The All-Ireland Hurling Final lands mid-summer, Iain De Caestecker stars in new BBC drama The Control Room, Pamela Adlon’s back with more Better Things, and Dublin Zoo gets its first pack of Dholes . . .
Pick of the Day
The Sunday Game Live, 2.00pm, RTÉ One
Joanne Cantwell presents coverage of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, held at GAA HQ Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).
Limerick are the defending champions, having defeated Cork in last year's final, and are seeking a third consecutive All-Ireland.
Meanwhile Kilkenny are the most successful team in the competition's history with 36 titles, but the last of those came in 2015.
It’s all set up for a cracker.
Don’t Miss
The Summer Show, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Derek Mooney and Nuala Carey head to Kerry to walk the prilgrim path Cosán na Naomh, which translates to the Saint's Path in English.
It’s an 18km trail that starts on Ventry Strand and finishes beneath Mount Brandon.
Along the way folklorist Shane Lehane tells the stories of the battle of Ventry and St Brendan the Navigator's famous voyages, while Nuala joins Mná na Mara sea-swimming and Derek visits Rockabill island to find out how one migrant bird population is battling extinction.
The Zoo, 7.00pm, RTÉ One
There’s a chance on tonight’s show to meet Dublin Zoo's first-ever pack of Dholes.
They’re Asian wild dogs, and you can see how they get on as they settle into their new habitat.
There’s also a catch up with the Humboldt penguins as they lay their eggs for the hatching season.
Mreanwhile, Bosu the western chimp has been involved in an altercation with Marlon, the alpha male, and Helen and the team intervene to bring him to the surgery for urgent treatment.
New or Returning Shows
The Control Room, 9.00pm, BBC One
With The Outlaws ending last week, here’s the latest show to land in that prestigious 9pm Sunday slot on BBC One.
Iain De Caestecker and Joanna Vanderham star in this new thriller about an emergency call handler in Glasgow
Gabe is an ordinary guy whose world is turned upside down when he receives a desperate life-and-death call from a woman who appears to know him.
Under pressure to work out who she is, he makes a decision that may have devastating consequences and which forces him to confront the past he would rather forget.
"I would say it's one of the most exciting scripts I've ever read and it was a page-turner from start to finish," says Iain De Caestecker.
"I just had to know how it ended. Nick has a way of using very relatable and universal themes and emotions. The characters are not two-dimensional."
Better Things, 10.15pm, BBC Two
This is the fifth and final season of the dramedy about Sam Fox, an actress trying to juggle her career with raising her three daughters in Los Angeles, created by and starring Pamela Adlon.
First up, Sam helps Max find an apartment, visits a genealogist with her brother Marion and gives best friend Rich a shoulder to cry on.
In episode two at 10.50pm, Sam's day starts with a shoot-out at the supermarket and does not get much better when she learns Phyllis has been scammed, but things improve when she makes a decision about work.
Big Cat Country, 6.00pm, Sky Nature
Streaming on NOW
At the tail of the great rift valley, in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, two neighbouring prides lay claim to the land.
Wildlife film-makers Nathan Pilcher and Sam Davies are in the middle of the action, embedded deep in the park for three months.
Can these prides beat the odds, and survive the greatest challenge of their lives?
New to Stream
A Mouthful of Air, Sky Cinema & NOW
Here’s a drama starring Amanda Seyfried, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Carpenter, Michael Gaston, Amy Irving, and Paul Giamatti.
The books from kind, warm, best-selling author Julie Davis deal with unlocking childhood fears, but she has yet to unlock the dark secret that has haunted her own life.
But when her second child is born, events occur that bring that secret to the fore, and with it, a crushing, powerful battle to survive.
Sunday Cinema
Blade Runner 2049, 10.30pm, BBC One
Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi thriller, the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic, starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas and Sylvia Hoeks.
An android-hunter working for the Los Angeles Police Department discovers a long-buried secret.
That leads him to track down former detective Rick Deckard, who's been missing for 30 years and is linked to the case.
The Vow, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Here’s a romantic drama, with Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange and Sam Neill.
A newlywed couple are involved in a car accident, and the wife wakes up with no memory of her husband.
While he tries to get her to fall in love with him all over again, she is reunited with her estranged parents, who never approved of the marriage and see her condition as a chance to make a fresh start.
Family Flick
The Railway Children, 1.50pm, BBC Two
As The Railway Children Return hits cinemas, here’s a chance to see the original film, from 1970.
It’s a family drama adapted from E Nesbit's story of the same name, starring Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett, Gary Warren, Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn and Iain Cuthbertson.
Three Edwardian children are forced to leave their comfortable middle-class London home and move to the wilds of Yorkshire after their father is wrongfully imprisoned for treason.
