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

TV tonight: Damilola Taylor remembered as a childhood friend

Yinka Bokinni remembers her friend in Damilola: The Boy Next Door.
Yinka Bokinni remembers her friend in Damilola: The Boy Next Door. Photograph: Des Willie/Channel 4

Damilola: The Boy Next Door
9pm, Channel 4

Making something uplifting and redemptive out of an event as crushingly bleak as the 2000 killing of Damilola Taylor takes some doing. But Yinka Bokinni just about manages it here as she recalls Damilola as a boisterous childhood friend rather than the symbol he became. There is an interesting wider story, too: the killing was followed by the bulldozing of the North Peckham estate – and the forced dispersal of the largely happy community who lived there. Phil Harrison

Ambulance
9pm, BBC One

Another frantic dispatch from the emergency services: here, a Saturday night in London involves fielding a call for an ambulance every 11 seconds. As well as strokes, cancer side-effects and people falling down stairs, once again we see neglected mental health having horrific consequences. Jack Seale

Harlots
9pm, BBC Two

Against a backdrop of heaving cleavage, massive hair and hard work, the action continues. Charlotte gets revenge on Isaac Pincher (Alfie Allen) after he burned down her house. And a striptease on horseback doubles as a diversion for Lucy (Eloise Smyth) as she collaborates with the fabulous Elizabeth (Angela Griffin, owning every scene she is in). Hannah Verdier

Blindspot
9pm, Sky Witness

The slick, daft procedural, starring Jaimie Alexander as an amnesiac whose tattoos contain clues to terrorist plots, reaches its fifth and final season. In the aftermath of a deadly drone strike, our off-the-grid heroes must snatch their flirty frenemy Rich Dotcom from a CIA black site. Graeme Virtue

The Noughties
10pm, BBC Two

This nostalgia-fest hits 2001, which means the first Harry Potter film and a particularly juicy EastEnders storyline. Whether this self-consciously lighthearted series will decide to studiously ignore 9/11 remains to be seen. Angela Scanlon welcomes Amol Rajan and Emma Barnett as this week’s contributors. PH

Zara McFarlane in Sing it Loud: Black and Proud.
Zara McFarlane in Sing it Loud: Black and Proud. Photograph: Channel 4

Sing It Loud: Black and Proud
11.10pm, Channel 4

A treat for anyone missing live music as Maya Jama presents a celebration of Black History Month from Ronnie Scott’s. Young jazz musicians including Zara McFarlane, Poppy Ajudha and Reuben James interpret black protest anthems from the likes of Nina Simone. PH

Film choice

What a nightmare … Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence in Mother!
What a nightmare … Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence in Mother! Photograph: Allstar/Protozoa Pictures Photograph: Allstar/PROTOZOA PICTURES

Mother! 1.15am, Film4
In a big old house, Jennifer Lawrence’s mum-to-be lives in edgy seclusion with Javier Bardem’s angsty poet. But the arrival of invasive strangers Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer unleashes a steadily escalating chaos. A fiery madness rages through Darren Aronofsky’s surreally violent nightmare of a movie. Paul Howlett

Live Sport

Cycling: Vuelta a España 1.40pm, Eurosport 1. Stage eight, from Logroño to Alto de Moncalvillo.

Champions League football: Krasnodar v Chelsea 5.55pm, Sky Sports 3. A Group E match against the Russian side.

Champions League football: Manchester United v RB Leipzig 7pm, BT Sport 2. A Group H tie from Old Trafford.

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