The great Better Call Saul returns for its final season, your man from Montalbano stars in prison drama The King, there’s a talent show on Derry Girls, while Thomasin McKenzie stars in new BBC drama Life After Life . . .
Pick of the Day
Better Call Saul, Netflix
Easily one of the best TV shows of the last ten years or so, this Breaking Bad prequel returns for a sixth and final season.
It’s been a superb slow-burner of a series but six seasons seems just about right in this tale about how Jimmy McGill turned into the far nastier piece of work, Saul Goodman.
Bob Odenkirk finally landed a role that his skills deserve, though the same could be said for Rhea Seahorn, who’s been nothing less than superb as Kim Wexler. The rest of the cast has been exceptional too.
This time around, the connection betewreen the two shows is completed – which means we’ll get to see Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul revive their Breaking Bad characters, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.
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The King, 10.00pm, Sky Atlantic
Streaming on NOW
Here’s a high-stakes prison drama starring Luca Zingaretti (yep – the guy who plays Inspector Montalbano).
This time around he’s taking on the role of the controversial prison boss Bruno Testori, who rules the San Michele penitentiary with his own special set of laws.
While Testori’s life outside the prison may have gone wrong, inside San Michele he dominates as 'The King’.
Ruthless with those who deserve it and unexpectedly compassionate with others, Testori always follows the principles of his own distorted and obscure morals.
When the kingdom risks crumbling, threatened by imminent danger, Bruno will have to fight the most difficult of wars.
While the above trailer's not got English subtitles, the show will.
Derry Girls, 9.15pm, Channel 4
Last week’s season 3 opener was okay, but word has it that this episode is much better.
As we head back to Foyleside, Jenny Joyce has big plans for the fundraising talent show.
Can the gang outshine the competition and put Jenny in her place once and for all?
Meanwhile, Ma Mary is at the end of her rope, but salvation is just around the corner in the unlikely form of a plumber.
Hullraisers, 9.50pm, Channel 4
If you like Derry Girls, you really should hang around afterwards for the second episode of this new comedy about a bunch of girls already grown up, but this time in the glum surroundings of Hull.
Toni is on a mission to rekindle a bit of bedroom time with Craig - but daughter Grace keeps getting in the way. Rana's ex-boyfriend is back in town and keen to get her alone.
Could he really be about to propose? Paula makes a breakthrough with disciplining her kids - but with great power comes great responsibility.
MasterChef, 8.00pm, BBC One
John Torode and Gregg Wallace present the fifth and final round of heats, in which another nine cooks serve up a signature dish to prove themselves worthy of progression.
Three will be fast-tracked to the next round, leaving the other six to cook something else - but only four more can go through to the next round.
New or Returning Shows
Life After Life, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Thomasin McKenzie stars in this new drama based on the novel by Kate Atkinson, following the thrilling journey of a young woman called Ursula Todd, who dies and is reborn time and time again.
Ursula's story begins in 1910, when she is born to parents Sylvie and Hugh but tragically dies before she draws her first breath.
But on the very same evening, she is reborn and this time she survives.
This strange phenomenon happens over and over and results in Ursula navigating a series of parallel lives set against the backdrop of two World Wars.
Novels That Shaped Our World, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Here’s another chance to see this excellent look at classic books.
It’s a documentary examining the impact of novels from three perspectives - the empire, class experience and, in this first film, women's voices.
The programme aims to show the plight of women is a theme that reaches right back to the earliest novels, with extracts from Jane Austen, the Brontes, Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf.
Then it heads through to the post-war publishing boom where a new generation of global writers such as Zadie Smith, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Margaret Atwood (above) have continued to speak out for women to a new generation of readers.
The Lost Leonardo, 10.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
This offers the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold, which went for a hefty $450 million.
After the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brushstrokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration,
From that moment on, the Salvator Mundi’s fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power.
As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by the legendary Leonardo da Vinci?
New to Stream
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Netflix
Posh and exclusive clothesline brand Abercrombie & Fitch conquered malls in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s with gorgeous models, pulsing dance beats and a fierce scent.
But while the brand was running white hot, its popular "all-American" image began burning out as controversy came to light surrounding its exclusionary marketing and discriminatory hiring.
Ending Today
Killing Eve, 10.15pm, RTÉ2
Finally, the last-ever episode of the daft spy thriller, starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh.
Don’t know about you, but I gave up on this show earlier this season. I love quirky TV shows, but this had become a silly caricature some time ago. Only Judie Comer’s magnetism made me stay so long.
As the tale concludes, Villanelle and Eve focus on making a seismic stab at the Twelve, risking their own lives in the process.
Meanwhile Carolyn arrives home branded a traitor and has a finite amount of time to use her intel as leverage to get herself back in the game.
