Saturday’s Highlights

SERIES

Challenge: Chocolate is the key ingredient for the pastry chefs competing in this new episode (9 p.m. Food).

Independent Lens: A 9-year-old aspiring rapper is profiled in the documentary “P-Star Rising� (10 p.m. KCET).

Austin City Limits: It’s ladies’ night as Esperanza Spalding and Madeleine Peyroux perform on a new edition of the long-running concert series (11 p.m. KLCS).

Saturday Night Live: “That ‘70s Show’s� Ashton Kutcher hosts, with musical guests Them Crooked Vultures (11:29 p.m. NBC).

SPECIALS

Anaconda: Queen of the Serpents: Herpetologists journey to Venezuela in search of the great snake in this new special (5 and 8 p.m. National Geographic).

Dog Show: Prize pooches strut their stuff as the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship takes place in Long Beach (8 p.m. Animal Planet, Discovery).

MOVIES

Front of the Class: Patricia Heaton and Treat Williams star in this made-for-TV docudrama (8 p.m. CBS).

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Daniel Radcliffe plays author J.K Rowlings’ boy wizard in this effects-laden 2001 fantasy tale (8 p.m. ABC).

Temple Grandin: Claire Danes stars in this 2010 bio-pic about the pioneering autism advocate (8 p.m. HBO).

Bonnie and Clyde: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty play the title characters in this violent 1967 drama about the real-life, Depression-era bank-robbing couple (9 p.m. TCM).

SPORTS

College basketball: The Bruins host Cal (1 p.m. CBS), the Trojans take on Stanford at USC (4:30 p.m. FS Prime), and Cal State Northridge faces Long Beach State (5 p.m. FSN).

Hockey: The Kings welcome the Red Wings (1 p.m. FSN).

NASCAR Racing: The Budweiser Shootout gets underway in Daytona Beach, Fla. (5 p.m. Fox).

Pro basketball: The Heat meet the Bulls (5 p.m. WGN America), the Lakers battle the Trail Blazers (7 p.m. KCAL), and the Clippers challenge the Spurs (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).