Special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday at 92 gets a full salute today with a replay of the French documentary that it premiered earlier this spring, “Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan” (Sony Movie Channel, 12:45 p.m.).
It’s followed by Harryhausen’s three Sinbad films, “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” (Sony Movie Channel, 2:30 p.m.), “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad” (Sony Movie Channel, 4:10 p.m.) and “Sinbad and The Eye of the Tiger” (Sony Movie Channel, 6:10 p.m.).
Because it’s based on a best-seller, “Beverly Lewis’ The Confession” (Halllmark, 9 p.m.) is much more complicated than most movies the channel unveils on Mother’s Day Weekend. Sherry Stringfield stars as a rich woman about to die of cancer whose husband has a gambling problem. She also has a long lost biological daughter who was raised by the Amish.
The husband hires an actress to play the long lost daughter as a ploy to get the estate, at just about the time that the real daughter shows up. But there is also another side plot about an old Amish boyfriend that came looking for her. Like every other show about the Amish, this show seems to get things wrong (what about that accent?). But the woman playing the real daughter is Katie Leclerc of “Switched at Birth.”
On another new TV movie tonight, Tricia Helfer plays a career woman whose husband leaves her for a stay at home mom, but the one in “Dangerous Intuition” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) is an obsessive stepmom. Estella Warren and David David Cubitt co-star.
A third new original movie on tonight is “Rise of the Dinosaurs” (Syfy, 9 p.m.) about a military unit that crashes into a dense jungle filled with dinosaurs. Originally titled “Jurassic Attack,” it features Gary Stretch, Alicia Ziegler, Israel Saez De Miguel, Natascha Berg, Vernon Wells, and Corin Nemec, and will likely be the last Saturday night original movie from Syfy in a while. The network will put some of its original series on Saturdays and save the movies for Thursday nights.
Housewives tired of their husband putting off home projects call in hunky handymen to the rescue in the new “Honey Do” (TLC, 10 p.m.), a show not to be confused with “Honey Boo.”
Sarah confronts the conspiracy head-on on a new “Orphan Black” (BBC America, 9 p.m.).
The NBA playoffs moves to prime time broadcast TV with New York at Indiana (ABC, 8 p.m.). Earlier, it’s Oklahoma City at Memphis (ESPN, 5 p.m.).
It’s not the only sport taking over prime time broadcasts with the Southern 500 NASCAR Race (Fox, 4 p.m.) from Darlington, S.C.
In the Stanley Cup Playoffs, it’s Pittsburgh at Islanders (NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.).
Losing faith in CNN? You might be after the back to back specials “Murder in the First Degree: Inside the Arias Trial” (CNN, 9 p.m.) and “Amanda Knox: The Unanswered Questions” (CNN, 10 p.m.). Nothing on Syria tonight.
Buzz Aldrin and Maria Bamford are among the guests on “The Nerdist” (BBC America, 10 p.m.).
The animated “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” (HBO, 8 p.m.) makes its premium cable premiere, as do “Men in Black 3” (Starz, 4 p.m.) and “The Apparition” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.).
Cybermen attack at the broken down amusement park Hedgewick’s World on a new “Doctor Who” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) with guest star Warwick Davis.
The Shins and Dr. Dog play an “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m.) rerun.
Turner Classic Movies turns on the nostalgic with the films “How Green Was My Valley” (8 p.m.), “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (10:15 p.m.) and “Stand By Me” 912:30 a.m.).
Later comes “The Twonky” (TCM, 2:15 a.m.), a 1953 film in which a TV takes over the life of Hans Conried, who also stars in “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” (TCM, 3:45 a.m.) from a story by Dr. Seuss.
Your Elvis movie tonight is “Viva Las Vegas” (Encore, 8 p.m.).
Hard to believe Kristin Wiig has only been gone from “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) one year. She did so much when she was on there, generally carrying the series, though there’s been a kind of female renaissance in her absence. Her visit back to host, ought to be good and the musical guest is good too: Vampire Weekend. Earlier, last week’s Zach Galifianakis-hosted episode of “SNL” with Of Monsters and Men is cut down to an hour and presented at 10 p.m.