The Voice UK
7pm, BBC1
Back in the early 00s there were plenty of straightforward talent shows on TV, albeit mostly supported by premium-rate phone votes. Fast-forward to 2016 and we have the unending saga that is The Voice, with its pointless anonymity, pop has-beens and umptillion VTs to remind us how much contractually obligated fun the judges are having. As the battle phase commences tonight, the spinning chairs from the blind rounds have somehow avoided the BBC skip, too. Can’t we just have Fame Academy back? Hannah J Davies
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
5.20pm, BBC1
Ah, Dynamo. He’s the people’s illusionist, the David Blaine that Eamonn Holmes could probably just about risk interviewing. He’s a rarity: a jaw-dropping performer whose puppy-dog eyes and northern bluntness make you think he’s probably all right. First shown on UKTV, this first episode of this series sees him blowing Brit musician Labrinth’s mind. More impressively, he visits the World Poker Tour and, instead of winning it by using magic, wows the card sharps with some sleight of hand of his own. Phil Harrison
Stag
9pm, BBC2
The makers of The Wrong Mans go very dark indeed with this three-part drama, a twisted tale of a stag weekend gone horribly awry in the Scottish Highlands. Ian (Peep Show’s Jim Howick) tags along for the festivities of his future brother-in-law who, it soon transpires, has a ghastly line in friends. When best man Ledge, a punchable City boy, mocks a gamekeeper once too often, they’re left stranded. As if that wasn’t bad enough, soon they’re dispatched one by one, in grisly fashion. Ben Arnold
The Superhumans Show
11am, Channel 4
It’s a little over six months until the Paralympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro. This new series, hosted by Alex Brooker of The Last Leg and former sprinter Iwan Thomas, will follow the build-up to the Games, keeping up with qualifying events and meeting the athletes competing for a place in the Paralympic squad. Guests today include Stefanie Reid, who won silver in the long jump at the 2012 Paralympics, comedian Rob Beckett, and actor RJ Mitte, AKA Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad. Andrew Mueller
Trapped
9pm, BBC4
As if it wasn’t remote enough anyway, the decision to trigger an avalanche cuts off the town even further from civilisation. No phone signal. No electricity… It’s a bleaker backdrop than usual against which Icelandic cop Andri and his colleagues work through their emotional issues. Meanwhile on the ferry, evidence mounts about the collusion between captain and criminal. In part two, the aftermath of the explosion shows that no amount of snow can douse the secrets and resentments that underpin the small community. John Robinson
Bottom Live
11pm, GOLD
A theatrical broadening of range for Gold’s After Dark strand, with a screening of one of the broadest offerings ever to trouble a theatre curtain. Happily, this is the original and best of the live Bottom outings, evading the increasingly lazy, lowbrow high concepts of later years for a traditional story featuring a flat-bound Eddie and Richie. Of course, Bottom being Bottom, even a relatively sedate plot involves a sex doll, murder, suicide and the world’s worst breakfast. Practically Beckett-esque. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Shadow Of Doubt
10pm, ID
“I’ve just confessed to killing Michelle, and I want you to know she’s dead.” In the first of a new true-crime series, friends, family, detectives – and even the murderer – piece together what happened to single mum Michelle Warner (“A flamboyant peacock in a roomful of crows,” recalls her mum Donna), who went missing in Houston in 2012. Gripping and disturbing, the coolly calculating killer even appeared on the show Dr Phil to discuss her disappearance two days before confessing. Ali Catterall
FILM CHOICE
The Other Boleyn Girl
(Justin Chadwick, 2008), 6.50pm, Film4
Adapted from Philippa Gregory’s novel, this account of the Boleyn sisters vying to be Henry VIII’s No 1 mistress is a handsomely made bodice-ripper. Scarlett Johansson is a Snow White-like Mary, Natalie Portman is sister Anne, whose machinations would make Lucrezia Borgia blush, and Eric Bana is the king who thinks with his codpiece. Paul Howlett
Invictus
(Clint Eastwood, 2009), 11.05pm, ITV
Eastwood’s account of how post-apartheid South Africa stepped towards reconciliation by winning the 1995 rugby union World Cup is an unashamedly sentimental yet still powerful politico-sporting drama. Morgan Freeman is right at home as Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon is solid as Springboks captain Francois Pienaar. What it lacks in subtlety, it makes up in conviction. PH
Today’s best live sport
Premier League Football: West Ham United v Sunderland Big Sam’s improving Sunderland visit West Ham. 12noon, BT Sport 1
Six Nations Rugby Union A double bill for ITV with Italy v Scotland followed by England v Ireland. 1.25pm, ITV
Super League: Catalan Dragons v Leeds Rhinos Rugby league from Perpignan. 4.55pm, Sky Sports 2
World Title Boxing: Carl Frampton v Scott Quigg A super bantamweight title unification bout. 6pm, Sky Box Office
