Help Me Buy a Home is a new show about the burning issue of the moment, Niamh Algar stars in Malpractice, there's a brand-new Derren Browne special, and there's Absolutely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy . . .
Pick of the Day
Help Me Buy a Home, 8.00pm, Virgin Media One
In this new show, buyers’ agent Liz O'Kane and comedian Michael Fry explore the unfiltered realities Irish people face in the search for a home, taking a raw and honest look at the emotional rollercoaster, challenges and hard-won joys of buying a property.
In the first episode of the six-part series, Liz O'Kane guides prospective buyers through the twists and turns of house-hunting.
Emma is a 34-year-old working professional who has been on the market for a modest Dublin apartment she can call her own for 12 months and counting.
Having moved back home with her parents to save money, she questions what more she can do.
"It's madness what's going on. I work in a good company, I have a good amount of savings. I don't want a mansion. I just want somewhere small. And it should not be this difficult," she says.
Meanwhile, Mike and Anna are a retired couple seeking somewhere to settle, with their current abode up for sale. The pair are cash buyers with a budget of €350,000.
As they scout properties in the south-east of the country, they learn that their original spec is not exactly what they have been seeking.
Elsewhere, Michael Fry is a member of 'generation rent'. Now in his late 20s, he has moved nine times in the last decade. Frustrated with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel, he spends the day with housing minister Darragh O'Brien.
Don’t Miss
Great Expectations, 9.00pm, BBC One
It’s the penultimate episode of this potty-mouthed and colour-blind adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Joe is horrified at the toll London life is taken on an opium-addicted Pip, and tries to persuade him to return to the safety of Gravesend.
An unsuspected threat from the past emerges when Pip discovers the true identity of his mysterious benefactor.
Frustrated by Estella's reluctance to marry Drummle, Miss Havisham foists another unsuspected suitor on her daughter, who is driven to desperate lengths to seize control of her life.
Kin, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Bren openly seeks out Anna against Michael's wishes, while Amanda looks global for business opportunities, and Birdy's past and present traumas begin to collide.
Elsewhere, Viking's allegiances are tested when the police interrogate Nikita (above).
New or Returning Shows
Malpractice, 9.00pm, UTV/ITV1
Medical thriller, starring Niamh Algar.
Experienced A&E doctor Lucinda Edwards is in the middle of a nightmare shift, with a gunshot victim and an opioid overdose patient who both need a bed in resus, but there's only room for one of them.
When one of the patients dies, Lucinda realises her troubles have only just begun as investigators are tasked with assessing whether she is fit to practise medicine.
Ireland's Wild Islands, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Eoin Warner explores the wildlife of the country's Atlantic islands in a 140-year-old Galway hooker fishing boat.
He starts his voyage at Rathlin, where he witnesses flightless chicks jumping 300ft from cliff ledges down to the ocean.
He then heads west for Malin Head and Inishtrahull, encountering basking sharks and dolphins en route
Derren Browne: Showman, 9.00pm, Channel 4
This one-off special brings Derren Brown's record-breaking, five-star show to TV.
Written by Derren Brown, Andrew O'Connor and Andy Nyman, the award-winning team behind Miracle, Svengali and Derren's BAFTA-winning Channel 4 specials, the critically acclaimed Showman is probably Derren's most personal show to date.
Absolutely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy, 9.00pm, E4
Actor Danny Dyer (above) takes his daughter Dani on a road trip as they set out out on a four-week cultural tour of Italy taking in all the scenery, art and history they can handle.
They start in Sicily, sampling the street-food scene in Palermo and catching their own dinner, while Danny gets spiritual - and physical - by a volcano.
Gradam Ceoil TG4 2023, 9.30pm, TG4
The highly anticipated live awards show, which will be hosted by Páidí Ó Lionáird, will also feature live performances from the seven Gradam Ceoil 2023 recipients, who will be recognised for their talent and contribution to traditional Irish music.
Gradam Ceoil TG4 2023 recipients include: Musician 2023 - Mick O’Brien; Young Musician 2023 - Méabh Smyth; Singer - Síle Denvir, Lifetime Achievement - Fintan Vallely; Composer - Maurice Lennon; Music Group - Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy; Outstanding Contribution- Frank McArdle.
New to Stream
My Neighbor Adolf, Sky Cinema & NOW
This comedy is set in Colombia, May 1960, just a few days after the abduction of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann by Mossad agents in Argentina.
Polsky, a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in the remote Colombian countryside. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rose bushes.
One day, when a mysterious old German man moves in next- door, he suspects that his new neighbour is Adolf Hitler.
Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a detective mission to find the evidence.
But, in order to gather evidence, he will need to be closer to his neighbour than he would like. So close that the two could almost become friends.
Ending Today
Last Woman on Earth with Sara Pascoe, 9.00pm, BBC Two
The comedian heads to Jordan as she takes on more of the world's endangered jobs, learning how to be a Dead Sea lifeguard and spending a night in the desert with a family of Bedouin herders on the lookout for dangerous animals.
