Jay Leno returns to TV in a big way as recipient of “The Mark Twain Prize” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings). His “Tonight” show successor Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, former bandleader Kevin Eubanks, Jerry Seinfeld, Wanda Sykes, Seth Meyers, Garth Brooks and many more travel to the Kennedy Center to induct him, in the event taped last month in Washington. With any luck, he will refrain from going Jay Walking.
Pitbull hosts the 2014 American Music Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.) with performances from Charli XCX, One Direction, Lorde, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Mary J. Blige, Fergie and 5 Seconds of Summer.
It’s Cowboys at Giants (NBC, 8:30 p.m.) in Sunday Night Football. Earlier NFL action includes Detroit at New England (Fox, 1 p.m.), Tennessee at Philadelphia (CBS, 1 p.m.) and Washington at San Francisco (CBS, 4:25 p.m.).
The Solloway family returns to Brooklyn on “The Affair” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) and everybody goes to therapy.
Carrie’s got some stuff to fix on “Homeland” (Showtime, 9 p.m.).
The FBI raids “The Newsroom” (HBO, 9 p.m.) and goes looking for Neal while Will withholds his source.
Valerie greets Seth Rogen, playing himself playing Paulie G on a new episode of “The Comeback” (HBO, 10 p.m.).
The air conditioner is on the fritz on “Getting On” (HBO, 10:30 p.m.) and there’s trouble understanding a deaf patient.
It’s another big episode for “The Good Wife” (CBS, 9 p.m.).
And they cook up another Thanksgiving episode on “Bob’s Burgers” (Fox, 9:30 p.m.).
Will Forte lends a voice on “The Simpsons” (Fox, 8 p.m.) as King Toot, owner of King Toot’s Music Store, which moved in next door to Moe’s Tavern.
A Spencer Tracy double feature pairs “Plymouth Adventure” (TCM, 8 p.m.) with “Northwest Passage” (TCM, 10 p.m.).
Men’s college hoops today includes Massachusetts vs. Florida State (ESPNU, noon), Notre Dame vs. Providence (ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.), South Florida at North Carolina State (ESPNU, 4 p.m.), North Carolinia Central at Creighton (Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.), .
In hockey it’s Montreal at Rangers (NHL, 7 p.m.). In pro basketball, Charlotte at Miami (NBA, 8 p.m.).
Sunday Talk
ABC: President Barack Obama. CBS: Sen. Dick Durbin, Reps. Michael McCaul, Luis Gutierrez and Raul Labrador, NAACP president Cornell William Brooks. NBC: Sens. Jeff Flake and Robert Menendez, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Brown family attorney Anthony Gray, former Shell Oil CEO John Hofmeister, author Daniel Yergin. CNN: Sen. Lindsey Graham, President of the NAACP legal defense fund Sherrilyn Ifill, Rick Santorum. Fox News: Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Xavier Becerra, Gov.-elect Greg Abbott.