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Mike Bradley, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier, David Stubbs and Paul Howlett

Saturday’s best TV: Killing Eve; The Plague

Killing Eve.
Killing Eve. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Sid Gentle Films/Robert Viglasky

Killing Eve

9.15pm, BBC One

From the moment in 2016 when Phoebe Waller-Bridge was unleashed on the small screen in Crashing it was clear that a huge new TV talent had arrived. Next came her comedy hit Fleabag, and now with Killing Eve she excels again. This time, she gives us a spy thriller based on the novellas of Luke Jennings about an MI5 drudge Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) whose dreams of top-level spy action are realised when she embarks on an epic game of cat and mouse with icy assassin Jodie Comer. Edgy, exciting and funny, too. Mike Bradley

Strictly: The Best

7.10pm, BBC One

Better than all the rest? To mark 15 years of Strictly hegemony, here’s a Brucie bonus episode that invites some of the most memorable celebrity hoofers – including Ann Widdecombe, Jeremy Vine and Mark Ramprakash – to reflect on their often joyous but always taxing experiences on the show. Graeme Virtue

The X Factor

8.25pm, ITV

It is the stage where X Factor viewers get to smirk at the auditions while the new judging lineup (which, in the great tradition of Sharon Osbourne and Nicole Scherzinger, is going to be ruled by Ayda Field) settle in. As the queues form at Wembley, the quartet decide which warblers go through to the Six Chair Challenge. Hannah Verdier

The Plague  

9pm, BBC Four

The Spanish historical thriller bows out with a deft double bill that builds to a fiery climax once Mateo and Valerio have discovered the true identity of Ledesma and pursued him through a labyrinth. Questions are answered, mysteries are solved and pyres are prepared for a spectacular auto-da-fé. Mike Bradley

My View: Clem Burke

9pm, Sky Arts

Blondie drummer Clem Burke likes himself a little too much, but who can blame a man who has anchored one of the world’s greatest rock bands since 1975 for enjoying his popularity? This career retrospective is marginally too long but it is interesting and it’s full of famous faces. Mike Bradley

An American Murder Mystery: The Staircase

11pm, Quest Red

Commencing with audio of an apparently distraught call to the emergency services, The Staircase tells the story of author Michael Peterson, found clutching his dead wife Kathleen. He insists she fell down the stairs but authorities decide he is lying, and he’s charged with murder. Can he clear his name? David Stubbs

Film choice

Mean Streets, 11.40pm, BBC Two

Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets.
Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

Martin Scorsese returns to the New York streets of his youth, all small-time crookery and looming mafiosi, in a sharply naturalistic view of Little Italy. There’s volatile, muscular acting from Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy, with Harvey Keitel as his more measured and more dangerous friend, Charlie. Paul Howlett

Live sport

T20 Cricket: Finals Day The entertaining climax to the domestic season from Edgbaston. 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket

Premier League Football: Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool A big game from Wembley. 11.30am, Sky Sports Premier League

Cycling: Vuelta a España The penultimate stage of the road race. 1.45pm, Eurosport 1


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