Best-bets for Nov. 1: “SNL,” football, cartoon classics

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:30 p.m., NBC. After resting for a week, “SNL” starts its second string of three new shows. Miles Teller hosts; he’s done it once before and also had a good spot in the “SNL50” special. Brandi Carlile (shown here), an 11-time Grammy-winner, has her third turn as the music guest. Read more…

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:30 p.m., NBC. After resting for a week, “SNL” starts its second string of three new shows. Miles Teller hosts; he’s done it once before and also had a good spot in the “SNL50” special. Brandi Carlile (shown here), an 11-time Grammy-winner, has her third turn as the music guest.

2) Football. For the fourth straight week, Vanderbilt faces a top-20 team. Now ranked No. 9, it faces Texas (No. 20) at noon ET. That’s on ABC, which also has Oklahoma (No. 18) and Tennessee (No. 14) at 7:30. At 10:15, ESPN has Cincinnati (No. 17) and Utah (No. 24).

3) More sports. There’s racing — horses at 3:30 p.m. ET on NBC, NASCAR at 7:30 on CW. If a seventh World Series game is needed, that’s 8 p.m. on Fox. And more football: CBS has two interesting games — Army-Air Force at noon and the “Pac-10 championship” at 7:30: That has Washington State and Oregon State, the only teams (until next year) in the conference.

4) “Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers and Ours,” 8 p.m., Lifetime. McMillan has seen four of her novels become movies, led by “Waiting to Exhale.” Now she’s listed as “presents” for this indie film. Taye Diggs (one of the stars of her “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”) is enraged at his teen daughter’s lover … but then meets the kid’s mother.

5) “Snow White” (1937), 10 a.m., Freeform. Finally done with its “31 Days of Halloween,” Freeform gives us cartoon classics, starting with “Fantasia” at 7. “Pocahontas” is at noon, then “Mulan,” 1:55; “Aladdin,” 3:55; “Beauty and the Beast,” 6; “The Little Mermaid,” 8; an “The Lion King,” 10.

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