It’s the quarter final of The Taste of Success (8.30pm RTÉ One) while Manchester City face Bayern Munich tonight, at 7.30pm on UTV/TV3. Fiorscéal (TG4,10.30pm) investigates the poaching of songbirds in Southern Europe, where millions are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market.
The Taste of Success
8.30pm RTÉ One
It’s the quarter final of The Taste of Success and only eight candidates remain to battle it out to win 100,000 euro and get their product on the shelves of every Lidl store in Ireland. Now the regional food mentors need to get behind their candidates and do everything they can to improve their products. But will Catherine Fulvio, Martin Shanahan, Domini Kemp and Noel McMeel steer them in the right direction? The three Lidl judges make their first appearance and the episode ends in a nail biting finale as half the contestants are eliminated. The mentors are pictured below.
Live Champions League: Manchester City v Bayern Munich
7.30pm UTV/TV3
Adrian Chiles introduces live coverage of the UEFA Champions League match between Manchester City and Bayern Munich from the Etihad Stadium. The Sky Blues need to beat the 2013 winners and win the next game against Roma to keep their hopes alive of qualifying for the knockout stages after a 2-1 home defeat to CSKA Moscow in early November continued their winless streak in Group E.Bayern, meanwhile, have taken maximum points from the group so far with the most eye-catching result being a 7-1 victory over Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in October. Jerome Boateng scored a late winner for Bayern when the two sides met in Munich in September but, with the Germans already assured of top spot in the group, City fans will hope Pep Guardiola rests a few key men. Commentary comes from Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend.
Fiorscéal
10.30pm TG4
This documentary chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, and a number of species face imminent extinction. The film explores the wonder of these tiny globe-flying marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market. The documentary makers follow an intrepid squad of pan-European birdlovers who risk their lives waging a secret war against poachers and freeing as many birds as possible.
