Thursday’s TV Highlights: Esther Williams tribute on TCM

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Save Me Betty White guest stars as God in this short-lived sitcom’s final episode; with Anne Heche. 8:30 p.m. NBC

Intervention The docu-series’ season premieres focuses on a 29-year-old Chicago woman with a heroin addiction. 9 p.m. A&E;

72 Hours New Zealand is the latest location for this find-the-cash reality competition. 9 p.m. TNT

Monumental Mysteries This new episode includes stops at Ellis Island and the Alamo. 9 p.m. Travel

Burn Notice Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) is back in Miami in this new episode of the action drama. 9 p.m. USA

Giving You the Business A restaurant that specializes in salads and a pizza joint are featured in back-to-back new episodes. 10 and 10:30 p.m. Food

Sullivan & Son “Community’s” Ken Jeong and “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak guest star in the sitcom’s season premiere. 10 p.m. TBS

House of Curves This new unscripted series spotlights an Atlanta-based design firm that specializes in fashion for full-figured women. 10 p.m. WE

MOVIES

Bathing Beauty A four-film salute to the late Esther Williams, pictured, gets underway with this 1944 aqua-musical. 5 p.m. TCM

Rock ‘n’ Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen The lensman who shot everyone from Elvis Presley to Madonna is profiled in this 2012 documentary. 7 p.m. Showtime

Axe Giant Folk legend Paul Bunyan is back as a not-so-jolly lumberjack in this new made-for-cable terror tale. 9 p.m. Syfy

SPORTS

Golf The 2013 U.S. Open Golf Championship gets underway in Ardmore, Pa. 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. ESPN; noon NBC

Basketball The Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs meet for Game 4 of the 2013 NBA Finals. 6 p.m. ABC

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Tyler Perry. 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Harry Connick Jr. performs; singer Darlene Love. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Rachael Ray Carson Daly. 8 a.m. KCAL

Live With Kelly and Michael Kevin Costner; Leo Howard; Jerry Seinfeld; Matchbox Twenty. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Mothers who lost their children in the Newtown, Conn., school shootings. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

The Wendy Williams Show Megan Alexander, Clinton Kelly and Isha Sesay; Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Guest co-host Kunal Nayyar; Matthew Morrison performs. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

Anderson Live Stacy London. 1 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Joan and Melissa Rivers. 2 p.m. KCBS

The Jeff Probst Show A mother’s multimillion-dollar business. 2 p.m. KNBC

The Dr. Oz Show Using intuition to predict health; boosting immunity. 2 p.m. KABC

Dr. Phil A bullied girl’s mother faces one of the bullies’ parents. 3 p.m. KCBS

Steve Harvey One of the most desirable men in America goes on a date with 10 potential suitors. 3 p.m. KNBC

Katie The cast of “Man of Steel.” (N) 3 p.m. KABC

The Ricki Lake Show Medical marijuana; cochlear implants. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Ellen DeGeneres Show In Melbourne, Australia. (N) 4 p.m. KNBC

Jimmy Kimmel Live Jack Black; basketball player Metta World Peace. (N) 9:30 p.m. KABC

Charlie Rose (N) 11 p.m. KVCR, midnight KOCE

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Journalist Fareed Zakaria. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Chelsea Lately Melissa Joan Hart. (N) 11 p.m. E!

Conan Usher; Young Scientist Award Winner Eesha Khare; She & Him perform. (N) 11 p.m. TBS

The Colbert Report Author Kjerstin Gruys. (N) 11:31 p.m. Comedy Central

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Carson Daly; Betty White; Timeflies performs. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Late Show With David Letterman Harry Connick Jr.; comic Dylan Moran. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live Shakira; Jay Baruchel; Robin Thicke performs with Pharrell. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Val Kilmer; comic Nate Bargatze. (N) 12:36 a.m. KNBC

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Seth Rogen; Elisabeth Moss. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

Tavis Smiley Former baseball player Dwight Gooden. (N) 1 a.m. KOCE

Last Call With Carson Daly Filmmaker Zack Snyder (“Man of Steel”); the Way, Way Back. 1:36 a.m. KNBC