REDKNAPP’S BIG NIGHT OUT CHER & THE LONELIEST ELEPHANT

Sky One, 10pm Smithsonian Channel, 8pm

There’s a slight danger of overplaying the loveable rogue Redknapp brand, but we’ll spare time to give this latest show a shot.

Jamie, right, and his dad Harry, plus best mate comedian Tom Davis are back together after last year’s lockdown show Redknapp’s Home Fixture.

Billed as a ‘topical sports-comechat show’, we’ve been promised the trio will give their take not only on the footballing world (on which there is a LOT to talk about), but also chat to celebs from the showbiz, comedy and of course sporting worlds. Oh and there are musical performances too, because well why not, and time has been carved out for Harry’s infamous anecdotes. It will be football-focused of course, but plenty of non football fans love the Redknapps.

We’re sure that if Cher could turn back time, she would have wanted to save ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ Kavaan from a lifetime of misery much sooner. But the big-hearted superstar, with a passion for animals, used her global status to ultimately free Kavaan, pictured, and this film follows the journey to get there.

Held captive for 35 years in squalid conditions in a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, Kavaan also lost his only companion in 2012 when his fellow elephant died of gangrene.

“You could just feel his grief,” says Dr Samar Khan, a vet who discovered Kavaan and started a social media campaign. The campaign reached Cher, who called her friend Mark Cowne, and they have since co-founded the Free The Wild charity.