Sunday’s TV Highlights: ‘The Pacific’ on HBO

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This week’s TV Movies

WARTIME ROMANCE: Basilone (Jon Seda) meets a female Marine (Annie Parisse) at Camp Pendleton, in a new episode of “The Pacific” at 9 p.m. on HBO.

SERIES

The Amazing Race 16: The remaining teams struggle with the language barrier in Shanghai in this new episode (8 p.m. CBS).

The Celebrity Apprentice: Each team is asked to create radio commercials for a company specializing in plumbing, electrical, and heating and air-conditioning services in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC).

Desperate Housewives: Angie’s (Drea de Matteo) ex (John Barrowman), finally catches up with her in this new episode (9 p.m. ABC).

Masterpiece Mystery!: As “Foyle’s War” returns for another season, the war in Europe is over and Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is assigned to track down a fugitive Russian prisoner of war (9 p.m. KCET).

America the Story of Us: Abraham Lincoln is elected as president in this new episode (9 p.m. History).

The Tudors: Henry’s (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) warm welcome in the North reinvigorates him, but Charles Brandon (Henry Cavill) has an uneasy sense of foreboding, in this new episode (9 p.m. Showtime).

Cold Case: Valens (Danny Pino) helps Rush (Kathryn Morris) search for her abducted sister as Jeffries (Thom Barry) tries to close a case that has haunted him for 17 years in the season finale (10 p.m. CBS).

MOVIES

The Wronged Man: A paralegal (Julia Ormond) fights for justice when a man (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) is wrongfully convicted of rape in this new TV movie (8 p.m. Lifetime).

SPORTS

Basketball: NBA Playoffs: If necessary. (10 a.m. ABC). (12:30 p.m. ABC).

College baseball: LSU at Florida (10 a.m. ESPN).

Baseball: The Angels visit the Detroit Tigers (10 a.m. FSN); the Chicago White Sox visit the New York Yankees (10 a.m. TBS); the Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Chicago Cubs (11 a.m. WGN A); the Pittsburgh Pirates visit the Dodgers (1 p.m. FS Prime); the New York Mets visit the Phillies (5 p.m. ESPN).