Music, movies and miniseries are our picks for your screens.
Pick of the Day
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at Later...with Jools Holland, BBC Two, 10.00pm
With his new album Council Skies just released and a Dublin date next month, Noel Gallagher gets the extended Later... treatment. Backed by his band and a 16-piece string orchestra, Gallagher will showcase the new tracks Pretty Boy, Open the Door, See What You Find and Council Skies, plus there will be treats from his High Flying Birds and Oasis back catalogues, including a B-side that he has never performed live before.
Saturday Cinema
French Connection II, RTÉ2, 11.20pm
Yes, yes, the original is in the pantheon, but this great sequel sees Gene Hackman reprise his Oscar-winning role as hard-case New York cop Popeye Doyle - now a fish out of water as he travels to Marseille in his bid to track down his nemesis, drugs kingpin Alain Charnier, played once again by Fernando Rey. Director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) makes the most of the backstreets and bad reputation of France's second city to create a heart-racing, and harrowing, cat-and-mouse thriller. Hold on to your porkpie hat!
Streaming
The Night Of, Sky/Now TV
The epitome of binge-watch, this 2016 miniseries holds its own with any celebrated show you care to mention. In an Emmy-winning performance, Riz Ahmed stars as the college student who is accused of murder, with John Turturro playing his world-weary attorney and Bill Camp the detective who's certain he has his man. But does he? The Night Of - a superior remake of the fine 2008 British drama Criminal Justice - is a masterclass in tension that may well have you still stuck on the settee at sunrise. Still need persuading? The late Michael Kenneth Williams is part of the superb cast too.
New Series
Champion, BBC One, 9.15pm
Sibling rivalry goes into overdrive as the Beeb unveils "a love letter to Black British music set in south London". It's the story of a sister and brother (Déja J Bowens in her TV debut alongside Top Boy's Malcolm Kamulete) whose relationship nosedives when she steps out of his shadow and embarks on her own singing career. To borrow a classic album title, beats, rhymes and life.
