What to watch SATURDAY
All times Central. Start times can vary based on cable/satellite provider. Confirm times on
your on-screen guide.
College Football: USC at Notre Dame
NBC, 6:30 p.m. Live
The USC Trojans visit hallowed Notre Dame Stadium for a primetime college football
clash with the Fighting Irish on NBC.
Switched Before Birth
Lifetime, 7 p.m. Original Film
One Day at a Time’s Justina Machado and Scream Queens’ Skyler Samuels star in this moving drama about two women’s struggles
to become mothers. The film is inspired by actual in vitro fertilization stories of reallife couples. “Families with fertility issues continue to be marginalized and can accrue tremendous financial debt because of the lack of federal regulation,” informs director Elisabeth Rohm. “I’ve always felt strongly
that this topic unfortunately continues to be taboo and the more we create conversation around infertility, the more progress we will make.”
An Autumn Romance
GAC Family, 7 p.m. Original Film
Jessica Lowndes and Chad Michael Murray star in GAC Family’s first original movie. When Seattle-based librarian Taylor Harris (Lowndes) suddenly loses her job, she travels to a small town in Montana to visit her brother Craig (Dennis Andres) and his wife, Christine (Moni Ogunsuyi), and quickly finds herself immersed in her brother’s effort to save the Graff Hotel, which has been purchased by tech tycoon Joel (Murray) and his associate, Ray (Michael Brown), with plans to transform the once-quaint hotel into an upscale property for tourists.
Minari
Showtime, 8 p.m.
This is a film of quiet power and subtlety, with the family bond between would-be
farmer Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) and his practical, disappointed wife, Monica (Han Ye-ri), tested through failures that are tempered by bits of hope. In writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s semiautobiographical drama, Korean immigrant Jacob moves his wife, young son (Alan S. Kim) and daughter (Noel Kate Cho) from California to rural Arkansas in the 1980s, with the dream of selling vegetables to big-city vendors. Money is tight, and Monica’s spirited, swearing mother (Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung) arrives from South Korea to help. The fact that she easily grows the Asian celery minari — a plant that, “rich or poor, anyone can enjoy and be healthy,” she says — speaks to the power of faith in a movie nominated for six Oscars this year.
The Dead Files Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Season Premiere
Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and physical medium Amy Allan are back on the case in Season 14 of this paranormal investigation series. In the premiere, “Victimville,” Steve and Amy visit a terrified woman in Victorville, California, who claims her home is under attack from the supernatural and believes that whatever is lurking inside killed her roommate. She fears the entity will strike again if she can’t get help.
Saturday Night Live NBC, 10:30 p.m. Live Livestreams on Peacock
Former SNL cast member and current Emmy-winning Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis returns to his old stomping grounds to host for the first time. Also making her SNL debut, as musical guest, is Brandi Carlile, whose new album, In These Silent Days, was released Oct. 1. Tonight’s episode is the final one that will be livestreamed on Peacock.