‘Boston Blue’ and More CBS Finales, Nicole Scherzinger at Albert Hall, ‘Ladies First’

Boston Blue

There’s going to be a lot to unpack at the Silvers’ weekly Shabbat dinner in the Season 1 finale of the Boston-set Blue Bloods spinoff. With mother Mae’s (Gloria Reuben) re-election campaign for D.A. in full swing, New York transplant Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) dons the uniform to walk the beat for a shift with his patrolman son Sean (Mika Amonsen), and as you’d expect, shots are fired. The recent family drama unfolding in the Silver household has been pretty explosive as well.

Great Performances

She’s a Broadway belter who hasn’t abandoned her pop princess persona, and Tony and Olivier Award winner Nicole Scherzinger displays all aspects of her formidable range in a concert special — An Evening with Nicole Scherzinger — before an adoring crowd at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where she first triumphed on stage as Norma Desmond. She delivers both Sunset showstoppers (“With One Look” and “As If We Never Said Goodbye”) and Broadway standards, including Sondheim, Funny Girl‘s “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and La Cage aux Folles’ “I Am What I Am.” She pays homage to the iconic Shirley Bassey and her “mentor and big brother” Prince, and after donning her slinky third costume, ends the show with a rousing rendition of her Pussycat Dolls hits.

Ladies First

A chauvinist gets his comeuppance, and perhaps an awakening, in a fantasy-comedy starring Borat‘s Sacha Baron Cohen as boorish ad exec Damien Sachs, who’s accustomed to patronizing the women in his life in every way imaginable. Imagine his shock and dismay when, after accidentally knocking himself unconscious, he wakes to a bizarro world where a female-driven culture rules, from Burger Queen to a lady Pope in the Vatican. His workplace has likewise changed, and he finds himself working for the dynamic Alex Fox (Gone Girl‘s Rosamund Pike), the ambitious employee he barely acknowledged in his own self-involved universe. Whether you find this amusing or terrifying probably says a lot about you.

The Chi

Lena Waithe‘s South Side Chicago chronicle returns for its eighth and final season (with episodes airing Sundays at 9/8c on the linear Paramount+ with Showtime network). The action picks up from the tragic Season 7 finale when matriarch Alicia (Lynn Whitfield) was shot and killed by Roselyn (Kandi Burruss) as payback for her alleged part in the killing of Douda (Curtiss Cook). Will Rashaad (Jason Weaver) and Victor (Luke James), who discovered Alicia’s body, be implicated in the crime?

Dutton Ranch

The Yellowstone spinoff evokes memories of the golden age of prime-time soaps when Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) heads to Dallas to make some business deals for their fledgling Texas ranch. (Wouldn’t she and Dallas scoundrel J.R. Ewing have had a blast playing off of each other?) While she’s away, Rip (Cole Hauser) deals with a potential crisis among the herd, while young Carter (Finn Little) is led astray by Jackson family wildcat Oreana (Natalie Alyn Lind), who’s giving her grandma Beulah (Annette Bening) the sort of grief Beth gave her dad back in the good old Montana days.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• Sheriff Country (8/7c, CBS): Tough times in Edgewater, with Sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Baccarin) and her department becoming the target of an investigation in the Season 1 finale, while on Fire Country (9/8c), the entire community could go underwater after a massive dam break in the Season 4 finale.
• Josh Johnson: Symphony (8/7c, HBO): The Daily Show regular delivers powerful laughs in his first HBO stand-up special.
• NBA Playoffs (8:30 pm/ET, NBC): With the Western Conference finals tied at 1 game apiece, reigning champs Oklahoma City Thunder travel to San Antonio to play the Spurs.
• The Yogurt Shop Murders (9/8c, HBO): Returning to the subject of an August 2025 true-crime docuseries, a fifth episode updates the investigation into the 1991 murder of four teenage girls in Austin with an arrest in the 34-year-old case and exoneration for the men who were falsely accused.
• Amadeus (9/8c, Starz): While Mozart (Will Sharpe) takes a risk by composing the opera The Marriage of Figaro from the text of a book banned by the Emperor (Rory Kinnear), the envious Salieri (Paul Bettany) continues to plot against the unruly young musical genius.

ON THE STREAM:

• For All Mankind (streaming on Apple TV): In the penultimate episode of the riveting space drama, war breaks out in Happy Valley when military troops invade the Martian colony, cutting off communication with the Sojourner explorers on Titan.
• Your Friends & Neighbors (streaming on Apple TV): A fun in-joke: Part-time cat burglar Coop (Jon Hamm) watches the 1981 movie Thief with his kids while juggling domestic crises and secret meetings to try to extricate him and his friends from the dangerous web of the wealthy Owen Ashe (James Marsden).
• Mating Season (streaming on Netflix): Bears and raccoons and foxes, oh my. A raunchy yet heartfelt animated comedy depicts the primal mating desires of lovelorn forest animals, with Silicon Valley‘s Zach Woods, Big Mouth‘s Nick Kroll, and June Diane Raphael leading the voice cast.
• The Bride! (streaming on HBO Max): Director-writer Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s bold take on Bride of Frankenstein makes its streaming debut, with Christian Bale as “Frank” and Hamnet Oscar winner Jessie Buckley as his reanimated mate. The movie premieres Saturday on HBO at 8/7c.
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (streaming on Peacock): Quentin Tarantino‘s two-part revenge blockbuster is edited into a seamless epic film, with bonus sequences not seen in the originals. The streamer’s massive Tarantino drop also includes Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Planet Terror, and Death Proof.