Saturday TV highlights

SERIES

Friday Night Dinner: Adam celebrates his birthday and Dad makes a surprising revelation in this new episode (8:30 p.m. BBC America).

The High Low Project: In each episode of this new series, Sabrina Soto makes over a room with top-of-the-line furniture and decor, then replaces each item with something equally appealing but much less expensive (8:30 p.m. HGTV).

MOVIES

Game Time: Tackling the Past: Ryan McPartlin stars as a football player who returns to his hometown for the first time in years when his father (Beau Bridges) has a heart attack in this new TV drama (8 p.m. NBC).

Megamind: What happens after a villain succeeds in eliminating the hero (Brad Pitt) who’s long been pursuing him? That’s the question faced by the title bad guy (Will Ferrell) in this sly animated fantasy. Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, David Cross and Jonah Hill are also in the vocal cast (8 p.m. HBO).

Committed: A psychologist (Andrea Roth ) relocates to a remote psychiatric facility and discovers that she has been committed in this new TV drama (9 p.m. Lifetime).

SPORTS

U.S. Open Tennis: Third Round (8 a.m. CBS).

College Football: Kent State at Alabama (9 a.m. KDOC); Akron at Ohio State (9 a.m. ESPN); Utah State at Auburn (9 a.m. ESPN2); Miami (Ohio) at Missouri (9 a.m. FSN); Appalachian State at Virginia Tech (9:30 a.m. MyNet); South Florida at Notre Dame (12:30 p.m. NBC); Minnesota at USC (12:30 p.m. ABC); Minnesota at USC or Western Michigan at Michigan (12:30 p.m. ESPN2); James Madison at North Carolina (12:30 p.m. FSN); UCLA at Houston (12:30 p.m. FS Prime); BYU at Mississippi (1:45 p.m. ESPN); East Carolina vs. South Carolina (4 p.m. FS Prime); LSU vs. Oregon (5 p.m. ABC); Boise State at Georgia (5 p.m. ESPN); Tulsa at Oklahoma (5 p.m. FX); Louisiana Tech at Southern Mississippi (7 p.m. FSN).

Baseball: The Pittsburgh Pirates visit the Chicago Cubs (10 a.m. WGN A); the Dodgers visit the Atlanta Braves (4 p.m. KCAL); the Minnesota Twins visit the Angels (6 p.m. MyNet).