There's more Sun, Sea and Scalpels, Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story lands, it's Chocolate Week on Bake Off, and there's the season 2 finale of Aussie drama The Newsreader . . .
Pick of the Day
Sun, Sea and Scalpels, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
In the concluding episode of this two-parter, there’s Professors Helen Heneghan and Donal O'Shea, who work with the HSE's Centre for Obesity Management.
They reveal the risks associated with individuals travelling abroad to undergo weight-loss procedures.
Then clinical psychologist Mallie Coyne discusses why so many people are willing to undergo risky procedures abroad in their search for what they perceive as 'perfection’.
Don’t Miss
The Great British Bake Off, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding host as the bakers the bakers take on new challenges in – yummiest of yums - Chocolate Week.
The Signature sees them making a tricky torte before going on to make a cheesecake in the Technical. The Showstopper challenge tests the contestants skills to the max as they prepare a chocolate box fit to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.
Celebrity Race Across the World, 9.00pm, BBC One
In the penultimate leg of the race, the teams make their way 1,500km north from Sarajevo to Berlin in Germany.
Race leaders Harry and Emma Judd use their eight-hour lead to visit one of the traditional baths in Budapest and spend some quality time together.
Alex and Noel Beresford venture to the Great Hungarian plains to make some money for the rest of their journey while Billy and Bonnie Monger race economically to try get the edge over the other team in joint second place.
Mel and Helene Blatt (above) reflect on their family's Jewish heritage when they visit the shoes on the bank of the River Danube in Budapest.
New or Returning Shows
Dark Winds, 9.00pm, Alibi
Here's a newly arrived US psychological thriller set in Gallop, New Mexico. Should be worth a look.
It's already two seasons in Stateside, with a third on the way.
The series is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman and follows two Navajo police officers, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, in the 1970s.
The first season is primarily based on Listening Woman (1978) and elements of People of Darkness (1980)
Two Navajo police officers (Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon) investigate a series of crimes on a remote outpost near Monument Valley. First up, two murders appear to be connected.
An Gúna Bainise, 8.30pm, TG4
Real-life tales of Irish brides told through the stories of the dresses, the day and the loved ones that shared each magical moment.
This opening episode takes a journey back to a 1980s’ Donegal wedding between childhood sweethearts Anne and Eddie, then visits two Dublin newlyweds with a gown worthy of a Hollywood premiere.
Then Misneach at 9.30pm takes a look at Redemptorist priest Tony Flannery, who was suspended from public ministry by the Vatican for expressing his support for women's ordination and same-sex marriage, and questioning the need for celibacy.
Damian Lewis, Matthew Macfadyen and Peter Kosminsky Remember - Warriors, 10.00pm, BBC Four
Actors Damian Lewis (above) and Matthew Macfayden reunited with director Peter Kosminsky to look back on the 1999 BBC drama about a UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia, and the roles that first set Lewis and Macfayden on the road to international success.
Followed at 10.25pm by the two-part drama. Initially filled with confidence over their posting, the troops are quickly disillusioned and realise they’re trapped in the middle of someone else's war.
New to Stream
Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, Disney+
The three-part Disney+ Original series looks at the jaw-dropping libel case that gripped the gossiping classes in 2022.
The story will be told through exclusive access to the woman at the heart of it all, as Coleen Rooney (below) finally speaks alongside interviews with her family, legal team and key players involved in the resulting trial.
Uncovering one of the biggest tabloid news stories in Britain for the last decade, it reveals how Coleen turned amateur online sleuth to find an explanation for why private stories concerning herself and her family continued to appear in the media.
It examines the circumstances that led to her infamous Instagram post that 'broke the internet' all the way to Coleen successfully defending herself in one of the UK’s highest-profile High Court defamation cases of recent years.
As well as the case itself, it will explore how Coleen has had her life played out in public for the last 20 years as one of Britain’s most famous celebrities and wife of footballer Wayne Rooney.
The Wonder Years, Disney+
The story of the Williams family during the late 1960s, all through the point of view of imaginative 12-year-old Dean.
With the wisdom of his adult years, Dean’s hopeful and humorous recollections of his past spotlight the ups and downs of growing up in a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, and the friendship, laughter and lessons along the way.
Appendage, Disney+
Yet another horror film for the Halloween season.
Hannah (Hadley Robinson), a young fashion designer, seems fine on the surface, but secretly struggles with debilitating self-doubt.
These buried feelings begin to make Hannah physically sick and sprout into a ferocious growth on her body – yep, it’s an appendage.
As Hannah’s health declines, the appendage begins to fuel her anxieties – her perceived lack of talent at work, her deteriorating relationships with her boyfriend and best friend, and her parents’ lack of love and understanding.
At her breaking point, Hannah makes a shocking discovery - there are others out there just like her.
Ending Today
The Newsreader, 10.20pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
I came to this show for Anna Torv but hardly anyone puts a foot wrong in this Australian drama set in the 1980s.
The biggest television event of the decade, Australia Day 1988, gets underway, featuring a full re-enactment of the first fleet sailing into Sydney Harbour.
There are ceremonies with Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana, as well as one of the biggest protests ever seen in Australia.
The great news is that a third season has been greenlit for the best show to come out of Australia since Skippy.
