TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
1PM & 2022 Players Championship Final round action tees off today at TPC Sawgrass in northern Florida, where golfers at the top of the leaderboard will try to close out a victory in the sport’s unofficial fifth major, the Players Championship. Justin Thomas caught fire on the Stadium Course in last year’s tournament, shooting 5 under on holes 9 through 12, including an eagle at the par-5 11th, to secure a one stroke victory over Lee Westwood. 7PM G (TBS) 27th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards From the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer host this annual awards show honoring the best in primetime television during 2021. Among the field of nominees, HBO leads with 20 nominations, closely trailed by Netflix with 18. As for individual series, two HBO dramas, “Succession” and “Mare of Easttown,” scored 8 and 5 nods, respectively; “Evil,” a Paramount Plus streaming series, also earned five nominations.
8PM $ The Equalizer In the new episode “Somewhere Over the Hudson,” Robyn (Queen Latifah) helps a desperate mob accountant recover a lost ledger. It’s a vital piece of evidence he has to turn over to the FBI in exchange for safe entry into the Witness Protection Program. Meanwhile, Mel (Liza Lapira) tries to figure out a way to tell her best friend — who selflessly provided emotional support to Mel in the wake of Harry’s (Adam Goldberg) “death” — that his demise was a fabrication all along.
8PM (HALL) When Calls the
Heart Hope Valley elects a new mayor, while Lucas and Elizabeth (Chris McNally, Erin Krakow) try to find special “little moments” to cherish in their relationship in the new episode “Out Like a Lamb.” Elizabeth also offers to help Nathan (Kevin McGarry) with his traumatized horse, Newton, after the hit-and-run incident, but it’s Mei (Amanda Wong) who is able to connect with the animal. Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith and Andrea Brooks also star. 8PM (LIFE) MOVIE Cheating
for Your Life Kaley, a stellar high school student who works hard to maintain her high academic standing, becomes suspicious after she notices that a group of underachieving slackers all have improbably high scores on their SAT exams. When she looks more closely into the situation, however, she inadvertently exposes a cheating ring, endangering her own life in the process. Heather McComb and Francesca Xuereb star in this 2022 melodrama.