There's a new documentary series about Dublin's Rotunda Hospital, the great No Offence returns, while Grayson Perry heads off to the Amazonian rainforest . . .
Pick of the day
The Rotunda, 9.30pm, RTÉ 2
Oddly enough, this arrives on the same night and just a week after a documentary series about St James's Hospital in Dublin began on Virgin Media One.
Going behind the scenes at the maternity hospital where over one million Dubliners have been born and some 24 new babies are added every day.
On tonight's opener grandmother Kay helps daughter Nicola through childbirth, young couple Shauna and Daryl anxiously await their new baby's arrival, and Monaghan couple Áine and Arno cope with the news that their child in the womb has a life-threatening condition.
New or Returning Shows
Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street, 8.00pm, W
It's a familiar format as Dr Christian travels across the UK in a mobile clinic to treat individuals. The difference here is he's racing against the clock to complete as many appointments as possible within a 12-hour shift.
WW2: Hell Under the Sea, 9.00pm, National Geographic
AQs this new series opens, it’s January 1943 and Dudley 'Mush' Morton, Commander of USS Wahoo, sets out to gain an edge in America’s South Pacific submarine battle and decides to take on an entire convoy.
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Ending Tonight
Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage, 10.00pm, Channel 4
In this closing episode, the rite of passage Grayson Perry explores is coming of age. He travels deep into the Amazonian rainforest in western Brazil to spend time with the Tikuna people, the region's largest indigenous group.
He witnesses a coming of age ritual for teenage girls, who have been kept in seclusion from the rest of the community. and given instruction by the elder women of the village. Tikuna girls undergo an elaborate ceremony to mark their becoming an adult.
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Don't Miss
No Offence, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Paul Abbott's award-winning (and hugely entertaining) dramedy featuring Elaine Cassidy returns for a third run and sees DI Viv Deering (the great Joanna Scanlan) and the Friday Street team face off against their most formidable antagonist yet: the far-right.
The season opens during a contentious mayoral election fought between incumbent liberal Kashif Hassan (Ace Bhatti) and political underdog and local-girl-done-good Caroline McCoy (Lisa McGrillis).
DI Viv Deering and her team are drawn into their rivalry when a mayoral hustings between the pair becomes a flashpoint for deadly violence as assassin Beckett (Darren Connolly) gets involved.
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