Comic Relief 2015
7pm, BBC1
The culmination of two weeks’ worth of wacky and earnest programming, this charity telethon looks set to be as jape-strewn as ever. Dermot O’Leary’s dance marathon concludes, there’s a new Mr Bean, and Professor Stephen Hawking performs with David Walliams. All in all, a Friday night in the pub looks more irresistible than ever, but don’t forget to put your hand in your pocket first. Phil Harrison
Quelle Catastrophe! France With Robert Peston
9pm, BBC2
The BBC’s economics editor investigates the wider implications of France’s stagnating economy. Finance minister Emmanuel Macron seems like he’s trying hard in tough times: cutting red tape, “flexiblising” labour markets; all the while knowing that, without growth, the whole European project will fracture. Economic hardship traditionally brings out the worst in people, so Peston also examines how the economy has boosted Marine Le Pen’s Front National. John Robinson
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale Of Two Cities
9pm, BBC4
If 2012’s criminally underrated biopic Good Vibrations achieved anything, it showed that Ireland’s punk scene was more anarchic than its English counterpart. To paraphrase Alan Partridge, there’s more to Irish pop than U2, Thin Lizzy and Brown Eyed Girl. This doc explores the 40-year history of Irish rock, and its roots in Belfast and Dublin. Ali Catteral
Artsnight
11.10pm, BBC2
Veteran journalist Lynn Barber is the guest editor of this instalment of the BBC’s new arts magazine. Features include a look at new magazines being produced by and for young people, and a bold defence of the media studies degree, which has become stereotyped as a self-indulgent parody of tertiary education, but which may be more useful than ever in the internet age. Guests include journalist Jon Ronson, who discusses his new book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, about online witchhunts. Andrew Mueller
Richard E Grant’s Seven Deadly Sins
9pm, Discovery
Flimsy pop-science series hosted, in full ham mode, by Richard E Grant. The focus is the seven cardinal sins and their real-world applications. So in this first episode, title Wrath, we learn of the latent aggression of the male hippo, which targets its rivals’ testicles in battle, and the fight-or-flight mentality of the black mamba. Bolstering the thin scientific element are stock nature doc footage and daft cutaways: a knife stabbing through a heart, Grant wandering around a library holding a skull. Really silly. Gwilym Mumford
Stella
9pm, Sky1
Ruth Jones’s Stella is so lovable that it’s never good to see her having a bad time, but with Michael having done the dirty with flirty caricature Beyoncé, our Welsh heroine needs a break. Or a drink, with Dr Honey (Ramon Tikaram). But how will she react when Beyoncé turns up at the hospital? Big Alan, meanwhile, has competition in the form of Celia’s ex-husband. Gently amusing. Hannah Verdier
Today’s best live sport
Cheltenham Festival The final day of the festival with the prestigious Gold Cup at 3.20pm. 12.35pm, Channel 4
Women’s Six Nations Rugby: England v Scotland Action from Darlington. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 3
Scottish Football: Aberdeen v Motherwell A Premiership clash from Pittodrie. 7.30pm, BT Sport 1
Cricket World Cup: India v Zimbabwe The teams’ opening phase action concludes. 12.30am, Sky Sports 2
