An Eclectic Mix of Musical Forms and Three New Miniseries Sweep Into View

An eclectic mix of gospel, opera, ecology and TV evangelism highlight this weekend’s small-screen menu.

Today at 5:30 p.m., Channel 2 remembers “Wings Over Jordan,” a black spiritual chorus that significantly affected race relations in the South during the 1930s and ‘40s. This look back at the group’s history and successes is hosted by KCBS weatherman Steve Rambo.

Channel 28 shifts musical gears Sunday at 1 p.m. as Leo Nucci and Kathleen Battle star in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Barber of Seville.”

“Without Borders,” airing Sunday on cable superstation TBS at 7 p.m., examines the ecological issues now affecting some of the great waterways of the world. Cicely Tyson narrates this documentary on the plight of the Ganges, Mississippi, Nile, Amazon and Zambezi rivers.

Three miniseries kick off Sunday at 9 p.m.: The first installment of Home Box Office’s two-part satire on televangelism, “Glory! Glory!”; ABC’s murder mystery “Passion and Paradise” (Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42), and PBS’ “Christabel,” a drama about an Englishwoman living in Germany during World War II (Channels 28 and 15).