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The Gilded Age
SUNDAY: The Russell household is in disaster after final week’s stunning taking pictures incident, however the principle occasion within the Season 3 finale of the diverting interval drama is ready in Newport, the setting for 2 balls serving the outdated and new-money elite and the Black aristocracy. Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) pledges to permit divorced girls into her grand affair, a lot to the consternation of Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy). And Peggy Scott (Denée Benton) hopes her budding relationship with the well-heeled Dr. Kirkland (Jordan Donica) can survive revelations about her sad previous. Whereas the return to America of latest duchess Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) is some extent of satisfaction for her manipulative mom Bertha, there are penalties in her personal marriage. However as Scarlett O’Hara as soon as famously mentioned, “Tomorrow is one other day.” And a fourth season is forthcoming.
American Prince: JFK Jr.
SATURDAY: The hunk who can be king, a world superstar who rivaled the equally gone-too-soon and telegenic Princess Diana, John F. Kennedy Jr. is the topic of a three-part biographical docuseries. His lineage, a martyred president as father and a world-famous fashion icon as mom, made him a media sensation from the second he saluted his father’s coffin on his third birthday. American Prince follows the younger and charismatic Kennedy’s path towards rejecting a political profession and embracing journalism because the founding father of George journal. After marriage ceremony Carolyn Bessette, the couple grew to become relentless tabloid fodder till their loss of life in a small-plane crash in 1999, when he was solely 38.
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The Hen Sisters
SUNDAY: Hatchets and grudges had been buried on the finish of the primary season of this charming dramedy when chicken-restaurant rivals Gus (Wendie Malick) and Nancy (Lea Thompson) created their very own Hen Sisters institution, with Gus’s daughters Amanda (Schuyler Fisk) and Mae (Genevieve Angelson) on board. However they didn’t rely on Amanda’s estranged husband and Nancy’s son, Frank Jr. (James Kot), who unfairly received the Kitchen Conflict TV showdown, opening his personal hen franchise within the coronary heart of city. As Season 2 opens, JAG alum David James Elliott joins the forged as a thriller man from Gus’s previous.
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The Institute
SUNDAY: It took lengthy sufficient, however with solely two extra episodes to go after this week, the difference of Stephen King’s page-turner lastly brings its two heroes collectively: Luke (Joe Freeman), the telepathically gifted younger prisoner who’s managed to flee the horrors of The Institute, and ex-cop good Samaritan Tim (Ben Barnes), whose suspicions concerning the secret facility bear fruit when he encounters the determined Luke. Their ordeal is simply starting, although, with cold-blooded Institute director Ms. Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker) decided to include the injury from the Institute’s first escape in 70 years.
INSIDE WEEKEND TV:
- Discovering Religion (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Paula Patton stars as newly widowed Religion, who spirals in a non secular disaster till her household, buddies, and a caring pastor (Stephen Bishop) assist her climb out of the darkness. Costars embody Loretta Devine and Keith David.
- Windfall Falls (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Cora (Katie Stevens) and Liam (Lachlan Quarmby) work collectively to unravel a homicide within the romantic time-travel fantasy, whereas Liam places apart his personal affection to information his companion towards D.A. Finn Walsh (Evan Roderick), whom the fates have decreed is the person for Cora.
- Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller (Saturday, 10/9c, Nationwide Geographic): The investigative journalist heads to Vietnam, following stories of younger girls being trafficked to China as brides in opposition to their will.
- Nautilus (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Capt. Nemo (Shazad Latif) loses management of the Nautilus when the crew believes he’s playing with their lives. An outbreak of metal-eating bugs on board might have them second-guessing their mutiny.