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Songs of Ireland RTÉ One, 9.15pm Pat Shortt and his friend Mike Hanrahan travel around Ireland uncovering the history behind some of their favourite songs. They begin in Mike’s native Clare, where they perform Spancil Hill with Tara Breen before heading to Limerick to play The Limerick Rake with Willzee.

​Guinness Women’s Six Nations RTÉ2, 2pm Pundits Lynne Cantwell, Paula Fitzpatrick and Hannah Tyrrell join Daire O’Brien for the build-up to Ireland’s Six Nations’ tie with Scotland at the Kingspan Stadium, with both sides desperate for a win. Kick-off is at 2.30pm. ​ ​Treasures of the World Channel 4, 6.50pm Along Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, Bettany Hughes explores relics from a bewildering array of civilisations, unearthing gold treasure and evidence of ancient fire rituals as well as communist-era artefacts and icons of the Greek goddess Nemesis.

Greta BBC1, 11.45pm Neil Jordan’s thriller stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a young New York waiter who finds a luxury designer bag on the subway and decides to return it to its owner, a decision she will bitterly regret. With Isabelle Huppert. ​ Can You Ever Forgive Me? RTÉ One, 12.10am Desperate for money after her latest book idea is rejected, alcoholic writer Lee Israel begins forging letters from dead celebrities and selling them off as collector’s items. Comic thriller based on a true story and starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant.

Goodbye Earth Netflix, streaming now The upbeat viewing continues with this typically dystopian Korean number. With only 200 days looming until an Earth-ending asteroid hits the planet, there are some determined to relish every remaining day, while others decide to play vigilante. Either way, someone needs to think of the children. ​ Extremely Inappropriate! Netflix, streaming now From a beautifully shot South Korean dystopia to something utterly ridiculous from its Japanese neighbours... Here, a single father tries to return to 1986 after somehow arriving in 2024, where his Showa-era ideas come across as, well, wildly inappropriate.

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story Disney+, streaming now Wriggle into your bet-on white stonewash jeans for this four-part, AAA docuseries chronicling the epic past and wobbly future of one Bon Jovi. The series joins the band in February 2022 where they’re trying to map where their 40-year career will take them next. If anywhere. The title kind of says it all, but will Jon Bon say otherwise? ​ Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut Netflix, streaming now “Our gut affects our whole body; it influences everything,” says John Cryan. He’s the VP of research and innovation at UCC and features heavily in this global take on gut health. Join him and a rake load of other experts and willing guinea pigs as this light-hearted documentary tries to demystify the role of each unique microbiome in our overall well-being.

Land of Bad Prime Video, streaming now Liam and Luke Hemsworth (Thor was perhaps too busy surfing with sharks to feature) co-star alongside Russell Crowe in this special forces effort in which they have a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. ​ In the Land of Saints and Sinners Netflix, streaming now Liam Neeson as a retired hitman? Who’d have cast it! Here, he comes out of retirement for one last hit. Well, what else is a man to do when an IRA bomber lands in his sleepy Irish village? Expect all the usual heads (Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, Colm Meaney, and a mandatory Cusack).

Deliver Me Netflix, streaming now When Billy and Dogge are recruited by a local gang, the friends face a violent world they’re too young to protect themselves from, with fatal fallout. Like your hard-hitting foreign language dramas underpinned by true crime? Then The Asunta Case is for you. ​

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