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What to Watch on Saturday: A farm animal rescue in NC and a new Lifetime movie

Dan McKernan with Adam the pig in Animal Planet’s “Saved by the Barn.”
Dan McKernan with Adam the pig in Animal Planet’s “Saved by the Barn.” Animal Planet

Birthmother’s Betrayal (8 p.m., Lifetime) - In this new Lifetime movie, a woman becomes suspicious when her adopted daughter’s birth mother reenters her life and starts to display increasingly erratic behavior.

Saved by the Barn (9 p.m., Animal Planet) - Dan McKernan of The Barn Sanctuary gets a call from the Humane Society of the U.S. about an animal cruelty case in Nash County. The case involves cats, dogs, goats, pigs and chickens living in terrible conditions. Local groups groups are able to take a majority of the animals, but the pigs on the property still need help. Dan and the team travel to North Carolina to rescue the pigs — and then discover that one of the pigs is pregnant. This series follows Tom McKernan and his family, founders of the nonprofit Barn Sanctuary out of Michigan. The group rescues farm animals across the country.

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Brooke Cain
The News & Observer
Brooke Cain is a North Carolina native who has worked at The News & Observer and McClatchy for more than 30 years as a researcher, reporter and media writer. She is the National Service Journalism Editor for McClatchy. 
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