It's a big big telly night as Dancing with the Stars returns after a two-year break, there's the season two opener of drama Smother, David Attenborough presents The Green Planet, and there's Robin Wright's directorial debut Land . . .
Pick of the Day
Dancing with the Stars, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Sunday nights just got a lot more glitzy!
Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne return to host the hugely popular celebrity dance contest, with Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry and newcomer Arthur Gourounlian judging the efforts.
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Taking to the dancefloor with their professional partners for the first time are Aengus Mac Grianna, Billy McGuinness, Cathy Kelly, Ellen Keane, Erica-Cody, Gráinne Seoige, Jordan Conroy, Matthew MacNabb, Missy Keating, Neil Delamere, Nicolas Roche and Nina Carberry.
Don’t Miss
Smother, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
The deadly drama, starring Dervla Kirwan (below, centre), returns for a second season.
Still picking up the pieces after the death of her husband Denis and the cover-up that followed, Val Ahern's world is rocked once again when a stranger turns up on her doorstep.
He introduces himself as Denis's estranged son Finn, and his existence is an unwelcome surprise for the family.
Call the Midwife, 8.00pm, BBC One
The much-loved period drama continues as Sister Frances joins Dr Turner in operating a cervical smear clinic, and helps to support a recently married young woman who has received a life-changing diagnosis.
Meanwhile, single mother expecting her fourth child whose eldest son is in borstal needs Lucille's assistance to avoid being branded an unfit mother.
Elsewhere Miss Higgins moves into Nonnatus after a traumatic experience, but the longer she stays, the more she annoys everyone else.
The Chase: The Bloopers, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One
Bradley 'the host’ Walsh presents a compilation of out-takes, mistakes and funny moments from the quiz show.
Naturally, it features regular Chasers Paul 'the Sinnerman' Sinha, Jenny `the Vixen’ Ryan, Anne `the Governess’ Hegerty, Shaun `the Dark Destroyer’ Wallace, Mark `the Beast’ Labbett and our own Darragh `the Menace’ Ennis.
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes, 7.25pm, BBC Four
This is a recording of the visually sumptuous, award-winning ballet production at London's Sadler's Wells, based on the classic Powell and Pressburger film.
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A dancer's creative ambitions place her at the centre of a conflict between two very different men, who both in their own way inspire her passion.
Ashley Shaw, Adam Cooper and Dominic North head the cast, while the score incorporates the music of golden-age Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, played by the New Adventures Orchestra.
New or Returning Shows
The Green Planet, 7.00pm, BBC One
David Attenborough presents a guide to the lives of plants in environments around the world, beginning with the plant battlegrounds of the tropical rainforests.
New filming techniques allow viewers to enter the plants' world and see it from their perspective, and on their timescale.
Featuring fast-growing trees, flowers that mimic dead animals, and life and death battles to absorb much-needed sunlight.
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The Killer Nanny: Did She Do It? 9.00pm, Channel 4
This is a documentary series re-examining the trial of Louise Woodward for the shocking murder of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen 25 years on.
It features contributions from jury members, who openly discuss the factors that influenced their decision for the first time.
The first episode focuses on the case against Louise Woodward, with exclusive access to the prosecution team, the paramedic who treated Matthew and the investigating detective.
Murders at Starved Rock, 9.00pm, Sky Crime
Streaming on NOW
here's yet another classy-looking murder doc from HBO.
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On March 14th, 1960, the bodies of three women from the suburbs of Chicago were discovered in a canyon that makes up one of the natural wonders of Starved Rock State, Illinois.
The brutal killings shocked northern Illinois and led to an exhaustive manhunt. Then, as the investigation progresses, it snares a confessed killer who has been in prison ever since.
Now, after decades of questions and doubts that have haunted the son of the prosecutor in the case, the man found guilty seeks to clear his name after sixty years in prison.
New to Stream
Land, Sky Cinema & NOW
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Robin Wright stars and makes her directorial debut in the poignant story of one woman's search for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness.
In the aftermath of an unfathomable event, Edee (Wright) finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies.
After a local hunter (Demián Bichir) brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.
Sunday Cinema
The Sisters Brothers, 10.00pm, BBC Two
Quirky western, starring John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed and Rutger Hauer in one of his final film roles.
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It’s based on the award-winning book of the same name by Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt.
In the American West during the 1850s, gunfighter brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are employed by a rich businessman, known as the Commodore.
He hires them to kill Hermann Warm, who eventually reveals that he is en route to find gold using a chemical formula of his own invention.
