Archive for Sunday, May 11, 2008

TELEVISION

Today’s Highlights

FOREST FORAGING: ‘Nature’ (8 p.m. KCET) goes in search of red deer and other animals in the Austrian Alps.

SERIES

Overtime: NBC offers four episodes of the workplace satire “The Office” (8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 p.m. NBC).

Happy Mother’s Day? Homer tries to fulfill his mother’s dying wish on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m. Fox).

Faith and humor: “America at a Crossroads” (10 p.m. KCET) profiles Muslim-American comics.

TALK SHOWS

Morning shows: “Today” (6 a.m. NBC); “Good Morning America” (6 a.m. ABC); “CBS News Sunday Morning” (7 a.m. CBS).

Public affairs: “Pacesetters” (6 a.m. CW); “Meet the Press” (8 a.m. NBC); “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” (8 a.m. ABC); “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” (8 a.m. Fox); “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer” (8 a.m. CNN); “Face the Nation” (8:30 a.m. CBS); “Midday Sunday” (9 a.m. Fox); “60 Minutes” (7 p.m. CBS).

SPECIALS

Celebu-moms: The TV Guide Channel celebrates “Mother’s Day: Hollywood Style” (11 a.m. and 8 p.m. TVG).

Heal thyself: KCET presents the exposé “Struggling in Silence: Physician Depression and Suicide” (6 p.m. KCET).

Animalistic: An epic struggle among lions, water buffalo and crocodiles that became an Internet hit is explored in “Caught on Safari: Battle at Kruger” (6 and 9 p.m. Nat Geo).

Cetacean: “Ocean Voyagers” (8 and 11 p.m. Animal Planet) follows the 7,000-mile journey of a humpback whale.

Prehistoric: The battle for supremacy between Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthal man is explored in “Clash of the Cavemen” (8 p.m. History).

Faith and flight: “On a Wing and a Prayer: An American Muslim Learns to Fly” (11 p.m. KCET) details one man’s efforts to battle post-Sept. 11 perceptions and obtain a pilot’s license.

MOVIES

Traitor: Chris Cooper stars in the fact-based 2007 thriller “Breach” (6:05 p.m. Cinemax).

Mulder and Scully: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in the 1998 big-screen version of the sci-fi series “The X-Files” (7:30 p.m. MyNet).

SPORTS

Baseball: The Angels visit the Rays (10:30 a.m. FSN) and the Dodgers host the Astros (1 p.m. FSPrime).

Golf: The Players Championship concludes (11 a.m. NBC).

Basketball: The Western Conference semifinals continue as the Lakers visit the Jazz (12:30 p.m. ABC) and the Hornets visit the Spurs (5 p.m. TNT).

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