SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
7:30 PM & College Football A clash of ACC rivals is on tap tonight in South Bend, Ind., where Ian Book and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will defend home turf from James Blackman and the Florida State Seminoles. With a conference to finally call home and stars on offense and defense, the Irish are primed for another 10-win season and a shot at the ACC title game. The Seminoles, meanwhile, are coming off three-straight mediocre years and hope the redshirt junior Blackman and a few key transfers can begin a resurgence.
8 PM ( LIFE) MOVIE Cheer Camp Killer Sophia (Mariah Robinson) is thrilled to have a chance to show off her special skills after she and her BFF Charlotte (Jacqueline Scislowski) win admission into a highly exclusive cheer camp in this 2020 thriller. Unfortunately, neither Victoria (Sydney Malakeh), the camp’s queen bee, nor her iron-willed mother, Beth (Andrea Bogart), are amused at this new interloper crashing their kingdom. The pair launch a dangerous plan to remove the new rival.
8 PM ( HBO) MOVIE Cats “Les Miserables” director Tom Hooper went back to the British mega-musical well for his big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tuneful adaptation of poems by T.S.Eliot, for which Hooper also co-wrote the screenplay. Judi
Dench leads the starry ensemble in the role of Old Deuteronomy; Taylor Swift, who scored a Golden Globe nod for cowriting the new song “Beautiful Ghosts,” has a featured role. Jennifer Hudson,
Ian McKellen, James Corden, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson and ballet star Francesca Hayward also star. 9 PM ( HALL) MOVIE My Best Friend’s Bouquet Like others in her family, Josie Hughes (Chaley Rose) believes a wedding bouquet always finds its way to the right person, so when she catches the tossed flowers at her friend Emma’s (Luisa d’Oliveira) nuptials, she thinks the charm is at work when she meets an eligible bachelor at the reception in this 2020 romantic comedy. Since she’s convinced this new guy is her Mr. Right, she’s totally unaware that her longtime friend Alex (Nathan Witte) is obviously carrying a major torch for her. Rebecca Olson co-stars.
9 PM ( TRAV) Ghost Nation In a new episode with the foreboding title“Prison of Doom,” Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango, and Shari DeBenedetti investigate reports of electrical anomalies, menacing shadow figures and disembodied voices at a former prison in New York. The team scrambles to find answers to the turbulence that seems to have seized control of the premises, holding its new owners hostage.
10 PM ( AMC) Eli Roth’s History of Horror Host Eli Roth returns for Season 2 of this addictive series for horror movie fans, which explores the dark power and wicked fun of scary movies, as well as the craft that went into landmark films of the genre and the ways horror films reflect the anxieties of their time. Among this season’s writers, directors, actors and technical experts scheduled to be interviewed by Roth are Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jordan Peele, Piper Laurie, Roger Corman, Bill Hader, James Brolin, John Landis and Joe Dante.
11 PM ( AMC) Cursed Films This fascinating new documentary series examines a number of iconic horror films and explores facts, myths and lingering mysteries surrounding their production, through interviews with directors, cast members and producers who lived through the real-life events at the time. The series opens with “The Exorcist,” director William Friedkin’s 1973 adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s terrifying bestseller. The film’s early screenings are surrounded by controversy, as reports of fainting theater-goers and mysterious on-set accidents spark debate as to whether or not the film itself is somehow evil.