Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 lands on Sky Cinema, there’s the First Night of the Proms, Irish film Aisha has a star turn from Letitia Wright, Shark Fest celebrates ne of nature’s most feared predators, and there’s a Shania Twain night on the Beeb . . .
Pick of the Day
Juror #2, 8.00pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Nonagenarian Clint Eastwood's recent legal thriller, starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, JK Simmons and Kiefer Sutherland, offers a good, old-fashioned court drama.
All you need is a bowl of popcorn and something fizzy. Slippers optional.
Magazine writer and family man Justin Kemp is sequestered to serve on the trial of James Sythe, who is accused of killing his girlfriend Kendall one year ago, following a fight in a pub.
Justin faces an agonising moral dilemma - he was at the same boozer as the defendant that fateful night and struck something on the road during the drive home, which might have been Kendall.
New or Returning Shows
First Night of the Proms, 6.45pm, BBC Two
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann present the concert which kicks off the summer's Proms season.
The music includes Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Bliss's Birthday Fanfare and Sibelius's majestic Violin Concerto, performed by soloist Lisa Batiashvili.
A world premiere by Errollyn Wallen - The Elements - starts the second half, followed by Vaughan Williams' powerful Sancta Civitas with tenor Caspar Singh, baritone Gerald Finley, and the BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus.
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
New to Stream
Shark Fest, Disney+
This series claims to be the only shark event that proves truth is stranger than fiction as it takes viewers up close and personal with one of nature’s most feared predators.
For example, for the first time shark biologists uncover the secret life of baby great whites off the coast of New York City.
In another episode, swimmer and shark advocate Ross Edgley faces his greatest challenge yet as he attempts to pit his mind and body against the most formidable predator in the ocean - the shark.
Testing the limits of his speed, strength, hydrodynamics and endurance, Ross will push his body to its extremes to understand what makes sharks such incredible and versatile predators.
Wall to Wall, Netflix
This is a South Korean movies about a man who finally saves up enough to buy an apartment, only to have it turn into a nightmare with financial ruin and mysterious noises from neighbouring floors.
Let's face it: people are the same everywhere - some are good, some are bad, and many are indifferent.
Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours.
Superstar, Netflix
Here's a new comedy/drama from Spain.
At the turn of the century, a comet crossed the Spanish sky, shattering the laws of fame and success and dissolving the line between the popular and the underground.
For a few years, the front pages and prime time were taken over by celebrities from another dimension.
They were creatures who, until then, seemed condemned to ridicule and contempt, caught people’s attention without adapting to any kind of normality.
The blurb promises a magical story with room for esoteric conspiracies, eternal nights, quantum bricks, multicolored supervillains and an improbability made star: Tamara.
Don’t Miss
Aisha, 9.35pm, RTÉ One
Here’s a film that should annoy the 'get them out’ brigade.
Letitia Wright, Josh O’Connor, Ruth McCabe, Tara Flynn and Joanne Crawford star in Frank Berry's drama, which he both wrote and directed.
It’s a story that charts the experiences of a young Nigerian woman as she seeks international protection in Ireland.
Caught in limbo for years in Ireland’s immigration system, Aisha Osagie (Wright) develops a friendship with former prisoner Conor Healy (O’Connor) who she meets at one of the accommodation centres.
Aisha and Conor's growing friendship soon looks to be short lived as Aisha’s future in Ireland comes under threat.
Deliverance, 11.00pm, BBC Two
John Boorman's excellent thriller based on James Dickey's novel, with Burt Reynolds (below), Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Bill McKinney.
It’s a classic conflict of city and rural, with deadly results.
Four city friends look forward to a weekend canoeing trip in America's Deep South.
But their adventure turns into a nightmare when menacing rednecks come down from the nearby hills and subject them to a shocking assault, forcing the men to take extreme action to save their lives.
Shanis Twain at the BBC, 9.05pm, BBC Four
A Shania Twain night kicks off with a collection featuring all of the Canadian singer-songwriter's biggest moments from the BBC archives.
Followed at 9.55pm by Reel Stories: Shania Twain, where the singer meets up with Dermot O'Leary in a London cinema to reflect on the pivotal moments in her life and career, in a recording made ahead of her debut at Glastonbury in 2024.
Then at 10.40pm there’s Shania Twain: Live in Hyde Park.
The queen of country-pop takes to the Hyde Park stage in 2017, performing You're Still the One, Life's About to Get Good, Swingin' with My Eyes Closed and the crowd-pleasers That Don't Impress Me Much and Man! I Feel Like a Woman.
Ending Today
Our Yorkshire Shop: A Victorian Restoration, 8.00pm, Channel 4
The team members put the finishing touches to Peacock and Verity, ready for the grand launch of the restored Victorian grocery shop.
They pick the busiest weekend of the year to throw open their doors, when hundreds of visitors flock to the North Yorkshire town of Masham's annual Sheep Fair, which dates back centuries and takes place each September.
Everything is coming together beautifully until an unexpected downpour and a leaking roof threaten to put a dampener on all the plans.
Sport
Live UEFA Women's Euro 2025, 7.30pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Marie Crowe presents all the action from the third quarter-final, held at Stadion Wankdorf in Bern as hosts Switzerland take on the much-fancied Spain (KO 8pm).
As reigning world champions, Spain (above) entered the tournament as favourites, and have justified that status so far with victories over Italy, Belgium and Portugal in Group B.
Qualifying for this stage proved to be a tougher test for the hosts, but they eventually finished second in Group A, five points below Norway, but above Finland and Iceland.
With analysis from Karen Duggan and Rachel Corsie. With analysis from Karen Duggan and Rachel Corsie.
