Late Night Lycett
10pm, Channel 4
The nation’s favourite comedian – and sewage waste activist, amateur artist and celebrity travel companion – returns for a second season of his Friday night live bonanzas. His guests are being kept hush-hush at the time of writing (think celeb friends and local heroes), but expect mischief and mayhem as he hosts a party from his Birmingham home town. Hollie Richardson
Beyond Paradise
8pm, BBC One
A bell tolls in a creepy, darkly lit cloister. A full moon half lights a dark shoreline. A grumpy priest says: “No!” in a hammy manner – it’s another case for Kris Marshall’s detective in this Death in Paradise spin-off. Are dark forces at play? Or is it a run-of-the-mill spot of murderation? Our money’s on the latter. Alexi Duggins
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Lanzarote
8.30pm, Channel 4
In Friday night telly’s second helping of Lycett, he is venturing to Lanzarote with comedian Jessica Fostekew. Unsurprisingly, volcanoes are a big theme – with volcanic wine sampling, a volcanic yoga lesson and a visit to a partly collapsed lava tube that houses a restaurant, concert hall and crystalline lagoon all being on the rocky itinerary. HR
Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales
9pm, BBC Two
Michaela Strachan, Spencer Matthews and the rest of the pilgrims seem in good fettle as they tackle the final leg of their journey. During a 70km yomp south-west toward Bardsey Island, the fellowship soak up the spiritual benefits of ancient wells, Buddhist rituals, prayer stones and fish suppers on the beach. Graeme Virtue
Avoidance
9.30pm, BBC One
Jonathan is quietly devastated to hear that Claire is getting serious with “hot furniture guy” Brett. But despite a DIY accident, there might be a potential love interest for him when a school fundraiser has him doing favours for Megan (Aisling Bea). Will spaghetti hoops and bumbling conversation win her heart? Hannah Verdier
Ramy Youssef: More Feelings
10pm, Sky Comedy
Five years after his first Feelings standup show – and with a hit comedy series, two Emmy nominations and an appearance in Oscar-nominated Poor Things in between – Muslim Arab American comedy star Youssef is back with another hour of frank and funny takes on the state of the world, including the 2024 US presidential election. HR
Film choice
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023), Sky Cinema Premiere
Fresh from crushing all in its path at the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s terrifying historical epic finally makes its way to television. The life and work of J Robert Oppenheimer – from would-be teenage poisoner to inventor of a device designed for mass murder – is explored at length in colossal Imax-shot closeup. We already know that Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr are tremendous as Oppenheimer and his Salieri figure Lewis Strauss respectively, but you could spend a lifetime marvelling at the film’s wider cast: Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Kenneth Branagh, Florence Pugh Gary Oldman, Rami Malek. Monumental in every sense of the word. Stuart Heritage
Scoop (Philip Martin, 2024), Netflix
You can see why Scoop – based on the memoir of former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister – was such an irresistible prospect. A retelling of the world-shaking interview between Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis (the one so catastrophic that the Queen had to fire her own son for the sake of the monarchy), the film is basically what Frost/Nixon would have been if Richard Nixon was convinced that he couldn’t sweat. Billie Piper is McAlister, Gillian Anderson is Maitlis and Rufus Sewell is a convincingly slimy Andrew. A gripping, occasionally quite camp, treat. SH
The Greatest Hits (Ned Benson, 2024), Disney+
Ned Benson’s masterwork remains 2014’s ambitious, romantic The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby and that is the template he returns to with The Greatest Hits, a giddy rush of a film about a young woman who realises that certain songs can physically send her back to moments in her past. There she can spend time with a perfect ex who died unexpectedly. In the here and now she can tend to a newer but less idealised relationship. Put this on a triple bill with Past Lives and Robot Dreams. SH
