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Saturday’s TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: CBS’s ‘Rush Hour’ on KCAL

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Smollett Eats “Empire” star Jussie Smollett and his close-knit siblings are featured in this new weekend series that emphasizes the family’s cooking and entertaining skills. In the series premiere, Jazz Smollett tasks her brothers with planning the menu for her daughter’s second birthday party. 12:30 p.m. Food

Watters World In this new episode of the occasional political humor series, host Jesse Watters will conduct man-on-the-street interviews from a variety of locations, including Martha’s Vineyard, Long Beach, N.Y., New York City’s Dominican Day parade and a Tuxedo, N. Y., Renaissance Faire. Guests include Abby Huntsman; Julie Roginsky; Jessica Tarlov; Brian Kilmeade; Gina Loudo; Madison Gesiotto and former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean. 5, 8 and 11 p.m. Fox News Channel

Rush Hour Carter and Lee (Justin Hires, Jon Foo) must infiltrate a meeting of gang lords to save Lee’s sister (Jessika Van). The guest cast in the series final episode includes James Hong (“Seinfeld”). Wendie Malick and Page Kennedy also star. 8 p.m. KCAL

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MOVIES

Point Break Young FBI recruit Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) goes under cover to infiltrate a gang of extreme athletes — including a surfer/eco-warrior (Edgar Ramirez) who performs daredevil heists in this 2015 makeover of a 1991 action movie. 8 p.m. HBO

Boy in the Attic When a teenager and her mother move into an old house they recently inherited, they have no idea they’re sharing the residence with a teenage boy who has been hiding in the attic for months in this new TV thriller. Abbie Cobb, Gina Holden and Max Lloyd-Jones star. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Summer Love After she decides to go back to school, widowed suburban mom Maya (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an internship working in the fast-paced world of millionaire app designers in this new TV romance. Lucas Bryant and Travis Milne (“Rookie Blue”) also star. 9 p.m. Hallmark

The Fifth Wave Tobey Maguire is among the executive producers of this 2016 movie adaptation of Rick Yancey’s science fiction novel of the same name, which follows a desperate teenager Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she and a mysterious young man (Alex Roe) try to find her lost younger brother (Zackary Arthur) while aliens mount deadly attacks on Earth. Ron Livingstone, Maggie Siff, Maria Bello and Liev Schreiber also star. 9 p.m. Starz

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

McLaughlin Group A tribute to host John McLaughlin. (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET

SUNDAY

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Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC

State of the Union Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Baton Rouge flooding: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-La.). Panel: Martin O’Malley; Corey Lewandowski; Andre Bauer; Symone Sanders. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning American marathon runner Meb Keflezighi; Jon Batiste (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”); Leslie Caron (“An American in Paris”); Joshua Tree National Park.(N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Reince Priebus, RNC. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Polls from Ohio and Iowa: Anthony Salvanto. Authors Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (“Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power”). Panel: Ezra Klein, Vox.Com; Ben Domenech, the Federalist; Amy Walter, Cook Political Report; Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Campaign shakeup: Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway; Reince Priebus, RNC. Presidential election: Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Presidential election: Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein. Panel: Dan Balz, the Washington Post; Matthew Dowd; Jamal Simmons; Kristen Soltis Anderson. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Clinton supporter Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Panel: Michael Needham; Julie Pace, the Associated Press; Charles Hurt, the Washington Times; Juan Williams. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources Polls: Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight. Trump hires Breitbart chairman: Kurt Bardella; Ken Stern. Access covering the Clinton campaign: Tamara Keith, NPR. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

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MediaBuzz Trump campaign shake up; Breitbart’s coverage of the election; Ryan Lochte scandal; coverage of Trump campaign: Amy Holmes, Rasmussen; Heidi Przybyla, USA Today; Leslie Marshall; Katrina Pierson, Trump campaign; Krystal Ball; Sarah Isgur Flores; Christina Bellantoni, Los Angeles Times; Kim Serafin, InTouch. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

60 Minutes Allegations that faulty protective equipment was sold during the Ebola virus; brothers Patrick and John Collison of Stripe, reinvented how money is moved online; Mozambique Island and the history of its role in the slave trade. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS

RIO OLYMPICS

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Women’s Golf, Final Round From Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro (Live) 6 a.m. Golf

Rhythmic Gymnastics Laura Zeng looks to give the U.S. its best-ever Olympic finish in the rhythmic gymnastics competition. (Live) 6 a.m. USA

Triathlon Two-time reigning world champion Gwen Jorgensen of the U.S. looks to bring home gold in the women’s triathlon. She is joined by Americans Sarah True and Katie Zaferes, who also hope to contend for medals. (Live) 7 a.m. NBC

Women’s Basketball: France vs. Serbia Serbia takes on France in the bronze medal game of the women’s basketball tournament. (Live) 7:30 a.m. USA

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Women’s Golf, Final Round From Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro (Live) 9 a.m. Golf

Volleyball, Badminton Women’s volleyball (bronze medal match); men’s badminton (singles bronze medal). (Live) 9 a.m. MSNBC

Men’s Soccer: Honduras vs. Nigeria From Belo Horizonte (Live) 9 a.m. NBCSP

Canoe/Kayak, Diving, Golf Canoe/kayak (sprint gold medal finals); men’s diving (10m platform semifinal); women’s golf (final round). (Live) 9:15 a.m. NBC

Water Polo, Handball Men’s water polo (bronze medal match); women’s handball (bronze medal). (Live) 9:15 a.m. USA

Wrestling, Cycling Men’s freestyle wrestling qualification features Americans J’den Cox and Tervel Dlagnev. Also: women’s cycling (mountain bike gold medal final). (N) 11 a.m. NBCSP

Rhythmic Gymnastics, Badminton Rhythmic gymnastics (individual all-around gold medal final); men’s badminton (singles gold medal final). (Live) 11:15 a.m. USA

Women’s Basketball: U.S. vs. Spain Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore lead the U.S. when they face Spain in the women’s basketball gold medal game. (Live) 11:30 a.m. NBC

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Women’s Handball: Gold Medal Final (Live) 11:30 a.m. MSNBC

Men’s Soccer: Brazil vs. Germany Two of the world’s best battle for the gold medal. (Live) 1:30 p.m. NBCSP

Men’s Water Polo: Gold Medal Match Gold medal round action from the men’s water polo competition. (Live) 1:45 p.m. NBC

Boxing, Wrestling Boxing (gold medal finals); men’s wrestling (freestyle gold medal finals). (N) 5 p.m. USA

Modern Pentathlon, Tae kwon do Men’s modern pentathlon; Tae kwon do (gold medal finals). (N) 7 p.m. USA

The Olympic Zone Local athlete profiles and Olympic coverage. (N) 7:30 p.m. NBC

Track and Field, Volleyball, Diving Allyson Felix attempts to lead the U.S. to a sixth straight Olympic gold medal in the women’s 4x400m relay. Also: the men’s 5000m, men’s 4x400m relay, women’s 800m finals. Plus, women’s volleyball and men’s diving. (N) 8 p.m. NBC

Rhythmic Gymnastics Coverage of the individual all-around gold medal final in rhythmic gymnastics. (N) 12:30 a.m. NBC

Rhythmic Gymnastics Coverage of the individual all-around gold medal final in rhythmic gymnastics. (Tape) 3 a.m. NBCSP

Track and Field The men’s marathon features American Galen Rupp, who will compete just eight days after running in the 10,000m final. Also, Meb Keflezighi will be the oldest U.S. marathoner in Olympic history at age 41. (Live) 5 a.m. NBC

Men’s Volleyball: Bronze Medal Match Bronze medal round action from the men’s volleyball competition. (Live) 5 a.m. USA

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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Men’s Basketball: Bronze Medal Game (Live) 7:30 a.m. NBCSP

Men’s Handball: Bronze Medal Match (Live) 7:30 a.m. USA

Rhythmic Gymnastics Russia is in search of its fifth consecutive gold medal in the group competition. (N) 8 a.m. NBC

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Cycling Men’s cycling (mountain bike gold medal final). (Live) 8:30 a.m. USA

Men’s Volleyball: Gold Medal Match (Live) 9:15 a.m. NBC

Wrestling, Boxing Kyle Snyder, the youngest American to win a world title, competes in freestyle wrestling. Also: boxing (gold medal finals). (Live) 9:30 a.m. NBCSP

Men’s Handball: Gold Medal Final (Live) 10:15 a.m. USA

Men’s Basketball: Gold Medal Game (Live) 11:15 a.m. NBC

Closing Ceremony The first-ever Olympics in South America concludes with the Closing Ceremony. From Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro (N) 8 p.m. NBC


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