The BBC gets very BBC with new series Civilisations, while it’s goodbye to Ear to the Ground, Celebs Go Dating and The Orville.
Pick of the day
Civilisations, 9.00pm, BBC One
Sure isn’t this a fine day to be reflecting on the creative process?
The first film by Simon Schama in this landmark new series looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself.
Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves.
He also travels to the civilisations of Petra in the Middle East and the Maya in Central America.
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New or Returning Shows
The Cruise: Return to the Mediterranean, 8.30pm, TV3
With unique access to one of the world’s largest luxury cruise ships, the Royal Princess, this six-part series returns to follows life on board for the staff and passengers who live, work and play on the vessel as it navigates the Mediterranean.
Ending Tonight
Ear to the Ground, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Helen Carroll heads to Castletownroche in Cork to see how illegal dumping and fly-tipping are effecting the area and talks to tillage farmer Billy Cotter.
Elle McSweeney is in Balinalee with farmer John Connell, who shows another side to the farming life by discussing his love of writing and his The Cow Book, regarded as a book to look out for by The Irish Times, no less.
George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Architect Clarke closes his run by visiting a London tailor who is creating a studio space in his garden which he hopes will impress his clients.
Then it’s off to Bristol to meet a tram building a cabin in a crane, and finally he visits a Tokyo capsule hotel that almost defines claustrophobia.
The Orville, 9.00pm, Fox
Seth McFarlane’s humorous homage to Star Trek boldly ends its first season where no first season has gone before, with a crash-landing on a planet that forms another universe.
Meanwhile, Ed and Kelly reconsider getting back together again.
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A team of under-21 football players in Montreal copes with triumphs and challenges on and off the field while chasing dreams of professional stardom. Soccer ball!
Bachelor Girls, Netflix
Through intimate interviews, this documentary explores the stigma facing independent women who seek housing in modern Mumbai.
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Bear Grylls’ Survival School, Netflix
Ten adolescents leave behind their phones and the comforts of home to spend two weeks learning how to survive and thrive in the great outdoors.
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Homeland, 10.10pm, RTÉ 2
This seventh season has been taking its time to grip fans who’ve stood by the show, but it looks like Claire Danes’ Carrie is due for take-off.
She’s now convinced that lithium is no longer effective for her bipolar disorder and gets a prescription for Seroquel. Then things begin to happen.
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