Saturday Night Live
Peter Dinklage is the host of Saturday’s new episode. Dinklage, who plays the complex, acerbic Tyrion Lannister on the HBO hit Game of Thrones, gets most of that series’ funny lines but how he’ll pan out on SNL we’ll have to wait and see. The musical guest is Gwen Stefani. (Global)
DEADLY POSSESSIONS
Each one-hour episode of this new series features three of the world’s most haunted, iconic items along with their owners. They share stories of how the object terrorized them and, in some cases, killed people. The series is hosted by Zak Bagans who for years had dreamed of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas to house these frightening possessions. (DTOUR)
CHOPPED CANADA ( FOOD NETWORK)
No prizes for guessing the entree in Saturday’s new episode, Win By a Hare. Crackers are involved in Round 1 and it’s a choice between risk and better-safe-than-sorry for the dessert round. The popular cooking show has just been given the green light for a fourth season of themed specials, including a series for young cooks. (Food Network)
THE FIRST 48: MURDER IN THE FAMILY
The two new one-hour episodes begin with Under One Roof in which a Dallas grandfather is bludgeoned to death in his bedroom during what appears to be the theft of a 26-inch TV. That is followed by a woman who is found strangled in a partly burned car, in an episode titled Ashes and Snow. (A&E)
MOVIE: MIRROR MIRROR
By far the lighter of the two 2012 takes on the fairy tale, this version from highly visual director Tarsem Singh (Immortals) casts Lily Collins as Snow White. However, the star of the show is Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, who conspires with her servant (Nathan Lane) to get “the fairest of them all” out of her way. Armie Hammer (The Social Network) makes an acceptable Prince Charming in a cast that also includes Sean Bean and Mare Winningham. (ABC)