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

Super Garden
Super Garden

Super Garden returns for a new run, Harry Hill pops up on Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs, crime comedy The Curse resumes, and the final season of Firefly Lane lands on Netflix . . .

Pick of the Day

Super Garden, 7.00pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

The garden design challenge series is back for its 14th season.

For the winning designer it’s a launch pad to the premier league of garden design and a chance to show what they can do while showcasing to one hundred thousand visitors at Bord Bia Bloom.

Each designer is given three weeks and a budget of €15,000 to design and create their gardens. Which includes €5,000 from Board Bia for Irish grown plants.

They are each given similar sized blank canvas to create their designs.

The location for this year’s Super Garden is Untangling in county Meath, a brand-new development called Lagore Lawn which has been built by the County Council for social housing.

This is where five lucky households will have their gardens transformed by the designers.

Don’t Miss

Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs, 11.00pm, UTV

Most of the spaniels at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home are full of energy, but Paul meets one who was found tied up and has lost all hope.

The presenter needs to help rebuild his trust in humans. Plus, he meets a feisty shorkie with a Spanish chip and a worryingly large lump. There's also a very special visitor to Battersea - comedian Harry Hill.

Home Rescue: The Big Fix, 9.30pm, RTÉ2

Streaming on RTÉ Player, Peter Finn

This week Dee Coleman and the team are in Clondalkin in Dublin, where Lisa and John Kelly share a modest three bed terraced home with seven of their nine children.

John works five days a week and Lisa has a full-time job as a stay-at-home mum – somehow managing to feed, clothe and organise an army of kids in the most cluttered, least functional home imaginable.

Despite the support of the family and several attempts by her eldest daughter Danielle to help her mother combat the chaos, nothing has changed for the last seven years.

Downstairs, the living room and hallway are completely hemmed in, the kitchen is filled with bags of clothes and the layout makes no sense for this busy family.

Faced with this monumental challenge Dee is straight in at the deep end – determined to bring the heart of family life back to this home.

Taskmaster, 9.00pm, Channel 4

Back in its traditional timeslot after Scared of the Dark pushed last week’s episode back in the schedule.

Greg Davies challenges the short-term memory and musicality of contenders Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin as the five intrepid comedians approach the halfway point.

Frankie impresses with his falsetto, while Kiell wows everyone with his spoon retrieval abilities. Plus, Mae fakes their way into assistant Alex Horne's wallet.

New or Returning Shows

The Curse, 10.00pm, Channel 4

The return of the crime comedy about small-time crooks in 1980s London who find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest gold heists in history.

Eighteen months have passed since the gang's gold heist. While Mick languishes in prison, Albert, Tash and Sidney have escaped to start a new life on the Costa del Crime. Allan Mustafa, Tom Davis, Emer Kenny and Steve Stamp star

Episode two follows at 10.30pm. Here, Tash and Albert receive some unexpected visitors - and their arrival threatens to upend everything they've built.

Guilt, 9.00pm, BBC Two

The Fargo-esque Scottish drama starring Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives returns for a third and final run.

Max is running a pub in Chicago with his brother Jake, but the business is floundering.

But after their money worries take an unexpected turn, they find themselves deported back to Edinburgh where enemies old and new cause them to seek ever more desperate solutions to their problems.

Billionaire Blooms, 8.00pm, Channel 4

Cameras delve behind the scenes to observe the work of some of the UK's top florists as they create floral wonderlands for their super-wealthy clients.

In this first episode, Jamie is in Italy for his toughest gig yet, the wedding of one of his most treasured clients.

A multi-venue event spans four days and the length and breadth of Venice, one of the most romantic cities in the world.

Jamie needs to transport himself, his team of almost 40 and over 100,000 stems of the best flowers available everywhere by boat, in baking heat.

Back in London, Afia tackles an outdoor wedding and has to think on her feet when construction issues threaten her design.

New to Stream

Firefly Lane, Netflix

The drama about the lives of two teenage girls in the 1970s all the way through to their adulthood in the mid 2000s, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl, returns for a final run.

For Kate and Tully, no obstacle is too big when it comes to their lifelong friendship. But is there one mistake that could tear them apart forever?

Sweet Tooth: Season 2, Netflix

Gus and his fellow hybrids are held captive by the Last Men in order to find a cure for the Sick. To save his friends, Gus must find new strength as he uncovers the origins of The Great Crumble.

La Brea, Paramount+

Season two resumes in the epic, time-travelling adventure that began when a massive sinkhole opened in Los Angeles, plunging people into a mysterious primeval land where they must unite for survival.

This season, the Harris family – Gavin and Eve and their kids Izzy and Josh – still find themselves separated across parallel worlds.

In 10,000 BC, Eve is determined to find a way to reunite with Josh, who accidentally went through a portal to the year 1988.

But unbeknownst to Eve, Gavin and Izzy have travelled from the modern world to prehistoric Seattle and are now embarking on a dangerous journey to LA so they can get their family back together.

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