Today’s Highlights

Morning news shows: “CBS News Sunday Morning” (6 a.m. CBS). “Today” (6 a.m. NBC): Chris Matthews (“Life’s a Campaign”); Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”). “Good Morning America” (6 a.m. ABC). “Fox 11 Sunday Morning News” (7 a.m. Fox).

Public Affairs: “Face the Nation” (7:30 a.m. CBS). “Meet the Press” (8 a.m. NBC). “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” (8 a.m. ABC). “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer” (8 a.m. CNN). “The Chris Matthews Show” (9 a.m. NBC). “Larry King Live” (6 p.m. CNN). “60 Minutes” (7 p.m. CBS).

SERIES

Cuisine: Amy Finley, the Season 3 winner of “The Next Food Network Star,” hosts the new series “Gourmet Next Door” (1 p.m. Food), which opens with a taste of French food.

Snake bit: A python repeatedly bites Dr. Barr and wraps him in its powerful coils when he tries to capture it on “Dangerous Encounters With Brady Barr” (7 p.m. NGC).

Mean girls: Katie (Leah Pipes) gets an offer of homework help from two popular students (Tiffany Mulheron, Shannon Esra) on “Life Is Wild” (8 p.m. CW).

Clear cool water: Hank (Mike Judge) takes the family to the water park, where they have to get past a group of bullying surfers to experience the wave pool on “King of the Hill” (8:30 p.m. Fox).

Eavesdropper: Bree tells her friends what she overheard in the Mayfair house on “Desperate Housewives” (9 p.m. ABC).

New Year’s wedding: A feuding couple is planning a wedding for New Year’s Eve in the groom’s hometown in the season finale of “Bridezillas” (9 p.m. WE).

Yeehaw! The new series “Girl Meets Cowboy” (10 p.m. WE) premieres with a cooking contest, gunslinger poker, horse riding and ranch chores.

Notoriety: The new series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” (10:30 p.m. E!) offers a peek inside the private family life of twentysomething socialite Kim Kardashian, the daughter of the late attorney Robert Kardashian.

Davy Jones’ locker: Divers explore Micronesia’s Truk Lagoon, resting place of downed planes and sunken ships from World War II and home to all kinds of sea creatures, many never seen, on “Expedition Pacific Abyss” (9 p.m. Discovery).

Sister ship: Divers try to unravel the mystery of the Britannic, sister ship of the Titanic, that sank in the Mediterranean in 1916 on “Titanic’s Tragic Sister” (10 p.m. History).

Another world: Kurt Russell and James Spader in star in the 1994 fantasy-adventure “Stargate” (6:30 p.m. Sci Fi).

Football: The Cincinnati Bengals visit the Kansas City Chiefs (10 a.m. CBS); the Philadelphia Eagles visit the New York Jets (10 a.m. Fox); the Oakland Raiders visit the San Diego Chargers (1 p.m. CBS); and the New Orleans Saints visit the Seattle Seahawks (5:15 p.m. NBC).

Soccer: Colorado Rapids visits Club Deportivo Chivas USA (noon FS Prime).

College Football: Nevada visits Boise State (5 p.m. ESPN).

Hockey: The Detroit Red Wings visit the Kings (5 p.m. FSN); the Minnesota Wild visit the Ducks (5 p.m. FS Prime).

Baseball playoffs: The Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Colorado Rockies (5 p.m. TBS).