1) Sports override, everywhere. This was supposed to be an all-sports night – pro basketball on ABC, college basketball on CBS (and cable), figure-skating on NBC. Now all three are gone, replaced by reruns and newsmagazines. ABC has “Shark Tank” and “American Idol” (Hollywood Week begins) … NBC has “Ellen’s Game of Games” and “Dateline” … CBS has “FBI” (Sasha Alexander, shown here, as an endangered presidential candidate), “NCIS: New Orleans” (a theater explosion) and “48 Hours.”
2) “9-1-1,” 9 p.m., Fox. After a 15-week break (making room for its Texas spin-off), this returned Monday to start the second half of its season. Here (after a “Lego Masters” rerun at 8) is a second chance to see it, with lots of troubles: A skydiving trip goes bad … a home-repossession effort turns violent …and more. Also, Chimney’s half-brother unexpectedly shows up from Korea.
3) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. We can probably expect lots of reruns now, breaking into what’s been a strong “SNL” season. This one has J.J. Watt, the Houston Texans defensive end, as host, with country’s Luke Combs as music guest.
4) Bullitt” (1968), 6 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Movies weren’t always fast and furious. Then trend-setters directors skillfully used unique settings: Here, Peter Yates had the hills of San Francisco; in the 1971 “French Connection,” William Friedkin had the streets of New York. “Bullitt” also has a smart script, Oscar-winning editing and Steve McQueen. It’s part of a great TCM night, with Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder” (1954) at 8 and Audrey Hepburn in “Wait Until Dark” (1967) at 10.
5) More movies: Many people spend Saturdays in theaters, with superheroes or cartoons. Now cable fills both voids. There are dueling “X-Men” movies at 8 p.m. – “Apocalypse” (2016) on FX and “Dark Phoenix” (2019) on HBO. “Freeform” has animation – “Pocahontas” (1995), 4:20 p.m., “The Princess and the Frog” (2009), 6:20; and “Frozen” (2013), 8:25. For grown-ups, Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017), a fairly good version of Agatha Christie’s best tale, is 7 p.m. on FXX.