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All-Star ‘Voice’ Finale, ‘Grand Crew’ Preview, ‘FBI’ Midseason Cliffhanger, A New ‘Nutcracker’

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The musical stars come out to perform when a new winner of The Voice is announced. NBC previews the midseason sitcom Grand Crew, a slice-of-life comedy about Black friends in Los Angeles. FBI signs off for 2021 with the team in the crosshairs of a vengeful drug lord. Alan Cumming and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra present a new take on the classic Nutcracker.

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The Voice

A Season 21 champion will be christened from the five remaining singers, but as is often the case, the star power on display for the season finale threatens to drown out what should be the main event. (Pop quiz: Name three Voice winners without looking them up.) In time-honored tradition, coaches will perform with their remaining artists: Kelly Clarkson with Girl Named Tom and Hailey Mia, John Legend with Jershika Maple, Blake Shelton with Wendy Moten and Paris Winningham. (With no one from her team in the final running, does this mean coach Ariana Grande will stay silent? Unlikely.) Headliners in the grand finale include Carrie Underwood and Legend in a holiday duet of “Hallelujah,” Season 21 Mega Mentor Ed Sheeran performing “Shivers,” and music from former coach Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Walker Hayes and a duet with Keke Palmer and Tori Kelly.

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Grand Crew

With the Voice finale as a powerful lead-in, NBC introduces a new sitcom that will regularly air Tuesdays starting in January. Where Sex and the City had girl talk and cosmos, Grand Crew (from veterans of Brooklyn Nine-Nine) has wine—and men whining, as a friendship circle of young professional Black men (and a few women) gather in mostly upscale Los Angeles bars to work through their copious feelings. As narrator Garrett Morris points out about misunderstood Black men: “We got layers, y’all.” Center stage is romcom fan Noah (Echo Kellum), whose too-easily broken heart is mocked by his more cynical sister, Nicky—played by the great Nicole Byer, more subdued than usual and saddled with tortured jokes like, “Your heart is like a gas station bathroom: open 24 hours and an absolute mess.” In the second of two back-to-back episodes, much is made of the secret shame of Black men crying—or exposing their “emotional genitalia.” This crew might be a lot grander if they could get over themselves.

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FBI

An intense midseason cliffhanger puts Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine (Jeremy Sisto) in the crosshairs when Rina Trenholm (Kathleen Munroe), his boss and secret lover, is shot and seriously wounded as they head to work. Turns out it’s part of a sinister revenge plot from Antonio Vargas (David Zayas), who’s targeting not only the FBI team that put him behind bars but also their loved ones. The action continues into the Jan. 4 return, and let’s just hope Jubal can keep a handle on his sobriety until then. Things aren’t much quieter in the midseason finale of FBI: Most Wanted (9/8c), when Jess (Julian McMahon) and Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) are trapped in a mall when shooting breaks out, and the rest of the team tries to help from the outside.nutcra

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

There’s more to the Nutcracker than the classic and oft-performed ballet. Conductor/educator John Mauceri, leading the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conceived this special, which aims to put the holiday chestnut in context with the original E.T.A. Hoffman novella (published in 1816) and to reveal what happened to the girl and the prince after the dancing stops. Alan Cumming is the narrator of the musical event, with Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet score enhanced by music from the composer’s tone poems and orchestral suites.

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