Tuesday TV tips: You won't recognise 'Lord Varys' and 'Sgt PJ Collins' in Derry Girls
Derry Girls: Sarah Mccool (Kathy Kiera Clarke), Carlos Santini (Conleth Hill)
RTÉ2, 5pm

Six-part docu-series: basketball star and Ireland’s favourite PE teacher Emer O’Neill’s theory is put to the test as she brings together nine teenage girls who have either given up sport or never played. More than half of girls playing sports in Ireland drop out by the time they are 14. Puberty, bullying, crop tops, cliques, team sport v singular sports, smelly dressing rooms, and spray tans, everything is discussed.
Channel 4, 9pm

Conleth Hill, recently seen in , the adaptation of Graham Norton’s debut novel, makes a guest appearance as local psychic, Carlos Santini — the Quinns hope he can help them make contact with the spirit of a much-loved family member. Meanwhile, the pals are planning a booze-filled weekend break in Donegal.
Malcolm MacDonald is a mechanic whose penis turned black and fell off after he contracted a blood infection. Surgeons constructed a new one on his arm, the intention being to transfer it to his groin – a procedure which, six years later, is yet to happen. He describes his experience and hopes for the future.
UEFA Champions League: v (ko 8pm, RTÉ 2 / BT Sport).
Poet Victoria Kennefick talks Emily Dickinson ahead of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s celebration at the NCH; Warren Ellis of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds talks to Sean Rocks about his book, ; Adrian Duncan discusses his novel, .
Dan Hegarty raids the RTÉ session archives: The Stunning in a 1987 Fanning Session, Ocho in Studio 8, 2012. Ghost Maps in Studio 8, 2013.
