Nostalgia series The Way We Were returns, Timothy Olyphant is back as Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval, Gogglebox Ireland resumes, and the live-action retelling of The Little Mermaid lands on Disney+ . . .
Pick of the Day
The Way We Were, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
The return of the series assessing Irish national identity as a cast of well-known personalities and social historians take a look back.
The romance of nostalgia battles the hard facts of our lived reality in 20th Century Ireland. This was a century that brought the island partition, civil war and Calvita cheese, as well as supermarkets, Wanderly Wagon and Italia 90.
Don't Miss
Annika, 9.00pm, Alibi
What an odd show. It mixes mundane murder-mystery yarns with personal strife and coats it all in literary references.
Tonight’s episode sees Annika - as played by the excellent Nicola Walker - reflect on King Lear, no less.
Story-wise, Annika’s daughter Morgan starts working at a remote Scottish eco-resort, but Annika's trip to visit her is interrupted when a local builder employed by the resort turns up dead in a nearby stream.
New or Returning Shows
Gogglebox Ireland, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
Deirdre O'Kane provides the voiceover once again as this watching-people-watching-telly series returns for a ninth season.
Ireland’s most opinionated and entertaining TV viewers are back once again, offering their opinions on some of the most memorable telly screened during the past week from the comfort of their own homes
Mel Giedroyc and Martin Clunes Explore Britain by the Book, 9.00pm, UTV
The acting friends head to Dorset to explore the spectacular scenery and locations made famous by some of Britain's favourite books and films.
They walk in the footsteps of The French Lieutenant's Woman, stoke up the engine on a steam train ride through Enid Blyton country and take a boat trip to the world-famous Durdle Door on the Jurassic coast.
That last one proves challenging for the sea-sick Mel (above) despite Martin's best efforts at distracting her by reading bursts of Thomas Hardy.
Scéalta Grá na hÉireann, 8.00pm, TG4
Back for a second season - six new couples, with six new captivating and heartbreaking stories!
These stories cover a wide range of historical events, including the 1798 Rebellion, the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the American Civil War.
The captivating story of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett is widely recognised as one of the most tragic love stories in Ireland's history.
Grace and Joe are brought together by their love for Ireland and their shared ideals and spirituality. They are married in Kilmainham Gaol but their life together is cut tragically short by the violence of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Without Sin, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
This is a four-part psychological thriller from ITV which stars Vicky McClure as Stella, three years on from the death of her teenage daughter.
Depicting how she is still hostage to her grief, the miniseries explores the relationship that develops between a grieving mother and the man she believes murdered her daughter.
Curse of Skinwalker Ranch, 9.00pm, Sky History
The series is set at Skinwalker Ranch, a 500-acre ranch that is the site of purported paranormal and UFO-related activities and follows a team of investigators and sceptics investigating the reports.
Team members include Brandon Fugal, the ranch's owner, and aerospace engineer Travis S Taylor.
The show features the team utilising technologies such as ground-penetrating radar to investigate anomalies such as ionizing radiation, dire wolves, UFOs, a human bone discovered in an airtight cellar, and cattle mutilation.
New to Stream
Justified: City Primeval, Disney+
Fans of Justified – one of the greatest TV shows of the last 20 years – will be delighted to see this sequel arrive.
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a US Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl.
His hair is greyer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind.
A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit.
There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already avoided Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again.
Mansell’s lawyer, the formidable Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well.
These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.
I Am Groot, Disney+
The troublemaking twig returns to mischief in the second season of his own show.
This time Groot finds himself exploring the universe and beyond aboard the Guardians’ spaceships, coming face-to-face with new and colorful creatures and environments.
Vin Diesel is back as the voice of Groot in five all-new shorts. Kirsten Lepore, writer/director of season one, returns in the same capacity for season two.
The Little Mermaid, Disney+
Rob Marshall’s live-action retelling of Disney’s beloved animated musical classic.
This blockbuster movie shares the story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure, in a whole new way.
The youngest and most defiant of King Triton’s daughters, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while secretly visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric.
In a bid to follow her heart, she makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land.
But it ultimately places her life - and her father’s crown - in jeopardy.
