Winter Olympics – Right this moment on the Video games
7pm, BBC Two
Can Scottish curlers Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat flip their world combined doubles title into an Olympic gold medal? Will Lancastrian skier Dave Ryding seize the boys’s slalom gold? Let the Winter Olympic Video games 2022 start. After the opening ceremony at 11.30am on BBC One, flip to the highlights present on BBC Two at 7pm. Clare Balding will likely be internet hosting from the Beijing occasion over the following two weeks, together with Hazel Irvine, Jeanette Kwakye, Ayo Akinwolere and JJ Chalmers. Hollie Richardson
Your Backyard Made Excellent
8pm, BBC Two
Dwelling enchancment suggestions with a touch of remedy. Tonight’s focus is Steph, a just lately divorced yoga instructor from Lancashire, who sees her backyard as symbolising a brand new begin. Can Pip or Manoj utilise her house and, as host Angela Scanlon grandly places it, assist her “hit the reset button on her life”? Phil Harrison
Demise in Paradise
9pm, BBC One
There are worse locations to go to rehab than sunny Saint Marie, however the expertise ends badly for one younger UK pop star. Was her loss of life a tragic accident or one thing extra sinister? Dogged DI Neville (Ralf Little) is on the case, even when the arrival of his chaotic sister Izzy (Kate O’Flynn) upsets his regular humdrum routine. Graeme Advantage
A Discovery of Witches
9pm, Sky Max
Mysterious vampire Benjamin has a distraction from his mission to damage the De Clemonts when Lena the fire-touting witch escapes his clutches. In the meantime, all of it kicks off on the twins’ christening, when proud dad and mom Matthew and Diana are rudely interrupted by Baldwin saying his plan to take the infants to Venice. Hannah Verdier
The Final Leg
10pm Channel 4
A agency favorite fixture on Friday evening telly, Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are again to overview the final seven days of stories with their very own model of no-holds-barred wit. HR
The Graham Norton Present
10.35pm, BBC One
Oscar-nominated actor Uma Thurman, who leads new Apple TV+ thriller Suspicion, joins Norton for a chinwag tonight. Ariana DeBose, who just lately dazzled in Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story, additionally joins in with the chatty enjoyable. HR
Movie selection
True Historical past of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel, 2019), 11.20pm, Film4
Justin Kurzel’s impressionistic interval journey takes on Peter Carey’s Booker prize-winning novel about Australia’s near-mythical antihero, Ned Kelly, and makes an excellent fist of the try. George MacKay performs Ned, whose hardscrabble upbringing in a poor Irish immigrant household leads him inexorably into criminality – occasions he writes down in an effort to maintain management of his personal narrative. Essie Davis is a fierce presence as Ned’s mom, Ellen, whereas Russell Crowe has a pleasant cameo as Harry Energy, Ned’s mentor within the methods of the bushranger. Simon Wardell
Reside sport
FA Cup soccer: Man United v Middlesbrough 7.30pm, ITV. Fourth-round tie at Previous Trafford.
Winter Olympics 12.25am, BBC One. Protection of the primary full day from China, together with ladies’s slope-style qualifying and ladies’s ice-hockey.
