True Detective - starring Colin Farrell - begins tonight on Sky Atlantic at 9.00pm and there is a repeat showing of Coming Out of the Curve, with Donal Óg Cusack taking stock of gay rights.
True Detective, 9.00pm Sky Atlantic
Return of the series with a charming Dubliner on board, in the shape of Colin Farrell. A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California. Farrell is Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective in the all-industrial City of Vinci, LA County. Vince Vaughn plays Frank Semyon, a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his life's work, while his wife and closest ally (Kelly Reilly), struggles with his choices and her own. Rachel McAdams is Ani Bezzerides, a Ventura County Sheriff's detective often at odds with the system she serves.
True Detective
Coming Out of the Curve, 10.35pm RTÉ One
In this repeat screening of a striking documentary, Donal Óg Cusack takes stock of gay rights, both at home and abroad, and asks how far we have travelled from the days when being gay was effectively against the law in Ireland. Cusack - a three--times All-Ireland winning Cork hurler - was one of the country's first high-profile sports personalities to come out . He asks how much life in Ireland and internationally has changed for gay people in the two decades since the de-criminalisation of homosexuality.He talks to sports people about coming out, and interviews an 'ex-gay' man who claims he has been cured of his homosexuality. The sequences filmed in Russia are particularly fascinating.
Coming Out of the Curve
The Met: Policing London, 9.00pm BBC One
Episode three in this fascinating five-parter. Filmed over the course of year, The Met: Policing London follows officersacross the capital. Gangs are a major problem for police in at least 20 of London’s 32 boroughs. The aim is to stop the lucrative drug trade thriving on the streets of South London, while in North London, wealthy residents of Camden have been plagued by a wave of violent snatch-and-grab thefts by robbers using mopeds to evade police. Suspects are often only in their teens and the police are cautious about chasing the criminals. Police Constables Tim Dawes and Steph Mills have been patrolling the streets of Brixton for over 5 years. After a vicious knife attack in broad daylight, they must save the life of an innocent teenage boy.
