There's a star-studded version of the classic musical Anything Goes, medical drama Malpractice returns, Maggie’s off to Italy in Cheap European Homes, and there are the Munster and Connacht football finals . . .
Pick of the Day
The Sunday Game Live, 1.15pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Today's GAA action offers a cracking double bill as Kerry face Clare and Mayo meet Galway (Throw-ins 1.45pm and 4.00pm).
It may still seem to early in the year for provincial deciders, but if the recent wrather holds up it'll certainly feel like mid-summer!
Joanne Cantwell presents coverage of the Munster Senior Football Championship final at Fitzgerald Stadium followed by the Connacht Senior Football Championship final at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.
Clare are looking to avenge a defeat at the hands of Kerry in last year's Munster decider, and it’s a similar story out west also met in the 2024 with a repeat of last year’s Connacht final, with Galway claiming a narrow victory.
New or Returning Shows
Anything Goes: The Musical, 7.00pm, BBC Four.
The best musicals are ones where the story doesn’t get in the way. In fact, the less yak, the better.
Here, the story is as flimsy, the dialogue as minimal as can be -and the tunes are fantastic. And there are loads of them.
I saw this a couple of years ago at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre (with a different cast) and it blew me away. The quality of Cole Porter’s songwriting is staggering.
Here's the trailer for the 2022 production:
This production of the classic musical comedy filmed at London's Barbican, featuring a cast led by Broadway star Sutton Foster reprising her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney.
She stars alongside – wait for it! - Robert Lindsay, Felicity Kendal and Gary Wilmot in a heart-warming romance filled with spectacular dance routines and some of musical theatre's most memorable songs.
The story goes thus: when the SS American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention are abandoned as two unlikely pairs are set on the course to true love.
Malpractice, 9.00pm, UTV
Second season of the medical thriller, starring Tom Hughes, Helen Behan and Jordan Kouame.
When psychiatric registrar James Ford finds himself torn between a new mother attending a routine postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic woman during a busy on-call shift, no-one can predict the terrible consequences.
The MIU are brought in to investigate but digging deeper into the events that night leads to questions about Dr Ford and his hospital department.
New to Stream
The Damned, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW
Eva (Odessa Young), a 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing post.
Eva and her crew must choose to either rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food.
Facing the consequences of their choice and tormented by their guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices.
Don’t Miss
Cheap European Homes, 7.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Here’s an episode for anyone who – like me – would fancy living La Dolce Vita in Italy.
Easier said than done, of course. The language and cultural barriers can be massive as Italy’s such a monoculture.
Here, Maggie Molloy (above, right) helps Orla find her dream home in the peninsula, where she can work remotely.
Meanwhile, Kevin McGahern (above, left) takes her to an expat Italian language group to help her prepare for the move.
The Assembly, 10.00pm, Virgin Media one
Impressive singer Jade Thirlwall (below) - she's sharp as a tack and the very antithesis of pop star as a puppet - faces the grilling of a lifetime from an audience of autistic and learning-disabled interviewers.
Does she regret selling her soul? Were the pyramids created by aliens? Does she get trapped wind? No question or line of enquiry is off the table.
Expect revelation, chaos and a lot of laughs.
Ending Today
Kerry: Tides of Time, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
The concluding chapter of the story of a single year in Kerry, as the seasons play out through and across the county's varied habitats.
This programme looks in detail at the lives of some of the area's most charismatic and fascinating wild inhabitants.
Badgers, red deer, hen harrier and puffins are among the cast of characters whose lives are followed through the year.
Doc Martin, 6.00pm, Virgin Media One
After ten seasons, here’s the last ever regular episode of the long-running drama series, starring Martin Clunes (below).
The villagers throw the Ellinghams a farewell party and Ruth helps Mrs Tishell deal with the news and encourages her to attend.
Unfortunately, it seems as though Martin and Louisa aren't going to make it because a farmer has spotted their lost dog.
Sunday Cinema
Life's a Breeze, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Looking for an amiable end to your Sunday night viewing? Here goes.
This is an Irish comedy written and directed by Lance Daly, starring Kelly Thornton, Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt and Eva Birthistle.
An elderly woman tells her children she had stored her life savings in her mattress, which they had just had removed while giving their mother's house a thorough clean-out without her knowledge.
The family then take to the streets of Dublin in search of the item and – more particularly - the fortune it contains.
Family Flick
Paddington, 4.25pm, BBC One
Hugely entertaining comedy based on Michael Bond's much-loved series of children's books, starring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Nicole Kidman, with the voice of Ben Whishaw.
An earthquake forces a bear from the Peruvian jungle to start a new life in London.
He finds modern Britain to be very different from the stories told to him by his aunt but makes a new home with a kindly family.
But all that’s good and great for Paddington gets spoiled when a sinister taxidermist intends to turn him into a museum exhibit.
