Strictly Come Dancing Launch Show 2018 BBC1, 7.35pm
IT’S not quite time to dust off those dancing shoes and spandex just yet – the new series of the pro-celebrity ballroom contest is still a couple of weeks away – but this launch show gives fans the chance to meet the celebrities taking part and see who they have been paired with. The line-up for this year has had a mixed reception. Tonight’s show features a medley of Nile Rodgers’ greatest hits performed by Chic and the man himself, while Craig David and Stefflon Don join him to showcase their new single.
Massacre at Ballymurphy C4, 8pm
IT is a massacre that few have heard of, yet the tragic Ballymurphy shootings was one of the most significant events of the Troubles. This new documentary from award-winning director Callum Macrae reflects on the day in August 1971 when 11 innocent people were killed by the army on a Catholic estate in west Belfast. The British military has always maintained that the paratroopers were fired on first by IRA gunmen but this investigation suggests that may not have been the case, and chronicles the fight by the victims’ relatives and survivors to discover the truth.
Last Night of the Proms BBC1, 9pm
THE classical music celebration continues live from the Royal Albert Hall with the ever-popular Marche Militaire Francaise by Saint-Saens. Award-winning 18-year-old saxophonist Jess Gillam performs Scaramouche by Milhaud. Plus baritone Gerry Finley performs the Soliloquy from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, and there is a nationwide singalong of traditional First World War songs with contributions from the Proms in the Park events in Glasgow, Belfast and Swansea. The event is then brought to its familiar and rousing close with Rule, Britannia!, Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem.
The Jonathan Ross Show STV, 9.45pm
THE host is joined by a green room full of stars as the 13th series of his chat show continues. First up, Hollywood actors Cate Blanchett and Jack Black discuss their new fantasy film The House with a Clock in its Walls. Then Joanna Lumley talks about her new ITV travelogue series in which she embarks on a 7000 mile journey following the route of the Silk Road across Asia and Europe. Diversity choreographer and dancer Ashley Banjo also drops by, as do Ray Winstone and Paul Whitehouse. Finally, John Legend performs his single A Good Night live.
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