WEEKEND TV : Sitcoms Get Season Premieres

The new season rolls on.

Tonight, fans of NBC’s popular sitcoms finally get a respite from reruns as “The Golden Girls” at 8 p.m. and “Empty Nest” at 9 p.m. present their season premieres in their new time slots. A new sitcom called “The Torkelsons” premieres in between at 8:30 (4)(36)(39).

Sunday, ABC presents the season openers of “Life Goes On” at 7 p.m., “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at 8 and “America’s Funniest People” at 8:30 p.m. (7)(3)(10)(42). The producers of “Funniest Home Videos” have promised to add about 20% more clips to each show this season while cutting back on host Bob Saget’s jokes.

Fox (6)(11) counters at 8 p.m. Sunday with the season’s first new episode of “In Living Color” that will resolve whether Homey the Clown, played by Damon Wayans, actually sold out to “the man.”

Meanwhile, “Soul Train,” the long-running dance show hosted by deep-voiced Don Cornelius, moves to KTLA Channel 5 today at 11 a.m. Stevie Wonder will mark the event with a rare television appearance, performing songs from the soundtrack of Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever.”