Today’s TV Tips
Check out the best shows and films to watch on TV tonight.
In the final episode of the series, novelist, broadcaster and travel writer Manchán Magan explores the Royal Canal towpath west from Mullingar through Abbeyshrule and Killashee, to where the canal joins the River Shannon.
At summit level, Mullingar is the highest point of the Royal Canal – from there, 25 locks descend east to Dublin and 21 locks descend west to the Shannon.
Manchán will walk and cycle to where the Royal Canal joins the River Shannon, exploring the history of the canal along the way.
It took years to get established as a lucrative movie and TV franchise, but now the Marvel universe is expanding like a loaf of bread with too much yeast.
Up until now, the adventures of Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his band of eclectic colleagues has existed in a story-of-the-week-type format, but things start to change as the series returns from its break.
One of the key mysteries at the heart of the series is: what happened to a resurrected Coulson after he was ’killed’ by Loki in Avengers Assemble?
We might find out this week as Coulson is grilled by the Centipede group.
Saffron Burrows will reprise her role as ambiguous agent Victoria Hand in what promises to be a marvellous slice of escapism.
The last in the current series features three guests used to either passing judgement or hosting contests.
‘The Great British Bake Off’ co-host Sue Perkins will be joining BBC3’s ‘Hair’ host Steve Jones, and the far from shy and retiring ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge Bruno Tonioli.
As ever, Frank Skinner will be fronting the show, and will be having the final say on whether their personal bugbears make it into the Orwellian point of no return.
If you’ve had a tough week and you’re in the mood for a laugh, you can’t go wrong with this.
Will Ferrell stars as bad-boy figure skater Chazz Michael Michaels, whose bitter rivalry with Jimmy MacElroy (Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder) escalates into an on-the-ice brawl which sees the pair receiving lifetime bans from the sport.
Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck’s decision to cast Ferrell and Heder in the lead roles proved to be an inspired one, as the pair bring the best out of one another in this thoroughly enjoyable sporting comedy.
The campness of the sport is embraced with gusto and it never collapses into sentimental schmaltz, thanks to a thrillingly bizarre ending.
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Back in the early 1960s, in preparation for the landmark series The Great War, more than 300 eyewitnesses, including soldiers and civilians, were interviewed.
Just a fraction of the footage made it into the finished series, but the negatives were preserved by the Imperial War Museum – and now, 50 years on, some of the stories are about to aired for the first time.
As the conflict fades from living memory, ‘I Was There’ brings us of the human face of the war, hearing how young men dealt with the horrors of artillery bombardment, as well as reflections on the occasional outbreaks of peace on the battlefield.
The women who were left on the home front are also given a voice, as they recall what it was like to live in constant fear for their loved ones.
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