1) “Sullivan’s Crossing” season-finale, 8 p.m., CW. Last week ended with Maggie straining to restore Edna’s sight. There was a surgery crisis … and then closing credits. Now we start there, then find other turning points. There are romance questions involving Maggie, her dad, Rafe and Sydney (they’re shown here) and more, plus the opening of the new diner. It’s a solid end to a fairly good year.
2) ESPYs, 8-11 p.m., ABC. Shane Gillis hosts, with a flurry of sports awards. That includes special ones for basketball great Oscar Robertson; Penn State volleyball coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, who won the championship while fighting breast cancer; and Los Angles firefighters, including soccer and swimming stars Erin Regan and David Walters.
3) “Big Brother,” 8-9:30 p.m., CBS. In a change this year, each of the Wednesday episodes will be 90 minutes. (Thursdays and Sundays, after last week’s openers, are an hour.) A “Hollywood Squares rerun follows.
4) “Human Footprint,” 9 p.m., PBS. After some fairly light episodes, this one turns dead-serious. It follows the elaborate steps to truck bees cross-country for their pollinating skills … and the problems that have brought their decline.
5) “Elsbeth,” 10 p.m., CBS. Don’t you hate it when you wake up on Halloween with a hangover, a haircut, a tattoo and a foggy notion that you have shot someone? That happens here to a former child star, vibrantly played by Brittany O’Grady. It’s a delight, one of the season’s best hours.
— Mike Hughes, TV America