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15 of the best things to watch on TV this weekend, from Brats to Ibiza Narcos

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15 of the best things to watch on TV this weekend, from Brats to Ibiza Narcos

With everything from crime drama and drug smuggling to Pavarotti in the park, there’s something for everyone

BRATS

Disney+

Who better to examine the 80s phenomenon that was the Brat Pack, the group of young actors who frequently appeared together in coming-of-age films, than one of them: Andrew McCarthy?

McCarthy, better known now as a travel writer, novelist and director, talks to fellow former Packers Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Leah Thompson, Timothy Hutton and Jon Cryer about how it impacted their lives and careers. Others, including Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall, declined to take part.

INSPECTOR RICCIARDI

Channel4.com

Second season of the offbeat Italian crime drama set in the Naples of the 1930s. Lino Guanciale is the detective who can see the ghosts of people who died violently and hear their final thoughts.

Germany’s Niclas Fullkrug celebrates his goal against Switzerland. Photo: Getty Images

EURO 2024

RTÉ2, from 4.30pm

The first two-quarter finals are upon us. Spain face Germany at 5pm, and then there is Portugal v France at 8pm. See listings for BBC and ITV coverage.

CELEBRITY GOGGLEBOX

Channel 4, 9pm

There’s a chance the Goggleboxers might end up watching themselves on TV, as some of them were set to feature in Channel 4’s election coverage on Thursday.

Sister Boniface. Photo: Sky

SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES

Drama, 9pm

Is there ever a week in this cosy crime drama when a TV or film crew is not in the village? This time, a choral competition is being filmed when the dead bodies start turning up.

The Sommerdahl Murders. Photo: Mike Kolloffel

THE SOMMERDAHL MURDERS

E4, 9pm

Their marriage may be falling apart but police inspector Dan and forensics officer Marianne still have to work together. Suspicions are aroused when a woman who recently won the lottery plummets to her death.

THE LAST LEG ELECTION SPECIAL

Channel 4, 10pm

Adam, Josh and Alex, plus some celebrity guests, give their unique take on the election in a two-hour edition.

Saturday

END OF SUMMER

BBC4, 9pm & 9.55pm

Don’t be fooled by the sunny setting; this Swedish mystery is as dark as Nordic noir comes. In 1984, a five-year-old boy called Billy disappears from the family farm. Years later, his now adult sister Vera (Julia Ragnarsson) is a psychiatrist who hosts grief therapy sessions.

When a young man called Isak (Erik Enge) joins the group and starts talking about how he’s been having strange memories from his childhood since learning he was adopted, Vera wonders if he knows something about Billy’s disappearance — or if he could even be him.

England’s Harry Kane celebrates with Jude Bellingham. Photo: Bradley Collyer/PA

EURO 2024

RTÉ2, from 4.30pm

Will England’s lucky journey through the competition, like a drunk stumbling up the stairs backwards, come to an end today against Switzerland? It’s followed at 8pm by Netherlands v Turkey.

Jackie Stewart. Photo: PA

JACKIE STEWART

Sky Documentaries, 5.30pm

Profile of Formula 1 great Jackie Stewart, who won three World Drivers’ Championships and was instrumental in improving safety in the sport. Now 85, he is, poignantly, the last surviving F1 World Champion from the 1960s.

CREAM REUNION CONCERT

Sky Arts, 9pm

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker managed to put their egos to one side long enough to play this 2005 show at the Royal Albert Hall.

PRINCE NIGHT

BBC2, from 10pm

A compilation of Prince’s appearances on the BBC is followed by the 2011 documentary A Purple Reign (10pm) and, at 12.15pm, a blistering concert from 1985.

Sunday

Ethan Kai in The Turkish Detective. Photo: BBC/Paramount

THE TURKISH DETECTIVE

BBC2, 9pm

English crime writer Barbara Nadel has written 25 novels since 1999 about Istanbul detective Cetin Ikmen and his team, but this six-part thriller is the first time the character has been portrayed on screen.

Young British detective Mehmet Suleyman (Ethan Kai) arrives in the city, having transferred from the London Met, to join the homicide unit led by the eccentric Inspector Ikmen (Haluk Bilginer) and immediately joins the investigation into the murder of a university student. Continuing tomorrow, this could become a favourite with viewers.

PAVAROTTI IN HYDE PARK

BBC4, 8.25pm

As the centrepiece of an evening of Pavarotti, Katherine Jenkins recalls the 1991 outdoor concert by the world’s best-known tenor. The stars — Michael Caine, Charles and Diana, Andrew Lloyd Webber — showed up. So, unfortunately, did the rain, which bucketed down throughout the show.

GUY MARTIN’S LOST WW2 BOMBER

Channel 4, 9pm

Guy Martin joins the effort to recover the bodies of three crew members of a Lancaster bomber shot down over the vast Lake IJssel in the Netherlands in 1943. It’s a hugely ambitious feat of engineering that involves building a dam in the lake to isolate the wreckage.

IBIZA NARCOS

Sky Documentaries, 9pm

Believe it or not, Ibiza was once considered a counterculture idyll for harmless hippies who just wanted a place to go and smoke a bit of weed in peace.

This three-parter from the people behind Liverpool Narcos and Dublin Narcos traces how the arrival of pills and organised crime transformed the island into the clubs ‘n’ drugs capital of the world it is today.

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