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TV tonight: Self Esteem’s unmissable performance of the year

<span>Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns</span>
Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns

Self Esteem at 6 Music Festival 2022

12.15am, BBC Two

As anyone who found themselves in a crowd of fellow sobbing fans while watching Self Esteem at Glastonbury 2022 (ahem) will testify, this recording of her live show at this year’s 6 Music festival is well worth staying up late for. The Mercury prize-nominated artist performs hit after hit, including I Do This All the Time and Fucking Wizardry. It’s a form of prioritising pleasure. Hollie Richardson

Saturday Kitchen Live: Countdown to Christmas

10am, BBC One

Chefs Ollie Dabbous and Si King join Matt Tebbutt for a pre-noon festive party, with Welsh actor turned crooner Luke Evans as the entertainment. Will he break out his depressing piano-led cover of Last Christmas? Between the drinks, nibbles and banter there will also be archive seasonal tips from Rick Stein, Nigella Lawson and more. Graeme Virtue

Feeling Good: The Radio 2 Piano Room

8.35pm, BBC Two

This round-up of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios includes Sam Smith delivering a really rather beautiful cover of Des’ree’s I’m Kissing You, while Sigrid gives her flawless rendition of the Neil Young classic Old Man. HR

Señorita 89

9pm, BBC Four

The riveting drama about the murky world of Miss Mexico 1989 reaches its finale. Ahead of the winning beauty queen being crowned, the show catches up to that shocking series opener –Dolores jumping (or being pushed) off a roof. The question now is who makes it to the contest alive? HR

I Can See Your Voice

9.15pm, BBC One

A tennis champion, a hiker and a social media star lip-sync for their lives in tonight’s Taylor Swift extravaganza. Detectives Tracy and Michelle vie to win the £10k jackpot by weeding out the fakes. The crescendo? A duet with Blue’s Simon Webbe. Danielle De Wolfe

Piano Greats at the BBC

9.15pm, BBC Two

A programme to tickle the fancy of the BBC’s resident pianist Jools Holland (who features) as the archives are mined for the best ivory tinklers of the pop era. Performances range from the fiercely visceral (Little Richard) to the tasteful (Ray Charles), while Lady Gaga brings things right up to date. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Emancipation, Apple TV+

Antoine Fuqua’s tense historical thriller is based on the true story of an escaped Louisiana slave, whose photograph showing his scarred back became a key document in the abolitionist movement of the mid-1800s. Will Smith is impressively fierce and focused as Peter, who hears of Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation after being taken from his family to work on a Confederate railroad. He flees into the alligator-infested swamp, pursued by Ben Foster’s scout, using his wits to get him through a war zone to the Union army. With washed-out imagery – save for occasional vivid splashes of fire or blood – there’s nothing picturesque here; just the horrors of slavery and war. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Test Cricket: Pakistan v England, 6am, Sky Sports Main Event Day two of the second Test from Multan. The third Test begins in Karachi next Saturday at 4.30am.

World Cup Football: England v France, 6pm, ITV1 The fourth quarter-final. Preceded at 2.30pm by the third quarter-final, Morocco v Portugal, on BBC One.

Figure Skating: Grand Prix Final, 7pm, Eurosport 2 The ice dancing free programme at Torino Palavela in Turin, Italy.