9pm, Sky Atlantic
Written and directed by Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Get Shorty) this new comedy drama is a return to the Irish milieu of O’Dowd’s charming semi-autobiographical sitcom Moone Boy. Paddy Considine and Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks star – the latter as a hotshot Hollywood television producer who returns to her rural Irish hometown to scout a setting to shoot a big new movie production. The much-loved local GP in the fictional village of Drumbán (Considine), just happens to be her former teenage sweetheart – and the only person other than herself to have witnessed a scary paranormal happening within their community at the turn of the millennium.
8.30pm, ITV1
In a volatile international climate and following the election of Donald Trump as US president, how well-prepared are our Armed Forces for any future conflict? Former British soldier Adnan Sarwar reports on the UK’s defence strategy, whether its current levels of equipment and manpower are adequate or not, and if the right level of funding is in place to meet the challenges of the future.
9pm, BBC One
It’s a 4am wake-up call for the 14 remaining candidates as they are chauffeured off to Sketch in Mayfair – the somewhat laborious clue to their task being in the restaurant’s famous egg-shaped toilets. For this week they have to create and brand a new chocolate Easter egg before trying to win hypothetical sales from the major supermarkets. Malika and dentist Jana are the project managers and, needless to say, Lord Sugar is unimpressed by the finished products, likening one to the coronavirus and the other to “something you put a loo brush in.”
9pm, Channel 4
Forty-four-year-old Anita is rushed into Queen’s after suffering a cardiac arrest. While the team determines why her heart stopped, her mother recounts the difficulties they’ve faced. And as the clinical team tends to a 94-year-old who has collapsed, his daughter talks about why he’s known as Mr Sunshine, while five-year-old Lottie has injured her leg.
9pm, Channel 5
The presenter concludes his playfully immersive history series with Captain James Cook – the last explorer in the age of sail – and one of the busiest, charting one-third of the world. His voyages brought huge advancements in navigation, biology, and geography, and in Britain he is generally thought of as a hero – although in other parts of the world, that’s not the story. May examines how this studious and serious son of a farmer was able to break through the social class ceiling to become the greatest naval captain of his age.
9pm, U&Drama
A reboot of the 80s TV favourite with Damien Molony (Nina’s devious boyfriend Tyler in The Split) in the role made famous by John Nettles – Jersey detective Jim Bergerac. Writer Toby Whithouse (Being Human, Doctor Who) has done a decent job of reimagining the material, as we discover a recently widowed Jim on extended leave, battling his demons with a hip-flask full of the strong stuff. Zoë Wanamaker plays his mother-in-law in a gender-flipped Charlie Hungerford while Philip Glenister and Pippa Haywood guest star in the opening murder mystery.
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