Derry Girls is back for a final run, Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce star in Julia, Graham Norton’s Holding arrives on new channel Virgin Media MORE, while Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack present Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof . . .
Pick of the Day
Derry Girls, 9.15pm, Channel 4
So, here we go: Lisa McGee's comedy returns for a third and final season of Foyleside fun.
While there is hope that the Troubles may finally be over, the gang's troubles are only just starting as they get ever closer to adulthood.
Tomorrow is GCSE results day and confidence is at rock bottom. If things go badly, how will the gang face their mammies again?
Meanwhile, a new member of the Quinn household is causing chaos in the neighbourhood
While the first season of Derry Girls was great fun, the second was a bit hit and miss. Fingers crossed it goes out on a comedic high.
Don’t Miss
Julia, 9.00pm, Sky Atlantic
Streaming on NOW
This HBO Max series looks the business. The fact that it stars (a pretty unrecognisable) Sarah Lancashire and Frasier's David Hyde Pierce means it has to be taken seriously.
Lancashire - almost unrecognizable here - and Pierce star as American TV chef Julia Child and her husband Paul. (You might recall the 2009 film starring Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci?)
This drama Inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which was a TV pioneer in the now hugely popular genre of cooking shows.
The series explores an evolving time in American history - the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity and America's cultural growth.
At its heart, the series is a portrait of a loving marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic.
New or Returning Shows
Holding, 9.00pm, Virgin Media MORE
The latest addition to the Virgin Media stable, MORE is only available to Virgin TV subscribers.
Based on Graham Norton’s best-selling novel, the four-part drama is set and filmed in Cork, and features lots of great Irish acting talent.
Conleth Hill (above) stars in the lead role of Sargent PJ Collins, while there’s also Derry Girls’ Siobhan McSweeney, Peaky Blinders’ Charlene McKenna, Normal People’s Clinton Liberty and My Left Foot Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker.
Episode one introduces Seargent Collins – a gentle man who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work.
He’s one of life’s outsiders: lovable, but lonely and a bit rubbish at his job.
When human remains are found in a sleepy Irish village, he finally has a genuine crime to solve. As the gruesome discovery ripples through the community, it threatens to expose a lifetime of secrets.
Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof, 9.00pm, BBC One
Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack present this new show which sees eight celebrities undertake a series of sub-zero challenges designed to test them to their limits, both physically and mentally.
They are guided by Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof, aka 'the Ice Man’, who believes that embracing the cold can change lives for the better.
Those taking part are West End star Alfie Boe, singer and footballer Chelcee Grimes, dancer Dianne Buswell, sports presenter Gabby Logan, weatherman and drummer Owain Wyn Evans, footballer-turned-coach Patrice Evra, rapper Professor Green and actress Tamzin Outhwaite.
How will they cope with the freezing conditions?
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries
Streaming on NOW
This documentary brings to life the words of America’s most famous anti-slavery activist.
Actors Nicole Beharie, Colman Domingo, Jonathan Majors, Denzel Whitaker and Jeffrey Wright draw from five of Douglass' legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass’ life.
Inspired by David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, the film features narration of Douglass’ autobiographies by André Holland and context provided by Blight and Gates to show Frederick Douglass’ words about racial injustice still resonate deeply today.
Hullraisers, 9.45pm, Channel 4
This is a brand new comedy about a trio of female friends in the East Yorkshire city of Hull, as they juggle the demands of children, work, relationships and having a good time.
Out-of-work actress Toni has not had a night out in years and things are getting desperate, so she secretly skips daughter Grace's drama club rehearsal for a sneaky pub visit.
Meanwhile, Rana has a date with the Hull City player she met last night, and Paula is tearing her hair out about her daughter's new boyfriend.
Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen from the Tombs, 9.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
Italy is home to the one of the most important artistic heritages in the world, but it is also where tens of thousands of precious finds are illegally trafficked every year, making it one of the world’s biggest illicit industries.
This new four-part series examines the most sensational thefts of ancient masterpieces in the history of art, including the Euphronios Krater, the Goddess of Margantina, the Capitoline Triad and the Vase of Asteas.
Assisted by noir-inspired animations, the series will reconstruct the relationships between grave robbers, supporting actors and institutions.
In doing so, it recounts the stories of those who dug up stolen and forgotten masterpieces, those who sold them as if they were any old commodity, and of the Carabanieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage.
New to Stream
Hard Cell, Netflix
Events planner-turned-women’s prison governor Laura Willis documents the thrills and spills of life behind bars in this dry comedy series from Catherine Tate.
Ending Today
The Witchfinder, 10.00pm, BBC Two
Thomasine and Bannister arrive in Chelmsford but no longer as travel companions.
When Hebble gets Thomasine jailed, Bannister meets the Witchfinder General and is handed the opportunity he has been dreaming of - to put her on trial.
An Diabhal Inti, 10.00pm, TG4
More witchery!
Long after the European witch hunts were over, it is said that Biddy Early, a bean feasa from County Clare, was accused of being a 'witch' by Catholic clergy.
Witch trials had been rare in Ireland. There had been no cases at all amongst Gaelic speakers, who held onto traditional beliefs rooted in pagan rituals and goddess worship.
Along with her goddess counterparts such as the Cailleach and the Morrigan, Biddy remains a powerful symbol of resistance against the culture that produced the horror of the European witch hunts.
