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Friday TV Highlights: ’48 Hours: Oscar Pistorius Verdict’ on CBS

A case of intrique is documented in "48 Hours: Oscar Pistorius Verdict" on CBS.
A case of intrique is documented in “48 Hours: Oscar Pistorius Verdict” on CBS.
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TV listings for the week of Sept. 7 - 13, 2014 in PDF format

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This week’s TV Movies


SERIES

Kitchen Nightmares Gordon Ramsay updates some of his biggest “nightmares” from the show to see how the restaurants progressed in the season finale. 9 p.m. Fox

The Knick Barrow (Jeremy Bobb) treats one of Collier’s (Danny Hoch) wounded men at the hospital in this new episode. Andre Holland and Clive Owen also star. 10 p.m. Cinemax

Z Nation This new zombie apocalypse series follows a band of survivors struggling to make their way from New York to California, transporting the only known survivor of a plague to the last functioning research lab, where they hope a vaccine can be derived from his blood. Harold Perrineau, Tom Everett Scott and D.J. Qualls stars. 10 p.m. Syfy

SPECIALS

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48 Hours: Oscar Pistorius Verdict This new special reports on the background, trial and verdict (announced Thursday and Friday) of the South African double-amputee Olympic sprinter. 8 p.m. CBS

James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty The man who made his mother the subject of one of the most legendary paintings in art history (“Whistler’s Mother”) is profiled in this new special. 9 p.m. KOCE

Bill Maher: Live From D.C. Following his weekly talk show, the comic discusses topics including midterm elections, income inequality. 10 p.m. HBO

MOVIES

The Legend of Hercules The Greek strongman (Kellan Lutz) is sold into slavery and must battle to survive in this 2014 retelling from director Renny Harlin. Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee and Johnathon Schaech also star. 8:15 p.m. Cinemax

Adult World This 2013 comedy stars Emma Roberts and Evan Peters as and aspiring young poet and her boss at the porn emporium where she reluctantly takes a post-college job. John Cusack, Cloris Leachman and John Cullum also star. 9 p.m. Showtime

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A Birder’s Guide to Everything In this sweet little 2014 rite-of-passage drama directed and co-written by Rob Meyer, a teenage birding enthusiast (Kodi Smit-McPhee) leads his friends on a road trip to find an extremely rare fowl, the Labrador Duck, which may be extinct. Ben Kingsley and James Le Gros also star. 9 p.m. Starz

Royal Paintbox Prince Charles displays works of art created by past and present members of England’s royal family. 10 p.m. KOCE

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Ken Burns; Kermit the Frog. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Mindy Kaling; Nick Jonas performs; Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy; Suze Orman; Matthew Hussey. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America Macklemore and Fences perform; “Sesame Street” visit. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Skeet Ulrich (“Deliverance Creek”). (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Michael Connie Britton; Mindy Kaling. (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Barbara Walters’ final appearance as co-host. 10 a.m. KABC

The Dr. Oz Show Caffeine powder abuse. (N) 10 a.m. KCOP; 2 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors A woman’s chronic, rust-colored sweat; a paralyzed war veteran walks again. (N) 11 a.m. KCAL

The Talk Dylan Walsh; Kevin Frazier; Haylie Duff. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

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Dr. Phil A former live-in nanny refuses to leave her ex-employer’s home. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

Steve Harvey Dr. Laura Berman. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Harry Connick Jr. (“Dolphin Tale 2”); Mireille Enos (“The Killing”). (N) 4 p.m. KNBC

Washington Week With Gwen Ifill ISIL in Iraq and Syria; immigration: Molly Ball, the Atlantic; Carrie Budoff Brown, Politico; Ed O’Keefe, the Washington Post; James Kitfield, Defense One. (N) 8 p.m. KOCE

Real Time With Bill Maher Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco); Jerry Seinfeld; former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.); former Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah); Andrea Mitchell. (N) 9 p.m. HBO

Tavis Smiley Quincy Jones. (N) 11 p.m. KOCE

Charlie Rose (N) 11:30 p.m. KOCE; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon Glenn Close; Justin Long; Kurt Braunohler. (N) 11:34 p.m. KNBC

Late Show With David Letterman Mindy Kaling; Jake Johannsen; Maddie & Tae perform. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS

Jimmy Kimmel Live Sarah Silverman. 11:35 p.m. KABC

Late Night Gwen Stefani. 12:36 a.m. KNBC

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Nikki Reed; author Peter May. (N) 12:37 a.m. KCBS

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