Home of the Year: The Final (8.30pm RTÉ One) features seven such homes and their proud owners, keen to win the enviable accolade of the title. Living in a Coded Land (11.15pm RTÉ One) is new documentary which uses RTÉ and IFI archive to investigate the island of Ireland. Meanwhile, it's also the final in The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge (8.00pm BBC Two) Also a (dirty) nail-biting time over younder.
Home of the Year: The Final
8.30pm RTÉ One
Over seven weeks, the three expert judges – interior design legend Hugh Wallace, award winning architect Declan O’Donnell and textiles and homewares designer Helen James – have whittled down their favourites from 21 houses. Now the judges must decide which of the seven houses wins. The contestants are as follows: Tom Hayden and June Kennedy from Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Also in the running are retired couple Ita Molloy and Andrew Harvey from Castletownbere, Co. Cork. Architects Eva Byrne and Gerard Carty live in South Dublin City with their two children. Ger and Susann Eaton – who have two children - live in Kildare. Feile Butler and Colin Ritchie live in a cob-and-timber-frame home in Co. Sligo. Sarah and her husband live with their four sons in their beach side bungalow in South County Dublin. Finally, Carla Benedetti lives in renovated Victorian house, also in South County Dublin.
Living in a Coded Land
11.15pm RTÉ One
This new documentary is a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life in Ireland. The film revolves stories associated with place, probing themes such as the impact of colonialism, emigration, the famine, land, housing and the place of art in society. Making extensive use of archive from RTÉ and the IFI, the film seeks to explore the more elusive layers of meaning that make up this country. Given Pat Collins' involvment, this should be very special. Aside from producing many films, Collins directed well-received documentaries on Tim Robinson, Gabriel Byrne, John McGahern, one also on Tory Island and a film on the great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry).
The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge
8.00pm BBC Two
Tonight it’s The Final at RHS Headquarters in Wisley where the contestants have five days and their biggest budget yet to create a show garden that will prove they are a worthy of winning the biggest prize in gardening - to design a garden on the Main Avenue at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. All three designers are desperate to win and have ambitious plans for their final garden. Aided and advised by Joe Swift the designers need to create flawless designs - along with perfecting planting - if they want to win over judges James Alexander Sinclair and Ann Marie Powell and win this life-changing opportunity.