Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his TV debut in Fubar, there's a new series looking at the recent Men's Sheds phenomenon, and there's a double dose of Scottish actor Brian Cox on Amol Rajan Interviews and How the Other Half Live . . .
Pick of the Day
Fubar, Netflix
He once famously said: 'I’ll be back!’ Well, here he is again.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in his first TV series here, which makes Fubar worth a look just out of curiosity. Does the Terminator still have it?
When a father and daughter learn that they’ve each secretly been working as CIA Operatives for years, they realise their entire relationship has been a lie and they truly don’t know one another at all.
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Forced to team up as partners, the show then tackles universal family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, fantastic action and – hopefully - humour.
Also starring Monica Barbaro, Milan Carter, Fortune Feimster, Travis Van Winkle, Jay Baruchel, Andy Buckley, Aparna Brielle, Barbara Eve Harris, Fabiana Udenio and Gabriel Luna.
Don’t Miss
Amol Rajan Interviews: Brian Cox, 7.00pm, BBC Two
The actor Brian Cox – star of the drama Succession – sits down with Amol Rajan to reveal the secrets of the show and what took him from poverty in Dundee all the way to Hollywood.
The award-winning theatre, television and film actor reveals what really happens on set, his thoughts on the method acting technique used by one of his co-stars, and his best and worst moments since the show first aired in 2018.
He also pops up on Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live (9.00pm, Virgin Media One), where the Succession actor continues to explore society's complicated relationship with money and wealth, this time turning the lens onto his adopted country, the United States of America.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, 12.30am, Film4
Ignore the late scheduling, or the fact that it's subtitled. Here is a fascinating film based on a true story that is perhaps the most bizarre spin-off from the awfulness of World War II.
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It is based on the true story of a Japanese soldier who refused to believe the conflict had ended and continues to fight on a remote Philippine island until 1974.
This drama is inspired by Bernard Cendron and Gerard Chenu's 1974 biography Onoda: Seul en guerre dans la jungle, and stars Yuya Endo.
Whoopi Goldberg: This Cultural Life, 9.00pm, BBC Four
Whoopi Goldberg talks to John Wilson about the influences that have shaped her career.
They include her earliest experiences of acting with a children's community project in New York city, and being encouraged by her mother to make the most of free cultural opportunities in the Big Apple.
That’s followed at 9.30pm by a screening of Steven Spielberg's 1985 drama The Color Purple, the film that launched her on the big screen.
She plays a much-abused woman, who is separated from her children and her sister, and doomed to a life of virtual slavery at the hands of her brutish new husband on an impoverished farm in rural Georgia.
Bridesmaids, 9.30pm, RTÉ2
If you’re looking to be cheered-up, this 2011 comedy, with Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy, should do the trick. Worth watching just for Rose Byrne - no relation, unfortunately - and Melissa McCarthy.
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The story is pretty straightforward – or so it seems. Wiig takes centrestage as Annie Walker, a disorganised woman tasked with being maid of honour at her best friend's wedding.
Taking charge of the prenuptial bridal celebrations, she resolves to give her pal and accompanying bridesmaids the time of their lives.
But as her efforts slide into chaos she finds the wife of the groom's boss is keen to usurp her position.
New or Returning Show
Athbhaile - The Cobblestone, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Another chance to see Sinéad Ní Churnáin's look at how Tom Mulligan turned the Cobblestone Pub in inner-city Dublin from an early morning alehouse into a home from home for traditional musicians.
The family-run business became the centre of media attention when thousands took to the streets of the capital to fight a planning application for a nine-storey hotel, which, if successful, would have threatened the very existence of what the Cobblestone had become.
In Irish with English subtitles.
Men's Sheds, 8.00pm, TG4
This series looks at the recent phenomenon where a shed acts as a social platform through which men in a community can form close bonds with one another.
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This opening episode features the personal stories of how the sheds have saved the lives of men in Dublin and improved the lives of others in the Rosses in Donegal.
The men in Dundalk are disappointed to be locked out of their shed due to Covid, while the Armagh shed has just reopened and is getting ready for a Christmas fair.
The men in Daingean Uí Chúis and Corr na Móna are thinking about their outdoor projects, while in Cahersiveen, the shed is hosting its first musical session in two years.
Strike: Inside the Unions, 9.00pm, BBC One
Should be interesting to see how this two-part documentary goes, as the Beeb has been accused by some of being soft on the UK government, and by others of being too unsympathetic.
It’s all about the wave of industrial action that engulfed the UK at the end of 2022, with access to union leaders including Mick Lynch (below) of the RMT and Pat Cullen from the Royal College of Nursing.
The opening episode charts the start of the strikes, with Lynch and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers at the forefront of the movement.
The situation even saw nurses withdrawing their labour for the first time in the Royal College of Nursing union's 106-year history.
Ending Today
Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars, 9.00pm, BBC One
After several gruelling challenges, Gordon Ramsay knows that all his finalists have what it takes to partner up with him.
It's now time to drill down on their businesses and find out whose product is worthy of his endorsement.
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He invites the final three contenders to Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, a place that saw him forced to end his football career with Rangers and turn his hand to food.
There they are tasked to create a Scottish-limited edition of their products to launch in front of a home crowd.
They then face the most dramatic grilling of their lives, as each tries to convince Gordon to back them with a £150,000 investment.
Inside No 9, 10.00pm, BBC Two
The darkly comic series, written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, concludes - with a guest appearance from Sheila Reid.
Joe and Chas have been together for nine years, a long time to be truly in love with someone. But how long does it take to properly say goodbye?
