What's On Tonight (Sunday): Ls make room for Qs

The L Word: Generation Q (via Tumblr)

What's happening? It's not only the last Sunday of the decade but also the end of the last full week. Tomorrow, while still 2019, begins the first week of 2020. The Top Pick tonight is the unnecessary but certainly not unneeded revival of The L Word, returning as The L Word: Generation Q. What is the L word? Leather. The series returns with previous cast Shane, Bette, and Alice, and adds a new generation of young people trying to make their way, even just a decade later, in a different world. Elsewhere, Starz import Dublin Murders wraps up, USA rolls out Dare Me, dancing and dating are merged together, and a Jedi sleeps with his teacher. Wait, I think I mixed that last one up. So [floats through space to safety], here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, December 29!

EARLY PRIMETIME

The Best of 2019 / 2010s (What's On Tonight & Pop Culture, 6 p.m.): Threads for the best television and another for the best movies. Make sure you have your thoughts and lists ready. I... need to work on mine. A related, but not reskinned-for-music Totally Tunes will go up in the afternoon. Think about your year in music. And decade, if you want.

60 Minutes (CBS, 7:30 p.m.): Stories about a clinical trial for a gene therapy for sickle cell anemia, using psychedelic drugs to treat people for depression and anxiety, and New York University's 100% scholarship program for medical students.

Doctor Who 📺 (Retro TV, 7 p.m.): The evil Fenric uses the vampiric Haemovores, descendants of humanity from the future, to attack a World War II naval base in England and orders them to destroy life on Earth by poisoning it with chemicals. The Doctor and Ace must save the day!

Star Wars Resistance (Disney XD, 6 p.m.): Kaz and Norath try to help their friends while being pursued by a deadly bounty hunter.

FOR THE RECORD: Killer Siblings (Oxygen, 7 p.m., finale)

Doctor Who, "The Curse of Fenric" (via Giphy)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

Dublin Murders (Starz, 8 p.m.): FINALE. The finale finds Rob and Cassie forced into a face-to-face reunion. As arrests are made, Rob and Cassie both come to profound realizations.✔️

Flirty Dancing (Fox, 8 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Have you ever gone on a blind date and before anything else, wondered: I wonder if this person is good at dancing? Well, wonder no more! This new dating reality show has strangers each learn half of a dance routine and then then meet for the first time on a blind date where they dance together without saying a word. There is more than one possible suitor, so they gotta pick their favorite. So just like The Masked Singer, this sounds terrible.

Ray Donovan (Showtime, 8 p.m.): Mickey finally learns the truth about the botched heist. Ray and Molly track down Sandy and Mickey by any means necessary.

Sleeping with My Student 🎥 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): I knew a few of these during my educating years. In this telling, new school headmaster Kathy discovers her vacation fling with charming 18-year-old Ian was no accident when he transfers to her school and targets Kathy and her teenage daughter Bree in a deadly scheme. None of the ones I knew about were deadly.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi 🎥 (TNT, 8 p.m.): Hey! It's that really different Star Wars movie that was good in concept but horrible in execution. Now with commercials!

Sunday Night Football (NBC, 8:15-ish p.m.): Miners versus water birds(?)

FOR THE RECORD: 90 Day Fiancé (TLC); Alaska: The Last Frontier (Discovery Channel); Autopsy: The Last Hours of... (Reelz); Heavy Rescue: 401 (Weather Channel); Obsession: Dark Desires (Investigation Discovery); The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo); Ridiculousness (MTV)

Dublin Murders (via Tumblr)

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL

Duff's New Year's Eve Cake-Off (Food Network, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. It's not New Year's Eve, but this guy named Duff rings in the New Year with four professional bakers from around the country who compete in unconventional baking and design challenges where flavor is only the tip of the icing.

Shameless (Showtime, 9 p.m.): Debbie weighs the pros and cons of a new career path. Frank uncovers the truth about Faye's living situation, and a miscommunication between Ian and Mickey has disastrous consequences.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: Before I Die (Investigation Discovery, finale); Married to Medicine (Bravo); Unearthed (Science)

Shameless (via Giphy)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

The Johnny Cash Show 📺 (getTV, 10 p.m.): Back-to-back 1971 episodes feature Derek & The Dominoes (featuring Eric Clapton) in their only TV performance, Connie Smith, Billy Graham, Mahalia Jackson, The Staple Singers, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Blackwood Brothers,The Oak Ridge Boys & The Statler Brothers.

Dare Me (USA, 10 p.m.): The arrival of the starry new cheer coach Colette French threatens Addy and Beth's tight bond. The first episode has been online for some days, FYI.✔️

⭐ The L Word: Generation Q (Showtime, 10 p.m.): Dani is forced to get involved in Bette's personal life; Shane grapples with a big decision. Alice is profiled by a newspaper, and Finley struggles with her growing feelings for Rebecca. Meanwhile, Micah still doesn't know where things stand with José.

FOR THE RECORD: 90 Day Fiancé: Pillow Talk (TLC); Expedition Bigfoot (Travel Channel); On the Case with Paula Zahn (Investigation Discovery) Unexplained and Unexplored (Science); The Weekly (FX)

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL

Lost in the Wild (Travel Channel, 11 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. In this new series, J.J. Kelley and Kinga Philipps try to solve old mysteries. In the first episode, they try to solve the mystery of what happened to Dutch tourists Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers who vanished while hiking on a trail in Panama. Months later, their belongings are found, along with a few bones.

Work in Progress (Showtime, 11 p.m.): In the episode "161, 153, 137, 122, 106, 104, 102 (We're Still Counting Almonds.)," Abby navigates public restrooms as a gender non-conforming person with OCD and pinballs against a cross-section of humanity and perspectives at a Dolly Parton concert.✔️

Work in Progress (via Giphy)

LATE-NIGHT TALK & SATIRE

Johnny Carson 📺 (Antenna TV, 10 p.m.): Joan Embery, Foster Brooks, Victor Buono, and Adela Rogers St. Johns (1 Jan 1975)
Nightly Pop (E!, 11 p.m.)

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Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic (outline); Zap2it (descriptions); TV Passport (throwbacks)
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Happy watching, everyone!