Fun crime drama The Mallorca Files returns for a new run, Ian Nathan looks at the making of classic movie Brief Encounter, the final season of The Umbrella Academy lands, and there's another busy day at the Olympics . . .
Pick of the Day
The Mallorca Files, Prime Video
This fun and fluffy crime drama set in Mallorca and starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman returns for a third season in the sun.
Ambitious British detective Miranda Blake (Rhys) and her laid-back German partner Max Winter (Looman) make up the perfect team - if only they could see it.
In this new run, amid high-stakes adventures, treasure hunts, arson, kidnappings, and murders, Max and Miranda’s personal tensions and odd-couple partnership are put to the test.
Overseeing their cases is the mercurial and volatile Inés Villegas (María Fernández Ache).
Glass of cava optional.
New or Returning Shows
Classic Stories: The Making of Brief Encounter, 8.00pm, Sky Arts
Streaming on NOW
David Lean directed many great movies, but Brief Encounter is widely regarded - along with the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and Great Expectations - as one of his masterpieces.
This great little series hosted by Ian Nathan returns with a look at this devastatingly romantic story, written by Noel Coward, that was originally released in 1945.
It stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard (above) as a pair of plummy-voiced, stiff upper lip lovers who meet in a tearoom at a train station. It’s terribly old-fashioned and absolutely marvelous.
Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy on Watergate, 8.00pm, BBC Four
This is a curtain-raiser to a re-screening of Norma Percy's 1994 documentary about the Watergate controversy.
The award-winning film-maker (below) looks back on her approach and the challenges she faced when piecing together the tale of the botched break-in that toppled a president and sent shockwaves through America and the world.
Followed at 8.10pm by Watergate, a five-part documentary about the scandal that toppled a president, beginning with the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters at the Watergate Hotel
Then at 9pm there’s All the President's Men, Alan J Pakula's 1976 drama, starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards and Hal Holbrook.
It tells the true story of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who persevered in their investigation of the links between the Watergate break-in and the White House.
It was a scandal that eventually forced the resignation of US President Nixon.
Don’t Miss
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, 9.00pm, Sky Max
Streaming on NOW/Sky Box sets
As well as having all episodes available to download, this first season of the latest Walking Dead spin-off seems to pop up daily on the schedules.
Next up, The Walking Dead: Dead City is due on Thursday August 22.
There’s simply no escape!
Here, Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent and Sylvie face trouble on the road towards the Nest. Meanwhile Isabelle remembers the day the hungry ones first appeared and Laurent struggles to fit in.
Fleadh24, 9.30pm, TG4
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, Peadar Ó Goill and Aoife Ní Thuairisg land in Wexford town for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024, the world's largest festival of Irish music, song and dance.
From well-known names to newly crowned All-Ireland champions, audiences will be treated to four consecutive nights of entertainment coming live from the Sunny Southeast.
New to Stream
The Umbrella Academy, Netflix
It’s the fourth and final season of the superhero drama based on the comic series by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way.
The Hargreeves siblings scattered after the climactic showdown at the Hotel Oblivion led to a complete reset of their timeline.
Stripped of their powers, each is left to fend for themselves and find a new normal - with wildly varying degrees of success. Yet the trappings of their uncanny new world prove too hard to ignore for very long.
Their father Reginald, alive and well, has stepped out of the shadows and into the public eye, overseeing a powerful and nefarious business empire.
A mysterious association known as The Keepers holds clandestine meetings believing the reality they’re living in is a lie and a great reckoning is coming.
As these strange new forces conspire around them, the Umbrella Academy must come together one last time - and risk upsetting the shaky peace they’ve all endured so much to secure - to finally set things right.
One Fast Move, Prime Video
This promises to be an action-adventure thrill ride movie, about a young man down on his luck who seeks out his estranged father to help him pursue his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer.
With the help of his small-town love interest and a motorcycle shop owner who moonlights as his mentor, he begins to break down the walls that his father’s absence had built up.t struggles to fit in.
The cast includes Euphoria and Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane.
Are You Sure?! Disney+
Join BTS members Jimin and Jung Kook on an enchanting journey of self-discovery and friendship.
What’s it like for two friends in their twenties, known globally as superstars, to travel away from the spotlight?
The eight-part show follows Jimin and Jung Kook as they spend time unwinding together across three scenic locations in the USA, South Korea and Japan.
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, Netflix
After the success of Haseen Dillruba, the story of love, deceit and crime continues in this sequel of the hit Indian pulp thriller.
Now residing in the city of Agra, Rani lives as a paying guest & Rishu also lives under the alias Ravi Varma.
While the city is facing its own struggles with a broken barrage, heavy floods and an unexpected arrival of crocodiles in the Yamuna river, Rishu and Rani are trying their best to make ends meet, avoid attention and escape to be together.
Will they manage to evade the cops this time?
Sport
Paris Olympics 2024: AM, from 6.25am
The opening coverage on day 13 includes the start of the heptathlon at Stade de France and the women's 10km marathon swimming event at Pont Alexandre III.
The first of the day's medals will be decided in the swimming event from 6.30am, before attention switches to the Stade de France and the 100m hurdles and high jump disciplines of the heptathlon from 9.05am and 10.05am.
At the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, the canoe sprint continues with the finals of the men's canoe double and the men's and women's kayak four among the highlights, while the women's kite sailing gold will be decided at Marseille Marina.
Evanne Ní Chuilinn presents, with analysis by Derval O'Rourke (above) and Rob Heffernan.
Next up, there's Paris Olympics 2024: Today at 1pm, where diving and track cycling take centre stage, featuring the men's 3m springboard final from 2pm at the Aquatics Centre.
Over at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, the track cycling features the early stages of the men's omnium and individual sprint, and the women's keirin.
Peter Collins presents, with analysis from Clare Cryan, Derval O'Rourke, Rob Heffernan (below) and Sonia O'Sullivan.
Then at 6pm there's Paris Olympics 2024: Tonight, where Darragh Maloney introduces live taekwondo and athletics coverage, with five champions set to be crowned in the track and field events at the Stade de France.
The schedule for this evening's final features the women's long jump from 7pm, men's javelin from 7.25pm, men's 200m at 7.30pm, women's 400m hurdles at 8.25pm and men's 110m hurdles at 8.45pm, along with the heptathlon 200m at 7.55pm.
Over at the Grand Palais, the men's -68kg Taekwondo final is at 8.19 and the women's -57kg at 8.37pm.
