Weekend highlights include VMAs and FX’s ‘The Strain’

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Former teen pop star Debbie Gibson looks and acts her age in the otherwise formulaic romance “Summer of Dreams” (8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark). She plays Debbie Taylor, a singer of a certain age hoping to make a comeback in a transformed music industry.

“Dreams” is not without self-deprecating humor. We see Debbie anxious for her new gig and watch her performance, only to have the camera pull back to reveal that she’s performing for a sales event at a mattress store. We also see her treatment at the hands of a dismissive young music executive, clearly not born when she was at the top of the charts.

But after these moments of semi-realism, “Summer” becomes a Hallmark movie again. Debbie decides to leave New York and move in with her sister in heartland America. There she finds work as a substitute music teacher at the local high school. After a magical transformation — “School of Rock” by way of “Glee” — she’s got her groove back, has a new love interest and is ready to climb the charts again! Help yourself.

On a similar theme, “Oprah: Where Are They Now?” (9 p.m. Saturday, OWN) visits with Spice Girl Geri (“Ginger Spice”) Horner and former MTV VJ Ed Lover. We also meet Kathy Garver, who played teen big sister Cissy on the 1960s sitcom “Family Affair,” who reunites with her former co-star Johnny Whitaker.

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Garver, who has enjoyed a career doing voices and producing and composing music for cartoons, has not left her signature sitcom behind. She has written “The Family Affair Cookbook” (2009) as well as her autobiography, “Surviving Cissy: My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood” (2015).

Fans of grotesque, shuffling, evil, possessed creatures that threaten humanity and must be destroyed should not miss “The Strain” (9 p.m. Sunday, FX), now entering its third season.

Based on a graphic novel by series co-creator Guillermo del Toro, this show differs from “The Walking Dead” in several gory and gothic details. While much of “The Walking Dead” takes place in a blighted heartland, “The Strain” is set mainly in New York City. And for those who take such things seriously, “The Walking Dead” is about zombies while “The Strain” concerns an intricate vampire conspiracy. And “The Strain” has a much more exotic and lurid visual style.

A sure sign that summer is winding down and school is just around the corner, the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (8 p.m. Sunday, MTV, MTV2, MTV Classic, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Spike, TV Land, VH1) will air live from New York’s Madison Square Garden.

This marks the first time the VMAs have taken place in the sports arena. The very first ceremony took place at Radio City Music Hall in 1984 and was hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd.

Over the past 30 years, Moisturizers may temporarily make wrinkles less noticeable. Exfoliant creams can remove dead skin cells that don’t slough off as readily as they used to. Prescription creams containing retinoids reduce wrinkles and liver spots caused by sun exposure. the ceremony has become the place where the unexpected has come to be expected, if not contrived.

This year’s scheduled performers include Nick Jonas, Ty Dolla $ign, Britney Spears and G-Eazy. Rihanna will receive the Video Vanguard Award.

SATURDAY’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

The Oakland Raiders host the Tennessee Titans in preseason NFL action (7 p.m., WREG-TV Channel 3).

On two episodes of “Aquarius” (WMCTV Channel 5): Manson searches for Emma (8 p.m.); Hodiak finds her in a sanitarium (9 p.m.).

A shooting victim hopes to turn his life around on two consecutive episodes of “Boston EMS” (8 p.m. and 9 p.m., WATN-TV Channel 24). The second helping is the season finale.

SUNDAY’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., WREGTV Channel 3): money laundering; Harvard’s transgender swimmer.

The Jacksonville Jaguars host the Cincinnati Bengals in NFL preseason action (7 p.m., WMC-TV Channel 5).

Intrigue in Islamabad on “Madam Secretary” (8 p.m., WREG-TV Channel 3).

“Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors” (8 p.m., Reelz) profiles the actor and comic who died two summers ago.

The seventh season of “The Great Food Truck Race” (8 p.m., Food) gets a funnel cake kickoff.