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

TV tonight: festival season climaxes with Sting, the Manics and Sugababes live

Sting playing live in 2024.
Sting playing live in 2024. Photograph: Manolo Tatti/Getty Images

Sting: Radio 2 in the Park

10.15pm, BBC Two
Festival season winds down with Radio 2’s weekender in Preston. Manic Street Preachers, Sugababes, Gabrielle and Paul Heaton are all set to play, with their sets available on iPlayer. Sting gets the Saturday headline slot, including songs from his new album, The Bridge. Tune in on Sunday for Pet Shop Boys. Hollie Richardson

The Hit List

6.20pm, BBC One
There is an eclectic range of musicians to be identified, from Nick Cave to Britney Spears, in this pop quiz. Up for the challenges are Sean and Chantelle, best friends Iain and hospital radio DJ Phillip, and Vic and Maureen – the oldest contestant yet at 72. Ali Catterall

Celebrity Catchphrase

7.15pm, ITV1
Another three famous faces prepare to say what they see in the hope of banking up to £50,000 for charity. Business maven Deborah Meaden and ex-TV copper Kevin Whately seem like smart cookies. But they’ll have to keep pace with track-and-field queen Denise Lewis. Graeme Virtue

The Magic of Mozart at the Proms

8.25pm, BBC Two
Mozart was the child prodigy who changed music with his opera The Marriage of Figaro, the overture of which is performed as part of this lively Prom from 2022 celebrating his compositions. Multi-Grammy-nominee Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes will direct the orchestra as he plays the piano, as Mozart did himself. HR

Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime

9pm, BBC Four

This accomplished and disturbing French series about the authorities’ failure to identify a serial rapist continues. This week, the charismatic mayor of a small town is dragged into the affair when one of her employees is attacked. Her interventions have unintended consequences, exposing the systemic misogyny faced both by victims of sexual abuse and women in general. Phil Harrison

Password

9.55pm, ITV1
This word-guessing gameshow was a massive hit in the US, and now Stephen “I’m here tonight because ITV thought they booked Mulhern” Mangan hosts the UK version that can win contestants £10,000. Daisy May Cooper and Alan Carr are the team captains, and this week their partners are English teacher Alex and vocal coach Me’sha. HR

Film choice

How to Marry a Millionaire, 2.55pm, BBC Two

The second in a Lauren Bacall matinee double bill with Designing Woman, Jean Negulesco’s 1953 comedy is pretty much an MGM musical without the songs (despite being a 20th Century Fox film). In glorious, gaudy CinemaScope and Technicolor, with a Gershwinesque score by Alfred Newman, it follows fashion models Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe as they plot to nab wealthy husbands. Bacall is the brains of the operation; the others most definitely are not – but amid the sumptuous sets and opulent clothes, love predictably triumphs over more material concerns. Simon Wardell

Beetlejuice, 3.20pm, Channel 5
It is a safe bet that Michael Keaton will have a larger role in the new sequel than he has in Tim Burton’s 1988 ghostly comedy. As “bio-exorcist” Betelgeuse, he’s a whirlwind of disgusting behaviour and groan-worthy wisecracks, but you have to wait three-quarters of an hour for him to appear. Until then we follow young, recently deceased couple Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, looking on in horror as a new family in their quaint home indulge in a spot of radical interior decoration. Winona Ryder channels her inner Robert Smith as the goth daughter who befriends them. SW

Live sport

Paralympics Paris 2024, 8am, Channel 4 Day 10 includes road cycling, canoeing, judo and the wheelchair tennis men’s singles final.

Test Cricket: England v Sri Lanka, 10.15am, Sky Sports Cricket The second day of the third and final Test from the Oval.

Women’s International Rugby Union: England v France, 2pm, BBC One At Kingsholm in Gloucester.

Uefa Nations League Football: Republic of Ireland v England, 4pm, ITV1 The Lee Carsley era begins in Dublin. England take on Finland on Tuesday at 6.45pm.

Super League Rugby: Salford Red Devils v Catalans Dragons, 5pm, BBC Two From the Salford Community Stadium.

US Open Tennis, 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event Finals of the men’s doubles and the women’s singles from Flushing Meadows. The men’s final takes place on Sunday at 6.30pm

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