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Saturday’s TV highlights and weekend talk shows: ‘A Bridge Too Far’ and more

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500 Questions The tough trivia challenge hosted by “Nightline’s” Dan Harris continues. 8 p.m. ABC

9-1-1 Encounters This new series features true stories of emergency calls involving animals. 8 and 8:30 p.m. Animal Planet

Lost in the West Stepbrothers (Caleb Thomas, Niko Guardado) have a rootin’-tootin’ time when they’re transported from the present day to the 1880s in this new three-part comedy-western mash-up. 8 p.m. Nickelodeon; also Sun.-Mon.

Instant Jam Country-music star Dierks Bentley performs new songs and old favorites at a surprise pop-up concert in Knoxville, Tenn., in this new episode. 9 p.m. CMT

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Outlander Claire and Jamie (Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan) try to drum up more support for the Jacobite cause in this new episode of the lavish fantasy drama. 9 p.m. Starz

SPECIALS

Rabid This new special recounts three terrifying tales of human encounters with rabid animals. 9 p.m. Animal Planet

River Monsters: Monster-Sized Special Host Jeremy Wade investigates some mysterious disappearances in Australia in this new special. 10 p.m. Animal Planet

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SPORTS

Basketball Defending NBA champs the Golden State Warriors battle elimination and the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. 6 p.m. TNT

MOVIES

King Kong Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody star in director Peter Jackson’s more-is-more 2005 remake of the classic 1933 thriller about a giant ape that ends up running amok in Manhattan. 8 p.m. NBC

The Intern Robert De Niro stars as a retired 70-something widower who lands an internship at a fashion website run by Anne Hathaway’s character in Nancy Meyer’s 2015 comedy; Rene Russo, Andrew Rannells (“Girls”), Adam DeVine (“Pitch Perfect”) and Linda Lavin also star. 8 p.m. HBO

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The Maid A young woman comes to find that the person who’s been stalking her is someone even closer to her than she thinks in this new made-for-cable thriller; with Kathryn Newton, Fay Masterson and Kenton Duty. 8 p.m. Lifetime

A Bridge Too Far Turner Classic Movies’ annual Memorial Day Weekend marathon of classic war films continues and includes this star-studded 1977 epic directed by Richard Attenborough; with Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Ryan O’Neal, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann. 8 p.m. TCM

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

Today (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET

SUNDAY

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

State of the Union Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) reflects on his presidential bid. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS The military vs. civilian government authority in Israel; the Taliban’s new leader; Iraq battles ISIS; Trump vs. Clinton; the future of tech and innovation. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation 2016 election: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); terrorism, criticism of the Transportation Security Administration: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.); 2016 election, new book: Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo). (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press 2016 election: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.). (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. MSNBC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace 2016 presidential election: Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski; Hillary Clinton’s email server controversy: Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank); playing at military funerals: Bugles Across America founder Tom Day. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fox News Channel

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Reliable Sources Trump’s conspiracy theories; Sanders’ presidential bid; how the Obama White House countered Trump’s “birther” claims; the media’s reluctance to talk about possible racial factors in Trump’s rise; Rush Limbaugh’s waning influence. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Trump’s comments about Bill Clinton’s past with women; Hillary Clinton’s email-server controversy; backlash against Katie Couric’s “Under the Gun” documentary; 2016 election: Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fox News Channel

This Week With George Stephanopoulos 2016 election: Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort; possible changes to the Republican Party platform: Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.); Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server controversy, Democratic primary fight in California: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); Memorial Day concert preview, helping veterans: Gary Sinise. (N) 3 p.m. KABC

60 Minutes CIA director John Brennan talks about the threat posed to America by ISIS, as well as other security concerns including cyber and biological terror; federal prosecutors discuss their landmark case against coal company CEO Don Blankenship; a mobile phone-based payment system in Kenya has improved commerce and helped bring basic necessities to rural areas. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS


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