Friday’s TV Highlights: ‘Great Performances’ on KOCE

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Masters of Illusion In a new episode, host Dean Cain welcomes featured magicians Nathan Burton, Tom Burgoon, Greg Frewin, Arthur Trace, Matt Marcy, Les Arnold and Dazzle, and Tommy Wind. 8 p.m. KTLA

Defiance As hordes of freed Omec hunt Defiance citizens, most of the community’s power players — Nolan, Amanda, Datak, Irisa (Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Tony Curran, Stephanie Leonidas) and their friends — risk a potential suicide mission to end the threat once and for all in the season finale. Anna Hopkins and Jaime Murray also star. 8 p.m. Syfy

Great Performances Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in its annual open-air concert from the gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schonbrunn Palace, with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder. On the bill are works by Grieg, Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss II. 9 p.m. KOCE

Dark Matter The team’s handler (David Hewlett) returns to send the crew on what they expect to be a fairly routine mission to retrieve a scientist being held against his will on a distant world, but the assignment turns into a horrific ordeal for one team member. Wil Wheaton guest stars, 9 p.m. Syfy. The season finale follows at 10 p.m.

MOVIES

Ingrid Bergman Two of the highlights of TCMs 24-hour tribute to the great actress are the 1942 classic “Casablanca,” with Humphrey Bogart leading an all-star cast, and the 1944 psychological drama “Gaslight” with Charles Boyer and a young and pert Angela Lansbury in her first movie role. 5 and 7 p.m. TCM

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Josh Groban. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Darius Rucker performs; Rafael Nadal; Uzo Aduba. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America “The Great Food Truck Race” preview; fertility. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Amy Smart (“Break Point”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Michael Joe Manganiello; Common; Kate McKinnon. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Carly Fiorina. 10 a.m. KABC

The Dr. Oz Show A doctor says he has been to heaven. 10 a.m. KCOP

The Meredith Vieira Show Maksim Chmerkovskiy; chef Paula Deen; Mario Lopez and wife Courtney Mazza. 11 a.m. KNBC

The Doctors Valerie Harper. 11 a.m. KCAL

The Talk Vin Diesel; Boy George; Jenny Hutt. 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show Many uses for everyday things; Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb (“Today”); chef Rocco DiSpirito. 2 p.m. KTTV

Dr. Phil Two women blame each other for their estrangement of more than a year. 3 p.m. KCBS

The Real Miss Robbie Montgomery and Tim Norman. 3 p.m. KTTV

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Scarlett Johansson; Chris Evans; Idina Menzel; Adam Lambert performs. 4 p.m. KNBC

Charlie Rose — the Week (N) 7:30 p.m. KOCE

Washington Week With Gwen Ifill Democratic National Committee’s meeting: Dan Balz, the Washington Post. Speculation about a Joe Biden presidential run: Carol Lee, the Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump’s media strategy; Jeb Bush attacks Trump’s immigration plan: Michael Scherer, Time. President Obama’s agenda: nuclear deal with Iran; climate change; 10th anniversary of Katrina: Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics. (N) 8 p.m. KOCE

Real Time With Bill Maher Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); Michael Weiss; Robert Costa; women’s rights activist Wendy Davis; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). (N) 10 and 11 p.m. HBO

Tavis Smiley Mark Ruffalo. 11 p.m. KOCE

Charlie Rose (N) 11:30 p.m. KOCE; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Tonight Show Barbra Streisand performs. 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Jimmy Kimmel Live Kelly Clarkson performs. 11:35 p.m. KABC

The Late Late Show With James Corden Jim Gaffigan. 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC