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Ellen Gray's weekend TV picks

This week, she features "Orphan Black," "Apple Mortgage Cake" and more.

Tatiana Maslany stars in multiple roles in BBC America’s clone drama 'Orphan Black.'
Tatiana Maslany stars in multiple roles in BBC America’s clone drama 'Orphan Black.'Read more

* ORPHAN BLACK. 9 p.m. Saturday, BBC America.

Send in the clones: Tatiana Maslany (below) remains the hardest-working women in TV as the Peabody Award-winning sci-fi thriller, in which Maslany plays multiple, utterly distinct characters, begins its second season.

* BILLY CRYSTAL 700 SUNDAYS. 9 p.m. Saturday, HBO.

The comedian's Tony-winning one-man show, taped in January, is a love letter to his father (who died when Crystal was 15), to jazz and to his '50s childhood in Long Beach, N.Y.

* APPLE MORTGAGE CAKE. 7 p.m. Sunday, Uptv.

Kimberly Elise stars as a single mother trying to save her home with the help of an old family recipe in this sweet but not saccharine TV movie based on a north Jersey woman's true story. Fans can also see Elise this weekend opposite Whoopi Goldberg in "A Day Late and a Dollar Short" (8 p.m. Saturday, Lifetime).

* DEVIOUS MAIDS. 10 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime.

University of the Arts grad Ana Ortiz isn't masquerading as the help anymore, but "Maids" - and "Desperate Housewives" - creator Marc Cherry found a way to keep her at the center of the action. Eva Longoria directed the Season 2 opener.

* SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED. 8 p.m. Sunday, Hallmark.

Valerie Harper guest-stars (and sings and dances) as a U.S. Postal Service legend in the premiere of this whimsical series about dead-letter office "detectives."