Richard E Grant is among the guests on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Ireland face England in the rugby, The IFTA Film and Drama Awards are back, and there’s Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory . . .
Pick of the Day
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One
This week’s show sees actor and all-round wonderful human being Richard E Grant taking up temporary residence in the Star Guest announcer booth.
Elsewhere, Stephen Mulhern returns for a bonkers Ant versus Dec challenge and the boys try to give away cash to unsuspecting members of the public in new hidden camera game show Level Up.
Plus, Fleur East fires up the Takeaway Rainbow again and Jordan North is out and about to deliver a Gift on a Shift.
And, of course, the boys are also on RTÉ One tonight, as Ant & Dec's Limitless Win continues at 8.40pm.
Don’t Miss
Live Six Nations Rugby Union, 4.00pm, RTÉ2
England v Ireland (Kick-off 4.45pm). Jacqui Hurley (below) presents coverage of the final match in the fourth and penultimate round of fixtures, held at London’s Twickenham.
Both teams have two wins and a defeat so far, meaning they need a win to realistically stay in championship contention.
England prevailed 24-12 when the sides last met here in this competition in 2020, but Ireland gained revenge last year with a 32-18 triumph at Aviva Stadium.
With analysis from Eddie O'Sullivan, Jamie Heaslip and Jerry Flannery, commentary by Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan, and reports by Clare MacNamara.
The Tommy Tiernan Show, 10.10pm, RTÉ One
Almost the exact opposite of Ant & Dec’s razzamatazz, this improvised chat show is probably the most highly anticipated among regular Saturday night sofa-huggers.
With host Tommy Tiernan perpetually in the dark about who he will be interviewing until they walk out to greet him, anything can happen - especially if Tommy doesn’t know them from Adam.
REM at the BBC, 9.45pm, BBC Two
Fans of REM should enjoy this repeated selection of archive performances from throughout the American band's career.
Each performance was originally recorded for BBC programmes including The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops, Parkinson, The Late Show and Later with Jools Holland.
Songs featured include Losing My Religion, Orange Crush, Pretty Persuasion and Half a World Away.
As a bonus, singer Michael Stipe and bass player Mike Mills also reflect on the band's split in September 2011.
New or Returning Shows
The IFTA Film and Drama Awards 2022, 8.30pm, Virgin Media One
It’s frocks and perfect smiles’ time in Ireland as this year’s IFTAs roll around.
The coverage of the virtually-staged ceremony includes a list of six films nominated for best film, which was won by Wolfwalkers in 2021.
This year's nominees are An Cailín Ciúin, Belfast (above), Deadly Cuts, Swan Song, Who We Love and You Are Not My Mother.
New to Stream
Malignant, Sky Cinema & NOW
Annabebelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, Jean Louise Kelly, and Susanna star in this horror movie directed by James Wan.
Madison (Annabelle Wallis from Peaky Blinders) is a young pregnant woman trapped in a turbulent relationship.
When an episode of domestic abuse sends her to the hospital, she finds herself paralysed by shocking visions of grisly murders.
Are these explicitly violent killings figments of Madison's troubled imagination? Either way, someone, or better yet, something, links the past to the present, demanding closure and blood.
And is the bogeyman real?
Saturday Cinema
Pain and Glory, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Pedro Almodovar's highly regarded autumnal drama, starring Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia.
A film director in physical decline re-encounters or remembers key elements of his past, from his childhood in a small village to his first love in 1980s Madrid.
In recovering his past, he develops an urgent need to recount it, and also finds his salvation.
Once Upon a Time . . . In Hollywood, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Magnificent stuff from Quentin Tarantino, in what’s arguably his finest film.
It’s basically a love letter to a changing Hollywood as it evolved during the late 1960s, and long before today’s Tinseltown embraced endless remakes and bottomless comic book blockbusters.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Timothy Olyphant and Al Pacino, with DiCaprio and Pitt respectively starring as faded television actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth.
The pair are striving to hang on to their careers during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
As they navigate a changing film industry they barely recognise any more, they are drawn into the orbit of both ill-fated rising star Sharon Tate, along with Charles Manson and his cult of zealous followers.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 9.30pm, RTÉ2
Here's a comfortably familiar slice of Saturday night viewing.
It's a memorable medieval action adventure, starring Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater and Mike McShane.
English nobleman Robin of Locksley returns from the Crusades, only to discover his father murdered and his lands seized, while the locals live in fear of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Branded an outlaw for his defiance, he and his Moorish travelling companion go into hiding in the forest, where they recruit a group of bandits to fight for justice.
They also protect the downtrodden, and ultimately aim to foil the Sheriff's plan to seize the throne while the king is away at war.
Family Flick
Wonder, 6.35pm, RTÉ One
Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay star in Stephen Chbosky's drama, based on the best-selling novel by RJ Palacio.
Somewhat reminiscent of Peter Bogdanovich's Mask, it tells the story of a 10-year-old boy with facial disfigurements that have so far required almost 30 operations takes on a whole new and very public challenge.
After being home educated his entire life, he enters mainstream school for the first time.
As he struggles to fit in, his fellow pupils and the community are forced to learn the power of compassion and acceptance.
