The X-Files continues its new run on RTÉ 2 after last night's first episode in fourteen years drew in an impressive audience of 147,000 viewers. Tonight's episode 'Founders Mutation' continues from last night's familiar tale of alien abduction and the search for 'the truth' continues. Other highlights include a new healthy eating cookery series from Neven Maguire and a fascinating documentary on BBC One.
The X-Files, 9.55pm, RTÉ2
It began last night and continues tonight in this special double pilot, all of 14 years after the original series. The new series runs for six episodes in total with, as the whole world knows by now, stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back on board as Mulder and Scully. Mitch Pileggi also returns as Dir Walter Kkinner, Mulder and Scully’s boss, who walks a fine line between loyalty to these investigators and accountability to his superiors. As of last night, Mulder and Scully were dealing with a case of a possible alien abduction. Expect some real progress as tonight’s episode picks it up again.
Neven Maguire: Healthy Home Chef, 7.30pm, RTÉ One
Neven’s recipes are healthy and no refined sugar was used for this new series which kicks off tonight. Each programme is based around a health theme, such as fitness or strength and coping with stress. Each week, Neven cooks with a guest who has a relationship with the theme. The series was filmed at the Airfield Estate, a 38-acre working farm near Dundrum in Dublin, which is open to the public, and whose purpose is to educate people about food and where it comes from. In the first episode, Neven cooks with Olympic silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan and finds out what she ate on the day she won the medal. He also learns how Sonia’s diet has changed, now that she is no longer competing professionally, and has two teenage daughters to cook for. Dishes include Grilled Beef Salad, Hake, and Nutty Energy Bites.
Children Saved From The Nazis: The Story Of Sir Nicholas Winton, 11.15pm, BBC One
This film tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train over to Britain. In order to provide a degree of credibility with both the British and Nazi governments of the day, Nicholas single-handedly established the British Committee For Refugees from Czechoslovakia - Children’s Section, using it to obtain passports and visas for the children. He then organised for each child to be adopted by families throughout the country and their safe passage across Europe and into Britain. For nearly 50 years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, 50 years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans. The story then emerged in 1988 when the BBC’s That’s Life programme reunited over two dozen of his ‘children’ with their rescuer for the first time in a highly emotional broadcast. Also tonight, on a related topic, see the hour-long Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories, BBC Four is at 10.00pm.
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