For some reason, after being demoted to cable and held in Vegas, “Miss America” (ABC, 9 p.m.) is back on broadcast prime time and in Atlantic City. Part of the deal is having two ABC hosts, Lara Spencer and Chris Harrison. The saddest thing is that the pageant is still the largest scholarship available to American women. How is this event progressing? Well Miss Kansas has tattoos. Hoo boy.
If we don’t know exactly how season two of “The Newsroom” (HBO, 10 p.m.) will end tonight, at least we know the winner of the election they’re covering.
Like “The Patty Duke Show” of yore (or 45 years ago), the new “Liv and Maddie” (Disney, 8 p.m.) is about a pair of twins so identical, they’re played by the same person, Dove Cameron. One is a basketball star, the other a Hollywood snob.
A new season of “Foyle’s War” begins after the war is over, with the detective working for the MI5 on “Masterpiece Mystery!” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
The elderly love story “Last Tango in Halifax” ((PBS, 8 p.m.) check local listings), may be on early for the same reasons they have early-bird specials.
It’s San Francisco at Seattle (NBC, 8:20 p.m.) in Sunday Night football. Earlier, it’s Washington at Green Bay (Fox, 1 p.m.), Cleveland at Baltimore (CBS, 1 p.m.) and Denver at Giants (CBS, 4:25 p.m.).
At least McCranda is out of house but there’s rarely been a least deserving final three on “Big Brother” (CBS, 8 p.m.) than Andy, GinaMarie and Spencer. Beware football delays.
Spoiler alert: “Breaking Bad” (AMC, 9 p.m.) has devolved into a Western shootout, as if they ran out of dialog two episodes ago. And there’s still two episodes to go.
“Low Winter Sun” (AMC, 10 p.m.) at least has some story left to tell.
Jeffrey Wright makes quite an impression as Harlem bigwig Dr. Valentin Narcisse, making his way to Atlantic City to settle a score with Nucky Thompson on “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO, 9 p.m.).
Before fleeing his network, “Dexter” (Showtime, 9 p.m.) considers fleeing the country.
Once, kids, there was a a good Robert Duvall movie called “The Great Santini.” It has nothing to do with the new reality series “The Great Santini Brothers” (History, 10 p.m.) which follows around siblings who have a moving company in Brooklyn. Not sure of the history angle though.
The month-long Sunday salute to Alfred Hitchcock on Turner Classic Movies continues with “Number Seventeen” (10 a.m.), “The Trouble With Harry” (11:15 a.m.), “Family Plot” (1:15 p.m.), “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (3:30 p.m.), “Vertigo” (5:45 p.m.), “Rear Window” (8 p.m.), “To Catch a Thief” (10 p.m.) and “The Farmer’s Wife” (midnight).
In Sunday baseball, it’s Yankees at Red Sox (ESPN, 8 p.m.).
Sunday Talk
ABC: President Barack Obama. CBS: Sens. Carl Levin and Bob Corker, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. NBC: Sens. Robert Menendez and Roy Blunt, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, former Rep. Barney Frank. CNN: Reps, Mike Rogers, Elijah Cummings, Adam Schiff and Jason Chaffetz. Fox News: Reps. Mike McCaul and Chris Van Hollen.