They’ve saluted the Beatles, Prince and The Bee Gees in past salutes, but this year’s “A Grammy Salute to the Sound of Change” (CBS, 9 p.m.) is about an attitude.
It gives a chance for Andra Day to sing Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” one more time; Cynthia Erivo will take on “Imagine”; and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On” will be tackled by Gladys Knight (pictured above), Sheila E., and some of the other stars of the show, which will also include LeAnn Rimes, Brad Paisley, Chris Stapleton, Shania Twain, Kesha, Leon Bridges, Patti LaBelle and Terrace Martin. Common hosts the two-hour event.
(And while they’re talking change, they may take a look at the Grammy Awards show itself, which had its lowest ever ratings Sunday with 9.23 million viewers — down nearly 10 million from last year alone).
Matthew Modine stars as Rick Singer, who was behind the scheme to get rich kids into the best schools in the docudrama “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal” (Netflix, streaming), from Chris Smith and Jon Karmen, who were behind one of the popular Netflix doc “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.”
“The Masked Singer” (Fox, 8 p.m.) plunders on, even after last week’s fifth season premiere, in which a snail was unmasked to be … Kermit the Frog. Which also seemed to be someone in a mask, as puppets are. Who’ll be the unmasked “star” tonight? SpongeBob?
Its companion show “Game of Talents” (Fox, 9 p.m.) drew 3.1 million viewers for last week’s premiere.
“Riverdale” (CW, 8 p.m.) is rocked by a big announcement.
A new episodes come for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (TBS, 10:30 p.m.).