Taboo
9.15pm, BBC1
The Tom Hardy-starring drama continues. In tonight’s episode, Delaney (Hardy) continues to make preparations for his new venture by buying a ship, settling his father’s debts and breathing heavily near his half-sister (Oona Chaplin). It’s all a bit overcooked in a Peaky Blinders vein. Still, while it’s no great change to see Hardy playing a person who growls a lot and has done bad things, he remains supremely watchable. Look out for Mark Gatiss and Scroobius Pip, too. John Robinson
Let It Shine
7pm, BBC1
Week two of Gary Barlow’s quest to find the next Gary Barlows to star in a musical loosely based on the career of, erm, Gary Barlow. With the able likes of Nicky, Clinton and Jason through to the next round, it’s time for Gaz, Martin Kemp, Amber Riley and Dannii Minogue to choose from a new batch of blokes. A fun spin on the talent search, and a formidable foe for ITV’s The Voice, even if Barlow’s omnipresence does occasionally verge on parody. Hannah J Davies
Ninja Warrior UK
7pm, ITV
The climax of each Ninja Warrior tournament features plucky finalists in peak physical condition tackling the skyscraper scaffolding of Mount Midoriyama. This third series is still very much in the wheat-from-chaff stages, though, which means a parade of eccentrics inexpertly tackling the introductory assault course. A man cosplaying Lara Croft, the UK’s shortest bodybuilder and a 64-year-old grandmother from Scarborough are among tonight’s hopefuls. Graeme Virtue
Imagine: Listen To Me Marlon
9pm, BBC2
Pieced together from hundreds of hours of audio diaries and home-movie footage, Stevan Riley’s award-winning 2015 documentary gives us Brando’s story in his own words – as close to the mercurial, mischievous, tragedy-riven icon as we’re likely to get. For a man so deeply ambivalent about his own craft, he doesn’t half bang on about it; finally conceding sagely that “acting is just making stuff up, but that’s OK – life is a rehearsal.” Ali Catterall
Celebrity Big Brother
10.30pm, Channel 5
If you like watching celebrities you’ve only half heard of arguing about air, water and everything in between, then CBB will be a highlight of TV’s reality-heavy schedule. This series has already seen many a desperate moment from the tetchy housemates, who appear to be playing up more than ever. Of course, for every horrific Speidi there’s a harmless but irksome Jedward or an affable Calum Best, but the overall effect is the stuff of nightmares. Hannah Verdier
The Dengineers
8.25am, CBBC
For those who think children today spend altogether too much time staring at screens, here’s hope. Dengineers, presented by Lauren Layfield and Mark Wright, follows projects to create dens, safe spaces where youngsters can, providing the home wifi extends far enough, erm, stare at screens without being nagged. This week, 11-year-old Whitney, a keen recycler who takes a bin bag everywhere she goes to collect any rubbish she encounters, wants to construct an “eco-den”. Jonathan Wright
Discovering Music
9pm, Sky Arts
This double bill first introduces us to a little Dublin group named U2, who transcended their local post-punk scene to become one of the biggest bands of the last 40 years, their epic rock coupled with the philanthropic intentions of lead singer Bono. We then learn all about the Eagles, soft rockers responsible for Hotel California. To have not yet discovered either of these bands would make you either desperately incurious or very young but, if so, this is the series for you. David Stubbs
Film choice
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(Tony Richardson, 1968) Saturday, 2.30pm, Movies4Men
Richardson’s swinging 60s account of the Battle of Balaclava in the 1854 Crimean war overruns the unquestioned valour of the cavalry charge with political satire: this is very much about horsemen being led by donkeys. David Hemmings, fresh from the success of Blow-Up, is an anachronistic presence as rebellious Captain Nolan, but it is otherwise richly, coarsely evocative, with professional crusties Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and Harry Andrews superb as the old duffers presiding over one of the greatest blunders in British military history. Paul Howlett
Red River
(Howard Hawks, 1948), 4pm, ITV4
One of the great westerns: Red River is an epic, Oedipal tale acted out on the cattle trail. John Wayne’s Dunson is an old westerner clinging to outmoded values. Only a final confrontation with his adopted son (Montgomery Clift, in a stunning debut) offers hope of redemption. It’s packed with action and colourful characters, from Walter Brennan’s toothless Groot to Joanne Dru’s tough Tess; and it’s photographed with Fordian grandeur by Russell Harlan. PH
Oblivion
(Joseph Kosinski, 2013), 9pm, Channel 4
Like humanoid WALL-Es, Tom Cruise and Andrea Riseborough are monitoring a desolate Earth, overseeing defences against alien scavengers as the human race embarks on a new life on one of Saturn’s moons. It’s a gloomy (though beautifully designed) dystopia, and derivative (Cruise is haunted by Solaris-like memories), yet it’s a curiously compelling sci-fi drama. PH
Friends With Benefits
(Will Gluck, 2011), 9pm, E4
A formulaic but fun romcom that takes a couple – sexy Manhattan execs Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis – and chucks them into a sex-without-commitment relationship, then sits back to watch wave after wave of cliches wash them towards Happy Ever After Land. Likable enough, in its manipulative way. PH
Today’s best live sport
Africa Cup Of Nations: Gabon v Guinea-Bissau, 3.45pm, Eurosport 2 The tournament gets under way.
Premier League Football: Leicester City v Chelsea, 5pm, BT Sport 1 Last year’s winners take on this year’s leaders. Spurs v West Brom is on Sky Sports 1 at 11.30am.
Boxing: Badou Jack v James DeGale, Sky Sports 1, 1.30am The WBC and IBF super middleweight titles are up for grabs in Brooklyn, New York.
