Best-bets for Jan. 27: family films and an “SNL” favorite

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Justin Timberlake (shown here) used to be a steady force on the show. He was just the host twice, just the music guest twice (once in ‘NSync), both on three other times. He also had four uncredited stops. But he hasn’t been back for a decade, except for the 40th-anniversary special. Now he’s the music guest, with Dakota Johnson getting her second turn as host. Read more…

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Justin Timberlake (shown here) used to be a steady force on the show. He was just the host twice, just the music guest twice (once in ‘NSync), both on three other times. He also had four uncredited stops. But he hasn’t been back for a decade, except for the 40th-anniversary special. Now he’s the music guest, with Dakota Johnson getting her second turn as host.

2) “Family Film and TV Awards,” 8-9 p.m., CBS. These awards started on CBS back in 1996, then faded away. Now they’re back, with best-movie nominations for “Barbie,” “The Hill” and the latest Indiana Jones, Shazam and Guardians of the Galaxy films. TV series nominees are “Loki, “Perrcy Jackson and the Olymoians,” “The Neighborhood,” “Unstable” and “Star Trek: Picard.

3) Family films. Before the Family Film Awards, you could see an actual family film. There are animated ones on Freeform (“Ron’s Gone Wrong” at 1 p.m., “A Bug’s Life” at 3:20, and “Despicable Me” ones at 5:35, 7:40 and 9:50 p.m.) and on Nickelodeon, including the second “Madagascar” film at 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and the first two “Hotel Transylvania” ones at noon nd 1:45.

4) “Filmmakers for the Prosecution” (2021), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. Budd Schulberg was a screenwriter (an Oscar-winner for “On the Waterfront”) and novelist. Before that, he was a soldier assigned to gather war-crime footage (much of it shot by the Nazis) for the Nuremberg trials. That story is told along with other doumentaries — “Shoah” at noon and “Nuremberg” at 9:45.

5) Figure skating. The national championships are wrapping up, with finals for dance (2:30 p.m., NBC) and pairs (8 p.m., USA Network). The men will be 2 p.m. Sunday on NBC. If you prefer basketball, there’s a women’s college game at 8 p.m. ET on Fox (Notre Dame-Connecticut) and a men’s pro game at 8:30 on ABC (Lakers-Warriors).

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