What's On Tonight (Saturday): Endangered animals are ready for their close-up

Photo Ark

[*opens door like Squiggy*] Hello! Tonight's highlight is part two of National Geographic's further look into the Photo Ark project and the animals. The Photo Ark, which has existed for 15 years, is helmed by photographer Joel Sartore, who travels the world photographing rare and endangered species of all shapes and sizes. Not all of those photographed still exist. There was an excellent PBS profile a few years back. And there's a fantastic coffee table book.

Elsewhere, Christmas movies are out in force on Lifetime and Hallmark networks, Anya Taylor-Joy gets involved with friends' love lives, Kurt Russell is a planet, body horror history is profiled, a new student joins E Class, and Adele does live sketch comedy.

He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy, here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 24!

EARLY PRIMETIME

The Fall (Ovation, 7 p.m.): As DSI Stella Gibson takes control of the hunt for the serial killer striking women in Belfast, the realisation that his perfect kill is tainted pushes Spector into looking for his next victim.

QUICK HITS:

Saturday Night Football 🏈 (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Michigan at Minnesota

FOR THE RECORD: License to Kill (Oxygen, 6 p.m., season finale)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

Christmas Unwrapped 🎥 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Amber Stevens West in a movie that sounds scandalous.

Emma. 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): In 1800s England, the well meaning but selfish young Anya Taylor-Joy meddles in the love lives of her friends. It is a good movie. The costumes and sets are dazzling.

HBCU Homecoming 2020: Meet Me on the Yard (BET /  YouTube, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. A celebration of the annual tradition of HBCU Homecoming, including football games, festivities, food, and fellowship.

Jingle Bell Bride 🎥 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): No, it isn't about trafficking under the guise of Christmas décor. A wedding planner finds romance with a handsome local after traveling to a remote town in Alaska to find a rare flower for a celebrity client.

Manhunt: Deadly Games (CBS, 8 p.m.): The FBI search for Eric spins out of control as antigovernment locals and Eric's family push back. Richard must confront his inner demons as he prepares for a pivotal press conference. Later, viewing him as a freedom fighter under siege, local militias rally around Eric and attack the FBI. As Embry continues to investigate, he learns that Eric is not who he claims to be.

The Pom Pom Murders 🎥 (Lifetime Movies, 8 p.m.): Cheerleaders and murder. A match made in heaven.

Svengoolie: Mighty Joe Young 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune. It's a good movie.

Tour of Duty 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 8 p.m.): Col. Carl Brewster enters the local Vietnamese town to make the "boom-boom" parlor off-limits because of men catching the clap.

QUICK HITS:

2020 World Series, Game 4 (Fox): Tampa Bay Rays vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

FOR THE RECORD: Clint Eastwood: Hollywood Outlaw (Reelz, special); Group Chat: The Show (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.); Nickelodeon's Unfiltered (Nickelodeon)

Emma. (via Tenor)

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Syfy Movie) 🎥 (Syfy, 9 p.m.): The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his dad, crush-worthy Kurt Russell.

Christmas Tree Lane 🎥 (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 9 p.m.): The story of a woman who falls in love with a street?

This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? Have you been to the theater? Those are a thing again for some brave souls. 

QUICK HITS:

Boxing 🥊 (Showtime): Sergey Lipinets vs. Custio Clayton

FOR THE RECORD: The Battle of Alcatraz (Reelz, special); Black Love (OWN, season finale); Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (Animal Planet); Ghost Nation (Travel Channel); Live Rescue (A&E)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

Eli Roth's History of Horror (AMC, 10 p.m.): "Sometimes disgusting, body horror films make audience members question their prejudices against physical difference, their attitudes about sex and gender, their fear of disease and contamination, and how much appearance determines destiny."

⭐ Photo Ark (Nat Geo Wild, 10 p.m.): SPECIAL. National Geographic Photographer Joel Sartore showcases species in the Amazon rainforest. This episode is titled "Monkey Business."

FOR THE RECORD: 48 Hours (CBS); Destination Zoo (Travel Channel); Mega Zoo (Animal Planet)

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL

Cursed Films (AMC, 11 p.m.): A horrific on-set accident during the production of Twilight Zone: The Movie leaves those involved in the making of the film cursed by the memory of the incident they witnessed.

Hammer House of Horror 📺 (Decades, 11 p.m.): Spend the weekend with this haunting British anthology from 1980. In this episode, "A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker."

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (via Giphy)

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Assassination Classroom (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): A new student joins the E Class with a single-minded focus on assassination that drives her classmates to distraction. Koro Sensei to the rescue.

Black Clover (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): The Black Bulls are, mostly, training in Raquey when Kahono and Kiato approach them for help defending an underwater temple that's under attack.

Brogan: Master of Castles (Syfy, 1:23 a.m.): Evan and his gang are taken by surprise by Manitor's troopers. Then, a seemingly fun road trip quickly turns into fun slaughter.

Cyanide & Happiness (Syfy, 1:01 a.m.): A man is haunted / A knight is causing problems / A man knows the secrets of a hero.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Bucciarati and gang help a local florist chisel out the truth behind his daughter's apparent suicide. Mista is assigned to track down her lover, whose ties with destiny had unwittingly cast a light upon Bucciarati's fate.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker 📺 (MeTV, midnight): A politician on a meteoric rise murders his opposition through a pact with Satan which gives him the ability to turn into an invulnerable dog.

Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): Little mechanical men capture both Dr. Smith and the robot, switching the robot's personality with that of Smith's. With their new "leader" at the helm, they plan to wreak havoc on the Robinson's camp.

Magical Girl Friendship Squad (Syfy, midnight): Daisy contemplates what a 'normal' life might look like for her. Alex learns that the women's empowerment movement is rather complicated.

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Kabuto reanimates an army of unknown shinobi led by Danzo's former bodyguard Torune to retrieve the ones he lost to the Allied Forces.

Purgatony (Syfy, 1:07 a.m.): A mass of new dead people puts a crunch on Purgatory's system. The solution? Baseball.

The Six Million Dollar Man 📺 (Cozi, midnight): Steve and an ESP expert infiltrate a spy's nightclub.

Wild Life (Syfy, 12:15 a.m.): The critters come across an abandoned broadcast studio and decide to start producing their own shows.

Adele (via Giphy)

LATE-NIGHT TV

Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Rufus Wainwright
The Greg Gutfeld Show (Fox News, 10 p.m.): Dave Rubin, Terry Schappert, Kat Timpf, and Tyrus

Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m.): Adele and H.E.R.✔️
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Kate Hudson and Radiohead (14 Oct 2000)

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Note: All times are Eastern.

Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it
⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included

🏈⚾🥊: Sportsballs

Happy watching, everyone! And reminder, the Sunday WOT will be up a few minutes early. Hashtag SNL.