Museum of the Year
9.30pm, BBC2
Earlier this year, Tristram Hunt swapped life as an MP for the cushier gig of director of the V&A. We’d speculate that he’s rarely regretted his choice; tonight he presents coverage of the 2017 museum of the year ceremony. The finalists are London’s Tate Modern and Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Newmarket Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, Birmingham’s Lapworth Museum of Geology and the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. Phil Harrison
Catchphrase
6.45pm, ITV
While Only Connect fans might turn up their noses at it, this revived gameshow is shamelessly traditional and infectiously watchable. Stephen Mulhern hosts as ever, bidding three contestants to guess the familiar phrases concealed in brightly animated clues. The fun is in the sheer frenzy the players work themselves into as the answers dance on the tips of their tongues and £50,000 is up for grabs in the Super Catchphrase round. David Stubbs
Pitch Battle
7.30pm, BBC1
What a world it is when pop goddess Kelis and over-enthusiastic music teacher type Gareth Malone coexist on a Saturday night TV show, critiquing the vocal tones of various bouncy choirs. It’s like Glee has graduated, found its questionable auntie’s stash of speed and necked the lot. Now it’s the fourth heat, where choirs including the Bristol Suspensions, Over the Water and the Savannahs riff for their lives. Guest Seal joins the judges. Hannah Verdier
The Voice Kids
7.30pm, ITV
The blind audition rounds may now be a distant memory, but the under-15s’ fight for a £30,000 musical bursary (plus a trip to Disneyland Paris) intensifies as the remaining competitors approach a harmonic Hunger Games in the first battle round. The contenders are split into groups of three, each facing further forays on to the stage. Only one singer from each trio can triumph; which young Voicettes will break first? The round concludes on Sunday. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Blind Date
8pm, Channel 5
Like live-action Tinder, but with the added humiliation of doing it all in front of a baying studio audience, Paul O’Grady invites a new crop of singletons on to the telly for some public matchmaking. Looking for some conscious coupling this week are Manchester-based recruitment consultant Antoni, and Alice, who is seeking a girlfriend who might be willing to look past her obsessive Céline Dion super-fandom in the pursuit of potential romance. It’s a big ask, love. Ben Arnold
Vice Guide to Film: Lars von Trier
10.30pm, Viceland
He’s the Palme d’Or winner who’s been banned from Cannes; a cackling, self-mythologising put-on merchant, whose divisive films have been accused of misogyny – or perhaps should be regarded more, as Nymphomaniac actor Stacy Martin breezily says in this mini-profile, as “a premise to conversation”. However, collaborator Jean-Marc Barr sums the trickster-provocateur up best when he describes Von Trier as simply “a showman”. Ali Catterall
Secret War on Drugs
9pm, History
Debut of a new series chronicling arguably the most counter-productive conflict of all time – the war on drugs, which has cost billions, immiserated millions, and does not appear to have stopped anybody taking drugs. This episode reflects on various shabby attempts by the US government to co-opt the drugs trade for its own purposes. Interesting enough, but the usual US documentary caveats, about annoying soundtrack and pompous voiceover, apply. Andrew Mueller
Film choice
West (Christian Schwochow, 2014), Saturday, 1.30am, BBC2
This subtly gripping, atmospheric cold war drama about refugees from East Germany has a very contemporary resonance. Based on Julia Franck’s novel Lagerfeuer, it’s the story of young mother Nelli (Jördis Triebel) who, after a humiliating interrogation, is allowed to leave with her son for West Berlin. They are detained in a holding camp, where Nelli finds herself dealing with suspicious officials not so different from the Stasi she left behind. It’s an engrossing tale, reminiscent of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s more celebrated The Lives of Others. Paul Howlett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, (Chris Columbus, 2002), 10.20am, ITV
The second entry in the Potter archive is like the first, but darker, with Daniel Radcliffe and pals encountering massive spiders, a flying Ford Anglia, a little comic hero in Dobby the house elf and Kenneth Branagh as dark arts master Gilderoy Lockhart. Plus there’s the poignant farewell of Richard Harris as Dumbledore. Paul Howlett
Mea Culpa, (Fred Cavayé, 2014), 9pm, BBC4
A fast and furious French policier with stubbly cops in leather jackets, from the director of Point Blank. The stars of those two films are reunited here: when ex-detective Vincent Lindon’s son is menaced by a gang of violent Serbian drug dealers, he teams up with old partner Gilles Lellouche to deal with them “like in the old days”. Traditional mayhem ensues on the atmospherically lit streets of Toulon. Paul Howlett
2001: A Space Odyssey, (Stanley Kubrick, 1968), 11.15pm, BBC2
Kubrick’s coruscating space saga boosted science fiction into a new orbit, the special effects setting the standard for the Star Wars generation. The enigmatic story has an alien monolith overseeing humanity’s evolution from ape to star-child, with Keir Dullea the astronaut taking another great leap for mankind. Hal the calculating computer gives the most memorable performance, with menace in its smooth, ever-so-reasonable voice. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Rugby Union: New Zealand v British & Irish Lions The third and final game from Auckland, with the three-match series tied at one-all. 7.30am, Sky Sports 1
Test Cricket: England v South Africa Day three of the opening game of the series from Lord’s. 10am, Sky Sports 2
Tennis: Wimbledon The latest men’s and women’s singles third-round matches. 2017 11am, BBC2
