Guillermo del Toro’s splashy, Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” (HBO, 8 p.m.) finally makes its debut on premium cable.
Summer is over but it’s the season covered on “Planet Earth: Yellowstone” (BBC America, 9 p.m.).
College football is on prime time again with Stanford at Oregon (ABC, 8 p.m.) and Wisconsin at Iowa (Fox, 8:30 p.m.). The many other games are listed below.
Bella Thorne plays the teenage girl from Massachusetts who was accused of texting her depressed boyfriend (Austin P. McKenzie), encouraging him to kill himself in the made-for-TV “Conrad & Micelle: If Words Could Kill” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), which relies extensively on the actual texts and transcripts.
Hallmark is starting up its fall romances with “Truly, Madly, Sweetly” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.), in which Nikki Deloach plays a baker who is at odds with an investor (Dylan Neal). Guess what happens next.
Its network has ordered another 150 episodes of “Live PD” (A&E, 9 p.m.).
A therapy cat is causing its own threat on “My Cat from Hell” (Animal Planet, 9 p.m.).
“Iyanla: Fix My Life” (OWN, 9 p.m.) deals with female felons.
The Sam Bush Band plays “Bluegrass Underground” (PBS, midnight, check local listings).
This week’s finale of “America’s Got Talent” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is rerun.
“Mind Your Business with Mahisha” (OWN, 10 p.m.) helps a popcorn company.
On public television the singer returns to the scene of a famous earlier concert at the Greek theatre in L.A., on the 2012 “Neil Diamond: Hot August Night III” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings).
In anticipation of the third and final season there is a marathon of the first season of “Versailles” (Ovation, noon).
Tonight you could watch all three, “Back to the Future” (Cinemax, 8 p.m.), “Back to the Future II” (Cinemax, 9:55 p.m.) and “Back to the Future III” (Cinemax, 11:45 p.m.). Or this trilogy: “Friday” (E!, 6 p.m.), “Next Friday” (E!, 8 p.m.) and “Friday After Next” (10 p.m.).
There’s a Jack Palance double feature on “The Professionals” (TCM, 8 p.m.) and “Ten Seconds to Hell” (10:15 p.m.). Then comes Orson Welles’ noir film “The Stranger” (TCM, midnight), followed by Jan Troell’s film about Swedes moving to the U.S., “The Emigrants” (TCM, 2 a.m.) and “The New Land” (TCM, 4:45 a.m.).
College football begins another long day with the following games at noon: Notre Dame at Wake Forest (ABC), Georgia at Missouri (ESPN), Boston College at Purdue (ESPN2), Navy at SMU (ESPNews), Nebraska at Michigan (Fox Sports 1), Ohio at Cincinnati (ESPNU) and Nevada at Toledo (CBS Sports).
The 3:30 p.m. games include Texas A&M at Alabama (CBS), Clemson at Georgia Tech (ABC), Kansas State at West Virginia (ESPN), Florida International at Miami (ESPN2), Northern Illinois at Florida State (ESPNU) and Kansas at Baylor (Fox Sports 1).
Then comes Connecticut at Syracuse (ESPNews, 4 p.m.), TCU at Texas (Fox, 4:30 p.m.), Louisiana Tech at LSU (ESPNU, 7 p.m.), Mississippi State at Kentucky (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), Florida at Tennessee (ESPN, 7 p.m.), N.C. State at Marshall (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), East Carolina at South Florida (ESPNews, 8 p.m.), Air Force at Utah State (ESPN2, 10:15 p.m.), Arizona State at Washington (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.) and Eastern Michigan at San Diego State (CBS Sports, 10:30 p.m.).
Baseball includes Philadelphia at Atlanta (Fox, 1 p.m.), Tampa Bay at Toronto (MLB, 4 p.m.), Cubs at White Sox (MLB, 7 p.m.) and San Diego at Dodgers (MLB, 10 p.m.).
Preseason hockey has Columbus at Pittsburgh (NHL, 3 p.m.), Colorado at Minnesota (NHL, 6 p.m.) and Vancouver at Calgary (NHL, 9:30 p.m.).
Golf has third round play in the Tour Championship (Golf, 12:30 p.m.; NBC, 2:30 p.m.).
Miranda Lambert plays an “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) from last year.
The Will Ferrell-hosted “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) with Chris Stapleton is rerun. The 44th season premiere is next week.