Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: ‘Hell on Wheels’ on AMC

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Cedar Cove In this new episode, Olivia (Andie MacDowell) urges Grace (Teryl Rothery) to track down and confront her ex (Roark Critchlow) about their messy and fraudulent divorce so she can move on. Dylan Neal, Tom Stevens and Sarah Smyth star with guest star Jesse Hutch. 8 p.m. Hallmark

Hell on Wheels As Cullen (Anson Mount) plans to leave Fort Smith, he challenges the Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl). 9 p.m. AMC

Outlander Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling book series, which combines historical romance with science fiction and adventure, inspired this new series. The story, filmed on location in Scotland, opens in 1945, as married World War II combat nurse, Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), is inexplicably whisked back in time to 1743. Sam Heughan and Tobias Menzies also star. 9 and 10:10 p.m. Starz

Life With La Toya Ready at last to go public with their wedding plans, La Toya and Jeffre plan an elegant cocktail party to announce their engagement in the first of two new episodes. In the second, La Toya panics when it comes time to make the announcement. 10 and 10:30 p.m. OWN

MOVIES

Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight A young dancer finds her own way to shine in this new TV movie. Erin Pitt and Melora Hardin star. 7 p.m. Disney

Stranded in Paradise About to be laid off from her high-intensity corporate job, an executive (Vanessa Marcil) hopes a final business trip to Puerto Rico will lead to a new position somewhere, but the trip is a disaster from start to finish, and an approaching hurricane delays her return. James Denton, Cindy Pickett and Gladys Rodriguez also star in this new adaptation of a novel by Lori Copeland. 9 p.m. Hallmark

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today “America’s Got Talent” contestant. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley U.S. airstrikes in Iraq: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.); former National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones, Marine Corps, retired; former ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. Panel: Former Gov. Theodore Strickland (D-Ohio); Kevin Madden; Stephanie Cutter; Ken Cuccinelli. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Pierce Brosnan; Peter Funt; Rocco DiSpirito; Pharrell Williams. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Israel and Gaza; Iraq: Peter Beinart; Fawaz Gerges; Bret Stephens. Space race; what aliens would think about humans: Neil deGrasse Tyson. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Meet the Press (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Matthew Dowd; Cokie Roberts; LZ Granderson; Sharyl Attkisson. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Iraq; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Corporate tax inversions: Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.); former Gov. John Engler (R-Mich.). Ivanka Trump. Panel: George Will; Jackie Kucinich; Laura Ingraham; Ron Fournier. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources Brand expansion plans: Glenn Beck. Crises in the Middle East: S.E. Cupp; James Zogby, Arab American Institute. Reporting from Gaza and Iraq: Anne Barnard, the New York Times. The Ebola scare: Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Rupert Murdoch drops his bid for Time Warner: Ken Auletta. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz President Obama’s relationship with the media; Mitt Romney stepping back into the spotlight; Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) withdrawing from the Senate race; Rupert Murdoch ends bid for Time Warner Cable; trust in the media: Lauren Ashburn; Amy Holmes; Frank Luntz; Leslie Marshall. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

Face the Nation A look at the Watergate scandal on the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (“All the President’s Men”). Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.); former ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey; Dr. Keiji Fukuda, World Health Organization. (N) 8:30 a.m. KCBS

60 Minutes The doping case of Alex Rodriguez; Go Pro camera. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS