It's the final day of the Paris Olympics, The Body Next Door tells a gripping murder mystery, Leonardo Da Vinci is celebrated in The Inventor, and Cork face Galway in the All-Ireland camogie final at Croke Park . . .
Pick of the Day
Paris Olympics 2024: Closing Ceremony, 7.55pm, RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player
So that’s it for another four years.
It’s been an amazing Olympics for the Irish - hopefully it’s going to an inspire a new generation to go and do even better.
And so it ends with live coverage from the Stade de France, as spectators, artists and athletes will join together to celebrate another remarkable event and look ahead to the 2028 Games, which will take place in Los Angeles, before the traditional extinguishing of the Olympic flame.
Plus, there’s a look back at the best moments of more than two weeks of sport from Paris. Spoiler alert: there are Irish medal winners from the start.
Earlier in the day (from 6.55am!), there’s Paris Olympics 2024: AM (RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player), which includes coverage of the women's marathon, track cycling at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome and modern pentathlon at the Chateau de Versailles.
Paris Olympics 2024: Today takes up the baton at 12.55pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
Peter Collins presents the concluding events of the Games, the finals of the men's water polo and women's basketball at Paris La Defense Arena and the Bercy Arena respectively.
New or Returning Shows
The Body Next Door, 9.00pm, Sky Documentaries
Streaming on NOW
This three-part series looks interesting.
What begins as a seemingly harmless prank in the sleepy Welsh town of Beddau takes a horrifying turn when a medical skeleton is in fact revealed to be a dead body.
What follows is a gripping murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic family saga.
All episodes are available from 9pm.
Don’t Miss
Clive James: Postcards from Paris, 11.00pm, BBC Four
Another chance to see the late, great Clive James (below) in action. It’s a joy from start to finish.
In the 1960s the then young expatriate Australian writer discovered Paris, which he felt was his spiritual home.
In this programme he returns to the city and meets the writers, the models and the actresses who were part of a different world in his youth, and also encounters the unchanging arch-enemy of any visitor - the Paris taxi driver.
New to Stream
The Inventor, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW
Here’s a stop-motion animation biographical film about Leonardo da Vinci, written, produced and directed by Jim Capobianco and co-directed by Pierre-Luc Granjon.
The voice cast includes Stephen Fry, Marion Cotillard, Daisy Ridley, and Matt Berry.
The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and studying the human body.
There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question:
"What is the meaning of it all?"
Sunday Cinema
Dial M for Murder, 4.15pm, BBC Two
Alfred Hitchcock's superb 1954 thriller, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams.
Milland plays a former tennis champion who suspects his wife (Kelly) is having an affair, so he hatches a plan to have her killed and inherit her fortune.
He succeeds in blackmailing a disgraced former soldier into murdering her and making it look like a burglary.
But the plan backfires when the intended victim kills the would-be assassin.
Dark Waters, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
This is a really good legal drama, starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman and Bill Camp.
When a defence attorney takes on a lawsuit case against a chemical company, he finds a deep and rich trial in their history that unravels a history of pollution.
Blinded by the Light, 11.00pm, BBC One
Want to go to bed with a smile on your face? Here goes.
This is a feelgood coming-of-age story, starring Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir and Meera Ganatra.
Javed Khan is a British-Pakistani college student living in 1980s’ Bedfordshire under a domineering father.
Facing parental pressure and everyday racism, he unexpectedly finds his frustrations and ambitions expressed in Bruce Springsteen songs.
Inspired by the rock star and a teacher who encourages his own writing, he sets out to fulfill his dreams.
The Elephant Man, 11.30pm, BBC Two
Here's the film that brought quirky director David Lynch to the mainstream.
It's a fact-based (and very moving) drama starring an excellent John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones.
That's some bloomin' cast!
Set in 1884, where ambitious young surgeon Frederick Treves is intrigued by a sideshow freak billed as the Elephant Man.
He finds, behind the disfigured exhibit, an intelligent and sensitive person called John Merrick, whose rehabilitation he undertakes, with the severely deformed man's life being transformed by the friendship that develops between the two.
Ending Today
Titanic in Colour, 8.00pm, Channel 4
This final episode opens on the morning of the Titanic's final day.
Specially colourised film from 1921 shot on board the Titanic's sister ship Olympic allows viewers to see how the Titanic looked on that fateful morning and follow the doomed ship's journey to the icy depths.
Survivors' dramatic tales are brought to life by newly restored film featuring their rescue on the ship the Carpathia, while the lasting legacy of the tragedy is examined by relatives of the passengers.
Sport
The Sunday Game Live, 5.00pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Camogie takes centre stage this afternoon at GAA HQ.
The main event sees Cork up against Galway (throw-in 5.15pm) in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final at Croke Park.
Marie Crowe presents coverage, with analysis from Anna Geary, Anne Marie Hayes and Ursula Jacob.
That’s preceded at 3pm by Cork v Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship match at Croke Park.
In turn, that’s preceded at 12.55pm by Laois v Tipperary (throw-in 1.05pm) in the All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship final, also at Croke Park.
