The Clicker: This weekend’s highlights on TV

This weekend’s highlights on TV include:

It’s time to hit the high seas again as the rollicking pirate drama “Black Sails” returns. In the opener, Flint (Toby Stephens) and Silver (Luke Arnold) go before the crew to face judgment. 9 p.m. Saturday, Starz.

It’s more trophies for celebrities as the year’s top film and TV stars pay tribute to each other at The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Also honored: Debbie Reynolds, for lifetime achievement. 8 p.m. Sunday, TNT.

Break out the swimsuits and sashes. It’s time once again for beautiful women from across the globe to compete in the Miss Universe Pageant. I’m pulling for the seven-tentacled swamp monstress from Zebulon-6 in the Gleebglorb system. Earth’s Natalie Morales and Thomas Roberts host. 8 p.m. Sunday, NBC.

Season one of “Galavant” concludes with a duel and — judging from the theatricality of this series — maybe a curtain call. 8 p.m. Sunday, ABC

Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk guest stars on “The Simpsons.” 8 p.m. Sunday, Fox:.

“Sons of Liberty” is an American history lesson spread over three nights. Set 10 years before the American Revolution, this rollicking miniseries follows a radical group of young men — Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Dr. Joseph Warren — as they set out to forge a new nation. 9 p.m. Sunday, History Channel.

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