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leaves three people dead, and the team ‘Delilah’ ACES ON BRIDGE presses a reluctant informant to gather By Bobby Wolff What information from his close friends who are North-South reached a thin under suspicion. game on today’s hand, when North made a light negative to watch Delilah double, prompting South to rebid three spades. North then OWN, 8 p.m. New Series overbid when he added one Maahra Hill (black-ish) stars as Delilah more for the road. TUESDAY Connolly, a headstrong, highly principled When West led the heart king lawyer who left her white-shoe law fi rm against four spades, declarer March 9, 2021 could see he needed to estab- decades ago to take on cases the big fi rms lish dummy’s diamonds for All times Central. Start times can vary based ignore. She’s doing her best raising two club discards, using the club kids alone and keeping her ties to family, ace for entry. on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on It seemed natural to win your on-screen guide. friends and faith strong, all while seeking justice for those who need it most. She’s the heart ace and start on trumps. West took his ace and Moonshiners: Smoke Ring challenged, however, by the rich and powerful naively led out two more top of Charlotte, who will do anything to stop hearts, declarer ruffing. Now discovery+ New Series her. The series also stars Jill Marie Jones it was child’s play to draw the Moonshiners favorite Steven Ray Tickle, along (Girlfriends) as Delilah’s confidante and best remaining trumps and tackle with “Hogfather” Tank Jackson, venture into diamonds, first leading the king friend and Susan Heyward (Orange Is the New out of hand to prevent the suit the deep South in search of the best, often Black) as Delilah’s newly hired, ambitious from blocking. 10 tricks made. declarer with no way to score undiscovered, pit masters from around the associate. The defense should have seen dummy’s diamonds. He would country to compete in a high-stakes battle to OWN the danger dummy’s diamonds have a club to lose at the very determine whose heritage and skills produce would pose and attacked the end. Another, less sure defense New Amsterdam consequences of one of his policies. would also have worked. If the best-tasting meat. It’s man, meat and fi re club entry to dummy before NBC, 9 p.m. Meanwhile, Bloom (Janet Montgomery) comes the diamonds were set up. West West had ducked the first spade in its truest form — who will walk away as king In “Essential Workers,” Max (Ryan Eggold) to a startling realization about Iggy (Tyler should have played the club and won his ace to play a dia- or queen of the smoke ring? king after taking his spade ace. mond at trick four, East would is forced to face the heartbreaking Labine). Known as the Merrimac Coup, in theory have been able to win Law & Order: this would force out dummy’s his ace and shift to the club club ace at the cost of a trick in jack, dislodging dummy’s entry. Criminal Intent the suit. However, later on, East Declarer would then be unable could withhold his diamond to reenter his hand to draw CATCH A trumps and run the diamonds. WE tv, 10 a.m. ace for one round, leaving Before she was Supergirl, Melissa Benoist CLASSIC began her TV career guest starring as a ballet LEAD WITH THE ACES ANSWER: If you play double student who becomes a suspect in the murder TCM Spotlight: Growing as takeout, this hand is ideal, of her rival in this 2010 episode of the Jeff showing a smattering of values Goldblum-led drama. Up on Screen: ‘Dean with length in the unbid suits. I prefer double to show four Stockwell & Kurt Russell’ spades, so I would bid two NCIS diamonds. In general, a 4-3 fit in CBS, 7 p.m. TCM, beginning at 7 p.m. diamonds looks like it will play LOEW’S INC. fine; you cannot say that with NCIS dives into the competitive world of food Tonight’s fi lm lineup featuring works from actors whose faces have been famous Horror (1970), based on H.P. Lovecraft’s any confidence about a 4-3 club trucks after fi nding a man frozen to death fit. Whether or not you compete onscreen from childhood to adulthood novella. Continuing from here into early inside one in the new episode “Winter Chill.” over two of a major is not clear; begins with four fi lms from Dean Stockwell. the next morning, you can enjoy some of I would rely on partner to bid if First up is one of Stockwell’s earliest fi lms, onetime child star and current A-lister Kurt appropriate. The Resident the musical comedy Anchors Aweigh Russell’s fi lm work at various ages. While FOX, 7 p.m. (pictured) (1945), which Stockwell made as a child and young adult actor Russell is ©2021 Dist. By Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS In the new episode “First Days, Last Days,” Nic while under contract with MGM and not most remembered for starring in popular (Emily VanCamp) must confront her trauma yet 10 years old and in which he shares live-action Disney fi lms of the 1960s and LOOKING BACK BIRTHDAYS on her fi rst day back at Chastain when the the screen with Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly ’70s, ownership rights likely prohibit TCM and Kathryn Grayson. Stockwell was still from showing those. But you can still enjoy 1987: Chrysler Corp. Today’s Birthdays: man who attacked her is admitted to the ER. announced it had agreed Former Sen. James L. quite young when he made tonight’s next his earlier work in Guns of Diablo (1964), to buy the financially Buckley, Conservative-N.Y. , The Voice fi lm, The Green Years (1946), a drama a Charles Bronson-led Western costarring ailing American Motors is 98. Singer Lloyd Price NBC, 7 p.m. in which he portrays the younger version a 14-year-old Russell. Next, in the comedy/ Corp. is 88. Rapper C-Murder of Tom Drake’s main character, an Irish period drama Fools’ Parade (1971), Russell, 1990: Dr. Antonia (AKA C-Miller) is 50. Actor The initial auditions for Season 20 of the orphan in Scotland. Next, Stockwell, now in his early 20s, costars with James Stewart Novello was sworn in Emmanuel Lewis is 50. music competition series continue in the new in his teens, plays another orphan and gets and George Kennedy. Finally, enjoy the cult- as surgeon general, Rapper Chingy is 41. Actor episode “The Blind Auditions, Part 4.” classic 1987 romantic comedy Overboard, becoming the first woman Matthew Gray Gubler is second billing behind Errol Flynn in Kim and the first Hispanic to 41. Rock musician Chad (1950), an adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling the second fi lm to pair Russell, then in his hold the job. Gilbert (New Found Glory) FBI novel. Finally, an adult Stockwell gives 30s, with longtime real-life partner Goldie 1997: gangsta rapper is 40. NHL defenseman CBS, 8 p.m. a creepy performance in The Dunwich Hawn. The Notorious B.I.G. Brent Burns is 36. Actor In the new episode “Walk the Line,” a bomb (Christopher Wallace) was Brittany Snow is 35. killed in a still-unsolved Rapper Bow Wow is 34. drive-by shooting in Los Rapper YG is 31. Actor PREFER GRIDS? GET TV WEEKLY MAGAZINE Angeles; he was 24. Cierra Ramirez is 26. 1-877-580-4817 mention code “buzz” tvweekly.com/buzz