What's on? 10 top telly tips for Saturday April 3

Tonight's TV tips include The Tommy Tiernan Show (of course!), Freddie Mercury: A Life in Ten Pictures, the final Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and some cracking movies . . .

Pick of the Day

The Tommy Tiernan Show, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

Usually, when someone doesn’t have a clue it leads to bad situations and unhappy endings. Here, the opposite is true.

Once again, Tommy Tiernan hosts the greatest improvised chat show on the planet, where neither the presenter nor the viewers are told the identity of the guests in advance.

With everyone in the dark about who he will be interviewing until they walk out to greet him, anything can happen – and it’s often even more fascinating if Tommy doesn't have a clue who they are.

Don’t Miss

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One

In the final show of this run, comedian Mo Gilligan is in the guest announcer booth, while athlete Mo Farah is Ant and Dec's latest victim in I'm a Celebrity Get Out of Me Ear.

Plus, Stephen Mulhern is on hand for the climax of Ant v Dec: Go for Gold, comedy serial Double Trouble draws to an epic conclusion and the programme goes out with a bang thanks to a spectacular End of the Show Show.

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Ben-Hur, 1.40pm, RTÉ One

There's a couple of Agatha Christie adaptations on BBC Two this afternoon (Death on the Nile at 1.50pm, followed by Evil Under the Sun at 4.05pm), but this is a bum-numbing epic that will easily fill in the afternoon if the weather's unpleasant or you fancy nothing more demanding than the sofa.

Charlton Heston stars as a Jewish prince in first-century Jerusalem is reunited with an old Roman friend, who is now the governor of Judea.

But their differing political views over local dissent leads to a bitter quarrel, and the governor uses the pretext of an accident to sell him into slavery and imprison his mother and sister.

Years later, the prince returns, determined to seek revenge and find his missing family.

New or Returning Shows

Freddie Mercury: A Life in Ten Pictures, 10.00pm, BBC Two

Here’s a documentary taking a look at a celebrity's life through 10 defining photos, with the star's secrets revealed by those who were there, and those who knew them best.

The first programme focuses on Queen front man Freddie Mercury (above, on stage at Slane in 1986), beginning with the earliest photo of the singer as a baby, and ending with a private moment captured shortly before his death.

Followed by Queen Rock Montreal (11.00pm, BBC Two) where the band perform for an audience of more than 18,000 at the Montreal Forum in November 1981.

One Day in Auschwitz, 8.00pm, RTÉ2

Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland with two 16-year-old students in a programme marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.

New to Stream

SCOOB! Sky Cinema & NOW TV

The voices of Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, and Amanda Seyfried feature in this animated movie about the legendary Scooby Doo and pals.

With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever - a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world.

As they race to stop this global dog-pocalypse, the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone could have imagined.

Saturday Night at the Movies

BlacKkKlansman, 9.00pm, Channel 4

Spike Lee's Bafta and Oscar-winning drama based on a true story, starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.

During the 1970s, Ron Stallworth, the first African-American police officer to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department, attempts to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the assistance of Jewish cop Flip Zimmerman.

Heat, 9.00pm, RTÉ2

Here's Michael Mann's celebrated crime thriller, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Natalie Portman. That's some cast.

An armoured car hold-up sets a veteran police detective on the trail of a highly intelligent career criminal, whom he is obsessed with capturing.

Meanwhile, the robber is planning an elaborate bank heist as his final job before retiring, and a complex game of cat and mouse develops between the two.

Family Flicks

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, 6.35pm, RTÉ One

This spooky fantasy comedy stars Jack Black, Cate Blanchett and Owen Vaccaro.

Ten-year-old orphan Lewis goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticking noise.

He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan and his neighbour Mrs Zimmerman, are powerful practitioners of the magic arts.

When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade suddenly springs to life, revealing a secret and dangerous world of witches, warlocks and deadly curses.

Free Willy, 2.35pm, RTÉ2

Now, here's a much-loved family drama, starring Jason James Richter, Lori Petty and Michael Madsen.

It's all about a troubled youngster befriends a captive killer whale while working at a marine park.

But their friendship looks set to be short-lived when he learns the park's greedy owners plan to kill the animal, forcing the boy into a race against time to release the creature back into the ocean.

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What's on? 10 top telly tips for Saturday