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Hannah Verdier, Ben Arnold, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Andrew Mueller, Jack Seale, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

Saturday’s best TV: The Voice UK: Live Final; Britain’s Most Historic Towns

The Voice UK
The Voice UK Photograph: Rachel Joseph/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

The Voice UK: Live Final

8.30pm, ITV

Only the public vote can determine who will win The Voice, but the coaches are doing everything they can to whip up the excitement around their remaining acts. The live final sees Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones, Will.i.am and Olly Murs performing together like the world’s most mismatched Black Eyed Peas tribute act. As for the winner, they will get a deal with Polydor and the chance to be paraded out when the show returns next year. Or maybe even a shot at pop superstardom, eh? Hannah Verdier

New You’ve Been Framed!

6.30pm, ITV

Harry Hill provides his finest abstract commentary to another crop of home video howlers. This week, there’s a disgruntled camel smashing a car window, an out-of-control speedboat causing a road traffic accident and a drummer getting clattered by a crucifix in true Spinal Tap style. Ben Arnold

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

7pm, ITV

Following the well-received Merchant and Dec double act last week, Donnelly departs for Orlando and a US-based finale. Despite ITV pouring cold water on rumours of a surprise stand-in making an appearance, guests Craig David and Denise Richards should ensure Dec doesn’t get too lonely. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Britain’s Most Historic Towns

8pm, Channel 4

Professor Alice Roberts begins a new series surveying Britain’s more evocative rubble by visiting Chester. The city’s Roman history is well-trodden, but Roberts explores a new theory – that Rome intended Chester to be not just the capital of occupied Britain, but a staging post for a conquest of Ireland. Andrew Mueller

Below the Surface

9pm, BBC Four

The Danish hostage thriller concludes in a way that’s more sad than exciting, since there’s a very Nordic trade-off in which all the characters are given sympathy and a degree of closure at the expense of some spectacle. The final negotiations do, however, bring the odd jolt of life-or-death tension. Jack Seale

Troy: Fall of a City

9.10pm, BBC One

This lavish adaptation of Homer’s The Iliad (co-producers Netflix must have sprung for some of that £16m budget) reaches its horse-shaped conclusion tonight. The Greek army is nowhere to be seen and so the Trojans begin celebrating. A little prematurely, it turns out. No! Don’t look it in the mouth! Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Legend 9pm, Channel 4

Tom Hardy in Legend.
Tom Hardy in Legend. Photograph: Guardian

Adapted from John Pearson’s The Profession of Violence, this account of the Krays in their pomp, running West End clubland and dealing with the mafia, is a brash and violent drama. Raising it above standard Brit gangster fare are Tom Hardy’s muscular performances as both the unstable Ron and altogether smarter Reg. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Premiership Rugby Union: Bath v Leicester Tigers Action from Twickenham. 1.30pm, Channel 5

Premier League Football: Manchester City v Manchester United Can City clinch the title at home to their Manc derby rivals? 5.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Golf: The Masters The third day from Augusta. 7.30pm, BBC Two

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