The Cillian Murphy-starring Oppenheimer lands on Sky, there's an Amy Winehouse night on the Beeb, Joe Lycett returns with a new run of Late Night Lycett, and Michael Douglas stars in Franklin . . .
Pick of the Day
Oppenheimer, Sky Cinema Premiere
Streaming on Sky Cinema and NOW
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr, Matt Damon, Rami Malek and Florence Pugh star in director Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the man who invented the atom bomb.
During World War II, Lt Gen. Leslie Groves Jr appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project.
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Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb.
Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
New or Returning Shows
Late Night Lycett, 10.00pm, Channel 4
With The Last Leg on hiatus, Joe Lycett returns for a second run of his live shows from his native Birmingham.
Featuring celebrities, local heroes and, of course, Joe's favourite aunties. Just like The Late Late Show (9.35pm, RTÉ One), the guest list is top secret before transmission.
Earler tonight, Lycett also hosts Travel Man: 48 Hours in Lanzarote, where he heads with comedian Jessica Fostekew to the volcanic Spanish holiday island.
Ramy Youssef: More Feelings, 10.00pm, Sky Comedy
Golden Globe-winning Egyptian American actor, writer, and comedian Ramy Youssef (recent star of the award-winning film Poor Things) returns to the stage to offer his unique reflections on our divided world.
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Directed by Christopher Storer, the comedy special delves into issues big and small, including the upcoming US presidential election pitting Biden against Trump.
There’s also the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life – all with his signature laid-back and affable style.
Don’t Miss
Amy Winehouse Night, BBC Four
Later... with Jools Holland, 9.05pm, BBC Four
This is the opening show in a night of programming dedicated to the late great Amy Winehouse.
Jools Holland looks back at the singer's appearances on his show, having debuted there in 2003 with her first single Stronger Than Me, taken from her debut album Frank.
She returned in 2006 to perform Rehab and Tears Dry on Their Own, on the Hootenanny in 2004 and 2006, and teaming up with Paul Weller.
Then at 9.40pm there’s Arena: Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle.
This is the story of the singer-songwriter's acoustic performance on Other Voices, filmed at St James's Church in Dingle in 2006, just as she was hitting the mainstream.
Featuring interviews with some of the people she met on that day, including taxi driver Paddy Kennedy, her bass player Dale Davis and the Rev Mairt Hanley of the Other Voices church.
At 10.40pm there’s Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury 2007, when she performed twice in one day at the festival, taking to the Pyramid Stage in the afternoon followed by an evening on the Jazz World Stage.
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That’s followed at 11.40pm by Amy Winehouse: A Life in Ten Pictures, a journey through the singer's life in 10 defining photos.
Then at 12.40am there’s BBC Sessions: Amy Winehouse, a chance to see a 2007 showcase of songs from her Mercury-nominated albums Back to Black and Frank in the intimate surroundings of the Porchester Hall in London's Bayswater.
Tracks and Trails, 7.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Author Sinead Moriarty (below) unwinds on three trails across County Offaly - starting with a loop around Glinsk Forest, near the village of Kinnity in the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
She then travels to Croghan Hill, hiking up an ancient trail, which has links to St Brigid and St Patrick.
Plus, Sinead rides on an electric bike from Ballycommon to Rahan, along the Royal Canal Greenway.
New to Stream
Franklin, Apple TV+
Here’s a drama miniseries about the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, played by Michael Douglas.
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It's based on Stacy Schiff's 2005 book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.
It depicts the eight years Benjamin Franklin spent in France to convince the country to underwrite America's democracy.
The Greatest Hits, Apple TV+
Harriet (Lucy Boynton) finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time - literally.
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While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend (David Corenswet), her time travelling collides with a burgeoning new love interest in the present Justin H Min).
As she takes her journey through the hypnotic connection between music and memory, she wonders - even if she could change the past, should she?
Love, Divided, Netflix
A new Spanish film that’s a remake of the 2015 French romantic comedy Behind the Wall, originally titled Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément.
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It stars Aitana as a young pianist preparing for an audition, and Fernando Guallar as a games inventor who can only concentrate in complete silence.
Separated by only a paper-thin wall in conjoined apartments, will they learn to live in harmony with one another? Or will romance blossom through the wall?
Good Times, Netflix
The original Good Times, created by Mike Evans and Eric Montes and executive-produced by the late US TV legend Norman Lear, made history in the 1970s as television’s first Black two-parent family sitcom.
This animated version is described as 'a spiritual sequel of sorts’ to the live-action original, centering on the fourth generation of the Evans family living in apartment 17C of a Chicago housing project.
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Lear, who produced groundbreaking sitcoms The Jeffersons, Maude, Sanford and Son and All in the Family, made pivotal contributions behind the scenes of the new series and will also make a cameo appearance in the eighth episode - his final role before his death at age 101 in December 2023.
The animated reboot, produced in partnership with Sony Pictures Television Studios, will drop the laugh track and deal with modern-day issues, retaining the feeling of the original Good Times.
Sport
SSE Airtricity League Live, 7.35pm, RTÉ2
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Peter Collins presents all the action from the Premier Division match at Tolka Park as leaders Shelbourne host neighbours and rivals Bohemians (KO 7.45pm).
These teams finished fourth and sixth respectively last term, but Shelbourne are making a challenge for the title this time around after an excellent – and so far unbeaten - start to the campaign.
Bohs haven’t a had a great start, with Alan Reynolds taking over coaching duties from the departed Declan Devine after Shels’ 2-0 win at Dalymount earlier in the season.
