Saturday’s TV highlights and weekend talk: ‘Starving in Suburbia’

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

True Life “The Benjamins” are brothers, both diagnosed with autism but making a bid for greater self reliance, in this special episode of the docu-series. 7 p.m. MTV

My Cat From Hell The unscripted series about ferocious felines and the owners who’ve come to fear them returns with new episodes. 8 p.m. Animal Planet

The Real History of Science Fiction This new installment revisits such classic sci-fi flicks as “Star Wars” and “Alien.” 10 p.m. BBC America

MOVIES

Bullet to the Head Sylvester Stallone stars in this New Orleans-set 2012 crime drama directed by Walter Hill. 8 p.m. HBO

Starving in Suburbia A teen comes under the sway of a website that extols the virtues of extreme thinness in this new TV movie; with Laura Wiggins, Callie Thorne and Sharon Lawrence. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Vikingdom “Prison Break’s” Dominic Purcell stars in this 2013 action-fantasy about a king who must do battle with Thor, the Norse god of thunder. 9 p.m. Syfy

Artifact Thirty Seconds to Mars, the indie-rock band led by recent Oscar winner Jared Leto, is profiled in this 2012 documentary. 11 p.m. VH1

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley Middle East peace talks: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Advances in cardiac resuscitation; comics including Joan Rivers discuss “dying” on stage; Jane Pauley profiles Mitch Albom; adventure-sports enthusiasts Rex and Melissa Pemberton; heaven and hell; the Dead Sea; digital legacies. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Obama’s pivot to Asia: Former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; potential for crisis in the China Sea region; civilization and war; is America broken? (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Meet the Press Islam and the Middle East, Putin and Crimea: Former British prime minister Tony Blair; Ukraine: Sen. Robert Menedez (D-N.J.). (N) 8 a.m. KNBC, 11 a.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Security threats, immigration: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson; new book: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); new book, Obama on same-sex marriage: Robin Roberts. (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Politics, 2016 election: Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.); Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ruling. (N) 8 a.m. KTTV, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fox News Channel

Reliable Sources Aereo Supreme Court case: Barry Diller; “Meet the Press” flap; Media Matters and the news. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz President Obama’s foreign policy; Nevada rancher’s controversial comments; Elizabeth Warren and the 2016 race; “Meet the Press” flap; family history of suicide, life in the spotlight: Mariel Hemingway. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fox News Channel

Face the Nation Ukraine: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.); sexual assault on college campuses: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.); Middle East peace talks: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; new book, Republican politics, the NRA: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). (N) 8:30 a.m. KCBS

60 Minutes Scandal surrounding the U.S. Air Force missile command; British humanitarian who helped save hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS