It’s the European post-holiday sporting event that is part endurance race, part travelogue. The Tour de France 2014 (NBC Sports, 8 a.m.; TV5Monde, 2:30 p.m.) is more de Britain this year, kicking off the first stage of the 101st race in Leeds, England, for its 21-day run.
In other international sporting action it’s Argentina vs. Belgium (ABC, noon) and Netherlands vs. Costa Rica (ESPN, 4 p.m.) to finish the World Cup semi-finals.
But sports on primetime broadcast TV are all domestic: Baltimore at Boston (Fox, 7 p.m.), the second half of a double header from Fenway; and even more domestic, “Bet on Your Baby” (ABC, 8 p.m.).
Not a month since Father’s Day, here’s a movie about fratricide, with Elizabeth Gillies playing a woman going against her father (William R. Moses) in the TV movie “Killing Daddy” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.).
The lie detector is back on reality TV. After being dusted off recently on “The Bachelorette,” it’s also used as a device by security expert and tough love counselor Dave Vitalli on a new series called “My Dysfunctional Family” (CMT, 10 p.m.). It follows the bounty hunter variant “Dog and Beth: On the Hunt” (CMT, 9 p.m.), so there may be some mullets involved.
New to premium cable tonight is “The Best Man Holiday” (HBO, 8 p.m.), the Christmas-themed sequel to “The Best Man” with Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau and Morris Chestnut. And yet it’s not the only Christmas movie on tonight, with “A Bride for Christmas” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.) and “Hats Off to Christmas” (Hallmark, 10 p.m.). I guess there’s only 172 days until Christmas.
Georgie and Poppy go to Brooklyn on tonight’s “Almost Royal” (BBC America, 10 p.m.).
Currently being burned off, two by two is the failed sitcom “Bad Teacher” (CBS, 8 and 8:30 p.m.) with its final episodes, tiding you over until the nearly as bad “Bad Judge” this fall. Saturday night may no longer be a safe place to burn off episodes of failed series, though. A new episode of “The Assets” was pulled for a rerun of “Mistresses” (ABC, 9 p.m.).
It’s happening on cable, too, or maybe it’s a marathon. Either way, it’s a whole lot of “Life with La Toya: Extra Giggles” (OWN, 8 p.m.).
Other than the ultimately disappointing lure of each program, there’s no connection to the adjoining “Sex Sent Me to the ER” (TLC, 8 and 9 p.m.) and “Buying Naked” (TLC, 10 and 10:30 p.m.), except that outdoor barbecuing without an apron at your new home may indeed send you to emergency care.
“Happily Never After” (Investigation Discovery, 8 and 9 p.m.) is about marriages gone criminally bad. And the new “Devil in the Details” (Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.) takes a side in the debate over whether the phrase should instead be, as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe put it, “God is in the details.”
The death of a former high school football star is investigated on “Dateline” (NBC, 8 p.m.).
It’s Petra Kvitova vs. Eugene Bouchard in the women’s final at Wimbledon (ESPN, 9 a.m.).
The Coke Zero 400 (TNT, 7:30 p.m.) is run in Daytona, weather permitting.
For those who can’t wait for the NFL season, there is Canadian Football: Saskatchewan at Toronto (ESPN2, 3 p.m.).
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sure loved to fight. Directors put that to good use in films like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (TCM, 8 p.m.), “The Taming of the Shrew” (TCM, 10:30 p.m.) and “The V.I.P.S” (TCM, 12:45 a.m.). Later, it’s cop movies from the 1970s, with John Carpenter’s “Assault on Precinct 13″ (TCM, 3 a.m.) and Gordon Parks’ “The Super Cops” (TCM, 4:30 a.m.).
Queens of the Stone Age play an old “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).
The Paul Rudd-hosted “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) from last year, with a little too much One Direction, is rerun.