Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not recorded something during the week when everyone is suddenly talking about it?
Fear not, Tom Dunne has you covered.
Sue Murphy joined Tom to pick out the best of the box this week and there really is a lot of great TV picks.
Better Call Saul, Neflix
Six years before meeting Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, Saul Goodman was a different man. His name was Jimmy, not Saul, and his relationship with the law was less... self-serving.
Starring Bob Odenkirk and co-created and executive produced by “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan, “Better Call Saul” tells the story of mall-based super lawyer Saul Goodman in the years before he became Walter White’s attorney. From parking tickets to mass murder, from slip-and-fall to bond fraud, Saul handles it all.
Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure, RTE1, Thursday, 10.15pm
Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure is a 3x60 minute prime-time series for broadcast on both BBC TWO and RTE. Each episode will follow friends Dara O’Briain and Ed Byrne on an epic journey as they travel along one of the world’s greatest roads, the Pan American Highway.
In 1940 three men, Sullivan Richardson, Arnold Whitaker and Kenneth Van Hee from Detroit set off on one of the greatest road trips of all time as they attempted to become the first to drive all the way from North to South America. Back then, the Pan American Highway was at best a dirt track; at worst non-existent. The journey was so audacious, the American press dubbed them the ‘three damn fools’.
Their extraordinary adventure blazed a trail for one of the longest road networks in the world. Seventy years on, Dara and Ed, set out on their own epic journey to see for themselves how the construction of the Pan American Highway has transformed the Americas.
With their particular sense of fun and adventure, Dara and Ed will immerse themselves in the cultures now lining the road; experience dangers old and new, and meet the people whose lives have inextricably changed, for better and worse. As they encounter everything from Mexican wrestlers to gang members and indigenous transvestites, Dara and Ed’s Pan American Adventure will powerfully illustrate the Americas today; capturing the surprising, funny and epic story of one of the most dynamic continents on earth.
Indian Summers, Sunday, Channel 4, 9pm
Epic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power. Ralph Whelan and the rest of the Indian Civil Service begin the annual move to Simla, while doyenne of the social scene Cynthia Coffin prepares the white British Club for the start of the summer season.
The train to Simla is delayed, however, when a boy is found collapsed on the railway tracks, while a mysterious assassin makes his way to the city.
The programme stars Julie Walters, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Jemima West and Craig Parkinson.
Don't Tell the Bride, Thursday, RTE2, 9pm
The return of the programme in which a groom-to-be is given 10,000 euros to plan every detail of his nuptials and give his fiancee the wedding of her dreams.
Entertainer Richie Byrne wants his big day to be an entertainment extravaganza, and plans a circus-themed celebration in a tent, complete with fire eaters, lion tamers and tight-rope walkers. However, his bride-to-be Amanda would like a wedding that shows how much her future husband really knows her, and dreams of a classy and sophisticated affair.
Gogglebox, Friday, Channel4, 9pm
What do Britain's most opinionated telly fanatics really think of the country's biggest TV programmes? The reality show returns this week and Britain's favourite armchair critics will share their opinions on the TV programmes they have been watching.
Hostages, BBC4, Saturday, 9pm
Hostages is an intense psychological crime-thriller that follows a renowned surgeon about to perform a routine operation on the president of Israel. But there is nothing routine about it when the night before the procedure, her family is taken hostage and she is ordered to sabotage the operation and kill the president – or her family will die. Her battle to save both her family and the president takes us on a journey where everyone is fighting for survival.
