Charlene McKenna stars in new drama Clean Sweep, there's another Sunday Game double-header, the British Academy Television Awards, while Saoirse Ronan stars in The Tragedy of Macbeth . . .
Pick of the Day
Clean Sweep, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Charlene McKenna stars in this new Irish-Canadian drama. Once she’s in a show, you know it’s worth investigating. This looks fascinating.
Here she plays Shelly Mohan, a killer who has spent nearly twenty years hiding in plain sight while living a secret life as a wife, mother, and home-maker.
Shelly's days are filled with cooking, cleaning, shopping, and chauffeuring her three kids around, yet somehow manages to have a home-cooked meal on the table by the time her husband arrives home from work every night.
It’s a chaotic, undervalued and mostly thankless life, but one Shelly is happy with – because it is a life she has chosen – in fact it’s one she’s created.
But all of this is threatened when Shelly is confronted about a cold-blooded murder from her past – and may have to resort to violence to keep it buried.
Don’t Miss
The Sunday Game Live, 1.15pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
First up in this afternoon’s double-header of provincial final action is Dublin v Louth (throw-in 1.45pm).
Joanne Cantwell (below) presents all the action from the Leinster Senior Football Championship final at Croke Park.
Dublin overcame Kildare in the semi-finals, while Louth were victorious against Offaly
Then at 3.40pm there’s Armagh v Derry, with a 4pm throw-in. Once again, Joanne Cantwell presents all the action from the Ulster Senior Football Championship final at Clones.
Armagh defeated Down in the last four and Derry prevailed against Monaghan.
New or Returning Shows
Ten Pound Poms, 9.00pm, BBC One
This brand-new drama is about British immigrants who headed to Australia in the 1950s, and stars Faye Marsay and Michelle Keegan.
In dreary post-war Manchester, Annie Roberts is at her wits end when husband Terry spends all his wages down the pub.
Desperate for a better life for her children, Annie responds to an emigration advert that promises a prosperous new life in Australia.
Expecting whitewashed houses and sun-soaked adventures, the Roberts family arrive in Sydney to find life down under isn't quite what they've been sold.
British Academy Television Awards, 7.00pm, BBC One
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan (below) host the awards show at London's Royal Festival Hall, celebrating the year's finest UK TV moments in front of a star-studded audience and members of the British royal family.
Shows in the running for awards include Bad Sisters, The Responder, Sherwood, Somewhere Boy, Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Derry Girls, Ghosts, Friday Night Live, The Graham Norton Show, Taskmaster and Would I Lie To You?
The Tragedy of Macbeth, 8.00pm, BBC Four
James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan star in this critically acclaimed production of the Shakespeare play about one couple's spine-chilling quest for power.
This version was directed by Yaël Farber and captured during its 2021 run at the Almeida Theatre.
In the ruins of a theatre, three witches make a prophecy. A warrior and his wife enter the darkness. And so a war begins.
Faking Hitler, 11.00pm, RTÉ2
Excellent German drama set in the 1980s and based on real-life events, focusing on Gerd Heidemann, a journalist at Stern magazine, who believes he's come across Hitler's diaries.
In German with English subtitles.
Gilbert and George: No Surrender – Imagine, 10.35pm, BBC Four
Alan Yentob examines the work of controversial artists Gilbert and George – the Pet Shop Boys of the art world - as they prepare for the opening of their recent retrospective at the Tate Modern.
This intimate portrait considers how the pair's working relationship functions and also includes a look inside their East End home, where they have lived for the past 40 years.
New to Stream
The Man Who Played with Fire, Sky Cinema & NOW
This four-part Scandi Noir thriller explores the 1986 unsolved assassination of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
It was a case that sent shockwaves around the world, and is often dubbed "Europe’s J.F.K shooting".
This a 36-year search for the killer became the world's largest murder investigation, with over ten thousand people questioned and 134 confessions received, but somehow always remaining unsolved.
It’s a constantly shifting search that has consumed many, including the late best-selling novelist, Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, whose personal files form the heart of this investigation.
The swirling question marks around the events that night, the true identity of the killer and the murky reasons behind the assassination.
Vengeance, Sky Cinema & NOW
Here’s a zeitgeisty mystery/comedy starring BJ Novak, Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, Boyd Holbrook, J. Smith-Cameron and Dove Cameron.
Vengeance is the directorial debut from writer and star Novak (who was in the US version of The Office), is a darkly comic thriller.
It’s about Ben Manalowitz, a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
Sunday Cinema
Doctor Zhivago, 2.00pm, RTÉ One
Here’s some perfect Sunday afternoon viewing.
David Lean's timeless epic drama based on Boris Pasternak's novel, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay and Klaus Kinski.
A married Russian physician falls in love with another woman, but as their passionate affair plays out against the raging backdrop of the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, he is torn between his desires and his loyalty to his wife.
