Saturday Highlights and Weekend Talk: ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ on Starz

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Ripper Street Investigation into the brutal slaying of a newspaper boy leads Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) to one of the city’s most eminent financial institutions in this new episode. 9 p.m. BBC America

Da Vinci’s Demons The second season of the historical drama series premieres with Leonardo (Tom Riley) taking a gamble for Florence’s future, while Riario (Blake Ritson) makes progress in his search. 9 and 10 p.m. Starz

SPECIALS

John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown In his fifth solo special for HBO, the actor and comedian takes his audience through his life. 10 p.m. HBO

MOVIES

The Pink Panther The title of writer-director Blake Edwards 1964 comedy refers to a very rare gem sought by a sophisticated international jewel thief. Peter Sellers stars as bumbling Inspector Clouseau. David Niven and Robert Wagner also star, and Henry Mancini’s score is unforgettable. 5 p.m. TCM

Sorority Surrogate Cassie Steele stars in this new drama as 21-year-old college student, who becomes a surrogate mother to a wealthy young couple to earn some money for school, but the parents-to-be are killed in an accident. Mimi Kuzyk, Chris Bruno, Elena Juatco and Daniel Kelly also star. 8 p.m. Lifetime

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley (Part 1) Technology for aircraft in distress: Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.); Stephen Trimble. Disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Maxim van Norden. Panel: Newt Gingrich; Susan Page; Neera Tanden. (N) 6 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Shakira; bitcoin. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Steven Kotler; Tim Harford. (N) 7 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Disappearance of Malaysia airliner; Ukraine crisis: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.); Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.); Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.); Capt. Chesley Sullenberger; David Gallo; Leigh Gallagher; David Sanger; Clarissa Ward. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press Disappearance of Malaysia airliner; Ukraine crisis: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). Disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Former Sec. of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Ukraine; the NSA; relationship with President Obama: President Jimmy Carter. Panel: Andrea Mitchell; David Brooks; Rich Lowry; Mayor Michael Nutter (D-Phil.). (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos 2014 Senate elections: Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight.com. Panel: Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.); Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.); Cokie Roberts; Dan Senor. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas); former NTSB investigator Alan Diehl. 2016 Presidential election: Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio). A scholarship fund for immigrant youth: Former Washington Post CEO Donald Graham. Panel: Laura Ingraham; Bob Woodward; Paul Wolfowitz; Juan Williams. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources Coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Erik Wemple. Malaysian coverage of airliner disappearance: Jahabar Sidiq, the Malaysian Insider. Disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Miles O’Brien; Jon Ostrower. Cable news channel funded by the Russian government: Liz Wahl. (N) 8 a.m. CNN
MediaBuzz Coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia airliner: Lauren Ashburn. Coverage of Ukraine; Nate Silver’s 538 blog: Richard Grenell; Julie Mason; Michael Schmidt. Author Greg Gutfeld (“Not Cool: the Hipster Elite and Their War on You”). (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

State of the Union With Candy Crowley (Part 2) Technology for aircraft in distress: Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank); Stephen Trimble; Luca Centurioni. Grief counseling over missing airliner: Rev. Earl Johnson. (N) 9 a.m. CNN
60 Minutes A group of thieves with military discipline steals $500 million over 20 years. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS