• Saturday Night Live UK Saturday 28th March Sky One
• Babies Monday 30th/Tuesday 31st March BBC One
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Monday 30th March Sky One
• Shrinking Wednesday 1st April  Apple TV
• The Comeback Wednesday 1st April Sky Comedy
• Scrubs Thursday 2nd April Disney+
• Race Across The World Thursday 2nd April BBC One
• The Apprentice Thursday 2nd April BBC One
• Gogglebox Friday 3rd April Channel 4

Saturday

7.45pm Big Night of Musicals 2026 by the National Lottery BBC One –
Jason Manford hosts the annual showcase of musical theatre from the AO Arena in Manchester, featuring a preview of forthcoming new West End productions of Miss Saigon and Jesus Christ Superstar, with Sam Ryder making his debut as Jesus. Featuring Alexandra Burke performing numbers from I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical, hits from The Producers, Wicked, The Lion King, Oliver!, Sunny Afternoon and Paddington The Musical, and a performance from Annie featuring La Voix.

7.50pm 48 Hours: Escape From Chernobyl Channel 4 – Documentary following the first 48 hours following the explosion at the nuclear power plant, charting the safety test that led to the disaster, the heroic efforts to prevent a second even worse explosion, and the evacuation of 50,000 people from the nearby city of Pripyat. Featuring contributions from first-hand witnesses, including the chief operator and medical personnel, historians and professors of radiochemistry.

8.30pm Inside Britain’s National Parks BBC Two – Documentary looking at four of Britain’s 15 national parks, capturing the sights and sounds of these unique places and meeting the people who live and work there. The opening edition visits the New Forest, once a royal hunting ground for William the Conqueror and now a mosaic of open heathlands, ancient woodlands, coastline and picturesque villages. The park is home to ponies, deer, rare bird species and reptiles, while the traditional grazing practices of generations of commoners sustain this landscape, with their ponies and pigs roaming freely throughout the park.

9.00pm Hidden Assets BBC Four – Third series of the Irish crime drama.

9.20pm Showtunes at the BBC Vol 3 BBC Two – Elaine Paige guides viewers through another treasure trove of musical theatre moments from the BBC archives. With classic numbers from Hello, Dolly! to Les Misérables, Chess to South Pacific, the programme features memorable performances from artists including Shirley Bassey, Michael Bublé, Fred Astaire, Alison Moyet, Louis Armstrong and Elaine herself.

9.20pm The Windsor Castle Fire: Minute by Minute 5 – In November 1992, a small spark in a private chapel in Windsor Castle set off an inferno that engulfed Elizabeth II’s favourite home, and as firefighters battled the flames, priceless royal treasures hung in the balance. Told through the recollections of those who were there and archive footage, this is the dramatic story of how the castle was nearly lost – and how its damage and restoration marked a turning point for the modern monarchy.

Sunday

8.00pm Grace ITV1 – Sixth series of the crime drama starring John Simm.

Monday

5.00pm Dance Moms: A New Era E4 – Second season of the American reality series centring around a Dance school for young girls and their competitive mothers.

9.00pm Babies BBC One – Drama from the creator of Him & Her and Mum starring Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen as a couple dealing with the aftermath of losing a pregnancy. Lisa and Stephen try to get pregnant again, and a dinner exposes hidden tensions. Continues Tomorrow Night at 9.00pm.

9.00pm Hunting the Silver Killer ITV1 – In the 1990s, the sleepy town of Wilmslow in Cheshire saw two murder-suicides in the space of three years, and both were elderly married couples, found dead in their beds. Police concluded that in both cases the husbands had killed their wives and then taken their own lives, but could they in fact be double murders? Two former senior coroner’s officers who tried to raise concerns over the deaths reveal why they believe there could have been a miscarriage of justice, and forensic scientist Angela Gallop and pathologist Dick Shephard take a fresh look at the cases to try and get closer to the truth.

9.00pm The Teacher 5 – Third series of the drama series. Experienced teacher Helen Simpson believes it is her duty to prepare students for the realities of life, often disregarding trigger warnings and safe spaces and has little concern for the woke ideologies of the younger generation. She clashes with influential female student Cressida Bancroft after accusing the pupil of attention-seeking and using her ideologies to gain popularity, and the fight between the pair soon escalates. Return of the drama anthology, starring Victoria Hamilton and Alice Grant. Continues Tomorrow Night and Wednesday at 9.00pm and Concludes Thursday.

10.00pm Hunted by My Husband: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper TLC – Washington DC sniper John Muhammad’s murderous rampage was motivated by one thing: his desire to kill his ex-wife, Mildred Muhammad.

Tuesday

9.00pm Butchers of the Bayou U&W – True crime mini-series. Two serial killers operating separately from each other terrorise Baton Rouge and its surrounding area in Louisiana in the USA over the span of a decade. A series of brutal murders from 1992 to 2002 were linked by DNA evidence, and revealed a serial killer in Baton Rouge with a pattern of stalking and escalating violence.

9.00pm Vicky Pattison: Maybe, Baby? E4 – Vicky and her husband Ercan try to decide whether they should they start a family. In this first episode of two, Vicky throws herself into finding out what life with a child might be like by helping to look after a friend’s young daughter. She also returns to the fertility clinic where her frozen eggs and embryos are being stored, confronting the reality of her ticking body clock.

10.00pm Storyville: Three Dads and a Baby BBC Four – Exploring a three-way relationship and a radically different approach to fatherhood. In Norway, trans people were subjected to forced sterilisation between 1979 and 2016. Kris, who has has always wanted to be a father, refuses to let that injustice define his future. Alongside Sindre, David and their extended families, Kris embarks on a journey that challenges traditional models of family and parenthood.

Wednesday

9.00pm The Burbs Sky One – A couple move back to the husband’s childhood home, only to uncover dark secrets and face threats from their neighbours. Comedy, starring Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall.

10.00pm Hatton Garden: The Great Diamond Heist Channel 4 – In 2015, a gang of ageing criminals carried out one of the most audacious heists in British history, stealing a multi-million-pound haul of jewellery and gold from a high-security vault in London’s Hatton Garden diamond district. More than a decade after the heist, what happened to the gang, and what happened to the missing millions? Insiders, including one of the crew who carried out the heist, reveal the extraordinary twists, turns and betrayals which followed the heist and eventually led to the gang’s capture.

Thursday

8.00pm Race Across The World BBC One – Reality game show with John Hannah as narrator. Five adventurous teams are pushed to the limit, battling extreme climates and harsh terrain in a 12,000km race from Palermo, Sicily, across Europe and Asia to reach Hatgal in northern Mongolia. Best friends Jo and Kush from Liverpool; siblings Katie and Harrison from Manchester; Molly and her father Andrew; cousins Puja and Roshni and in-laws Mark and Margo take on the challenge.

9.00pm Kegworth: Flight to Disaster BBC Two – Survivors and eyewitnesses recount the moment British Midland Airways Flight 092, travelling from London to Belfast, ran into difficulties in January 1989. The Boeing 737-400 crashed onto the motorway embankment between the M1 and A453 near Kegworth, Leicestershire. Rare archive footage and expert analysis uncovers the chain of decisions that sealed the fate of 47 passengers and injured dozens more.

10.00pm Click to Kill: The AI War Machine Channel 4 – With unique access in Ukraine, with the US army, and from within Israel, Dispatches charts the new technological arms race and asks whether these tools will make warfare more precise and reduce civilian casualties; or will they lead to more wars that are ever more brutal?

10.40pm Harry Clark goes to Rome BBC One – The Traitors star goes on a deeply personal journey from Slough to Rome and Vatican City in search of answers about belief, identity and what it means to be a good Catholic in the modern world. Along the way, he’s challenged on his lapsed habits, engages in traditional pilgrim practices and raises questions about the role of faith in modern Britain.

Friday

Your Friends & Neighbours Apple TV+

Second season of the pulpy crime drama starring John Hamm.

9.00pm Have I Got News For You? BBC One – Roy Wood Jr chairs the satirical current affairs quiz, with Armando Iannucci and Anushka Asthana joining team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton to poke fun at the recent headlines.

9.30pm The Young Offenders BBC One – Return of the comedy.