NBC, 12:00 p.m. ET
After Saturday’s long Round 3 (after a delayed completion of Round 2 and the weekend cut), Tiger Woods putted enough bogeys to play his way out of contention, whole Phil Mickelson played well enough to give himself a one-stroke lead heading into today’s final round. Can Mickelson, who played the first round so brilliantly on so little sleep, complete today’s round well enough to achieve a dream: winning his first U.S. Open.
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
The Miami Heat evened this year’s NBC Finals with a vengeance, beating the San Antonio Spurs 109-93. Now it’s the Spurs’ final game before a home crowd before the championship shifts to, and ends in, Miami. So far, this series has been one close game and three eventual blowouts. But now, it’s a new best-of-3, winner-take-all series for the 2013 championship.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This is a busy TV night, with a lot going on – but there’s no ignoring TCM’s prime-time telecast of this 1962 masterpiece, starring Gregory Peck as a small-town lawyer in a flawless adaptation of Harper Lee’s stirring novel.
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: This new season of True Blood is not overseen by series creator Alan Ball, who has left the production – but it continues, and even amplifies, the vamps-as-oppressed-minorities subtext established back when the show premiered. (Check out the opening credits, for that “God hates fangs” roadside sign.) HBO sent out three Season 6 episodes for preview, and they establish a season of persecution” politicians against vampires, watchdogs against werewolves, and one ancient vampire against faeries, for starters. New cast members this year include Rutger Hauer as, no kidding, Sookie’s “faerie grandfather,” and Arliss Howard as a vamp-hating governor – but the best moments feature the core cast members. Bill (Stephen Moyer, who directs tonight’s season premiere) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) get reunited, leading to my favorite moment so far this season: When Bill, in the third episode of 2013, sends his protégé to approach, and return with, a targeted human, and instructs her, “Wear something inappropriate.” I also really enjoy the hyper-aging half-faerie children of Chris Bauer’s Andy (“They grow up so fast,” he’s told, but this time it’s literal.)
AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET
Face it: Last week’s shocker (which might be summarized safely as “What Sally saw”) was so unsettling that, to me, it instantly vaulted over every other TV stunner this season, including the "Red Wedding" of Game of Thrones. That’s why, when some people were complaining about the current season of Mad Men as being too slow, my inclination was to wait to see, because something big, most likely, was coming. Wow. And now what happens? I have no idea. But I’m there.