What's on? 10 top telly tips for Saturday September 26

Little Mix put their pop experience on the line in The Search, Strictly looks back on great nights in Blackpool, The Hit List returns, BGT hits semi number four, and there's a superb documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen . . .

Pick of the Day

Little Mix: The Search, 7.00pm, BBC One

It’s pop poacher turned gamekeeper in this new series where the members of Little Mix become musical mentors as they put together a boyband.

The talented hopefuls are auditioned individually before being put through their paces alongside their competitors.

Only the most impressive will make it through to the final line-up to battle it out for the prize in the performance shows.

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Don't Miss

Strictly: The Best of Blackpool, 8.15pm, BBC One

The four-part selection of the favourite moments from themed weeks on Strictly continues.

This time, Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the judges and the show's professional dancers look back at some of the most memorable Strictly performances at Blackpool's famous ballroom, from the super-sized dances to the high-octane group numbers.

Britain's Got Talent, 8.00pm, Virgin Media One

Ant and Dec (below) host the fourth semi-final of this year's talent contest.

Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams and Ashley Banjo are on the judging desk, as the acts that impressed them the most return, including the golden buzzer acts - singer Fayth Ifil, comedian and singer Jon Courtney, choir Sign Along With Us, comedian Nabil Abdulrashid, and mother and daughter singing duo, Honey and Sammy.

Eight acts perform in each semi-final, with two finalists selected by the judges and the votes of viewers.

New or Returning Shows

The Hit List, 6.15pm, BBC One

Marvin and Rochelle Humes present the return of the music-based quiz show where contestants must name as many hit songs and artists as possible under intense pressure, with a five-figure jackpot up for grabs for the winners.

Across four rounds, their knowledge is put to the test, as they attempt to identify huge hits across various decades.

In the first episode, mother and daughter Julie and Lauren from Edinburgh, partners Ben and Adam from Staffordshire, and married couple Jess and John from Liverpool take part.

Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets, 8.00pm, Channel 4

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard.

The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.

Bernard Haitink, the Enigmatic Maestro, 7.30pm , BBC Two

After conducting for 65 years, Bernard Haitink retired at the age of 90 in September 2019. Documentary-maker John Bridcut follows the Dutch maestro in his final year of music-making, exploring the secrets of his conducting technique and talking to some of the international musicians who have worked with him throughout his long career.

New to Download

Motherless Brooklyn, Sky Cinema & NOW TV

Edward Norton directs and stars in this long-planned slice of film noir-esque intrigue.

Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Lionel Essrog (Norton) is a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome who is out to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis).

Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.

In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York’s power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honour his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation

Ending Today

Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Golf, 1.30pm, RTÉ2

Hugh Cahill (above) is joined by John McHenry for live coverage of day three at the Irish Open from Galgorm Castle Golf Club in Ballymena. Dave Kelly reports from on course.

If you can’t catch the live action, there are highlights and analysis on BBC Two from 9.00pm.

Family Flick

The Boxtrolls, 4.50pm, Sky Cinema Hits

This is a hugely enjoyable stop-motion animated fantasy, featuring the voices of Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning and Ben Kingsley.

The people of a small town live in fear of underground trolls, who they do not realise are actually harmless.

A boy raised by the creatures must convince the townsfolk there is nothing to fear when a team of pest exterminators is hired to wipe out the friendly monsters.

Movie Pick

McQueen, 10.00pm, BBC Two

This is a fascinating, warts ’n’ all documentary charting the life and career of uncompromising fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Through a combination of archive footage and interviews with family, friends and colleagues, including Kate Moss, Jodie Kidd and Tom Ford, the film charts McQueen's story.

It’s a tale spanning his childhood in the East End, his start as a tailor, launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.