Saturday’s TV Highlights: TV Guide goes behind the scenes of ‘Precious’

SERIES

The Penguins of Madagascar: The animated series returns for a new season (10 a.m. Nickelodeon).

Cops: Houston police officers detain a driver who tries to flee from a known drug area and is busted for possession, and in Las Vegas, police investigate suspicious behavior outside an abandoned apartment building and encounter a situation involving burglary and drugs in this new episode (8 p.m. Fox).

America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back: John Walsh takes on a violent murder-kidnap ring terrorizing the San Diego area, where Los Palillos -- “The Toothpicks” -- an offshoot of Mexico’s drug cartels, are targeting innocent Americans in this new episode (9 p.m. Fox).

Pit Boss: Ashley looks for a home for a pit bull found at Shorty’s office in this new episode (10 p.m. Animal Planet).

MOVIES

Elopement: A pilot and his fiancée crash into a lake while flying to Las Vegas to marry in this 2010 TV movie starring Pascale Hutton and Chris Kramer (7 p.m. ION).

Waitress: Keri Russell is engaging as the title character in this comedy, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly (also a costar in her last film before her shocking murder). Jeremy Sisto, Nathan Fillion and Andy Griffith co-stars (9 p.m. Lifetime).

SPORTS

College basketball: Siena at Butler (8 a.m. ESPN2); Stanford at Oregon State (Noon FSN); UCLA at Washington (6 p.m. ESPN); Gonzaga at Pepperdine (6 p.m. FSN).

XXI Winter Olympics: Curling, men’s: USA vs. Sweden; hockey, men’s: Switzerland vs. Norway (9 a.m. MSNBC). Curling, women’s: USA vs. Great Britain (2 p.m. CNBC). Hockey, men’s: Slovakia vs. Latvia (4:30 p.m. MSNBC). Curling, men’s: Canada vs. Great Britain (7 p.m. CNBC). Speed skating: men’s short track 1000m quarterfinals, semifinals and Gold Medal final; speed skating: men’s 1500m Gold Medal final; bobsled: two-man; skiing: women’s Super G Gold Medal final (8 p.m. NBC). Hockey, men’s: Belarus vs. Germany (9 p.m. MSNBC).

Women’s college basketball: Washington at USC (8 p.m. FSN).

Pro basketball: The Sacramento Kings visit the Clippers (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).