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Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: a gorgeous documentary about ‘first lady of song’ Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fizgerald: Just One Of Those Things on Sky Arts.
Ella Fizgerald: Just One Of Those Things on Sky Arts. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

9.15pm, Sky Arts

When 17-year-old Ella Fitzgerald took to the Apollo stage in 1934 to perform in public for the first time, she was booed. But she went on to become the “first lady of song” with a six-decade-long career. “Can you imagine? We booed Ella Fitzgerald!” recalls dancer Norma Miller in this documentary about her life, which also speaks to Laura Mvula and Fitzgerald’s son Ray Brown Jr. Hollie Richardson

Celebrity Catchphrase for Soccer Aid

7pm, ITV1

On the eve of the 12th and much anticipated charity kickabout Soccer Aid, Stephen Mulhern hosts this celebrity special of the deathless “say what you see” quizshow. A Place in the Sun’s Scarlette Douglas, comedian Patrick Kielty and sports commentator Clive Tyldesley will attempt to boot £50,000 in the back of Unicef’s net. Ali Catterall

Barry Manilow at the BBC

8.25pm, BBC Two

All that Baz: this new clip compilation – serving up slices of live Manilow from Top of the Pops, Strictly and more – is the amuse-bouche for a feelgood night celebrating the Brooklyn-born king of showtune pop. It is followed later with a 1989 concert filmed in Birmingham. Graeme Virtue

Annika

9.10pm, BBC One

Annika (Nicola Walker) delivers a monologue about the six different types of bridges this week, as she investigates the body of an author who has been found next to the river. She made some enemies with her strong words, but which of them were driven to murder? HR

Ancient Egypt By Train With Alice Roberts

9.10pm, Channel 4

As Prof Roberts’s ancient tour continues, she arrives in Cairo clutching on to the book that got her hooked in her youth: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Edwards. Roberts follows in the author’s footsteps on the hunt to find Tutankhamun. HR

Later … With Jools Holland

10.25pm, BBC Two

Alison Goldfrapp pays Jools a visit this week, showcasing the glam disco shimmer of her first solo album The Love Invention. Wigan lads the Lathums bring earthy indie rock and Anglo-American synth duo Baba Ali preview their second album, Laugh Like a Bomb. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Law of Tehran, 9pm, BBC Four

Law of Tehran on BBC Four.
Law of Tehran on BBC Four. Photograph: Vertigo Releasing

A drama in which a tough cop hunts a crime kingpin is the stuff of classic movies and TV shows, from Heat to The Wire. What’s fascinating here is the location: Iran. Writer-director Saeed Roustayi crafts a gripping police procedural about a little seen aspect of life there, with a surprisingly candid focus on the widespread problems of drug use and poverty. Payman Maadi channels the gruff anger of Al Pacino as detective Samad, who works his way doggedly from pavement to penthouse in pursuit of a drug lord. En route, there are affecting scenes of the devastation caused by addiction, and the Canute-like attempts of cops and judges to tackle it. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Tennis: French Open, 10am, Eurosport 1 The finals of the wheelchair men’s singles, women’s singles and men’s doubles from Roland-Garros.

Cycling: Critérium du Dauphiné, Sat, 12.10pm, Eurosport 2 Stage seven, 148km from Porte-de-Savoie to Col de la Croix de Fer.

Champions League Football: Man City v Inter Milan, 6pm, BT Sport 1 The final from Istanbul, with City’s Erling Haaland hoping to add another winner’s medal after the FA Cup last week.

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