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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Cedar Cove In this new episode Justine (Sarah Smyth) tries to keep her involvement with the Luke (Jesse Hutch) a secret from her mother, while Jack (Dylan Neal) worries that his displeasure over Eric’s (Tom Stevens) new job may put a strain on their newly improved bond. Sebastian Spence and Teryl Rothery also star. 8 p.m. Hallmark

Doctor Who Seen only briefly in a couple of earlier episodes, Peter Capaldi makes his proper series debut as the 12th Doctor in the season 8 premiere. Jenna Coleman returns as his companion. 8:15 p.m. BBC America. (“Doctor Who: Live Preshow” precedes the episode at 8, and “Doctor Who: After Who Live” follows at 11).

Hell on Wheels Campbell (Jake Weber) makes a move against Mickey and Durant (Phil Burke, Colm Meaney) in this new episode. 9 p.m. AMC

Intruders In this creepy new eight-part series set in the Pacific Northwest, a secret society pursues immortality by taking over the bodies of others. In the premiere, a former Los Angeles cop (John Simm) heads to Seattle after his wife (Mira Sorvino) on a business trip there. James Frain also stars. 10 p.m. BBC America

MOVIES

Veronica Mars In a movie fans helped finance (via Kickstarter) Kristen Bell reprises her 2004-07 TV series role as a not-so-young-anymore mystery solver. Original cast members Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Percy Daggs III, Francis Capra and Tina Majorino also return. 8 p.m. HBO

PopFan Chelsea Kane stars as a young pop star who crashes her car during a Maine vacation and is rescued by a young man (Nolan Gerard Funk), who takes her to his secluded lighthouse to recover. The similarities between this new TV movie and the Stephen King novel and 1990 film “Misery” don’t end there. 8 p.m. Lifetime

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today Main street makeover; “America’s Got Talent” contestant. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley U.S. response to ISIS; the ISIS threat: Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri: Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Mo.). Police and community relations: Thomas Manger, Montgomery County, Md.; Police Chief Malik Aziz, Dallas, Texas; Police Chief James Craig, Detroit, Mich. (N) 6 an 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Emoticons; a builder in Indonesia crafts homes out of bamboo; tennis player Venus Williams. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS ISIS; failed attempt to save journalists held hostage; Israel and Gaza: Former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden; Peter Bergen; former Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.); Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.); Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). Gary Sinise, Disabled Veterans’ Life Memorial Foundation. Michael Morell; Bob Orr; Margaret Brennan; David Rohde, Reuters; Nia-Malika Henderson, the Washington Post; Susan Page, USA Today. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos ISIS; execution of photographer James Foley: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas). Unrest in Missouri: Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). Panel: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.); Bill Kristol; Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal; Former Obama advisor David Plouffe. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace ISIS; foreign policy in the Middle East: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Iraq: Gen. Jack Keane. Unrest in Missouri: Author Ben Carson (“One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future”). Panel: Karl Rove; Bob Woodward, the Washington Post; Laura Ingraham; Juan Williams. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Reliable Sources (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

60 Minutes Companies collect, analyze and sell personal information; efforts to save the humpback whale. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS