Tuesday’s TV highlights

SERIES

Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Christmas: The chef expands his holiday menu with a honey-glazed ham and pumpkin soup in this new episode (7 and 10 p.m. BBC America).

Skating With the Stars: A winner is chosen on the season finale of this figure skating competition series (8 p.m. ABC).

No Ordinary Family: The Powells must stop using their special powers when Stephanie’s (Julie Benz) parents (Cybill Shepherd, Bruce McGill) show up in this repeat (9 p.m. ABC).

Independent Lens: The two-part documentary “The Calling” concludes with a new generation of students preparing to become ordained religious professionals (9 p.m. KCET).

Billy the Exterminator: In the special episode “The Best of Billy,” Billy takes viewers behind the scenes of some of his most memorable jobs (9 p.m. A&E).

16 and Pregnant: In the season finale, a teenager hopes her aunt and uncle will adopt her baby (10 p.m. MTV).

SPECIALS

Living in the Time of Jesus: In this special three-part, one-night event on National Geographic, historians and other experts speculate on what it would have been like to live in the Holy Land in the first century A.D. Up first, “Making a Living” (5 and 8 p.m.), followed by “Healing the Sick” (6 and 9 p.m.) and “Crime and Punishment” (7 and 10 p.m.)

SPORTS

Tennis: Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal (11:30 a.m. ESPN2).

College basketball: William & Mary at North Carolina (4 p.m. ESPN2); Long Beach State at Arizona State (4 p.m. FSN); USC at Tennessee (4 p.m. FS Prime); UNLV at Kansas State (6 p.m. ESPN2).

College football: Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl St. Petersburg: Louisville vs. Southern Mississippi (5 p.m. ESPN).

Hockey: The Kings visit the Colorado Avalanche (6:30 p.m. FS Prime).

Pro basketball: The Milwaukee Bucks visit the Lakers (7:30 p.m. FSN).