Saturday’s TV highlights and weekend talk: ‘A Ring by Spring’ on Hallmark

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIESWhen Calls the Heart Elizabeth’s (Erin Krakow) sister (Charlotte Hegele) pays a visit to Coal Valley and stirs up trouble. 9 p.m. Hallmark

Saturday Night Live “Girls’” Lena Dunham hosts, with musical guests the National. 11:29 p.m. NBC

MOVIES

Quartet Dustin Hoffman directed this 2012 drama about upheaval in a retirement home for musicians. Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon and Pauline Collins star. 6 and 9 p.m. Showtime

A Ring by Spring A fortuneteller (Stefanie Powers) warns a freedom-loving young woman (Rachel Boston) that if she isn’t engaged by spring, she’ll never marry in this new romance. 7 and 10 p.m. Hallmark

Snitch Dwayne Johnson plays a businessman who goes undercover to get the dirt on some bad guys in this 2013 crime drama; Benjamin Bratt, Barry Pepper, Harold Perrineau, Susan Sarandon and “The Walking Dead’s” Jon Bernthal also star. 8 p.m. HBO

The Trip to Bountiful In this new film based on the recent Broadway production, Tony winner Cicely Tyson plays an elderly woman who defies her son and daughter-in-law (Blair Underwood, Vanessa Williams) to make one last trip to her hometown. Keke Palmer also stars. 8 p.m. Lifetime

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC

McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET

SUNDAY

Today Paying it forward; fitness challenge. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC

State of the Union With Candy Crowley Crisis in Ukraine: Deputy national security advisor Tony Blinken; Putin’s possible designs on former Soviet Bloc countries: Lithuanian ambassador Zygimantas Pavilionis, Estonian ambassador Marina Kaljurand; political comeback: Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Efforts to stop poaching in Kenya; Preservation Hall Band; flower show; entertainer Elaine Stritch. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Crisis in Ukraine: Former Obama national security advisor Tom Donilon; Middle East peace plan: Israeli economic minister Naftali Bennett. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Crisis in Ukraine: Former Vice President Dick Cheney; Obama’s budget proposal, possible 2016 presidential bid: Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.); crisis in Ukraine: Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press Pope Francis’ first year as pontiff, church sex-abuse scandal, gay marriage: Cardinal Timothy Dolan; crisis in Ukraine: former U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Republican politics: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas); Republican politics: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); crisis in Ukraine: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Crisis in Ukraine: Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; conservative politics, healthcare: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). (N) 8 a.m. KTTV

Reliable Sources Science and politics, new “Cosmos” series: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Coverage of Putin and eye infection during the Winter Olympics, changing the name of the Washington Redskins: Bob Costas. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fox News Channel

60 Minutes The crisis in Ukraine; private companies that collect, analyze and sell the personal information of millions of Americans; new $1.3-billion radio telescope allows scientists to peer deeper into the universe. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS