Specials, New Series, Golden Globes Due

It’s a big weekend for specials and series premieres.

The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, headlines her first TV concert in 13 years, “Diva Las Vegas,” airing tonight at 9 on HBO. Midler performs such tunes as “The Rose” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” in this concert taped at the MGM Grand.

Following “Diva” at 11 p.m. is the second-season premiere of Tracey Ullman’s award-winning comedy series “Tracey Takes On. . . .” The topic of tonight’s episode is sex.

Showtime’s popular anthology series “The Outer Limits” kicks off its third season Sunday at 8 p.m. with back-to-back episodes featuring Natasha Henstridge and Howie Mandel.

“Talking About Sports,” Sunday at 9:30 p.m. on KCOP-TV Channel 13, is a new weekly sports show that will feature coverage of notable games as well as in-studio guests.

“The English Patient” leads the pack of movie nominations on “The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards,” Sunday at 8 p.m. on Channel 4. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. sponsors the awards, honoring the best in film and television. Dustin Hoffman is to receive the special Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Candice Bergen and Whoopi Goldberg are among the stars featured in CBS’ “53rd Presidential Inaugural Gala,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 2.

Public Affairs: TODAY: “Today” looks at New Jersey’s effort to battle coastal erosion; single parenting; low-fat entertaining, 6 a.m. (4). . . .

“Saturday Journal,” 6:30 a.m. C-SPAN. . . .

Dick Morris, former advisor to President Clinton, guests on “Evans & Novak,” 2:30 p.m., repeats Sunday 7 a.m. CNN. . . . He also turns up on “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” 2:30 p.m. (28). . . .

“Tony Brown’s Journal,” 3:30 p.m. (28). . . .

Rep. Vic Fazio (D-West Sacramento) appears on “Capital Gang,” 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

“Inside Politics Weekend” reports on the hearing for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with guests Rep. Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez); Clinton advisor Pahm Emanuel discusses the president’s second term, 4:30 p.m.; repeats 7:30 a.m. CNN. . . .

“Larry King Weekend” looks back at past interviews with presidents, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. CNN.

“The McLaughlin Group” debates the Gingrich tapes and the Middle East accord, 6:30 p.m. (4).

SUNDAY: “Sunday Journal,” 5 a.m. C-SPAN. . . .

“News Conference,” 5:30 a.m. (4). . . .

“Today” previews Monday’s presidential inauguration; reports on the growth of Phoenix and interviews author Richard North Patterson, 6 a.m. (4)(39)(36). . . .

“Pacesetters” discusses the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 6 a.m. (5). . . .

White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) appear on “Meet the Press,” 7 a.m. (4). . . .

“CBS News Sunday Morning” interviews Hillary Rodham Clinton, 7:30 a.m. (2). . . .

“Fox News Sunday” plays host to the Rev. Billy Graham, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Rep. Martin Frost (D-Texas), 8 a.m. (11). . . .

“Late Edition’s” guests are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, White House Communications director Don Baer, Rep. Vic Fazio (D-West Sacramento) and Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), 9 a.m. CNN. . . .

The guests on “This Week” are former White House advisor Dick Morris, Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 10 a.m. (7); 11:30 a.m. (3). . . .

“Life & Times” reports on how California plans to reform the nation’s largest welfare system, 10:30 a.m. (28). . . .

Clinton’s second term and minorities will be discussed on “Both Sides With Jesse Jackson,” 2:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

Leon Panetta, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. answer questions on “Face the Nation,” 4:30 p.m. (2). . . .

“60 Minutes” looks at the Rupert Murdoch media empire and interviews IRA defector Sean O’Callaghan, 7 p.m. (2).

Specials and Movies: The Disney Channel presents Mary Martin in “Peter Pan” at 8:45 tonight. Originally telecast on NBC in 1960, the classic musical also stars Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. . . . Mandy Patinkin hosts “Ellis Island,” Sunday at 9 p.m. on the History Channel, a documentary chronicling the largest migration in modern history and the facility that determined the immigrants’ fate.

On the movie front, those chain-smoking, party-going shop-aholics Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders) return in “Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout,” Sunday at 8 p.m on Comedy Central. . . . Kim Delaney and Jamey Sheridan play a supposedly happily married couple in ABC’s thriller “All Lies End in Murder,” Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 7. . . . Lifetime’s latest movie, “Little Girls in Pretty Boxes,” Sunday at 8 p.m., explores the world of female gymnasts. Swoosie Kurtz and Philip Casnoff star.

Sports: Basketball--Arizona at UCLA, today, 2 p.m. (7)(3); Pistons at Lakers, today, 7:30 p.m. FSW; Cavaliers at Clippers, Sunday, 6 p.m. FSW. . . . Football--Hula Bowl, Sunday, 1 p.m., ESPN. . . . Soccer: U.S. vs. Mexico, Sunday, 3:30 p.m. ESPN.

For a complete list of sports events on TV, see the Sports Section.