The best TV this weekend: Elton John at Glastonbury in his last ever UK show

Tonight

BBC1, 2 and 3, from 7.30pm

This year’s festival is a doubly historic one. Elton John plays Glasto for the first time in his long career, but the show will also be the last one he ever does in the UK.

That won’t be happening until Sunday, though, and there’s plenty to enjoy on this opening day, including Texas, Gabriels, the Lightning Seeds, Royal Blood, Warpaint and Sparks.

The headliners, Arctic Monkeys, play the Pyramid Stage at 10.30pm (BBC1). Check your listings to see who’s on when and on which channel.

I’M A VIRGO

Amazon Prime Video

The excellent Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight, Mr Mercedes, If They See Us) stars in this seven-part absurdist satirical comedy from Boots Riley. He plays Cootie, a young man who grows 13 feet tall. When his parents decide they can’t keep him a secret any longer, he ventures out to negotiate the big, bad world.

KING OF CLONES

Netflix

Documentary about Hwang Woo-suk, the once-revered Korean scientist who fell from grace when he went too far by trying to apply his work on cloning animals to human beings.

AIR FRYERS: ARE THEY WORTH IT?

Channel 4, 8pm

Denise van Outen tries to answer the burning question of our age — or rather the non-burning question — and learns about the science and capabilities of the phenomenally popular kitchen appliance.

POKER FACE

Sky Max, 9pm & 10.15pm

We’ve reached the final double bill — don’t fret, there’s going to be a second season — of a massively entertaining series that’s both pleasingly old-fashioned and bracingly modern. In the second of tonight’s episodes, Charlie (Natasha Lyonne) finally tangles, as we knew she must, with her deadly pursuer Cliff (Benjamin Bratt).

NOT GOING OUT

BBC1, 9pm

Thirteenth season of the comedy that reaffirms the virtues of the traditional studio-based sitcom. Lee (Lee Mack) suspects Anna (Abigail Cruttenden) is having an affair.

Saturday

GLASTONBURY

BBC2, 5pm; BBC2, 7pm; BBC3, 8pm; BBC4, 9pm

Assuming insufferable gobshite Axl Rose doesn’t turn up a few hours late, BBC2 should have Guns N’ Roses at 10pm.

Alternatives scattered around the four channels throughout the evening (again, check your listings) include Lewis Capaldi, Lizzo, Rick Astley, Jacob Collier, Manic Street Preachers, Leftfield and Fatboy Slim.

ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN

Channel 4, 9pm

Alice Roberts concludes her four-part series by using a 150-year-old travel book as her guide for a journey along the Nile. As well as taking in more ancient wonders, she learns about the changes the country has undergone and hears archaeologists bemoan commercialisation.

THE HUNGER: THE STORY OF THE IRISH FAMINE

PBS America, 7.20pm & 8.25pm

With Glastonbury dominating the BBC and the other main channels not putting up much of a fight, it’s time to reach for some worthwhile repeats, beginning with Ruán Magan’s excellent two-part documentary (both episodes showing back to back), narrated by Liam Neeson.

THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

Sky Arts, 8.20pm

Outstanding documentary about a band underrated only by know-nothings. Your heart really will break at the end last surviving Gibb brother Barry — the world’s second most successful songwriter after Paul McCartney (although the know-nothings won’t know that either) — talks about how he’d give up everything to have his siblings back.

INSIDE HIGH NOON

PBS America, 10.50pm

Fascinating account of the often troubled making of the classic Western, which right-wing blowhard John Wayne considered un-American. He and director Howard Hawks were so incensed, they made Rio Bravo in response.

Sunday

GLASTONBURY: ELTON JOHN

BBC1 9pm

The curtain comes down on this year’s Glasto with the Rocketman’s final show of his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour. As mentioned at the top, it will be his last ever performance in the UK, so we’re promised a somewhat different setlist and a few very special guests.

PRINCESS ANNE: THE PLOT TO KIDNAP A ROYAL

Channel 4, 8pm

Documentary recalling the bizarre attempt by an armed man called Ian Ball to kidnap Britain’s Princess Anne as she was being driven along the Mall to Buckingham Palace in 1974. It resulted in a shootout in which four people were injured.

MAGNUM PI

Sky Max, 9pm

Axed by CBS after four seasons, the middling reboot of the 80s favourite, with Jay Hernandez failing to adequately fill Tom Selleck’s colourful shirt as the Hawaii-based private detective, was rescued by NBC. Perdita Weeks is a female Higgins — now Magnum’s lover.

BEFORE WE DIE

Channel 4, 9pm

Second season of the crime drama, a remake of the Swedish series that relocates the action to Bristol, with Lesley Sharp as a detective squaring off against an Eastern European crime matriarch (Kazia Pelka). The five episodes are stripped across the week.

THE BLACKLIST

Sky Max, 10pm

Tenth and final season of the daft crime thriller series, made watchable only by the fantastic James Spader.