What To Watch: Grease Turns 40, Glee Grad's Forbidden Dance And More
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On TV this Saturday: Starz binges on Grease, Ransom deals with a potential mid-flight disaster and the World Cup continues. Here are seven programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern:
Showtimes for June 16, 2018
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2018 FIFA World Cup
Various Networks
Four games: France vs. Australia (Fox Sports 1, 6 am); Argentina vs. Iceland (Fox, 9 am); Peru vs. Denmark (Fox Sports 1, 12 pm); Croatia vs. Nigeria (Fox Sports 1, 3 pm). (View full line-up.)
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Sesame Street
HBO
Elmo, Chris and Abby help their friend Fido the Frog find his natural habitat.
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Grease Marathon
Starz Kids
Through Sunday at 12:30 am | Wah-oooh, yeah! Celebrate the iconic film's 40th anniversary by rewatching it three times (at 1 pm, 4:48 pm and 8:36 pm), with each airing followed by Grease 2 (at 2:52 pm, 6:40 pm and 10:28 pm).
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The Mountain Between Us
HBO
Premium cable premiere: Idris Elba (Luther) and Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce) star in this romantic survival drama about two strangers who must learn to trust each other when their plane crashes in the snowy Utah mountains.
Ransom
CBS
With his daughter aboard, Eric negotiates with a suicidal co-pilot when he threatens to crash the plane. Speaking of air disasters....
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Grease: Behind Closed Doors
REELZ
NBC News' Natalie Morales hosts this special, which shows how a $6 million film went on to become the highest grossing movie musical of the 20th century.
Love at First Dance
Hallmark
A Manhattan businessman (Eureka's Niall Matter) questions his engagement when he and his dance instructor (Glee's Becca Tobin) develop feelings for each other.
