What's on? TV highlights for Monday

The great Olivia Colman's back with more Flowers, there's a documentary about former rugby player Tommy Bowe, and another on last year's Grenfell Tower disaster in London.

Pick of the day

Flowers, 10.00pm, Channel 4

This critically-acclaimed and considerably crackers comedy-drama returns for a second run - a good two years after the first.

Will Sharpe's darkly imaginative series sees the return of the well-meaning Deborah (Olivia Colman), her depressive husband Maurice (Julian Barratt), their maladjusted adult twin children Amy (Sophia Di Martino), as well as Donald (Daniel Rigby) and the rest of the dysfunctional ensemble.

In the first episode of this opening double bill, it's a couple of years after the end of season one, and Maurice and Deborah are on a caravan holiday. Maurice is on medication and seems in a better place, while Deborah is about to become the published author of a book about his depression.

By the way, episodes 3-6 play across the week Tuesday-Friday at 10pm, and you can catch the complete first season on All4.

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New or Returning Shows

One of Us, 10.35pm, RTÉ One

Juliet Stevenson heads the cast in this good-but-grim BBC drama about a double murder that shocks two families living in isolated rural Scotland.

Adam Elliot and Grace Douglas are childhood sweethearts, just back from their honeymoon when they are brutally murdered by mentally-ill drug addict Lee Walsh.

Their families, neighbours in the remote Scottish Highland village of Braeston, are shocked and devastated. But their world is turned even more upside down when Walsh arrives on their doorstep the night after the killing.

Black Work, 9.00pm, TV3

An ITV mini-series from 2015, this is well worth a watch just for the fact that it stars the always excellent Sheridan Smith. It's no Line of Duty though.

Smith stars as police officer Jo Gillespie, dissatisfied that her husband and fellow police officer Ryan, like herself a police officer, spend so much time away from her and their children. However, she resists colleague Jack Clark's suggestion that she leave Ryan for him.

She is doubly shocked to be told not only that Ryan has been shot dead but had been working undercover - doing 'black work' - for three years without her knowledge.

Grenfell, 8.30pm, BBC One

This 90-minute documentary from Bafta-winning director Ben Anthony brings together multiple stories from the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, the most devastating tower block fire in British history.

Made over the course of one year - filming started on the day after the fire - the film draws from hundreds of hours of interview, archive, social media content and observational footage to form a lasting record of the events before, during and after the fire.

Food Unwrapped, 8.30pm, Channel 4

The globe-trotting trio of Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton and Matt Tebbutt return, and this time Jimmy and Matt are braving the heat of chilli peppers, including some of the hottest in the world.

Kate looks into Britain's plastic recycling crisis, and discovers one type of very common food packaging that can't be recycled, which one major supermarket has made plans to ditch.

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Don't Miss

Tommy Bowe – The End Game, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

Having played professional rugby for fifteen years and won a multitude of accolades, Tommy Bowe is hanging up his boots.

This documentary follows him in the months leading up to his retirement as he looks to a future beyond sport with the many worries, fears and personal challenges that come with it.

With exclusive access, it promises an honest account as he delves into what professional sports people must face when it comes to ending their career and the challenges that come with it.

As he prepares for life outside rugby Tommy meets other sports stars AP McCoy, Paul McGrath, and Derval O’Rourke to find out what challenges retirement holds.

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