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John RobinsonMark Gibbings-JonesJonathan WrightHannah VerdierBen ArnoldAli CatterallHannah J DaviesPaul Howlett

Saturday's best TV: An Evening With Take That; Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Enter Wonderland … An Evening With Take That.
Enter Wonderland … An Evening With Take That. Photograph: Kieron McCarron/ITV

An Evening With Take That

8.30pm, ITV

The original five-piece now just a memory, as they prepare for their upcoming tour, the middle-aged manband prove that they can still create an anthemic swoon. Here they will be preaching to the choir, playing to an audience of European fans, all getting to hear tracks from the band’s Wonderland album done live. There will also be an audience Q&A. Like, hopefully: “Is anyone surprised when Robbie Williams makes a surprise appearance?” John Robinson

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
7pm, ITV

Last of the takeaways for now from light entertainment’s answer to Chip‘n’Dale, with the Tyneside twosome ending their series with a live spectacular from Florida’s Disney World. With co-hosts Scarlet Moffatt and Stephen Mulhern in tow, alongside some big names from the Disney canon, several lucky audience members will get a chance to become part of the action, while Emilia Fox vows to finally close the case of The Missing Crown Jewels. Mark Gibbings Jones

Dust Storm
8pm, BBC4

Our world is beset by dust. Up to 5bn tonnes of the fine stuff, freed from the ground by the wind, blows around the planet every year. But why do dust storms, a particular problem in arid and semi-arid regions, occur? How do these storms affect human health? And what can we do to prevent storms or mitigate their effects? Focusing on the Middle East, an area that’s particularly badly affected, this documentary considers the latest research. Jonathan Wright

All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.15pm, BBC1

If you think there’s only room for one Mrs Merton-style chatshow in your world, look away now. The nation’s favourite Irish mammy continues her “hilarious” assault on celebrities, and what better way to do that than test Ross Kemp’s survival skills in her lounge? Comedian Kevin Bridges brings his mum along for the ride and Steve Backshall is also in the house. With music from Pixie Lott, it’s a Saturday night staple whether you like it or not. Hannah Verdier

The Funny Side of Love and Sex
10.30pm, Channel 5

In which a host of disparate talking heads (it could be a Celebrity Big Brother lineup) discuss matters of a sexual nature. Johnny Vegas, Vanessa Feltz, Carl Fogarty, Nish Kumar and Nina Wadia are among them, sharing their two cents on bedroom habits, off-putting quirks, and the convoluted sexual eccentricities that people are willing to put up with “while in a relationship”. Expect anecdotes, and the odd confession. Ben Arnold

The Sixties
8pm, Yesterday

It is difficult to foster much nostalgic goodwill towards the Baby Boomers these days, who recently voted in significant numbers for very bad things. But here’s yet another documentary series about this exhaustively chronicled, canonised and self-mythologised bunch – their drugs, their bands, their disposable cash. This episode explores how the US lost its innocence and searched for acid-fuelled enlightenment instead. Ali Catterall

Scorpion
7pm, ITV2

More faux-nerdy action from the show that’s part-CSI, part-Big Bang Theory. This week, Happy is concerned when a friend from a mechanics forum goes awol. When the team track her down, they discover that she is in fact a very sick teenager whose sterile, Nasa-built bubble has been damaged during a storm. The science stuff is laid on especially thick this week as they help her out, but the geekery still feels like something of a gimmick. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

The Keeper of Lost Causes
Grim and grisly … Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes.

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, (Mikkel Nørgaard, 2013), 9pm, BBC4
Even by the sombre standards of dour Nordic noir, Nikolaj Lie Kaas’s detective Carl Mørck is a gloomy fellow. Still, he and his rather more cheerful sidekick Assad (Fares Fares) are embroiled in a case well suited to his dour disposition: that of disappeared, initially presumed dead, politician Merete (Sonja Richter). A series of enigmatic flashbacks slowly cast light on a grim and grisly crime, one of a trilogy adapted from the novels of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Paul Howlett


Coming to America, (John Landis, 1988), 9pm, W
Landis revisits the role-swap territory of Trading Places, drawing a beaming performance from Eddie Murphy. He plays Prince Akeem of Zamunda, rebelling against King James Earl Jones’s plans for an arranged marriage by fleeing to New York with trusty manservant Arsenio Hall, looking for a bride who’s not after his money. Shari Headley is the girl heading for love’s lottery jackpot in a quick-witted satirical comedy. Paul Howlett


Ilo Ilo, (Anthony Chen, 2013), 12midnight, BBC2
Singaporean writer-director Chen’s debut is a perceptive domestic drama apparently based on his childhood. If so, he is admirably honest in recreating himself as a boy. The nine-year-old Jiale (Koh Jia Ler), neglected by his work-obsessed, delusional parents, is a bossy little brat. Into this dysfunctional family steps live-in maid Terry (Angeli Bayani) who, though mistreated as a slave, starts to form a genuine relationship with the troubled boy. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Horse Racing: The Grand National The annual gambling day for the nation’s mug punters at Aintree. 4.35pm, ITV
Premier League Football: Bournemouth v Chelsea Mildly wobbling Chelsea visit Eddie Howe’s team, who are recently more resilient at home. 5pm, BT Sport 1
Golf: The Masters The tournament at Augusta reaches its penultimate round. 8pm, Sky Sports 1

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