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V Festival - Weston Park - Day 2STAFFORD, ENGLAND - AUGUST 23: Olly Murs performs headlining the MTV stage on Day 2 of the V Festival at Weston Park on August 23, 2015 in Stafford, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage)
Pandemic pop ... Olly Murs will peform at the virtual V Festival. Photograph: Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage
Pandemic pop ... Olly Murs will peform at the virtual V Festival. Photograph: Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage

TV tonight: V festival goes live and virtual

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The music festival returns with live performances and archive footage. Plus: locusts sweep Kenya and luxury yachts divulge their secrets. Here’s what to watch tonight

Virgin Media’s V Festival

7pm, ITV2

With August bank holiday approaching, the festival season would have been drawing to a close, but for the pandemic. So the team behind V festival are providing a weekend of virtual performances from Hylands Park, Chelmsford, to sate our appetites for live music. Broadcast from tonight and over the weekend, hosts Maya Jama and Joel Dommett will be introducing sets from Olly Murs, Anne-Marie and Dizzee Rascal, as well as reliving memorable moments from the archive. Ammar Kalia

The Gadget Show

7pm, Channel 5

There’s a retro feel to this week’s episode of the tech review show, as Jordan Erica Webber runs down the best rebooted video games and Jon Bentley refurbs an old motor with some cutting-edge kit. Plus Ortis Deley visits a library of 15m gadget sounds. The microwave “ping” is only the beginning. Ellen E Jones

Unreported World

7.30pm, Channel 4

As if the pandemic wasn’t enough to contend with, swarms of locusts are devouring crops in Kenya and threatening millions with starvation. Reporter Sahar Zand reports on how the worst swarm for 70 years could create dire consequences. AK

Travel Man’s Greatest Trips

8pm, Channel 4

Hat men ... Richard Ayoade and Jon Hamm in Hong Kong. Photograph: Channel 4 Television

Richard Ayoade ends this entertaining compilation series of his best moments as the Travel Man before handing over to a new host, the comic Joe Lycett. Tonight he narrates his greatest moments of mental and physical wellbeing, like a Tai Chi session in Hong Kong with Jon Hamm and a smoke sauna with Paul Rudd. AK

Secrets of the Luxury Super Yachts

8pm, Channel 5

To Tuscany, Barcelona and Monaco for a snoop around the weird world of the super-rich and their massive boats. While brokers try to score deals for new vessels worth tens of millions, former super-yacht crew members pump us full of gossip about what exactly happens on board. Jack Seale

The Young Offenders

9.30pm, BBC One

The craic continues as the Irish comedy about teen delinquents reaches the penultimate episode of its BBC One airing. Beef between the “young offenders” and a local boxing champion and his girlfriend sees Jock thrust into the ring – with Conor as his coach – and the whole town egging them on. It really is Cork-ing stuff. Hannah J Davies

Film choice

Tremendously funny ... Saoirse Ronan and Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird. Photograph: Allstar/Iac Films

Lady Bird (Great Gerwig, 2017), 9pm, BBC Two
A tremendously funny and moving coming-of-age debut from writer-director Greta Gerwig. It’s about rebellious Catholic high-school teen Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), her friends, boyfriends and acting ambitions – but mostly about her intense relationship with her demanding mother, Marion (Laurie Metcalf). Paul Howlett

Live sport

Rugby Union: Sale Sharks v Exeter Chiefs 5.30pm, BT Sport 2. Top-flight match from AJ Bell Stadium.

UEFA Europa League 7pm, BT Sport 1. Live coverage of the league final.

PGA Tour Golf: The Northern Trust 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Day two of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

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