Saturday’s TV Highlights
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Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 16 - 22 in PDF format This week’s TV Movies
LAWYERED UP: Abigail Breslin plays a girl conceived to help cure her sister’s leukemia in the 2009 drama “My Sister’s Keeper,” 8 p.m. HBO. With Alec Baldwin.
MOVIES
Star Wars IV: A New Hope: In the 1977 science-fiction classic a rebel battle against a totalitarian galactic regime reaches an isolated farm boy (Mark Hamill), whose connection to the struggle turns out more personal than he ever imagined. Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Peter Cushing co-star (12:55 p.m. Spike). The 1980 sequel “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back” follows at 4 and the third film of the original trilogy (and sixth of the saga) airs at 6:55.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: As Quasimodo, Charles Laughton has clock-stopping looks in this 1939 adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic. Cedric Hardwicke and Maureen O’Hara also star (5 p.m. TCM).
Troy: The Trojan War story is retold without the gods and goddesses of Homer’s original in this 2004 adventure. Brad Pitt stars as Achilles, Orlando Bloom plays Paris and Diane Kruger is cast as Helen. Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and Peter O’Toole also star (8 p.m. AMC).
Witchville: Luke Goss and Ed Speleers star in this new, supernatural TV thriller (9 p.m. Syfy).
SPORTS
IndyCar Racing: Indianapolis 500, Qualifying (8 a.m. VS).
College Softball: NCAA regionals (9 and 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. ESPN)
Baseball: The Angels visit the St. Louis Cardinals (11 a.m. FSN). The Detroit Tigers visit the Dodgers (4 p.m. Fox).
UEFA Champions League Soccer: Final: Bayern Munich vs. Inter Milan (11:30 a.m. Fox).
PGA Tour golf: HP Byron Nelson Championship (Noon CBS).
Hockey: NHL playoffs: The Philadelphia Flyers visit the Montreal Canadiens (Noon NBC).
Soccer: United States vs. Germany, from Cleveland, Ohio. (3 p.m. ESPN2); Real Salt Lake visit Club Deportivo Chivas USA (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).
Cycling: Tour of California, Stage 7, from Los Angeles (3:30 p.m. VS).
Basketball: The NBA playoffs: Orlando Magic visit the Boston Celtics (5:30 p.m. ESPN).