WEEKEND TV : Networks Bring Out Big Guns for Sweeps

It must be sweeps when the networks unveil two fresh TV movies with big-name stars and one of the biggest movie blockbusters of the last few years.

Sunday at 9 p.m., the competition for Nielsen families begins on NBC (4)(36)(39) with Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg in box-office smash “Three Men and a Baby.” ABC (7)(3)(10)(42) counters with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore in “The Last Best Year,” a touching story about a woman with terminal cancer and her therapist.

CBS (2)(8), meanwhile, takes the psychological horror route with Peter Strauss in “83 Hours ‘Til Dawn,” a based-on-a-true-story drama about a sociopath who kidnaps and buries alive a young woman.

Earlier Sunday at 3:30 p.m., Channel 4’s “Kids First! A Parents’ Revolution” reports on parent organizations that are fighting to reform the state’s school system.

And the educational theme continues at 7 p.m. in the Disney Channel’s “The American Teacher Awards.” Carol Burnett, Danny DeVito, Tom Selleck and Oprah Winfrey host this event, which honors 36 educators from around the country and names one of them the Outstanding Teacher of the Year.