Kelsea Ballerini plays a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings) with another country artist, Cam.
A two-night miniseries begins, adapting Eric Jerome Dickey’s “Friends and Lovers” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) in which tragedy changes the lives of two couples. Naturi Naughton, Simone Missick, RonReaco Lee and Kendrick Sampson star. It concludes Sunday.
Primetime college football tonight includes UCLA at Ohio State (NBC, 7:30 a.m.), Texas at Georgia (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and Louisiana Tech at Washington State (CW, 10 p.m.). The rest of today’s roster is below.
We are fully into the holiday Christmas movie season, two weeks before Thanksgiving weekend. Tonight’s premieres include “Three Wisest Men” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.), continuing the stories of the Brenner brothers, where various moves may be under way. Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and Paul Campbell star in the third film in the trilogy that began in 2022 with “Three Wise men and a Baby.”
In “Timeless Tidings of Joy” (Great American Family, 8 p.m.), Candace Cameron Bure stars as a woman who returns home to sell the family print shop, before she mets someone who wants to save it (Paul Greene).
MSNBC is no more. Spun off from NBC, it’s been renamed MS NOW, though it still has the same programming, such as “The Weekend: Primetime” (MS NOW, 8 p.m.) and “The Beat: Weekend” (MS NOW, 10 p.m.) with Ari Melber.
A tracker named Dakota Black finds a mother who goes missing on “48 Hours” (CBS, 10 p.m.).
“I Am Paul Walker” (CW, 8 p.m.) is a biography of “The Fast and the Furious” actor who died in a car crash at 40.
A missing person is found in a trunk on “The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher” (Oxygen, 9 p.m.).
“Dracula Has Risen from the Grave” (MeTV, 8 p.m.) is presented by “Svengoolie” tonight.
Tricia goes to therapy on “Love and Marriage: Huntsville” (OWN, 8 p.m.).
“Ghost Adventures: House Calls” (Travel, 9 p.m.) goes to Ohio.
Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone star in “Eddington” (HBO< 8 p.m.), the film about a standoff between a sheriff and a mayor in a small New Mexico town, making its premium cable debut.
Turner Classic Movies has a rerun of the time Steve Buscemi chose the double feature of “Scarecrow” (8 p.m.) and “Dog Day Afternoon” (10 p.m.). The midnight noir is “High and Low” (12:15 a.m.), followed by a couple of women in jail flicks, “Caged” (3 a.m.) and “Ladies They Talk About” (4:45 a.m.). The midday musical is “Invitation to the Dance” (noon).
Basketball includes Memphis at Cleveland (NBA, 5 p.m.) and Lakers at Milwaukee (NBA, 8 p.m.).
Hockey has Boston at Montreal (NHL, 7 p.m.).
College football begins at noon with Michigan at Northwestern (Fox), Notre Dame at Pittsburgh (ABC), South Carolina at Texas A&M (ESPN), South Florida at Navy (ESPN2), Kansas State at Oklahoma State (ESPNU), Arizona at Cincinnati (Fox Sports 1) and Air Force at Connecticut (CBS Sports).
After West Virginia at Arizona State (TNT, 1 p.m.), games at 3:30 include Virginia at Duke (ESPN2), Maryland at Illinois (Fox Sports 1), UCF at Texas Tech (Fox), Oklahoma at Alabama (ABC), Penn State at Michigan State (CBS), North Carolina State at Miami (ESPN) and San Jose State at Nevada (CBS Sports).
Then comes Memphis at East Carolina (ESPNU, 4 p.m.), North Carolina at Wake Forest (CW, 4:30 p.m.), Florida at Mississippi (ESPN, 7 p.m.), Utah at Baylor (ESPN2, 7 p.m.), Purdue at Washington (Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.), Utah State at UNLV (CBS Sports, 7 p.m.), Kennesaw State at Jacksonville State (ESPNU, 8 p.m.), TCU at BYU (ESPN, 10:15 p.mm.), UC Davis at Montana State (ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.), Wyoming at Fresno State (Fox Sports 1, 10:30 p.m.) and Boise State at San Diego State (CBS Sports, 10:30 p.m.).
Men’s college basketball has Clemson at Georgetown (Peacock, noon), Ohio at Louisville (CW, noon), Maryland at Marquette (Peacock, 2 p.m.), Butler at SMU (CW, 2 p.m.), William & Mary at St.John’s (truTV, 6 p.m.), Connecticut vs. BYU (Fox, 7 p.m.) and Duquesne at Villanova (truTV, 8 p.m.).
Women’s games include Notre Dame vs. Michigan (NBC, 4 p.m.) and South Carolina vs. USC (Fox, 9 p.m.).
The Valencia Grand Prix (Fox Sports 2, 9 a.m.) has its sprint race.
Soccer includes Belgium at Kazakhstan (Fox Sports 1, 9 a.m.) and Scotland at Greece (Fox Sports 2, 2:45 p.m.). It’s Paraguay at United States (TNT, 5 p.m.) in a men’s international friendly.
Skate America (E!, 2 p.m.) has rhythm dance and pairs’ free skate. And tonight, it’s women’s short program and men’s free skate (E!, 7 p.m.).
Women’s U.S. Olympic curling trials (USA, 3 p.m.) are followed by the Men’s curling trials (USA, 7 p.m.).
The star of the new movie “The Running Man,” Glen Powell, hosts a new “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.).