TikTok: Murder Gone Viral explores crimes linked to that social media platform, it's pride week on Inside Penneys, while Mary Kennedy and Noel Cunningham head to Valencia on High Road, Low Road . . .
Pick of the Day
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral, 9.00pm, UTV
This is a documentary series exploring true-crime cases in Britain that are linked to the social-media platform TikTok.
In the early hours of February 11, 2022, 21-year-olds Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin were found dead in a burning car on the A46 in Leicestershire.
Within a short time, police arrested 22-year-old TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her 45-year-old mother Ansreen, who it turned out had been in a secret relationship with Saqib that began when he was just 18.
New or Returning Shows
999: On the Front Line, 8.00pm, Channel 4
The long-running (and often hard to watch) documentary series following the paramedics of West Midlands Ambulance Service returns for a tenth season.
On the way back to base, one team is flagged down by police officers dealing with a man who has overdosed on drugs.
They are also called out to a woman with gynaecological problems, who is losing a lot of blood and needs to go to hospital, as well as a man who has a condition where his throat swells up and closes without warning.
In a word: blimey!
Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerism, 8.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
Here's the sort of series I always promise to watch but never get around to viewing. Maybe this time, eh?
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak presents a three-part look at the art movement, sandwiched between two clear propositions of the Renaissance and Baroque age, that dared to break all the rules – Mannerism.
Throwing everything that came before it to the wind, the human imagination was allowed to run wild, resulting in the stretched figures seen in Parmigianino’s The Madonna with a Long Neck and the mad colour palette of Pontormo.
For many, it represents a brief interlude in the 16th century where art was actually allowed to be exciting.
New to Stream
NASCAR: Full Speed, Netflix
This new series tracks the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and championship race, following drivers as they battle around the racetrack with one of the most storied titles in US motorsports at stake.
The series will feature exclusive, extensive access to a range of drivers and teams, headlined by Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, and Tyler Reddick.
It will bring fans behind the scenes - on and off the track - while exploring the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of competing for a championship at the world’s highest level of stock car racing.
Don’t Miss
Inside Penneys, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Photoshoots, weather warnings, and gender-neutral underwear, it’s just another day for the folk who work at Penneys.
It’s pride week in Dublin, so the visual merchandising team are celebrating with a bright new window display to launch their new range of gender-neutral underwear.
In Cork, there’s calm before the storm as the Patrick Street store braces itself to ride out a weather warning for high winds, heavy rain and potential flooding in the city.
Meanwhile in Manchester, Stacey Solomon and her family join the Fashion Communications team for a photoshoot as she launches her new collaboration with Primark.
Back at base, staff member Adam Wynne transforms into 'Shakira Knightly’ alongside two colleagues,for a performance in front of the Arthur Ryan House staff.
High Road, Low Road, 7.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Another pair of personalities head off to the same location for a very different vacation.
Mary Kennedy (below) and Noel Cunningham are sent to Valencia, with a side car tour, flamenco dancing, a hiking trip and a paella cooking class on the agenda.
As usual, one of the pair will be enjoying a five-star luxury trip, while the other will be travelling budget style.
Nothing against Noel, but most of us will be hoping Mary gets the pampered version of the trip.
Around the World in 80 Weighs, 9.00pm, Channel 4
This week the tourists are in the USA and deep in the heart of Texas where the food feels more familiar, but they are shocked to discover that there is a whole industry to cater for the overweight residents.
On the one hand, there's a fast-food joint on every corner, on the other, there are expensive quick fixes everywhere you look.
The group are surprised to discover how hard it is to find good, cheap, fresh food in the shops and tensions brewing in the group finally boil over leading to a big row and lots of tears over a Texan BBQ.
What We Do in the Shadows, 11.45pm, BBC Two
Tonight there’s a late-night double-bill of season 4 fun with the Staten Island-based vampires.
First up, the gang endure the private school admissions interview process for child Colin, attempting to disguise themselves as a family that fits the entry requirements.
Then at 12.10am Guillermo loses his mind trying to help Nandor plan the perfect vampire wedding for himself and Marwa, plus The Guide accidentally assists the Baron in uncovering a secret.
Storyville, 10.00pm, BBC Four
A programme subtitled Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea follows various individuals attempting to flee North Korea, including a mother who is desperate to reunite with the child she was forced to leave behind.
A family of five embark on a journey across the Yalu River and through the mountains of China to escape their country and the punishment of being caught, all with the help of a South Korean Christian Pastor
The Big Interview, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
Following the sudden death last week of Ian Bailey (above), here’s a programme from 2021 that might be of ghoulish interest now that he's gone.
Several years on from the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in West Cork in 1996, Colette Fitzpatrick sat down with self-confessed prime suspect Ian Bailey to discuss the case.
