Weekend filled with music, food, nature

“A&E Rocks: Bon Jovi” (9 p.m. today, A&E) features the Garden State singer and his band performing their hits before a small audience on a Chicago soundstage. Taped in July, the concert, featuring “Lost Highway,” “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” and “We Got It Goin’ On,” as well as “Wanted Dead Or Alive,” will be available on DVD on Tuesday.

Jon Bon Jovi also hosts a repeat “Saturday Night Live” (10:30 p.m., NBC).

¢ TV Land celebrates Veterans Day with an 18-episode marathon of “MASH” (8 p.m. today, TV Land). Nine episodes will run tonight through 12:30 a.m., and nine additional episodes run on Sunday night (8 p.m., TV Land). Each episode features a letter home from Hawkeye or other member of the hospital unit.

¢ “Dear Food Network: Thanksgiving” (8 p.m. today, Food) offers expert advice on roasting, stuffing, baking and serving from some of the network’s biggest names. Look for Paula Deen, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Guy Fieri and Robert Irvine to tackle problems big and small from preparing the perfect glaze to cooking enough food to feed a hungry firehouse.

¢ Nature programming abounds on Sunday evenings. Discovery will repeat back-to-back episodes of the acclaimed, expensive and audacious series “Planet Earth” (7 p.m., Discovery) every Sunday night, followed by the new nature series “Fearless Earth” (9 p.m. Sunday, Discovery). “Fearless” celebrates some of the planet’s most breathtaking scenery as well as the extreme athletes and the lengths they will go to hike, bike, surf and run in exotic locales. And along the way, it showcases adventurous filmmaking. Like “Planet Earth,” “Fearless Planet” is presented in high definition and should offer a workout to all of those expensive HDTVs people have been buying or thinking about buying.

¢ Speaking of nature photography, “Nature” (7 p.m. Sunday, PBS, check local listings) presents “The Cheetah Orphans” a documentary about a nature filmmaker who became an unexpected guardian for some jungle cats after the death of their mother, and the two years he spent preparing them to return to the wild.

¢ “In Steve’s Footsteps” (9 p.m. Sunday, Animal Planet) looks at the efforts that Terri Irwin, the widow of naturalist Steve Irwin, has been making to continue his crocodile research.

¢ And don’t forget the new, underappreciated series “Life is Wild” (7 p.m. Sunday, CW), about a New York family trying to adjust to life in a South African game preserve. Tonight: Jesse and Danny get chased up a tree by a hostile hippo.

¢ College reunions can be fraught with tension. That’s the lesson in the mystery “It Was One of Us” (8 p.m. Sunday, Lifetime). Five roommates, all attractive and successful, return to their old school for their 10th weekend reunion. Feeling frisky, they play a boozy game of truth or dare, revealing infidelities and of laws broken and professional bonds transgressed.

The next Monday, each of them receives a letter demanding a $20,000 payoff or their secret will be revealed. Did someone overhear them? Or is the blackmailer one of them?

Tonight’s highlights

¢ John Walsh and “America’s Most Wanted” (8 p.m., Fox) go looking for a serial killer in Hawaii.

¢ Scheduled on “48 Hours Mystery” (9 p.m., CBS): A woman vanishes days after the 9/11 attacks.

Sunday’s highlights

¢ Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): a mentally ill patient on death row who is being medicated so he will be well enough to execute; the “super-bug” infection; the “millennial” generation.

¢ The San Diego Chargers host the Indianapolis Colts on “Sunday Night Football” (7 p.m., NBC).

¢ Righting wrongs at a rite of passage on the season finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (9 p.m., HBO).