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Weekend TV: Golden Globes, 'Shameless' and more

* MADAM SECRETARY 8 p.m. Sunday, CBS3. The show returns after last month's cliffhanger with Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) trying to save the Russian peace deal. Oh, and there's some emergency aboard the International Space Station that's going to be her problem, too. Because the woman never sleeps.

Ricky Gervais returns as host on Sunday for the 73rd annual Golden Globes
Ricky Gervais returns as host on Sunday for the 73rd annual Golden GlobesRead moreTodd Antony/NBC
    by Ellen Gray
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* MADAM SECRETARY 8 p.m. Sunday, CBS3.

The show returns after last month's cliffhanger with Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) trying to save the Russian peace deal. Oh, and there's some emergency aboard the International Space Station that's going to be her problem, too. Because the woman never sleeps.

* SHAMELESS. 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime.

It's the Season 6 premiere and somehow Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) is still among the living. His daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum) has bigger problems than that, though.

* GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS. 8 p.m. Sunday, NBC10.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler won't be hosting this year, so Ricky Gervais (pictured) will be back, using the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - and Hollywood itself - as his punching bag. The awards themselves shouldn't be taken seriously, but the combo of free-flowing alcohol and live TV is often a big winner, especially with those who'd rather see a train wreck of an acceptance speech over a perfectly choreographed musical number any day.

* THE GOOD WIFE. 9 p.m. Sunday, CBS3.

Just when I'm wondering how much further the show can take its fictional presidential campaign - do Hillary and Bernie even know that Peter (Chris Noth) is running? - it's off to Iowa on a bus that may be too small for the complicated Florrick family and is certainly too small for warring advisers Eli (Alan Cumming) and Ruth (Margo Martindale).