TV's Best Bets

Wednesday, Nov. 17

“The Goldbergs,” 8 p.m., ABC. Many of TV’s best comedy episodes have centered on Thanksgiving — when people are thrown together in fresh ways. Now this year’s crop starts here. Linda Schwartz plans a feast; Beverly Goldberg — whose daughter is engaged to Linda’s son — gets competitive. Also, Beverly is surprised when her father-in-law (Judd Hirsch) brings a new “lady friend.”

“Home Economics,” 9:30 p.m., ABC. Here’s another Thanksgiving episode: For the first time, the three siblings — Tom, Sarah and Connor — try to create the dinner on their own. Things get complicated when Denise (Sarah’s wife) finds that her own sister is also coming.

“The Masked Singer,” 8 p.m., Fox. We’re to the serious part of the show now. Instead of actors and athletes and such, professional singers are being ousted. Last week, it was two British pros — the Grammy-nominated Natasha Bedingfield, 40, and the incendiary Johnny Rotten (of Sex Pistols fame), 65. That left two people in Group A for next week’s finals; tonight, two are dumped from Group B.

“Secrets of the Dead,” 10 p.m., PBS. In 1613, a feudal lord paired two men who had nothing in common … except a lack of alternatives. One was a samurai who lost everything when his father was convicted of corruption; the other was a Franciscan monk who came to Japan as a Christian missionary, then saw his colleagues condemned to death. Their job was to sail to Europe, negotiate with the Vatican and create trade routes to Japan. It’s an intriguing story, sharply filmed, of a seven-year failure.

“CSI: Vegas,” 10 p.m., CBS. When an abandoned horse is covered with blood, the investigation leads to an overload of suspects – a halfway house for convicted killers. Meanwhile, Grissom and Sidle are closing in on the person they feel has been framing David Hodges and putting old cases in jeopardy.

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