TV This Week: May 12 - 18: ‘Mammas’ on Sundance

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This week’s TV Movies

SUNDAY

Just in time for Mother’s Day, it’s “Mammas.” Isabella Rossellini, pictured, celebrates the maternal instincts of all kinds of critters in this follow-up to her whimsical series “Green Porno” and “Seduce Me.” 5:30 p.m. Sundance

The fantasy-drama “Once Upon a Time” closes another chapter and the Hamptons-set “Revenge” does likewise. 8 and 9 p.m. ABC

Mr. Grizzly, you just come out of hibernation after another long Alaskan winter. What are you gonna do now? You’ll see in the special “Great Bear Stakeout.” 9 p.m. Discovery

Edifice complex: From the Thomas Jefferson-designed Virginia State Capitol to Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, “10 Buildings That Changed America” are surveyed. 10 p.m. KOCE

A man shakes his “Family Tree” and is surprised by what falls out in this new mockumentary-style series from Christopher Guest. 10:30 p.m. HBO

MONDAY

Without a hitch? Robin and Barney’s wedding day is fast approaching on the season finale of “How I Met Your Mother.” 8 p.m. CBS

It’s bye-bye, Beverly Hills, when the rebooted teen drama “90210” ends its five-season run. 8 p.m. KTLA

Mom! Make him/her stop it! Skateboarder Tony Hawk, “SNL’s” Seth Meyers and Donny and Marie Osmond are among the stars talking sibling rivalries on “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee.” 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

Goodbye, girls! “2 Broke Girls” presents its season-two finale. 9 p.m. CBS

The season began with Beckett and Castle’s first-ever morning after but ends with their relationship at a possible crossroads on “Castle.” 10 p.m. ABC

The shockingly high incidence of rape and sexual assault within the U.S. armed services is investigated in “The Invisible War” on a new “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Similarly simian? The many ways in which we are not all that different from our fellow primates are explored in the new series “Going Ape.” 10 p.m. Nat Geo

TUESDAY

There’s an manhunt on “NCIS” and a nuclear explosion on “NCIS: Los Angeles” when the action dramas end their seasons. 8 and 9 p.m. CBS

From Mount Helicon where the Muses reside, Terpsichore smiles down upon the 10th-season premiere of “So You Think You Can Dance.” 8 p.m. Fox; also 9 p.m. Wed.

Goodbye, other girls! Zooey Deschanel’s “New Girl” ends its second season and Mindy Kaling’s “The Mindy Project” its first. 9 and 9:30 p.m. Fox

WEDNESDAY

The two top singers vie for the title of “American Idol” and perhaps we’ll see a bit more of Nicki versus Mariah in the season finale. 8 p.m. Fox; also Thu.

What’s black and white and migrates across Africa’s Kalahari Desert each year? Join the “Great Zebra Exodus” and find out on a new “Nature.” 8 p.m. KOCE

Black Sabbath, the legendary British rock band group fronted by Ozzy Osbourne, puts in an appearance on the season finale of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” 10 p.m. CBS

“Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe” charts recent scientific advances that may one day have us boldly going where no man has gone before and includes a sneak peak at the new film “Star Trek Into Darkness.” 10 p.m. History

THURSDAY

Have slide rule, will travel: Leonard (Johnny Galecki) gets a job offer that would mean him moving overseas on the season finale of “The Big Bang Theory.” 8 p.m. CBS

“The Office” shuts its doors for good with a retrospective followed by an hour-long series finale. And although Steve Carell is long gone, here’s a “That’s what she said!” for old times’ sake. 8 and 9 p.m. NBC

We don’t trust her already: “Game of Thrones’” Natalie Dormer guest stars as a mystery women from Sherlock’s (Jonny Lee Miller) past on the season finale of “Elementary.” 9 p.m. CBS

There’s a super-storm a-ragin’ on the “Grey’s Anatomy” season-ender and another scandal a-brewin’ on the season finale of “Scandal.” 9 and 10 p.m. ABC

FRIDAY

Our heroine (Maggie Q) faces a life-or-death decision — she lives and Michael (Shane West) dies or vice versa — on the season finale of “Nikita.” 8 p.m. KTLA

What happens in Mantua stays in Mantua … except when it happens in Vegas. Verdi’s classic opera “Rigoletto” gets a Sin City-themed makeover on a new “Great Performances at the Met.” 9 p.m. KOCE

SATURDAY

Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Bruce Willis are the nominal grown-ups in Wes Anderson’s 1965-set 2012 pre-teen romance “Moonrise Kingdom.” 7:15 p.m. HBO

Great Scots! Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane lend their brogues to the Pixar-animated 2012 adventure tale “Brave.” 8 p.m. Starz

You gotta have Heart … and Rush, Randy Newman and Quincy Jones, just some of the musical greats feted at the “2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.” 9 p.m. HBO