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What to Watch on Saturday: Monster roots and Ben Stiller on SNL

Harry's Law (8pm, NBC) - NBC is repeating all three of this season's episodes, which follow the storyline of Harry defending a man (Alfred Molina) accused of killing his wife, and going up against a prominent DA (Jean Smart).

Terror Beneath (9pm, Syfy) - A movie about a monstrous root system that runs rampant, threatening the world with ecological disasters, and it's up to a government agent (Adrian Pasdar) to stop it. What, no Roto-Rooter? I think Syfy has officially run out of things to "monsterfy."

Saturday Night Live (11:29pm, NBC) - Ben Stiller (pictured here with Jason Sudeikis) hosts with musical guest Foster the People.

Austin City Limits (Midnight, UNC-TV) - Raphael Saadiq peforms from his 2011 retro-soul album, "Stone Rollin'" and the bluesy Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears perform songs from their recent album "Scandalous."

"Nick Nolte: No Exit": A profile of an unconventional man

Nick Nolte is one of those actors who you might describe as having squandered his talent. He could have been so much bigger, you might say, if he hadn't been so messed up. And then your mind flashes on the infamous wild-haired photo after he was arrested for DUI.

But if you watch "Nick Nolte: No Exit" (Sundance, 8 tonight), you find that Nolte is quite at peace with his choices on and off screen. In this witty, wry documentary you learn that, as a friend of mine would say, he's just a different kind of cat.

The film features a clean-cut, dapper reporter played by Nolte interviewing, via computer screen, the more disheveled actor Nick Nolte. In the process, and intercut with film images and comments from folks including Ben Stiller, Rosanna Arquette, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe and director Paul Mazursky, we learn Nolte's life story and his unusual perspectives.

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