Saturday’s TV Highlights and Weekend Talk Shows: ‘Cedar Cove’

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Too Cute! Pint Sized Litters of puppies and kittens are featured in this new, shorter version of the series. 8 and 8:30 p.m. Animal Planet

Cedar Cove Olivia (Andie MacDowell) hatches a plan for Grace (Teryl Rothery) to confront her no-good ex-husband (Roark Critchlow) in new episode. 8 p.m. Hallmark

Hell on Wheels Cullen (Anson Mount) returns to work on the railroad and clashes with his new boss. Colm Meaney also stars in this new episode. 9 p.m. AMC

Outlander After Claire (Caitriona Balfe) is taken to meet the Laird (Gary Lewis) and befriends a mysterious woman (Lotte Verbeek). 9 p.m. Starz

The Real History of Science Fiction The season finale of this documentary series incorporates works that feature time travel, including H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” TV series “Doctor Who” and the “Back to the Future” movies. 10 p.m. BBC America

SPECIALS

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion In advance of next week’s season premiere, Peter Davison (“The Fifth Doctor”) explores what it means to be the venerable Time Lord’s companion. 9 p.m. BBC America

Sharksanity As “Shark Week 2014” winds down this new special offers the five craziest moments in the history of the summer event, as chosen by viewers. 10 p.m. Discovery

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife Spike Lee directed this new special featuring the high-energy stand-up comic in front of an Ontario, Calif., audience. 10 p.m. HBO

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley Police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., reaction and response to protests: Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.); Bernard Kerik. ISIS in Iraq: Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.); Kevin Sutcliffe; Paul Cruickshank. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.); Sam Moore; Robin Williams; Lauren Bacall; Kenya’s efforts to stop elephant poaching. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Iraq; moderates in the Middle East: Richard Haass; Shadi Hamid; David Kilcullen; Emma Sky; Roy Odierno. Cultures: Erin Meyer. Safer nuclear power: Leslie Dewan. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Meet the Press Unrest in Ferguson, Mo.: Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Mo.); Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.); Wesley Lowery; Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D-Baltimore); Bernard Parks, Los Angeles City Council member; Charles Ogletree; Gilbert Bailon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Working with Robin Williams: Director Barry Levinson (“Good Morning Vietnam”). Panel: Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio); Jane Harman; Jason Riley, the Wall Street Journal; Anne Gearan, the Washington Post. Andrea Mitchell serves as guest moderator. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Iraq War veterans discuss Iraq: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Panel: Donna Brazile; Kristen Soltis Anderson; Jeff Zeleny. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Border crisis; immigration policy; 2016 election: Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas). Iraq: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.); Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.). Panel: George Will; Kirsten Powers; Liz Cheney; Amy Walter. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism of President Obama; coverage of Iraq; the unrest following police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.; NBC names Chuck Todd host of “Meet the Press”; death of Robin Williams: Lauren Ashburn; David Zurawik; Jim Geraghty; Joe Trippi; Joe Concha. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

Face the Nation Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Mo.); Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.); Cornell William Brooks; NAACP; Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown. Panel: Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal; Ruth Marcus, the Washington Post; Michael Gerson, the Washington Post; Peter Baker, the New York Times. (N) 8:30 a.m. KCBS

60 Minutes Author Michael Lewis; nurse practitioners providing health care to the uninsured in Appalachia. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS