TV This Week: Aug. 25 - 31: ‘Masterpiece Mystery: Silk’ on PBS

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This week’s TV Movies

SUNDAY

No stars, just folks who happen to be related putting their best feet forward, when “Dancing With the Stars’” Derek Hough hosts a “Family Dance Off.” 9 p.m. ABC

She has the wig, but a female barrister (Maxine Peak) has her sights set on “Silk” — the schmancier duds reserved for those who’ve earned the title of Queen’s Counsel — in this new series on “Masterpiece Mystery!” 9 p.m. KOCE

No sleep till Brooklyn! Kanye West, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake are among the slated performers when the “2013 MTV Video Music Awards” emanates from that hippest of New York City boroughs. 9 p.m. MTV and VH1

Gladys Knight is among the honorees at “McDonald’s 365 Black Awards.” Taraji P. Henson hosts and “American Idol’s” Jordin Sparks performs. 11 p.m. BET

MONDAY

Monumental task: Efforts to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. with a statue on the National Mall are detailed in “Building the Dream.” 8 p.m. KCET

After stints at MSNBC and Current TV, Keith Olbemann is back in the ESPN fold with a nightly sports-themed talk show “Olbermann.” 8 p.m. ESPN2

You couldn’t keep a good “Glickman” down. Marty Glickman, the Jewish-American athlete whose dream of Olympic glory was denied but who later became a sports-broadcasting pioneer, has his praises sung in this documentary. 9 p.m. HBO

That was the war that was: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, et al., offer an insider’s perspective on the Iraq War in “America vs. Iraq.” 9 p.m. National Geographic

A Palestinian farmer records his fellow villagers’ protests against Israel’s construction of a security barrier in the West Bank in the Oscar-nominated documentary “5 Broken Cameras” on a new “POV.” 10 p.m. KOCE

“Game of Thrones’” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss cover all things Westeros on a new edition of “The Writers’ Room.” 10 p.m. Sundance

TUESDAY

Anna Kournikova, Danica Patrick and other female athletes who parlayed sex appeal into lucrative endorsement deals are featured in “Branded,” the final installment of the docu-series “Nine for IX.” 5 p.m. ESPN, 10 p.m. ESPN2

You’ll be seeing double when “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee” explores the lives of twins in “Twinsanity.” 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

They had a dream: Civil rights leaders and others commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in “The March.” Denzel Washington narrates. 9 p.m. KOCE

Misremember the Alamo! “Drunk History” wraps its first season with some tales of the Old West. 10 p.m. Comedy Central

WEDNESDAY

Red-carpet redundancies provide opportunities to opine about “Who Wore It Better?” in this fashion special. 8 p.m. E!

Drew and Jonathan Scott are back to fixing up fixer uppers on new episodes of “Property Brothers.” 9 p.m. HGTV

Get a double dose of dastardly deeds with the debuts of the true-crime series “Evil Kin” and “Surviving Evil.” 9 and 10 p.m. Investigation Discovery

Rah! Rah! Rah! “Cheer Perfection” returns for its sophomore season. 9:30 p.m. TLC

Potty for Harry Potter? Think Superman is super? “FanAddicts!” express their love for the Boy Who Lived and the Man of Steel in back-to-back episodes of this new series. 10 and 10:30 p.m. Reelz

THURSDAY

Prehistoric beasts run amok in present-day L.A., which couldn’t make traffic any worse than it already is, in the new creature feature “Age of Dinosaurs.” With Treat Williams and Ronny Cox. 9 p.m. Syfy

The preponderance and pervasiveness of sexually explicit content in today’s popular culture is examined in the 2012 doc “Sexy Baby.” 9:30 p.m. Showtime

FRIDAY

Some’s fer it, others are agin it: Top filmmakers including George Lucas and James Cameron weigh in on all this new-fangled technology in “Side by Side: The Science, Art, and Impact of Digital Cinema” hosted by Keanu Reeves. 9 p.m. KOCE

An elementary school teacher drinks a little — or rather, a little too much — in the 2012 indie drama “Smashed.” Mary Elizabeth Winstead and “Breaking Bad’s” Aaron Paul star. 9 p.m. Starz

It’s end-of-watch for cop-from-the-future Kiera (Rachel Nichols) on the second-season finale of “Continuum.” 9 p.m. Syfy

SATURDAY

The opposite of more miserables is … wait for it … “Les Misérables.” Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway star in the 2012 big-screen adaptation of the hit musical. 8 p.m. HBO

She got hacked! A high school honor student’s on-line life becomes one big “Social Nightmare” in this new thriller. Kirsten Prout and Daryl Hannah star. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Politics meets “Pygmalion” in the made-for-cable romantic fable “The Makeover.” Julia Stiles and David Walton star. 9 p.m. Hallmark