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The Good Fight
The Good Fight

The Good Fight lands on RTÉ 2, there's a Home and Away 30th anniversary special, Suits is back and it's goodbye to Our Girl...

Pick of the day

The Good Fight, 9.30pm, RTÉ 2

Now you're talking. Anyone who loved The Good Wife and hasn't seen this sequel yet is in for an absolute treat.

Picking up one year after the events of the final episode of its Julianna Margulies-led predecessor, The Good Fight begins with a double episode and an enormous financial scam that has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart’s savings.

Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn - and raise more than a few eyebrows - by taking up at one of Chicago’s preeminent law firms, Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad.

One of the many great things about The Good Wife was its ensemble cast, and there are several familiar faces here (as well as some new ones), with Christina Baranski deservedly gaining top billing as Diane Lockhart, one of modern TV's greatest and most endearing characters.

Season one is hugely entertaining as the new show finds its creative feet, but wait until you get a load of season two – it's magnificent.

New or Returning Shows

Home and Away Special - Endless Summer, 8.30pm, RTÉ 2

A celebration of 30 years of Australian soap Home and Away, hosted by Steve Pennells, where he meets stars past and present to reflect on its success.

Some of the show’s biggest stars over the last three decades have been tracked down and brought together for this one-off event.

Melissa George, Dieter Brummer, Dannii Minogue, Steve Peacocke, Bec Hewitt, Nicolle Dickson, Alex Papps and many more reveal for the first time the on and off-screen dramas, romances, feuds and laughs.

There will be confessions, a surprise reunion, some shocking revelations and more than a few tears.

Suits, 11.30pm, RTÉ 2

Season seven of this lightweight legal drama marks the final run for Patrick J Adams and Meghan Markle - the latter not having to work anymore, given that she's married into the UK's royal family.

As things resume, Harvey takes charge, which coincides with Mike's big return.

999: What's Your Emergency? 9.00pm, Channel 4

This new run of this documentary/reality series focuses on the work of Wiltshire's police, paramedics and fire services.

An ambulance crew are despatched to a rural area where a man has chopped through his foot with an axe while cutting firewood.

Another crew respond to a Saturday afternoon call-out to help the victim of an injury incurred while playing rugby.

Ending Tonight

Our Girl, 9.00pm, BBC One

When Georgie accompanies Barsha to the police station to break the news of Sumon’s kidnapping to Inspector Chowdhrey, another audacious attempt is made to kill him.

Caught in the crossfire and rushed to hospital, Georgie finds herself struggling with her feelings for Captain James.

With Sumon still missing, Captain James calls in Special Forces while Rab and Maisie are sent undercover.

New to Download

Iliza Shlesinger: Elder Millennial, Netflix

The latest Netflix standup features newly engaged Iliza Shlesinger, who brings an 'elder millennial' perspective to relationships and sexual dynamics in a special show filmed aboard the USS Hornet.

Don't Miss

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, 9.00pm, BBC Four

In the second episode of this excellent series, Kermode examines the heist movie. The basic  formula has proved irresistible to screenwriters and directors over the decades and no other genre plays so cleverly with cinema-goers' sympathies and sense of right and wrong.

And from pioneering French film Rififi to last year's Baby Driver, via modern classics such as Reservoir Dogs and the spectacular science fiction epic Inception, Kermode will show how a simple set of conventions has been used to create a thrillingly wide range of films.

This is followed by a rather odd choice exemplifying the heist movie genre, The Lavender Hill Mob, one of the greatest comedies from the marvelous Ealing Studios.

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