John Robinson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Ben Arnold, David Stubbs, Andrew Mueller, Hannah J Davies and Paul Howlett 

Friday’s best TV: Eurovision: You Decide; Tina & Bobby; TripTank

Britain gets to vote again, this time for the country’s Eurovision song contest entrant. Plus: the Bobby Moore bio-drama comes to a close, and the US comedy TripTank brings us more dark satire and general weirdness
  
  

Michelle Keegan as Tina and Lorne MacFadyen as Bobby Moorein Tina and Bobby
Michelle Keegan as Tina and Lorne MacFadyen as Bobby Moore in the bio-drama Tina & Bobby. Photograph: ITV

Eurovision: You Decide
7.30pm, BBC2

Democracy in action. If the country wants to complain about our Eurovision song contest performance, then let the country vote for the performer it wants to represent it. Mel Giedroyc hosts the show from Hammersmith Apollo, which will be nice for the six shortlisted acts. It will be after the show, however, that we will discover whose task it is to better the 24th place managed by last year’s You Decide winners, Joe & Jake. John Robinson

Tina & Bobby
9pm, ITV

The final part of a muted bio-drama charts the decline in Bobby Moore’s career and marriage, with professional disappointments and personal betrayals – sparked by him being dropped by England in 1973 – ticked off in the most perfunctory manner. Every opportunity to offer insight into Moore’s character, or the nature of football and fame, is spurned. Michelle Keegan is good as his patient wife, but she is shouldering this whole production like Atlas in nylons. Jack Seale

Sound of Musicals With Neil Brand
9pm, BBC4

Like superhero movies, novels and cruise ships, musicals come maxi-sized these days, from the megabucks likes of The Lion King to We Will Rock You and Les Mis. In this series finale, Neil Brand explores these mighty moneyspinners – plus quirkier attractions such as sweary puppet fest Avenue Q and the deathless Rocky Horror Show. Tim Rice also pops up for a chat, along with Book Of Mormon co-creator Robert Lopez. Ali Catterall

The Last Leg
10pm, Channel 4

The boys are back – namely Josh Widdicombe, Alex Brooker and esteemed host Adam Hills – for a new series of The Last Leg, following their sterling work covering the 2016 Paralympic Games from Rio. For this inaugural episode of 2017, the team are joined by the Broadchurch and former Doctor Who star David Tennant, who is on hand to assist in their comic summation of the week’s news, plus handling some of the standard #isitok tweets from viewers. Ben Arnold

The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes
9pm, BBC2

In the last in this series of amiable big-house porn, Caroline Quentin and architect Piers Taylor look at homes built underground, which – thanks to the ingenuity of their architects – command excellent views of their surroundings. These include a deceptively luxurious dwelling beneath a Swiss barn and an earthquake-proof residence in New Zealand. Sumptuous, if you can tolerate Quentin’s extreme enthusiasm. David Stubbs

Bull
10pm, Fox

The titular lead character is Dr Jason Bull, a trial consultant played by Michael Weatherly, whose previous turn in the not dissimilar NCIS is both congruous and confusing. The drama is, in essence, another engaging yet insubstantial high-end whodunnit series. Tonight, Bull represents Reese, a woman on trial for the murder of a college basketball athlete who had previously raped her. It’s a trial that pits Bull, as is so often the case in glitzy legal dramas, against an old flame. Andrew Mueller

TripTank
11.30pm, Comedy Central

This US series of adult comedy shorts oozes with dark satire and general weirdness. From faux-educational mascot Ricky the Rocketship inadvertently burning his young passengers to a crisp, to a talkshow helmed by homeless man Bootfucker McGillicutty, TripTank pokes fun at its scattershot range of targets in incendiary fashion. The fast pace means there often isn’t enough of the stuff that actually works best but, overall, it’s pleasingly uncomfortable viewing. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

Money Monster, (Jodie Foster, 2016), 2.15pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
This playful little cousin of The Big Short stars George Clooney as Lee Gates, smug presenter of TV show Money Monster, which offers successful – but not always – buying tips on the stock market. One such swallows the savings of angry truck driver Kyle Budwell (Jack O’Connell) who, armed with a gun and a suicide vest for Lee, takes the show hostage. With Julia Roberts as the embattled producer, it doesn’t lack for starry charm, but falls awkwardly between satire and thriller. Paul Howlett

Dredd, (Pete Travis, 2012), 11.05pm, Film4
Karl Urban stars as the comic-book judge, jury and executioner of Mega City One, though it could be any bristly chinned, husky-voiced actor behind the forbidding helmet. Still, this is a taut, tough, violent tale, with Dredd and rookie judge Olivia Thirlby fighting their way out of a 200-storey tower block infested with drug-crazed gangsters. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Bowls: World Indoor Championships Coverage of the men’s singles quarter-finals at the Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea. 1pm, BBC2

FA Cup Football: Derby County v Leicester City Premier League champions Leicester City continue their quest to win a first FA Cup. 7.30pm, BBC1

Anglo-Welsh Cup Rugby: Bath v Gloucester Coverage of the matchday three contest. 7.30pm, BT Sport 2

 

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