FIVE THINGS FOR YOUR WEEK...

STREAMING

Dublin Murders StarzPlay, from Sunday

Set in 2006, at the height of the Celtic tiger financial boom and adapted from the first two books in a series by American-Irish author Tana French, this chilling eight-part crime drama begins with an investigation led by detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox into the murder of bright teenager Katy Devlin, whose body has been found on an altar in the middle of an archaeological site. Katy lived on a nearby rundown housing estate, whose residents lived through a similar tragedy 21 years earlier when three local children vanished, with only one returning alive. Could the two cases, despite being so far apart in time, be linked?

DRAMA

Intruder

C5, 9pm, Monday

As with its recent hit drama The Drowning, Channel 5 is broadcasting Intruder across four consecutive nights, allowing tension to build but without making viewers wait too long to see how matters pan out. Tom Meeten and Elaine Cassidy play Sam and Rebecca Hickey, who appear to live the perfect life in their rural self-build modern home in the West Country. However, their idyll is shattered when two teenagers break into their home and, in a rage, Sam stabs one of them to death as he’s trying to escape through a window. They realise that Sam could be tried for murder, and decide to stage the scene to make it appear he killed the intruder in self defence.

SPORT

The Boat Race

BBC One, 3pm, Sunday

Live coverage of the 166th men’s and 75th women’s races as Oxford and Cambridge battle it out on the Great Ouse at Ely, in a change from the traditional River Thames course, due to the pandemic. Cambridge clinched a clean sweep in 2019, with their men’s team – including two-time

Olympic champion James Cracknell – winning by a length to secure a second successive victory, and their women’s squad, left, clinching a third straight success.

DOCUMENTARY

Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime

ITV & STV, 9pm, Monday

The broadcaster claims this documentary is celebrating 100 years of Hercule Poirot, but seeing as he made his first appearance in Agatha Christie’s debut novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, it’s a year late. But never mind, we won’t hold it against the schedulers. Richard E Grant is the man in charge of the proceedings; he explores the author’s extraordinary life, linking some of its events to the cases her famous Belgian detective solved, the people he met and the locations he visited until she brought an end to his career in 1975’s Curtain. Grant also catches up with some of Christie’s celebrity fans and investigates Poirot’s most famous outings.

PODCAST

F1: Beyond The Grid various platforms

Beyond The Grid delivers great stories, fresh insight and amazing anecdotes from the world of F1. Each week, Tom Clarkson brings you in-depth, personal conversations with the biggest names in the sport, from current superstar drivers and leading team bosses to legendary figures from history.