Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in the new drama “The Client List” (9 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime), spun off from a Lifetime movie with the same name. Shows this strange, sad and sleazy don’t come along that often. Hewitt (“The Ghost Whisperer”) plays Riley Parks, a chipper housewife from Beaumont, Texas, whose husband has peculiar eyebrows and dumps her for unexplained reasons during a musical montage.

Faced with mounting bills, she takes a job at a massage parlor in Sugarland, more than a hundred miles from her home. She thinks it’s completely legitimate, but Riley quickly discovers that the really big tips come from providing something “extra.” Shocked by the prospect of prostituting herself, she demands that the boss (Loretta Devine) assign her only legitimate clients. These include a sour-looking woman, a guy with a runny nose and a man (gasp!) with too much back hair.

Faced with this hirsute prospect, Riley decides to become a provider of extras. And besides, the guys who want their masseuses to behave like hookers are all so much better looking! A parade of six-pack abs walks in. You’d think the guy with the back hair would have to pay for the attention. But you’d be thinking too hard.

• Compared to Riley, Lucrezia Borgia seems so wholesome — at least the Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger) on “The Borgias” (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime), the opulent epic now in its second season.

Pope Alexander VI (Jeremy Irons) has so much trouble preaching family values, particularly with his sons Cesare (Francois Arnaud) and Juan (David Oakes) at each other’s throats and Lucrezia pining for the unlettered stable boy who fathered her son while she was married off to a brutish political rival. This season brings us pestilence, murder, war, betrayal, incestuous longings and a whiff of charity from unlikely places. A historical soap opera that frequently looks like an Old Master painting come to life, “The Borgias” is not to be missed.

Tonight’s highlights

• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): Europe’s financial crisis, an orchestra in Kinshasa, Argentina’s “Nacho” Figueras.

• “Kenya pick up the pace?” is the theme of “Amazing Race” (7 p.m., CBS).

• Tyrion has harsh words for Cersei on “Game of Thrones” (8 p.m., HBO).