Baz and Nancy's Last Orders is the latest from the Ashmawys, there’s a Panorama special about premeditated teenage murder, star-studded drama Suspect continues, and Blue Bloods is back for a 12th run . . .
Pick of the Day
Baz and Nancy's Last Orders, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Baz and Nancy Ashmawy take an entertaining sideways glance at the morbid, but also strangely uplifting, business of editing your life's final chapter.
The funnyman with the empathetic heart, Baz had never broached the subject of death with his beloved mammy prior to filming this programme.
Pragmatic, sweet Nancy on the other hand, has no filter and tells it as it is.
A former nurse – she has seen dying and death in many ways – and has very strong opinions on how we should deal with both inevitabilities; practically, emotionally and socially.
She is ready to talk about it but is her only son Baz ready to listen?
Don’t Miss
Panorama, 8.30pm, BBC One
The case of Reading teenager Olly Stephens, who was lured out by a teenage girl and stabbed to death by two teenage boys she had met online in January 2021.
The attack on the 13-year-old was planned on social media and triggered by a dispute on a chat group.
With exclusive access to Olly's parents, Amanda and Stuart, Marianna Spring investigates the violent and disturbing world their son had been exposed to online and follows their campaign for tighter regulations on harmful content.
On the Roads with Simon Delaney, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Simon takes on the morning and evening rush hour 'working’ on the M50 alongside the road maintenance and emergency recovery teams, and travels to Brussels to look at the bigger picture of road safety and climate action within the EU.
Suspect, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Bruised by his encounter with Nicola, Danny goes to The Crimson Orchid gentlemen's club to look for Maia, who Nicola has accused of corrupting Christina.
Maia stonewalls Danny's questions, but when he tells her that Christina may have been murdered, her façade of indifference cracks.
Danny knows that Christina was involved in criminal activity, and he assumes Maia has lured her into prostitution, but in the face of her angry denials, he realises that Christina was selling drugs.
Then at 9.30pm, against Maia's advice, Danny goes alone to meet with Christina's supplier, who is revealed to be Jaisal Batra, a corrupt former police officer-turned-club owner.
New or Returning Shows
Blue Bloods, 9.00pm, Sky Witness
Streaming on NOW
It’s season 12 of this cop and legal drama based around the fictitious Reagan clan, led by top cop Frank, played by Tolm Selleck.
As Danny consults a psychic to solve the murder of a young boy, Frank is at odds with the mayor over how best to protect the city from an uptick in crime following a high-profile shooting.
Also, Erin investigates a decades-old case in which the primary eyewitness to the killing is her boss, D.A. Kimberly Crawford, who was 13 years old at the time.
Le Chéile, 8.00pm, RTÉ One
The story of East Belfast GAA during its first full year of play, revealing how it began with a tweet in May 2020 inviting people from all backgrounds, beliefs and abilities to join.
The first members explain how the club was built from scratch, unlike most GAA clubs, which have been at the heart of parishes and families for generations.
Stormzy: Road to the Pyramid Stage, 11.10pm, BBC One
Three years his historic headline set, Stormzy reflects on his Glastonbury journey as the first British Black solo artist to top the Pyramid Stage in 2019.
From first appearing in 2016 on the Sonic Stage, and following his debut album reaching No 1, he returned to perform in the penultimate slot on the Other Stage in 2017.
Two years later he was back, and this time to headline the main stage at the festival. The London rapper tells his story, and looks back on the rollercoaster experience that became an iconic and widely acclaimed headline performance, and an important chapter in Glastonbury's 50-year history.
How to Hire a Hitman, 10.00pm, Channel 4
After receiving hundreds of hacked messages from a murder-for-hire online site, true-crime obsessive Yinka Bokinni journeys deep inside the dark web to find out if it's possible to anonymously order someone's death.
The hacked message shows hundreds of people all over the world have been ordering hits online.
This isn't gangland score-settling, either, but seemingly ordinary people who want friends, partners, work colleagues dead.
Len Phillips Swing Orchestra’s 100 years of Big Bands, 8.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
Joe Pettitt, Matt Ford & Nicola Emmanuelle Celebrate a century of swing with the LP Swing Orchestra plus singers Matt Ford and Nicola Emmanuelle.
A two-part tour de force, featuring the UK’s finest jazz musicians in concert at London’s Cadogan Hall.
Great British Aircraft, 8.00pm, Sky History
Streaming on NOW
As early as 1912 the Vickers company produced machine gun-bearing aircraft.
WWII saw the introduction of bombers such as the Hurricane, Spitfire and Lancaster.
In passenger aircraft too, the country has been at the forefront of technology, co-developing the Anglo-French Concorde and Airbus 380.
