Does anyone on reality shows ever go to college? Higher education remains a dream of most young Americans, and we’re told by everyone from the president on down that training and education are the keys to America’s enduring prosperity and competitiveness. But 20-somethings on reality shows drift from party to party and one catfight to another as if in a dream.

There’s one man on this lower form of entertainment concerned about higher education, and his name is David Hasselhoff. He spends the better part of the first episode of “The Hasselhoffs: Hoff the Record” (9 p.m., A&E) trying to cajole his daughters into staying in school. He doesn’t tell them that they need to read, write, reflect and be able to think about something other than gossip, shopping or themselves. That would be a bit too much to expect. But he does worry that they’ve put all of their eggs in the potential celebrity basket and have neglected to develop a plan B. Of course neither did he, and that’s the Hoff’s dilemma.

When not worrying about the girls, Hasselhoff spends a lot of time performing as “The Hoff” and then explaining that he’s really not “The Hoff.” He’s really a 57-year-old man with bills to pay and the nagging feeling that his future is in his past.

Smart enough to be self-deprecating and gifted with a loud, smooth voice and a delivery exuding all of the sincerity of a game-show host, Hasselhoff need not worry about potential paychecks. After all, William Shatner can’t go on forever.

• Note: Both “Boardwalk Empire” (8 p.m., Sunday, HBO) and “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC) wrap up their first seasons tonight.

Today’s highlights

• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): Interviews with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

• Baltimore hosts Pittsburgh on Sunday Night Football (7:15 p.m., NBC).

• Kathy Griffin hosts the variety holiday special “Vh1 Divas Salute the Troops” (8 p.m., VH1).

• Dexter and Lumen’s activities do not go unnoticed on “Dexter” (8 p.m., Showtime).

• A mother-to-be is mugged on “CSI: Miami” (9 p.m., CBS).

• Too much togetherness on “Brothers and Sisters” (9 p.m., ABC).

• Rural women balance work, family and friendship in the new three-episode series “‘Bama Belles” (9 p.m., TLC).

Cult choice

A gangster (John Garfield) falls for his victim’s daughter (Ida Lupino) in director Anatole Litvak’s 1941 drama “Out of the Fog” (3 a.m., TCM).

Sunday series

Thin ice on “Amazing Race” (7 p.m., CBS) … Martha Stewart cameos on “The Simpsons” (7 p.m., Fox) … Cleveland cares on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (7 p.m., ABC) … Carl Reiner guest voices on an hour-long helping of “The Cleveland Show” (7:30 p.m., Fox) … Mr. Bigshot pitches in on “Undercover Boss” (8 p.m., CBS) … Gabrielle won’t let Grace go on “Desperate Housewives” (8 p.m., ABC) … Jury duty on “American Dad” (8:30 p.m., Fox).