Dawn French narrates The Nevermets as long-distant lovers meet up, Jennifer Lopez stars in sci-fi adventure Atlas, there's a new documentary about The Beach Boys, a sad springer spaniel on The Shelter: Animal SOS, and The Young Offenders go fishing . . .
Pick of the Day
The Nevermets, 10.00pm, Channel 4
More and more people are meeting their partners online, and not just through dating apps, but on gaming platforms, in online communities and forums, and on social media.
But what happens when that person lives in another country and geography prevents them from being together in physical form?
Welcome to the world of the nevermets' couples who've met online and formed long-distance relationships with someone who they've never met in person.
This brand-new series, narrated by Dawn French, meets people who've fallen madly, deeply in love with someone who lives on the other side of the globe.
Catering assistant Sarah, who's 38, has been dating her boyfriend, 27-year-old Jgoy, for nearly two years but has never actually met him in person - because Jgoy lives over 7000 miles away in the Philippines.
17-year-old college student Jay from Bridgwater met 26-year-old social media manager Veena on a Game of Thrones roleplay server a year and a half ago.
Jay is making the 4500-mile journey to Kerala in India to meet Veena face-to-face for the first time, to see if they could have a romantic future.
New or Returning Shows
Suzie Lee: Home Cook Hero, 8.00pm, BBC One
Season 4 opens with Suzie (above) preparing a chicken dinner and visits a butcher to get some tips and tricks for cooking with cheaper cuts of meat.
She makes delicious pulled pork in sticky barbecue sauce and shows us her low-cost hanger steak with triple-cooked chips.
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, 10.00pm, Channel 4
This promises to be a darkly funny documentary series featuring stand-up comedian, writer, and recent star of the movie Poor Things, Jerrod Carmichael (below).
It follows Jerrod through his encounters with friends, family and strangers, while Jerrod’s preoccupied with his quest for love, sex, and truth.
As his experiment in radical honesty begins, Jerrod confronts his crush, avoids his mother and scrambles to find a date to the Emmys.
Then, As Jerrod falls in love with his new boyfriend, he learns he has a problem with fidelity.
Don’t Miss
This week, the DSPCA deals with a dog with a mysterious injury who undergoes surgery at the shelter.
Then an underweight horse is brought in and needs specialist dental care by the vet team and dental experts at UCD.
Finally, a very sad springer spaniel (above) is cared for by the team and gets the spring back in his step.
The Young Offenders, 9.30pm, BBC One
More Cork comedy with Chris Walley, Alex Murphy and Shane Casey.
Conor is becoming an increasing nuisance in Healy and Mairéad's house, and when Healy shares that he's going on a fishing trip to where he grew up, Mairead insists that he brings Connor along.
A Banquet, 11.10pm, Film4
Some late-night film fun with a tense body-horror about a teenage girl who suddenly stops eating - but stays the same weight.
Sienna Guillory stars as Holly, a widowed mother who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) insists that a supernatural experience has left her body in service to a higher power.
At a party, Betsey wanders into a forest under a blood-red moon, and when she comes out, she seems far more out of it than when she went in. From then on she stops eating.
Holly thinks it might be anorexia, but Betsey doesn't lose any weight. More exotically, Holly's mother June (Lindsay Duncan) thinks she could be a futakuchi-onna: a monster from Japanese folklore characterised by a second mouth located on the back of the head, under the hair.
So what is really going on? Is this a case of a family with trauma at its core trying to pretend everything is alright? Or is Betsey a monster possessing the family by making it all about her and consuming all its joy?
New to Stream
The Beach Boys, Disney+
This is a celebration of the legendary band that contributed so much to pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream.
The documentary traces the band from humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and all-new interviews with The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston.
It also features other luminaries in the music business, including Lindsey Buckingham, Janelle Monáe, Ryan Tedder, and Don Was.
Viewers will also hear from the late members - and brothers of Brian - Carl and Dennis Wilson in their own words, plus a new interview with Blondie Chaplin and hear audio from Ricky Fataar.
"I’m super happy with the way the documentary turned out, they did an amazing job," says Brian Wilson.
"It really brought me back to those days with the boys, the fun and the music. And of course those incredible harmonies."
Atlas, Netflix
Atlas Shepherd (played by Jennifer Lopez) is a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence.
She joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go pear-shaped, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.
Mulligan, Netflix
From the minds behind 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, this new animated series is co-created by executive producers Robert Carlock and Sam Means, who serve as co-showrunners.
Tina Fey is on board as an executive producer.
Allegiances are tested when the grim realities of life on an empty, alien-ravaged planet start to sink in for President Mulligan and his rag-tag band of survivors.
In order to rebuild society they'll have to overcome feral cub scouts, a cruise ship with a deadly secret, and each other.
Blue Beetle, Sky Cinema & NOW
Xolo Mariduena, Adriana Barraza, Damien Alcazar, Elpidia Carrillo and Becky G star in this comic book adventure from DC.
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it.
As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he gets a suit of armour capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, and he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.
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