Graham Norton's back with Demi Moore, Will Ferrell goes on a unique road trip in Will & Harper, Anthony Hopkins heads the cast in One Life, and there’s a revealing new documentary about Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor . . .
Pick of the Day
The Graham Norton Show, 10.40pm, BBC One
Gabby Graham’s back and the latest run of his star-studded chat show opens with an impressive group of Hollywood A-listers and TV big shots to chat about their current activities.
For starters, Hollywood great Demi Moore (below, at the Cannes Film Festival) discusses her comeback, starring in the critically acclaimed body-horror The Substance.
Music superstar and actress Lady Gaga chats about playing Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux, while Oscar-nominated Dub Colin Farrell reflects on taking the title role in The Penguin.
Multi-talented Richard Ayoade talks about his new book The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, while Jack Savoretti and Miles Kane perform Bada Bing, Bada Boom from Jack's current album Miss Italia.
New or Returning Shows
Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, 9.00pm, BBC Two
During her lifetime, the legendary actress's story was often told as a soap opera – especially her on/off relationship with Richard Burton.
This biographical series utilises rarely heard recordings of Elizabeth Taylor (below), along with the testimony of friends and family, to show a more rounded individual.
It reveals her as a great thespian, a free spirit, an entrepreneur and an activist.
Episode one tells the story of Elizabeth's rise to fame during Hollywood's Golden Age, including her life-changing starring role in hit film National Velvet.
With insights from fellow stars Joan Collins, Sharon Stone and Kim Karachi.
Don’t Miss
It's another top night of chat and entertainment in Montrose, under the guidance of Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty.
This week he's joined by European champion sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke (above), The Script, Irish humanitarian John Whyte, and Gaeilgeoir, podcaster and presenter Hector Ó hEochagáin.
European champion sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke will talk about her record-breaking season, the Diamond League, coming home to Ireland, and her recent encounter with one of her biggest fans - Rihanna!
The Script's Danny O’Donoghue and Glen Power will share memories of their late band mate Mark Sheehan, discuss family, getting sober, flying high with PINK as well as playing from their back catalogue.
Lola, 11.15pm, Film4
Now here's a cult film from 2022 that should rightly round off your Friday night.
It's Irish co-writer/director Andrew Legge's found footage, sci-fi drama debut, starring Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini.
Set in Britain in 1940, it features two friends who build a machine that can intercept radio and television broadcasts from the future.
It's less than 80 minutes long, so you'd fit three-and-a-half of these into your average blockbuster - as an added bonus, it's at least ten times as much fun.
Here’s a really good drama based on (and truer to) Graham Greene's novel of the same name, starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija and Tzi Ma.
As war breaks out in 1950s Vietnam, a British journalist strikes up a friendship with an idealistic American aid worker.
Unfortunately, their shared attraction to a local woman drives the pair apart, while the reporter discovers his new acquaintance is not all he appears to be.
New to Stream
Will & Harper, Netflix
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele have been friends since working together on Saturday Night Live decades ago.
"We’d go to Lakers games, go on road trips together, surprise each other at random little bars in costume," Will Ferrell told Netflix.
When Steele came out as transgender three years ago, she wasn’t sure if those same experiences were open to her. And Ferrell wasn’t sure if their friendship would continue without a hitch.
That’s when Ferrell came up with an idea. "What if we went on a road trip together, giving her a chance to go into a cowboy bar or whatever places she misses, and I can be by her side and lend support as a friend?" Ferrell asked.
"At the same time, it would give us a chance to reconnect and figure out what this transition means to our relationship."
"I didn’t just want to come out in places like New York or LA and forever live on either coast," Steele said. "I love the whole country. It’s my country, and I wanted to feel a little safer being in it.
"And I thought that going across the country with Will Ferrell would help me. That’s the privilege I have knowing Will Ferrell."
Here, you can sit in on the pair’s evolving friendship in this road trip documentary.
Ayla & the Mirrors, Disney+
In this Spanish drama series Ayla, a rich and spoiled girl, suffers a shock after losing her father and is left without memories.
With no one to claim her, she arrives at the El Bosque shelter. There she meets Inés and The Mirrors, a dance group.
She also discovers a surprising ability: hearing the feelings of others through musical visions.
Her aunt Esmeralda keeps a close eye on her to make sure the girl is not a threat to her newly inherited fortune.
One Life, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW
Anthony Hopkins heads a cast in this drama that includes Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp and Jonathan Pryce.
It tells the true story of Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton (Hopkins), a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis.
Fifty years later, Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he couldn’t bring to safety.
It’s not until a live BBC television show, That’s Life, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children - now adults - that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he carried for five decades.
Your Fault, Prime Video
More Spanish drama, this time where the love between Noah and Nick seems unbreakable, despite the manoeuvres of their parents to break them up.
But his job and her entry into college open their lives to new relationships.
The appearance of a revenge-seeking ex-girlfriend and Nick's mother with unclear intentions will shake the foundations not only of their relationship, but of the Leister family itself.
When so many people are out to destroy a love story, can it really end well?
Ending Today
Funny Woman, 9.00pm, Sky Max
Streaming on NOW
It’s the season two finale of the drama adapted from the best-selling novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, starring Gemma Arterton as a 1960s’ beauty queen who becomes a comedy star.
The rehearsals for the new show are coming together, but a distraught Sophie fears that a negative press story will ruin everything.
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