Saturday’s TV highlights

SERIES

Iconoclasts: Cate Blanchett and Tim Flannery express their mutual admiration in this new episode (9 p.m. Sundance).

Austin City Limits: Original contemporary rock with Alejandro Escovedo, followed by a performance from New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty (11 p.m. KLCS).

Saturday Night Live: Emma Stone hosts this new episode with musical guest Kings of Leon (11:29 p.m. NBC).

SPECIALS

Brave New Voices 2010: Four teams compete at the National Youth Poetry Slam Championship (11 p.m. HBO).

MOVIES

Runaway: A phoenix falls to Earth and becomes the girlfriend of a mortal in this new TV fantasy starring Kanye West and Selita Ebanks (8 p.m. BET).

Invictus: Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon star as South African President Nelson Mandela and the then-captain of the country’s rugby team, which is competing in the 1995 World Cup championship after the fall of apartheid, in this 2009 historical drama directed by Clint Eastwood (8 p.m. HBO).

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf: While staying at a Romanian castle with her father and brother, a teenager (Victoria Justice) is inadvertently transformed into a werewolf. Brooke Shields also stars in this new comedy (8 p.m. Nickelodeon).

SPORTS

NASCAR : Nationwide Series: Gateway 250, Qualifying (7:30 a.m. ESPN2); Race (12:30 p.m. ESPN2).

College football: Mississippi at Arkansas (9 a.m. KDOC); Michigan State at Northwestern (9 a.m. ESPN); Syracuse at West Virginia (9 a.m. ESPN2); Iowa State at Texas (9 a.m. FSN); LSU at Auburn (12:30 p.m. CBS); Wisconsin at Iowa (12:30 p.m. ABC); Arizona State at California (12:30 p.m. FS Prime); Alabama at Tennessee (4 p.m. ESPN); Oklahoma at Missouri (5 p.m. ABC); Washington at Arizona (7:15 p.m. ESPN).

Hockey: The Ducks visit the Detroit Red Wings (4 p.m. KDOC); the Kings visit the Colorado Avalanche (6 p.m. FSN).

Baseball: Playoffs: The New York Yankees visit the Texas Rangers (if necessary) (5 p.m. TBS).