Critic's corner

8 p.m., Channels 4, 5, & 7
There wasn't much on the network schedule tonight, anyway. Mostly just a whole mess of repeats, the usual Saturday fare. So this football game against the New York Giants gives ABC, NBC, and CBS some potentially historic programming, as the Pats go for an undefeated regular season. Those who don’t care about football will have to forage through their cable channels for something else. Or maybe forage through the Internet for episodes of "Friday Night Lights."

8:10 p.m., Sundance
Root for Charlie.

8 p.m., A&E
Pesci's a pistol; he's really funny.

8 p.m., TCM
The last picture show.

Tomorrow at 9 p.m., HBO Signature
This excellent HBO movie with Paddy Considine didn't get a lot of attention when it premiered last month, most likely because it's so unrelentingly grim. The drama is about a Russian man who is fatally poisoned by radiation from the nuclear plant where he works. When the government won't help him, he tries to sell weapons-grade plutonium on the streets of Moscow in order to leave his family financially secure. Hero? Coward? Yup, it's another HBO moral conundrum.

Tomorrow at midnight, Channel 2
PBS cuts loose with a midnight movie.

Tomorrow at 7 p.m., Channel 5
He's just not that into you, Baroness.

Comcast
Lots of computer-generated technical dazzle in this fantasy about jungle animals escaping a supernatural board game and terrorizing a New Hampshire town. Robin Williams is sympathetic as a grown boy trapped in the game. But a lame script holds down the enjoyment level. (PG; runs through Jan. 31)