All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.15pm, BBC1
Brendan O’Carroll’s Irish mammy has bossed her way through radio plays, novels, stage shows, an unstoppable sitcom and a movie. So deploying her as a Saturday night chatshow host welcoming celebs into the Brown family lounge – a place where the fourth wall is regularly demolished – doesn’t actually seem that weird. Pop prophet Louis Walsh, tennis matriarch Judy Murray and a presumably bemused Pamela Anderson are the first guests. Graeme Virtue
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
7pm, ITV
The return of an old favourite tonight – the Takeaway Photobooth. Yes, you do know – it’s when the lads hide inside a custom-built “automated” booth, get placed in a busy location and then prank the folk who go inside! Elsewhere, Ant vs Dec takes a turn for the dangerous when the pair take up bows and arrows, Take That are around, and the identity of Mask Face is closer to being uncovered in spy spoof The Missing Crown Jewels. John Robinson
When Lynn Barber Met Phyllida Barlow
7.30pm, BBC2
The concept of the overlooked creative finally getting their due is always charming, and in this delightful little film Barber chats with her old friend Phyllida Barlow who, after being ignored for decades by the art world, will be representing Britain at this year’s Venice International Art Biennale with her enormous, precarious sculptures. “There’s comedy in the way objects fail,” says Barlow, 72, who cites Buster Keaton as an influence. Ali Catterall
The Voice UK
8.30pm, ITV
It’s semi-final night and eight singers remain. Last week saw bum notes, forgotten lyrics and wannabes singing as if they’d never heard the songs before, so who knows what’s in store tonight? At least there’s a range of talents, from Michelle’s belting voice to Max’s Damon Albarn-lite and Into the Ark’s boyband-ish tones. The whole thing is expertly held together by Emma Willis and coach Jennifer Hudson, whose talent and charisma put everyone else in the shade. Hannah Verdier
Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories
9pm, BBC2
According to film-maker Nick Willing, his mother, painter Paula Rego, was “secretive and guarded” when he was growing up. Then, in her 80s, she started telling stories about her life. These tales pepper Willing’s remarkable profile as Rego discusses her marriage to fellow artist Victor Willing, abortion and her own art with a candour reminiscent of a combat veteran speaking about experiences kept buried for years. Jonathan Wright
Scorpion
7pm, ITV2
Scorpion ought to be a high-concept offering, based as it is on the allegedly true story of a genius government computer hacker and his merry band of brainboxes. In reality, it’s a whole lot of Big Bang Theory-ish faux geekery and bog standard procedural action. Tonight’s episode is a case in point, with the group casually infiltrating a chess competition in a fictional former Soviet bloc country. Smart-sounding, but the reality lacks a certain sting. Hannah J Davies
Discovering: The Cure
7pm, Sky Arts
A history of Robert Smith’s melodious malcontents. There’s plenty to analyse in the Cure’s long career, which has grazed punk, kissed pop and kept goth on a low simmer. Smith’s lament that 1989’s uncompromising but chartbusting Disintegration had made them “everything I didn’t want us to become – a stadium rock band” summed up the tension at the heart of an adolescent-crisis group who are hard to grow away from. Jack Seale
Film choice
Hue and Cry, (Charles Crichton, 1947) Saturday, 8.40am, BBC2
A plucky young Harry Fowler leads a gang of East End youths who are outraged to discover that black market smugglers are communicating through the pages of their favourite comic. Alastair Sim is a delight as the comic’s artist Felix H Wilkinson, but with its abductions and menacing phony cop, there’s real suspense, too. It’s set solidly amid the ruins of blitzed London and in that long-gone age, a horde of kids swarm over the rubble to apprehend the crooks. Scripted by TEB Clarke, of Passport to Pimlico fame, it’s a real treat, even by Ealing standards. Paul Howlett
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, (Sam Peckinpah, 1974), 11.05pm, TCM
Peckinpah’s bloody modern western has washed-up piano player Warren Oates taking on mobsters, bikers and bandits to deliver said flyblown head to the Mexican gangster offering a big reward (it belonged to the man who impregnated his daughter). All sweat, death and bloody retribution in this doom-laden meditation on the human condition, one of Peckinpah’s finest. Kris Kristofferson makes an appearance, having previously played Billy the Kid for Peckinpah in 1973. Paul Howlett
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, (Mira Nair, 2012), 11.15pm, BBC2
Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel stars Riz Ahmed as the charismatic Changez, a Muslim professor in Pakistan suspected by the CIA of terrorist activity. By way of riposte, he recounts to Jewish-American journalist Liev Schreiber his life story as a pro-western, rising star of Wall Street who was transformed by 9/11 into a powerful anti-capitalist critic. Paul Howlett
Albatross, (Niall MacCormick, 2011), 2.15am (BST), BBC2
Felicity Jones is Beth, a girl living with her famous-novelist dad (Sebastian Koch) and mum (Julia Ormond) at their seaside guest house. Their quiet life is rudely interrupted when Beth brings home her new friend, the provocative, wannabe-writer Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay), who sets about seducing the dad and other acts of rebellion. Entertaining, if not entirely convincing. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Premiership Rugby: Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers Coverage of the league match at Franklin’s Gardens. 2.30pm, BT Sport 1
WBA Boxing: Jorge Linares v Anthony Crolla A rematch with Crolla, looking to avenge his defeat six months ago. 7pm, Sky Sports 1
Formula 1: The Australian Grand Prix The first race of the new season from Melbourne. Can Lewis Hamilton regain his title? 5.30am, Sky Sports F1
