America’s two best teams vie for playground bragging rights on the “Little League World Series” (6:30 p.m. today, ABC). Brent Musberger and major league veteran Harold Reynolds will call the game with help from 16-year-old game reporter Grant Paulsen.

As they have since 1959, the World Series games take place at Howard J. Lamade Stadium in South Williamsport, Pa. Sports Illustrated magazine has ranked the Lamade complex as one of the best places in the world to watch a baseball game. The World Championship game between the two best international squads airs on Sunday (5:30 p.m., ABC).

• On “All Grown Up” (7 p.m. today, Nickelodeon), “Rugrats” regular Angelica celebrates her 13th birthday with a suitably grown-up bash. The domineering Angelica insists that no preteen Rugrats be invited. Her plans are dashed and her status is questioned when a new girl, Savannah, decides to throw a party on the same day.

I’m not sure I’m in favor of allowing cartoon characters to age. Maggie on “The Simpsons” must be at least 12 by now. Charlie Brown should be shouting “Good grief!” every time AARP Magazine arrives in his mailbox, and I shudder to think just how venerable Mary Worth has become.

• If you’re like me, you’ve managed to miss “The Assistant,” the reality comedy starring Andy Dick. But MTV gives viewers a whole day to rectify the situation with an “Assistant” marathon running from noon to 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

lMTV will celebrate the best promotional mini-features at the “2004 MTV Video Music Awards” (7 p.m. Sunday, MTV). The awards take place in Miami, Fla., marking the first time they have not taken place in New York City or Los Angeles.

Since these events are more about dress, undress and designer name-dropping than music, viewers can cut to the chase and catch the red-carpet pre-show show at 5:30 p.m.

• As we’ve recently seen with the swift boat saga, truth and consistency are the first casualties of political war. But today’s version of “hardball” politics has nothing on the vicious game played by the founding fathers. Richard Dreyfuss plays host to “Duel: Hamilton vs. Burr” (7 p.m., Sunday, History) a 90-minute glance at the 200-year-old controversy over Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton’s fatal duel in 1804.