What to watch on TV and streaming today: Super Garden, Wear Whatever The F You Want and Racing from Punchestown
Jane Mangan, with help from Andrew McNamara, Lisa O'Neill and Ruby Walsh, presents live action from Festival 2025's opening day. Coverage continues throughout the week.
At the age of 72, Derry-born Eileen Sung is a latecomer to garden design, having spent her working life as a Hong Kong police officer and civil servant. Now, she's keen to prove her green-fingered credentials by creating a beautiful plot for a growing young family.
Who Do You Think You Are? BBC One, 9pm
Journalist and presenter Mishal Husain wants to know about her grandmother's family, especially rumours that her great-great-grandfather, Thomas Quinn, had his roots in Ireland and became a maharaja's personal physician.
The Bridge on the River Kwai Film4, 5.45pm
David Lean's enthralling wartime drama stars Alec Guinness as a British PoW who becomes dangerously obsessed with building a bridge for his Japanese captors. William Holden and Jack Hawkins play the commandos sent to blow it up.
Chef's Table: Legends Netflix, streaming now
Celebrating culinary icons shaping modern food while marking the franchise's 10th anniversary, this series showcases four legendary chefs whose influence inspires generations globally. And one of them is Jamie Oliver.
You Netflix, streaming now
I won't lie, I haven't viewed even a single episode of this on account of the hammy narration provided by Penn Badgley's psychotic Joe (watching through Gogglebox was more than enough) and the parade of gormless sorts he's managed to slay on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, for season 5 (yes, five seasons) and 'the killer finale', he's back in New York to address yet more skeletons in his closet.
Wear Whatever The F You Want Prime Video, streaming now
Also returning to New York for another season, we have Clinton Kelly and Stacy London inspiring those in a fashion funk to express their unique style, even if it breaks all the style rules.
To save a politician's estranged son after a failed drug deal, a perpetually dishevelled detective (Tom Hardy) rampages through the criminal underworld, revealing layers of corruption permeating East LA. This is quite the filming feat, given it was partially shot in the mean streets of Barry Island Pleasure Park, Wales.
Chronicling Freddie Flintoff's remarkable cricket career, multitude of presenting gigs (A League of Their Own, Living With Bulimia, Australian Ninja Warrior), two Ashes wins with England, his status as a national sporting icon, and his return to cricket after a life-altering Top Gear car crash in 2022. If you only visit Disney+ to watch Star Wars-related fodder, there are new episodes of Andor: A Star Wars Story.
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Beauty fans must ‘run to Boots' for epic summer sale – there's make-up & posh perfume that's slashed down from just £2
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