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TV This Week, May 18-24: ‘Labyrinth,’ ‘The Maya Rudolph Show’ and more

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This week’s TV Movies

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SUNDAY

Chris Martin and company perform new songs and fan favorites in the special “Coldplay: Ghost Stories.” 7 p.m. NBC

Leaving Las Vegas as the winning team is the goal when the latest running of “The Amazing Race” wraps up in Sin City. 8 p.m. CBS

Girls just want to have fun: Miley Cyrus and Lorde are among the performers slated for the “2014 Billboard Music Awards” in Las Vegas. 8 p.m. ABC

Sex addiction is no laughing matter — OK, it is, a bit — in the 2012 comedy-drama “Thanks for Sharing.” Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and Gwyneth Paltrow star. 8 p.m. Epix

MONDAY

After five seasons, “Warehouse 13” finally shuts its doors forever — or at least until some “Storage Wars” types come along to bid on its mysterious contents. 9 p.m. Syfy

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Andi Dorfman, who famously bailed on Juan Pablo on the last cycle of “The Bachelor,” will be the one handing out the roses on the return of “The Bachelorette.” 9:30 p.m. ABC

Religion, politics and human rights clash in the 2013 documentary “God Loves Uganda” on “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

An “SNL” and “Bridesmaids” star is your hostess with the mostest in the old-school variety spectacular “The Maya Rudolph Show.” 10:01 p.m. NBC

Very good: Julianna Marguiles talks about her hit drama “The Good Wife” on a new edition of “The Writers’ Room.” 11 p.m. Sundance Channel

TUESDAY

All rise! The new special “Judge Judy Primetime” details how the onetime family-court jurist became the no-nonsense daytime-TV superstar she is today. ?8 p.m. CBS

Merle Haggard, George Strait, Carrie Underwood and others offer musical tributes to our armed forces in “ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute to the Troops.” 9 p.m. CBS

The reality competitions “The Voice” and “Dancing With the Stars” reveal their respective winners. 9 p.m. NBC; 9 p.m. ABC

Jewish prisoners who made a desperate “Escape From a Nazi Death Camp” in Poland in October 1943 are remembered in this new special. 9 p.m. KOCE

WEDNESDAY

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There’ll be a new “Survivor” and a new “American Idol” when these two reality series end their current seasons. 8 p.m. CBS; 8 p.m. Fox

“Revolution” will not be televised after the season finale of this recently canceled post-apocalyptic drama. 8 p.m. NBC

Birds do it, bees do it, even wild wildebeest do it — swarm, that is — on a new “Nature.” 8 p.m. KOCE

You can’t keep a good Munch down: The recently retired cop played by Richard Belzer drops by on the season finale of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” 9 p.m. NBC

Here come the grooms: Cam and Mitch (Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson) request the honor of your presence on the season finale of “Modern Family.” 9 p.m. ABC

“Motive” — the police procedural that shows you whodunit, then lets you watch the cops figure it out — gets a second season. Kristin Lehman and Louis Ferreira star. 10 p.m. ABC

Dasvidaniya, comrades! The Keri Russell-Matthew Rhys spy drama “The Americans” ends its second season. 10 p.m. FX

THURSDAY

Those well versed in chapter and verse compete on the return of “American Bible Challenge.” Jeff Foxworthy hosts. 5 p.m. GSN

They seek the Holy Grail in the two-part historical fantasy “Labyrinth.” John Hurt and “Downton Abbey’s” Jessica Brown-Findlay star. 8 p.m. KTLA; concludes Fri.

Reality-TV stardom can wreak havoc on a real-life marriages — um, duh? — as revealed on “The E! True Hollywood Story.” 8 p.m. E!

A cop’s hidden past threatens to catch up with him in the new drama “Gang Related.” Ramon Rodriguez and “Lost’s” Terry O’Quinn star. 9 p.m. Fox

You think you’re funny? Well, Roseanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters will be the judges of that on the return of “Last Comic Standing” hosted by J.B. Smoove. 9:01 p.m. NBC

FRIDAY

Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Oscar winner Linda Hunt star in Peter Weir’s atmospheric 1982 thriller “The Year of Living Dangerously.” 5 p.m. TCM

See what all the squealing’s about when the chart-topping British/Irish boy-band invites you into their world in the 2013 documentary “One Direction: This Is Us.” 8 p.m. Starz

SATURDAY

A Memorial Day weekend’s worth of classic war movies includes 1968’s “The Green Berets” starring John Wayne and 1967’s “The Dirty Dozen” with Lee Marvin. 5 p.m. AMC; 5 p.m. TCM

Don’t get out of the boat! Assorted cryptids and a rougarou or two might be waiting for you in the special “American Swamp Monsters.” 8 p.m. Animal Planet

You’re never too old: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren are back in action in the 2013 sequel “Red 2.” 8 p.m. HBO

It’s the end of the world as they know it and they feel drunk in the pub-crawling 2013 sci-fi comedy “The World’s End.” Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star. 10 p.m. Cinemax

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