TV highlights

SUNDAY 8 p.m. on WTAE

2022 American Music Awards It’s hard to believe but it’s been 50 years since the legendary Dick Clark created the first American Music Awards show making it one of the longest continually broadcast award shows. But this year’s golden anniversary will celebrate the history that has been made on the AMA stage.

MONDAY 8 p.m. on ESPN NFL Football

The last of five games in the NFL’s International Series for 2022 brings the league south of the border for the first time as Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals face Jimmy Garoppolo and the San Francisco 49ers at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

TUESDAY 7:30 p.m. on TNT NBA Basketball

Divisional rivalries are the order of tonight’s doubleheader, which tips off in Philadelphia, where the Brooklyn Nets face the 76ers in a meeting between Atlantic rivals. Then in the nightcap, it’s the first place and the last place Los Angeles Lakers.

WEDNESDAY 6 p.m. on AMC Movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Writer-director John Hughes teamed John Candy and Steve Martin in this 1987 comedy about a stuffy businessman trying to get home for Thanksgiving.

THURSDAY 8:15 p.m. on TBS Movie: The Polar Express

Director Robert Zemeckis’ animated 2004 interpretation of Chris Van Allsburg’s holiday story features Tom Hanks in multiple roles through a technique called “motion capture,” which creates a pseudo-real look.

FRIDAY 8 p.m. on KDKA Frosty the Snowman

In this animated classic, Jackie Vernon provides the voice of Frosty, the legendary snowman with a corncob pipe and a button nose. Frosty comes to life when a magician’s hat lands on his head.

SATURDAY

6 a.m. on TBS

Movie: Elf

This 2003 comedy stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human who was adopted by elves as an infant and grows up thinking he’s just a large version of his adoptive father (Bob Newhart).