Irish Independent

The best of tonight’s television

- PAUL WHITINGTON

■ BEST FACTUAL Pat Kenny’s Big Debate: Welfare Ireland Virgin Media One, 10pm

On the day after the announceme­nt of Budget 2019, Pat Kenny and a panel of experts debate the rights and wrongs of the welfare system.

■ PROGRAMME OF THE DAY

The Apprentice BBC One, 9pm

The candidates quickly flounder when Alan Sugar sets them the challenge of creating a brand new comic aimed at eight to 12-yearolds. They’ll need to dream up a catchy comic name, a new character, original story and a dynamic front cover, and once the comic is printed they’ll have to pitch it to leading industry figures.

BEST DOCUMENTAR­Y Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge

RTÉ One, 10.05pm

Brendan O’Connor returns with a new season of the panel show on which he and guests discuss all the big stories of the week.

■ MOVIE OF THE DAY Black Swan Channel 4, 12.35am

Darren Aronofsky’s lyrical gothic thriller stars Natalie Portman as an aspiring ballerina whose determinat­ion to succeed pushes her into insanity. With Mila Kunis.

■ WATCH BACK Revolting Ireland Virgin Media Player

In the 1970s, Ireland embarked on a belated sexual revolution, and over the decades that followed, women’s lib and reproducti­ve rights movements became key political players.

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Comic task for candidates: The Apprentice trio of Karren Brady, Alan Sugar and Claude Littner. Below: Natalie Portman stars in Black Swan
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