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The Case I Can't Forget: Declan Flynn
The Case I Can't Forget: Declan Flynn

There's the return of The Case I Can't Forget, the story of how Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro and his three sons came to power, new series Second Hand for 50 Grand, and the Rachel O’Reilly case concludes in A Dublin Murder . . .

Pick of the Day

The Case I Can't Forget, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

The return of the documentary series featuring first-hand accounts by detectives who worked on difficult cases.

These accounts reveal not just the story of a crime, but the dedication and personal commitment necessary to solve one.

The first episode of this third season sees retired detective inspector Edwin Handcock reflecting on the homophobic murder of Declan Flynn in Dublin in 1982.

Don’t Miss

Long Shot, 9.00pm, TG4

Here’s a pleasant romantic comedy, starring Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen.

Out-of-work journalist Fred Flarsky secures employment writing speeches for glamorous US Secretary of State Charlotte Field, who is shortly to run for office as the first female president.

Opposites attract and a very unlikely romance develops during an international campaign to champion environmental issues.

New or Returning Shows

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsanaros, 9.00pm, BBC Two

Documentary telling the story of how Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro (below) and his three sons, also politicians, came to wield enormous power in his country.

The first edition reveals how Bolsonaro made a remarkable rise from the political fringe to the edge of presidential power, using controversy and the power of TV to lead a political insurgency.

Second Hand for 50 Grand, 10.00pm, Channel 4

Another one of those shows where it seems that someone came up a snappy title and then worked on a concept.

Behind the scenes of a company that tracks down luxury second-hand items, hunting down the exact handbags, watches and jewellery on their clients' wish-lists.

In the first episode, ex-city banker Tom is after a £60,000 luxury watch. His partner, swimwear model Ianthe, wants a hard-to-find classic handbag - but also, just maybe, an engagement ring.

Ladhood, 10.00pm, BBC Three

Here’s the third and final season of Liam Williams’s autobiographical comedy about a millennial who moves to London.

When Liam’s landlord ups the rent, he’s forced to look for a new place to live. During his search, he is thrust back into adolescent memories of the lads' first flatshare.

Leeds, mid-noughties. When Liam’s relationship with his parents hits a low point, he convinces the lads to move in together. But after the others have signed on the dotted line, Liam realises moving out of his parents' might not be as straightforward as he first thought.

In episode two at 10.25pm, needing money for a house deposit, Liam decides to try and win a promotion. But when he becomes disillusioned with work, he thinks back to his first part time job at a pizza restaurant.

Leeds, mid-noughties. Desperate for money, Liam takes a job at a local pizza restaurant. But when the part-time shifts don’t bring in the wages he hoped for, he starts skipping school to take on more shifts.

24 Hours in A&E, 9.00pm, Channel 4

As this long-running series returns, a 50-year-old woman is rushed to A&E having collapsed at work following a thunderclap headache, leaving doctors concerned that she may have a bleed on her brain.

Her husband shares the story of how they met and the challenges they have had to overcome.

Other patients include a 13-year-old boy hit by a car while riding his bike and a woman concerned by a headache, who describes her childhood spent in Zambia and Lancashire.

Walter Presents: Redemption, 12.05am, Channel 4

You can view every episode of this Italian drama on All 4, Channel 4’s streaming service.

It’s about a detective investigating the apparent suicide of his estranged son, who drowned in the Tiber.

As the detective wrestles with his guilt and grief, both his colleague and his son's girlfriend argue that the verdict of suicide does not add up.

American Pickers, 8.00pm, Sky History

Streaming on NOW

Season 19, so they must be doing a lot right here.

In small towns, and along America's back roads, treasures are waiting to be uncovered.

Valuable relics from history that are hidden in junk piles, buried in barns and stacked in garages. It takes special experts to find these lost artifacts and hopefully turn rust to riches!

American Pickers follows two of the most skilled 'pickers’ Mike Wolfe, owner of Antique Archaeology, and his business partner, Frank Fritz, as they hunt down objects with historical, collectible and pop culture value that have been long forgotten by their owners.

New to Stream

Once Upon a Small Town, Netflix

Yet another Korean show.

Against his wishes a veterinarian from the big city relocates to the countryside, where he meets a policewoman, a town insider with a friendly secret.

Ending Today

A Dublin Murder, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One

The conclusion of the documentary profiling the brutal murder of Dublin mother-of-two Rachel O'Reilly at the hands of her husband.

In this episode, Rachel’s coffin is exhumed as the police find the cryptic letter her husband Joe had written to her.

There was another breakthrough when ground-breaking technological evidence threw Joe’s alibi into doubt. After more than two years of painstaking detective work, they finally had enough to charge him.

When the case came to trial, the courtroom heard revelation after revelation, each more shocking than the last.

Her family came to court every day, even when it meant sitting through painful testimony from the pathologist on how Rachel must have seen whoever was trying to kill her.

Emails that Joe sent to his sister showed what he had really thought of his wife, and why he might have wanted her dead were also read out in court.

But would it be enough to convict him?

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