Doctor Who
7.45pm, BBC1
It’s war! Back to reality as those creepy monks land on the actual Earth, not a computer simulation, for a trip around the integral Who theme of when to resist looming oblivion and when to appease. It’s a scenario that reliably ends with the Doctor holding firm while august military leaders crumble. Steven Moffat is smartly playing to Peter Capaldi’s strengths, in other words, as the puzzle of how to outwit an almost omniscient foe propels an ambitious but focused narrative. Jack Seale
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017
8pm, BBC2
Horticulture honcho Monty Don and garden designer Joe Swift present highlights from this year’s festival of all things floral. With high points including Professor Nigel Dunnett’s urban-set Greening Grey Britain Garden, Kazuyuki Ishihara’s Gosho No Niwa and Jack Dunckley’s volcanically themed Bermuda Triangle, you’ll practically be batting the greenfly from your TV stand by the end of the programme. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Britain’s Got Talent
8pm, ITV
After a slew of bendy people, magical dogs and DJ-ing pensioners, the audition phase of the ratings linchpin draws to a spectacular close. Tonight, the judges pick another batch of finalists, then the 35 acts prepare to fight to the death. Well, not quite, but it’s a big week in Talent-world: the first live semi-final starts on Monday and sadly so does the elimination process. The live shows continue across the week, with results after a cheeky late Coronation Street. Hannah Verdier
Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors
9pm, BBC2
Not the easiest thing to come up with, a new angle on the Austen legacy, but here’s Lucy Worsley going through the keyhole, profiling the various properties where the celebrated author honed her craft, often in trying circumstances. The fact that the bustling family rectory where Austen lived her first 25 years was demolished years ago does not dissuade Worsley who, as always, brings an enjoyably conspiratorial tone to the proceedings. Graeme Virtue
Hinterland
9pm, BBC4
Final instalment of this run of the superior Welsh detective series. DCI Mathias is summoned to a setting gloomy and foreboding even by the standards of Hinterland: a gothic psychiatric hospital in which one of the inmates appears to have killed herself. The plot thickens when we learn that before her death, she was visited by a disgraced former cop who also took his own life. Mathias, unlike some of his colleagues, struggles to see this as a coincidence. Andrew Mueller
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story
9pm, Sky Arts
David Bowie may have slapped the world sideways the night he draped his arm round Mick Ronson on Top of the Pops in 1972, but for the Martian Spider himself it was simply a case of “I put on my makeup, play my guitar, take my makeup off and go home”. This film pays homage to the astoundingly modest virtuoso, without whom several artists’ albums (including Lou Reed’s Transformer) would be much the poorer. Ali Catterall
Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson
5pm, Animal Planet
Black-ish star Anthony Anderson fronts this baffling mix of funny animal clips and celebrity interviews (George Lopez comes in to talk about his dog, Suzy Nakamura about her two cats), while a talking brain coral called Tina, voiced by comedian Tiffany Haddish, sits in a tank at the side of the shiny floor set. It feels as if it should be a children’s show but its distinctly adult tone dictates otherwise. Who will watch it? Christ only knows. Ben Arnold
Film choice
The World’s End, (Edgar Wright, 2013), Saturday, 9pm, Channel 4
Simon Pegg is fortysomething waster Gary King, who lures four school pals – Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan – out of their humdrum daily lives to complete the legendary pub crawl they failed to finish 20 years before in their boring home town of Newton Haven. But the lads’ night out turns into a home counties version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in a very funny, observant tale of midlife crisis, aliens and beer, the final part of Wright and Pegg’s Cornetto trilogy. Paul Howlett
Swingers, (Doug Liman, 1996), 12.10am, BBC1
Hip, amusing and highly chauvinist account of guys hanging out in LA, chasing “beautiful babes” in Las Vegas. It’s a bit of a two-man show: director Liman is also cinematographer, and star Jon Favreau wrote the witty, partly autobiographical script. He plays Mike who, after a break-up, is dragged back into the world of women by a bunch of chums (including Vince Vaughn). Paul Howlett
Easy Money, (Daniel Espinosa, 2010), 12.30am, BBC2
A helter-skelter Swedish gangland thriller that moves at a ferocious pace far removed from most meditative Scandi fare. It has three characters drawn together by the violent extremities of the multicultural Stockholm underworld: Joel Kinnaman’s JW, a handsome student working for an illicit Arab taxi firm; Serbian hitman Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic); and Chilean jailbreaker Jorge (Matias Padin Varela). It’s gripping stuff; and the two sequels also show this week. Paul Howlett
Live sport
ODI Cricket: England v South Africa England’s warm-up for the Champions Trophy continues in Southampton. 10.30am, Sky Sports 2
Premiership Rugby Final: Wasps v Exeter Chiefs Coverage of the final game of the season from Twickenham. 1.30pm, BT Sport 1
FA Cup Final: Arsenal v Chelsea Chelsea look to complete the double but can Arsène Wenger spring a surprise? 5.15pm, BBC1
