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Today’s top TV and streaming picks: New crime drama The Turkish Detective, Goyo and Live and Let Die
The Sunday Game Live RTÉ2, 1.15pm Joanne Cantwell presents coverage of an All-Ireland Camogie quarter-final, which is followed by the All-Ireland Hurling semi-final match between Cork and Limerick. Highlights can be seen at 9.30pm.
Bake Off: The Professionals Channel 4, 8pm An unusual berth for the popular competition as the semi-final dawns. On the menu are a modern version of peach Melba devised by guest judge Nicolas Houchet and an edible fairy-tale scene. The final can be seen on Monday.
Guy Martin’s Lost WW2 Bomber Channel 4, 9pm The biker and vehicle enthusiast is in the Netherlands to help an attempt to raise a Lancaster bomber that crashed into a local lake in 1943. It’s hoped that the bodies of the airmen trapped inside can be rescued, allowing their descendants closure, 80 years on from the tragedy.
The Turkish Detective BBC Two, 9pm New eight-part crime drama inspired by the novels of British author Barbara Nadel. Veteran Turkish star Haluk Bilginer heads the cast as hard-drinking, chain-smoking inspector Çetin Ikmen of the Istanbul police force. We meet him as he embarks on an investigation into the murder of a student with a secret double life.
Live and Let Die RTÉ2, 6.10pm Roger Moore’s first outing as James Bond is also one of his best. It sees the superspy go head-to-head with a notorious drug kingpin and Caribbean dictator who plans to flood America with a supply of free heroin. Yaphet Kotto and Jane Seymour also appear.
The Dirty Dozen RTÉ One, 2.45pm The late, great Donald Sutherland had his breakthrough role in this wartime adventure. He’s one of the titular twelvesome, criminals released from jail so they can take part in what looks like a suicide mission.
Brats Disney+, streaming now In 1986, I was a liddler. But I clearly recall my sister coming home from seeing Pretty In Pink wildly in love with Andrew McCarthy (and lamenting that we were poor because we didn’t have a phone in our bedroom). And, lo, our collective obsession with the Brat Pack was born. As for who comprised the Brat Pack? Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and the aforementioned McCarthy. Was Jon Cryer part of the crew? Nope, he was technically Brat adjacent. How was the membership so specific? Well, mostly thanks to a 1985 New York Magazine article citing these actors as the new Rat Pack (personally, I’d say anyone from The Outsiders was technically a Brat Packer, but who am I to be a pedant). Now, almost 40 years later, McCarthy makes a documentary about their experience and, naturally, invites all involved to a winsome lakeside retreat to chart how the moniker made a lifelong mark.
Goyo Netflix, streaming now This Argentinian number follows Goyo, a Van Gogh devotee on the spectrum who works as a guide at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. His meticulous routine is disrupted when he develops a crush on Eva, a new museum security guard who has issues with her marriage.