Tuesday’s TV tips

'My Sister Had my Boyfriend's Baby and Other Betrayals'

Tuesday’s TV tips

COMEDY: Friends (RTE Two, 7.30pm)

RTÉ2 returns to the beginning of the story for Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe and Joey with Season 1 of Friends.

“Pilot” Season 1, episode 1

After running out on her wedding, Rachel is taken in by her old friend from high school and is forced to stand on her own two feet.

DRAMA: Holby City (BBC1, 8pm)

Jonny’s had a pretty rough ride in recent weeks, although things are starting to look up for the nurse.

It’s a big day for him, as he braces himself to return to work after being released from prison. His nursing would be back on form if only he could bury his anger at having been accused in the first place.

But if anything was going to take his mind off his problems, it’s the next patient wheeled through the doors... It turns out to be his former cellmate Archie who has had an overdose, and the nurse is forced into making a life-changing decision.

Meanwhile, Sasha is delighted to be reunited with Essie after her time away in Germany, but whether or not she feels the same is another matter entirely.

Elsewhere, Arthur suffers from a bad case of first-day nerves on AAU, which only intensify when Fletch and Raf ask him to treat a tricky patient.

DOCUMENTARY: My Big Fat Gypsy Christening (TV3, 9pm)

From blinged-up cots to huge floral wreaths, this show reveals their attitudes to lifecycle events.

While Travellers mark life big events, from communions to weddings, in their own spectacular style, they are not the only events in life’s cycle that should be celebrated.

In this special episode we explore the communities unique approach birth and death.

We reveal a world in which pregnancy comes with its own strict rules of conduct, breast feeding is considered shameful and a funeral is an event

planned with all the energy as the very biggest weddings, drawing a crowd of thousands.

DRAMA: Ordinary Lies (BBC1, 9pm)

The brilliant Max Beesley hasn’t featured nearly as much as we’d have liked up until now, but tonight’s episode of Ordinary Lies gives him a bit more of the spotlight.

His character Mike discovers that mechanic Rick (Shazad Latif) is trapped in an unhappy marriage and has been sleeping in a van in the showroom car park. He offers to put him up at his home for a few nights and get Rick back on track.

However, it’s a decision he may soon regret.

Rick strikes up a close bond with Mike’s carefree teenage daughter, but the boss may also be on dangerous ground when he entrusts his employee with his darkest secrets, confessing the truth about his own loveless marriage and his strong feelings for their colleague Beth.

With wife Alison growing suspicious, though, will Mike be able to keep his secret hidden much longer?

Holly Earl, Belinda Stewart-Wilson and Jo Joyner co-star.

DOCUMENTARY: Meth and Madness in Mexico: Stacey Dooley Investigates (BBC3, 9pm)

Stacey’s out and about once more, keen to uncover what goes on behind the scenes of another taboo topic – the global drugs trade – in a three-part series.

Stacey and her team make their way to remote and hostile regions to meet producers and traffickers involved in the global drugs trade, beginning with a trip to Mexico.

Here, the presenter finds out about the lucrative trade in crystal meth, and joins the army in their attempts to close ’super labs’ that have been popping up across the country.

Stacey also hears first-hand accounts of the cartel brutality – from the families of their victims, and discovers how some communities have set up their own vigilante groups to try and fight off the drug supplying gangs.

Ms Dooley’s documentaries don’t often make for easy viewing, but this is certainly one of the most interesting offerings of the week’s telly.

DRAMA: Revenge (RTE Two, 9.55pm)

“Retaliation”

Determined to flaunt her new fortune in Victoria’s face, Natalie throws a giant Fourth of July bash and invites David to be her date. Meanwhile, Margaux steps up her plans to take down anyone who stands in her way.

REAL-LIFE: My Sister Had My Boyfriend’s Baby – and Other Betrayals (Channel 5, 10pm)

Blimey, there’s a programme title to catch your attention.

This documentary meets the people who have fallen out with the people they love the most – their family – and finds out whether they managed to reconcile their feuds, or if they’re destined to carry on fighting for ever.

The programme meets grandmother Sarah, who talks of the divide in her family since her granddaughters fell out over the same man – Leanne found out her sister Larissa was not only having an affair with her boyfriend, but then went on to have is child.

Denise recalls the moment she discovered that her husband David had remortgaged their home and gambled away all their money.

Meanwhile, 19-year-old Emma took drastic action when she discovered her mother had been lying to her all her life about the identity of her biological father.

FILM: The Deer Hunter (ITV4, 11pm)

(1978) Epic drama, focusing on the traumatic effects of the Vietnam conflict on a group of friends from a small American town.

As the pals gather to celebrate one of their number’s nuptials, they embark on one last hunting trip before journeying to Vietnam. After that, the action cuts between the survivors’ subsequent lives and what they experienced in battle.

Undoubtedly. It’s harrowing and the lengthy run-time can be intimidating, but the extraordinary cast give this their all. Sadly, it was John Cazale’s final film before succumbing to cancer. What a legacy.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Cazale, John Savage

FILM: Milius (Film4, 11.05pm)

(2013) Screenwriter and director John Milius was a creative dynamo in 1970s and 1980s Hollywood, penning scripts for Dirty Harry and its sequel Magnum Force before garnering an Oscar nomination for his work on Apocalypse Now.

Behind the camera, he made waves with Big Wednesday, Conan The Barbarian and Red Dawn but Farewell To The King and Flight Of The Intruder were failures at the box office, denting his reputation, which was further tested by his radical beliefs and controversial behaviour.

Zak Knutson and Joey Figueroa’s documentary celebrates Milius’s rise and fall from his childhood, when he aspired to join the military, to his years at the USC Film School and his gradual recovery from a stroke, which robbed him of speech and mobility.

Starring: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Michael Mann

FILM: Conan the Barbarian (Film4, 1.10am)

(1982) A group of warriors descend upon a village destroying almost everything in their path. When his parents are killed, young survivor Conan is sold into slavery, eventually escaping and vowing revenge on the evil Thulsa Doom, who now runs a sinister snake cult.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast in this glorious fantasy adventure. Unlike the more tween-friendly sequel, this is perfectly gauged for late teenage fantasy fans, and boasts some great production design by Alien veteran Ron Cobb.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Mako, Max von Sydow.

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