Hit the Wall TG4, 5.40pm
Documentary about GAA handball, a sport whose popularity has gradually declined over the past 50 years. Those who continue to play reveal what they love about a game that was once a national institution with alleys across the land.
Dancing with the Stars RTÉ One, 6.30pm
Just three weeks after the end of Strictly Come Dancing, our own version of the pro-celebrity contest begins. Doireann Garrihy and Jennifer Zamparelli return as co-hosts, former champion Karen Byrne joins the judging panel, and the participants include comedian Gearóid Farrelly, actor Danny O’Carroll and Olympian Jack Woolley.
Room to Improve. Photo: Andres Poveda
Call the Midwife BBC One, 8pm
Hot on the heels of two festive specials comes the start of a new 14th series. It’s now March 1970, and although the Nonnatus team face problems thanks to demonstrations in the area, they’re still able to support a pregnant teenager having issues with her parents.
Room to Improve RTÉ One, 9.30pm
Dermot Bannon kicks off a new run in Charlestown, Co Mayo, where he meets Karen Mulligan. She’s returning to her hometown from London, and wants to renovate the property that was once her father’s butcher’s shop.
28 Days
28 Days RTÉ2, 9pm
After turning up drunk at her sister’s wedding, an alcoholic New York newspaper columnist checks herself into rehab. While there, she meets a range of fellow addicts, and joins them on the long and difficult road to recovery. Drama, starring Sandra Bullock and Dominic West.
American Pie TG4, 10.30pm
Smash-hit coming-of-age comedy about four teenage boys who learn a few life lessons while trying to lose their virginities before the high-school prom. Jason Biggs heads the cast.
Maestro in Blue
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 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
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.
