Rosamund Pike stars in a gripping film about the late war correspondent Marie Colvin; it's another Late Late Show; and was the 80s music's greatest decade - here's your top telly for today
This six-part observational documentary series follows the work at Ireland's oldest and largest animal welfare charity. Since 1840 the DSPCA has engaged in a battle to rescue and rehabilitate Dublin’s sick and injured animals. On tonight’s episode, an elderly dog with bad teeth and matted hair is transformed by the shelter team. A cat with a bad fracture is nursed back to health and finds a great new home.
Film of the day
The hell of war is etched on Rosamund Pike’s face in every scene in documentary maker Matthew Heineman’s gripping film about the late war correspondent Marie Colvin. Colvin, the daughter of a WWII Marine veteran, was the daring American war reporter with the trademark eye patch (courtesy of an ambush in Sri Lanka in 2001) for the Sunday Times who was killed in the crossfire after decades reporting from the world’s war zones. Jamie Dornan plays Paul Conroy, the laconic war photographer who teams up with Colvin to go rogue and avoid being embedded with more risk adverse reporters and there is a nervous energy to Pike's Colvin which fizzes on the screen. Read our full review.
Late Night Lycett, Channel 4, 10.00pm
Joe Lycett hosts the second series of his raucous comedy entertainment show, live from his hometown of Birmingham. Expect madcap games, celebrity guests, local heroes and, of course, Joe's aunties!
The 80s - Music's Greatest Decade, BBC Four, 12.30am
Eighties music is often dismissed as a joke - all drum machines and big hair. But - as journalist Dylan Jones argues in this film - the 1980s should be looked on as the most creative, radical and innovative decade in pop.
This was the decade when the world-conquering genres of rap, hip-hop and modern dance music were launched, while guitar-driven indie flourished in a constellation of scenes spread out across the UK that sowed the seeds of Britpop. And a technological revolution was changing how music was made, filling the charts with a starburst of innovative records.
Featuring interviews with Nile Rodgers, Bananarama, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Mark Ronson, Trevor Horn and Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B.
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