Saturday’s TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: CBS’s ‘Rush Hour’ on KCAL
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SERIES
Smollett Eats “Empire” star Jussie Smollett and his close-knit siblings are featured in this new weekend series that emphasizes the family’s cooking and entertaining skills. In the series premiere, Jazz Smollett tasks her brothers with planning the menu for her daughter’s second birthday party. 12:30 p.m. Food
Watters World In this new episode of the occasional political humor series, host Jesse Watters will conduct man-on-the-street interviews from a variety of locations, including Martha’s Vineyard, Long Beach, N.Y., New York City’s Dominican Day parade and a Tuxedo, N. Y., Renaissance Faire. Guests include Abby Huntsman; Julie Roginsky; Jessica Tarlov; Brian Kilmeade; Gina Loudo; Madison Gesiotto and former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean. 5, 8 and 11 p.m. Fox News Channel
Rush Hour Carter and Lee (Justin Hires, Jon Foo) must infiltrate a meeting of gang lords to save Lee’s sister (Jessika Van). The guest cast in the series final episode includes James Hong (“Seinfeld”). Wendie Malick and Page Kennedy also star. 8 p.m. KCAL
MOVIES
Point Break Young FBI recruit Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) goes under cover to infiltrate a gang of extreme athletes — including a surfer/eco-warrior (Edgar Ramirez) who performs daredevil heists in this 2015 makeover of a 1991 action movie. 8 p.m. HBO
Boy in the Attic When a teenager and her mother move into an old house they recently inherited, they have no idea they’re sharing the residence with a teenage boy who has been hiding in the attic for months in this new TV thriller. Abbie Cobb, Gina Holden and Max Lloyd-Jones star. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Summer Love After she decides to go back to school, widowed suburban mom Maya (Rachael Leigh Cook) accepts an internship working in the fast-paced world of millionaire app designers in this new TV romance. Lucas Bryant and Travis Milne (“Rookie Blue”) also star. 9 p.m. Hallmark
The Fifth Wave Tobey Maguire is among the executive producers of this 2016 movie adaptation of Rick Yancey’s science fiction novel of the same name, which follows a desperate teenager Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she and a mysterious young man (Alex Roe) try to find her lost younger brother (Zackary Arthur) while aliens mount deadly attacks on Earth. Ron Livingstone, Maggie Siff, Maria Bello and Liev Schreiber also star. 9 p.m. Starz
WEEKEND TALK
SATURDAY
Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC
McLaughlin Group A tribute to host John McLaughlin. (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET
SUNDAY
Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC
State of the Union Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Baton Rouge flooding: Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-La.). Panel: Martin O’Malley; Corey Lewandowski; Andre Bauer; Symone Sanders. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN
CBS News Sunday Morning American marathon runner Meb Keflezighi; Jon Batiste (“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”); Leslie Caron (“An American in Paris”); Joshua Tree National Park.(N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS
Fareed Zakaria GPS (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN
Face the Nation Reince Priebus, RNC. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Polls from Ohio and Iowa: Anthony Salvanto. Authors Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (“Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power”). Panel: Ezra Klein, Vox.Com; Ben Domenech, the Federalist; Amy Walter, Cook Political Report; Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS
This Week With George Stephanopoulos Campaign shakeup: Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway; Reince Priebus, RNC. Presidential election: Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. Presidential election: Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein. Panel: Dan Balz, the Washington Post; Matthew Dowd; Jamal Simmons; Kristen Soltis Anderson. (N) 8 a.m. KABC
Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Clinton supporter Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Panel: Michael Needham; Julie Pace, the Associated Press; Charles Hurt, the Washington Times; Juan Williams. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC
Reliable Sources Polls: Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight. Trump hires Breitbart chairman: Kurt Bardella; Ken Stern. Access covering the Clinton campaign: Tamara Keith, NPR. (N) 8 a.m. CNN
MediaBuzz Trump campaign shake up; Breitbart’s coverage of the election; Ryan Lochte scandal; coverage of Trump campaign: Amy Holmes, Rasmussen; Heidi Przybyla, USA Today; Leslie Marshall; Katrina Pierson, Trump campaign; Krystal Ball; Sarah Isgur Flores; Christina Bellantoni, Los Angeles Times; Kim Serafin, InTouch. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC
60 Minutes Allegations that faulty protective equipment was sold during the Ebola virus; brothers Patrick and John Collison of Stripe, reinvented how money is moved online; Mozambique Island and the history of its role in the slave trade. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS
RIO OLYMPICS
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Women’s Golf, Final Round From Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro (Live) 6 a.m. Golf
Rhythmic Gymnastics Laura Zeng looks to give the U.S. its best-ever Olympic finish in the rhythmic gymnastics competition. (Live) 6 a.m. USA
Triathlon Two-time reigning world champion Gwen Jorgensen of the U.S. looks to bring home gold in the women’s triathlon. She is joined by Americans Sarah True and Katie Zaferes, who also hope to contend for medals. (Live) 7 a.m. NBC
Women’s Basketball: France vs. Serbia Serbia takes on France in the bronze medal game of the women’s basketball tournament. (Live) 7:30 a.m. USA
Women’s Golf, Final Round From Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro (Live) 9 a.m. Golf
Volleyball, Badminton Women’s volleyball (bronze medal match); men’s badminton (singles bronze medal). (Live) 9 a.m. MSNBC
Men’s Soccer: Honduras vs. Nigeria From Belo Horizonte (Live) 9 a.m. NBCSP
Canoe/Kayak, Diving, Golf Canoe/kayak (sprint gold medal finals); men’s diving (10m platform semifinal); women’s golf (final round). (Live) 9:15 a.m. NBC
Water Polo, Handball Men’s water polo (bronze medal match); women’s handball (bronze medal). (Live) 9:15 a.m. USA
Wrestling, Cycling Men’s freestyle wrestling qualification features Americans J’den Cox and Tervel Dlagnev. Also: women’s cycling (mountain bike gold medal final). (N) 11 a.m. NBCSP
Rhythmic Gymnastics, Badminton Rhythmic gymnastics (individual all-around gold medal final); men’s badminton (singles gold medal final). (Live) 11:15 a.m. USA
Women’s Basketball: U.S. vs. Spain Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore lead the U.S. when they face Spain in the women’s basketball gold medal game. (Live) 11:30 a.m. NBC
Women’s Handball: Gold Medal Final (Live) 11:30 a.m. MSNBC
Men’s Soccer: Brazil vs. Germany Two of the world’s best battle for the gold medal. (Live) 1:30 p.m. NBCSP
Men’s Water Polo: Gold Medal Match Gold medal round action from the men’s water polo competition. (Live) 1:45 p.m. NBC
Boxing, Wrestling Boxing (gold medal finals); men’s wrestling (freestyle gold medal finals). (N) 5 p.m. USA
Modern Pentathlon, Tae kwon do Men’s modern pentathlon; Tae kwon do (gold medal finals). (N) 7 p.m. USA
The Olympic Zone Local athlete profiles and Olympic coverage. (N) 7:30 p.m. NBC
Track and Field, Volleyball, Diving Allyson Felix attempts to lead the U.S. to a sixth straight Olympic gold medal in the women’s 4x400m relay. Also: the men’s 5000m, men’s 4x400m relay, women’s 800m finals. Plus, women’s volleyball and men’s diving. (N) 8 p.m. NBC
Rhythmic Gymnastics Coverage of the individual all-around gold medal final in rhythmic gymnastics. (N) 12:30 a.m. NBC
Rhythmic Gymnastics Coverage of the individual all-around gold medal final in rhythmic gymnastics. (Tape) 3 a.m. NBCSP
Track and Field The men’s marathon features American Galen Rupp, who will compete just eight days after running in the 10,000m final. Also, Meb Keflezighi will be the oldest U.S. marathoner in Olympic history at age 41. (Live) 5 a.m. NBC
Men’s Volleyball: Bronze Medal Match Bronze medal round action from the men’s volleyball competition. (Live) 5 a.m. USA
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
Men’s Basketball: Bronze Medal Game (Live) 7:30 a.m. NBCSP
Men’s Handball: Bronze Medal Match (Live) 7:30 a.m. USA
Rhythmic Gymnastics Russia is in search of its fifth consecutive gold medal in the group competition. (N) 8 a.m. NBC
Cycling Men’s cycling (mountain bike gold medal final). (Live) 8:30 a.m. USA
Men’s Volleyball: Gold Medal Match (Live) 9:15 a.m. NBC
Wrestling, Boxing Kyle Snyder, the youngest American to win a world title, competes in freestyle wrestling. Also: boxing (gold medal finals). (Live) 9:30 a.m. NBCSP
Men’s Handball: Gold Medal Final (Live) 10:15 a.m. USA
Men’s Basketball: Gold Medal Game (Live) 11:15 a.m. NBC
Closing Ceremony The first-ever Olympics in South America concludes with the Closing Ceremony. From Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro (N) 8 p.m. NBC
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