The best TV to watch this weekend: from Kevin Costner's Yellowstone explorations to the Isle of Wight music festival

Paranormal activity in docuseries, detective dramas and music shows, there’s something for everyone on the box this weekend

Kevin Costner, star of Yellowstone, presents a four-part documentary to mark the 150th anniversary of the eponymous US national park. Photo: PARAMOUNT+

Richard Rankin as Rebus. Photo: BBC/VIAPLAY/ELEVENTH HOUR

Paranormal: The Village that Saw Aliens

Bread & Roses on Apple TV+

thumbnail: Kevin Costner, star of Yellowstone, presents a four-part documentary to mark the 150th anniversary of the eponymous US national park. Photo: PARAMOUNT+
thumbnail: Richard Rankin as Rebus. Photo: BBC/VIAPLAY/ELEVENTH HOUR
thumbnail: Paranormal: The Village that Saw Aliens
thumbnail: Bread & Roses on Apple TV+
Pat Stacey

Sit back and relax for some of the top picks on TV and streaming.

Friday

YELLOWSTONE: ONE-FIFTY Paramount+ Who better to front a 150th anniversary celebration of Yellowstone the national park than the star of Yellowstone the drama series? This four-part documentary sees Kevin Costner take in the breathtaking landscape of Yellowstone — including the famous Grand Prismatic Spring, which captivated him as a child — while also relating its history. Expect some wonderful wildlife footage too.

Bread & Roses on Apple TV+

BREAD & ROSES Apple TV+ Jennifer Lawrence is one of the producers of this harrowing documentary looking at how women in Afghanistan are suffering under the misogynistic rule of the barbaric Taliban since their return to power in 2021.

ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL Sky Arts, from 7pm Tribute band The Bootleg Beatles take to the main stage to kick off this year’s festival, which has a distinctly retro line-up. Before today’s headliners Prodigy at 11pm there are sets by The Darkness, Crowded House, The Streets, Johnny Marr and The Pretenders.

Paranormal: The Village that Saw Aliens

PARANORMAL: THE VILLAGE THAT SAW ALIENS BBC3, 9pm & 9.30pm Concluding double bill of an entertaining rummage through the story of alleged UFO sightings in and around the village of Broad Haven on the Welsh coast in 1977.

THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE Sky Max, 9pm What are you going to do for relaxation in a post-apocalyptic landscape stalked by flesh-eating zombies? Why, have a date night in a crumbling building, of course, which is exactly what Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) do in the fourth episode of this miniseries from the apparently inexhaustible franchise.

CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX Channel 4, 9pm Old Happy Mondays/Black Grape mates Shaun Ryder and Bez are among the slebs passing judgement on the week’s telly in the always entertaining series.

CHINOOK: ZULU DELTA 576 BBC2, 9pm The concluding episode of the two-parter about the Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, in which 29 people died, looks at how new information cast doubt on the initial inquiry’s verdict that negligence on the part of two pilots was to blame. Was there a cover-up, as the bereaved families had long maintained?

THE NEVERMETS Channel 4, 10pm Leah travels from Scotland to the US to meet long-distance boyfriend Chad. She’s barely landed when she’s introduced to his 16-year-old daughter and Chad’s dad, who bluntly asks her if she wants to have children.

Saturday

DOCTOR WHO BBC1, 6.40pm The conclusion of a two-part story brings Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Doctor to a close (he returns for the usual Christmas special). Russell T Davies’s return has invigorated the series and succeeded in recapturing a young audience. By way of a bonus, it’s also driven the racist, homophobic, anti-woke brigade nuts.

ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL Sky Arts, from 7pm Tonight’s sets include Feeder, Keane (a perfect opportunity to enjoy a nap), Suede and main stage headliners Pet Shop Boys.

GAME OF THRONES Sky Atlantic, from 7.35pm For GOT fans underwhelmed by prequel House of the Dragon, here’s a reminder of when things were good: a complete re-run of the first season, beginning with five episodes tonight and running throughout the week.

Richard Rankin as Rebus. Photo: BBC/VIAPLAY/ELEVENTH HOUR

REBUS BBC1, 9.25pm Finale of the successful reboot with Richard Rankin as the gritty Edinburgh detective created by Iain Rankin (no relation). We left Rebus pointing a gun at tied-up gangster Ger Cafferty (Stuart Bowman) last week, but will he pull the trigger or will he pull back from the edge?

REEL STORIES: SHANIA TWAIN BBC2, 9.20pm Ahead of her Glastonbury debut next weekend, the singer whose career straddles country and pop talks to genial Dermot O’Leary about her difficult childhood and early initial fear of being in the spotlight, while viewing key moments in her career.

LATER . . . WITH JOOLS HOLLAND BBC2, 10.30pm Jools is joined by three other acts who’ll also be playing Glasto: our own Fontaines DC, Paris Paloma and the indomitable Lulu.

Sunday

INVESTIGATING WITCH TRIALS Channel 4, 9pm Suranne Jones puts her day job to one side and turns presenter for this intriguing two-part documentary about the paranoia that spread across Europe in the 17th century, motivated in no small part by misogyny. She starts with the Pendle witch trials in Lancashire in 1612, which resulted in 10 women being put to death.

GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED National Geographic, 6pm Ramsay has a cook-off with former protegee Anna Haugh on the Connemara coast.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW NIGHT BBC4, from 7pm To mark the series’ 45th birthday, a back-to-back showing of five vintage episodes, including, at 10.10pm, the very first one, with dear old Arthur Negus.

999: ON THE FRONT LINE More4, 9pm Last in the current season of the tense docuseries. The paramedics treat a man who has an anaphylactic reaction to a wasp sting on his lip.