It’s about time one of TV’s romantic franchises takes note of another. Hallmark veers from its usual plots to set its latest made-for-TV movie
“My One & Only” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.) in a fictional reality dating show called “The One.” Pascale Hutton is one of the contestant, but instead of falling for the eligible bachelor (Stephen Huszar), she takes a shine to a ranch owner who acts as guide (Sam Page). It’s followed by the “Labor Day Weekend Movie Event Celebration” (11 p.m.), which counts down all its summer movies to date, to wrap up the season.
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant are very good in the drama “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (HBO, 8 p.m.) about a writer with dwindling prospects who finds a new area in making a living by replicating literary letters and selling them to rare book stores. It makes its premium cable premiere, as does “Miss Bala” (Starz, 8 p.m.) starring Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”) in a drug cartel drama.
The primetime Oregon vs. Auburn (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) caps the season’s first Saturday of college football.
It includes Florida Atlantic at Ohio State (Fox, noon), Northern Iowa at Iowa State (Fox Sports 1, noon), South Alabama at Nebraska (ESPN, noon), Boise State at Florida State (ESPNews, noon), Mississippi at Memphis (ABC, noon), Mississippi State vs. Louisiana (ESPNU, noon), Indiana vs. Ball State (CBS Sports, noon), Holy Cross at Navy (CBS Sports, 3:30 p.m.), Alabama vs. Duke (ABC, 3:30 p.m.), North Carolina vs. South Carolina (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.), Georgia State at Tennessee (ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.), Northwestern at Stanford (Fox, 4 p.m.), Georgia at Vanderbilt (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.), Miami, Ohio at Iowa (Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.), Missouri at Wyoming (CBS Sports, 7:30 p.m.) and Fresno State at Southern California (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.).
Two pandas have to go back to China on “The Zoo: San Diego” (Animal Planet, 9 p.m.).
On “Say Yes to the Dress” (TLC, 8 p.m.) a woman has lost her gown to a wildfire.
Actresses Ryan Michelle Bathe and Angela Rye, California Surgeon General Nadine Burke Harris, comedian Dulce Sloan are among the 100 black women discussing motherhood on a new “Black Women OWN the Conversation” (OWN, 10 p.m.).
A French bulldog needs surgery on “The Vet Life” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.).
“Restaurant: Impossible” (Food, 10 p.m.) returns to an Orlando pizza joint it tried to help before.
Couples try to keep minor grievances from becoming major on “Black Love” (OWN, 9 p.m.).
Summer Under the Stars ends its month-long run on Turner Classic Movies with the oldest living star, Kirk Douglas, who turned 102 last year. The salute begins with “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” (6 a.m.) and continues with “Young Man with a Horn” (8 a.m.), “Along the Great Divide” (10 a.m.), “The Big Sky” (11:30 a.m.), “The Bad and the Beautiful” (2 p.m.), “Lust for Life” (4 p.m.), “Town Without Pity” (6:15 p.m.), “Spartacus” (8 p.m.), “The Vikings” (11:30 p.m.), “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (1:30 a.m.) and “There Was a Crooked Man” (3:45 a.m.).
Baseball has Oakland at Yankees (MLB, 1 p.m.), Mets at Philadelphia (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.), Cleveland at Tampa Bay (MLB, 7 p.m.) and Boston at Angels (MLB, 9 p.m.).
WNBA action has Washington at Dallas (NBA, 8 p.m.) and Los Angeles at Las Vegas (NBA, 10:30 p.m.).
Third round play continues in the U.S. Open (ESPN2, 11 a.m.).
Soccer has Spain at France (beIN Sports, 3 p.m.) in a women’s international friendly.
NASCAR runs its VFW 200 (NBC, 4 p.m.).
The Zac Brown Band plays a 2017 episode of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings).
Matt Damon hosts a rerun of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11;30 p.m.) with Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus.