TV movie takes a look into the college admissions process

Off to college

With freshmen heading off to college, the angst of the whole admission process is long passed. Yet Lifetime returns to the issue in a new made-for-TV movie called "Acceptance," starring Joan Cusack and Mae Whitman. It looks at it from inner academe, based on Susan Coll's "Acceptance: A Novel," and it lets high-school seniors know what they're in for. It's at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, on Lifetime.

Back to the networks

Channel 11 "Chicago Tonight" correspondent Christian Farr makes the leap to a network affiliate when he joins NBC's WMAQ Channel 5 next week. Actually, it's a return to the networks for Farr, as he was a weekend anchor and reporter at the Fox affiliate in Philadelphia before serving three years at "C2N." He's got the connections: His wife is WLS Channel 7 anchor-reporter Karen Jordan, which of course makes his father-in-law WGN Channel 9 anchor-reporter Robert Jordan.

Bring it all back home

HBO brings the immigration issue back home with the new documentary "Which Way Home." Directed by Rebecca Cammisa, it looks at the stories of several Central American teens trying to make their perilous way to the border between the United States and Mexico. Steppenwolf Theater trouper John Malkovich produced. It's at 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, on the premium-cable channel.

Love on the run

Recent books and articles have made it clear that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were hardly the romanticized Robin Hoods they were made out to be in the Hollywood biopic. Yet there's no denying the '60s style, vigor and above all irreverence of Arthur Penn's film, with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the title roles. They were made to be anti-establishment antiheroes. "Bonnie and Clyde" is at 7 p.m. today on Turner Classic Movies.