{"id":385183,"date":"2026-01-03T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:04:17","slug":"whats-on-tv-and-streaming-tips-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385183\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s on? TV and streaming tips for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming up today, we’ve got the return of The Tommy Tiernan Show and The Masked Singer, while the new season of The Traitors continues on BBC One.<\/p>\n

The Masked Singer, 6.30pm, Virgin Media One
Hosted by comedian Joel Dommett, the ITV singing competition, which sees celebrities perform while wearing elaborate costumes, is returning for a new series today.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Masked Singer host Joel Dommett<\/p>\n

In a first for the TV series, the first two shows will see a band take to the stage – Goldfish and the No Trout band on Saturday, and Emperor Penguin and the Antarctic Funkeys on Sunday 4 January.<\/p>\n

This means there will be four unmaskings across The Masked Singer double weekend.<\/p>\n

The Traitors, 7.45pm, BBC One
Following in the footsteps of the hugely popular first season of The Celebrity Traitors comes the new series of the regular version – which host Claudia Winkleman has promised will be “brutal”.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Traitors host Claudia Winkleman<\/p>\n

The game of backstabbing and trust returned for a fourth season on the BBC on New Year’s Day, with the faithful continuing their mission to unmask the traitors in their midst.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the new series, Winkleman told The Guardian: “It gets very heated. We get some very juicy round tables. I love this gang because they play with their entire hearts \u2026 it gets really, really brutal.”<\/p>\n

The Tommy Tiernan Show, 9.35pm, RT\u00c9 One
Comedian, actor and presenter Tommy Tiernan is back with a new series of The Tommy Tiernan Show, running for sixteen Saturdays from tonight.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Tommy Tiernan Show returns on RT\u00c9 One<\/p>\n

Now in its tenth series, the series will see Tiernan meet his surprise guests, totally unprepared and without prior knowledge of who is about to show up.<\/p>\n

Mission: Impossible 2, 9.10pm, RT\u00c92
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of the hugely popular Mission: Impossible franchise.<\/p>\n

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This time Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team on a mission to capture a deadly German virus before it is released by terrorists.<\/p>\n

A Star Is Born, 11.30pm, RT\u00c92
Actor Bradley Cooper made his directorial debut with the acclaimed drama A Star Is Born<\/a>, in which he appears alongside an incandescent Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n

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\nLady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born<\/p>\n

Their fight for love and glory sees troubles-by-the-tonne troubadour Jackson Maine (Cooper) getting another shot at life through a chance encounter with aspiring singer-songwriter Ally (Gaga).<\/p>\n

The rollercoaster ride that follows is the kind that mainstream movies rarely sell tickets for these days; one where the drama, music and romance are equals, not add-ons and you’re left wanting more of all them.<\/p>\n

What Richard Did, 11.55pm, RT\u00c9 One
Here’s a chance to rewatch Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed 2012 film What Richard Did<\/a>, starring the superb Jack Reynor.<\/p>\n

He plays a wealthy teenager who finds his seemingly charmed life rapidly falling apart after a violent confrontation has unforeseen consequences.<\/p>\n

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\nA superb Jack Reynor in What Richard Did<\/p>\n

In this hugely affecting film, Oscar-nominated director Abrahamson and scriptwriter Malcolm Campbell are deep in the privileged, moneyed world of the south Dublin elite and the social hinterland of college rugby and Celtic Tiger cubs for whom the recession is still but a rumour.<\/p>\n

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