Building on the audience it created with “Power,” Starz brings a new series about a basketball player on the rise who brings his family along to his new heights. LeBron James is one of the producers of “Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz, 9 p.m.), though the story is not his own. Other producers include sports management figure Maverick Carter and Red Sox part owner Tom Werner, though the main writer is former “Glee” star Mike O’Malley. Jesse T. Usher is the NBA star, his family includes Tichina Arnold and Mike Epps.
There’s something fresh about the approach of the comedian in the stand-up special “Jarrod Carmichael: Love at the Store” (HBO, 10 p.m.) that is also needlessly challenging, saying, for example, that he can’t wait to become a Republican or that Hitler was a better leader than Martin Luther King. “I’m starting to appreciate slavery,” he begins one bit. He also can’t resist a rape joke either. Spike Lee directs the comedian who doesn’t so much push the line but stays entirely on the other side.
It follows the premium cable premiere of “Ride Along” (HBO, 8:15 p.m.) with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube.
College football continues its dominance of prime time with Arizona State at USC (Fox, 7:30 p.m.) and Nebraska at Michigan State (ABC, 8 p.m.).
But there is more postseason baseball to consume, with San Francisco at Washington (Fox Sports 1, 5:30 p.m.) and St. Louis at Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB (9:30 p.m.).
In the made-for TV “Run for Your Life” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), Amy Smart plays an abused wife who considers striking back. Elsewhere, the new “Dark Haul” (Syfy, 9 p.m.) stars Tom Sizemore in a story about a creature that escapes and of course causes trouble.
“48 Hours” (CBS, 10 p.m.) reviews the case of a woman who shot her ex-husband and then shot her son 19 years later.
“Doctor Who” (BBC America, 9 p.m.) finds some bodies on the moon. And you thought it was green cheese.
It’s all about trains on Turner Classic Movies tonight with “Twentieth Century” (8 p.m.), “The Lady Vanishes” (10 p.m.) and “Without Reservations” (midnight). Later, music stars become leading men as Johnny Cash stars in the 1961 “Door-to-Door Maniac” (TCM, 2 a.m.) and Roy Orbison is “The Fastest Guitar Alive” (TCM, 3:30 a.m.).
Preseason hockey has Detroit at Boston (NHL, 5:30 p.m.) and Rangers at New Jersey (NHL, 7 p.m.).
But mostly today is about college football, starting at noon with Texas A&M at Mississippi State (ESPN), Ohio State at Maryland (ABC), Iowa State at Oklahoma State (Fox Sports 1), SMU at East Carolina (ESPNU), Purdue at Illinois (ESPN2) and Ball State at Army (CBS Sports Network). At 3:30 p.m., it’s Wake Forest at Florida State (ABC), Alabama at Mississippi (CBS), Oklahoma at TCU (Fox), Baylor at Texas (ESPN), Stanford at Notre Dame (NBC), Wisconsin at Northwestern (ESPN2), Navy at Air Force (CBS Sports), and North Carolina State at Clemson (ESPNU).
Other night games include LSU at Auburn (ESPN, 7 p.m.), Texas Tech at Kansas State (ESPNU, 7 p.m.), Memphis at Cincinnati (CBS Sports), Miami at Georgia Tech (ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.), UNLV at San Jose State (CBS Sports, 8 p.m.), Utah at UCLA (ESPN, 10:30 p.m.) and Boise State at Nevada (CBS Sports, 10:30 p.m.).
On the 40th season premiere of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) Beck performs.
Sarah Silverman hosts a new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) with Adam Levine’s group Maroon 5. Another “Voice” judge is on the “SNL Vintage” (NBC, 10 p.m.) earlier; Christina Aguilera on a Christopher Walken-hosted episode. I hear cowbells.