Mint<\/p>\n
9pm, BBC One
This retelling of Romeo and Juliet from Charlotte Regan \u2013 director of hit indie film Scrapper \u2013 is set in modern-day Scotland. Sparks fly at a train station when yearning romantic Shannon (Emma Laird) locks eyes with enigmatic Arran (Ben Coyle-Larner, AKA musician Loyle Carner) across the tracks. But Shannon is the daughter of the area\u2019s biggest gangster and Arran is the son of a rival family. Will their forbidden love follow the same tragic trajectory as the classic it\u2019s inspired by? The beautifully shot opening episode captures those heady first moments of lust \u2013 and quickly introduces us to the violent world that threatens to put a brutal end to them. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
Great Japanese Railway Journeys<\/p>\n
6.30pm, BBC Two
Michael Portillo\u2019s pleasant working holiday in Japan continues. This time he\u2019s visiting the Sakurajima International Volcanic Centre to watch scientists monitor seismic activity. He also explores the former airbase at Chiran, the departure point for most of Japan\u2019s kamikaze pilots in the second world war. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Mastermind<\/p>\n
7.30pm, BBC Two
An engraved Caithness Glass bowl is up for grabs as the finalists brave the black chair and the gentle probing of Clive Myrie for the grand final. The specialist subjects include the films of Danny Boyle and the books of Beatrix Potter. PH<\/p>\n
Egypt With Dan Snow<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 5<\/p>\n
Back in the saddle \u2026 Dan Snow\u2019s new series on Egypt. Photograph: Hit Networks LTD<\/p>\n
There may be remote corners of the world that aren\u2019t currently hosting celebrity travelogues \u2013 but thanks to this amiable, generic series, Egypt is now not among them. The historian begins his trip in Luxor then takes a luxury steamer down the Nile. Nice work if you can get it. PH<\/p>\n
Chernobyl: Days That Shocked the World<\/p>\n
10pm, Channel 4
Forty years ago this week, in the dead of night, a devastating explosion tore through a nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, putting its town on the map for all time. Its very name would become a byword for catastrophe and cover-up. Here\u2019s how the tragedy unfolded. Ali Catterall<\/p>\n
Euphoria<\/p>\n
10.15pm, Sky Atlantic
For its much-delayed third season, HBO\u2019s nihilistic high-school drama has evolved into a frazzled frontier crime show. After her disasters as a drug mule, Rue (Zendaya) is caught between two ruthless kingpins. Is now really the best time to try to reconnect with her disaffected ex Jules (Hunter Schafer)? Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n
Film Choice<\/p>\n
Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes, 1961), 4.30pm, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n
Skewed religious allegory \u2026 Hayley Mills and Alan Bates in Whistle Down the Wind. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc\/Alamy<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is it?\u201d \u201cJesus Christ!\u201d The shocked encounter in a dark barn between Lancashire farmer\u2019s child Kathy (Hayley Mills) and criminal fugitive Arthur (Alan Bates) leads the girl and her younger siblings to believe he really is the son of God \u2013 and to vow to protect him from the grownups who might crucify him again. A skewed religious allegory directed in gritty fashion by Bryan Forbes \u2013 from a novel by Hayley\u2019s mum, Mary Hayley Bell \u2013 it features brilliantly unsentimental performances from a motley group of mostly locally cast kids. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mint 9pm, BBC OneThis retelling of Romeo and Juliet from Charlotte Regan \u2013 director of hit indie film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-408011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}