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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, Mike Bradley, Hannah Verdier, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett

Saturday's best TV: Celebrity Game Night; Black Lake

Celebrity Game Night’s Susan Calman, Liza Tarbuck and Danny Baker.
Celebrity Game Night’s Susan Calman, Liza Tarbuck and Danny Baker. Photograph: Steven Peskett/Monkey Kingdom

Celebrity Game Night

10pm, Channel 5

Perhaps because of Danny Baker’s presence, this new panel show – based on a US format – brings back memories of his old low-stakes celeb hangout Win, Lose or Draw. This time, Liza Tarbuck is in charge, welcoming Baker and fellow team captain Susan Calman on to a set that resembles an after-hours penthouse, complete with dickie-bowed butlers, a house band and (seemingly) a free bar. With silly parlour games and oversized props, the guests, including Kerry Godliman and Dom Joly, have an infectiously good time. Graeme Virtue

The Secret World of Emily Brontë

6.05pm, Channel 4

Documentarist Angus MacQueen is behind this engaging film presented by Lily Cole. Two hundred years after the birth of Emily Brontë, it explores the author’s world and the impact of her novel Wuthering Heights, which contemporary critics believed to have been written by a man. Mike Bradley

The London Studios: Home of the Stars

8pm, ITV

Dermot O’Leary presents a nostalgia-packed show about ITV’s Studios, which served the stars well for 46 years until its closure last April. The vintage stuff is the draw here, with World of Sport’s Dickie Davies and Tiswas’s Sally James among those remembering their time at the building. Hannah Verdier

Bradley Walsh: When Dummies Took Over the World

9pm, ITV

What happened to the puppet stars of Saturday night TV and their handlers when the limelight faded and they were replaced by reality shows? Here, Bradley Walsh tracks down some of the best-known characters, including Orville, Emu, Sooty, Dicky Mint, Spit the Dog and Nookie Bear. MB

Black Lake

9pm, BBC Four

The Scandi-noir returns for a second series that acts as a prequel to the first. It’s an And Then There Were None-style mystery that sees golden brat Johan depart for a remote therapy retreat he has applied for under false pretences. The ferry won’t be back for a week and there’s murder in the air … MB

Donovan & the Beatles in India

9pm, Sky Arts

As rock’n’roll lore relates, the Fab Four had notable company at the Maharishi’s transcendental meditation retreat in 1968: among them, Beach Boy Mike Love, Mia and (Dear) Prudence Farrow, and, not least, Scottish folk singer Donovan. Here he retraces the (non-chemical) trip he took 50 years ago. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena.
Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena. Photograph: Allstar/BBC FILMS/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

Philomena, 9pm, BBC Two

Stephen Frears’s drama is based on the true story of an Irish woman who set out to trace the baby stolen from her by the Catholic nuns of the Magdalene laundries in the 1950s. Steve Coogan is impressively low-key as the journo accompanying her, while Judi Dench is a tragi-comic delight as the doughty Philomena. Paul Howlett

Today’s best live sport

Scottish Premiership Football: Rangers v Celtic, 11.30am, Sky Sports Main Event

Ibrox hosts the Old Firm derby.

Premiership Rugby Union: Harlequins v Wasps, 3.45pm, Channel 5

Top-flight clash from Twickenham.

Premier League Football: Liverpool v Arsenal, 5pm, BT Sport 1

Unai Emery’s improving Gunners visit the title-chasers.

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