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"Journey" (Sunday, 8 p.m., Ch. 2) is your typical Hallmark Hall of Fame production. Typically good, that is. It's also untypically paced for television--sort of slow and languid. (Just like the typical Hallmark production.) And the characters are far more important than the plot. "Journey" is the story of an 11-year-old boy (Max Pomeranc) by that name. Journey doesn't remember his father, who ran out when he was a baby. And his flighty mother (Meg Tilly) takes flight soon after the TV movie begins. Which leaves Journey with his grandparents--and with the idea that his grandfather (Jason Robards) is at the root of his family problems. But in the end, Journey learns what family really is. And that an unconventional family is still a family. "Journey," based on the novel by Patricia MacLachlan ("Sarah, Plain and Tall"), is just what you expect from the Hallmark Hall of Fame--superior television.