WEEKEND TV : Politicians Converge on ‘Jesse Jackson’ Premiere

Funnymen, bureaucrats and nomads put the year’s first weekend into perspective.

Politicians and partisans take center stage tonight at 6 as “Both Sides With Jesse Jackson” premieres on CNN. Jim Miller, budget director in the Reagan Administration, Cecil Roberts, vice president of the United Mine Workers and Joshua Smith, chairman of Maxima, join the former presidential candidate in a discussion on the topic of “Where Did the Jobs Go? How Can We Get the Confidence Back?”

Comedian David Steinberg puts a different spin on the events of the past year Sunday at 6 and 10 p.m. in Arts and Entertainment’s “David Steinberg’s Biased and Insensitive Review of the Year.” The program incorporates monologues, comedic sketches and chats with celebrities to lampoon many of 1991’s biggest issues and personalities.

“National Geographic Explorer,” Sunday at 6 p.m. on TBS, follows the Sami people of snowy Norway, who have lived a nomadic life with their herds of reindeer for thousands of years. Other segments in this program feature crocodiles and the underwater films of Howard Hall.