Audra McDonald has won five Tony Awards. She has an incredible voice. She's the host of PBS' Live from Lincoln Center (8 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7).
And this week, we get to hear McDonald's incredible voice as she takes a turn as the featured performer, singing songs from her new album and other favorites in a special spring concert at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
By the way, McDonald is married to Utah native/fellow Broadway performer Will Swenson.

Friday on TV ...
Sanjay and Craig (8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., Nickelodeon): This new animated series follows the adventures of two best friends - one of whom happens ...

Netflix is going to release all 15 episodes of the new season of “Arrested Development” on Sunday, and fans are all excited. Including yours truly, who was exhorting viewers to watch the show throughout the length of its 53-episode run from 2003-2006.

It didn’t work. Despite mountains of praise from TV critics, “Arrested Development” was a ratings flop. Fox did everything imaginable to find it an audience — including giving some episodes the best lead-in possible, “American Idol” at the height of its popularity — but American viewers rejected the show.

It has, however, become a cult class...

In the new comedy Save Me (7 and 7:30 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5), In this new comedy, Anne Heche stars as a woman who has a near-death experience and believes she can now talk to God.
There's a reason NBC is burning this thing off during the summer.
Also tonight, it's the debut of the reality show Does Someone Have to Go? (8 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13). Employees are given control over their workplaces and the power to make decisions - up to and including whether someone needs to be fired.
Gee, when I go home I want to watch TV and relax. It's not particularly relaxing to watch co-workers fight with each other.
Elsewhere on TV ...
Wipeout

Michael Smith has already proven that he knows more sports trivia than anyone in the Pac-12. Now the recent U. of U. grad is out to prove he's the best nationally.
Smith is in the finals of "The Schwab" on Wednesday's edition of ESPNU's "UNITE" (10 p.m. MDT). He's one step away from claiming bragging rights for himself and the Utes.
"This is pretty awesome," said the 22-year-old from Sandy, who admitted to being "kind of nervous" heading into the finals.
"The Schwab" is a revival of "Stump the Schwab," which ran on ESPN2 and ESPN Classic from 2004-2006. Contestants would match wits with sports trivia guru Howie Schwab and with each other.
In the current incarnation, Schwab c...

Things get serious on the season finale of Modern Family (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) when Phil's mother dies. The family travels to Florida for the funeral.
Viewers never got to meet Phil's mom, although we've seen his dad multiple times. And Fred Willard returns tonight in that role.
This is one of TV's best comedies, and - not surprisingly - there are lots of laughs as well. Claire helps Phil with Gracie's last wish for Frank, and the kids reflect on the gifts grandma left for them. Gloria has to contend with an outstanding arrest warrant in Florida, Cam finds himself fitting right into an elderly women's group at Frank's retirement community, and Jay runs into a pivotal p...

As we head into the final night of Dancing with the Stars (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4), this is where the contestants stand:
Zendaya Coleman partnered with Val Chmerkovskiy: 65 points
Kellie Pickler partnered with Derek Hough: 64 points
Alexandra Raisman partnered with Mark Ballas: 61 points
Jacoby Jones partnered with Karina Smirnoff: 56 points
I have no idea who's going to win, although it seems like Jones is in trouble.
I can tell you that most of the two-hour season finale will be filler. Really, the only thing that matters is the 30 seconds when the winner is announced.
Elsewhere on TV ...
The Bachelor (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4)...

HBO's award-winning "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" delves into the issue of violence against referees on Tuesday with a report on the death of a soccer official here in Utah.
Referee Ricardo Portillo, 46, was working a game in Taylorsville on April 27 when he yellow carded a 17-year-old goalkeeper. According to a police report, the goalie was angered by the card and punched Portillo in the head.
The referee soon lapsed into a coma and died on May 4.
Among those interviewed in Tuesday's episode (8 and 11 p.m., HBO), is Portillo's daughter, Johana.
"My dad, he always said that he wanted to be a famous referee." she says. "And I'm, like, I just feel bad that he got to be famou...

After three years at the helm of KUED, general manager Michael A. Dunn is stepping down to return to the private sector.
"It's the right time," he said. "KUED has never been in a better place. We're moving ahead. I think we're the envy of the [PBS] system."
Dunn came to Channel 7 in May 2010 from a career in advertising, marketing and film production.
"We were lucky to attract him," said Fred Esplin, the University of Utah's vice president of university relations. "He's done a great job. It's a terrible, terrible loss for us. We're going to miss him."
Dunn has accepted a position as chief marketing officer of chief marketing officer of ski boot and running shoe manufacturer S...

The twist in the new crime drama Motive (9 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) is that we know who both the victim and the murderer are from the beginning and learn the motive over the course of the hour.
It's not a bad show as procedural crime dramas go. But it also feels like it's trying too hard to be different and not hard enough to be better than "not bad."

Also tonight, CBS has pulled the scheduled season finale of Mike & Molly and will instead air a repeat (8:30 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2). The season finale features a plot about a tornado, and the network is worried it will seem insensitive given the string of deadly tornadoes in recent days. It will air the tornado...

The second season of the made-in-Utah series “Breaking Pointe” doesn’t premiere until July 29, but The CW has released a one-minute trailer that gives away a few things from inside the Ballet West troupe:

• “Rex [Tilton] and I are no longer together,” says Allison DeBona, taking a whole bunch of the mystery out of that.

• “Ronnie is injured,” says Rex Tilton. “That’s going to open up an opportunity.”

• And Ronnie Underwood’s injury is a “disaster.” “What’s my worst-case scenario?” he asks. The response: “You could lose your foot.”

BYUtv's rather ambitious effort to make a name for itself with its first scripted drama, Granite Flats, ends its first season on Sunday (6 and 9 p.m.) - and the kids face real danger at the school science fair.

Friday on TV ...
College baseball (6 p.m., BYUtv): St. Mary's at BYU
Undercover Boss (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Bosses from past episodes reveal how the show affected their businesses and their lives. (Season finale)
Nikita (7 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Nikita must choose between saving Michael or herself. (Season finale)
Great Performances at the Met (8 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7): The Metrop...

Spoiler alert! KUTV is going to win the late-news ratings competition for the May sweeps.
OK, that's really not a spoiler. Channel 2 was way ahead after Week 1; way ahead after Week 2; and remains way ahead after Week 3.
As a matter of fact, there's no suspense about the late-news numbers. Unless something on the order of a TV apocalypse occurs - a station loses it signal for five days or something - KUTV-Channel 2 will finish first by a wide margin, followed by KSL-Channel 5, KSTU-Channel 13 and KTVX-Channel 4.
Here's where Nielsen has it after Week 3 (and we're talking about the 10 p.m. newscasts on Channels 2, 4 and 5 and the 9 p.m. newscast on Channel 13):

K...

It just wouldn't be a season of "The Bachelorette" without somebody from Utah involved, would it?
Among the 25 guys competing for airtime ... er, uh, competing for the heart of bachelorette Desiree Hartsock is Salt Laker Brooks Forester. As is their wont at "The Bachelorette," they're not handing out a lot of information about him.
We do know that Forester is from Boise, Idaho; that he's one of 10 children; that he has a degree from the University of Utah;
Forester's bio at Fit Marketing (fitmarketing.com/our-team), where he's a sales representative, tells us, "An adventurer, athlete and model in his spare time, Brooks brings vision and class to our team. He knows how to trea...

After an hourlong retrospective of The Office (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5), its the hourlong series finale (8 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5). And there's a wedding.
This will be a chance to check back in with a series a lot of fans left long ago. And if you haven't been watching lately, odds are you'll feel a little lost.
Elsewhere on TV ...
College baseball (6 p.m., BYUtv): St. Mary's at BYU
The Big Bang Theory (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Leonard receives a huge opportunity to work overseas, which throws both Sheldon and Penny for a loop. (Season finale)
Wipeout (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Contestants face the Killer Croc.

If you didn't know The CW is struggling in the ratings, you'd certainly be able to tell from the network's fall schedule - 80 percent of it is changing.
There are three new shows, and five returning series are moving to new nights and/or times. Only "Arrow" and "Vampire Diaries" are staying put.
Those are The CW's two most successful series - success being relative. So it's no surprise that we're getting a pair of new shows from the producers of those two.
"We had a terrific season last year, growing our audience on-air, digitally and socially," said CW president Mark Pedowitz. (Terrific? Only if you're measuring using The CW's very low bar as a standard.)
"Now we are buildin...

The Mountain West Conference has named its regional television partner for football and men's basketball and, as expected, it's ROOT Sports.

ROOT will air about 10 football games and a minimum of 25 basketball games per season. And, no doubt, some of those games will feature new MWC member Utah State.

This deal is in addition to the Mountain West's national deals with the CBS Sports Network and ESPN.

Here's the MWC/ROOT release:

DIRECTV Sports Networks and the Mountain West Conference have entered into a multi-year agreement, making DIRECTV Sports, and its ROOT SPORTS-branded regional sports network, the regional TV home of Mountain West football and men's ...

For the first time in years, “So You Think You Can Dance” didn’t bring auditions to Salt Lake City this season. But the show had barely begun its new season on Tuesday night before the first Utah dancer made an impression.

Malece Miller, 19, got a nice chunk of screen time for her story (how her parents’ divorce affected her), and she was a big hit with the judges, who sent her quickly on to the next round of auditions.

Whether she makes it any further toward becoming a finalist remains to be seen.

If there’s any cause for concern, let’s hope Mom doesn’t...

Two of the bigger surprises about CBS' just-announced fall schedule were a pair of shows that aren't on it.

The network passed on "NCIS Red," a spinoff of "NCIS: Los Angeles." And on "Beverly Hills Cop," a sequel of sorts to the 1984 movie.

We don't generally see failed pilots, so we have to take CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler's word for it when she says, "Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't." And, given CBS' success, you have to think Tassler knows what she's talking about.

"NCIS Red" was introduced in an "NCIS: Los Angeles" two-parter and featured John Corbett, Kim Raver and Scott Grimes. It is, to all appearances, dead.

That may not be the...

They're laughing it up at CBS today - both because they have so much to celebrate and because the C in CBS is starting to stand for "comedy" again.
Your most-watched network is adding four comedies to its fall schedule and just one drama. And CBS execs are laughing because their competitors are looking up at them.
"We were very flattered when Jimmy Kimmel called us 'smug mother------- yesterday" at ABC's upfront presentation, said CBS chief Leslie Moonves. "I guess that means we're winning."
And they are. CBS is No. 1 in total viewers (by more than 4 million - the largest margin in 24 years), in viewers 18-49 and in viewers 25-54.
By the way, even if you don't average in the ...

I liked Brigham Street: Salt Lake City's Fine Boulevard (7 p.m. Ch. 7), but I didn't love it.
It's about the history of the mansions on South Temple and the people who lived in them. There's a lot of fascinating information.
But it felt like skimming a really good book. It isn't that often that a documentary feels too short, but this one does.
Elsewhere on TV ...
NCIS (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Gibbs and his team go to unusual lengths to hunt down Eli David and Jackie Vance's killer. (Season finale)
Wipeout (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Contestants encounter zombies.
The Voice (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Contestan...

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ABC has one of the most buzzed-about new shows on TV on its fall schedule - Joss Whedon's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." - and ABC has programmed it opposite the No. 1 show on TV.
ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee, however, says he's not worried about sending the show, a spinoff of sorts from the blockbuster movie "The Avengers," up against "NCIS."
"We think it's going to recruit a whole new audience," he said. "And we don't necessarily think that audience is the same as 'NCIS.'"
It's not the only risk Lee is taking. His new Tuesday lineup is made up of three new shows - a gamble few programmers take. He's taking a page out of the "So You Th...

When the original "Beverly Hills, 90210" signed off almost exactly 13 years ago, it was kind of a big deal in TV terms.
The show helped put the fledgling Fox network on the map. It ran for 10 seasons and 194 episodes. It was, for a time, a pop-culture icon.
The sequel series 90210 signs off tonight - and it is not a big deal. The only splash this series on The CW made was when original cast members showed up.
Yeah, it's been on for five years and 114 episodes, but most Americans have never seen it. Or even heard of it.
Nonetheless, it wraps things up with an hourlong retrospective (7 p.m., Ch. 30), followed by the final episode (8 p.m., Ch. 30).
Elsew...

As she announces her retirement, Barbara Walters is being hailed as some sort of broadcast journalism icon.
She's certainly broken ground. First as the co-host of "The Today Show"; then as the first female co-anchor of an evening newscast (on ABC); then as the co-anchor of ABC's first successful prime-time newsmagazine ("20/20"); finally as the producers and sometimes panelist on "The View."
Walters has interviewed a variety of important newsmakers - up to and including heads of state. She's broken news.
And she deserves a lot of credit not just for doing that, but for breaking barriers in a male-dominated industry while she did it.
But Walters' legacy is a complicated one. S...

NBC couldn't cancel everything on its schedule, although it sure seemed like the network was trying.
Well, everything but "The Voice."
Conventional wisdom is that you can't make too many changes to your fall schedule and add too many shows because you can't possibly promote more than a handful effectively.
And NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt added six new shows, which isn't a huge number. But he also moved seven returning series to new nights and/or times, leaving only Sundays NFL night untouched.
That's a whole lot of changes. And a whole lot of shows were canceled - a list that includes "Animal Practice," "Deception," "Do No Harm," "Go On," "Guys with Kids,"...

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Fox is making a whole bunch of changes for the upcoming television season - five new comedies, four new dramas, a couple of "event" series; a sort-of new reality/competition series and an animated show.
Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy") brings his first live-action sitcom, "Dads," to the network; Andy Samberg ("Saturday Night Live") stars in the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"; J.J. Abrams has a new action/drama, "Almost Human"; and the legend of "Sleepy Hollow" is updated.
M. Night Shyamalan, whose movie career has pretty much tanked in recent years, is coming to television with one of those "event series" - Matt Dillon will star in "Wayward Pines," a limite...

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you don’t want to know who won “Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites,” STOP READING NOW!!!

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Maybe Dawn Meehan never had a chance to win “Survivor.” The BYU English professor who lives in South Jordan certainly had zero chance when she went up against John Cochran in Sunday’s season finale, when he sailed to victory and the million-dollar prize.

Cochran won the final immunity challenge and got to determine which two competitors he would take to the final tribal council. The goal is to take the two others you have the best chance of beating, and he chose co...

There are a few changes from yesterday - NBC canceled "Go On" and "Rock Center with Brian Williams" and picked up a couple of pilots; CBS picked up five new shows. T is what we know about which shows the networks have renewed and which they have canceled as of 4:30 p.m. MT on Friday.
The networks announce their fall schedules next week, so we'll be able to fill in all the blanks.

ABC
Canceled: "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23," "Last Resort," "Private Practice," "666 Park Avenue,""Zero Hour"
No word yet: Everything else. Although, clearly, shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "The Middle," "Modern Family," "R...

Will Dawn Meehan become the second Utahn to win the million dollars on Survivor?
Well, she's one of five remaining contestants as we head into the two-hour season finale on Sunday at 7 p.m. on CBS/Ch. 2. Win or lose, she'll be on hand for the reunion show that follows at 9 p.m.
And if you've forgotten, Todd Herzog was the first Utahn to win on "Survivor" back in 2007.

Friday on TV ...
College baseball (6 p.m., BYUtv): San Francisco at BYU
Undercover Boss (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Revisiting employees from past episodes.
Fashion Star (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): A winner is declared. (Season finale)

This stuff has been changing all day, but as of 5:30 p.m. MT here's what we know about which shows the networks have renewed and which they have canceled:

ABC
Canceled: "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23," "Last Resort," "Private Practice," "666 Park Avenue,""Zero Hour"
No word yet: Everything else. Although, clearly, shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "The Middle," "Modern Family," "Revenge" and "Scandal" will be back.
Confirmed pilot pickups: Drama "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

CBS
Canceled: "The Job," "Made in Jersey," "Partners"
Renewed: ...

File this under — Who Cares? Randy Jackson has announced that he's leaving "American Idol" at the end of this season.

The last of the original judges and always the most expendable, he nonetheless outlasted Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul. And Jackson survived the string of Simon- and Paula-wannabes that followed.

But he was best known for calling everyone "dawg." Which is not exactly a huge legacy.

Given that the show's ratings are a fraction of what they used to be, this hardly qualifies as news.It does, however, seem more like a losing football coach who announces he's retiring before he can be fired.

Word is that Fox may well clean house and bring in an entire...

Halfway through the May sweeps, KUTV-Ch. 2 maintains a big lead in the late-news ratings.
According to Nielsen, here's how the Monday-Friday numbers for the three 10 p.m. newscasts and KSTU's 9 p.m. newscast stack up:

KUTV-Ch. 2: 11.5 rating/23 share

KSL-Ch. 5: 6.4 rating/13 share

KSTU-Ch. 13: 5.0 rating/9 share

KTVX-Ch. 4: 3.5 rating/7 share

(A rating point represents 1 percent of the 917,370 TV-equipped homes Nielsen estimates are in the Salt Lake Television market; a share point equals 1 percent of the homes where television is actually being watched at a given time.)
T...

Tonight on The Big Bang Theory (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2), the women's trip to Las Vegas is short-circuited, and they end up playing Dungeons & Dragons with the guys. And Amy and Sheldon's relationship takes a surprising turn during the game.
It's very funny stuff. And DO NOT miss the segment just before the closing credits.
Elsewhere on TV ...
Wipeout (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): This goofy game show returns.
Community (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Jeff contemplates graduation. (Season finale - and we don't know yet if there will be another season.)
American Idol (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): Another contestant is eliminated.<...

We’re down to the second-to-last episode of Survivor: Caramoan - Fans vs. Favorites (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2), and Utahn Dawn Meehan is still in the game.

She’s survived crying jags and paranoia to make it to the final six, mostly by flying under the radar and not annoying too many people.

According to CBS, in tonight’s episode, “Castaways get a much-needed morale boost with a visit from their loved ones, and one Survivor is faced with a game-changing decision.”

The two-hour season finale is on Sunday (7 p.m. Ch. 2), and someone will win the m...

If CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal (8 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) seems a little light, a little entertaining, well, that's a good thing.
We live in a nation where 62 percent of the citizens can't tell you what the three branches of government are, but they yell about the rights they think they have under the Constitution. So I'm OK with anything that teaches people about the document.
And Sagal (the host of "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" on NPR) does the job in an interesting, entertaining way.
Elsewhere on TV ...
NCIS (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Is a petty officer paranoid or is he really being followed?
Splash (7 p.m., ABC/C...

If you're a Rihanna fan, you'll probably want to check out Rihanna 777 (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13), which features Rihanna jetting to seven countries to perform seven concerts in seven days, traveling on a Boeing 777.
Personally, if my daughters were still at an impressionable age, I'd be a bit uncomfortable if they were Rihanna fans. At the very least, we'd talk about how it's not a good thing to go back to the boyfriend who beat you up.
A role model Rihanna is not.
Elsewhere on TV ...
How I Met Your Mother (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Barney bonds with Robin's father.
Dancing with the Stars (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): The remaining ...

You've got to give the new team at KTVX-Ch. 4 credit for trying to up their game. And being at least a little bit brave at the same time.
On Sunday's 10 p.m. newscast, KTVX will introduce "The Perfect Problem" - a weeklong series that focuses on how pressure on Utah women to be perfect creates not just unreal expectations but contributes to the highest rate of depression in America.
"We're completely committed to this," said news director George Severson. "It's a big issue here."
"The Perfect Problem" really kicks off on Monday, and it will be a part of all of Channel 4's newscasts as well as "Good Things Utah" and "The Daily Dish" throughout the week. The series will include new...

Ruth Todd is returning to a television near you - albeit in a decidedly different role.
The longtime local news anchorwoman has accepted a position as the LDS Church's media spokeswoman. She'll be a primary contact for local broadcast and print journalists who are looking for official Church comments on a wide variety of issues. Which means you'll be seeing her on TV and reading her quotes in print.

"It's not a big change for me — I've been here for a couple of years now," she said. "but I'm sure it will be different for people to see me answering questions instead of asking them. I'm looking forward to working with the media.

Todd has worked in the media relations depar...

One week into the May sweeps, KUTV-Ch. 2 is still the clear leader in the late-news ratings race.
Here's a look at the Monday-Friday numbers for Week 1:

KUTV-Ch. 2 -- 11.6 rating/23 share

KSL-Ch. 5 -- 6.2 rating/12 share

KSTU-Ch. 13 -- 5.2 rating/10 share

KTVX-Ch. 4 -- 3.3 rating/7 share

(A rating point represents 1 percent of the 917,370 TV-equipped homes Nielsen estimates are in the Salt Lake Television market; a share point equals 1 percent of the homes where television is actually being watched at a given time.)
The good news for KSL is that it's in no immediate danger...

TV icon Bob Newhart returns to his old stomping grounds - a CBS sitcom - when he appears on this week's episode of The Big Bang Theory (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2).

He guest stars as Professor Proton, the star of a kids' show that Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) loved when they were kids. And word is that Newhart may be back next season.
Elsewhere on TV ...
Community (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Abed is convinced that members of the study group were destined to meet.
American Idol (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): Another contestant is eliminated.
The Vampire Diaries (7 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Damon and St...

Family Tools (7:30 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4) is supposed to be a comedy, I think. It was hard to tell, because it's not funny.
The premise is rather simple. Cranky ol' Tony Shea (J.K. Simmons) just had a heart attack, so he can't keep running his contracting/handyman business. At the urging of his sister, Terry (Leah Remini), Tony reluctantly turns the business over to his beyond-bumbling son, Jack (Kyle Bornheimer).
Oh, by the way, Terry refuses to let the EMTs into the house to treat the stricken Tony until he agrees to call Jack. Really.
The basic problem with this comedy is it's not funny. Everything about it - including the physical comedy - is entirely predictable.<...

When "Masterchef" returns for its fourth season on May 22, there will be a Utahn among the hopefuls. How long Alexandra Jones lasts remains to be seen.
Fox has released a list of 95 contestants who have a shot at making the cooking competition. But that number will be trimmed to 40 on the two-hour season premiere.
Jones is listed as a stay-at-home mom from Ogden, but this won't be her first experienced on a TV cooking show. In 2008, she appeared in KUED's "P Is for Potato," where she prepared a no-mayonnaise Greek potato salad and proclaimed that her lifelong ambition was to host her own cooking show.

...

Grimm (9 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5) moves to a new night and time, which is both a good thing and, potentially, a bad thing.
There are more viewers in front of their TVs on Tuesdays, which is good. But the competition is also tougher, which could be bad.
At any rate, this is a good sign for the future of "Grimm." And that future is looking pretty bright, anyway, because NBC has already ordered another season.
Oh, in tonight's episode, Nick investigates evidence of possible alien landings.
Elsewhere on TV ...
NCIS (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): A Mossad officer is murdered.
Splash (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): More celebrities jump really...

Monday was a bad night for Mormons on “The Voice” - three of them were eliminated from the show by their coach, Adam Levine, in the knockout round.

BYU grad Amy Whitcomb finally got to appear on the show for more than 15 seconds - she was part of montages during the blind auditions and battle rounds. But it didn’t work out for her.

The Florida native/Provo resident chose to perform the classic “House of the Rising Sun,” but Levine chose Caroline Glaser (who sang “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men) to advance to the next round.

Idahoans Jon Peter Lewis...

KSL-Ch. 5 is yanking another NBC program from its schedule. "Hannibal" moves to KUCW-Ch. 30's late-night schedule as of Saturday at midnight.

"After this last week's episode, it just had too much graphic content for us," said Tami Ostmark, KSL's vice president of marketing, research and promotion. "It was just too bloody and violent.

"This is beyond anything we've put on our station before. This is too graphic to be on regular TV. It should be a cable show. We've talked to NBC, and that's how we feel about it."

"Hannibal," a prequel to "Silence of the Lambs," is arguably the most violent, bloody show on broadcast television.

The series will continue to air in t...

The knockout rounds begin on The Voice (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5), but as per network policy, we don't know which contestants will perform tonight.
The format is that each of the coaches picks two singers at a time from his/her team, and each of them performs a song of their own choosing. After both have performed, their coach selects a winner and that person advances to the next round of the competition.
There are 32 singers remaining, so we'll just have to tune in to see if BYU grads Ryan Innes and/or Amy Whitcomb are on tonight's episode.
Elsewhere on TV ...
How I Met Your Mother (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): The gang tries to put together a lege...

BYU's Lauren Taylor won a College Television Award on Thursday for her animated short "Estefan."
Those awards are sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation - the Academy that brings us the Emmys.
Its a very clever film about a hairdresser faced with a seemingly impossible challenge, and it's quite gorgeous to look at. Check it out here:
http://vimeo.com/groups/130334/videos/58234977
...

KSL-Ch. 5 kicked off the May sweeps on Thursday night in a most unusual way. After a few minutes of headlines, weather and sports, the station essentially abandoned its late newscast in favor of a commercial-free public service campaign to prevent suicide.
A laudable effort, to be sure. One worthy of praise and thanks.
In terms of the ratings, KSL's 10 p.m. newscast was not competitive with local ratings leader KUTV. Channel 2 drew an 11.2 rating/23 share for its late newscast, more than doubling Channel 5's 5.5/11.
KSTU-Ch. 13 matched that 5.5./11 at 9 p.m.; KTVX-Ch. 4 trailed with a 3.6/8 at 10 p.m.
(A rating point represents 1 percent of the 917,370 TV-equipped homes Nie...

The Good Wife (Sunday, 8 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2) is one of TV's best shows. And Sunday's episode is truly must-see TV.
Zack witnesses vote tampering in the gubernatorial race, which doesn't turn out as you might expect. There are some personal developments - Alica and Peter, Alicia and Will - and a big surprise n the final moments.
The really good news is that "The Good Wife" has been renewed for next season.

Friday on TV ...
College softball: Cal State Bakersfield at BYU (5 p.m., BYUtv); Utah at Stanford (6 p.m., P12N)
Undercover Boss (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): The CEO of Retro Fitness goes under cover.
H...

At least for one night, BYU and Utah fans have something in common. They all have a reason to watch the first round of the NFL draft (6 p.m., ESPN and NFL Network).
There are no guarantees, of course. But both Utah's Star Lotulelei and BYU's Ziggy Ansah are expected to go in the first round.
And afterward, Cougar and Ute fans will be talking trash about who went first; who went to a better team; who will turn out to be a better NFL player; and so on and so on.
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Former Ute gymnasts Missy Marlowe and Meredith King — along with tens of thousands of others — want to be on “The Amazing Race.” They’ve posted their audition video on YouTube, which means, well, nothing at this point.

It’s sort of an odd video. It’s filled with decades-old gymnastics clips of Marlowe and King, and it features the two of them talking aboiut religion and politics. Which are two things “The Amazing Race” has pretty much avoided for 22 seasons.

And it’s one thing to send a video with your phone number in it to the producers of a TV show. It’s another to post it on YouTube.