PERFORMANCE LIVE: WHY IT’S KICKING OFF EVERYWHERE, BBC2, Saturday, 10pm

IF we judged everyone by how they appear on Twitter, then we would all be considered shallow and obsessive and as having little regard for the rules of punctuation. Everyone would take offence at trivial events by saying “Wow. Just wow” and they would all demonstrate their smooth superiority by saying, “I’ll just leave this here”, whenever they wanted to make a point.

In short, everyone would seem unbearable.

I have only encountered Paul Mason through Twitter – mainly through people retweeting him and appending “Wow. Just wow” to his tweets.

So here’s a chance for a direct experience with the man where you can decide if he’s a loony lefty or a keen-eyed prophet.

This is a live broadcast of his “popular protest” play, based on his book of the same name.

In it, Mason tries to explain how the optimism of the Arab Spring dwindled into the bitterness of Trump and Brexit, Turkey and Greece. Kirsty Wark presents.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BBC4, Saturday, 9pm

ANOTHER two episodes of this Spanish language thriller are delivered tonight. Juan Elias has lost his memory – or so he claims.

He doesn’t know who he is, but the police do because they found his crashed car, which contained the mobile phone of his missing niece.

Everything suggests Juan killed her, but with no memory of events how can he defend himself? Or, to turn it on its head, how can the police possibly question him?

In the first of tonight’s double bill, Juan discovers a phone number in his office. He rings it, hoping for some clues as to his past, and the call is answered by a prostitute.

And there is evidence that Juan dabbled in drugs. Illegal substances and sex workers? Things aren’t looking good for him.

The past life he’s uncovering reveals a very sordid man indeed.

Can he continue to protest his innocence while such black marks pile up against his name?

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THE HANDMAID’S TALE, C4, Sunday, 10pm

I HAVE stopped enjoying this brilliant drama because it is going to end soon. This weekend brings the penultimate episode and all I can feel is desolation that it is about to vanish from our screens. How can anything hope to take its place? It has been near perfect.

This week’s episode dangles the tantalising prospect of rebellion before Offred. The Mayday group whisper that an important package is being held at the Jezebel’s club. Offred must flirt with her Commander and try to simper and sigh and sweet talk him into taking her back so she can grab it.

Offred is terrified but also enchanted: is rebellion possible? Can she strike against the hated Gilead regime? The risk is awful, but the prospect glorious.

Janine, battered and raped and with her eye plucked out, decides to rebel in her own way.

Being forced to hand over her baby has driven her into a wild and dangerous situation which shows the awesome power one single Handmaid has, if she’s brave enough, or mad enough, to use it.

ROSS KEMP: EXTREME WORLD, SKY1, Sunday, 9pm

TWO things are obvious from this series: the world is full of power-crazed lunatics, criminals, violence and depravity, and Ross Kemp never grows old. Maybe it’s his lack of hair which keeps him young. Being bald means there’s nothing on top to grow thin and grey. Whatever the reason, he seems eternally energetic, and ready to tackle whichever horrible zone the producers throw him into. This week he’s in the Philippines, a troubled country with the dubious honour of having Rodrigo Duterte as its president.

Duterte has declared war on the country’s drug users and dealers, and advocates killing them. Thousands of deaths have occurred on his watch, at the hands of both the police and vigilante groups.

Ross Kemp dons his “hard man” face to meet the dealers and the men who hunt them, and I’m starting to believe his “hard man” face is genuine. Kemp never seems troubled by or made nervous by the horrors he witnesses. He is like a big brave slab of granite which absorbs all the horror while we peek out from behind him.