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Entertainment
David Stubbs, Jack Seale, Ben Arnold, Phil Harrison, Gwilym Mumford, Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Paul Howlett

Saturday's best TV: Euro 2016 – Germany v Italy; Best Of Glastonbury 2016

Mario Gomez in action for Germany at Euro 2016
Mario Gomez in action for Germany at Euro 2016 Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

Euro 2016: Germany v Italy

7.30pm, BBC1
What has, at times, seemed like a moribund tournament – whose nadir was surely the transcendentally turgid knockout tie between Croatia and Portugal – is showing signs of sputtering into life as the favourites go up a gear. Tonight, Germany face Italy, with Joachim Löw’s side having looked back to their fearsome best against Slovakia. David Stubbs

Wimbledon 2016

11am, BBC2
Day six from the All England Club, although if the British summer hasn’t bucked its ideas up, we might have suffered a couple of cagoules-and-Cliff days and fallen behind. Today is meant to conclude the third round for men and women. Last year’s matches of the round saw two plucky homegrown outsiders narrowly fail: Heather Watson was within two points of upsetting eventual champion Serena Williams, while James Ward went down 8-6 in the fifth to Vasek Pospisil. Jack Seale

The Getaway Car

6.40pm, BBC1
More motoring antics in South Africa as another set of couples pit their collaborative driving skills against each other. There’s competitive couple Dan and Emily from Worthing; Lee and his mum Shirley; Nick and Malina from Blackpool; firemen Jim and Sam; and a pair of “big-hearted big kids” Dom and Tess. The pair who triumph in the challenges will then go on to face off against Top Gear stooge the Stig in the hope of driving off with a boot stuffed with £10,000. Ben Arnold

Catchphrase

7.15pm, ITV
One of those gloriously daft Saturday evening staples from the halcyon days of the shiny floor show, Catchphrase can never be quite the same without the gently insistent Roy Walker. Stephen Mulhern is the latest host to encourage contestants to say what they see. Although Catchphrase doesn’t exactly deal in megabucks, £50,000 is at stake now, which feels like a healthy sum for deciphering an aphorism depicted by a rudimentary computer graphic. Phil Harrison

Best Of Glastonbury 2016

11.15pm, BBC2
Mud and rain levels that were, according to Michael Eavis, the worst in more than 40 years, may provide the most memorable images from this year’s festival, but there were some actual bands playing too. Here’s a roundup of some of the highlights, featuring headliners Adele, Muse and Coldplay, who threw everything up to and including the kitchen sink at their Sunday night set, including Eavis himself crooning My Way. Gwilym Mumford

Swashbuckle

11am, CBeebies
The energetic gameshow that pits small persons against a trio of “naughty pirates” – Captain Sinker, Cook and Line – returns for a fourth series. This will, of course, come as a great relief to those parents whose youngsters have watched the same episodes over and over again on iPlayer. First up, Sinker enters a selfie competition to try to win a holiday. Expect proceedings to involve much noisy silliness, walking the plank and splatdowns in gunge. Jonathan Wright

Sweat Inc

12midnight, Spike
A Dragons’ Den for the fitness industry, this show features a panel exclusively dressed in Lycra receiving business pitches from gym-running supplicants – and then literally working them out. LA fat-burning guru Jillian Michaels adjudicates, pouring derision on passé workouts, high entry-level costs and inappropriate branding (good luck to “Kill Mode”, who have all three). When she finds something ingenious, though, she fairly glows with delight. John Robinson


Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong in Terminator II: Judgment Day
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong in Terminator II: Judgment Day Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/TRISTAR

Film Choice

The Hypnotist
(Lasse Hallström, 2012), 9pm, BBC4

After a 25-year absence, Lasse Hallström returns to his native Sweden for this handsome but convoluted thriller. When a family is horribly butchered, cop Tobias Zilliacus enlists a hypnotherapist (Mikael Persbrandt) to get through to the lone teenage survivor (Jonatan Bökman) who lies badly wounded and in shock. Paul Howlett

Terminator II: Judgment Day
(James Cameron, 1991), 9.45pm, ITV4
Well, he said he’d be back… Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the cyborg of a machine-ruled futureworld, making mayhem in the present, but this time he’s the good guy, defending surrogate family Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong against state-of-the-art terminator Robert Patrick. Arnie’s “Hasta la vista” line wears a little thin, but Patrick’s liquid-metal body transformations are eye-boggling and, overall, it’s an explosive sequel. PH

Today’s live sport

One-Day International Cricket: England v Sri Lanka, 10am, Sky Sports 2
The final game from Cardiff.

Cycling: Tour De France, 11am, ITV4
Coverage of the opening stage, an 188km journey from Mont-Saint-Michel to Utah Beach Sainte-Marie-du-Mont.

Formula 1: Austrian Grand Prix Qualifying 12noon, Sky Sports F1
Coverage from the ninth round of the season.

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