When Abba Got here to Britain
9.35pm, BBC Two

From bowling over Eurovision followers in Brighton to taking their hologram live performance to London almost 50 years later, right here’s a joyous oral historical past of Abba’s relationship with the UK. In addition to unheard clips from Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Benny and Björn, we meet journalists and superfans who noticed the pop magic occur – even when the band fully bombed amid British cynicism after Eurovision … till SOS. Hollie Richardson

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Evening Takeaway
7pm, ITV1

Within the combine this week are Take That and Lenny Rush of Am I Being Unreasonable? fame – however the massive occasion is I’m a Superstar … Get Out of Me Ear: the Revenge, the place the hosts are pressured to do pranks by Alison Hammond, Dermot O’Leary, Craig David, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell. Jack Seale

Bettany Hughes’ Treasures of the World
7pm, Channel 4

One other of the professor’s jaunts: on this new sequence, she’s traversing Albania’s Adriatic coast, following within the footsteps of Julius Caesar. First, she hears the story of Albania’s most well-known freedom fighter and joins a crew who’re diving into the freezing Lake Ohrid in quest of historic secrets and techniques. Phil Harrison

Pointless Celebrities
7.45pm, BBC One

Former Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts took bronze in Dancing on Ice final month however can she and fiancee Kate Holderness win a Pointless Celebrities gold? Different pairs hoping to bag the trivia title embody a double-act of comics (Dave Gorman and Jarred Christmas) and a two-man England rugby crew (Matt Dawson and Martin Bayfield). Graeme Advantage

Our Dream Farm With Matt Baker
8pm, Channel 4

The Nationwide Belief is on the lookout for landlords to tackle a 10-year lease of Wallington Property in Northumberland – and Matt Baker helps to select from seven candidates. First, he must put them by way of their paces: how will they get on with making maternity sheds for 60 ewes throughout lambing season? HR

The Jonathan Ross Present
9.35pm, ITV1

Lulu is about to go on her last tour after 60 years within the enterprise – however first she stops off in Ross’s studio for a chat. They’re joined by Michael Palin, who simply went on a Himalayan journey for BBC 4, boxing star Anthony Joshua and comic Laura Smyth. Music comes from Jungle. HR

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Movie selection

The Blair Witch Venture, 10pm, BBC Three

The Blair Witch Venture on BBC Three {Photograph}: Pathe/Allstar

We’re about so far as we are able to get from Halloween, however there’s a robust argument that that is one of the best ways to expertise The Blair Witch Venture. Hyped past all sense of itself on launch in 1999, the movie nonetheless retains the flexibility to shock and shock in equal measure. The movie’s last third specifically, the place a cacophony of offscreen noises pile up past all cheap expectations, remains to be some of the scary issues ever dedicated to display screen. Maybe the one strategy to expertise the purity of that second once more is to by chance stumble throughout it in the course of the Easter holidays. Who is aware of? Stuart Heritage

Reside sport

Premier League Soccer: Crystal Palace v Man Metropolis, 11am, TNT Sports activities 1
Adopted by Brighton v Arsenal at 5pm on Sky Sports activities Predominant Occasion.
Champions Cup Rugby: Exeter Chiefs v Bathtub Rugby, 2.30pm, TNT Sports activities 2
Bordeaux Bègles v Saracens at 5.15pm, and Leinster Rugby v Leicester Tigers at 7.45pm.

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