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Saturday’s TV Highlights: ‘The White Queen’ on Starz

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This week’s TV Movies

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SERIES

The White Queen In failing health and mourning the loss of young Edward, Anne (Faye Marsay) ends her feud with Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson) in the series finale. 9 p.m. Starz

The Graham Norton Show Harrison Ford, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jack Whitehall are guests on the variety/talk show and James Blunt performs. 10 p.m. BBC America

Dancing on the Edge Inspired by the Duke Ellington Band’s experiences in 1930s London, this new five-part miniseries tells the story of a black jazz ensemble that rises to stardom after catching the eye of the British aristocracy — later becoming entangled in a murder mystery. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Jacqueline Bisset and John Goodman star. 10:05 p.m. Starz

MOVIES

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick’s biting 1964 satire about an insane general (Sterling Hayden) who heats up the Cold War by launching a nuclear strike against Russia, bristles with great performances that include Peter Sellers in three roles and George C. Scott’s as the high-strung Gen. ‘Buck” Turgidson. 3:15 p.m. TCM

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Mama Jessica Chastain plays the girlfriend of the uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) of two children (Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse) who vanished after their father killed their mother. 8 p.m. HBO

Missing at 17 Seventeen-year-old Candace runs away from home to search for her biological mother and meets a young man who offers to help her in this new thriller. 8 p.m. Lifetime

When Calls the Heart Based on Janette Oke’s Canadian West book series, this new fish-out-of-water drama tells the story of a young teacher (Poppy Drayton) who accepts a position in a small coal town on the prairie. Lori Loughlin and Jean Smart play the two strong-willed widows who run the town. 9 p.m. Hallmark

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET

SUNDAY

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Today David Gregory. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley The shutdown; Obamacare; the future of the GOP: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Panel: Donna Brazile; Alex Castellanos; Ryan Lizza. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Mary Steenburgen; Alan Greenspan; the work of artist Rene Magritte. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Political deadlock; future of the GOP; future of the Democratic party: Former Sec. of State James A. Baker. American politics seen from overseas: Zanny Minton Beddoes; Martin Wolf. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.); Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Mark Zandi Moody’s; Stuart Rothenberg; Rana Foroohar; Gerald Seib; Michael Gerson. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press Effect of the default scare: Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. Budget battles: Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.); Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Solving the fiscal stalemate: 2013 Nobel Prize winner for economics Robert Shiller, Yale. Panel: Chuck Todd; David Brooks; E.J. Dionne; Maria Bartiromo; Andrea Mitchell. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Budget battles: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco); Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas); Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.). Actress Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”). Panel: Matthew Dowd; Peter Baker; Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Budget negotiations; Affordable Care Act: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Debt limit and shutdown agreements: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.); Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Michael Needham. Panel: Brit Hume; Julie Pace; George Will; Charles Lane. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

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Reliable Sources Economic effect of the shutdown; debt ceiling: David Gura; Edward Luce. Whistleblowers; leakers versus whistleblowers: Thomas Drake. Whistleblowers and leakers; Lucy Dalglish; Joel Brenner. Screenwriter Josh Singer (“The Fifth Estate”). (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Lauren Ashburn; Mary Katharine Ham; Juan Williams; James Rosen; filmmaker Alex Gibney. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

60 Minutes Congressman use donated funds for personal use; former Vice President Dick Cheney. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS

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