What's On Tonight (Saturday): Live from Austin, it's Saturday night

Austin City Limits Music Festival

For cryin' out loud! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 4!

Our Top Pick tonight is night 2 of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (Hulu, 5:05 p.m.). The lineup across the two channels include Joey Valence & Brae, Marina, Djo, Sammy Virji, Sabrina Carpenter, The Strokes, Japanese Breakfast, and Latin Mafia. Some of these acts will be available next season via PBS' Austin City Limits.

Elsewhere, a bunny and cat are Live from New York, Finneas goes to the Limits, Rachel Jeffs gets Lifetime movie treatment, Kiff has Halloween issues, and John Hodgman has News.

(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

⭐ Austin City Limits Music Festival (Hulu, 5:05 p.m.): SPECIAL. Performers tonight include The Backseat Lovers, Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter, The Strokes, and Japanese Breakfast.

Kiff (Disney Channel & Disney XD, 7 p.m.): "Kiff and Barry run out of candy on Halloween and must find more before it's too late."

WHAT ELSE IS ON
⚾ 2025 National League Division Series (TBS, 6:38 p.m.): Game 1, Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies
AEW Collision (HBO Max & TNT, 7 p.m.)
🏈 Big Ten Saturday Night (NBC, 7:30 p.m.): Minnesota at Ohio State
🏈 CFB on Fox (Fox, 7 p.m.): Colorado at TCU
⚽ NWSL on Ion (Ion, 7:30 p.m.): NC Courage at Racing Louisville
Ranma1/2 (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Season premiere
🏈 Saturday Night College Football (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Miami at Florida State

🕗 PRIMETIME 🕚

48 Hours (CBS, 10 p.m. / Paramount+, Sunday): After a wife calls 911 to report her husband missing, police discover his lifeless body in his car, parked inside a corporate parking garage.

Crossroad Springs (Great American Family, 8 p.m.): Fall finale. James prepares to return to his pastor life in Chicago. A member of the Newman family returns and threatens the Hamilton's land deal.

🎥 Home Turf (Hallmark, 8 p.m.): Cassidy is the president of a small college whose life is thrown for a loop when freshmen on the football team move into her home. Don't worry, she's not interested in playing a variety of flutes or climbing a new Eiffel Tower every night. She's gonna fall for the coach.

🎥 Surviving My Father: The Rachel Jeffs Story (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): "Warren Jeffs becomes the notorious leader of a polygamous sect known as the FLDS Church. Subjected to her father's abuse and manipulation, Rachel Jeffs plans a daring escape from the heavily guarded community, then returns to rescue her children."

WHAT ELSE IS ON
⚾ 2025 American League League Division Series (FS1, 8:38 p.m.): Game 1, Detroit Tigers at Seattle Mariners
📡🎥 Bring Her Back (HBO, 8 p.m. / HBO Max, now)
Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher (Oxygen, 9 p.m. / Peacock, Sunday)
📡🎥 Fight or Flight (Paramount+ with Showtime [linear], 9 p.m. / Paramount+ with Showtime [streaming], now)
Have I Got News for You (CNN, 9 p.m.): John Hodgman, Akilah Hughes
Inside Airport Lost & Found (National Geographic, 9 & 10 p.m.)
Love Island Games (Peacock, 9 p.m.)
🐂 PBR Bull Riding (The CW, 8 p.m.)
House Hunters (HGTV, 10 p.m.)
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV, 8 p.m.): The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Detroit Tigers (via Giphy)

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

One Piece (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. Luffy and Bartolomeo are captured by Desire and the Sweet Pirates; they are taken to the island of Silver Mine.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Finneas; season premiere
📡 Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (Adult Swim, 1 a.m. / CrunchyRoll, now)
📡 Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati 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)
Saturday Night Live (NBC & Peacock, 11:29 p.m.): Bad Bunny, Doja Cat; season premiere

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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
🏈🏀⚾⚽🏐🎾🏌️🏒🏎️🐂: Sports

Happy watching, everyone!

Reminder: SNL is tomorrow, therefore the Sunday WOT will be posted a few minutes early!