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What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Sunday

North Sea Connection ends tonight
North Sea Connection ends tonight

There's the season finale of North Sea Connection, comic John Kenny is the focus of Keys to My Life, Shamrock Rovers host Shelbourne in Tallaght, and Simon Reeve's South America comes to an end . . .

Pick of the Day

North Sea Connection, 9.30pm, RTÉ One

It’s the sixth and final episode of this drama series about the Kennys, a fishing family that gets in far too deep with nasty drug runners and dealers.

Banished from the house by Adamma, Aidan’s taken by Bryan to a flat on a run-down Dublin estate and what transpires there has far-reaching consequences for him and his wife.

Egan’s managed to get a warrant to search Nevins’ boat. But when an angry Nevins arrives at the Garda station, years of animosity can no longer be contained.

Any feelings Shane has for Ciara are put to the test when he fears what she has done to neutralize any perceived threats to her and her family.

Moira worries about Tuva’s interest in Bjorn. However, she’s shocked to learn that it’s illicit activity, unrelated to Bjorn, that interests Tuva.

Realising what this means for her and her family, she takes drastic action.

Don’t Miss

Ireland's Fittest Family, 6.30pm, RTÉ One

This week’s families are Anna’s Gallaghers from Donegal, Donncha’s Sheehans from Limerick, Nina’s Burns from Waterford, and Davy’s Nugents from Louth.

Both Donncha and Nina are really feeling the pressure as they both lost a family last week. Can they get their families through tonight?

Keys to My Life, 8.30pm, RTÉ One

Comic actor Jon Kenny joins Brendan Courtney as they visit his former homes. He tells Brendan of his childhood in county Limerick, which led to his career in comedy.

Frozen Planet II, 8.00pm, BBC One

This week’s focus is on the wildlife that inhabits the snow-covered forest and open tundra of the far north.

They include Arctic foxes that dig face first in the snow to hunt for lemmings and turtle hatchlings that stay frozen during winter, emerging from suspended animation in the first thaws of spring.

Snowy owls take advantage of 24 hours of continuous daylight to hunt as much as possible.

Plus, there’s a look at how climate change is harming this environment by melting the permafrost deep within the soil.

New or Returning Shows

Patrick Aryee’s Wild World, 7.00pm, Sky Nature

Streaming on NOW

Patrick Aryee (below), biologist, documentarian, and explorer takes viewers on a mission seeking answers to big questions about the natural world.

Where he finds answers, he finds connections, drawing links between seemingly disparate parts of nature, and unveils the complex web that is woven across our breathtakingly wild world.

Sunday Soccer, 4.45pm, RTÉ2

Live coverage of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division from Tallaght Stadium as Shamrock Rovers host Shelbourne (Kick-off 5.00pm).

The hosts start as clear favourites to claim all three points as they look to maintain their lead over Derry City at the top of the table and stay on target for a third successive title.

Shelbourne have been inconsistent this season, but achieved their primary target of remaining in the Premier Division – Shels’ boss Damien Duff would love to get one over on his former club ahead of the Reds' FAI Cup Semi-final against Waterford.

New to Stream

18 ½, Sky Cinema & NOW

This dramedy stars Willa Fitzgerald, Bruce Campbell, Richard Kind, Jon Cryer, John Magaro and Sullivan Jones,

In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Richard Nixon's tapes.

There are many theories about the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Nixon’s White House recordings.

At a time of heightened controversy - thanks to Watergate and the ensuing investigations - the gap in recordings created a convenient slot into which a person’s conspiracy theory of choice might fit.

Dan Mirvish’s film explores a quaint, yet zany, moment of alternate history where the tape itself was taped and a young transcriptionist takesit away from the White House to listen to it with a journalist.

Hilarity ensues when they check into a small-town motel to do just that.

Ending Today

SWAT, 9.00pm, Sky Max

Streaming on Now

In the season 5 finale, when control of a university chemistry lab is seized, the SWAT team races to prevent a devastating terror attack.

NCIS: Los Angeles, 10.00pm, Sky Max

Streaming on NOW

As Season 13 ends, the NCIS team hunts for a crew that robs a Los Angeles casino with military-grade power.

Also, Kensi and Deeks hear exciting news regarding the adoption, and Callen takes a big step in his relationship with Anna.

Simon Reeve's South America, 9.00pm, BBC Two

The last leg of Simon's journey through South America takes him from Chile's Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego in Argentina, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth.

In the Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet with is as little as 1mm of rain per year, Simon discovers shocking evidence of human pollution.

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