Saturday’s TV highlights and weekend talk: ‘Ripper Street’ and more

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIESOrphan Black In anticipation of next week’s season premiere, series star Tatiana Maslany and others reflect on the first season of the sci-fi drama. 8 p.m. BBC America

Ripper Street In the season finale, murdered corpses are discovered in a slum tenement and a boxing championship reveals vengeful feelings within the police force. 9 p.m. BBC America

Ghost Adventures The team visits the Saint James Hotel in Cimarron, N.M., a historic building that once housed the likes of Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. 9 p.m. Travel

The Graham Norton Show Russell Crowe, Cameron Diaz and Richard Ayoade are on hand for the season premiere of this comedy variety series. Kylie Minogue performs. 11 p.m. BBC America

Saturday Night Live Seth Rogen hosts with musical guest Ed Sheeran. 11:29 p.m. NBC

MOVIES

Pacific Rim Monsters from the sea are opposed by robots so colossal they need pilots in director Guillermo del Toro’s (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) 2013 fantasy. “Sons of Anarchy’s” Charlie Hunnam and “Luther’s” Idris Elba star. 8 p.m. HBO

Death Clique A rivalry among three high-school girls has a deadly outcome in this new crime drama inspired by actual events. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino earned an Oscar for his original screenplay for this 2012 drama set in the pre-Civil War era. Jamie Foxx plays a freed slave out to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a sinister plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz also star. 8 p.m. Showtime

Bermuda Tentacles “The Terminator’s” Linda Hamilton does battle with an ancient sea monster in this made-for-cable creature feature. 8 p.m. Syfy

WEEKEND TALK

SATURDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Today Distracted driving; memory championships. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC

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

State of the Union With Candy Crowley Search for the missing Malaysian airliner; Affordable Care Act, midterm elections, Rep. McAllister scandal, Obama and race: Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.); HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns. (N) 6 and 9 a.m. CNN

CBS News Sunday Morning Hollywood stuntmen and stuntwomen; Alzheimer’s disease; Pharrell Williams. (N) 6:30 a.m. KCBS

Fareed Zakaria GPS Ukraine: Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski; Middle East peace process: Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat; climate change: columnist Thomas L. Friedman. (N) 7 and 10 a.m. CNN

Face the Nation Affordable Care Act, Sebelius resignation: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.); 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. (N) 8 a.m. KCBS

Meet the Press The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, security in America: Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis. (N) 8 a.m. KNBC; 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. MSNBC

This Week With George Stephanopoulos U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power; Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.); Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (N) 8 a.m. KABC

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace IRS targeting scandal: Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), Rep. Charles Boustany, Jr. (R-La.); Sibelius resignation: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) (N) 8 a.m. KTTV; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Fox News Channel

Reliable Sources Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show”: former talk-show host Dick Cavett; proposed Comcast-Time Warner merger: Sen. Al Franken (D-Mich.); politically-active TV personalities; how Chinese media are covering the search for the missing Malaysian airliner. (N) 8 a.m. CNN

MediaBuzz Sebelius resigns; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s comments on immigration; claims of MSNBC’s Al Sharpton being an FBI informant; Colbert to replace Letterman. (N) 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fox News Channel

60 Minutes Some of Pope Francis’ closest friends talk about the man they know; a Boston native and top-flight distance runner discusses her goal of winning the 2014 Boston Marathon. (N) 7 p.m. KCBS