PICK OF THE WEEK

SATURDAY Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, 7.05pm) Beck: Flesh & Blood (BBC4, 9pm)

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We’re down to the final nine and, with Strictly’s annual Blackpool jolly just a fortnight away, the celebrity dancers and their partners will be desperate to avoid languishing in the bottom two and being subjected to tomorrow’s dreaded dance-off. So who will impress judges Darcey Bussell, Shirley Ballas, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood and the viewing public with their moves this week? And which couples are in danger of bidding the show a premature farewell? In tomorrow’s show, as well as the dance-off and a sensational group number from the professional dancers, there is a performance from Grammy Award-winning singer Jess Glynn.

The seventh series of the Swedish detective drama gets under way, and although Martin Beck (Peter Haber) has handed in his police badge, he hasn’t quite let go of his profession just yet. Instead, Beck is working as a consultant, with his old colleague Steiner Hovland (Kristofer Hivju) taking charge of an investigation involving two crimes thousands of miles apart. In the Middle East a man is beaten to death, while a young woman disappears on her way home from work in Stockholm. Could there be a link between the two events?

The Curse of the Kennedys (Channel 5, 9pm)

The Kennedy family have endured two assassinations, deadly plane and car crashes, as well as several other tragedies and scandals, so much so that Edward Kennedy once said he thought there may be “a curse hanging over all the Kennedys”. This two-part documentary examines the ups and downs that have engulfed the clan since they arrived in America in the mid-19th century. The first episode begins in 1849 with the first Kennedy to arrive in America. Archive material featuring Joseph P Kennedy, the patriarch of the dynasty, helps to reveal how the seeds of the family’s misfortunes were sown in the humiliation he experienced as an Irish Roman Catholic at the hands of Boston’s Protestant elite.

Killing Eve (BBC1, 9.25pm)

Villanelle’s mission proves more complicated than expected, forcing her to take desperate measures and go on the run with a hostage. Eve and Kenny confront Carolyn but get a surprise that leads them deeper into the conspiracy and into a final showdown from which nobody emerges unscathed. Final episode of the spy thriller, based on Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle novella series and adapted for television by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Starring Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw and Sean Delaney

SUNDAY Antiques Roadshow World War One Special (BBC1, 6pm)

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Etaples Military Cemetery in France, as the team discovers the personal stories behind treasured objects associated with the First World War. Among the unique items brought in are two poppies that were picked from Ypres in 1915, a tray that was made by