There's a Fleetwood Mac night on BBC Two, new drama series Dark Hearts, Julia Bradbury's Irish Journey lands in Dublin and England meet South Africa in the Rugby World Cup semi-final . . .
Pick of the Day
Fleetwood Mac Night, BBC Two
Fleetwood Mac at the BBC, 8.25pm, BBC Two
The Fleetwood Mac night kicks off with some archive performances by the band.
It charts their development from a blues band performing Albatross and Oh Well in the 1960s under founder members Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood, to pop rock stars in the 1980s with the line-up who recorded their seminal 1977 album Rumours.
There are also archive interviews and solo performances from band members Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie as they went their own way at various points in their careers.
That’s followed by Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop at 9.30pm, a documentary looking back over the band's long career.
Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that characterised their music.
After Later... with Jools Holland (10.30pm, which includes Take That) there’s Fleetwood Mac: The Dance (11.15pm).
It’s a 1997 live performance by the most successful line-up of the band - Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie.
The night concludes with Fleetwood Mac: A Musical History (1am), where Edith Bowman narrates a celebration of the group, with celebrity admirers.
They include KT Tunstall, Fran Healy, Toyah Willcox, Sian Pattenden and Emma Dabiri paying tribute to the band with a selection of their best-loved songs.
Don’t Miss
Julia Bradbury's Irish Journey, 8.25pm, Channel 4
In this episode, Julia Bradbury explores Dublin, the city of her birth.
Starting at Croke Park, the home of Gaelic sports, she learns why the venue has become such a hallowed place for Dubliners.
Julia also wanders through some of Dublin's famous seaside suburbs – will any be on the northside? - before heading for the Wicklow Mountains and a very special forest.
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, 8.25pm, BBC One
Celebrities experts offering advice this week are Chris McCausland on Back to the Future, Gabby Logan on Six Nations, GKBarry on celebrities, Iain Stirling on Scotland, Liza Tarbuck on art, Rachel Riley on maths, and Trevor Nelson on disco
New or Returning Shows
Dark Hearts, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Here’s an adventure series set in Iraq on the eve of the battle for Mosul in October 2016.
As the war against ISIS, the leader of elite commando group 45 of French Special Forces captures notorious French jihadist Zaid Osman.
The prisoner agrees to cooperate on condition that his family are extricated from their position at the heart of where the mass attack of coalition forces is about to take place. In French and English.
Then at 10.05pm it’s the day after the launch of the battle of Mosul, and commando team 45 return to the sewers to try to locate Fares.
The series is in both French and English.
Saturday Cinema
Dream Horse, 9.25pm, Channel 4
Comedy drama based on a true story, starring Toni Collette, Damian Lewis and Owen Teale.
This one should put a smile on your face.
Dream Alliance is an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes, played by Colette.
With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbours to chip in their modest earnings to help train the horse, in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.
Jaws, 9.15pm, RTÉ One
Steven Spielberg's thriller, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw, basically invented the summer blockbuster.
Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, it’s the tale of a New England seaside town's tourist season turned into a nightmare by a giant killer shark.
The local police chief's efforts to protect the public are thwarted by the greedy mayor, forcing him to join forces with a grizzled fisherman and an enthusiastic marine biologist to hunt and kill the monster predator.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, 9.15pm, TG4
The spooky movies continue with Francis Ford Coppola's Gothic horror based on the novel, starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves.
A 15th-century Transylvanian knight becomes a vampire after the death of his beloved wife.
Centuries later, he learns she has been reincarnated, and travels to Victorian London with the intent of seducing her into joining him in living death.
Poltergeist, 11.50pm, BBC Two
Even more horror, this time more ghostly, with JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson and Heather O'Rourke.
A family experiences strange events after invisible phantoms invade its home.
At first the ghosts seem harmless, simply making things move by themselves.
But before long, they spirit away the five-year-old daughter to their own plane of existence, forcing her parents to call on paranormal researchers to find their missing child.
Family Flick
Pokemon Detective Pikachu, 7.00pm, RTÉ One
Fantasy adventure, starring Justice Smith and the voice of Ryan Reynolds, with Kathryn Newton, Ken Watanabe and Bill Nighy.
Student Tim Goodman sets out to find his missing detective father by teaming up with a wise-cracking talking Pikachu that his dad, Harry, used to own.
With help from reporter Lucy and her Psyduck, they attempt to track him down before time runs out.
Rugby World Cup
Live Rugby World Cup 2023, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One
England meet South Africa (KO 8.00pm) at Stade de France in Paris for a place in this year’s Rugby World Cup Final.
This match is a repeat of the 2019 final, which saw South Africa win 32-12 in Yokohama, with the Springboks producing a dominant second-half display after only leading 12-6 at half time.
The holders showed they are a force to be reckoned again this time around when they eliminated the much-fancied hosts after edging a pulsating quarter-final 29-28.
England also had to work hard for their place in the last four, with Fiji fighting back from 24-10 down to level the match, before Steve Borthwick's men edged them out 30-24.
