'The Great Escape'

From the producers of "The Amazing Race" comes this new reality competition. Each week three new pairs of players are taken to a secret location where they face all sorts of obstacles and challenges (and dramatic lighting and pulse pounding music) as they try to ... well ... . 10 p.m. Sunday on TNT (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

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Also on Sunday

"MLB Baseball," 1 p.m. (ROOT): Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics (Live).

"Xtreme Waterparks," 8 p.m. (Travel): World's largest, indoor, near-vertical looping slide; 65 mph slide in Brazil; the world's only indoor bungee jump into water.

"Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition," 9 p.m. (ABC): Ashley, a cosmetology student from California, tries to lose half of her 323 pounds by her 21st birthday.

"Masterpiece Mystery!," 9 p.m. (KCTS): "Inspector Lewis, Series V: The Soul of Genius" — Lewis and Hathaway try to determine what happened to an English professor whose body is found ritually buried.

"Army Wives," 10 p.m. (Lifetime): Claudia Joy helps retired veterans with their legal troubles; Roxy worries about Cody; Trevor urges Hector to see a marriage counselor; Charlie breaks the news of the engagement to Nicole's mother; Kevin decides to leave Frank's brigade behind.

"Talking Dead," 9 p.m. (AMC): A preview of season three; cast interviews; set tour; show news.

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