DC's Legends of Tomorrow (8.00pm Sky 1) is a new DC comics show, a kind of spin-off The Flash and The Arrow, Home of the Year returns on RTÉ One, 8.30pm, while Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard is at 9.00pm BBC One.
DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 8.00pm, Sky 1
Time-travelling rogue Rip Hunter must bring together a disparate group of DC’s finest heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat. For the uninitiated, this is the latest chapter in the so-called Arrowverse, and it is a kind of spin-off from the TV series, The Flash and The Arrow. All three take place - and now I will adopt a strange disembodied voice-over - `in the same fictional universe.'
Home of the Year, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
From unusual conversions to architectural gems and countryside retreats, the new series features people who have built their dream home just the way they want it. The series showcases homes from all across Ireland including a converted workshop and a modernist inspired new build. In the first episode, the judges visit three very different homes, from a transformed Victorian end of terrace in Dublin, to a converted barn in County Wexford as well as a radically renovated terraced house in North Dublin.
Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed, 9.00pm, BBC One
Genial academic Mary Beard guides us through Pompeii, accompanied on her journey into the past by the future, as it were in the shape of some dazzling `cutting-edge modern technology' and, wait for it, point-cloud scanning technology. CT scanning and X-Ray equipment will illuminate the 79 AD eruption, in which gladiators, slaves, businesswomen and children all lost their lives. Beard goes behind the scenes of the Great Pompeii Project where restoration teams have gradually removed the layers of time and deterioration from the frescoes and mosaics of houses closed to the public for decades. Plumbing fittings, pottery, paint pots, foodstuff and fishing nets, they are all here and Mary pieces it beautifully together in her neat fashion.
Plaster casts in the Garden of Fugitives in Pompeii
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