THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
8PM _ Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer It’s time to spill the big secret — the one involving dollar signs and zeroes — in the season finale “Dates, Decisions and Dollar Amount Revealed.” In this final hour, both Joes — Steven McBee and Kurt Sowers — must select their final lady and bid farewell to the other contenders. Then, in the moment of truth, they reveal the truth about how fiscally formidable each of them is, which in turn may determine whether true love outweighs their bank accounts. Martin Andrew also appears as The Butler.
8PM (FOOD) Restaurant: Impossible Host Robert Irvine finds himself confronted with an all-too-familiar problem — namely a restaurant owner who refuses to change with the times — in the new episode “Holding on to the Past.” This time around, the setting is the Rest Haven eatery in Clarksdale, Miss., where owner Paula’s stubbornness is destroying her father’s Lebanese restaurant. Her son is ready to take the reins, but Robert Irvine must teach Paula to trust her son and her staff or risk losing the family legacy forever.
8PM (LMN) MOVIE Deadly Cheers Brianna is excited when she is hired to be assistant principal at a high school where her teenage daughter, Julie, has been accepted to the celebrated cheer team, led by Coach Allison. When one of her charges suffers a mysterious accident, though, Coach Allison is willing to stop at nothing to conceal the incident, even if it winds up costing more cheerleaders. Katherine Marsh, Camille Calvin and Shannon Skiles star in this new thriller.
9PM (HGTV) Fix My Flip Best known to her legion of fans for her hit series “Flip or Flop Nashville,” licensed real estate agent Page Turner returns to her home turf in California to help overwhelmed property flippers in this new sixepisode series. In each episode, Turner meets with clients who have gotten mired in seemingly hopeless financial situations in the middle of a flipping project. In the series premiere, Turner comes to the aid of a mother-daughter duo in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., with a solution that involves undoing some already-completed work.
9:01 PM $ B Positive In the Season 2 finale, “Juneau, Froyo and Mario Kart,” Gina (Annaleigh Ashford) faces a wrenching decision when she gets an attractive offer to sell Valley Hills to a rival assisted living facility. Meanwhile, Drew (Thomas Middleditch) prepares to leave for what he hopes will be an epic road trip to Alaska. Kether Donohue, Linda Lavin, Jane Seymour and Jim Beaver also star.
9:31 PM _ Pivoting This freshman sitcom about three female friends further bonded by the death of a fourth wraps up the season with a finale called “Coleen in a Box,” a reference to the dearly departed, whose birthday is approaching. In honor of that occasion, Amy, Sarah and Jodie (Eliza Coupe, Maggie Q, Ginnifer Goodwin) decide to table their individual personal issues to enjoy a girls’ night out — with the late Coleen’s cremated remains along for the ride. Tommy Dewey and JT Neal also star. 10:03PM(A&E) Nightwatch Season
6 opens with “Yardi Gras,” set in New
Orleans where the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of traditional parades with their attendant large crowds. In response, festive local residents have decorated their yards to reflect the spirit of this season. While the parades may be on hold, however, the same can’t be said of emergencies, with the EMT crew responding to a collision between a personal vehicle and a streetcar, a house fire, a motorcycle accident and a patient who may be having a heart attack.