Today’s Highlights

Oscar winner: Cate Blanchett is profiled on “Biography” (9 a.m. Biography).

Saucy: “Challenge” (8 p.m. Food) samples the fare at a barbecue cook-off in Memphis, Tenn.

Chop, chop: “Ax Men” (10 p.m. History) presents a “Recap Special.”

Hard time: The prison-themed documentary series “Inside” (10 p.m. Tru) returns with new episodes.

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).

Probe: “Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice” (6 p.m. KCET) details plans for the latest unmanned mission to the red planet.

Unflagging: Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna return as hosts of the “National Memorial Day Concert (2008)” (8 p.m. KCET), with musical guests including Gladys Knight.

Furry friends: Animal Planet offers the specials “Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins” (8 p.m. Animal Planet) and “Making of Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins” (9:30 p.m. Animal Planet).

Tune-filled: Cartoon Network presents “My Gym Partner’s a Monkey Animal School Musical” (8 p.m. Cartoon).

Heating up the screen: TV Guide Channel puts the spotlight on “Summer Movie Hunks and Babes” (8 and 11 p.m. TV Guide Channel).

Bad girls: Denise Richards and Neve Campbell are “Wild Things” (5 p.m. MyNet) in this steamy 1998 thriller.

She’s got class: Julia Roberts is a 1950s art history professor in the 2003 drama “Mona Lisa Smile” (8 p.m. MyNet).

Chum: John Schneider stars in the new made-for-cable thriller “Shark Swarm” (8 p.m. Hallmark).

Bad chads: The disputed 2000 presidential election in Florida is revisited in the new docudrama “Recount” (9 p.m. HBO); Kevin Spacey stars.

Bushwhacked: Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star in director Ang Lee’s sweeping 1999 Civil War-era drama “Ride With the Devil” (10:45 p.m. IFC).

Auto racing: The Indianapolis 500 gets underway (10 a.m. ABC).

Baseball: The Dodgers host the Cardinals (1 p.m. FSPrime) and the Angels visit the White Sox (5 p.m. ESPN).

Basketball: The Lakers and the Spurs face off in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals (5:30 p.m. TNT).