Man on Fire
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The Young Offenders
Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks:
Pick of the day
The Young Offenders
RTÉ One, 9.45pm
Mairéad bundles the lads into the car and takes them on a road trip to pick up her mother (Fionnula Flanagan). Then, Conor and Jock are dreaming of a sun and sand holiday, but how to pay for it?
The Young Offenders
Live Uefa Women’s Champions League
RTÉ2, 1pm
Arsenal head to the Matmut Stadium de Gerland to take on Lyon in their semi-final second-leg tie. The Gunners are the holders and keen to make another final, but the hosts are tough cookies – they’re unbeaten at home all season.
Secret Africa: Into the Wild
Channel 4, 7pm
In the final episode, Lucy Shepherd and her nomadic hunter-gatherer team face danger as they traverse the Serengeti to reach a sacred volcano, coming face-to-face with lions en route. During the journey, the adventurer reflects on the difficulties faced by communities living entirely off the land.
West Side Story
TG4, 4.10pm
Oscar-winning adaptation of the Broadway hit, updating Romeo and Juliet amid the streets of New York. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer play the star-cross’d lovers.
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RTÉ One, 11.25pm
Helen Mirren and John Lynch take the leads in a drama about a widow who embarks on a romance with a younger man, little realising he was instrumental in her husband’s death.
Man on Fire
Netflix
While Yahya Abdul‑Mateen II plays Special Forces veteran Creasy, stepping into the role Washington made iconic back in the day, this is a fresh, seven-episode adaptation of AJ Quinnell’s novels set on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Bobby Cannavale and Billie Boullet also star.
Shut Up Evan
Shut Up Evan
Netflix
Netflix podcasts have entered the chat… Behold Netflix’s foray into podcasting with this twice-weekly pop culture offering hosted by Evan Ross Katz, featuring ‘The Group Chat’, a rotating panel with celebrity guests taking the temperature, and ‘Deep in the DMs With…’, a new tastemaker in an intimate one-on-one conflab.
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These
Netflix
Oh, 1980s Ireland. A world away and yet not long enough ago in terms of this sort of travesty. The year is 1985, and when a devoted father (Cillian Murphy) finds a girl shivering in a shed, he begins to unravel the tightly held secrets between his small Irish town and its convent.