Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: ‘My Boyfriends’ Dogs’

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

America’s Cutest Pets from five categories compete for the honor of being Mickey Mouse’s grand marshal for the Disney Halloween Parade. 9 p.m. Animal Planet

Doctor Who While Clara (Jenna Coleman) is separated from the Doctor (Peter Capaldi), she discovers a menace from another dimension. 9 p.m. BBC America

Transporter: The Series This action-packed series — a spinoff of a French film franchise — takes viewers inside the world of Frank Martin (Chris Vance), a former Special Forces agent, now hiring himself out to deliver anything, anywhere, no questions asked. 9 and 10 p.m. TNT

The Graham Norton Show John Cleese, Taylor Swift and cricket player Kevin Pietersen are guests, and Neil Diamond performs 10 p.m. BBC America

MOVIES

Tremors AMC devotes the day to the science fiction franchise that sprung from this offbeat 1990 indy film starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire. The action takes place in a remote town threatened by huge, wormlike creatures that stalk their prey from beneath the surface. 10 a.m. That’s followed by “Tremors 2: Aftershocks” (1996) at Noon; “Tremors 3: Back to Perfection” (2001) at 2:15 p.m. and finishes with “Tremors 4: The Legend Begins” (2004) at 4:45 p.m. Then the “wormathon” starts over again with “Tremors” at 7:15 p.m.

Big Driver While taking an ill-advised shortcut on a remote New England road, thriller writer Tess Thorne (Maria Bello) is stranded when a tire blows out. A stranger (Will Harris) stops and offers assistance but savagely assaults her and leaves her for dead. Olympia Dukakis and Joan Jett also star in this 2014 chiller adapted from a story in Stephen King’s collection. 8 and 10 p.m. Lifetime

My Boyfriends’ Dogs On a rainy night, bedraggled runaway bride (Erika Christensen) dashes into a small diner with three dogs in tow and then gives the eatery’s owners an account of her long and frustrating search for Mr. Right in this new romantic comedy. Joyce DeWitt, Teryl Rothery and Jesse Hutch also star. 9 p.m. Hallmark

Finders Keepers This new horror thriller is about a child who becomes obsessed with a sinister doll left behind in her new home by previous owners. Jaime Pressly and Tobin Bell star. 9 p.m. Syfy

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today Mario Armstrong. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley Ebola: Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Ebola: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Pete Rose; Indie rock band Arcade Fire; Danny Aiello. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS ISIS: Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Retired); Daniel Benjamin. Ebola threat: Dr. Peter Piot. Europe’s economy: Martin Wolf; Rana Foroohar. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Ebola: Dr. Anthony Fauci; Richard Umbdenstock, American Hospital Association; Dr. Robert Wah, AMA; Jean Ross; Jon Lapook. Panel: Gerald Seib; Susan Glasser: Michael O’Hanlon. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press Ebola: Anthony Fauci; Laurie Garrett; Dr. Gabe Kelen, Johns Hopkins. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.); Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Panel: Andrea Mitchell; Stephanie Cutter; Mike Murphy; Manu Raju. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week Ebola: Dr. Anthony Fauci; Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas County, Texas. Gays and the church: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, New York. Panel: Bill Kristol; Mary Matalin; Stephanie Schriock; Tavis Smiley. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Ebola: Dr. Anthony Fauci; Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.); Dr. Michael Osterholm. Reince Priebus, RNC; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), DNC. Panel: Brit Hume; George Will; Juan Williams; Neera Tanden. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources Ebola as a local story: Seema Yasmin, Dallas Morning News; Nielsen TV ratings; Jonathan Klein. Whistleblowers: James Risen. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Politics of Ebola; midterm election coverage; cable news; “Saturday Night Live” ratings: Ed Henry; Matt Lewis; Ana Marie Cox; Joe Concha; Jedediah Bila; Bob Cusack; Susan Ferrechio. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

Ebola in America Dr. David Samadi. (N) 4 p.m. FNC

60 Minutes A woman helped her father commit suicide. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS