NBA BASKETBALL TCM SPOTLIGHT: DANCE NUMBERS THE BIG LEAP: “WHAT PREVENTS US?”

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NBA TV’S doubleheader has Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets visiting Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks, followed by Lonzo Ball and the Chicago Bulls at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for a meeting with Lebron James and the Lakers.

THE VOICE: “LIVE TOP 13 PERFORMANCES”

NBC, 8 p.m. Live

The Top 13 performers try to impress the judges (and viewers). Results will be revealed tomorrow night.

TCM, beginning at 8 p.m. Catch a Classic! It’s time again for any Monday blues you might be having to be lifted by Turner Classic Movies’ evening of classic movie musicals with memorable choreography. The lineup begins with Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel and Ann Miller in Kiss Me Kate (1953), the adaptation of the 1948 Broadway production that was inspired by Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Famous choreographer Hermes Pan staged the dance numbers, set to Cole Porter tunes like “So in Love,” “Too Darn Hot” and “Always True to You in My Fashion.” The film also features Bob Fosse as a supporting character in his second movie appearance; he, of course, would soon go on to become a brilliant stage and screen choreographer in his own right. Up next is The Gay Divorcee (1934), the Oscarwinning musical featuring the legendarily smooth moves of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their second bigscreen pairing. The duo flawlessly flow together in numbers also staged by Pan in what was his second film, and his first as primary choreographer (even if he wasn’t billed as such). Astaire and Jane Powell lead the next film, Royal Wedding (1951), which features a number of fun dance routines choreographed by Nick Castle, including two of Astaire’s most famous solo numbers (on whose choreography the actor likely also had considerable input): his dance with a hat rack to the song “Sunday Jumps” and the incredibly designed sequence in which he dances on the walls and ceilings of his room to the tune “You’re All the World to Me.” Astaire also stars in the next film, the Oscar-winning, Pan-choreographed Swing Time (1936), again with Rogers, and with Cyd Charisse in the evening’s final title, Silk

Stockings (1957), choreographed by Pan and Eugene Loring.

HOLIDAY BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP: GINGERBREAD SHOWDOWN

Food Network, 9 p.m. New Series! Move over,

pumpkin spice. The other autumnal flavor takes center stage in this competition that asks teams to impress with brown sugar, molasses, cloves and creativity! Jesse Palmer hosts.

9 p.m.

In the midst of Paula’s (Piper Perabo) health concerns, she and Mike (Jon Rudnitsky) decide to take their relationship