TODAY'S MUST-SEE

"Primeval," 2 and 3 p.m., BBC America (Oceanic Digital Channel 341). Each week, this series blends opposites forces. Gifted British actors — smart, solid, serious — tackle nonsense about an anomaly that allows creatures to step in and out of our world. That peaked last week (rerunning at 5 p.m.), when Nick learned more about his long-missing wife, Helen. Returning to this world, he then found everything the same — with one huge exception. That complication continues in a good episode today, with some new twists added. This anomaly thing is kind of fun.

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE

"Saturday Night Live," 10:29 p.m., NBC. Last week's season opener started wonderfully, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. As soon as that bit ended, however, the show crumbled. Will it be better now? We'll see. James Franco hosts, with music by Kings of Leon.

OF NOTE:

Football, 2 p.m., ABC. Actually, there are choices all day. ABC wraps it up here with Georgia at Arizona State.

"Miss Congeniality" (2000), 6 and 8:30 p.m., ABC Family. Here are two chances to catch this fun film, with Sandra Bullock as a clumsy FBI agent, trying to go undercover at a beauty pageant.

"Chuck," 7 p.m., NBC. We're still nine days from this show's delightful season opener. For now, catch a rerun with the return of Bryce, who is Chuck's nemesis and Sarah's former partner and former lover. He had seemed to be dead, but that's rarely a permanent condition in TV shows.

"Law & Order: Criminal Intent," 8 and 9 p.m., NBC. The first rerun has murders revolving around the ordeal of landing the right preschool. The second has Goren probing his past after a picture is left on his mother's grave.

"NCIS," 7 p.m., CBS. While working on a different case, the team finds a woman searching for her husband, a political refugee from Africa.