What’s on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Tuesday

Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer star in Free Guy, new Channel 4 drama Consent looks at teen life experiences, Amsterdam’s the destination on High Road, Low Road, while Matthew Macfadyen is superb in Stonehouse . . .

Pick of the Day

Free Guy, 9.30pm, RTÉ2

Here’s an adventure comedy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi and Lil Rel Howery, that should put a smile on your face.

It’s something like The Matrix meets The Lego Movie.

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Wrexham FC co-owner Reyonlds leads as Guy, a nice fella who lives a fairly monotonous life as a bank employee.

That is until he meets the girl of his dreams (played by Comer) and realises he’s an NPC within a massive open world video game.

Does he deviate from the life he’s always lived or does he follow his dream girl into an unknown future?

Don’t Miss

High Road, Low Road, 7.00pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

In this episode of the travel show of two extremes, best mates and fellow actors from Mrs Browns Boys Danny O’Carroll and Paddy Houlihan travel to the Netherlands’ exciting, beautiful and historic city of Amsterdam.

Smashing up cars, Anne Frank and Bike tours, swinging 100m off a building and polishing diamonds are all on the agenda, although one gets to enjoy a Five Star Luxury trip while the other makes do on a budget.

Either way, it’s hard to see how these lads won’t enjoy their stay.

Restoration Rescue, 10.40pm, BBC One

This looks like a fascinating episode of this new series.

Patrick Bradley (below) meets a couple from the seaside village of Donaghadee who plan on transforming a disused High Street bank dating back 100 years into a modern home.

Spanning three floors, the renovation will be no easy task and neither will deciding what to do with the original walk in safe.

Patrick investigates the history of the building and researches the evolution of banking over the last 100 years.

The Style Counsellors, 8.30pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

This week’s focus of attention for Suzanne Jackson (below) is Katie Murray is from Kells in county Meath.

She’s a nurse who has spent the last number of years on the frontline during the covid pandemic.

She hasn’t had any time for herself lately, and with her wedding and hen-night coming up, she wants to put that right.

Having been living in tracksuits and leggings recently, she is ready for an injection of confidence and some shopping with Suzanne!

Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon, 9.00pm, BBC One

This week Stacey helps the Viney family declutter their home after grandma Sue filled their house with her deceased mum’s belongings and the contents of a recently closed gift shop.

Sue’s children are desperate for a clear out so they can come over and spend more time with her.

The team remove everything from the house including 532 plastic carrier bags, 205 hair rollers, 30 umbrellas, 17 digital cameras and 443 pairs of shoes.

While the family sort through what they want to keep, recycle, donate or sell, carpenter Rob installs a pulldown bed for extra space and Dilly reinstates the downstairs as a functioning living and dining space.

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Know Your S**t: Inside Our Guts, 8.00pm, Channel 4

The experts meet two young women with Crohn’s disease, and a businesswoman whose bloating and ‘wet wind’ is hindering her love life.

Also an emergency response instructor whose fast paced job is aggravating his stomach problems.

The Macfarlane twins share easy gut hacks that everyone can try including the use of a kiwi fruit in fighting constipation.

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, 11.15pm, BBC Two

This romantic drama, starring Jamie Bell and a superb Annette Bening, is a little gem. And it’s based on a remarkable true story.

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Real life proves to be just as dramatic off-screen as it does on it for ageing Hollywood superstar Gloria Grahame (Bening) and her much younger lover, Peter Turner (Bell).

As their mismatched romance waxes and wanes over time, events conspire to keep them in each other’s lives even when it proves to be difficult and demanding.

New or Returning Shows

Consent, 10.00pm, Channel 4

This brand-new drama – inspired by real life testimonies of young people’s school experiences – stars Tom Victor and Lashay Anderson.

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When Natalie gets a scholarship to an elite private school she’s seen as an outsider but bonds with rich, high academic achiever Archie.

One night at a party boundaries are crossed and trust is broken between the two but how will the school deal with the accusations made against ‘one of their own’?

Stonehouse, 10.15pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

Fact-based ITV drama, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes, two of the finerst British actors of their generation. It’s great fun as well as a cracking drama.

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It begins in the wake of the 1970 British general election, which proves to be a turning point for Labour MP John Stonehouse when his party loses power.

He goes from flag-waver to scapegoat, and is left out in the cold by deposed prime minister Harold Wilson, Czech spymaster Alexander Marek and the media.

Rumours of fraud are circulating too, as his suspect investments are scrutinised and he ends up hatching an outlandish plan to escape his troubles.

The Shamima Begum Story, 9.00pm, BBC Two

At 15, Shamima Begum (below) left London to join the terror group Islamic State. It made global headlines.

Four years later, pregnant with her third child, Begum emerged from the ashes of the so-called caliphate, desperate to come home to the UK.

But she showed little remorse for her time with the group. For the first time, she’s given her account of what happened since 2014 to investigative journalist Josh Baker.

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