Ireland's Hidden Treasures looks at our museums, Lee Mack hosts as The 1% Club returns, David Tennant stars in Good, there's the finale of Hunted and Clare face champions Limerick at Cusack Park . . .
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Focusing on the vital cultural role of museums in Ireland, while focusing on the history held within the National Museum and National Library of Ireland.
This series is a celebration of Ireland’s timeless legacy, paying homage to the devoted guardians who dedicate their lives to its preservation.
Ireland’s Hidden Treasures sparks a renewed focus on the vital cultural role of museums in Ireland – not just in documenting our history and protecting our heritage – but as repositories of engaging stories, windows to our past and, ultimately, guides to who we really are.
This is the story of Ireland itself.
The first edition of the series uncovers the story of the Brasky Mass, a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, and its voyage from space to Irish soil.
New or Returning Shows
The 1% Club, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One
The quiz show hosted by Lee Mack in which the questions have nothing to do with remembering facts, but are all about logic and common sense, returns for a second run.
A hundred contestants begin every show, but who will make it to the end and answer a question only one per cent of people can get right - and win up to a six-figure sum?
Here's the best of Lee Mack from the first season:
60 Classical Years: BBC Two at 60, 10.00pm, BBC Two
From its first days on air in 1964, BBC Two has placed classical music at the centre of its arts programmes.
This one-off show celebrates some of the greatest moments.
From Jacqueline du Pré to Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Verdi to Stravinsky, Maria Callas to Jessye Norman, the greatest names have thrilled viewers in concerts, films, and features.
This programme celebrates an astonishing breadth of talent from 60 years of the finest classical performances shown on the channel.
They include Luciano Pavarotti (above) singing Nessun Dorma, the sad beauty of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and the joy of the overture to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
Our Changing Planet: Restoring Our Reefs, 6.00pm, BBC One
As season three begins, Steve Backshall meets scientists working to help save coral reefs, which are under threat from rising sea temperatures.
The programme focuses on two different projects that are now combining their efforts - collecting coral spawn to maximise fertilisation and using fish vocalisations to help them grow.
Plus, Liz Bonnin (above) visits The Coral Spawning Lab in London where corals are being grown on an industrial scale.
Superman & Lois, 3.15pm, BBC One
It’s season three of this pretty good comic-book drama, starring Tyler Hoechlin as the Man of Steel and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane.
In the season opener, the Kents celebrate their twin boys' 16th birthday, and Lois gets some startling news.
Then at 3.55pm, Clark and Chrissy notice a small crack in Lois's facade, Sarah and Jordan have an awkward encounter, and Lana receives a panicked phone call.
Don’t Miss
Civilisation, 9.10pm, BBC Four
Following a preview at 9.00pm by Mary Beard (below), Kenneth Clark begins his landmark 1969 series with an examination of the Dark Ages.
These are the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire before the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe.
He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides exploring aqueducts, cathedrals, the lives of the Vikings and Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne.
Good with David Tennant, 10.00pm, BBC Four
David Tennant returns to the West End as professor John Halder in a reimagining of CP Taylor's play Good.
It was filmed live on stage by the National Theatre during the play’s sell-out West End run.
As the world faces its second world war, German professor John Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
New to Stream
Miranda’s Victim, Sky Cinema & NOW
Abigail Bresling, Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillipe, Mireille Enos, Donald Sutherland, Sebastian Quinn, Andy Garcia and Taryn Manning star in a drama based on true events.
It follows eighteen-year-old Trish Weir (Abigail Breslin) who in 1963 was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
After a voluntary confession, her assailant, Ernesto Miranda (Sebastian Quinn), is convicted but the verdict is later overturned by the US Supreme Court since his confession was made without an attorney present.
In the resulting retrial, a determined prosecutor (Luke Wilson) seeks to hold Miranda fully accountable notwithstanding defence attorney's (Ryan Phillippe) rigorous defence.
What follows is a legal proceeding that will forever change the United States’ justice system.
Ending Today
Hunted, 9.00pm, Channel 4
The remaining fugitives are instructed to head to London to collect extraction details for a chance of winning £100,000 - but this puts them right under the hunters' noses in one of the most watched cities in the world.
With just hours left until extraction, the fugitives brave the elements as they face a 1500-foot vertical climb up a mountain to reach the helicopter that will take them to safety.
Sport
The Sunday Game Live, 1.30pm
Here’s a double-header as Clare face Limerick at 2pm and Roscommon meet Mayo at 4pm.
Joanne Cantwell presents all the action from the Munster Senior Hurling Championship match at Cusack Park and the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-final at Dr Hyde Park.
Clare and Limerick met in the final last year, with Limerick claiming a narrow victory and going on to be crowned All-Ireland champions.
Roscommon and Mayo faced each other at this stage of last season's competition, with Roscommon claiming victory at McHale Park before losing out to eventual champions Galway in the semi-finals.
There’s also live coverage from 3.45pm on BBC Two as Cavan play Tyrone at 4.00pm, with Mark Sidebottom presenting the action from the Ulster Senior Football Championship match at Kingspan Breffni.
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