Stevie Wonder, Green Day, the Chainsmokers, Pharrell Williams, Andra Day, the Lumineers, Big Sean and Alessia Cara all play the Global Citizen Festival 2017 (MSNBC, 3 p.m.), a benefit for fighting inequality and ending poverty, live from New York’s Central Park.
College football dominates network prime time TV with Penn State at Iowa (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and Notre Dame at Michigan State (Fox, 8 p.m.).
Donna makes a play for a heavy hitter on a new “Halt and Catch Fire” (AMC, 9 p.m.).
An author who seeks an escape from the media crashes her car and gets amnesia, then gets to know the doctor who treats her on the made-for-tv romance “Falling for Vermont” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.). It stars Julie Gonzalo and Benjamin Ayres.
The video game adaptation “Assassin’s Creed” (HBO, 8 p.m.), with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, makes its premium cable debut. Also on tonight: “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” (Starz, 8 p.m.).
“The Ultimate Guide to Sounding Smart” (History, 10 p.m.) spreads information such as what is America’s favorite cheese and when the phone sex industry started.
Hounds abound on “Pit Bulls and Parolees” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.).
A smog shop in Bakersfield gets help on “Garage Rehab” (Discovery, 9 p.m.).
Somebody on “Copycat Killers” (Reelz, 10 p.m.) is influenced by the “Dirty Harry” movie.
The fate of a woman who disappeared 13 years ago gets the spotlight on “What Happened to Maura Murray?” (Investigation Discovery, 8 p.m.). Crazily, it runs opposite another show called “The Disappearance of Maura Murray” (Oxygen, 8:15 p.m.).
“Mysteries of the Missing” (Science, 10 p.m.) looks at the mythical city of El Dorado.
A 20 year old murder case gets a new tip on “Swamp Murders” (Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.).
Gladys Knight shares her story on “Oprah’s Master Class” (OWN, 10 p.m.).
“Ghost Adventures” (Travel, 9 p.m.) visits a ghost town in Oregon.
Three tales of Western greed comes on Turner Classic Movies with “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (8 p.m.), “The War Wagon” (10:30 p.m.) and “The Last Posse” (12:30 a.m.). Then come rats and snakes, respectively, in “Of Unknown Origin” (TCM, 2 a.m.) and “Rattlers” (TCM, 3:45 a.m.).
The college football onslaught today begins at noon with Army at Tulane (CBS Sports), North Carolina at Florida State (ABC), Texas Tech at Houston (ESPN2), Texas A&M at Arkansas (ESPN) and West Virginia at Kansas (ESPNU). Games at 3:30 p.m. include Cincinnati at Navy (CBS Sports), Alabama at Vanderbilt (CBS), Boston College at Clemson (ESPN2), USC at California (ABC), TCU at Oklahoma State (ESPN) and Duke at North Carolina (ESPNU).
Then comes Michigan at Purdue (Fox, 4 p.m.), Oklahoma at Baylor (Fox Sports 1, 6:30 p.m.), San Diego State at Air Force (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), Mississippi State at Georgia (ESPN, 7 p.m.), Syracuse at LSU (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), Auburn at Missouri (ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.), Washington at Colorado (Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.), Hawaii at Wyoming (ESPN2, 10:15 p.m.) and UCLA at Stanford (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.).
Baseball includes Cubs at Milwaukee (Fox, 1 p.m.), Yankees at Toronto (MLB, 4 p.m.), Minnesota at Detroit (MLB, 7 p.m.) and San Francisco at Dodgers (MLB, 9 p.m.).
Golf includes third round play of the Tour Championship (Golf, 12:30 p.m.; NBC, 2:30 p.m.).
NASCAR races include the UNOH 175 (Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.) and the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 (NBC Sports, 8 p.m.).
Andra Day and Florence + the Machine play a rerun of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) from 2016.
Dave Chappelle won an Emmy for his post-election hosting of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) with A Tribe Called Quest, rerunning tonight.