Buddy Guy, Shawn Colvin and Lyle Lovett are inducted into the Hall of Fame of the “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) in a ceremony taped in October. In addition to performances from the honorees are songs in tribute from Jackson Borwne, Sarah Jarosz, Jimmie Vaughan, Shemekia Copeland, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Willis Alan Ramsey and Edie Brickell joined by surprise guest Sean Penn. Robert Earl Keen, pictured at left, hosts.
It’s arguably the biggest day of the season for college football, with the champion semifinals coming in the form of Oklahoma vs. LSU (ESPN, 4 p.m.) in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta and Ohio State vs. Clemson (ESPN, 8 p.m.) in the Fiesta Bowl from Arizona.
A news department that used to do this kind of important journalism regularly steps back up to the plate with the “CBS News Special: The Faces of Family Separation” (CBS, 10 p.m.), about the consequences of Trump’s border policies.
Let it be known that the final Saturday night premiere on HBO for the decade is “Detective Pikachu” (HBO, 8 pm). The first live action Pokémon movie, with Ryan Reynolds lending his voice and facial motion capture. With: Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton and Suki Waterhouse. Also making its premium cable debut is “Brightburn” (Starz, 8 p.m.) about a couple who hired an alien boy. Elizabeth Banks, David Denman and Jackson Dunn star.
If you missed it recently (and there’s plenty of reasons you might have, from impeachment to debates to football), there’s a replay of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times’” (ABC, 8 p.m.). It’s the most notable of a night of reruns on network television
Lifetime, which presented even more Christmas movies than Hallmark this year, goes further afield with the thriller “Deadly Hollywood Obsession” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) about a home school tutor (Sarah Roemer) stalks her celebrity boss (Jon Prescott) and things get weird.
But at Hallmark, it’s still “Christmas in Rome” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.) with Lacey Chabert and Sam Page (which premiered in November).
The men and women make their final choices on “Ready to Love” (OWN, 8 p.m.) and then talk about how things have been going two months later in two hour reunion episode at 9.
A new “MythBusters” (Science, 9 p.m.) takes on “Star Wars.”
Turner Classic Movies salutes Dihann Carroll, who died in October, with “Claudine” (8 p.m.) and “The Split” (10 p.m). The noir at 12’oclock concerns a crime retold on New Year’s Eve, “Repeat Performance” (midnight). Then a couple with Gregory Peck: “The Gunfighter” (2 a.m.) and “Captain Horatio Hornblower” (3:45 a.m.).
Hockey includes Rangers at Toronto (NHL, 7 p.m.).
Other college bowl games include Notre Dame vs. Iowa State (ABC, noon) in the Camping World Bowl, and Memphis vs. Penn State (ESPN, noon) in the Cotton Bowl.
Men’s college hoops include Brown at Duke (ESPN2, 11:30 a.m.), American at Georgetown (Fox Sports 1, noon), Wisconsin at Tennessee (CBS, 1:30 p.m.), New Orleans at Memphis (ESPN2, 1:30 p.m.), Central Arkansas at Marquette (Fox Sports 1, 2 p.m.), Louisville at Kentucky (CBS, 4 p.m.), Louisiana Monroe at Butler (Fox Sports 1, 4 p.m.) and Midland at Creighton (Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.).
In hockey’s IIHF World Junior Championship, it’s Slovakia vs. Finland (NHL, 9 a.m.) and Canada vs. Russia (NHL, 1 p.m.).
By all rights, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) ought to just replay last week’s Eddie Murphy episode. Instead, it’s the recent one with another former cast member hosting, Will Ferrell, with musical guest King Princess. It was pretty good.
Earlier, at 10 p.m., they show a 2013 Christmas episode with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake.