Proving that Oprah Winfrey, for all her grave seriousness, has a sense of humor, she gives us another taste of “Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious” (OWN, 10 p.m.), in which the sketches regularly poke fun at the rest of the network’s fare with bits like “Iyanla: Fix My Flat.” and a “6 Little McGhees” parody about the couple struggling to raise just one child.
Guests in tonight’s installment clude Kristin Chenoweth, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Probst, Wayne Brady, Sheryl Underwood, Lance Reddick and Camryn Manheim. It returns next Saturday as well.
Tina Fey is back on TV with the premium cable premiere of the college romantic comedy “Admission” (HBO, 8 p.m.) with the ubiquitous Paul Rudd. Michael Sheen, Wallace Shawn and Lily Tomlin are also in the film directed by Paul Weitz. Also new to cable tonight is the Guillermo Del Toro thriller “Mama” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.) with Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Michael Keaton plays a deranged criminal who hectors a former war correspondent played by Michelle Monaghan in the original “Blindsided” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.).
Primetime is dominated by an NFC wild card playoff of Saints at Eagles (NBC, 8 p.m.). Today’s earlier playoff game has Chiefs at Colts (NBC, 4:35 p.m.) in the AFC. In the one college football bowl game, it’s Houston vs. Vanderbilt (ESPN, 1 p.m.) in the Compass Bowl.
The next rapper to get involved in a home improvement series is Rev. Run from Run-DMC as they renovate their home and get a show out of it, “Rev Run’s Renovation” (DIY, 10 p.m.).
“Mythbusters” (Discovery, 8 p.m.) looks into the science of the “Star Wars” movies.
A two hour orgasm is a problem on “Sex Sent Me to the ER” (TLC, 10 p.m.).
The stars of “Anchorman 2,” WIll Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate, David Koechner are on “The Graham Norton Show” (BBC America, 10 p.m.) along with Monty Python members Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. Also fitting on the show, Joan Collins, Jackie Collins and Michael Buble.
A new food and talk show premieres this morning, “The Kitchen” (Food Network, 11 a.m.) with Sunny Anderson, Jeff Mauro,Katie Lee, Geoffrey Zakarian and Marcela Valladolid.
They are apparently still turning out new episodes of “24/7 Red Wings/Maple Leafs: Road to the NHL Winter Classic” (HBO, 10 p.m.) even though, don’t tell anybody, the game happened Wednesday.
Now two years past: “2012” (Syfy, 8:30 p.m.).
Three Walter Pidgeon movies are on Turner Classic Movies tonight, “The bad and the Beautiful” (8 p.m.), “Design for Scandal” (10:15 p.m.) and “That Forsyte Woman” (midnight).
Men’s college hoops includes Cincinnati at Memphis (ESPN2, noon), St. John’s at Georgetown (Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.), Cornell at St. Bonaventure (NBC Sports, 2 p.m.), Michigan State at Indiana (CBS, 2 p.m.), DePaul at Marquette (CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m.), Connecticut at SMU (ESPNU, 2 p.m.), Creighton at Seton Hall (Fox Sports 1, 3 p.m.), Duke at Notre Dame (CBS,4 p.m.), Oklahoma State at Kansas State (ESPNU, 4 p.m.), Houston at Central Florida (CBS Sports Network, 4 p.m.), Virginia at Florida State (ESPN2, 5 p.m.), Yale at St. Louis (NBC Sports, 5:30 p.m.), Louisville at Rutgers (CBS Sports, 6 p.m.), Colorado State at New Mexico (ESPNU, 6 p.m.), Indiana State at Evansville (ESPNU, 8 p.m.) and Harvard at Rice (CBS Sports, 8 p.m.).
Women’s college basketball inclues DePaul at Creighton (Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.) and West Virginia at Oklahoma State (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.).
In college hockey, it’s Boston College at Notre Dame (NBC Sports, 7:30 p.m.). In the NHL, New York Rangers at Toronto (NHL, 7 p.m.).
Queens of the Stone Age play a replay of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.), having already rerun every show from the season already, now tries something new: An episode made up ofthe best sketches from the season’s shows.