Bambie Thug represents Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Doctor Who returns with a double episode (and The Beatles!), Stephen Mulhern is In for a Penny, and there's Ealing classic The Lavender Hill Mob . . .
Pick of the Day
Live coverage of the 68th annual song competition from the Malmö Arena, Sweden, where Bambie Thug represents Ireland with the self-penned song Doomsday Blue.
As ever, the wonderful Marty Whelan (below) is on commentary duty.
Mad to think that Ireland used to win this contest with ease, and now people are in awe of a place in the final. Hopefully Bambie has a ball and gets a high ranking, if not a win.
It’s a repeat of the concert featuring former Irish Eurovision entrants Johnny Logan, Linda Martin, Niamh Kavanagh, Paul Harrington, Charlie McGettigan and Eimear Quinn.
New or Returning Shows
Doctor Who, 6.20pm, BBC One
Ncuti Gatwa stars in his first full season as the Time Lord alongside Millie Gibson as his companion Ruby, following their debut in 2023's Christmas special.
The opening episode begins in the far future, where Ruby learns the Doctor's amazing secrets when they encounter a baby farm being run by babies and being haunted by a mysterious Bogeyman.
Then at 7.05pm The Doctor and Ruby meet the Beatles during a trip back to the 1960s but discover that the all-powerful Maestro is hatching a plot to change history, with the Fab Four in the thick of it.
Abbey Road becomes a battleground with the future of humanity at stake. Guest starring Drag Race's Jinkx Monsoon.
Don’t Miss
In for a Penny, 6.30pm, UTV
There’s a serious lack of standard Saturday evening shows today, but this should satisfy.
Stephen Mulhern (above) hosts the game show in which he travels around the UK setting members of the public unusual challenges, featuring Check It Out and a very silly Hair or No Hair.
Plus, there’s the launch of new mini-game show Romance or Showmance and In for a Penny, In for a Grand sees someone win £1,000.
Screen One, 10.40pm, BBC Four
Another chance to see Hancock, by William Humble, first broadcast in 1991.
It's a drama detailing the last eight years of comedy actor Tony Hancock's life, encompassing the airing of the most famous of his Hancock's Half-Hour episodes, The Blood Donor, and leading to his untimely death in June 1968.
It is argued that his refusal to accept the limitations of his own genius destroyed his two marriages and led to the 44-year-old's suicide in a Sydney flat.
It stars Alfred Molina (above) and Frances Barber.
New to Stream
The Blackening, Sky Cinema & NOW
Antionette Roberston, Dewayne Perkins, Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg and X Mayo star in this comedy horror.
The story centres on a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer.
Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realise this ain't no game.
Saturday Cinema
The Lavender Hill Mob, 1.00pm, BBC Two
Here’s a classic Ealing comedy, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway (below), Sid James and a rather young Audrey Hepburn.
An unassuming bank worker masterminds a plot to steal £1million in gold bullion, then melts it down and turns it into statues of the Eiffel Tower that can easily be exported.
But the plan soon goes south, with hilarious results.
Mr Holmes, 8.00pm, BBC Two
Period mystery from 2015 based on Mitch Cullin's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, starring Ian McKellen, Laura Linney and Milo Parker.
An elderly Sherlock Holmes retires to a seaside farmhouse in the aftermath of the Second World War and struggles to cope with his diminished faculties.
Assisted by his housekeeper's inquisitive son, he tries to piece together the events of the one case that he failed to solve.
Here’s a superb, if utterly devastating, Ken Loach drama, starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood and Rhys Mcgowan.
It shows how miserable working in the gig economy can be, as well as being detrimental to domestic life.
Hoping that so-called 'self-employment’ through the gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up delivery driver and his wife end up trapped in a vicious circle while struggling to raise a family.
Sport
Munster v Connacht (KO 5.15pm) opens the coverage of the16th round of fixtures in the United Rugby Championship, held at Thomond Park in Limerick.
Then at 7.15pm on TG4 there’s Leinster v Ospreys (KO 7.35pm). Live coverage of the held at the RDS Arena in Dublin.
GAA Beo, 2.30pm, TG4
Today’s GGA action begins with Meath v Kerry (Throw-in 3.00pm). Coverage of the All-Ireland semi-final in the Eirgrid U20 Football Championship. Presented by Micheál Ó Domhnaill,
Then at 4.45pm the focus turns to Roscommon v Tyrone (Throw-in 5.00pm) in the other semi-final.
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