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Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Cispheil Bheo TG4, 4.55pm Action comes from Dublin’s National Basketball Arena, where Ireland take on Kosovo in a FIBA Men’s World Cup 2027 European Pre-Qualifiers Group A first round match. The Gone RTÉ One, 9.
30pm The final episode begins with Mt Affinity locked down. Chief suspect Frank Pastor is still on the run, and if Diana and Richter don’t crack the case soon, it’s highly likely that the notorious Mountain Murderer will find a new victim. Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy TG4, 9.
30pm The third run of the traditional music series features highlights from this year’s Summer School. The opening programme includes music from Noel Hill, Liam O’Connor, Tim Dennehy, Eimear Howley and Andrew Caden. The Meaning of Life The Meaning of Life RTÉ One, 10.
30pm Joe Duffy talk to Travellers’ rights advocate Catherine Joyce Collins, who tells him exactly what drives her forward, as well as what it was like to bring up her siblings following the early deaths of both her parents. Whisky Galore! BBC Two, 11.30am Charming Ealing comedy.
Based on Compton Mackenzie’s novel, which was inspired by a true story, it focuses on what happens after whisky-starved Scottish islanders discover 50,000 cases of it following a shipwreck. Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood star. Whisky Galore! The Day After Tomorrow RTÉ2, 9pm Disaster thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid.
It focuses on the impact a freak set of weather conditions has on several people, including a climatologist and his son, who is trapped in New York. Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm and Adrian Lester are also among the cast. A Man on The Inside Netflix, streaming now If you’ve been wondering if Ted Danson would return to the darkly farcical vein of Bored to Death, this is (almost) it.
Only, this time, it’s his character — Charles — who’s leading a double life. Bread & Roses Bread & Roses Apple TV+, streaming now From 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and female education activist Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence comes this timely documentary. It follows three women as the Taliban seized Kabul in 2021, sending the female population back to the dark ages.
Women might be half the population of planet Earth, but we’re seeing rights rolled back at an alarming rate...
And if you think “it won’t happen here”, then perhaps you’re not paying close enough attention. 900 Days Without Anabel Netflix, streaming now In April of 1993, Anabel Segura was kidnapped, plunging Spain into a state of suspended animation for 900 days as the police negotiated with the kidnappers through a series of unpublished tapes. The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson Netflix, streaming now Featuring the acting and directorial prowess of two of Denzel Washington’s offspring (Malcolm and John David specifically), this jarring and immersive family drama also stars Samuel L Jackson, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts and the multi-faceted Erykah Badu.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson, it’s not an easy watch. Joy Netflix, streaming now Starring Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie and James Norton, this is the story of the actual godfathers of IVF. Told via the perspective of nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, who teamed up with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe.
Their efforts resulted in the ground-breaking birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’ — Louise Joy Brown in Manchester in 1978..
