it will take on my husband and me to improve the wooded property. I also worry about issues like potential dementia living nearly 30 miles from town in the country.
No matter how much I weigh the pros and cons, I can’t reach a decision whether to build. Because of our ages, it’s now or never. Can you please help me decide?
—Stumped About The Future DEAR STUMPED: Allow me to offer a third alternative. You described your husband and yourself as elderly and expressed concern about the physical and emotional toll building a new home far from town could cause.
It might make more sense to consider selling your current home or the rural property and using the money to buy a place in town in a neighborhood that isn’t degrading and is near medical facilities should you and your husband need them. At this point in your lives, the last thing you need is stress and isolation.