Every lunchtime, DailyEdge.ie rounds up the TV shows that you’ll be tweeting about tonight and talking about tomorrow.
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity (RTÉ 2, 9.55pm)
Theroux visits a maximum security state psychiatric hospital in Ohio, meeting patients who have committed violent crimes while mentally ill. This is the first in a two-part special. #Louis Theroux #ByReasonOfInsanity
University Challenge (BBC Two, 8pm)
Can anyone rival last week’s star contestant Peterhouse Woods? This week Liverpool takes on St Peter’s College Oxford. #University Challenge
Beasts of the Southern Wild (TG4, 9.30pm)
Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest best actress nominee in history at the age of nine for her role in this story of a man and his daughter preparing for the end of the world. #SouthernWild #BeastsOfTheSouthernWild
Everybody’s talking about… Jon Stewart
He and Barack Obama are set to sit down tomorrow for their final Daily Show interview.
According to Deadline this will be the US president’s 7th visit to the show and he’s expected to “use the opportunity to pitch his nuclear deal with Iran to millennials”.
AND: Jedward
This interview they gave to The Guardian recommends “a TV show where people take pictures all around the world, and at the end they would be judged by Kanye”. Yes. We would watch that.
Or switch over for…
- Wallander (RTÉ One, 9.35pm) New series time!
- Superfoods: The Real Story (Channel 4, 8.30pm) Investigating the health pros of oily fish
- Only Connect (BBC 2, 8.30pm) The perfect follow-up to University Challenge
- Britain at the Bookies (BBC One, 9pm) Documentary about high street betting shop Coral
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