TV HIGHLIGHTS

American Masters, 8 PM on Ch. 16 and Ch. 48: Emmy-winning filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy takes a clear-eyed look at American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, a Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65 and turned her frontier childhood into the bestselling “Little House” books. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, photographs and family artifacts, the documentary explores the context in which Wilder lived and wrote, aswell as the true nature of her personality. Victor Garber narrates; interviewees include Melissa Gilbert and other cast members of the hit TV series adaptation, “Little House on the Prairie.”

Popstar’s Best of 2020, 8 PM on Ch. 26: Elizabeth Stanton (“World’s Funniest Animals”) serves as host for this newone-hour special, wherein she counts down what polls from Popstar Magazine indicates were the greatest and most memorablemoments and trends of 2020, which many viewers no doubt will consider a year that will live in infamy.

The Year: 2020, 9PM on Ch. 22 and Ch. 9: Robin Roberts hosts the 10th anniversary edition of this two-hour special that looks back at events that defined the past 12 months, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the contentious presidential race. George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan and David Muir are among the multiple cohosts joining Roberts, along with such guests as actors Eugene Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”) and Kal Penn, political commentator Michael Eric Dyson, fashion designer Christian Siriano, comics Joel McHale and Nikki Glaser, “Queer Eye” streaming star Karamo Brown and country musician Brad Paisley.