EVERY WEEKDAY lunchtime, DailyEdge.ie rounds up the TV shows that you’ll be tweeting about tonight and talking about tomorrow.
The Great British Bake Off (BBC1, 8pm)
It’s week three of the cake-baking TV juggernaut, and tonight the contestants are tackling bread. The highlight is going to be making a “filled centrepiece loaf”. I think we all remember what Mary Berry did last time someone admitted to using ready-made filling. #GBBO
Trawlermen’s Lives (UTV, 10.40pm)
Documentary in which Ben Fogle joins a trawler crew working off the coast of Scotland. It’s a striking insight into the hardships faced by commercial fishermen around Ireland and Britain, working 24-hour shifts in dangerous conditions. Even poor Fogle spends all night gutting fish below decks.
Veep (Sky Atlantic, 9.35pm)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus continues to own this sitcom about the strange world of a US vice-president, created by Armando Iannucci. Episode six of the third season sends Selina off to Detroit for a campaign event. Inevitable mortification ensues. #veep
Everybody’s talking about: The Simpsons
Tomorrow at 10am US Eastern time, the FXX channel will begin screening a marathon of every single episode of The Simpsons ever. That’s one episode every half an hour for 12 days. Non-stop, no breaks for sleeping or eating.
The full schedule is here. But frankly, our minds are kind of melting just thinking about it.
Or flick over for…
- Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities (BBC4, 9pm) Documentary about the intellectual life of three cities in the early 20th century, starting off with then-hotspot Vienna in 1908.
- Undercover Boss (Channel 4, 9pm) The chief of restaurant chain Carluccio’s goes to work in the kitchen.
- Champions League: Maribor vs Celtic (RTÉ Two, 7.30pm) It must be autumn, because the football’s on again.
- The Expendables (5*, 9pm) Totally ridiculous, highly enjoyable movie with Sylvester Stallone and many other ageing musclemen.
