The first full day of games in the Winter Olympics (NBC, 8 p.m.) will be edited and presented for prime time. Saturday’s events include more in the inaugural team event in figure skating with women’s events, and the ice dancing short programs. They’ll also switch to women’s freestyle skiing with the moguls final and men’s snowboarding slopestyle final, where U.S. hopes lie with Chas Guldemond.
Earlier, a women’s hockey match in Sochi of U.S. vs. Finland (NBC Sports Network, 6 p.m.).
The other networks mostly give up against this competition, or maybe it’s just another Saturday night, with same week replays of “Rake” (Fox, 8 p.m.) and “The Following” (Fox, 9 p.m.) and the old Will Smith movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” (ABC, 8 p.m.).
Last year’s bio pic on Jackie Robinson, “42” (HBO, 8 p.m.) gets a premium cable premiere. Also new tonight: Danny Boyle’s “Trance” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.) about an art theft and amnesia, with Rosario Dawson, James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel.
Playing hell with the premise of online dating ads is the new TV movie “The Girl He Met Online” (Lifetime, about a guy’s problems that start when he meets a hot 23-year-old woman online. hawn Roberts and Yvonne Zima star.
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” th documentary “The Sixties: The British Invasion” (CNN, 10 and 11 p.m.)is repeated.
Matthew McConaughey, Alan Davies, Sheryl Crow and Julianne Moore are guests on a new episode of “The Graham Norton Show” (BBC America, 10 p.m.).
The best picture Oscar nominees from 1949 get a showcase tonight on Turner Classic Movies, with “The Heiress” (8 p.m.), the winning “All the King’s Men” (10 p.m.), “Twelve O’Clock High” (midnight), “A Letter to Three Wives” (2:30 a.m.) and “Battleground” ( 4:30 p.m.).
Grammy winning country standout Kacey Musgraves plays a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
“Saturday Night Live” won’t be back in any form until next month, whenthe games are over.