What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Monday

January 13, 2025
What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Monday

Maya Jama presents Love Island: All Stars, 24 Hours in Police Custody looks at The Norfolk Narco Cartel, Jenna Coleman stars in The Jetty, and there's the concluding part of Michael Lynn - The Fugitive . . .

Pick of the Day

Love Island: All Stars, 9.00pm, Virgin Media Two

Maya Jama presents as previous contestants return to the villa in the hope of finding romance the second time around, with Iain Stirling narrating proceedings.

Maya will be there from the start to give everyone a shoulder to cry on. Who will find love, who will turn heads, and who will be the winning couple?

With Irish star Catherine Agbaje, along with fan favourites Curtis and Thomas, among the line-up, fans of Love Island won't want to miss this latest iteration of the show.

New or Returning Shows

24 Hours in Police Custody: The Norfolk Narco Cartel, 9.00pm, Channel 4

The drug trade is both highly lucrative and chillingly ruthless. Borders are irrelevant and life is cheap.

Here, Channel 4 cameras follow the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit in Britain during a major operation that leads to the seizure of drugs worth over £1.5million.

In terms of the drug trade, that’s peanuts. The implications are what matter here.

After finding drugs hidden in secret compartments in equipment being shipped into the UK, detectives realise they may be able to break an international South American cartel by exploiting their discovery.

Jenna Coleman (below) stars in this BBC crime drama as a detective who uncovers a dark web of secrets in the sleepy town she's always called home.

Recently widowed DC Ember Manning suspects there is a predator targeting underage girls. She finds herself reflecting on the age difference between herself and her late husband.

Vera, Farewell Pet, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One

Documentary going behind the scenes to examine the appeal of ITV detective drama Vera as it comes to an end after 13 years.

The show's star Brenda Blethyn (above) reflects on her time as DCI Vera Stanhope, and talks about the camaraderie and joy of working on the much-loved show.

Featuring interviews from key cast members - David Leon (DS Joe Ashworth), Jon Morrison (DC Kenny Lockhart), the directors, crew, and author Ann Cleeves, Vera's creator.

Bump, 11.40pm, BBC One

The Australian comedy drama - about a high-achieving teenage girl and her boyfriend, both still at school, who have a surprise baby - returns for a fifth and final season.

When the family don't tell her about Angie's new diagnosis, Jacinda feels left out and decides to adopt a new friend and have a secret of her own.

Episode two follows and sees Oly start working for Shauna again and seizes a big opportunity at a conference while her colleagues are distracted. Rosa has to guide Seb and Liliana through some huge decisions.

Don’t Miss

This week Cormac Ó hEadhra (below) looks at the three elections in quick succesion in June 1981, February 1982 and November 1982.

This was a volatile time when Charle Haughey of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s Garret FitzGerald battled for supremacy.

In terms of personality, they were polar opposites, and their televised debates were the first leader debates in Irish politics and as vicious as any seen since.

The Italian American actor continues his travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country's regional cuisines.

He begins tonight's episode in Naples, where he embarks on a whirlwind tour to find the freshest mozzarella and the best San Marzano tomatoes with Enzo Coccia to learn the secret art of arguably the world's best pizza.

Stanley continues his journey to the island of Ischia and the beautiful Amalfi Coast to revisit some spectacular regional dishes.

Silent Witness, 9.00pm, BBC One

In this latest tale, the team is called out to deal with the case of an estate agent who has been viciously bludgeoned to death with a claw hammer.

They find some unexpected familiar faces waiting for them at the crime scene, and when the murder weapon subsequently goes missing, they find themselves drawn deep into a conspiracy involving local government.

Ending Today

The final part of this documentary two-parter look at how a cache of discarded documents edged a reporter closer to the Irish solicitor who duped banks out of millions.

The trail then went cold, but Lynn resurfaced on the other side of the world in Brazil – but his crimes were finally catching up with him.

Playing Nice, 10.00pm, UTV

The psychological thriller adapted from the best-selling novel by JP Delaney, starring James Norton, Niamh Algar, James McArdle and Jessica Brown Findlay concludes.

The final court hearing looms and the fate of the boys' is set to be decided.

Will Miles's twisted lies be exposed for what they are, or will Pete and Maddie lose everything?

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