Our top TV picks: Unprecedented views inside Trinity's library with Ruth Negga
Actor and Trinity graduate Ruth Negga takes a look through the university's library in Trinity's Treasures, Friday. Picture: Paul Sharp/SHARPPIX
BBC Four, 9pm
This eight-part French drama is based on the graphic novels Les Sentinelles by Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia, and set during the First World War. Private Gabriel Ferraud (Louis Peres) is gravely wounded on the battlefield, and secretly chosen for a top-secret military program designed to create enhanced humans for an elite unit known as the Sentinels.
RTÉ2, 9.20pm
Peter Collins is joined by Didi Hamann for live coverage of the third quarter-final from Miami (teams TBC at time of going to print). Kick off is at 10pm.
BBC Two, 9.50pm
Take a trip back 26 years (gulp!) with this documentary reviewing the biggest musical news of 2000, narrated by Mel Geidroyc.
BBC Two, 9pm
US film-maker and journalist Matt Shea looks at the lives of this new class of tech titans, as well as their links to political figures. Sure to be a very instructive - and sobering - watch.
ITV1, 9pm
Looking for a new detective drama? Try this one starring Laura Donnelly as a police officer in the Scottish Highlands investigating the disturbing killing of a teenager.
BBC Two, 7.30pm
Clive Myrie returns to quiz four contenders on specialist subjects including 15th-century king Edward IV, the band Depeche Mode, the films of Yorgos Lanthimos, and our own Roy Keane.
RTÉ One, 9.35pm
A group of Dublin teenagers travel to Cyprus to spend time with Greek and Turkish Cypriot teenagers, as part of the Gateway Project, an initiative dedicated to developing “resilient and sustainable communities for the future”.
Channel 4, 8pm
It’s quarter-final time! The teams are challenged to make afternoon tea desserts and gravity-defying 'Circus of Horrors' piñatas. Sounds… difficult!
BBC Four, 9pm
The final part of a 1997 documentary series which examines why the Germans fought on despite disastrous military defeats in 1942 and 1943. Includes eyewitness accounts from the time.
BBC One, 8pm
Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould kick off a new season by meeting Rachael, who inherited an enamel lily and wonders if it is a genuine Faberge flower. If it is, it could be worth upwards of a quarter of a million pounds.
RTÉ One, 8.30pm
This four-part observational documentary series follows celebrants across Ireland as they help people mark life’s biggest milestones. In this first episode, celebrant Nora attends a wedding fair in Donegal, Ciara prepares for a naming ceremony, and we meet Sinéad, who blends ceremony, performance and circus.
5, 9pm
With director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey hitting cinemas on July 17, are you desperate to know what Homer's epic is all about? Thankfully, historian Dan Snow is here to help.
BBC One, 2pm
If you love the comforting world of cosy crime, give this a try. It’s all about 1970s hairdresser Lily Petal (Sally Phillips), who moves to a small town which turns out to be full of scandal.
RTÉ One, 8.30pm
Actress Ruth Negga features in the first episode of this new series, which sees well-known graduates of Trinity College Dublin given unprecedented access to its library. Negga examines treasures in the literature, poetry and theatre collections.
BBC One, 9.30pm
Diane Morgan alert! The actress from Philomena Cunk returns with a six-part comedy about artificial intelligence. It focuses on widowed pensioner Sue (Sue Johnston) and Linda (Morgan), a secondhand android assistant gifted to Sue by her son (Paul Ready).
Prime, from Wednesday
This looks like a right hoot. Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer play two best pals – Judith Burton (Waddingham) and Debbie Claybourne (Spencer) – who know each other inside out. Or do they really? Debbie gets a massive shock one night when she discovers that Judith is an international assassin.
Not only that, but they’re now in a race against time and both of them are in the firing line.
Apple TV, from Wednesday
This crime series is based on author Marissa Stapley’s novel and stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Lucky Armstrong, the con-artist behind a multi- million-dollar heist. But when the heist doesn’t go to plan, she goes on the run. Timothy Olyphant co-stars as her father, and Annette Bening as her mother-in-law.
