There's a screening of the Oscar-nominated An Irish Goodbye, more fun and games with Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, a Dusty Springfield night and some cracking movies . . .
Pick of the Day
An Irish Goodbye, 10.40pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Ahead of next weekend’s ceremony in Hollywood, here’s an opportunity to see the Irish short film that’s been nominated for an Academy Award.
The Bafta-winning comedy drama stars James Martin, Seamus O'Hara and Michelle Fairley.
The story’s set in rural Northern Ireland, where two estranged brothers reunite following their mother's untimely death.
Don’t Miss
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.30pm, Virgin Media One
Ease yourself into a Saturday night state of mind with Ant and Dec as comedy writer and actress Daisy May Cooper pops along as this week’s guest announcer.
Meanwhile Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman stars in the first I'm a Celebrity Get Out of Me Ear of the current run, and there is an epic End of the Show Show with the cast of Frozen: The Musical.
Plus, there’s episode two of Murder at Bigwig Manor and Stephen Mulhern returns for another Ant vs Dec challenge.
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, 6.55pm, BBC One
The much-loved comedian is back with his colossal spinning wheel, offering three contestants the chance to secure the final cash prize - but only one of them can play for the jackpot.
Helping them along the way are celebrity experts Stephen Mangan, Charlotte Church (above), Sam Quek, Nihal Arthanayake, Kate Humble, Rosie Ramsey and Keith Brymer Jones.
New or Returning Shows
Dusty Springfield Night on BBC Two
Dusty at the BBC: Volume 2, 8.45pm, BBC Two
A night dedicated to the great Dusty Springfield opens with a selection of archive appearances on the BBC by her through the decades, including performances of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Son of a Preacher Man and The Look of Love.
That’s followed at 9.45pm by Definitely Dusty, a documentary revisiting the career of Dusty Springfield.
Archive footage shot in both the UK and the US provides an illuminating insight into her glamorous but private personal life, and contributions from her protective inner circle of friends highlight the Dusty behind the panda eyes and blonde beehive.
Includes interviews with the likes of Tom Jones, Elton John, Burt Bacharach (below), Lulu and Neil Tennant.
Dusty Springfield at the Royal Albert Hall is next up at 10.45pm. It’s a 1979 concert by the pop singer recorded at the famous London venue.
Songs include I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten, All I See Is You, Son of a Preacher Man and You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
Last but not least is Dusty at the BBC (11.40pm), a tribute to the renowned London-born pop diva, featuring BBC archive footage of some of Dusty's most famous performances from 1961 to 1995.
The programme also offers a chance to relive the singer's story, from her folk beginnings with the Springfields, through to her Motown homage years and her collaboration with Pet Shop Boys in the late 1980s.
Also includes the star's duets with Tom Jones and Mel Torme.
Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War, 8.00pm, RTÉ2
Saturday night on RTÉ2 wouldn’t be right without a bit of WWII.
Here’s the opening episode of season two of the documentary series examining the rule of Adolf Hitler and his party, focusing on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, which many see as the defining arena of the conflict.
In the autumn of 1940, Adolf Hitler has to decide what to do about the Soviet Union and its leader Joseph Stalin.
He offers to carve up the post-war world in exchange for his fellow dictator's support in the war against Britain, but is actually preparing an attack on the USSR.
New to Stream
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, Sky Cinema & NOW
Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott and Pete Davidson star in directorHalina Reijn’s 2022 horror.
When a group of 20-year-olds plan a party at a family mansion, a game turns deadly as backstabbing runs rife.
Saturday Cinema
Inglourious Basterds, 9.00pm, RTÉ2
Quentin Tarantino's hugely enjoyable (if largely daft) wartime adventure, with Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender and an Oscar-winning Christoph Waltz.
American officer Aldo Raine leads a squad of soldiers into occupied France on a mission to kill as many Nazis as possible and spread fear through the Third Reich.
They become involved in a Jewish resistance fighter's plan to blow up the premiere of a propaganda movie - due to be attended by Hitler himself.
Four Weddings and a Funeral, 10.30pm, Channel 4
Here’s something familiar if you feel like doing Saturday night on autopilot.
Richard Curtis's comedy, with Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow and James Fleet.
Hugh Grant stars as a London man whose misfortunes in love look set to change when he meets an American beauty.
However, the prospect of a transatlantic relationship succeeding seems slim, so the pair go their separate ways - only for him to realise he is unable to get her out of his mind.
Saturday Night Fever, 12.45am, Channel 4
Forget about the white suit, finger-pointing dances and ersatz disco music – there's so much more to Saturday Night Fever.
This gritty and pretty timeless drama, starring John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney and Paul Pape, and featuring songs by the Bee Gees, is a true classic.
Travolta plays a streetwise Brooklyn teenager who struggles to cope with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family, but finds an escape in the disco scene.
This is where he falls in love with a girl dreaming of breaking free from her equally poor background to pursue a brighter future in Manhattan.
Family Flick
Spider-Man: Far from Home, 6.35pm, RTÉ One
Here’s an enjoyable superhero adventure sequel, starring Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya and Samuel L Jackson.
In the aftermath of the Avengers' climactic battle for the fate of the universe, the teenage webslinger just wants life to get back to normal.
A school trip across Europe seems just the thing - but he ends up recruited by spy agency SHIELD to battle an invasion by elemental monsters from another dimension.
