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Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Renaissance – The Blood and the Beauty BBC Two, 9pm Three-part docu-drama examining how some of the world’s greatest art treasures – including the Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa – were created against the backdrop of one of history’s most bloodthirsty periods. Charles Dance plays an ageing Michelangelo, while Sophie Okonedo is the narrator. Renaissance – The Blood and the Beauty CRÁ TG4, 9.
30pm After the reconstruction airs on national TV, a new suspect comes to light. They were a close friend of both Art and Sabine’s, and it soon becomes clear that despite being backed into a corner, they’re going to come out fighting. CRÁ Person of Interest Channel 4, 11.
05pm One-off drama about Muslim cabbie Shakil (Asim Chaudhry). His night shift is full of annoying passengers – until a mysterious surveillance officer appears, fuelling our hero’s paranoia. Craig Parkinson and Julia Davis also star.
Green Zone TG4, 10.25pm Matt Damon stars in director Paul Greengrass’s Iraq war thriller. It’s based on the true story of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction supposedly hidden by Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Brendan Gleeson and Greg Kinnear co-star. The Later Daters The Later Daters Netflix, streaming now What do you get when Michelle Obama dons her producer hat and teams with the co-creator of Love on the Spectrum and the showrunner of Queer Eye ? This very charming (if inadvertent) ode to My Mum, Your Dad . By way of an overview, six baby boomers — lovingly coerced by their grown-up kids, closest friends, plus a renowned relationship expert who wrote How To Not Die Alone — venture into a new dating world (like learning how chronicling your deceased former partners isn’t the best tack).
Be they divorced, widowed, or longtime single, they end up developing connections not just with those around them, but with themselves. It’s also refreshing to simply see Americans get along without their political affiliations getting in the way. In other dating offerings (’tis the season seemingly), we have season two of Love Village , plus The Ultimatum meets Jeremy Kyle thanks to South African number Love Never Lies .
The Madness Netflix, streaming now Political consultant/TV pundit Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo) has found himself in a perilous situation...
He’s a black man and the only witness to the murder of a well-known white supremacist deep in the Poconos. Beatles '64 Beatles ’64 Disney+, streaming now This is never-before-seen footage of the band’s first trip to America. It’s a rare glimpse into when they became the most influential band of all time.
If you’d prefer to see Ben Stiller do the ‘Holiday Movie’ thing, there’s Nutcrackers...
Something in the Water Netflix, streaming now Namely five girls, one of which can’t swim and another is unconscious, having had her leg savaged by a shark. Given the one that can’t swim is due to get married on a remote Caribbean island, we can safely assume Mr Shark will spare her..
. If you prefer your melodrama more mysterious in nature, South Korea gives you The Trunk . Senna Senna Netflix, streaming now Over the course of six episodes, this dramatisation will depict the racing life of renowned Brazilian F1 racer Ayrton Senna.
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