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Graeme Virtue, Jonathan Wright, Mike Bradley, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett

Saturday's best TV: WOS Wrestling; Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the Border

WOS Wrestling.
WOS Wrestling. Photograph: ITV

WOS Wrestling

5pm, ITV

After a pilot in 2016, here’s a full 10-part resurrection of the vintage ITV grappling franchise, which swaps smoke-filled leisure centres and Dickie Davis raising a quizzical eyebrow for some family-friendly US-style razzamatazz. The panto posturing is at least as important as the chest-slapping combat, so the friction between reigning champ Grado – a portly but charismatic Scot – and snide new chairman Stu Bennett is played to the hilt, while 36st masked man-mountain Crater is a supremely boo-able baddie. Graeme Virtue

A Year in the New Forest

7pm, Channel 4

Undemanding new documentary series charting rural life begins in the autumn, when poisonous acorns are a hazard to cattle if the animals are allowed to roam free. Time to release the acorn-proof pigs instead. Elsewhere, expect rutting red deer, rare bog orchids and coppicing. Jonathan Wright

My Family and the Galapagos

8pm, Channel 4

Who wouldn’t fancy a three-month stay in the Galapagos Islands? Marine biologist Monty Halls and family set off for the remote Pacific archipelago where, worryingly, he finds that the plague of plastic waste has started to wash up on its pristine shores. A clarion call to stop polluting our seas. Mike Bradley

Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the Border

9pm, BBC Two

The comedian takes a 2,000-mile road trip along the US-Mexico border to investigate how music transcends a line drawn in the sand – in this case an iron fence that one musician manages to play as an instrument. Tex-Mex, mariachi music and hip-hop all feature. Postponed from 14 July. MB

Megastructures

9pm, National Geographic

A visit to the Arabic-inspired Louvre Abu Dhabi, a sci-fi-style building that gives the illusion of a “museum in the sea” and houses more than 400 masterpieces – among them works by Matisse, Van Gogh, Magritte, Gauguin and Leonardo da Vinci. As a structure, it’s arguably a stunning work of art in its own right. MB

Stewart Lee: Content Provider

10.45pm, BBC Two

Denouncing Brexit, selfie culture and himself (“I’m coming to despise the character of Stewart Lee”), the standup’s standup du jour imparts wisdom in this April 2018 set, on a stage constructed from budget DVDs of other comics’ live shows. Less a comedian than a bleak prophet in his own time. Ali Catterall

Film Choice

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas.
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas 1.40am, BBC Two

Mads Mikkelsen is a horse-dealer who turns to violent retribution when his wife is killed by arrogant nobles in 16th-century France. This adaptation of a 19th-century German novella is beautifully shot and gripping, and Mikkelsen proves very good at smouldering vengeance. Paul Howlett

Today’s best live sport

Cycling: Tour de France,10.45am, ITV4
Stage 20 of the race, an individual time-trial between Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle and Espelette.

T20 Blast Cricket: Durham Jets v Nottinghamshire Outlaws, 2pm, Sky Sports Cricket
North Division clash.

Boxing: Dillian Whyte v Joseph Parker, 6pm, Sky Box Office
Heavyweight bout.

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