Tonight

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Sand job, eh? Ha, ha and indeed, ha again. If the embarrassingly puerile humour is not enough to drive wavering viewers away from Clarkson, Hammond and May’s exhausted shtick, the ludicrous running time should finish the job.

Clocking in at two-and-a-quarter hours, it’s as bloated as Clarkson’s belly, which is now so massive it probably has its own agent. The trio drive sports cars across the Sahara Desert. You know the rest.

SNOOPY PRESENTS: WELCOME HOME, FRANKLIN

Apple TV+

The 51st special based on the comic strip Peanuts — whose enduring appeal baffles a lot of non-Americans — gives Franklin, the original strip’s first black character, introduced in 1968, a revised origin story. The new kid in town, he’s finding it difficult to make friends.

HERE WE GO

BBC1, 8pm

Old-fashioned family sitcom. This week’s shenanigans revolve around trainee policeman Paul signing up to a five-a-side football team, despite not knowing the first thing about the sport, and receiving a Valentine’s card from a mystery admirer.

EXTRAORDINARY EXTENSIONS

Channel 4, 8pm

We get Dermot Bannon, who loves glass, Channel 4 viewers get the multitalented Tinie Tempah, who’s aghast when a couple want to add a modernist glass extension to their Victorian home. Last in the current run.

GOGGLEBOX

Channel 4, 9pm

New season of a series that’s still as fresh as fish on a Friday after more than a decade on television. It’s recorded too close to transmission to know what the regulars have been watching.

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

BBC1, 10.40pm

Celebrity guest line-ups don’t come any more mix and match than this week’s: Jodie Foster, Olivia Colman, Wanda Sykes, Lorraine Kelly, Austin Butler and Josh Brolin. Calvin Harris and Rag’n’Bone Man perform their new single together.

AMITYVILLE: AN ORIGIN STORY

BBC2, 11.05pm & 11.55pm

Final two episodes of the documentary series. The story reaches the bit we all know: the Lutzs’ book, the film adaptation, the accusations that they’d made the whole thing up, and the lucrative movie and TV industry of sequels, prequels, remakes and rip-offs that resulted.

Saturday 17

PETE DOHERTY: STRANGER IN MY OWN SKIN

Sky Documentaries, 9pm

Authorised documentaries about troubled pop stars tend to be, to put it mildly, selective about what they cover — and few pop stars come more troubled than Doherty.

Don’t expect the whole, unvarnished truth from this feature-length offering, made by Doherty’s wife Katia deVidas. Her camera follows him as he attends rehab for his addictions and tries to reignite his creativity.

THE MASKED SINGER

Virgin Media 1, 7.20pm

The remaining three mystery singers take to the stage in the grand final. Rob Brydon is the guest judge.

LOST TEMPLES OF CAMBODIA

Channel 4, 8.20pm

New three-part series. Archaeologist Pauline Campbell explores three of the country’s temples, beginning with Angkor Wat, the largest temple in the world.

DAD’S ARMY

BBC2, 8.50pm

This splendid 1969 episode, both funny and poignant, is a fine example of why the series remains so popular. Godfrey (Arnold Ridley) is shunned by the platoon when he reveals he was a conscientious objector during World War I. In reality, Ridley served in both world wars.

MOVIE THEMES AT THE BBC, VOLUME 2

BBC2, 9.20pm

New compilation of archive performances of songs from the flicks from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bee Gees, Isaac Hayes and Lulu. Sophie Ellis-Bextor give a new performance of the grating Murder on the Dancefloor, recently heard in Saltburn.

Sunday 18

THE BAFTA FILM AWARDS

BBC1, 7pm

If you want to preserve the element of surprise, stay away from social media, as this is a slightly delayed broadcast of the show, hosted by David Tennant.

All Irish eyes will be on Cillian Murphy for best lead actor in Oppenheimer, which has the most nominations at 13 (Barry Keoghan is an outsider for Saltburn) but don’t rule out surprises.

WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS

Dave, 8pm

Comedians Angela Barnes and Rhod Gilbert tackle hairy hairpin bends in the Italian Alps.

MINERS’ STRIKE: A FRONTLINE STORY

BBC2, 9pm

Channel 4’s three-part series on the strike was excellent, but there’s always room for another take — in this case a 90-minute standalone film — on such an import bit of history.

THE DRY

UTV/ITV1, 10.15pm

Season two of the comedy-drama, which RTÉ will be showing at a later date, finds Shiv (Roisin Gallagher) realising moving home has made her life worse and wondering if a family meeting might help. Uh-oh.

BLACKSHORE

RTÉ1, 9.30pm

With the murder victim’s daughter missing, Fia (Lisa Dwan) is facing a race against time. It’s only episode three and the poor woman is already racing against time. What can she possibly do for an encore?