Loads of music on offer tonight, ranging from Sam Smith at the Proms and Lady Gaga at the BBC, to Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience and Fred Again . . . at the Leeds and Reading Festival
Pick of the Day
Sam Smith at the Proms, 8.25pm, BBC Two
Sam Smith is a bit marmite but this performance at the Proms promises to be quite some show.
Clara Amfo presents as the singer performs classics from their back catalogue alongside soulful cover versions, accompanied at the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Concert Orchestra under conductor Simon Hale.
Chart-toppers such as Stay With Me and I'm Not the Only One are performed alongside classics such as Hushabye Mountain and Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now.
Sam also includes renditions of Oscar-winning Bond theme Writing's on the Wall and hits Unholy, How Do You Sleep? and Dancing with a Stranger, all arranged for orchestra, backing singers and 16-piece choir the LJ Singers.
New or Returning Shows
Lady Gaga at the BBC, 10.10pm, BBC Two
From the moment her debut single Just Dance hit the top of the UK charts, Lady Gaga has captivated music fans across the world.
This collection of her appearances on the BBC over the years, including her duet with Tony Bennett on Strictly Come Dancing, underlines why she is considered one of the most creative, innovative stars of the 21st century.
Reading and Leeds Festival, 11.40pm, BBC One
Musician, producer and DJ Fred again.. takes to the Reading Festival stage for his first ever UK headline performance.
The Grammy winner has had a meteoric rise to fame to become one of the UK’s biggest artists, and in a full circle moment will be making history as the first electronic artist to close Reading and Leeds – the first festival he attended as a fan.
Don’t Miss
Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience, 5.15pm, BBC One
This week the band come to terms with the reality of being in the toughest boyband bootcamp in the world.
Determined to bounce back from an underwhelming first evaluation, the band take on a dance challenge 555 metres in the air at the top of the fifth tallest building in the world and perform live for the first time in front of an audience.
New to Stream
If You Were the Last, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW
Adam (Anthony Mackie) and Jane (Zoë Chao) are three years into a NASA mission that has gone very wrong.
Finding ways to pass the time as they become certain that no one is coming to save them, they argue over what to do.
One day, Adam poses that maybe they should sleep together; Jane laughs the idea off, but it prompts a flirty debate about whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Saturday Cinema
Spellbound, 1.00pm, BBC Two
I can’t think of too many things more tempting than losing an afternoon in the company of Ingrid Bergman.
This double-bill begins with a Hitchcock cracker, starring Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G Carroll, Michael Chekhov and Rhonda Fleming.
It’s the tale of a doctor who suspects that the new director of the psychiatric hospital where she works is an imposter, and that he’s a chronic amnesiac with a tendency to kill.
But instead of turning him in to the police, she recklessly decides to unravel the truth about him herself.
Casablanca follows at 2.45pm, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (above), along with Claude Rains and Paul Henreid.
You must know the drill here: the American expat owner of a Moroccan nightclub is reunited with his old flame during the Second World War. But there’s a catch.
Downhill, 9.40pm, RTÉ One
Directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's so-so but enjoyable remake of Swedish comedy drama Force Majeure, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell and Miranda Otto.
After believing they are about to be killed by an avalanche during a family ski vacation in Austria, married couple Billie and Pete Stanton are forced to re-evaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
The Promised Land, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Here’s a drama that’s basically a Scandinavian Western, starring Mads Mikkelsen. In Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German.
Retired captain Ludvig Kahlen fights to settle on and cultivate an uninhabitable heathland on the remote Jutland peninsula in the name of the king.
Family Flick
DC League Of Super-Pets, 6.35pm, RTÉ One
Animated DC Comics comedy adventure, featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer and Natasha Lyonne.
Krypto the Super-Dog fights alongside Superman in Metropolis, thwarting the evil schemes of arch-nemesis Lex Luthor.
Disharmony ripples across Metropolis just as Luthor's former laboratory guinea pig, Lulu, enacts her scheme to abduct the Man of Steel and members of the Justice League.
Krypto temporarily loses his abilities and places his trust in a misfit team of newly superpowered animal shelter escapees to save the day.
Sport
Live College Football, 4.40pm, TG4
It’s that time of year again when American razzamatazz comes to Dublin.
This time around, Georgia Tech take on Florida State (KO 5pm) and Máire Treasa Ní Dhubhghaill, along with Cuán Ó Flatharta, introduce the Aer Lingus College Football Classic from Aviva Stadium.
As ever, this game is a sell-out and around 25,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic to attend the Aviva and empty their pockets in Temple Bar.
