Tonight Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything and I Can See Your Voice return, there’s an Olivia Newton-John night on BBC Two and it’s The Masked Dancer semi-final. . .
Take the day
Ask Me Anything by Angela Scanlon, 9.45pm, RTÉ One
Back for a second run, Angela Scanlon (below) chats with various types of celebrities about personal and pivotal moments in their lives.
Tonight, award-winning actor James Nesbitt chats with Angela about that cheeky butt scene in cold feet and the merits of trunks over Speedos for ocean swimming.
Pippa O’ Connor Ormond, bestselling author, successful businesswoman and former model, joins Angela and James on the couch to talk about her two Brians (her husband Brian Ormond and her best friend Brian Dowling), the fall of a rocking horse and her new goddaughter, Blake.
Angela’s latest guest is rugby giant Tommy Bowe, who brings glory to the mornings as he embraces a morning alarm for his breakfast TV show.
Tommy tells Angela that Twitter lit up when he called a St Bernard dog a lazy female dog and how after retiring from rugby he is pursuing a new adrenaline rush on live TV.
Don’t miss
The Masked Dancer, 6:30 p.m., Virgin Media One
It’s the semi-final and there are five masked dancers left.
As each celebrity happens, our panel of superstar sleuths must decipher the clues and unlock TV’s best-kept secret.
In tomorrow night’s episode, it’s a double elimination, five becomes three as two celebrities are unmasked and their identities revealed.
Strictly Come Dancing, 6:30 p.m., BBC One
It’s week four of the competition and the remaining couples have well and truly broken their dancing shoes.
Tonight they will dance live for viewer votes under the watchful eye of judges Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke.
Who will impress enough to win a place on next week’s BBC Centenary Special? Hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.
New or returning shows
I can see your voice, 9.05pm, BBC One
Paddy McGuinness hosts this mystery singing game show, in which contestants aided by a panel of celebrities must scout out good singers without hearing them.
Regular celebrity interviewers Jimmy Carr, Alison Hammond and Amanda Holden are joined by guest Tony Hadley, to help two contestants choose the best singers and win a tidy sum.
Olivia Newton-John at the BBC, 10:15 p.m., BBC Two
Here is a tribute to the star, who died in August 2022 at the age of 73, after a musical career spanning five decades.
It was the success of Fat it made Olivia an international sensation, but she was already familiar to BBC audiences from appearances like many of those captured in this collection.
These include her own television specials, appearances on some of the biggest entertainment shows of the day and the Eurovision Song Contest of 1974, where Olivia represented the UK, battling with eventual winners Abba.
Followed at 11:15 p.m. of the film Xanadua musical fantasy featuring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and Michael Beck, and music by the Electric Light Orchestra.
A beautiful goddess comes to Earth to encourage and inspire a young rollerblade dancer to achieve bigger and better things.
Wisting, 9:00 p.m., BBC Four
The Norwegian crime drama following the work of a widowed senior detective in the coastal town of Larvik returns for a second run.
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Wisting and his team face a setback when a crime scene reconstruction with serial killer Tom Kerr goes awry.
Wisting’s daughter, Line, faces the consequences of her actions. With Sven Nordin. In English and Norwegian.
Black Adam Special, 7:00 p.m., Sky Max
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The Sky Cinema team takes a special look at the latest blockbuster from the DC Cinematic Universe, starring Dwayne Johnson.
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Nearly 5,000 years after being gifted with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods – and imprisoned just as quickly – Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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Blippi Halloween’s Spooky Spell
Halloween is in the air and Blippi (Clayton Grimm) gets in the mood after finding an old leather-bound Spooky Spells book.
Ready for the spookiest Halloween ever, Blippi sets out with her book to find treats, pumpkins and all kinds of weird decorations.
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Saturday cinema
The Commitments, 9:15 p.m., RTÉ2
Alan Parker’s urban comedy, based on Roddy Doyle’s first novel, starring Robert Arkins, Andrew Strong, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball and Maria Doyle Kennedy.
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A budding music producer from Dublin thinks he can make it in Ireland by promoting a soul band. He therefore travels through a working-class neighborhood and auditions singers and musicians unlikely to form a group.
If you look closely, you can see me appear during a performance as an enthusiastic member of the audience. Now it is acting.
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, 8:30 p.m., Channel 4
This is the final part of the third trilogy in the never-ending sci-fi saga, starring Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Ian McDiarmid, John Boyega, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams – and a posthumous guest appearance from Carrie Fisher.
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Rey and the surviving members of the resistance face off against the evil First Order once again as the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its climax and the galaxy’s greatest evil returns from the dead.
