What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Thursday

John Byrne John Byrne | 07-25 08:15

This adventure comedy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi and Lil Rel Howery, will pass the night without much effort.

Guy leads a fairly monotonous life as a bank employee. That is until he meets the girl of his dreams and realises he's an NPC within a massive open world video game.

Does he deviate from the life he's always lived or does he follow his dream girl into the unknown future?

Richard Eyre Remembers Country, 9.00pm, BBC Four

The veteran director explains his involvement in dramatist Trevor Griffiths' landmark piece.

And while it's about a very British event, it's deffo worth a watch.

Set on the night of the Labour Party's momentous post-WWII British election victory in 1945, Country contains the rage and compassion for which Griffiths was well known.

He recalls the genesis of the project and how persuading Leo McKern (above) to play the part of Frederick Carlion unlocked the door to the stellar cast that followed.

Followed by a screening of Country, where the wealthy Carlions gather for a christening, but it is 1945 and there are plans to be made, family wealth to protect and peace to be won.

Starring Leo McKern, James Fox, Wendy Hiller and Penelope Wilton. First shown in 1981.

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Kleo, Netflix

This looks like fun. A kind of German Killing Eve, less the annoying bits.

The hunt for the red suitcase continues, as former GDR spy Kleo is determined to retrieve it and destroy it for good.

Meanwhile West Berlin police officer Sven is trying to do everything he can to redeem himself in Kleo's eyes and work with her again.

She’s exactly the dose of adrenalin he’s been missing in his work.

Because the contents of the red suitcase play a key role in the reorganization of Germany and Europe in the wake of the Cold War, it’s no wonder that the KGB and CIA are after it as well - and Kleo quickly becomes the target of both secret services.

But that's not all: while Europe’s future is in Kleo’s hands, she’s catapulted deeper into her own past than she would like.

Tokyo Swindlers, Netflix

Based on Ko Shinjo's novel, Tokyo Swindlers brings to life a high-stakes game of real estate deception.

The story unveils a series of unprecedented crimes committed by a cunning group of land scammers who use real estate sales as bait to steal large sums of money.

As if the Irish property market couldn't get worse . . .

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Prime Video

Here's an action/comedy movie, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson and Alex Pettyfer.

The trailer reeks of Guy Ritchie geezer flick. Maybe they should've called it Snatching Nazis?

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.

It’s a top-secret combat unit of rogues and mavericks who go on a daring mission against the Nazis, ultimately changing the course of the war and laying the foundation of modern black ops.

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