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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hannah VerdierSharon O'ConnellAndrew MuellerJonathan WrightJack SealeAli CatterallBen ArnoldPaul Howlett

Saturday’s best TV: The Voice UK Final; Follow the Money finale

The Voice
The Voice Photograph: Tom Dymond/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

The Voice UK
8.30pm, ITV

Who will be this year’s Kevin Simm? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips tonight as The Voice reaches its final. Although the winner gets a record deal, pop superstardom doesn’t necessarily beckon. Still, it has been a good series in terms of coaches, warmth and entertaining moments. For the big finale, J-Hud’s Mo and Jamie face down Tom Jones’s boybandish duo Into the Ark and Will.i.am’s Michelle while Gavin Rossdale sobs into his Bush back catalogue. Hannah Verdier

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
7pm, ITV

In the penultimate episode of the series, Dermot O’Leary joins the light-ent imps for the I’m a Celebrity, Get Out of Me Ear segment, in which the pair command him to cause botheration in a public place – namely, a supermarket. Alongside the pranks, surprise stunts and giveaways, another Singalong Live! – ie post-everything, multi-link-up karaoke with a throwback musical guest. As garlic is to vampires, so SNT is to cynics. Sharon O’Connell

Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands
8pm, BBC2

Paul Murton concludes his series on Scotland’s islands by visiting destinations that are remote, abandoned, unserviced and, in some instances, forgotten by map-makers – although, extraordinarily, inhabited within living memory. He begins on Heisker, AKA the Monach Islands, and finishes on North Rona. It is exquisitely soporific viewing, the narration and the people encountered almost incidental to the glorious photography. Andrew Mueller

Follow the Money
9pm, BBC4

The Danish financial crime drama concludes with a double bill that begins with Alf, following his assault by the Swede, being rushed to hospital. Elsewhere, Claudia drops off documents at Mads’s house, unaware she’s being followed. Absalon’s investment pushes it to the edge of bankruptcy, and the audacious purpose of Christensen’s dealings finally becomes clear. A much better second series than the first – tense, pacy and blessed with memorable characters. Jonathan Wright

All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.15pm, BBC1

Brendan O’Carroll continues his alter ego’s move into Saturday-night variety, having squashed The Voice in the ratings last week. Such a loose comedy hasn’t had to adapt much: the audience now step through that broken fourth wall to win white goods, while the Mrs Merton/Kumars bits demonstrate that those innuendos don’t need to be scripted. Tonight’s stooges are Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby and Kaiser Chiefs. Jack Seale

The Story of the Jam: About the Young Idea
9pm, Sky Arts

It’s hard to think of another outfit whose deeply political songs had nine-year-olds jumping around to them in the way the Jam did. But then few groups, save the Clash perhaps, seemed possessed of such energy, such grim focus and such extraordinary lyrics from one so young; Weller evoking both the romanticism of Shelley and the crusading zeal of Dickens or Tom Paine. All recounted here in a decent profile of this most furiously English of bands. Ali Catterall

Scorpion
7pm, ITV2

It’s another day at the office for high-tech threat repellent team Scorpion when they’re tasked with heading to Greenland to help protect the world’s backup food supply from a computer malfunction at a seed bank. But things start to go wrong when Happy, Sylvester and Cabe get trapped in one of the high-humidity store rooms and begin experiencing life-threatening psychotic hallucinations. It’s every bit as daft as it sounds, and a little bit more. Ben Arnold

Film choice

Populaire, (Régis Roinsard, 2012), 11.35pm, BBC2
Sweet Normandy country girl Rose (Déborah François) goes to town, where her handsome new boss Louis (Romain Duris) quickly spots her talent for speed-typing. Before you know it, she’s a national sensation, and headed for the New York world championship, while friend Marie (Bérénice Bejo) edges her closer to Louis. Writer-director Roinsard’s debut is a pithy, slightly cheesy homage to 1950s American cinema, in all its Technicolor, incessantly cigarette-puffing, sharply suited glory. Paul Howlett

A Field in England, (Ben Wheatley, 2013), 12.30am, Film4

A FIELD IN ENGLAND
It’s a period drama like no other … A Field in England. Photograph: Rook films/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Free Fire director Ben Wheatley’s psychedelic English civil war drama got an innovative simultaneous multimedia release at the cinema, on download, TV and DVD. And what a weird and creepy thing it is: shot in monochrome, it’s set entirely in a field where a bunch of deserters fall under the spell of saturnine sorcerer Michael Smiley after eating magic mushrooms. It’s a period drama like no other. Paul Howlett

Dead Calm, (Phillip Noyce, 1989), 2.20am, Sky Cinema Greats
Dead Calm established Australian director Noyce – and his star Nicole Kidman – in Hollywood. A healing voyage for grieving couple Sam Neill and Kidman, whose baby son has died in a car crash, becomes a nightmare when smooth-talking psycho Billy Zane comes aboard. Soon Neill is trapped on a sinking boat and Kidman is fighting for her life. Convincingly played, and the shock waves keep coming. Sailing hasn’t been this dangerous since Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Rugby Challenge Cup: Bath v Brive Coverage of the quarter-final from the Recreation Ground. 12noon, BT Sport 2

Premier League Football: Liverpool v Everton Merseyside bragging rights up for grabs at Anfield. 12.30pm, Sky Sports 1

Super League Rugby: Catalans Dragons v Wakefield Trinity The top-flight encounter at the Stade Gilbert Brutus. 4.55pm, Sky Sports 3

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