”Headless” updates classic tale
The legend of Sleepy Hollow gets a cheesy contemporary makeover in the 2007 made-for-cable shocker “Headless Horseman” (9 p.m. tonight, Sci Fi). Not content with the 19th-century Hudson Valley setting of the Washington Irving tale, the reanimators of “Headless” move the locale to the backwoods of some nameless Southern state,
“Halloween Madness” (8 p.m. tonight, TLC) has nothing to do with goblins. Instead, it follows the truly terrifying trend toward ever more elaborate, expensive and competitive holiday decorations.
“Madness” follows a family that transforms its house into a haunted mansion and a professional special effects expert that prepares his West Hollywood neighborhood for the onslaught of 50,000 trick-or-treaters.
“25 Hottest Hollywood Cougar Tales” (5 p.m. tonight, E!) counts down the celebrated love affairs between female celebrities (Demi Moore, for example) and younger men (Ashton Kutcher).
“Nature” (7 p.m. Sunday, KSPS) examines the baffling and terrifying “Silence of the Bees.”
“The Lost Book of Nostradamus” (9 p.m. Sunday, History) should be entertaining for viewers who can’t get enough of the souped-up symbols and conspiracy theories found in airport novels like Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code.”
Meryl Streep in a puppet musical? That’s exactly what you’ll see on the engaging new series “Art in the Twenty-First Century” (9 p.m. Sunday, KSPS), a survey of contemporary art and artists, running weekly through Nov. 18.
Tonight’s highlights
The Red Sox and Rockies meet in World Series Game 3 (5 p.m., Fox).
The slasher genre gets diced in the 2000 comedy “Scary Movie” (8 p.m., NBC).
The center is implicated in murders on “Torchwood” (6 p.m., BBC America).
Sunday’s highlights
The Red Sox and Rockies meet in World Series Game 4 (8 p.m., Fox).
Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS): French President Nicholas Sarkozy; the honeybee mystery; Guantanamo Bay.
TV Land spends a night exploring the scary myths and legends of television and Hollywood, starting with “The Ghost and Mrs. Gabor” (7 p.m.).