Home of the Year (8.30pm RTÉ One) visits a renovated cottage in County Sligo, to a self build Cob house and a thatched cottage in Galway. Madame Secretary, a new White House drama series begins at 9.00pm on Sky Living. W1A (9.00pm BBC Two) is a one-hour special marking the return of the award-winning comedy about the BBC. One year on and Head of Values Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) has finally got his own office.
Home of the Year, 8.30pm RTÉ One
This week the judges are off to three very different homes, to a renovated cottage in County Sligo, to a self build Cob house and finally to a thatched cottage in Galway. Feile Butler and Colin Ritchie live in a cob-and-timber-frame home in Co. Sligo, Myles Lamberth and Jane Chambers run the Cafe Shells and live in a renovated cottage in Co. Sligo, and Karen O’Connor lives in a thatched cottage in Furbo Co. Galway.
House of The Year
Madame Secretary, 9.00pm Sky Living
Madam Secretary stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, newly appointed US Secretary of State who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home. A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returns to public life at the request of the President following the suspicious death of her predecessor. McCord's team includes her Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver (Bebe Neuwirth), speechwriter Matt Mahoney (Geoffrey Arend), press coordinator Daisy Grant (Patina Miller) and her charming assistant Blake Moran (Erich Bergen). Not quite House of Cards but it may have something of the old White House frisson.
Madame Secretary
W1A, 9.00pm BBC Two
A one-hour special marks the return of the award-winning spoof documentary about the inner workings of the BBC. One year on and Head of Values Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) has finally got his own office. He and the team have a new set of challenges to rise to, including the impending Royal visit of HRH The Prince of Wales. The question is, which of the management team will get to shake the royal hand? Meanwhile, Head of BBC Brand Siobhan Sharpe (Jessica Hynes) and her team at Perfect Curve have been tasked with giving a makeover to the BBC coverage of Wimbledon following rumours of a bid from a rival broadcaster. Her response is a brand mash-up to end all brand mash-ups. Over on the creative frontline, Entertainment Format Producer David Wilkes (Rufus Jones) is trying to come up with the next big Factual Entertainment series after Britain’s Tastiest Village failed to fly.
