The best of tonight’s television
■ 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.