Nobody can accuse HBO Sports of glorifying boxing. “Assault in the Ring” (9 p.m., Saturday, HBO) is the second straight documentary on the premium channel to depict aging boxers living in shame, squalor and seclusion.

HBO’s April presentation of “Thrilla in Manila” depicted Joe Frazier as a tortured soul, consumed by the damage he inflicted on rival Muhammad Ali. “Assault” revisits a brutal 1983 junior-middleweight fight between young up-and-comer “Irish” Billy Collins Jr. and fading brawler Luis Resto. To the surprise of many, Resto delivered a punishing defeat. But moments after the bout, Collins’ corner accused Resto and his team of taking the padding out his gloves in order to pummel his opponent with bare-knuckle savagery.

Filmmaker and former boxing manager Rick Bernstein looks into various theories about the fight and assesses the guilt or innocence of both a fighter and a sport that have seen their fortunes decline over the past three decades.

• Cybill Shepherd (“Last Picture Show,” “Cybill”) stars in the title role in “Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith” (8 p.m., Eastern, Saturday, Hallmark).

Mrs. Washington is barely adjusted to seeing the kids out of the house when her husband knocks their empty nest out of the tree by taking up with a younger woman. Washington rallies by returning to Smith College, an institution she dropped out of years earlier to support her husband and raise a family.

Look for Shepherd in spunky, maternal mode as she tries to keep up with spoiled students less than half her age, bond with a troubled roommate and spark a romance with a poetry professor.

• Casting Becky and Milly Rosso (“The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”) as twins, the spin-off film “Legally Blondes” (7 p.m., Sunday, ABC Family) offers viewers twice as much to like. Or hate.

The Rossos play Izzy and Annie Woods, the British teenage cousins of Elle Woods, the Reese Witherspoon character of film fame.

The Woods sisters and their widower dad transplant themselves from rainy England to radiant Los Angeles, where they immediately confront the harsh pecking order of a status-obsessed prep school. Within seconds of the opening credits, both are squealing with delight over their overwhelming desire to shop for designer labels and their savvy ability to hoodwink sales clerks into giving them discounts they don’t deserve.

“Legally Blondes” is hardly the first, nor the only, show aimed at young women that celebrates mindless materialism with a near-pornographic zeal. It merely continues an insidious trend. It teaches girls that the best way to get ahead in life is to hide your intelligence behind an empty head crowned with golden locks, an expensive wardrobe and a phony flirtatious façade.

Like Ralphie’s horrible bunny suit costume in “A Christmas Story,” it’s best described as a pink nightmare.

Cult choice

• A 1950s pin-up (Gretchen Mol) inspires fetish, fantasy and censure in the 2005 profile “The Notorious Bettie Page” (7 p.m., Saturday).