TV gold: Your guide to Frantic Friday

Armchair fans rejoice! It's the busiest day of the Games. Grab your remote and get ready...

Get ready for "frantic Friday", the busiest day of the Games, with 24 of the 26 sports in action – that's 141 heats, finals, sculls and repechages all competing for your viewing attention. In previous years, the omnivorous sports fan might have despaired, but not in the brave new digital world. With judicious use of the BBC's multi-channel streams, a mobile screen and a tablet – and perhaps a carefully-prepared selection of TV snacks – Olympic addicts need not miss a thing.

The day begins with Jessica Ennis launching her heptathlon challenge in the Olympic Stadium. The challenge here will be to keep one eye on Ennis' shot-put feats, while the women's GB football team battles Canada for a place in the semi-final and Rebecca Adlington goes for 800m swimming glory. Others will be engrossed by the GB women's basketball team completing their group games against France and the Velodrome exploits of Team GB's cyclists. With so much Team GB activity to cover, the BBC will show uninterrupted live tennis coverage, including Andy Murray's tennis semi-final clash, at Wimbledon on "HD Stream 2" between midday and 8pm. Women's judo will run on stream 5 from 9.20am to 12.45pm. The equestrian team dressage event at Greenwich has been allocated Stream 22 from 10.55am until 3.40pm.

But the digitally-enabled can flick between 24 live streams, found behind the Red Button, which provide uninterrupted feeds from every event and have allowed the curious to sample events considered "minority sports". The channels are also available on satellite, Freeview, cable and online. Roger Mosey, the BBC's Director of London 2012, has invited viewers to "make your own Olympic channel" on frantic Friday. The Independent's minute-by-minute guide should allow you to do just that – if, of course, you don't have the inconvenience of work to do.

Olympic Breakfast

BBC One 0600-0900

Build up to the day with Sian Williams and Chris Hollins

Olympics 2012

BBC One 0900-1120

Archery final day

09:00 Men's individual 1/8 eliminations

Athletics: Jessica Ennis begins heptathlon challenge

10:00 Men's shot put qualifying round

10:05 Women's heptathlon 100m hurdles

10:25 Women's triple jump qualification round

10:40 Women's 100m preliminary round

BBC Three 1900-2300

Athletics

19:00 Continuation of women's heptathlon shot put

19:05 Women's 100m heats round 1

Swimming

20:10 Penultimate night of action from the Aquatics Centre

20:21 Women's 50m freestyle semi final

Football

19:30 Women's quarter final Great Britain vs Canada

BBC Two 2200-2240

Gary Lineker presents more action on a packed night at the Games.

Olympics Tonight

BBC One 2240-0000

Gabby Logan looks back at the memorable moments while boxing, hockey, women's volleyball and beach volleyball continue until midnight.

Olympic Sportsday

BBC One 0015-0100

Dan Walker looks at the key events and stories at the end of the busiest day.

Highlight BBC1 10am

It's hard to escape Jessica Ennis, the poster girl for the Olympic stadium, but finally it's time for her to compete. The heptathlon opens with the 100m hurdles at 10.05am before moving to BBC3.

BBC Three 0900-1300

More swimming heats and action from the Olympic Stadium as British world champion Dai Greene features in the heats of the men's 400m hurdles.

Swimming

10:00 Women's 50m freestyle heats

10:27 Men's 1500m freestyle heats

12:06 Women's 4x100m medley relay heats

12:28 Men's 4x100m medley relay heats

Athletics

11:15 Men's 400m hurdles round 1 heats

11:15 Women's heptathlon high jump

12:00 Women's 400m round 1 heats

BBC One 1120-1300

A huge morning for British rowing as Katherine Grainger attempts to add gold in the women's double sculls with Anna Watkins to the three successive silvers she's won at past Games.

Rowing

11:30 Men's quadruple sculls final

11:50 Men's pair final

12:10 Women's double sculls final

12:30 Men's single sculls final

BBC Two 1300-1345

More athletics on the first day of competition

Athletics

13:00 Men's 3000m steeplechase round 1 heats

BBC One 1345-1600

Tennis

The men's and women's singles semi-finals are played at Wimbledon.

BBC Three 1300-1900

Sailing

13:00 The final preliminary races in the Finn and Star classes

Archery

14:00 Men's individual quarter-final

14:52 Men's individual semi-final

15:21 Men's individual bronze medal match

15:37 Men's individual gold medal match

Hockey

16:00 Men's preliminary GB v South Africa

Football

17:00 Women's quarter-final 4

BBC One 1600-1800

Presenter Sue Barker with Jake Humphrey

Two gold medals at stake at the Velodrome, including the men's team pursuit which Team GB won in Beijing. Victoria Pendleton is the reigning world champion in the women's keirin.

Cycling track

16:00 Women's keirin first round

16:15 Men's team pursuit first round

16:45 Women's keirin first round repechages

17:00 Women's team pursuit qualifying

17:45 Women's keirin second round

BBC Two 1800-1900

The climax of the night's cycling with two golds to be won.

Cycling

1755 Men's team pursuit finals

1835 Women's keirin finals

BBC One 1900-2200

A big night in prospect with athletics (Ennis), swimming (Rebecca Adlington) and Team GB's womens's football team all fighting for attention.

Swimming

19:30 Women's 200m backstroke final

19:38 Men's 100m butterfly final

19:45 Women's 800m freestyle final

20:09 Men's 50m freestyle final

Athletics

20:05 Men's 1500m round 1 heats

20:30 Men's shot put final

20:45 Women's heptathlon 200m heats

21:25 Women's 10,000m final

Highlight BBC1 4pm

British hope Victoria Pendleton resumes her rivalry with Australian Anna Meares in the keirin, the mad scramble sprint in which riders follow a pacer motorbike. Pendleton is a world champion in the event but Meares is the slight favourite.

Highlight BBC3 7.30pm

A sell-out crowd awaits Team GB in Coventry for their quarter-final football clash with Canada. Can Steph Houghton repeat her scoring feat after her stunning strike guided GB to a shock 1-0 win over Brazil?

Highlight BBC1 7.45pm

There's little more she could do to endear herself to the nation but should Rebecca Adlington regain her Olympic crown in the 800m freestyle it should ensure a Damehood. Adlington says: "I'm going to give it my all in the final."