Best Interests Due Date Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Live Racing Virgin Media One, 1.25pm Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani are in York for the Ebor Festival of horse racing. Action can be seen every day, and concludes on Saturday.
The Repair Shop BBC One, 8pm A dictaphone that once belonged to an author but hasn’t worked for 80 years is brought to the barn for the attention of audio expert Mark Stuckey. Also featured are a cuddly toy, a set of barbers’ equipment and a Hungarian fruit bowl. Best Interests RTÉ2, 10.
30pm The thought-provoking drama continues with Nicci (Sharon Horgan) finding help from a surprising source as she and Andrew (Michael Sheen) continue to argue over what is the best course of action for Marnie. Meanwhile, the couple’s other daughter, Katie (Alison Oliver), finds herself in a distressing situation. The Runner TG4, 10.
30pm Documentary about American athlete Mary Decker. In the mid-1980s, she was a superstar, setting records at a number of distances. However, a now infamous on-track clash at the 1984 Olympics in LA between her and Great Britain’s South Africa-born Zola Budd provided her career with an unwanted twist.
Due Date Due Date RTÉ One, 9.35pm Charming comedy starring Robert Downey Jr as an uptight architect whose efforts to get home before his wife (Michelle Monaghan) gives birth look set to be scuppered, until he accepts an offer of help from a fellow traveller (Zach Galifianakis) �.