The Live Lounge Show
8pm, BBC4
Clara Amfo introduces this live-in-the-studio show, tonight with Pink in session. She was once queen of the party anthem, but the last decade has brought marriage, motherhood and – after a five-year absence – a reflective and political new single, What About Us. Elsewhere, there’s more stuff from this year including Harry Styles, the Killers and Stormzy – whose Live Lounge session was a surprisingly worthy, even syrupy, thing. Nap time is catered for with selections from London Grammar. John Robinson
Teach My Pet to Do That
8pm, ITV
Last year, Buster the Boxer shot to fame after going boinngg-boinngg-boinngg on a trampoline for John Lewis’s Christmas ad. Real name Biff, he’s tonight’s guest on the training show hosted by Alexander Armstrong, which also features Stinky the pony and the miniature American shepherd dog Boomer learning how to retrieve their owners’ mobile phones. Elvis the goat becomes the star of a dog agility show, despite the fact he ain’t nothing like a hound dog. Ali Catterall
The Crystal Maze
8pm, Channel 4
“It’s nothing like real life, which is why we love it,” boasts Richard Ayoade of The Crystal Maze. He’s the perfect host, a fictional high priest of nerds, fully conscious of the foibles of those members of the human race who need to get out more. This week, five very excitable women calling themselves the Cheerleaders test their physical and mental strengths as they navigate through the maze’s Aztec, Medieval, Industrial and Future zones. David Stubbs
Cold Feet
9pm, ITV
Last week’s closing revelation saw the carousel of bittersweet middle-age inconveniences stop at teen pregnancy. The gathering of the kids too young to have a child, and the parents who aren’t ready to be grandparents, prompts the predictable shouting, speeches, learning and staring into space backed by piano ballads, but it’s compassionately handled. Meanwhile, there’s a fresh burden for the perpetually overwhelmed Pete and Jenny (John Thomson and Fay Ripley). Jack Seale
Gogglebox
9pm, Channel 4
Has Gogglebox become a substitute for watching a whole week of telly? With Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor back on screens, there are plenty of big, shiny Saturday shows to dissect. The cast are as lovable as ever, unless you’re immune to people who compare Noel Fielding to “him out of Queen” and recall Suranne Jones as that woman who once took a shoe to Tracy Barlow in Coronation Street. A reliable slice of scheduling cosiness. Hannah Verdier
Professor T
9pm, More4
More catatonic crime-solving from Professor Jasper Teerlinck, Belgium’s answer to Monk and a man with all the bounteous charm of a rectal thermometer. This week’s case is rather closer to his weird, sheet-draped, hermetically sealed home. Tamara, the escort with whom he meets regularly to chat, is found dead. The police reckon it’s suicide, but not the Prof, who neglects to mention he knows the victim in order to ensure his place on the investigation team. Ben Arnold
South Park
10pm, Comedy Central
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have admitted to being somewhat wrongfooted by the unusual political events in America. If Trump’s ascent formed the uneasy backdrop to season 20, season 21 finds the pair determined to get back to basics. As the second episode arrives, it’s clear that the titular town is as fantastical as ever – this much can be deduced from the fact that Cartman now has a girlfriend. In the light of President Trump, it seems anything is possible. Phil Harrison
Film choices
The Accountant (Gavin O’Connor, 2016) 12.45pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
This enjoyable action-thriller stars Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, whose expertise with numbers (he’s a high-functioning autistic genius) is matched only by his martial arts ability. Given that he earns a living laundering mob money, and the mob decides to do away with him and fellow accountant Anna Kendrick, it’s not long before his fancy skillset is fully employed.
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 1.20am, Film4
It’s surprising that city-boy Bogdanovich crafted such a note-perfect portrait of US smalltown life. Adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel and set in a hot and dusty Texas town, two boys (Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms) fall out over a girl (Cybill Shepherd). Howard Hawks’s Red River is the last booking at the rundown cinema: a fittingly elegiac detail.
Live sport
Cycling: Road World Championships 9am, Eurosport 2. Coverage of the women’s junior road race from Bergen, Norway.
Super League Rugby 8pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Top-flight league action from the tournaments Super 8s stage.
Premiership Rugby Union: Gloucester v Worcester Warriors 7pm, BT Sport 1. Coverage of the match from Kingsholm.
