The Apple Watch is Ready to Start Ticking Today

5 Things You Need to Know Monday - Stateline Polar Plungers video, kids + video = better in school, Hemsworth great in SNL debut, and tonight's MUST WATCH TV.

The Apple Watch ready to start ticking. (USA Today)

Watch Apple's live stream presentation at 12 Noon CDT here.

Stateliners take the plunge to help benefit the Illinois Special Olympics. (My Stateline)

Chris Hemsworth on SNL: goes shirtless, spoofs Empire. (USA Today)

Kids who play a lot of video games do better in school. (US News)

TV Tonight

The two-hour season finale of The Bachelor at 7:00 p.m. on ABC. Whitney the fertility nurse and Becca the chiropractic assistant are the final two. And your next Bachelorette will be revealed in the "After the Final Rose" special at 9:00 p.m.

The Voice, 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. on NBC. The blind auditions come to an end and the battle rounds begin . . . with Ellie Goulding, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas, and Lionel Richie serving as this season's advisors.

The series premiere of The Returned, 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on A&E. This is like a darker version of that other show Resurrection with a bunch of long-dead people suddenly returning to a remote mountain town.