On TV tonight, Lee Mack hosts a new quiz show, The 1% Club, on ITV, he's also in the final of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, as the Star Guest Announcer also on ITV. There's some great music and archive footage in documentary, Rock Family Trees: The Birth of Cool Britannia on BBC Two and it's a big day for Rosie in Casualty on BBC One. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss on TV tonight.
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What's on TV tonight
Our expert TV journalists have picked the best things on TV tonight...
Best TV shows on TV tonight
The 1% Club, 8.30pm, ITV
If your general knowledge isn’t up to scratch but you enjoy a good brain-teaser, you’ll love this quiz with quick-fire comedian Lee Mack as host. One hundred studio contestants must answer questions correctly or be eliminated. The further they get, the trickier the questions, and in order to win the £100,000 prize, they must answer a question only one per cent of the country would get right. A fun format and great for all ages at home to play along with, but with just 30 seconds to come up with the right answers, prepare to have your brain tied up in knots.
★★★★★ TL
Rock Family Trees: The Birth of Cool Britannia, 10.15pm, BBC Two
If your memory of British music in the 1990s starts and ends with the Blur/Oasis chart battle, this documentary fleshes out the story of the beginnings of Britpop in the early 1990s, when home-grown guitar bands began singing in their own accents about distinctly British things. Suede, Blur, Elastica, Pulp and Oasis are among the bands who changed the face of music, and this is followed by Top of the Pops: Blur (11.15pm) and Suede: A Little Later (11.45pm).
★★★ JP
Casualty, 8.35pm, BBC One
Alarm bells have been ringing and red flags waving for nurse Marty since he hitched his heart to social worker Adi, and tonight he can ignore them no more. Adi reveals that he’s due to become a father! Does Adi take Marty aside to quietly and privately break the news? Nope! He reveals it in the ED, while surrogate mother Jessica is doubled over in pain and about to go for a scan. Meanwhile, it’s judgement day for Paula (the superb Rosie Jones). Flanked by Jan and Dylan, can she convince stern Judge Tomlins to let her have custody of her daughter Ena?
★★★★ ER
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7pm, ITV
It's the final Takeaway and that means Ant & Dec will be going all out to end the current series with as much madness and mayhem as they can muster. Comedian Lee Mack is the Star Guest Announcer, there's an edge-of-your-seat end to Ant v Dec and dancer Oti Mabuse is the star of a madcap I'm a Celebrity Get Out of Me Ear. Plus, it's the final instalment of Polter Guys and another member of the audience gets the chance to not just watch the ads but win them.
★★★★ JL
Best box set to watch on TV tonight
The Split, seasons 1–3, BBC iPlayer
The brilliantly overwrought Stern-Defoe clan are back for an explosive third and final series, and it was worth the wait! Available in full on the BBC iPlayer, seasons 1 and 2 (six episodes each) are also there if you’ve missed this gem of a drama and want to catch up. Season 3 begins as Hannah (Nicola Walker) and Nathan (Stephen Mangan) are tiptoeing carefully through a ‘good’ divorce, although Hannah isn’t quite ready to say farewell. However, a revelation – at one of the most awkward dinners we’ve ever witnessed! – will ensure friction for the weeks ahead. With secrets and angst also bubbling away for Hannah’s sisters Rose and Nina, the drama’s trademark mix of tears and wry humour is firmly in evidence, but get ready for some epic, life-changing curveballs.
Best film to watch on TV today
The Favourite, 9.15pm, C4
Film-maker Yorgos Lanthimos takes all the caustic, blackly humorous elements he’s known for and rearranges them to create a sublime off-kilter period drama. Loosely based on real history, this tells of the incredible sway and control Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), had over Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and her court in the early 1700s. Then Anne switches favour to Sarah’s impoverished cousin (Emma Stone)… It’s a glorious, often hilarious tale packed with the rude and the ribald, but it’s also capable of pathos, elevated to brilliance by a rapier script and some astonishing acting.
Live Sport
- Horse Racing: The Grand National, 4.30pm, ITV
- Women's Six Nations, England vs Wales, 4.30pm (k-o 4.45pm), BBC Two
- Premier League, Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur, 5pm (k-o 5.30pm), Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
- Golf: The Masters, 8pm, Sky Sports Main Event/NOW
If you watch just one thing on TV tonight…
Don't miss The 1% Club on TV tonight – test your general knowledge as comedian Lee Mack hosts.
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Happy viewing!
