TV This Week for Dec. 29-Jan. 4: NBC’s ‘Community’ is back

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This week’s TV Movies

SUNDAY

A salute to Peter O’Toole gets underway with the late actor’s star-making turn in director David Lean’s 1962 epic “Lawrence of Arabia.” 5 p.m. TCM

“Scambushed” offers tips on avoiding pickpockets and others who prey on vacationers. Don’t leave home without watching it. 7 and 7:30 p.m. Travel

“Call the Midwife” delivers another special holiday episode. 7:30 p.m. KOCE

Piano man Billy Joel, guitar man Carlos Santana and jazz man Herbie Hancock are among the artists feted at “The 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.” 9 p.m. CBS

Daniel Tosh spotlights the wacky women of the World Wide Web in “Tosh.0 Ladies Night.” 9 p.m. Comedy Central

There will be twerking! “Pop Goes the Year” is a Miley-to-Kanye survey of 2013’s biggest personalities, stories and scandals. 10 p.m. E!

MONDAY

All the Internet’s a stage, as you will see in “Webstars II: More Kids Who Are Online Hits” on a new “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee.” 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

“Independent Lens” presents “How to Survive a Plague,” David France’s inspiring 2012 doc about the early days of the AIDS crisis. 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

This just in: Silver fox and flame-haired vixen will reunite for “New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin.” 6 and 10:05 p.m. CNN

Yo-Yo Ma lends his mad cello-playing skills to the New York Philharmonic’s opening-night gala concert on “Live From Lincoln Center.” 8 p.m. KOCE

Our New Year’s resolution? No more “twerking” references. Speaking of which, Miley Cyrus is slated to perform on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2014.” 10 and 11:30 p.m. ABC

Meanwhile, Blake Shelton, Mariah Carey and co-host Jayne Lynch help ring in the new on “NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly.” 10 and 11:30 p.m. NBC

WEDNESDAY

Why watch the rest when you can watch the best? Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards host live, local coverage of “The 125th Tournament of Roses Parade.” 8 a.m. KTLA

A big batch of New Year’s Day college-football games includes Michigan State vs. Stanford in the Rose Bowl and Baylor vs. Central Florida in the Fiesta Bowl. 2 and 5:30 p.m. ESPN

A school-age sorceress practices her craft in the new fantasy-comedy series “Every Witch Way.” 7:30 p.m. Nickelodeon; also Thu., Fri.

There will be waltzing when Julie Andrews hosts “Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2014.” 8 p.m. KOCE

“Dance Moms” doubles up with a preview special and a season premiere, followed by the new pageant-themed reality series “Kim of Queens.” 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Lifetime

After the special “My Strange Addiction: I’m a Living Doll” — nothing creepy about that — “My Strange Addiction” is back with two new episodes. 9, 10 and 10:30 p.m. TLC

The most dangerous game? A former Navy SEAL attempts to elude highly-skilled pursuers in the new reality series “Lone Target.” 10 p.m. Discovery

THURSDAY

“Patt Morrison on Downton Abbey” features the L.A. Times columnist and assorted experts waxing rhapsodic about everyone’s favorite British melodrama. 7 p.m. KOCE

Homecoming: Recent grad Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) is back, as is series creator Dan Harmon, when “Community” returns with two new episodes. 8 and 8:30 p.m. NBC

Two many cooks? Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre and Marcus Samuelsson put would-be chefs to the test on the return of “The Taste.” 8 p.m. ABC

Whack-a-mole! The CIA’s hunt for Cold War-era double agent Aldrich Ames is dramatized in the new eight-part series “The Assets.”10 p.m. ABC

Those who laughed in the face of death and lived to tell the tale do so in the new reality series “Do or Die.” 10 and 10:30 p.m. National Geographic Channel

Get the skinny on two BFFs and their fledgling fitness empire in the new reality series “Toned Up.” 10:30 p.m. Bravo

FRIDAY

Joan Rivers and company try to predict the celebrity style trends they’ll be ragging on in 2014 on a new “Fashion Police.” 9 p.m. E!

Good ol’ boy: Billy Bob Thornton directs and stars in the Southern-set 2012 drama “Jayne Mansfield’s Car.” 9 p.m. Starz

SATURDAY

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… “MythBusters.” Adam and Jamie have a go at the “Star Wars” saga in the season premiere. 8 p.m. Discovery

This time, it’s biblical: Craig Robinson, Anna Kendrick and “Community’s” Ken Jeong star in the apocalyptic 2013 comedy “Rapture-Palooza.” 8 p.m. Epix

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd engage in extracurricular activities of the meet-cute kind in the 2013 rom-com “Admission.” 8 and 11 p.m. HBO

It’s like “Wait Until Dark” all over again in the new thriller “Blindsided.” Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton star. 8 p.m. Lifetime