Late night Saturday heats up a bit as “Animation Domination High Def” (Fox, 11 p.m.) makes its debut, with episodes of the crazily effective “Axe Cop,” which really was run by a grade schooler, and the Archie comics spoof “High School USA!” There’s one new episode of each, and repeats of the ones they previewed Thursday.
They mean to make a run at “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) which has been amassing the top rtings of the night with reruns despite its hour. Tonight, it replays the Justin Bieber episode.
In one of two original movies on TV tonight, a woman and her daughter fake their deaths so they can escape an abusive head of household. It works out for a while in “Hidden Away” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) but then he finds them in Palm Springs. Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ivan Sergei and Allie Gonino star.
Elsewhere, on the new TV movie “Second Chances” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.), a single mom played by Alison Sweeney has to decide whether to get involved with a hunky fireman played by Greg Vaughan. Also featured: Ed Asner.
Keep your human beauty beauty pageants. Time to determine “America’s Cutest Dog” (Animal Planet, 8 p.m.).
A new season also starts for “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” (OWN, 10 p.m.), as the down home diner adjusts to having cameras around all the time. A new season starts for Iyanla Vanzant on “Iyanla: Fix My Life” (OWN, 9 p.m.).
Its premiere played like another movie, but “Cedar Cove” (Hallmark, 8 p.m.) rolls along as a series with its first hour long episode, as a developer looks to tear down the town’s lighthouse.
Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively and Aaron Johnson star in Oliver Stone’s drug trafficking saga “Savages” (HBO, 8 p.m.) making its cable debut. Also on tonight are the animated “Brave” (Starz, 9 p.m.) and “Freeloaders” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.) with Josh Loawson and Nat Faxon.
Some of the best comedies of the 1980s all came out in 1982. They play together tonight on Turner Classic Movies with “Tootsie” (8 p.m.), “My Favorite Year” (10 p.m.) and “Diner” (midnight).
Later, it’s a double feature with Arch Hall Jr.: “Wild Guitar” (AMC, 2 a.m.) and “The Sadist” (3:45 a.m.).
The Head and the Heart plays a replay of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings).