There's a look at Ireland's experiences of Love and Loss in a Pandemic, Paul Mescal pops up in new drama The Deceived, Kevin Costner's Yellowstone returns, Sue Perkins explores the US-Mexico border . . . and Love Island USA returns!
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Love and Loss in a Pandemic, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
This documentary features seven people who faced the loss of a loved one during Ireland’s ongoing Covid-19 emergency.
The pandemic has brought levels of isolation and anxiety to everyone. But for people faced with the urgency of a family illness, death or bereavement, the lockdown was a nightmare of utter helplessness.
For them, the global pandemic triggered a very personal crisis where consolation was with-held, farewell words could not be spoken and grief was unresolved.
As the numbers of Covid victims climbed, the familiar Irish rituals around death and funerals were reworked. Grief was compounded in a surreal world of PPE and protocols, where the normal remembrance and celebration of someone’s life was restricted or postponed.
Applause from a line of socially distanced mourners became the strange new substitute for a comforting embrace.
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Lovecraft Country, 9.00pm, Sky Atlantic & NOW TV
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The best show currently on TV continues. If you’ve missed the first three episodes so far, Sky’s catch up service will sort you out.
This week, after Christina shows up at her doorstep, Leti confronts Atticus about his plan to surreptitiously return to Florida.
In search of missing pages to a crucial text, Leti, Tic and Montrose head to Boston, with Hippolyta and Diana along for the ride.
Exhibition on Screen, 7.00pm, Sky Arts & NOW TV
It’s said that you can’t appreciate 20th century art without understanding the significance and genius of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.
This documentary features interviews with curators and experts from the National Portrait Gallery London, MoMA New York, National Gallery of Art Washington, and Musée d’Orsay Paris.
It also includes correspondence from the artist himself, and takes audiences to the places Cézanne lived and worked and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps the least well-known of all the impressionists.
New or Returning Shows
The Deceived, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
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Here’s a psychological thriller, starring Emily Reid and featuring Paul Mescal, written by Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and Tobias Beer.
It’s about Ophelia (Reid), an English student who falls in love with her married lecturer, Emmett J Scanlan’s Michael Callaghan, but their affair is interrupted when his wife dies in a fire.
In episode two at 10pm, Michael instructs his mother-in-law to keep an eye on Ophelia, but she slips away to meet up with Sean (played by Paul Mescal) - who guesses that Michael is the father of her baby, but promises to keep her secret.
Yellowstone, 9.30pm, RTÉ2
The US drama, starring Kevin Costner as ranch patriarch John Dutton, returns for a second season.
This run is all about John sitting down at the negotiating table with former friends and foes. And as the battle for the future of the Yellowstone heats up, nothing will ever be the same.
In the opening episode, John and Beth seek a new candidate to support, Thomas looks to expand the reservation, and Kayce gets even after the ranch hands get into a bar fight.
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Tastes Like Home, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Catherine Fulvio revisits stories featured in the programme in which she recreates familiar recipes for expats around the world, beginning with her time in South Africa.
Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border, 9.00pm, BBC One
The journey in this new series begins at the western end of the border, in the Mexican city of Tijuana, where Sue Perkins tries out a Tequila showroom and is left in no doubt that the city deserves its reputation as a party town.
She also discovers an unexpected invasion of migrants: American retirees who have settled south of the border to enjoy the good life and an ocean view at an affordable price.
Over on the US side of the border, she spends a day with Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, who is engaged in an ongoing battle with the Mexican drugs cartels that traffic people and drugs over the border.
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Africa Turns the Page: the Novels That Shaped a Continent, 9.00pm, BBC Four
David Olusoga explores the incredible journey of the African novel - how a fearless collection of writers created books that were to define the image of Africa in the world.
Love Island USA, 9.00pm, ITV2
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In the second season of the US version of the hit series, Love Island, eleven singletons head to Las Vegas to the Island in the sky for a gamble on love.
Will they find who they are looking for - the person handing over the $50,000 first prize - or will they be dumped from the villa?
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My Octopus Teacher, Netflix
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In this fascinating nature documentary, an unusual friendship develops between a filmmaker and an octopus living in a South African kelp forest that shares the mysteries of its world.
