Top TV Picks
Strictly Come Dancing BBC One, Saturday
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present the launch of this year’s Strictly, joined in the ballroom by 12 brand new celebrity contestants, and judges Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood and Shirley Ballas. As well as revealing this year’s pairings, the show features two spectacular group routines from the Strictly professionals, a very special music performance from Joel Corry and MNEK, and the return of reigning champion Kelvin Fletcher.
Roadkill
BBC One, Sunday
Celebrating his win in a newspaper libel case, cabinet minister Peter Laurence is summoned to Downing Street to see PM Dawn Ellison, who reveals she is looking to promote him to an office of state.
However, he is soon bought back to earth with a bump when his special adviser Duncan Knock reveals an inmate in a women's prison is claiming to have a secret about his past.
The Greatest Showman Channel 4, Saturday
After losing his job as a bank clerk, PT Barnum creates and develops his circus in New York in the mid-1800s with the help of playwright Phillip Carlyle and an adopted family of entertainers shunned by society.
Starring Zac Efron, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams and Zendaya.
The Shining
BBC 2, Saturday
An aspiring writer takes a caretaking job at a remote mountain hotel. It has closed for the winter, and he has been hired to get the place ready for the next season. But evil spirits haunting its corridors destroy his sanity, causing the unhinged author to rampage through the hotel and terrorise his wife and young son.
Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson
BBC Two, Sunday
A look at those who resisted slavery, including the famous Underground Railroad and freedom boats that helped runaway slaves to escape to the safety of Canada, using a network of safe houses to make the perilous journey north. Plus the influence of famous freedom fighter Harriet Tubman and the black soldiers who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Detroit
BBC Two, Sunday
A group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with apparent retribution rather than justice in mind, launching a raid on a group of African-Americans. Public anger reaches a peak after the incident, as relationships sour with authority.