What to watch SATURDAY Taking a Shot at Love Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck Kindred Spirits
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Asphalt Burning
Netflix Original Film
In this film from Norway — the third installment of that country’s Fast and Furiousesque Borning action/comedy movie franchise — when the brakes slam on his wedding,
Roy (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) accepts a challenge from a new foe to race for his runaway bride at the iconic Nurburgring track in Germany.
Saturday Morning Cartoons MeTV, 6 a.m.
Break out your footie pajamas! The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons of your youth return in this weekly three-hour block of classic shorts, which begin with “Popeye and Pals,” followed by “Tom and Jerry and the Gang” and “Bugs Bunny and Friends.”
Critical Thinking Starz, 8:15 a.m.
Eager for more chess after bingeing The Queen’s Gambit? Make a wise move, and watch this 2020 film starring and directed by John Leguizamo. It tells the inspiring true story of the 1998 Miami Jackson Senior High School chess team.
College Football
ABC & ESPN, beginning at 11 a.m. Live
The final batch of college football bowl games before the national championship game features NC State vs. Kentucky in the TaxSlayer
Gator Bowl (ESPN), Ole Miss vs. Indiana in the Outback Bowl (ABC), Oregon vs. Iowa State in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl (ESPN) and Texas A&M vs. North Carolina in the Capital One Orange Bowl (ESPN).
College Basketball
CBS, beginning at 11 a.m. Live
An SEC hoops doubleheader on CBS has Missouri at Arkansas, followed by LSU at Florida.
Kidnapped in Paradise Original Film
Lifetime, 7 p.m.
Savannah Duke-Morgan (Claire van der
Boom) realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband, Brad (Todd Lasance), and her 5-year-old daughter, Aria (Molly Wright), back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort. Suspicions point everywhere, but ultimately the dangerous, heart-pounding race to find the little girl alive culminates with an amazing secret.
Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m. Original Film Jenna (Alexa PenaVega) is a former professional dancer who now teaches ballet to children in her Connecticut town. Jenna’s sports-agent cousin convinces her to take on his NHL client Ryan “Coop” Cooper (Luke Macfarlane), a star player for the N.Y. Rangers, who has been nursing the same injury that sidelined Jenna’s dance career years before.
History, 8 p.m.
This two-hour special details the underwater odyssey of the greatest Titanic expeditions and the evolution of the most scrutinized shipwreck in the world. From the epic discovery of the wreck by a French-American team in 1985 to the exploratory missions led by James Cameron — who managed to light the wreck scene like a Hollywood film set and venture inside the ship thanks to remote-controlled robots — and to the treasure hunts that brought back more than 5,000 relics, experience the unequaled thrill of these extreme dives through the eyes of the explorers who have attempted to unlock Titanic’s secrets.
Travel Channel, 9 p.m. Season Premiere
Professional paranormal investigators Amy Bruni and Adam Berry and psychic medium Chip Coffey return for a new 10-episode season. In the premiere, they travel to Salem, Massachusetts, to investigate the home of John Proctor — one of the men executed during the infamous 1692 witch trials. They visited once before during a special live event, when they used powerful magic to open a gateway that allowed them to communicate with spirits from the witch trials. Now, they return to launch a full-fledged investigation and learn more about the gateway they previously opened ... and who came out of it.