Adam Lundgren in 'Hostage'. Photo: Channel4 Faye Dunaway pictured with her Oscar. Photo: HBO Our Lives: Two Sisters, One Goal.
(l-r) Chris Coleman, Ashley Williams, Emma Rees, Katy Yeandle, Nathan Dyer, Sol Campbell. Photo: BBC Nick Cave: This Much I Know To Be True. Photo: Bad Seed/Sky As we catch up on other shows now the Olympics is over, there are plenty of options for everyone to choose from whether you’re a music aficionado, crime fan or history buff.
HOSTAGE More4, 9pm & 10pm This six-part Swedish suspense thriller is a follow-up to Stockholm Requiem (shown in 2018 and streaming on channel4.com ) that reunites former detective partners Fredrika Bergman (Liv Mjones) and Alex Recht (Jonas Karlsson). A flight en route to San Francisco is hijacked by terrorists demanding that a Syrian academic the Americans want extradited be released, and a secret file turned over to them.
There’s a complication: the co-pilot happens to be Recht’s estranged son. Our Lives: Two Sisters, One Goal. (l-r) Chris Coleman, Ashley Williams, Emma Rees, Katy Yeandle, Nathan Dyer, Sol Campbell.
Photo: BBC OUR LIVES: TWO SISTERS, ONE GOAL BBC1, 7.30pm This week’s short documentary tells the story of Welsh sisters who want to organise an all-star charity football match, despite having no venue, no celebrity contacts and no knowledge of football. Easy-peasy, so.
BBC PROMS: MODERN MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS BBC4, 8pm Don’t expect any John Williams or John Barry classic scores here. The emphasis is on new works, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Tár and Everything Everywhere All at Once, none of them exactly hum-along material. CHAMPIONS: FULL GALLOP UTV/ITV1, 9pm This episode goes behind the scenes at one of the most famous — and sometimes infamous — races of all, the Grand National at Aintree.
WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION BBC4, 9.50pm Feature-length documentary about the August 1969 music festival that saw 400,000 people descend on a small dairy farm in upstate New York for three days. It’s followed at 11.
15pm by Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock, the definitive account of his famous performances. THE GOLDEN COBRA BBC3, 10pm & 10.15pm Offbeat adult animation, showing in 15-minute episodes, about the goings-on at a grubby Indian takeaway in the Welsh Valleys.
Nick Cave: This Much I Know To Be True. Photo: Sky NICK CAVE: THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE Sky Documentaries, 10pm Versatile director Andrew Dominik’s second film about Nick Cave, after 2016’s One More Time with Feeling , which began shooting in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown. During rehearsals with violinist and collaborator Warren Ellis in preparation for a return to live performing, Cave talks about his bond with Ellis and coping with the death of his 15-year-old son Arthur almost a decade ago.
MADE IN KOREA: THE K-POP EXPERIENCE BBC1, 5.15pm New series following five young blokes plucked from auditions (which we don’t see) for a manufactured boyband called Dear Alice, as they head to Korea for a 100-day K-pop bootcamp. They’re in for a bit of a culture shock.
WW2: Women on the Frontline. Photo: Channel 4 WW2: WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE Channel 4, 7pm The last episode of this outstanding series looks at the women who served at the sharp end of battle, whether as air ambulance nurses, guerrilla leaders or snipers. This deserves to be repeated in a later slot in midweek when more people would be watching.
MATCH OF THE DAY BBC1, 10.20pm For those who can’t afford a hefty sports channel subscription to watch Premier League matches live, MOTD is still indispensable. Highlights of the new campaign’s opening weekend include Ipswich Town v Liverpool and West Ham United v Aston Villa.
Faye Dunaway pictured with her Oscar. Photo: HBO FAYE Sky Documentaries, 7pm It’s saying something that the great Bette Davis, no slouch when it came to telling male directors and studio bosses when she thought they were doing things the wrong way, once described Faye Dunaway as impossible to work with. In this feature-length documentary, Dunaway doesn’t exactly deny the accusation, talking candidly and unapologetically about how her rough upbringing, her alcoholism and her mental health issues fed into making her who she is.
Manchán Magan in Amsterdam. Photo: RTÉ MANCHÁN’S EUROPE BY TRAIN RTÉ1, 6.30pm New three-part series with Manchán Magan taking the slow route around Europe, getting to know people and places, and experiencing local customs and traditions.
His itinerary includes ziplining across a Welsh quarry at 100mph, conga dancing in Brussels, cycling through treetops on an innovative Belgian trail and visiting a floating farm in Rotterdam. Not all in the first episode, obviously, or he’d be extremely tired. Orlando Bloom.
Photo: Getty Images ORLANDO BLOOM: TO THE EDGE U&Dave, 8pm The actor swaps screen heroics for real-life derring-do as he tries out extremely dangerous sports in this three-part series. First up is jumping out of a plane at 13,000ft in a special winged suit, which allows him to glide through the air before opening his parachute. DAME JUDI AND JAY: THE ODD COUPLE Channel 4, 9pm Close friends since they met in an episode of The Repair Shop three years ago, Judi Dench and Jay Blades take one another to places that hold important memories for them in this one-off documentary.
The Body Next Door. Photo: Sky THE BODY NEXT DOOR Sky Documentaries, 9pm The second instalment of the three-part true-crime series steps away from the central mystery to focus on the five children Leigh Sabine abandoned in New Zealand when they were young. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news.
