Saturday’s TV highlights

SERIES

Giada at Home: Chef Giada De Laurentiis returns for a new season and prepares California turkey chili, vegetarian chili verde and short rib chili. (11:30 a.m. Food).

Ask This Old House: The home improvement advice series returns for a new season at 3 p.m. KOCE and 5:30 p.m. KVCR.

Free Agents: The original British series — upon which the recently canceled NBC incarnation was based — premieres with Stephen Mangan and Sharon Horgan in the lead roles. With Anthony Head, who was cast in the same role in the American version (8 and 8:30 p.m. BBC America).

Live From Daryl’s House: Smokey Robinson performs in this new episode (11 p.m. KTLA).

Austin City Limits: Raphael Saadiq and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears perform in this new episode (11 p.m. KOCE).

Saturday Night Live: Ben Stiller hosts with musical guest Foster the People (11:29 p.m. NBC).

MOVIES

Alien Series: AMC is airing all four installments of the brutally scary science fiction film series starring Sigourney Weaver, beginning at 2:30 p.m. with 1979’s “Alien.” That’s followed at 5 by 1986’s “Aliens,” then 1992’s “Alien3” at 8 and 1997’s “Alien Resurrection” at 10:30.

SPORTS

NASCAR: Nationwide Series: Kansas Lottery 300: qualifying (7 a.m. ESPN2); Racing (12:30 p.m. ESPN2).

College football: Oklahoma vs. Texas (9 a.m. ABC); Kentucky at South Carolina (9 a.m. KDOC); Minnesota at Purdue (9 a.m. ESPN); Louisville at North Carolina (9 a.m. ESPN2); Florida State at Wake Forest (9:30 a.m. MyNet); Florida at LSU (12:30 p.m. CBS); Air Force at Notre Dame (12:30 p.m. NBC); Arizona State at Utah (12:30 p.m. FSN2); Auburn at Arkansas (4 p.m. ESPN); Georgia at Tennessee (4 p.m. ESPN2); Iowa State at Baylor (4 p.m. FSN); Ohio State at Nebraska (5 p.m. ABC); Washington State at UCLA (7:30 p.m. FSN2).

Hockey: The Anaheim Ducks vs. the New York Rangers (10 a.m. VS); the Buffalo Sabres vs. the Kings (11 a.m. FSN).