Trainwreck: Poop Cruise is a documentary about the cruise trip from hell, Why Cities Flood: Spain's Deadly Disaster explores the 2024 floods in Valencia, and there’s a look at the 1980s acts that have graced Glastonbury . . .
Pick of the Day
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, Netflix
I wouldn’t be a fan of cruises – but this promises to be a major turn-off for anyone contemplating a holiday on a big ship.
It was supposed to be a luxury cruise: a four-day round trip from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico.
But for the 4,000 passengers and crew on board, the reality proved catastrophically different.
After an engine room fire destroys electrical cables supplying the entire ship, the boat was left drifting with no power for propulsion, refrigeration, lighting, air-conditioning or - worst of all - flushing toilets.
Soon raw sewage leaked out all over the ship, food supplies started dwindling and passengers began to revolt over their revolting surroundings.
As the cruise company races to control the fallout, a media frenzy ensues. Soon everyone is talking about The Poop Cruise.
New or Returning Shows
Why Cities Flood: Spain’s Deadly Disaster, 9.00pm, BBC One
Dramatic mobile phone video and eyewitness accounts combine to tell the story of the 2024 floods that swept through towns in Valencia.
The programme also aims to determine the role climate change may have played in a disaster that ultimately resulted in 228 deaths.
It also examines why a mobile phone alert was sent two hours too late, and how rising populations worldwide can force people to live in areas at risk of flooding.
Death in Paradise, 10.15pm, RTÉ One
The BBC’s long-running Caribbean-set crime drama returns to RTÉ and stars Ralf Little, Don Warrington and Shantol Jackson.
There’s a double celebration as the show celebrates its landmark 100th episode and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson celebrates 50 years of service.
As ever, the party is cut short when matters turn deadly.
The boss is shot by a mysterious assassin and left fighting for his life.
As the team members search for the culprit, will the police veteran survive?
Transaction, 10.05pm, ITV2
This brand-new sitcom, written by and starring Jordan Gray, is about transgender supermarket worker Liv, who is hired to avert a PR crisis.
In this opening episode, Liv soon realises she is un-sackable and turns the store into a playground.
Don’t Miss
Glastonbury: 80s Hits, 10.00pm, BBC Two
Glasto is pretty much a nostalgia fest at this stage.
Following on from last night’s 70s Hits special, here’s one for the following decade.
A celebration of some of the biggest artists from the 1980s who have performed their hits on Worthy Farm over the years including Rick Astley (above), Lionel Richie and Cyndi Lauper.
In the Footsteps of Killers, 10.00pm, Channel 4
Emilia Fox, David Wilson and Dr Graham Hill investigate the disappearance of Georgina Gharsallah who left her mam's house in March 2018 and was never seen again.
The case is now being treated as a murder investigation and an examination of the circumstances of Georgina's disappearance leads the team to a shocking conclusion.
Simon Schama's Power of Art, 9.00pm, BBC Four
This week's episode of the series focuses on some chap called Picasso. You may have heard of him.
The historian Simon Schama recounts artist Pablo Picasso's attempts to create a 'modern history' painting, based on the bombing of the ancient town of Guernica by the Luftwaffe.
Instead of making a literal social commentary, he wanted to depict accurately where he felt the horrors of the world came from - the human psyche.
The result is arguably the most recognisable - and horrifying - work of 20th Century art.
Storyville, 10.00pm, BBC Four
The Wolves Always Come at Night is a documentary telling the story of a young couple Davaa and Zaya after they find their life devastated by a sandstorm that kills their entire flock of sheep.
They are forced to move to the city and leave behind the land and rural lives they treasure while trying to stay connected to the countryside, all the while haunted by dreams of their herding past.
Bake Off: The Professionals, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Ellie Taylor (below) and Liam Charles welcome the teams back into the kitchen where they are challenged to produce 24 identical classic framboisier.
For their second challenge, they let their creativity run wild as they reinvent American campfire favourite s'mores into a high-end patisserie.
Judges Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden taste their efforts and decide which pair has reached the end of the road.
Sport
The Game - The Story of Hurling, 8.00pm, BBC Two
We've already got Hell for Leather: The Story of Gaelic Football on RTÉ One - and now BBC Northern Ireland get in the swing with their look at hurling.
The opening episode, The Birth of Hurling, does exactly as you’d imagine as it looks at the early days of the game.
The series is basically a journey through the history of hurling and what it means to Northern Ireland as a whole, looking first at the groundwork on which the sport was founded.
