Ellen Gray's weekend picks: Season openers for 'Leftovers,' 'Homeland,' 'The Good Wife' and more

* THE LEFTOVERS. 9 p.m. Sunday, HBO.

In Season 2, creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta take us far beyond Perrotta's original novel, to a place called Miracle, a Texas town that was somehow immune from the vanishing of 2 percent of the world's population. Emmy winner Regina King (pictured right, with Carrie Coon) joins the cast.

* HOMELAND. 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime.

Picking up nearly two years after the attack on the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Season 5 places now-former CIA operative Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) in Berlin, where she, her daughter and her new lover all seem pretty happy. As if that's going to last.

* THE GOOD WIFE. 9 p.m. Sunday, CBS3.

As Season 7 begins, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is starting her law career over - again - and dealing with her husband's new campaign strategist (Margo Martindale, "The Americans"), who's out to make trouble for Eli (Alan Cumming).

* THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE. 1 p.m. Sunday, WHYY12.

A longtime theatrical collaboration between Philadelphia's HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Germantown Friends School is showcased in a documentary that recently won a mid-Atlantic Emmy award.

* MADAM SECRETARY. 8 p.m. Sunday, CBS3.

It takes some doing, constitutionally speaking, but Elizabeth (Téa Leoni) leaps from the State Department to the Oval Office in the Season 2 premiere after the president's plane goes missing.