TV picks for Oct. 7-8: 'Edge of Alaska,' 'Bobbi Kristina,' 'Madame Secretary'

October 6, 2017 at 9:59PM
Tea Leoni and Morgan Freeman in the Season 4 premiere of "Madame Secretary." Photo: Jeff Neumann/CBS
Tea Leoni and Morgan Freeman in the season premiere of “Madame Secretary.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Saving all my love

Pop culture's fascination with anything and everything connected to the late Whitney Houston continues with "Bobbi Kristina," a biopic about the young woman whose final years mirrored the downward spiral of her famous mother.

6 p.m. Sunday, TV One

Baby, it's cold outside

"Edge of Alaska" kicks off its final season with a return to the shut-off town of McCarthy, where only a dirt road and a footbridge connect residents to the rest of the world. Can frontier life be salvaged without aid from the cast of "Northern Exposure"?

9 p.m. Sunday, Discovery Channel

To tell the truth

"Madame Secretary" heads into Season 4 with Tea Leoni taking on fake news that spreads through social media. Gee, I wonder where they got that idea? Leoni's a magnetic star, but the show has never taken full advantage of its guest stars and supporting cast the way "The Good Wife" did. At least some famous folks are flexing their muscles behind the camera: Morgan Freeman and Eric Stoltz directed the first two episodes.

9 p.m. Sunday, WCCO, Ch. 4

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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2011, file photo, singer Whitney Houston, left, and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bobbi Kristina, who dreamed of growing up to achieve fame like her mother, died in hospice care July 26, 2015, about six months after she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta townhome. For Houston fans, the scene was grimly similar to the way her megastar mother had died three years earlier. (AP Photo/Dan Steinb
Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in February 2011. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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