What to watch on TV and streaming today: Strictly Come Dancing, Still Alice and A Man on The Inside

Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Russia’s Revenant: The Return of the Siberian Tiger RTÉ2, 6pm Also known as Amur tigers, these creatures are one of the rarest animals on the planet. This documentary uses the latest technology to follow one as it journeys across a snow forest in search of new territory. ​ Strictly Come Dancing BBC One, 7.

05pm We’re being treated to a Strictly first — a samba-thon. Expect carnage on the dance floor as the remaining couples fight for a place in next week’s quarter-final, which is also a musicals special. Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman host.



​Westlife: Radio 2 Live ​ Westlife: Radio 2 Live BBC Two, 11.15pm After watching Take That at the BBC (8.25pm), the final episode of Boybands Forever (9.

25pm) and the last in the current run of Later...

with Jools Holland (10.30pm), there’s a chance to see Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan in action during a concert at Belfast’s Ulster Hall in 2021. Fiddler on the Roof RTÉ One, 2.

25pm Wonderful musical about a poverty-stricken Ukrainian milkman whose daughters don’t appreciate his efforts to find them husbands. Topol, Norma Crane and Paul Michael Glaser star. Still Alice Still Alice TG4, 9.

05pm Julianne Moore delivers an Oscar-winning performance as a 50-year-old linguistics professor who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart play her husband and daughter. A Man on The Inside Netflix, streaming now If you’ve been wondering if Ted Danson would return to the darkly farcical vein of Bored to Death, this is (almost) it.

Only, this time, it’s his character — Charles — who’s leading a double life. ​ Bread & Roses Bread & Roses Apple TV+, streaming now From 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and female education activist Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence comes this timely documentary. It follows three women as the Taliban seized Kabul in 2021, sending the female population back to the dark ages.

Women might be half the population of planet Earth, but we’re seeing rights rolled back at an alarming rate...

And if you think “it won’t happen here”, then perhaps you’re not paying close enough attention. 900 Days Without Anabel Netflix, streaming now In April of 1993, Anabel Segura was kidnapped, plunging Spain into a state of suspended animation for 900 days as the police negotiated with the kidnappers through a series of unpublished tapes. ​ The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson Netflix, streaming now Featuring the acting and directorial prowess of two of Denzel Washington’s offspring (Malcolm and John David specifically), this jarring and immersive family drama also stars Samuel L Jackson, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts and the multi-faceted Erykah Badu.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson, it’s not an easy watch. Joy Netflix, streaming now Starring Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton, this is the story of the actual godfathers of IVF. Told via the perspective of nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, who teamed up with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe.

Their efforts resulted in the ground-breaking birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ — Louise Joy Brown in Manchester in 1978..