What's On Tonight (Saturday): Don't look up

Mysteries from Above

Vroom! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, August 23!

Our Top Pick tonight is Mysteries from Above (History, 8 & 9 p.m.). This docuseries uses equipment in the sky and outer space to solve and analyze a vast assortment of mysteries and issues about our planet and other worlds.

Elsewhere, NBC goes fast, football trickles back, George is fading, Mariana Van Zeller joins an armed militia, Hallmark gets Scoop'd and One Piece handles the Navy.

(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Gracenote.)

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EARLY STREAMING & EVENING

🏎️ NASCAR Cup Series (NBC, 7 p.m.): "The NASCAR Cup series heads back to Daytona for the Coke Zero Sugar 400. Austin Dillon clinched a playoff berth by winning last week's Cook Out 400 at Richmond. Dillon held off a hard-charging Adam Bowman for his first victory of the season."

WHAT ELSE IS ON

⚾ Banana Ball World Tour (TruTV, 8 p.m.)

🏈 CFB on Fox (Fox, 6:30 p.m.): Fresno State at Kansas

🏈 College Football on ABC (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): North Carolina Central vs. Southern

🏈 College Football on CBS (CBS, 7:30 p.m.): Stanford at Hawaii

⚽ NWSL on Ion (Ion, 7:30 p.m.): Gotham FC vs. Utah Royals

The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix, 11:56 a.m.)

NASCAR, vroom! (via Tenor)

🕗 PRIMETIME 🕚

American Prince: JFK Jr. (CNN, 9 p.m.): As George's initial buzz begins to fade, rising tensions at the magazine and turmoil in John F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal life come to a head, ending in a summer marked by immense tragedy.

🎥 As Gouda as It Gets (Great American Family, 9 p.m.): I had brain cells die just by reading the title.

🎥 Double Scoop (Hallmark, 8 p.m.): Nora discovers the best ice cream and hopes to land them as a client. Her sweet dreams hit a snag when her former colleague James has the same idea.

🎥 Girl in the Cellar (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Rebecca becomes concerned that her daughter, Lory, is not making the right life choices. When she finds out that Lory has a secret boyfriend, she decides to confine her in the cellar -- the same cellar where Rebecca was held captive by her father.

⭐ Mysteries from Above (History, 8 & 9 p.m.): Zoom in on some otherworldly sights. Spot a giant glacier on the Red Planet, let the milky seas off the coast of Java bathe your vision, ponder a huge hexagon floating above Saturn and take a spin around a doughnut-shaped lake in Saskatchewan.

Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (National Geographic, 9 p.m. / Hulu, Sunday): "Mariana investigates the growing influence of heavily armed militias."

WHAT ELSE IS ON

AEW Collision (HBO Max & TNT, 8 p.m.)

🎥 Dinner and a Movie (TBS, 8 p.m.): American Pie✔️

House Hunters (HGTV, 10 p.m.)

Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN, 8 p.m.)

🐂 PBR Bull Riding (The CW, 8 p.m.)

🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): The Curse of Frankenstein

American Pie (via Tenor)

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

One Piece (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Fujitora's flirting with chance turns out poorly for the Straw Hat Pirates as the full Navy force bears down on Dressrosa searching for the pirates. Luffy and the others make a mad dash for the east port to get off the island.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

📡 Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (Adult Swim, 1 a.m. / CrunchyRoll, now)

📡 Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m. / CrunchyRoll now)

📡 Dandadan (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m. / Hulu & Netflix, now)

📡 Dragon Ball Daima (Adult Swim, midnight / Netflix, now)

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Gracenote; IMDb; TV Passport

⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
📡: Linear broadcast

🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback

✔️: Video/gif/photo included

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Happy watching, everyone!