Best-bets for Sept. 20: Movies are light, dark, animated

1) “The Groomsmen: Last Dance,” 8-10 p.m., Hallmark. This wraps up a sunny trilogy that has three pals (shown here)looking for love in Europe. The first film (rerunning at 10:01) focused on Pete (B.J. Britt), the second on Danny (Jonathan Bennett). Now Jackson (Tyler Hynes) moves to Italy, to be near his children. Read more…

1) “The Groomsmen: Last Dance,” 8-10 p.m., Hallmark. This wraps up a sunny trilogy that has three pals (shown here)looking for love in Europe. The first film (rerunning at 10:01) focused on Pete (B.J. Britt), the second on Danny (Jonathan Bennett). Now Jackson (Tyler Hynes) moves to Italy, to be near his children.

2) “The Girl Who Survived,” 8-10 p.m., Lifetime. While Hallmark visits bright possibilities, Lifetime has a dark story from real life. Alina Thomson, it says, was 15 when a photographer saw her. It turns out that he’d killed other women on secluded photo shoots.

3) Football. Three games pit nationally ranked teams — all on ABC. It’s Texas Tech (No. 17) and Utah (No. 16) at noon ET, Auburn (No. 22) and Oklahoma (No. 11) at 3:30 and Illinois (No. 9) and Indiana (No. 19) at 7:30. CBS has Washington and Washington State, now in different conferences, at 7:30.

4) Animated movies. Disney Channel has a good one — “Coco” (2017), at 7 p.m. And FX has a marathon, peaking with the brilliant “Inside Out” (2015) at 5. Also on FX: The “Hotel Transylvania” films at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.; “Raya and the Last Dragon” at 2:30 and “Moana” at 7.

5) “Too Many Girls” (1940), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. This light film has college football players hired as bodyguards for Connie (a student) — without her knowing it. It’s remembered mainly because the actors playing Connie and one of the guys (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) met and married. Their “The Long, Long Trailer” (1954) follows at 10.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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