TV TOP PICKS
5 p.m. on ESPN NBA Basketball
With LeBron James off to Los Angeles the door is open for the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics to battle for Eastern Conference supremacy. The rivalry continues as Kyrie Irving and Celtics host Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors, who edged out Boston last season for the top seed in the East.
6 p.m. on SHOW Movie: The Cured
Writer-director David Freyne’s 2017 horror drama opens in Ireland, five years after a plague called the Maze Virus cut a devastating swath across Europe, transforming its victims into violent zombies. While a cure subsequently was devised, it proved effective only for about 75 percent of survivors. The others, labeled the Resistant, are nearly feral, and compassionate policies to keep them alive while another cure is sought are increasingly opposed by members of the Cured who fear another outbreak.
7 p.m. on FOX Last Man Standing
Mandy (Molly McCook) is pretty much ready to throw in the towel with her dream of becoming a designer, after a series of rejections sends her into a depression spiral in the new episode “Dreams vs. Reality.” The situation prompts Vanessa (Nancy Travis) to look back at her own career path, which doesn’t do much to cheer her up, either. Mike (Tim Allen, pictured) decides he’d better step in to help the women in his family. What could possibly go wrong?
7 p.m. on CW Dynasty
Determined to make a clean break with Liam (guest star Adam Huber) and move on with her life, Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) bends over backwards to prove to Culhane (Robert Christopher Riley) and his family that he is her true love in the new episode “That Witch.” Blake and Cristal (Grant Show, Ana Brenda Contreras) fight to keep their budding romance alive.
9 p.m. on PBS Great Performances
Actor John Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comic and has appeared in such popular movies as Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge and
Romeo + Juliet, but he’s really in his element onstage in his acclaimed one-man shows. The new offering John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway is a behind-the-scenes documentary that reveals the creative process for the performer’s latest show, Latin
History for Morons, which earned Leguizamo a special Tony Award.