Keith Duffy goes dental in Keith's Teeth: A Dental Odyssey, Stacey Dooley and Kevin McCloud return with more DNA Family Secrets and Grand Designs, while Celebrity Race Across The World continues . . .
Pick of the Day
Keith's Teeth: A Dental Odyssey, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Once upon a time, Irish people only visited the dentist for a vital filling or extraction. Many never went at all.
Different times. Now, everyone's got a mouthful of ultra-white Tic Tacs for that perfect Instagram snap.
Here, former Boyzone star and smiler supreme Keith Duffy traces the story of the Irish people's fast-changing relationship with their teeth - from dentures as wedding presents to veneers.
He uncovers tragic stories from the dental past and meets Irish people travelling to Turkey hoping to undo years of dental neglect with enticingly cheap cosmetic dentistry packages.
Don’t Miss
Celebrity Race Across The World, 9.00pm, BBC One
Mel Blatt and her mother Helene get a head start as the celebrities head to the second checkpoint in Bonifacio on the island of Corsica.
Weatherman Alex Beresford, who is competing with his father Noel, is determined to finish ahead of racing pundit Billy Monger and his sister Bonny who narrowly beat them to the first checkpoint.
Meanwhile, drummer Harry Judd and his mum Emma just want to get out of last place.
Muhammad Ali, 10.40pm, TG4
This superb PBS documentary series continues.
This week’s episode takes a look at how the boxer faced his fiercest rival Joe Frazier in the `Fight of the Century’ as he attempted to come back from exile and regain his heavyweight title.
Ali also became a focal point for Americans who were growing increasingly disillusioned with the war in Vietnam.
New or Returning Shows
DNA Family Secrets, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Here's a third season where Stacey Dooley (below) helps people unlock mysteries hidden in their DNA.
Former Olympic athlete Sarah wants to find her father. Jean, 91, wants to know if her mum died during the Second World War, and twins Tanya and Kim want to discover their origins before time runs out.
Moulin Rouge: Yes We Can-Can! 11.45pm, BBC Two
For more than 130 years, France's Moulin Rouge cabaret club has been dazzling audiences with its brand of Parisian ohh-la-la.
But behind the scenes, all is not as it seems.
The artistic director is Janet, an ex-dancer from Yorkshire, and a third of her troupe are British too.
This documentary follows Janet as she heads back to the UK to recruit a new line-up to join the Moulin's high-kicking ensemble.
Sandylands, 11.15pm, BBC Two
Old school, 'Ooh, er, missus!’ comedy drama, starring Natalie Dew, David Walliams (below), Sophie Thompson and Sanjeev Bhaskar. Originally broadcast on Gold in 2020.
Free-spirited Emily makes a reluctant trip to her home town after her semi-estranged father goes missing amid fears for his life
It’s not long before she discovers that all is definitely not what it seems in her old stomping ground.
Unbeknown to Emily, her every move, and every subtle twitch of a curtain at her family home is under the constant scrutiny of a mysterious one-eyed man.
Grand Designs, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Kevin McCloud (below) visits more glorious gaffs. First up, he meets Rosa and her partner Craig who are turning a century-old, family-owned, decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home.
Their radical plan to reinvent the reservoir into a unique living space involves punching huge holes through the walls to allow light to flood in, a mezzanine with views across the valley and a concrete extension with four bedrooms.
Along the way they encounter a pandemic, numerous money crises, pregnancy and a schedule that grows from 12 months to over three years, is it worth it for Rosa to have the reservoir home she has dreamt of since childhood?
Nadiya’s Simple Spices, 8.00pm, BBC Two
In this new series, Nadiya Hussain (below) sets out to prove that cooking with spices does not have to be complicated, using just eight simple spices to create meals for every occasion.
She begins with four of her favourite feelgood dishes, including lentil daal infused with bay leaves and a buttery cumin tarka, a cheese and onion loaf laced with chilli and cumin and seafood revival broth, with nourishing greens and plump tiger prawns.
New to Stream
This Fool S2, Disney+
The irreverent comedy set in the working-class South Central suburb of Los Angeles returns for a second run.
After Julio’s job and love life blew up at the end of last season, new roommates Julio and Luis embark on finding new careers and romances with the help of Minister Payne, Chef Percy and other former Huggers.
Encounters, Netflix
These days, conspiracies are ten a penny. Once upon a time, it was just the odd alien incursion that the ‘elites’ were keeping secret from the rest of the world.
Lights in the sky over Texas and Japan. Spacecrafts over schoolyards in Wales and Zimbabwe. It’s not science fiction - according to this series, these stories of extraordinary mass sightings are true.
Presented by experiencers, top scientists, and military insiders, this four-part show sets aside skepticism to focus on belief, wonder, and the very human impact of encounters with extraterrestrial life.
