What To Watch: Film Independent Spirit Awards, Jeffrey Wright's O.G. And More
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On TV this Saturday: Aubrey Plaza hosts the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Jeffrey Wright is the O.G. and Ransom searches for an online predator. Here are eight programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern:
Legion star Aubrey Plaza hosts this annual, pre-Oscars celebration of outstanding indie filmmaking. (View nominees.)
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Love on the Menu
Hallmark Channel
TV-movie premiere: An executive (The O.C.'s Autumn Reeser) must choose between her job and a new romance after striking a deal with a chef (When Calls the Heart’s Kavan Smith) to save his restaurant.
Ransom
CBS
Time slot premiere: Eric must convince the brainwashed survivor of an Internet predator to reveal the perpetrator's identity.
Slender Man
Starz
Premium cable premiere: A young girl (Snowpiercer's Annalise Basso) disappears after she and her friends (The Kissing Booth's Joey King, The Affair's Julia Goldani Telles and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's Jaz Sinclair) attempt to disprove the existence of the horrifying and mysterious creature known as Slender Man.
Who's Stalking Me?
Lifetime
TV-movie premiere: Following a near-death experience, a woman can't help but feel she is still in danger — even with the kind Detective Dawson (Z Nation's Michael Welch) watching over her.
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Breaking In
HBO
Premium cable premiere: A mother (Being Mary Jane's Gabrielle Union) must protect her children from a group of home invaders searching for a loaded safe; Billy Burke (Zoo) and Richard Cabral (Mayans M.C.) co-star.
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O.G.
HBO
Original movie premiere: Filmed in an active maximum-security prison, this film follows a crime boss (Westworld's Jeffrey Wright) entering the final hours of his prison sentence as he struggles to save a new arrival from falling in with gang leadership; William Fichtner (Prison Break) co-stars.
