There's more talk of the Troubles in Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, Painkiller is a drama based on the US opioid crisis, there’s a double dose of doggies on Channel 4, and football documentary Mission to Burnley.
Pick of the Day
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, 10.10pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This episode, called Loose Talk Costs Lives, takes a look at how the conflict in the six counties became an intelligence war, as the police and the army made efforts to infiltrate paramilitary organisations and recruit informers.
Anne Marie reveals how a loyalist gun attack at a funeral in Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast in 1988 prompted her to plant firebombs in city centre shops, primed to explode at night.
She then became caught up in an intelligence web of informers and interrogation.
Don’t Miss
The Dog Academy, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Yorkshire terrier Marley adores his owner Louise but suffers severe stress whenever she leaves the room.
Trainers Sean and Kamal are on hand to treat one of the worst cases of separation anxiety they've ever seen.
Then there’s punky toy poodle Daisy, who is barely able to see because of poor grooming.
But she is determined to remain unkempt - and bites owners Wendy and Dahana every time they approach her with a brush.
The Supervet, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Eight-month-old Labrador puppy Ollie is rushed in as a late-night emergency after being hit by a car.
Meanwhile four-year-old bull mastiff Bayleigh is referred to Noel with a suspicious and painful lump near her ankle.
Cassie and Ashley thought their only option was to have their cat's leg amputated, but a chance encounter with Noel Fitzpatrick (above) has given them hope that it could possibly be saved.
The Hidden World of Hospitality with Tom Kerridge, 8.00pm, BBC Two
Despite a UK-wide recruitment crisis, the chef Tom Kerridge (below) discovers how some businesses are finding clever ways to build and retain strong, effective teams.
One example is found in London's Docklands in the ship-shape of an innovative floating hotel.
The owners are pioneering an on-the-job training scheme designed to help local unemployed people take their first steps into hospitality.
Top Hat, 10.35pm, BBC Four
A classic musical from the early days of talkies, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (below), Helen Broderick and Edward Everett Horton.
The score is by Irving Berlin and includes songs such as Cheek to Cheek and White Tie and Tails.
It’s all about a woman on holiday in London meets a famous dancer staying in the same hotel when his enthusiastic rehearsing wakes her up.
Attraction instantly develops between them, but she mistakenly believes he is a producer married to her friend.
Doris Day: I Don't Even Like Apple Pie, 8.10pm, BBC Four
In conversation with Christopher Frayling, Doris Day (below) looks back over her successful acting and singing career, and recalls happy memories of working with Rock Hudson, James Cagney, Clark Gable and James Garner.
This programme was first broadcast in 1989.
Followed at 9pm by Pillow Talk, a romantic comedy starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams and Julia Meade.
A man and woman who have never met squabble about each other's use of a shared telephone line. One day their paths cross by chance and he is instantly smitten.
He poses as a perfect gentleman from the South to woo her.
New or Returning Shows
Mission to Burnley, 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries
This brand-new documentary covers the dramatic story of the rebirth of one of England’s oldest clubs, Lancashire-based Burnley FC.
This four-part observational series follows the American owners ALK partners led by chairman Alan Pace, who is a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
With unprecedented access to the boardroom, dressing-room and inner workings of the club, audiences will be taken on a compelling journey in a one-club, working-class town, where football is a religion in itself.
It charts a rollercoaster period which saw the club lurch from the devastation of final-day relegation from the Premier League to the redemptive jubilation of promotion in the most emphatic fashion
The documentary explores Burnley’s evolution under the stewardship of one of the game’s most exciting young managers, former Belgian international Vincent Kompany.
No Activity, 10.00pm, BBC Two
Brooklyn 99 meets Samuel Beckett in this Australian cop comedy where nothing happens.
The show follows the work of two low-level detectives on a stake-out. Which means they’re basically sitting in a car, waiting for someone else to do something.
In the first episode, Stokes and Hendy start the operation with a plaster dolphin in their car, while the criminals they are spying on await further instructions.
Back at the police station, Carol takes a new recruit under her wing.
New to Stream
Painkiller, Netflix
A fictionalized retelling of the origins and aftermath of the opioid crisis in the USA, highlighting the stories of the perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers whose lives were altered by the invention of OxyContin.
It’s based on the book of the same name by Barry Meier and the New Yorker Magazine article The Family That Built the Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Starring Uzo Aduba, Matthew Broderick, Taylor Kitsch, Dina Shihabi, and West Duchovny.
Mech Cadets, Netflix
An underdog teen joins a group of young Cadets who've been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders.
