Nile Rodgers is among the guests on Michael McIntyre's Big Show, season two of Mancunian comedy Early Doors begins, and there are the final parts of Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World . . .
Pick of the Day
Michael McIntyre's Big Show, 8.00pm, BBC One
The lively comedian hosts yet another evening of entertainment, recorded in front of an audience at the London Palladium.
Jonathan Ross hands over his phone for the starriest game of Send to All, while Chris and Rosie Ramsey are rudely awakened for a Midnight Gameshow.
Then Nile Rodgers and Chic surprise some karaoke-singing members of the audience with special renditions of his classic hits, before they raise the roof with a spectacular performance.
Don't Miss
Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Last week’s opening episodes were great. Here’s to more of the same.
Chuck D, fellow rap stars and cultural commentators explore the meteoric rise of hip-hop and gangster rap in the 1990s during a tumultuous period in US history.
In the years after the Los Angeles riots of 1992, hip-hop was accused of promoting violence and misogyny, all while reaching new commercial success and seeing the rise of a wave of confident female rappers
The fourth and final part follows at 10pm, where Chuck D and co tell the story of how the rap industry hit extraordinary heights going into the new millennium.
Rap used its power and influence to effect change in ways that were unthinkable when the culture was first born - culminating in the global protests over the death of George Floyd.
Match of the Day Live: The FA Cup, 5.40pm, BBC One
Two former English Double winners clash as Preston North End host Tottenham Hotspur (Kick-off 6.00pm).
Preston prevailed 3-1 against fellow Championship side Huddersfield Town in the previous round and will now look to cause an upset against the Londoners, who were made to work hard for a 1-0 home win over League One Portsmouth in round three
Gary Lineker (above) presents all the action from the fourth-round tie at Deepdale. With analysis from Alan Shearer and Micah Richards.
New or Returning Shows
Later... with Jools Holland, 11.00pm, BBC Two
Jools takes a look back at performances by American rap artists on the show over the years, featuring Fugees, the Roots, Ice-T, Ludacris, Mary J Blige (below), Jay-Z and Grandmaster Flash.
Early Doors, 10.00pm, BBC Four
Season two of this superb sitcom set in a Stockport pub opens with Ken discovering that someone has been paying for drinks with forged banknotes.
Luckily, local cops Phil and Nige are on hand to solve the mystery.
Then at 11.25pm, the very same Phil and Nige go to the pub to celebrate a successful drugs raid.
But they find the others are not quite so cheerful - Ken is suffering from flu and a lovelorn Duffy is drowning his sorrows.
New to Stream
Big Gold Brick, Sky Cinema & NOW
This dramedy stars Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen and Megan Fox.
It recounts the story of fledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography.
But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing - and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos in this dark, genre-bending film.
Dear Elizabeth, Sky Cinema & NOW
Here's a comedy where Sid Straw (Tony Hale) leads a dull life until he accidentally stalks famous college friend, Elizabeth Banks (above), on social media.
With each failed attempt to prove he knows her, he rediscovers more of himself and the true meaning of friendship.
Saturday Cinema
Get Out, 11.10pm, Channel 4
I envy anyone who hasn’t seen this – it's a modern classic.
It's an Oscar-winning psychological thriller written and directed by Jordan Peele (Us), starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford and Caleb Landry Jones.
After African American photographer Chris and his white girlfriend Rose visit her wealthy parents, he suspects there's more to the locals than meets the eye.
Piranhas, 1.35am, BBC Two
Another late-night movie worth recording.
Roberto Saviano - who wrote Gomorrah - adapted his 2010 novel La Paranza dei Bambini, or The Children’s Gang, for the screen - while the director and co-writer is Claudio Giovannesi, whose credits include the TV version of Gomorrah.
The story centres on Nicola, a young man who lives with his mother and brother in the Sanitae neighbourhood of Naples. It's a place which has been controlled by the Camorra mafia for centuries.
Dreaming of a better life, Nicola and his friends start selling drugs, qhich is their entry into the violent, power-hungry world of crime.
But they soon realise they are in over their heads.
Claudio Giovannesi's crime drama stars Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea and Alfredo Turitto. It's in Neapolitan dialect, so subtitles are essential if you're not a native.
Family Flick
Johnny English, 6.35pm, RTÉ One
This spy comedy, starring Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia and Ben Miller, is great fun.
A bumbling secret agent becomes Britain's leading spy following the assassination of all that country's other espionage experts.
Single-handedly he sets out to unmask a mysterious villain responsible for stealing the Crown Jewels - but no one is prepared to believe a sinister billionaire is the culprit.
