Friday

Pick of the day: Celebrity I Literally Just Told You

10pm, Channel 4

Jimmy Carr is not everybody’s cup of tea (to put it mildly) but there’s no doubt that this memory game has an enjoyably original format to it. To recap in Carr’s words: “It’s the only game show dumb enough to give you the answers.” Pay close attention, in other words. This is the celebrity version, if you count Chico Slimani as a celebrity, which Carr doesn’t. His customary comic roasts also take swipes at daytime TV, the Bristol accent of This Morning presenter Josie Gibson and fellow guest Jonathan Ross’s age. Joining them are Rylan Clark and Oti Mabuse – the latter finally getting off her phone to join in the fun.

Wimbledon 2024

2pm, BBC One

Clare Balding presents the action from day 12 of the grass-court tournament from the All England Club, including the men’s singles semi-finals. Novak Djokovic secured a place in his fifth successive Wimbledon final and his ninth overall at this stage last year. Also scheduled to take place today are the women’s doubles semi-finals.

Today at the Test

7pm, BBC Four

It’s not all about tennis and football, and the summer of sport continues at Lord’s. Sky Sports has the full live coverage of England versus the West Indies, but for non-subscribers, here are the third day’s best bits. England have not lost a Test series to the Windies on home soil since 1988 and will be favourites to prevail once again. They did, however, lose the last series between the teams in the Caribbean in March 2022, so will not take their opponents lightly.

The Sommerdahl Murders

9pm, More4

Another feature-length case for the Danish cop trio of DCI Dan Sommerdahl (Peter Mygind), his forensics-expert wife Marianne (Laura Drasbaek) and her admirer Detective Flemming (André Babikian). Dan and Flemming investigate when a real estate developer is electrocuted in his spa bath. As they wade through his business entanglements, they discover evidence of affairs and a missing employee. Meanwhile, Dan asks Flemming advice on winning Marianne back. Mmm… Conflicting.

Dolly Parton: Here I Am

10pm, BBC Four

“I look bizarre and artificial but I’m totally real inside,” says Dolly Parton as the country music legend gives extensive access to her life and thoughts in this feature-length documentary from Francis Whately, the Bafta-winning director of the David Bowie: Five Years trilogy. “You underestimate Dolly at your peril,” adds Jane Fonda, one of the fans interviewed here. It’s part of an evening on BBC Four dedicated to Parton that culminates in her 2014 appearance on the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival.

South Park: The End Of Obesity

10.45pm, Comedy Central

The latest South Park special centres on portly Cartman’s quest to get hold of the weight-loss drug Ozempic, and the obstacles created by a lack of funds. Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s morbidly obese cartoon character cannot afford the $1,200 a month it costs for someone without diabetes. As Cartman puts it: “Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity.” And South Park wouldn’t be South Park without ribbing a famous person – the body-positive rap artist Lizzo, who is referenced as an Ozempic alternative.

Saturday

Changing Ends

9pm and 9.30pm, ITV1

Alan Carr’s charming semi-biographical comedy returns, picking up shortly after the first series as young Alan (Oliver Savell) contends with puberty and feeling sidelined by his family (“My life stank”) in 1987. With Graham Carr (Shaun Dooley, always good) distracted by managing Northampton Town FC and battling for promotion, can he be there for his son when he most needs him? At least the 11-year-old Alan enjoys watching the wrestler Big Daddy on a Saturday (“Wish he wouldn’t bend over when I’m eating my pancake”).

Wimbledon 2024

1.15pm, BBC One

Seventh seed Jasmine Paolini, who had never won a match here before July, overcame Donna Vekic in two hours and 41 minutes – the longest ever women’s semi-final – to become the first Italian woman to reach a Wimbledon final. She will play Czech 31st seed Barbora Krejcikova, who overcame 2022 champ Elena Rybakina in her semi.

End of Summer

9pm and 9.50pm, BBC Four

This tense, slow-burning Swedish thriller continues as we start back in 1984 after the fallout from the disappearance of five-year-old Billy. Twenty years later, the boy’s older sister, Vera (Julia Ragnarsson), a psychologist, meets up with her brutal uncle, Harald (Torkel Petersson), to discuss where Billy, whose body was never found, was held captive. However, Vera is soon in deep trouble. Can shifty Isak help her – and does he hold the key to the mystery?

Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story

9pm, Sky Documentaries

This riveting docuseries, which tells the story of New York City’s Run-DMC and their influence on music, fashion and culture, begins with the hip-hop pioneers – Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell – meeting on the streets of Queens in 1983 before introducing their trademark music and swagger to the world: “Because it’s like that, and that’s the way it is…”

High Country

9.10pm and 10.20pm, BBC One

“You’re so going to love it here, this is God’s country,” claims a perky waitress – but “outsider” (aren’t they always) detective Andie (Leah Purcell), who has transferred from Melbourne to a remote alpine location in Victoria, isn’t having a blast thus far. Three bodies are missing and her teenage stepdaughter (Pez Warner) loathes her new home. The dialogue is a tad clichéd – “Nobody knows this country like he does…” – but the setting is sensational (there are lots of overhead drone shots to show it off) and Ian McElhinney is good value as a gruff retiring sergeant in this by-numbers Australian crime drama.

Paddy and Molly: Show No Mersey

11pm, BBC Three

“I really hope it’s not long-term damage…” says Paddy “The Baddy” Pimblett, who is hoping to return to mixed martial arts fighting in July. “I’ve got a queue of lightweights wanting to punch my face,” he admits. Meanwhile, Paddy’s best mate and fellow MMA fighter, “Meatball” Molly McCann, is engaged and is “dying to get married in Liverpool”, but her partner prefers Italy. Molly is nervous about the first dance at the wedding and talks about the homophobia she has suffered in the past.

Sunday

Pick of the day: Live Uefa Euro 2024

6.30pm, ITV1/7pm, BBC One

And so, after a slow start (and a slow middle), England have made it to the final, where they face an exuberant Spain. England showed in their semi-final against the Netherlands that they have it in them to play scintillating football – but can they bring it home?

Wimbledon 2024

1pm, BBC One

The first major sports final of the day should be over before football’s big event. Hopefully, this contest will be more like the underdog Arthur Ashe beating Jimmy Connors in 1975 than Roger Federer thrashing unfortunate Marin Cilic back in 2017.

The Turkish Detective

9pm, BBC Two

More Istanbul sleuthing with wily, eccentric Inspector Cetin Ikmen (Haluk Bilginer) and his newest recruit Mehmet Suleyman (Ethan Kai). The duo investigate the murder of a rap music promoter from a well-heeled background, killed in a drive-by. It’s a watchable fish-out-of-water cop show with a compelling central turn from Bilginer, who played serial womaniser Mehmet Osman in EastEnders many soap affairs ago.

Karl Jenkins: The Composer Behind the Moustache

9.20pm, BBC Four

Celebrating the life and work of the composer, with a look at his time as a member of the jazz-rock band Soft Machine. Featuring footage from throughout Jenkins’ career to give insight into the many influences on his music, from the Methodist hymn-singing of his Welsh chapel upbringing to his recent commission of a saxophone concerto for Jess Gillam.

Ibiza Narcos

10pm, Sky Showcase/Sky Documentaries

“I didn’t really fancy ending up in a Spanish nick,” explains one drug mule, who reckons he brought approximately 100,000 ecstasy tablets into Ibiza. An unsavoury look at how British police clamping down on the illegal rave scene led to promoters and drug dealers seeing an opportunity to continue the party on Ibiza.

BBC Proms 2016: Verdi Requiem

10.20pm, BBC Four

Marin Alsop conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the BBC Proms Youth Choir in Verdi’s “Requiem”. The work had its British premiere in 1875, with the composer holding the baton. Its fire and brimstone depiction of death and destruction never fails to appeal, most famously of all in the tumultuous “Dies Irae”. Tom Service introduces the performance and also talks to Alsop backstage. The soloists are soprano Tamara Wilson, mezzo Alisa Kolosova, tenor Dimitri Pittas and bass Morris Robinson.

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

10.30pm and 11.10pm, BBC Three

Emma Myers’ amateur sleuth gets a note saying “Stop digging, Pippa” – but there’s no way she will, as the driven teenager delves deeper into the disappearance of 17-year-old Andie Bell, which has haunted the pretty Sussex town of Little Kilton for five years. Pip and Ravi (Zain Iqbal), who are now very much a team, turn their attention to Andie’s best friends, Nat and Emma, and find out Andie had a secret life that Sal was unhappy about. An enjoyable crime caper.