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Only Murders in the Buildings
Only Murders in the Buildings

Only Murders in the Buildings is back for a third run, there's new reality show Ultimate Wedding Planner, Alfre Woodard stars in prison drama Clemency, and a documentary explores Why Ships Crash.

Pick of the Day

Only Murders in the Buildings, Disney+

Season 3 finds Charles, Oliver & Mabel (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) investigating a murder behind the scenes of a Broadway show.

Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) is a Hollywood action star whose Broadway debut is cut short by his untimely death.

Aided by co-star Loretta Durkin (Meryl Streep, no less!), the trio embarks on their toughest case yet, all while director Oliver desperately attempts to put his show back together.

Don’t Miss

Clemency, 11.15pm, BBC Two

Writer/director Chinonye Chukwu's drama, starring an impressive Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks and Michael O'Neill.

Woodward plays American prison warden Bernadine Williams, who has presided over a dozen executions.

But as the 13th looms, she grapples with complex emotions while bonding with a death-row inmate who maintains his innocence.

Reeling in the Years, 6.30pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

It’s déjà vu all over again with another look back at the first ever episode.

It features news and music from 1980, the year when former Beatle John Lennon was murdered in New York.

It was also the year a Boomtown Rats concert was cancelled due to fears over crowd safety and an IRA land mine pushed the Troubles' death toll to 2,000.

Includes hits by the Nolan Sisters, U2, Queen, Abba, Blondie and The Clash.

Your Home Made Perfect, 8.00pm, BBC Two

More hi-tech home improvements with Angela Scanlon (below).

Fiona and Andy moved into their 300-year-old Solihull barn conversion a year ago, but it's not quite the fairy tale they imagined.

The barn has a major identity crisis - with dated decor, a dark and poky stable conversion, a cut-off central courtyard and a 1980s extension tacked on the end.

To add to their woes there's a spiral staircase right in the middle of the living room.

Enter architects Laura Jane Clark and Julian McIntosh, who come up with alternative VR solutions to the couple's property problems - only one of which they can make a reality.

The Thick of It, 9.30pm, BBC Four

Here’s the season 3 opener of this superb political satire, starring Peter Capaldi (below), Rebecca Front and Chris Addison.

A keen MP is appointed to the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship in a Cabinet reshuffle, but she was so far down the food chain that spin doctor Malcolm Tucker did not have a file on her.

It also turns out that she has expensive ideas and is about to face the media at a crucial by-election poster launch.

New or Returning Shows

Ultimate Wedding Planner, 9.00pm, BBC Two

This brand-new reality challenge series features eight aspiring wedding planners who battle it out to become the best in the business, with six brave couples letting them take control of their big day.

The competition gets off to an explosive start as the planners transform an industrial Concorde hangar under the watchful eyes of judges Fred Sirieix (below), Sara Davies and Raj Somaiya.

Why Ships Crash, 8.00pm, BBC One

When one of the largest container ships ever built, the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, it triggered a global crisis.

Using never-before seen footage, testimony from witnesses speaking for the very first time, and expert analysis, this investigation aims to uncover the inside story of the Ever Given accident.

And with more than 2,500 shipping incidents a year, this film also asks if this was just a freak accident, or whether it reveals a serious weakness in the world's critical supply chain.

What on Earth? 9.00pm, Sky History

Streaming on NOW

Season 5 opens by heading high above the earth at 17,000 miles an hour, satellites uncover startling mysteries invisible to observers on the ground.

Experts investigate astonishing mysteries uncovered by these images. And while some of these pictures are breathtaking, others are just bizarre.

With high magnification optics, infra-red scanning, and advanced ground-penetrating radar, they capture images that lead us on startling journeys into hidden worlds revealing the secrets of the past and astonishing natural phenomena.

New to Stream

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sky Store

Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Jake Johnson, Issa Rae and Daniel Kaluuya all provide voices for this Marvel animated film.

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga.

It’s an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Sky Store

Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Ron Perlman, Michelle Yeoh and Pete Davidson star in this sci-fi adventure.

Optimus Prime and the Autobots take on their biggest challenge yet.

When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, they must team up with a powerful faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth.

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