An amusement park princess befriends an eight-year-old real life princess and is recruited by her father to travel to their kingdom in the royal-overloaded made-for-TV romance “Royal-ish” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.). Nichola Sakura and William Moseley star in the latest of what is apparently a month full of similarly royal-themed romances (which all come at a bad time politically, it seems to me).
Anyway, who are we kidding, today’s TV is all about college basketball conference tournaments in advance of March Madness. Men’s games have Maine vs. Bryant (ESPN, 11 a.m.), Princeton vs. Yale (ESPNU, 11 a.m.), Tennessee vs. Auburn (ESPN, 1 p.m.), Wisconsin vs. Michigan State (CBS, 1 p.m.), South Carolina State vs. Norfolk State (ESPN2, 1 p.m.), Loyola Chicago vs. VCU (CBS Sports, 1 p.m.), Dartmouth vs. Cornell (ESPNews, 2 p.m.), Tulane at Memphis (ESPN2, 3 p.m.), Alabama vs. Florida (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.), Michigan vs. Maryland (CBS, 3:30 p.m.), UAB vs. North Texas (ESPN2, 5 p.m.), Arizona vs. Houston (ESPN, 6 p.m.), Creighton vs. St. John’s (Fox, 6:30 p.m.), Mount St. Mary’s vs. Iona (ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.), Miami Ohio vs. Akron (ESPN2, 7:40 p.m.), Louisville vs. Duke (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.), Jacksonville State vs. Liberty (CBS Sports, 8:30 p.m.), Alabama State vs. Jackson State (ESPNU, 9:30 p.m.), UC Irvine vs. UC San Diego (ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.) and Grand Canyon at Utah Valley (ESPN2, 11:30 p.m.).
Women’s games include Toledo vs. Ball State (CBS Sports, 11 a.m.), Quinnipiac vs. Fairfield (ESPNU, 1:30 p.m.), UT Arlington vs. Grand Canyon (ESPNU, 3:30 p.m.), Howard vs. Norfolk State (ESPNews, 4 p.m.), Alcorn State vs. Southern (ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.), Harvard vs. Columbia (ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.) and Middle Tenessee vs. Liberty (CBS Sports, 5:30 p.m.).
Alongside all this basketball is a related made-for-TV thriller “Taken at a Basketball Game” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.).
There’s a two hour documentary on the country star, “Dolly Parton: Here I Am” (CW, 8 p.m.).
“Have I Got News for You” (CNN, 9 p.m.) has Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black are joined by Nimesh Patel and Bomani Jones.
Kanan and Raq try a new business relationship on “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” (Starz, 10:25 p.m.).
The Vin Diesel racing pic “Fast X” (Starz, 8 p.m.) makes its premium cable debut.
Valentine’s Day is a mess on “Family or Fiancé” (OWN, 8 p.m.).
The 2016 film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is stretched to three hours with commercials on broadcast primetime.
There’s a Harry Belafonte double feature on Turner Classic Movies with “The World, the Flesh and the Devil” (8 p.m.) and “Bright Road” (10 p.m.). The 12 o’clock noir is “Gun Crazy” (midnight), followed by two westerns, “The Magnificent Seven” (2 a.m.) and “Catlow” (4:15 a.m.). The midday musical is “Swing Time” (noon).
NBA action has the Knicks at Golden State (ABC, 8:30 p.m.).
Hockey has New Jersey at Pittsburgh (ABC, 3 p.m.) and Florida at Montreal (NHL, 7 p.m.).
Spring baseball includes Dodgers at Yomiuri Giants (MLB, 6 a.m.) from Tokyo, Minnesota vs. Toronto (MLB, 1 p.m.), Yankees vs. Baltimore (MLB, 6 p.m.) and Angels vs. Cubs (MLB, 9 p.m.).
NASCAR runs its LiUNA (CW, 4:30 p.m.) race from Las Vegas.
The Formula 1 season begins begins late tonight with the Australian Grand Prix (ESPN, midnight).
There is third round play in golf’s Players Championship (NBC, 2 p.m.).
The Six Nations Rugby Championship (NBC, noon) is also held.
It’s UCLA at Utah (Fox, 9 p.m.) in women’s college gymnastics.
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) is a replay of a December show hosted by Chris Rock with Gracie Abrams as musical guest.