Silent Witness
Torching 2024
Apollo 13
Vótáil
Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks:
Vótáil RTÉ One, 8pm
Cormac Ó hEadhra presents the first in a four-part series examining memorable elections. The story begins in 1977, when Fianna Fáil set out to oust a coalition it held responsible for an era of austerity.
Vótáil
Silent Witness BBC One, 9pm
The long-running crime drama is back for its 28th season. It starts with an investigation into how and why an elderly woman’s body was arranged in an unusual fashion in a cave, three months after she was killed. Continues on Tuesday.
Michael Lynn – The Fugitive RTÉ One, 9.35pm
Documentary profiling the solicitor who conned millions out of banks by forging signatures and striking up secret deals before disappearing. Michael O’Farrell, the investigative reporter who tracked him down, recalls this fascinating story.
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 TG4, 9.30pm Ron Howard’s true-life drama focuses on the efforts of Nasa staff to return the stricken titular craft and its crew back to Earth following an ill-fated 1970 trip to the moon. Tom Hanks stars.
Maestro in Blue Netflix, streaming now
Feast your eyeballs on the sun-soaked beaches of Paxos because this is the final instalment of omni-talented Christoforos Papakaliatis’s Greek murder mystery. As Orestis and Klelia try to iron out their feelings, the investigation intensifies on the island and the murder case reaches a climax (we hope).
Torching 2024
Torching 2024 Netflix, streaming now
Only time will tell how history will remember 2024 — either brimming with wistful nostalgia and/or the all-too-complacent ‘turning point’. Regardless of future opinions, ‘Roastmaster General’ Jeff Ross and a host of comedians cast a wry look back at 2024’s more memorable moments… Assassin Club Netflix, streaming now
Fancy a mindless action movie to balm the brain as you re-enter the workforce this month? We have this Sam Neill number from 2023 lurking around Netflix. Ordered by his shadowy handler (Neill) to eliminate six other assassins, a professional killer (Henry Golding) discovers they’ve all been enlisted to hunt him too.
