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Chuck Barney, TV critic and columnist for Bay Area News Group, for the Wordpress profile in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Bay Area News Group)
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WATCH THIS:

  • “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS): On the Season 6 finale of the crime series, Frank (Tom Selleck), the mayor (David Ramsey) and the DA’s office contend with public outrage after a grand jury doesn’t indict an NYPD officer for the controversial shooting of a teenager.

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    “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix): Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin return for a second season of late-life hijinks in this comedy. They play women whose lives were turned upside down when their husbands revealed they are gay and leave them for each other. Now they’ve formed an unlikely and unbreakable bond as they face their uncertain futures head-on.

    Also on Friday:

  • “The Amazing Race” (8 p.m., CBS)

  • “Beyond the Tank” (8 p.m., ABC)

  • “The Vampire Diaries” (8 p.m., The CW)

  • “Washington Week With Gwen Ifill” (8 p.m., PBS)

  • “Adele Live in New York City” (8 p.m., NBC)

  • “Atlanta Plastic” (8 p.m., Lifetime)

  • “Charlie Rose: The Week” (8:30 p.m., PBS)

  • “Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS)

  • “Shark Tank” (9 p.m., CBS)

  • “The Originals” (9 p.m., The CW)

  • “Insane Pools: Off the Deep End” (9 p.m., Animal Planet)

  • “Dateline NBC” (9:30 p.m., NBC)

  • “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC)

  • “Banshee” (10 p.m., Cinemax)

  • “Motive” (10 p.m., CBS)

  • “Real Time With Bill Maher” (10 p.m., HBO)

    Contact Chuck Barney at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.ChuckBarney, or Twitter.com/chuckbarney.