Tonight sees Angela Scanlon's Ask Me Anything and I Can See Your Voice both make a return, there's an Olivia Newton-John night on BBC Two, and it’s semi-final time on The Masked Dancer . . .
Pick of the Day
Angela Scanlon's Ask Me Anything, 9.45pm, RTÉ One
Back for a second run, Angela Scanlon (below) chats to various celeb types about personal and pivotal moments in their lives.
Tonight, award-winning actor James Nesbitt chats to Angela about that cheeky bum scene in Cold Feet and the merits of trunks versus Speedos for sea swimming.
Best-selling author, successful businesswoman and former model Pippa O' Connor Ormond joins Angela and James on the couch to chat about her two Brians (hubby Brian Ormond and BFF Brian Dowling), falling off a toy rocking horse and her new goddaughter baby Blake.
Angela's final guest is rugby giant Tommy Bowe, who’s putting the glory back into mornings as he embraces an early rising alarm for his breakfast TV show.
Tommy tells Angela about Twitter lighting up when he called a St Bernard dog a lazy bitch and how after retiring from rugby he's chasing a new adrenaline rush on live television.
Don’t Miss
The Masked Dancer, 6.30pm, Virgin Media One
It’s the Semi Final and five Masked Dancers remain.
As each celebrity performs, our superstar panel of detectives are left to decipher the clues and unlock TV’s best kept secret.
In tomorrow night’s episode, it’s a double elimination, five become three as two celebrities will be unmasked, and their identities revealed.
Strictly Come Dancing, 6.30pm, BBC One
It's week four of the competition and the remaining couples have well and truly broken in their dancing shoes.
Tonight, they will dance live for viewers' votes under the watchful eye of judges Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke.
Who will impress enough to win a place in next week's BBC Centenary Special? Hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.
New or Returning Shows
I Can See Your Voice, 9.05pm, BBC One
Paddy McGuinness hosts this mystery singing game show, in which contestants aided by a celebrity panel must spot good singers without hearing them.
Regular celebrity investigators Jimmy Carr, Alison Hammond, Amanda Holden are joined by guest Tony Hadley, to assist two contestants in picking out the best singers and winning a tidy sum.
Olivia Newton-John at the BBC, 10.15pm, BBC Two
Here's a tribute to the star, who died in August 2022 at the age of 73, after a music career spanning five decades.
It was the success of Grease that turned Olivia into an international sensation, but she was already familiar to BBC audiences thanks to appearances like many of those captured in this collection.
These include her own TV specials, guest appearances on some of the biggest entertainment shows of the day, and the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, where Olivia represented the United Kingdom, going into battle with eventual winners Abba.
Followed at 11.15pm by the movie Xanadu, a musical fantasy starring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and Michael Beck, and music by the Electric Light Orchestra.
A beautiful goddess comes to Earth to encourage and inspire a young roller-skating dancer to achieve bigger and better things.
Wisting, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Norwegian crime drama following the work of widowed senior detective in the coastal town of Larvik returns for a second run.
Wisting and his team must deal with a setback when a crime scene reconstruction with serial killer Tom Kerr goes wrong.
Wisting's daughter Line deals with the consequences of her actions. Starring Sven Nordin. In English and Norwegian.
Black Adam Special, 7.00pm, Sky Max
Streaming on NOW
The Sky Cinema team take a special look at the latest blockbuster to come from the DC Cinematic Universe, starring Dwayne Johnson.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world
New to Stream
Blippi’s Spooky Spell Halloween
Halloween is in the air and Blippi (Clayton Grimm) is getting in the spirit after finding an old, leather-bound book of Spooky Spells.
Ready for the spookiest Halloween ever, Blippi sets out with his book to search for treats, pumpkins and all kinds of eerie decorations.
Saturday Cinema
The Commitments, 9.15pm, RTÉ2
Alan Parker's urban comedy, based on the debut novel by Roddy Doyle, starring Robert Arkins, Andrew Strong, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball and Maria Doyle Kennedy.
A would-be music producer from Dublin believes he can make it big in Ireland by promoting a soul band, so he trawls a working-class neighbourhood and auditions unlikely singers and musicians to put together as a group.
If you look carefully, you can see me pop up during a performance as an enthusiastic audience member. Now that’s acting.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, 8.30pm, Channel 4
Here’s the concluding part of the third trilogy in the endless sci-fi saga, starring Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Ian McDiarmid, John Boyega, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams - and a posthumous appearance by Carrie Fisher.
Rey and the surviving members of the resistance face the evil First Order once more as the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak and the galaxy's greatest evil returns from the dead.
