Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Kinds of Kindness, K-Pop Idols lands on Apple TV+, Nicole Kidman stars in Lucille Ball biopic Being the Ricardos, and the Paris Paralympics continue . . .
Pick of the Day
Kinds of Kindness, Disney+
From the Oscar-nominated director of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos, this dark comedy features a star-studded cast, led by Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe.
It's a three-stranded fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life, a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person, and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
With a screenplay by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, the film is produced by Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney and Jesse Plemons won the Best Actor Award for his role at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Don’t Miss
Being the Ricardos, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Here’s writer-director Aaron Sorkin's 2021 behind-the-scenes comedy drama about US comedy legend Lucille Ball.
During one production week of the hit sitcom I Love Lucy - from Monday table read through Friday audience taping - Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) face a series of personal and professional crises that threaten their show, careers and marriage.
BBC Proms: Beethoven’s Ninth Unwrapped, 8.00pm, BBC Four
The Aurora Orchestra take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with a signature memorised performance, led by conductor Nicholas Collon, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Solo vocalists Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Brenden Gunnell and Christopher Purves are joined by the BBC Singers and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain to form the chorus for the final movement.
Linton Stephens presents.
Celebrity MasterChef, 9.00pm, BBC One
The third heat of this run of the show ends as the week's best three celebrities try to win a place in the semi-finals.
In their attempt to make it through, they each prepare a two-course menu for 2021 semi-finalist Su Pollard, 2019 finalist Vicky Pattison and 2017 champion Angellica Bell.
Hosted, as usual, by John Torode and Gregg Wallace (above).
Later Presents Elvis Costello in Concert, 10.40pm, BBC Four
To celebrate Elvis Costello’s 70th birthday, here’s a repeat of a special originally broadcast in 1996.
Jools Holland introduces a studio performance by the singer-songwriter, featuring classic songs such as Pump It Up and Watching the Detectives.
The performer is accompanied by the Attractions and the Brodsky Quartet.
The Deer Hunter, 10.00pm, RTÉ2
Classic, Oscar-winning drama from 1978, starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage and John Cazale in his last film role.
The story covers the lives of three American steelworkers and their families, who are torn apart in the wake of the Vietnam War.
After enduring horrific treatment in a prison camp during the conflict, the three friends return to their homes but struggle to readjust to normal life.
New to Stream
K-Pop Idols, Apple TV+
Glitz meets grit in this backstage pass to ambitious performers from around the world.
Through trials and triumphs, Jessi, CRAVITY and BLACKSWAN give everything they’ve got to a part of the pop industry that demands nothing less than perfection.
For K-Pop enthusiasts only, I’d imagine.
Breathless, Netflix
Here’s a hospital drama from Spain.
Joaquín Sorolla is much more than a public hospital in Valencia where lives are saved on a daily basis.
Doctors and residents work hard in the frenetic pace of the emergency room, where tensions, emotions and even desire accelerate the hearts of a staff who live increasingly on the edge.
The arrival of a distinguished patient highlights the complicated situation of the public health system, lighting the fuse for what is to become an unprecedented and drastic strike.
Madame Web, Sky Cinema Premiere
If you’ve ever wondered how grim superhero movies can become, look at this pretty disastrous flick.
Cher-haired Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future - and realises she can use that insight to change it.
Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women bound for powerful destinies. If they can all survive a deadly present.
Sport
Paris Paralympics 2024, from 8.30am, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Coverage of the morning's action on day two begins at 8.30am, including swimming at Paris La Defensea Arena and para rowing at Vaires-Sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.
With commentary by John Kenny and James Scully.
Further coverage of day two in France continues at 1.50pm, including cycling action from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome.
Then at 7pm Evanne Ní Chuilinn presents coverage of the key events on the second evening, including athletics from Stade de France.
Finals take place in the men's F55 shot put, T11 long jump, T52 400m and T37 and T47 100m, and women's F32 club throw and T37 200m.
With analysis from Ailbhe Kelly, Michael McKillop and Peter Ryan.
