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Saturday’s Highlights: Jessica Cauffiel and Brady Smith star in a new TV movie

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Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan 17 - 23, in PDF format This week’s TV Movies

FIGURES: Jessica Cauffiel stars as a former Olympic figure skater in the new TV drama ‘Ice Dreams’ at 9 p.m. on Hallmark. With Brady Smith. SERIES

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Mexican Made Easy: This series premieres with recipes for Chilaquiles casseroles; eggs Benedict with chipotle hollandaise sauce and Mexican coffee (9:30 a.m. Food).

Demons: A battle of epic proportions looms as Quincey (Ciaran McMenamin), a charismatic bad-boy vampire from Mina’s (Zoe Tapper) past, returns, prompting a sharp change in her behavior as he tries to seduce her into giving in to her half-blood heritage. Philip Glenister and Christian Cooke also star in this new episode (6 and 9 p.m. BBC America).

48 Hours Mystery: This new episode investigates a historic murder mystery in Las Vegas that involves sex, drugs and greed (10 p.m. CBS).

SPECIALS

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards: Actors honor their peers in the annual ceremony, which takes place at the Shrine Exposition Center. The casts of ‘The Closer,’ ‘Dexter,’ ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘Mad Men’ and ‘True Blood’ are up for outstanding ensemble performance in a drama, and the casts of ’30 Rock,’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ ‘Glee,’ ‘Modern Family’ and ‘The Office’ are nominated for comedy (8 p.m. TBS and TNT).

Making ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’: This new special takes viewers behind the scenes of the making of the behind-the-scenes documentary (10 p.m. VH1).

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MOVIES

Twilight: Director Catherine Hardwicke’s appropriately moody adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s popular book series casts Kristen Stewart as Bella, whose adjustment to a new high school encompasses her attraction to the magnetic Edward (Robert Pattinson) -- a vampire, as she soon learns (8 p.m. Showtime).

The Pregnancy Pact: Did a group of teenage girls in Gloucester, Mass., set out to get pregnant at the same time? Depends on whom you ask. This new TV drama, based on the story, stars Thora Birch as a journalist who returns to her old high school to investigate the pregnancy spike. Camryn Manheim plays the school nurse, who’s lobbying for the school to offer contraception, and Nancy Travis plays a conservative leader whose own daughter is pregnant (9 p.m. Lifetime).

SPORTS

College basketball: Michigan State at Minnesota (9 a.m. CBS); Villanova at St. John’s (9 a.m. ESPN); Oregon State at California (11 a.m. CBS); Washington State at UCLA (1 p.m. FS Prime); Washington at USC (7:30 p.m. FSN); UC Riverside at UC Irvine (8 p.m. FS Prime).

Women’s college basketball: Kansas State at Nebraska (9 a.m. FSN); Stanford at Oregon (11 a.m. FSN).

Figure skating: U.S. Championships: Free Dance, Ladies Short Program (Noon NBC).

College football: East/West Shrine Game (Noon ESPN2).

Hockey: The Kings visit the Detroit Red Wings (4 p.m. FSN); the Ducks visit the St. Louis Blues (5 p.m. FS Prime).

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Pro basketball: The Chicago Bulls visit the Houston Rockets (5:30 p.m. WGN A).

Bull riding: Anaheim Invitational (6 p.m. VS).

Tennis: Australian Open, Round of 16 (7 p.m. and midnight ESPN2).

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