Channel Hopping

IRELAND’S FITTEST FAMILY Sunday - RTÉ One, 6.30pm

I CAN think of nothing worse than having to complete an armytraining style obstacle course with my siblings while hurling hobgoblin Davy Fitzgerald roars at me every tortured step of the way. But some are only too happy to sign up for RTÉ’s fitness challenge show which returns for a new series tomorrow. It promises to be ‘more ambitious than ever’, with more stunts and tests of nerve.

HOME RESCUE Tuesday - RTÉ One, 8.30pm

AS homeowners we are drowning in an ocean of clutter – apparently – and the Home Rescue team is here to fly in and airwinch us to safe harbour. They’ll tidy up your gaff, get some Ikea bits and bobs in, and chuck out any dreck that has been festering. First up is Cork family, the Kork Kardashians, due to their taste for K-themed forenames. Instead of Home Rescue how about Home Swap and put the real Kardashians into a terraced house in Ballyphehane?

IMAGINE: BECOMING CARY GRANT Tuesday - BBC One, 11.10pm

CARY Grant was one of Hollywood’s great leading men But the debonair screen idol, born Archibald Leach into a working class Bristol family, was riven with self-doubt, at one point embarking on LSD therapy to cure the after-effects of childhood trauma. This documentary, with new footage shot by Grant, reveals him to be a complex man.

REVOLTING IRELAND Virgin Media One – Tuesday, 10pm

THIS series on the history of protest and social unrest in Ireland has skirted under the radar – perhaps its terrible name gave the impression that it was more about Rentokil than revolutions. In tonight’s fourth and final part, presenter Simon Delaney takes us through our most recent reasons for taking to the streets – austerity, water charges, the Repeal the Eighth movement – speaking to players who were at the coalface of mobilising the masses.