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Saturday’s TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: ‘Sesame Street’ on HBO.

"Sesame Street" begins its 46th season, at a new home, HBO. With Suki Lopez and Elmo.

“Sesame Street” begins its 46th season, at a new home, HBO. With Suki Lopez and Elmo.

(Richard Termine / AP)
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Sesame Street The venerable children’s TV show premieres on its new channel with two new episodes. 9 and 9:30 a.m. HBO

Austin City Limits Ryan Adams performs an acoustic set of hits, and Shakey Graves performs songs from the album “And the War Came.” 8 p.m. KVCR

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Saturday Night Live Adam Driver hosts with musical guest Chris Stapleton. 11:30 p.m. NBC

MOVIES

The Social Network Director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin tell the Facebook origin story through the personal experiences that prompted then-college student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) to develop what morphed into the wildly popular site, in this 2010 docu-drama. Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Rooney Mara also star. 8 p.m. ABC

Unfriended This 2014 “found footage” thriller— told entirely via a high school student’s laptop screen — a teenager and her five friends become the prey of an unknown online nemesis who wants revenge for a shaming video that caused a classmate to kill herself a year earlier. Shelley Hennig, Heather Sossaman and Renee Olstead star. 8 p.m. HBO

Love on the Sidelines After he is sidelined by an injury that could jeopardize his career, a quarterback (John Reardon) gets a new a personal assistant (Emily Kinney) who knows nothing about football. Joe Theismann also stars. 9 p.m. Hallmark

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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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 Topic: 2016 election: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. 2016 election: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt). (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace 2016 election; debate recap: Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). State of the Union Address; 2016 Congress: Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Presidential campaign: Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign manager. Panel: George Will; Karl Rove; Carol ; Charles Lane. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. FNC

Fareed Zakaria GPS The Iran deal: Author Joseph Cirincione (“Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late”). State of the Union address: politics; global economics: Rana Foroohar, Time; David Frum, the Atlantic; Sean Wilentz. Medicine and technology: Author David Agus, MD (“The End of Illness”). (N) 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio). Panel: Michael Gerson, the Washington Post; Gerald Seib; Molly Ball; Tavis Smiley, PBS. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press Human rights attorney Amal Clooney. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC and 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.). Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Panel: EJ Dionne; Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.); Sara Fagen; Jonathan Karl; Kevin Madden. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

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Reliable Sources The media and the country’s anger: Juana Summers, Mashable; Jeff Greenfield; Harry Jaffe. Sunday Democratic debate: Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). Al Jazeera America and Huffington Post Live signing off: David Bohrman; Marc Lamont Hill. Sean Penn and journalism: Kelly McBride; Larry Hackett. Tavi Gevinson, founder and editor in chief of Rookie. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Republican debate coverage; coverage of Sean Penn’s interview with a fugitive Mexican drug lord; Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate: Presidential candidate: Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.); Kristen Soltis Anderson, Washington Examiner; Kirsten Powers; Maria Bartiromo; Neil Cavuto; Trish Regan; Sandra Smith. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. FNC

60 Minutes Economic espionage sponsored by the Chinese government; Sean Penn; Los Angeles mountain lions. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS

SPORTS

NFL Football The playoffs continue: The Chiefs visit the Patriots, 1:30 p.m. CBS; the Packers visit the Cardinals 5 p.m. NBC.


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