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Mrs Brown's Boys
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Grandad drops a bombshell in Mrs Brown's Boys, crime drama Karen Pirie returns to Virgin, there’s the self-explanatory Stolen: Heist of the Century, and Tradfest: The Fingal Sessions continues . . .

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Mrs Brown's Boys, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

The latest run of Brendan O’Carroll’s hugely popular sitcom continues with an episode entitled Mammy's Talent.

There's trouble brewing in Finglas as Grandad drops a bombshell - he's planning to leave.

Agnes is having none of it and immediately goes into detective mode to find out what's really going on.

Meanwhile, Foley's Bar prepares for its big annual talent show - and Winnie is determined to take part.

Between Grandad's secrets and some highly questionable 'talents', it's another week of unpredictable mayhem for Agnes and her long-suffering clan.

New or Returning Shows

Karen Pirie, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One

Return of the crime drama based on the series of novels by Val McDermid, starring Lauren Lyle.

Amid societal unrest in 1984, oil heiress Catriona Grant and her son Adam are kidnapped at gunpoint, but after sending two ransom notes the culprits unexpectedly fall silent and the pair are never seen again.

When a man's body is discovered 40 years later in a quarry with a piece of evidence connected to the case, DI Karen Pirie is tasked with reopening the case with the first new lead in decades.

New to Stream

Stolen: Heist of the Century, Netflix

Here's the latest jaw- dropping documentary film from RAW (producers of American Nightmare, The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**K With Cats) in association with Amblin Documentaries and in collaboration with Wildside.

The ultimate true-life crime caper tells the story of the world’s greatest diamond heist.

For the first time, the Antwerp detectives who cracked the case and the alleged criminal mastermind assemble to give a blow-by-blow account of what really happened and reveal the secrets of The Heist of the Century.

On the morning of 17 February 2003, detectives from Antwerp’s infamous 'Diamond Squad’ were called to investigate the brazen night-time robbery of an allegedly impregnable vault in the middle of the City of Diamonds.

It’s estimated that between 100 million and half a billion dollars’ worth of diamonds were stolen – and have never been found.

An ingenious gang of master jewel thieves from Italy, known as The School of Turin were behind the audacious heist – now, after more than 20 years, the world will finally learn how they pulled it off.

Smoke, Apple TV+

Created and written by Dennis Lehane and inspired by true events, Smoke is a slow-burner that follows an arson investigator who begrudgingly teams up with a police detective as their race to stop two arsonists ignites a twisted game of secrets and suspicions.

Starring Emmy Award nominee Taron Egerton as arson investigator Dave Gudsen and Emmy Award nominee Jurnee Smollett as police detective Michelle Calderone, episode 8 drops today.

In this penultimate chapter, Gudsen flips the script. Meanwhile, Harvey grapples with regret and Calderone is forced to confront her past.

Summer of '69, Apple TV+

The film tells the story of an awkward high school senior who hires an exotic dancer to help seduce her longtime crush before graduation, leading to unexpected friendship and lessons in self-confidence, acceptance and adulthood.

It features an ensemble cast including Chloe Fineman, Sam Morelos, Charlie Day, Paula Pell, Liza Koshy, Nicole Byer and more.

Don’t Miss

Tradfest: The Fingal Sessions, 8.00pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

Host Fiachna Ó Braonáin, blues legend Eric Bibb, new blues sensation Muireann Bradley and Grammy-winning fiddle player Eileen Ivers from The Bronx join forces tonight.

They explore the global connections of Irish music as they share songs, tunes and stories in this historic haunted castle.

Peggy Sue Got Married, 11.15pm, RTÉ One

Francis Ford Coppola’s Kapra-esque, ‘Back to the Future for girls’ comedy is not perfect, but well worth staying up for.

Starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joan Allen, Catherine Hicks and Kevin J O'Connor, it’s about a depressed fortysomething woman.

It’s the mid-1980s and she’s about to get divorced, but faints at a high-school reunion and awakes to find she has travelled back in time to 1960 and her teenage years.

Given the apparent chance to put things right, she resolves to avoid a relationship with the man she is about to divorce.

The Best of The Late Late Show, 10.10pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

This week’s highlights from last season’s run feature Sharon Horgan (above) talking Bad Sisters and Danny Dyer sharing life after EastEnders.

Plus, there’s a sports double as Masters champion Rory McIlroy and NFL superstar Tom Brady talk to Patrick Kielty.

Weather Hits at the BBC, 10.40pm, BBC Four

BBC forecasters Carol Kirkwood and Tomasz Schafernaker present a selection of performances of weather-related songs from the archives.

They include the likes of Bill Withers (above) singing Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone and Why Does It Always Rain on Me? By Travis.

Dvorak’s New World Symphony at the Proms, 8.00pm, BBC Four

Alison Balsom makes her Proms presenting debut with a concert of musical postcards from the Americas.

Featuring Dvorak's New World Symphony, Arturo Márquez's Trumpet Concerto and Venezuelan virtuoso Pacho Flores performs on four different types of trumpet.

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