Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's new series is This Town, David Attenborough narrates Mammals, there’s a tribute to Rogers & Hammerstein, a darts night on BBC Four, and more fun with The Full Irish Hidden Camera Show . . .
Pick of the Day
This Town, 9.00pm, BBC One
This new drama is by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Got to be worth a look . . .
In stark contrast to that gangster series set in early 20th Century England, This Town follows young people drawn into the ska and two-tone scene in the English Midlands during the early 1980s.
The story unfolds in 1981, as Birmingham is thrown into political and social unrest as Thatcherism takes hold.
Dante wanders through a riot and finds himself in a new world that is surprising, dangerous, and full of opportunity. In other words, he joins a band.
Irish actor Peter McDonald plays Eamonn Quinn, the father of one of the band members - he's also a member of the IRA.
McDonald's fellow Irish actors Séainín Brennan and Brendan Gibson are also part of the This Town ensemble alongside Michelle Dockery, Nicholas Pinnock, David Dawson and Geraldine James.
New or Returning Shows
Mammals, 7.00pm, BBC One
David Attenborough narrates a new series that takes a look into the lives of mammals.
It explores how they have adapted to their changing surroundings and have found ways to create homes in the wild.
The first episode focuses on animals that thrive in the dark, from leopards that use night vision to hunt their prey to bats using echolocation to navigate the night skies.
My Favourite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, 8.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
Celebrate 80 years of musical masters Rodgers & Hammerstein with this landmark anniversary concert.
It features the likes of Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Daniel Dae Kim, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace and Patrick Wilson.
Jocky Wilson Said, 9.00pm, BBC Four
This is the central programme in a series of darts-related programming tonight on BBC Four.
It tells the rise and fall of Jocky Wilson (below), the former world darts champion from Kirkcaldy, who was propelled to fame through a sport that went from pub pastime to mass entertainment.
But all that was lost through poor choices, a love of drink and bad management, meaning he left the sport penniless.
Told in his own words, with contributions from Bobby George, John Lowe and Phil Taylor.
Before that at 8pm there’s Bullseyes and Beer: When Darts Hit Britain - a Timeshift documentary about the history of darts, as it transformed from a traditional working-class pub game into a world-recognised sport.
It also examines the role television played in elevating competitors such as Eric Bristow (below) and Jocky Wilson into household names.
With contributions from Bristow, Bobby George, John Lowe and Phil Taylor. Narrated by Siobhan Finneran
Arrows with Eric Bristow at 10pm is John Samson's 1979 documentary about British darts player Eric Bristow.
Then aged 22, Bristow is witnessed travelling between the nation's pubs and working men's clubs playing exhibition matches and cementing his reputation as a rising star of the sport.
Don’t Miss
The Full Irish Hidden Camera Show, 8.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
This week, Doireann offers whitening at a pop-up dentist, but new patients are horrified to hear the goings on in the next room as Dr Donncha gets to work with his drill.
Also: Carl and Donncha set up a food stall and offer people samples of their treats, but after accepting the snacks they reveal to customers the food isn't free.
The Great House Revival, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Architect duo Rob Curley and Alfonso Bonilla (below, with Great House Revival host Hugh Wallace) bought their historic brick terraced house in the vibrant Dublin suburb of Drumcondra.
With the name Olympus in gold above the door, the couple take on the titan task of restoring the listed main building and adding on a unique modern extension to reflect their brave architectural tastes.
With a precise budget of €319,000, will the end result in the perfect blend of old and new? Combining a home workspace and cosy living area is tricky: can they achieve their dream of bringing contemporary design into crumbling suburban walls?
New to Stream
One Day as a Lion, Sky Cinema & NOW
Scott Caan, Frank Grillo, Marianne Rendón, Taryn Manning, George Carroll, Virginia Madsen, JK SImmons star in this homage to Tarantino and the Coen brothers.
Jackie Powers (Caan) is a nice guy but a lousy hit man, and when he’s sent to take out a crafty debtor (Simmons), Jackie ends up merely annoying him.
Fleeing the scene, Jackie takes bored waitress Lola as a hostage.
When Jackie reveals he needs money to get his son out of jail, Lola cooks up a scheme for them to get cash from her dying mother.
Meanwhile, a thug sent to kill him is sleeping with Jackie's ex.
Sunday Cinema
Apocalypse Now, 10.00pm, BBC Two
'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.'
Francis Ford Coppola's superb Vietnam War drama, starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, is as much an experience as a film.
Ideally viewed in a cinema, it’s still an astonishing slice of cinema when viewed at home.
An army captain is sent on a top-secret mission into Cambodia, where his goal is to find and assassinate a renegade colonel who has gone insane and is worshipped by his followers as a god.
But as his patrol boat journeys further upriver, the conflict and disarray surrounding him becomes increasingly disturbing and nightmarish.
Family Flick
Beauty and the Beast, 2.40pm, BBC One
Disney animated fantasy, with the voices of Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson.
A bookish woman agrees to take her father's place as prisoner of a fearsome monster living in a castle deep in the forest.
She gradually grows to see a gentler, more human side to her hideous host, and comes to realise she may be able to break the curse that turned him into a beast in the first place.
Sport
GAA Beo, 1.00pm, TG4
Micheál Ó Domhnaill presents coverage of the Allianz Football League Division Two final (Throw-in 1.45pm), held at Croke Park, as Donegal take on Armagh in an all-Ulster showdown.
That’s followed at 3.45pm by coverage of the Allianz Football League Division One final (Throw-in 4pm), which also takes place at Croke Park, as Dublin meet Derry.
