An annual holiday week programming treat, the “Kennedy Center Honors” (8 p.m., CBS) is now in its 34th year. The event always celebrates talents from pop culture to high art, from the famous to those you may not have heard of until their big night.

Barbara Cook, a longtime star on Broadway who appeared in the musicals “Candide” and “The Music Man” in the 1950s, has gone on to become a well-known interpreter of the works of composer Stephen Sondheim. Jazz buffs are surely familiar with saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has straddled the worlds of classical music and popular culture, playing on many familiar film scores, including “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” The final two recipients are more widely celebrated. Neil Diamond has been a central figure in pop music for nearly half a century, starting out as a composer — most notably for the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” — before becoming a recording star and concert favorite in his own right. Meryl Streep has appeared in too many movies to mention here; she has been nominated for 16 Oscars and has won two.

• Sundance offers viewers another chance to catch the British drama “Appropriate Adult” (8 p.m.), starring Dominic West (“The Wire”) as an accused serial killer and Emily Watson as his court-appointed adviser who gets a little too close to her charge.

• “Frontline” (9 p.m., PBS) repeats a great installment from 2007. “The Undertaking” is a meditation on the work of funeral homes by poet Thomas Lynch, who also happens to be a third-generation funeral director in a small city in Michigan. “Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople. Another two or three dozen I take to the crematory to be burned.” Those are the opening lines of this remarkable hour. And once you hear them, I guarantee you’ll be hooked.

• On the other end of the spectrum (or circle of life, if you will), WE presents “Texas Multi Mamas” (7 p.m.), mothers from the Lone Star State who came home from the maternity ward with more than they bargained for. “Mamas” follows a support group for mothers of multiples, so look forward to friendly advice — and plenty of judgment and meddling.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Past contestants return on “The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now?” (7 p.m., NBC).

• Finn has a religious vision on “Glee” 7 p.m., Fox).

• A new boyfriend upends a girl’s well-ordered life in the 2008 romance “Keith” (7 p.m., CW).

• A wedding date on “New Girl” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Health insurance woes on “Raising Hope” (8:30 p.m., Fox).

• Surprises for Kristina and Julia on “Parenthood” (9 p.m., NBC).

• Dead man walking on “Body of Proof” (9 p.m., ABC).