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What to watch on TV tonight: Monday

Here are the shows that will be on your Twitter timeline tonight.

Every lunchtime, DailyEdge.ie rounds up the TV shows that you’ll be tweeting about tonight and talking about tomorrow.

Recruits (RTÉ One, 9.35pm)

This two-part documentary follows members of a platoon in the Irish Defence Forces as they go through a gruelling training regime. Expect lots of shouting (“Drop and give me fifty!”) and intense exercise. #recruits

Danny and The Human Zoo (BBC One, 9pm)

Written by and starring comedian Lenny Henry, Danny and The Human Zoo is a 90-minute film based on Henry’s life as a teenager in the 1970s. It also stars Irish actress and Harry Potter alum Evanna Lynch, and looks super warm and cuddly.

Breaking Into Britain: The Lorry Jumpers (Channel 4, 10pm)

Filmed over the course of a year, Breaking Into Britain sees filmmaker Leo Maguire enter the camps in Calais and attempt to put a human face on the migrant crisis.

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Everyone’s talking about… Nick Grimshaw

X Factor viewers got their first glimpse at Grimshaw over the weekend and weren’t entirely complimentary.

Yikes.

In fact, people are even starting to miss Louis Walsh.

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone…”

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Or flick over for…

  • University Challenge (BBC One, 8pm) *keeps fingers crossed for popular music round*
  • The History of Irish Rock (RTÉ One, 10.35pm) Features interviews with Bono, Bob, Sinead et al. ALL THE LADS.
  • Louis Theroux: Street Dogs (RTÉ Two, 9.55pm) The incomparable Louis Theroux meets the people in LA who rescue and look after the city’s stray dogs.
  • The Hunger Games (Film Four, 9pm) I VOLUNTEER AS A TRIBUTE.
  • The Boat That Rocked (TG4, 9.30pm) A cosy film to start your week off right.