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Entertainment
Phil Harrison, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: A big money gameshow takes its bow

Stephen Mulhern brings the banter in Rolling In It.
Stephen Mulhern brings the banter in Rolling In It. Photograph: Rachel Joseph/ITV

Rolling in It
6.25pm, ITV

Many gameshow formats are called but few are chosen. So what will be the fate of this new primetime Stephen Mulhern vehicle? The format sounds pretty daft but also a recipe for big-money wins, plenty of artificial tension and endless banter: members of the public team up with celebrities to play what’s essentially a large-scale and high-stakes game of shove-ha’penny. But then, daftness hasn’t always been a hindrance to Saturday teatime TV success, so who knows? Phil Harrison

Wild Cats of India: Super Predators
6pm, Nat Geo Wild

Stealthy, sneaky or shy: India’s big old predators come in many forms. This new series sees Malaika Vaz and Sandesh Kadur follow snow leopards, tigers and many more. Kadur is overcome when he gets the perfect shot of a clouded leopard and Vaz talks to local conservationists. Hannah Verdier

Total Wipeout: Freddie & Paddy Takeover
7.10pm, BBC One

In this thrifty new series, Top Gear’s Flintoff and McGuinness squirt voiceover Febreze on to old episodes of the assault course show. There’s banter to spare but the real joy comes from seeing fired-up hopefuls ricochet off oversized obstacles into the drink. Graeme Virtue

Meghan & Harry: The New Revelations

9pm, Channel 5

The paparazzi have followed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the US in the name of public-interest journalism. But the focus of this doc is Finding Freedom, the book by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, which claims to tell Harry and Meghan’s side of the story for the first time. PH

The Last Wave
9pm, BBC Four

A final double bill for the Lost/Leftovers/OA-ish French drama about a small seaside resort being menaced by a weird cloud. At first, Brizan seems to be getting back to normal. But the cloud is spotted, respiratory problems spread and, soon, it is time for the townsfolk to don wetsuits and face a salty reckoning. Jack Seale

The Kingmaker

9pm, Sky Documentaries

She is best known for abandoning 3,000 pairs of shoes when she fled the Philippines in 1986. But Imelda Marcos was more than just a pair of lavishly accommodated feet: this documentary suggests that she was a sharp political operator too, albeit one with a frequently tenuous grasp on reality. PH

Film Choice

Joker 12.15pm; 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Funny guy… Joaquin Phoenix in Joker.
Funny guy… Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. Photograph: Allstar

Despite the title you’ll waste your time looking for laughs in Todd Phillips’s origins-of-a-supervillain gloomfest. In a rotten, rat-infested Gotham, Joaquin Phoenix’s disturbed wannabe standup Arthur Fleck soaks up abuse and humiliation, his inner pain manifesting as a deranged cackle. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Snooker: The World Championship 10am, BBC Two The morning session on day nine at the Crucible.

Test Cricket: England v Pakistan 10.30am, Sky Sports Cricket The fourth day’s play of the first Test, from Old Trafford.

Champions League Football: Bayern Munich v Chelsea 7pm, BT Sport 1 From Allianz Arena.

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