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5 p.m. on (42) Movie: Lawrence of Arabia: Director’s Cut.
After making the Academy Award-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” director David Lean and producer Sam Spiegel reteamed on another epic, this one chronicling the saga of World War I officer T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole, in his movie debut). The Englishman befriends the Saudi Arabians during their battle with Turks, and the result made history. So did this 1962 film, which won seven Oscars including best picture. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif also star.
6 p.m. on (31) BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer.
This four-episode, two-night true crime documentary, which concludes Sunday, dives into the twisted psyche and horrific crimes committed by serial killer back into the kitchen. Dennis Rader, who currently is serving 10 consecutive life sentences in Kansas’ El Dorado Correctional Facility. Author and forensic psychologist Dr. Katherine Ramsland, who has been corresponding with Rader for a decade, reveals intimate details of Rader’s personal past, as well as his gruesome crimes, contributing insights she hopes will help law enforcement and criminologists identify violent offenders in the future. Another episode follows.
6:15 p.m. on (58) Movie: Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.
Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner is both a producer and a key on-camera presence in this poignant remembrance of her mother, Natalie Wood, as told by some of the people who knew her best. The 2020
documentary incorporates previously unseen home movies, photographs, diaries, letters and artifacts, along with intimate interviews with friends, family, co-stars and colleagues of the actress, who died in 1981 at the age of 43. Pivotal to the program is a candid conversation with Robert Wagner, who married Wood twice.
8 p.m. on (36) Movie: The Wedding Veil.
Hallmark Channel hasn’t released much in the way of story information for this new romance starring Lacey Chabert and Kevin McGarry, apart from the fact that it’s the first installment in a trilogy of interlinked films about three close-knit yet far-flung friends from college who get together annually for a trip. During one of those reunions, they stumble across an enchanted antique that changes each of their lives. Autumn Reeser and Alison Sweeney round out the female trio. The films are loosely based on a book by Lori Wilde.
8 p.m. on (55) Movie: The Many Saints of Newark.
Set in 1967, this 2021 prequel to the HBO series “The Sopranos” stars Michael Gandolfini as a teenage version of Tony Soprano, the character his late father, James Gandolfini, created to such acclaim. The story opens in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, as rival gangsters rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola). Leslie Odom Jr., Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll and Ray Liotta co-star.