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

January 23, 2025
What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Thursday

Election offers a snapshot of the recent General Election, there's a Paul Newman night on the Beeb, The Night Agent returns for a second run, while Kaitlin Olson stars in comedy drama High Potential . . .

Pick of the Day

A snapshot into how an Irish general election is staged and a peek behind the curtain of how the country's democracy runs fair and free votes.

Plus, observing how citizens engage with the process and make their decisions at the ballot box.

This programme also follows Ceann Comhairle Seán O Fearghaíl as he says farewell to the 33rd Dáil.

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Maître d' Mateo Saina welcomes the restaurant's oldest ever dater, as 86-year-old Stan arrives looking for love, pairing him up with 80-year-old returning dater Lorraine.

You’d have to wish them the best, eh?

The Traitors, 9.00pm, BBC One

It's the penultimate day in the Traitors' castle, and as the game nears its end it remains possible that a huge shift in power might yet change everything.

With time running out to increase the final financial prize pot, the surviving players embark on a trip down memory lane.

As they race towards the finish, will the Faithful rid themselves of a Traitor or let another Faithful fall before the final hurdle?

Presented by Claudia Winkleman (above).

Paul Newman at the NFT, 9.45pm, BBC Four

Part of a Paul Newman night that includes Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Talking Pictures: Paul Newman.

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

First broadcast in 1973, the legendary American actor talks to Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.

Featuring extracts from some of his most famous films, including The Silver Chalice, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and more.

Darragh is in Cork finding out about the efforts to reduce methane in the national dairy herd, while Ella helps to get hundreds of oysters from Kerry to their new home in Dublin Bay.

Meanwhile, Stephen is in Fermanagh to meet one of nature's most extraordinary looking pig breeds.

Dragons' Den, 8.00pm, BBC One

A Ukrainian entrepreneur aims to bag a Dragon as she presents her fashion business.

Then two London-based café owners try not to bottle it in the Den as they serve up their bubble tea business.

A dog swimming club owner hopes the Dragons don't think he's barking mad, and a Harrogate-based designer hopes to make a splash as he pitches his all-in-one bathroom invention.

Whether multimillionaire investors Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, Sara Davies and Steven Bartlett will be tempted by any of these proposals remains to be seen.

Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad, 8.30pm, Virgin Media One

The father and son duo's road trip takes them to Nicaragua, where they meet some colourful characters in the local market, and get a taste of the national sport when they join a professional baseball team.

With the country renowned for its volcanoes, the pair take one of their most dangerous and spectacular challenges, as they descend into an active volcano.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

New to Stream

The Night Agent, Netflix

It's season two of the US drama series based on the novel by Matthew Quirk.

The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on Peter Sutherland, played by the superbly named Gabriel Basso.

He's a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings - until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.

This time around, his mission centres on a missing CIA agent and finding out who's selling leaked US intel to the highest bidder. On top of all that, a major cachet of weapons has disappeared.

Harlem, Prime Video

Here's the third and final season of the series following four female friends who met while attending New York University.

They're now in their thirties and living in Harlem, as they try to balance love, life, and their careers as working professionals.

High Potential, Disney+

This brand-new comedy drama was written by Drew Goddard (The Good Place, The Martian) and stars Kaitlin Olson.

It follows Morgan (played by Olsen), a single mother with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective (Daniel Sunjata).

Based on the popular French series Haut Potentiel Intellectuel.

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