Tuesday’s TV tips
First leg action from the UEFA Champions League play-offs, a place in the lucrative group stage is up for grabs.
The winners of this round will be in the draw to face Europe’s big guns this autumn, the losers will have to be content with Europa League football.
The 56th International Rose of Tralee Selection will be broadcast live from the festival dome in Tralee, Co. Kerry on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August 2015.
Returning host Dáithí O Sé will present the hugely popular television event and will interview 32 roses over the two nights.
Last year saw Philadelphia Rose, Maria Walsh crowned as the 56th Rose of Tralee.
Tune to find out which of the 32 Roses will be selected as the 57th Rose of Tralee.
Keeping on, or under, budget but maintaining a high quality of build is a balancing act many people face when constructing their own home.
Sue and Tim, the couple featured in the last episode of this fascinating series, are certainly struggling to do such a thing.
Their aim is to build a contemporary farmhouse without scrimping on its features, but costing a fraction of the usual cost – and that means cutting corners on materials.
That sounds fairly reasonable, but architect Piers Taylor and curator Kieran Long are concerned that that will compromise the construction itself, and end up costing them more in the long run to maintain and repair.
But the dynamic duo have a plan – they show Sue and Tim a few tricks of the trade that offer hope.
On April 25 this year, a massive earthquake rocked Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people and injuring around 23,000.
The event triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest that wiped out another 19 by burying them under snow and ice - both at base camp and those attempting an ascent – making it the deadliest day on the mountain since records began.
Half a million homes were also destroyed, alongside centuries of cultural artefacts and historical architecture.
This documentary uses footage shot by witnesses to piece together the events of April 25 – one that will forever be etched in the memories of those who survived what happened.
There’s also a scientific explanation of the event, and an insight into whether such a catastrophe can be avoided in the future.
Danny and Steve ’welcome’ new boss Ted Case into the UCOS office in Sasha’s absence, but for all his experience, keen eye for detail and a killer instinct for detecting liars, they aren’t as sold on his superstitious quirks.
While trying to work one another out, the team treads carefully in the case of a murdered vicar who received racist hate mail in the lead up to his death.
With emotions running high, it’s up to Ted to pull together his new unit and keep the peace in one of UCOS’s most sensitive cases.
Starring Larry Lamb, Denis Lawson and Nicholas Lyndhurst.
The lives of ex-convicts trying to go straight while living on benefits. They include Nuneaton man Simon Rowbotham, who has been in trouble with the law for most of his adult life.
Currently on probation, he gets about £86 a fortnight in benefits, plus a bedsit in a council block.
Simon’s friend Baggy has just been released, but with no money in his pocket, he says he may have to offend again just to get sent back down.
Meanwhile, Essex man and former robber Dean claims he cannot work after hurting his arm in a motorbike accident. However, the job centre believe otherwise and have stopped his money. Last in the series.
(2000) A group of American high-school students are preparing for a study trip to France when one of the group, Alex (Devon Sawa), suddenly has a premonition that the plane will burst into flames just after take-off. Alex and his friends are taken off the flight just before it explodes.
Survivors die one by one in increasingly bizarre manners and Alex realises the angel of death, which was meant to have taken their lives on Flight 180, has followed them back home.
Final Destination is a smartly written thrill ride which holds us in a vice-like grip and refuses to let go.
Director James Wong and his co-writer Glen Morgan worked together on The X-Files and the set-up is pure Mulder and Scully: clairvoyance, supernatural forces and a mounting body count.
(2012) Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) wrote his first novel at the age of 19.
The book was embraced by critics as a modern masterpiece and he has coasted along on the adulation, unable to find the words for a follow-up, or a girl who loves him and not his celebrity.
During a regular visit to psychiatrist Dr Rosenthal (Elliott Gould), Calvin confides that a beautiful girl is haunting his dreams and the shrink suggests that it may be therapeutic to commit these nocturnal imaginings to paper.
So Calvin follows Dr Rosenthal’s guidance and churns out volumes about the mystery girl. Miraculously, Ruby (Zoe Kazan) manifests in Calvin’s apartment.
Ruby is blissfully unaware that she was once a figment of Calvin’s feverish imagination and a romantic bond begins to form between the couple.
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