It’s a big episode of “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 .m.) with John Mulaney returning to host for the fifth time and LCD Soundsystem as musical guest. At 10 there’s a rerun from last May with Anya Taylor-Joy and Lil Nas X.
Anthony Anderson hosts the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards (BET, CMT, MTV, Paramount, Pop, TV Land, VH1, 8 p.m.) honoring achievements and performances in 80 categories, including such TV shows as “All American,” “Harlem,” “Insecure,” “Pose,” “Queen Sugar” and “Black-ish,” the series that stars Anderson. It’s followed by “DJ Cassidy’s Pass the Mic: BET Afterparty 2022” (BET, 10 p.m.).
Canada’s popular “Murdoch Mysteries” (Ovation, 7 p.m.) begins its 15th season on a U.S. network, set in 1900s era Toronto.
“Free Guy” (HBO, 8 p.m.), the comedy about a video game character, with Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Dwayne Johnson, makes its premium cable debut.
The case of an abduction of a 14 year old girl in New Hampshire is the basis of the TV film “Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), with Lindsay Navarro in the title role.
Melanie Scrofano stars as a woman who inherits an Italian restaurant and hires a cook with whom she gets more than food cooking in the romance “Welcome to Mama’s” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.).