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Entertainment
Graeme Virtue, Andrew Mueller, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones, Hannah Verdier, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

Saturday’s best TV: Hidden; The Great Exhibition of the North

Rhodri Meilir in Hidden.
Rhodri Meilir in Hidden. Photograph: BBC/Severn Screen

Hidden

9pm, BBC Four

The slate skies and desolate moors of north Wales provide a suitably unsettling backdrop for this excellent bilingual psychological thriller. Like the similarly brooding The Fall, Hidden chose to tip its hand early, revealing maladjusted quarryman Dylan (Rhodri Meilir) to be a volatile stalker and kidnapper. After his failed abduction of a local nurse, Dylan now risks popping up on the radar of the capable DI John (Sian Reese-Williams) and DS Vaughan (Sion Alun Davies) even as he creepily sizes up his next victim. Graeme Virtue

The Great Exhibition of the North

6.30pm, BBC Two

Shaun Keaveney introduces the BBC’s coverage of the Great Exhibition of the North. This programme visits key landmarks, previews the event, and meets some of the artists appearing in the opening ceremony, including Maxïmo Park, Glenn Brown and Lemn Sissay. Andrew Mueller

The River Wye

7pm, BBC Two

It is the final leg of this languid rural trip for writer and angler Will Millard, who joins sightseers at Ross-on-Wye’s annual rowing club regatta; gets his easel out at the picturesque Tintern Abbey; witnesses a 16th-century fishing method in Chepstow; and visits a cider farm, for a glug of those psychedelic apples. Ali Catterall

Blind Date

7.30pm, Channel 5

The comfortably familiar Blind Date makes Love Island look like provocative surrealist art. Paul O’Grady switches things up with a mother-and-son edition. Emile and Belinda both happen to be looking for love, but will Emile take a chance on the Cambridge woman who turns her nose up at mummy’s boys? Ellen E Jones

Casualty

8.20pm, BBC One

Only a brave person would admit to murdering Connie’s goldfish but the formidable consultant, beautifully played by Amanda Mealing, is on the hunt for the perpetrator. For fans of Casualty bingo, there’s a trail of blood, a jealous boyfriend and a baby with a rash. In other news, Ethan has a confession to make. Hannah Verdier

All Round to Mrs Brown’s

9.10pm, BBC One

The last in the current series of the awkward panto/chat crossover has a guest list that, like the jokes in the script, isn’t bursting with contemporary freshness: Ray Mears, Jerry Springer and Boy George are the visitors, with Boy George the gamest because he’s brought his mum, Dinah. Jack Seale

Film choice

Assault on Precinct 13, 10.45pm, Film4

Assault On Precinct 13.
Assault On Precinct 13. Photograph: Miracle/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

John Carpenter’s low-budget 1976 thriller-cum-cult masterpiece transposes Howard Hawks’s western Rio Bravo to modern Los Angeles, with a motley crew of cops and crooks besieged in a police station by a street-gang of crazies who come on like extras from Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Paul Howlett

Live sport

World Cup Football: Belgium v Tunisia Later games are South Korea v Mexico and Germany v Sweden. 12.15pm, BBC One

International Rugby Union: Argentina v Scotland From Resistencia. 8.10pm, Channel 4

International Rugby League: New Zealand v England From Denver, Colorado. 9pm, BBC Two

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