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The Good Fight
The Good Fight

Melissa gets a gun on The Good Fight, there's a self-explanatory documentary called The Elon Musk Show, Candy kicks off on Disney+ and Neven Maguire travels to the Douro Valley . . .

Pick of the Day

The Good Fight, 9.35pm, RTÉ2

Season 6 of this Good Wife spin-off has been good fun so far, and thankfully they’ve discarded the animated inserts and returned to storytelling.

Richard, Diane and Elsbeth Tascioni are hired to negotiate a 'push-nup' for a husband and wife trying to determine fair compensation for childbirth.

But the case gets more interesting when a challenge is presented as the unborn fetus also gains representation in court.

Meanwhile, Marissa gets a gun after her near-death experience with her father and grows wary of strangers around her.

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 9.00pm, Sky Max

Streaming on NOW

More maniacal musical mayhem is unleashed with host Greg Davies (below), alongside team captains Noel Fielding and Daisy May Cooper and regular Jamali Maddix.

They welcome Grime legend Lethal Bizzle, Inbetweener James Buckley and Ed Sheeran protege Maisie Peters to the rebooted show.

This week’s highlights include the teams discussing infamous pranks that have arisen from some of music's most unlikely friendships.

In the ID Parade the teams have to identify Inspiral Carpets front man Tom Hingley and the real Miss McKenzie from Busted's 'What I Go To School For'.

Neven's Portuguese Food Trails, 8.30pm, RTÉ One

This week chef Neven Maguire travels to the Douro Valley in the North of Portugal, a UNESCO World Heritage region renowned for its wine production.

Mary Berry - Cook & Share, 8.00pm, BBC Two

Mary heads to Edinburgh, where she meets runners and their families before the city's marathon, which she has been given the honour of starting.

She is joined by her granddaughter Grace, with whom she shares her delicious home-made chocolate rocky road treats, and also visits the Royal Botanic Gardens to meet children from a local school.

Inspired by the vegetables growing in the gardens, Mary cooks a fresh pea pesto spaghetti, while other recipes include minted lamb and an eggy bread avocado and ham sandwich.

New or Returning Shows

The Elon Musk Show, 9.00pm, BBC Two

Using extensive archive footage taken throughout his life, from South Africa to Silicon Valley, the series analyses the key moments in Elon Musk's career, from his first tech start-ups through to Tesla and SpaceX.

In 1995, at the start of the Silicon Valley tech boom, Elon begins his ascendency, building and selling a major new internet technology business, becoming a multi-millionaire at the age of just 28 .

Butut just as he's enjoying newfound success, Elon faces his first major challenge

Litir Ghrá ón Dara Chogadh Domhanda, 9.30pm, TG4

Eighty years ago, as the British Army was on the brink of a catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Japanese in Singapore, young Belfast doctor Frank Murray was in the Royal Medical Corps and facing a moment of truth.

The fortress island was about to fall. Over a hundred thousand troops were about to surrender. Their fate and Frank Murray’s was now in the hands of an enemy that had shown no mercy as it swept across Asia and the Pacific in 1942.

As Singapore blazed and as death surrounded him on all sides, Murray sent a hurriedly written letter to his fiancée Eileen O’Kane, a geography teacher at the Loreto Girls Grammar School in Omagh, county Tyrone.

In that letter he made Eileen not so much a promise, as swore an oath. He would come back to her and one day they would walk down the aisle together as man and wife.

New to Stream

Candy, Disney+

Jessica Biel stars here as Candy Montgomery, a 1980s’ housewife and mother who did everything right.

She had a good husband, two kids, a nice house - even the skill of careful planning and execution of transgressions - but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom.

Until someone tells her to shush. With deadly results.

Easy-Bake Battle, Netflix

Talented home cooks put their skills and creativity to the test making fast and easy dishes that are wildly delicious - and worthy of a big cash prize.

Wild Croc Territory, Netflix

Matt Wright and his fearless team of crocodile wranglers catch and relocate some of the world's most ferocious reptiles in Australia's wild Outback.

Ending Today

How To With John Wilson, 11.45pm, BBC Two

This brilliantly idiosyncratic series comes to an end, leaving me with a hankering for a New York holiday.

In an episode entitled How to Cook the Perfect Risotto, John attempts to thank his elderly landlady for all the times she has cooked and cleaned for him by making her favourite dish of risotto.

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