What’s on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Friday

Nile Rodgers is on The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan, there’s The Best of The Late Late Show, Rose Byrne returns in Physical, Floor is Lava is back, and there’s the final episodes of Here We Go and The Other One . . .

Pick of the Day

The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan, 10.00pm, Channel 4

Well worth a look, this. It’s a million miles removed from our beloved Late Late Show.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The multi-award-winning host is regularly joined in the studio by an impressive array of famous faces from the worlds of entertainment, music and sport, alongside house band the Compozers.

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In this episode, Mo Gilligan is joined by music legend Nile Rodgers, TV presenter Alison Hammond, comedian Iain Stirling, actor O-T Fagbenle and rapper Aitch.

Not a bad line-up at all.

Don’t Miss

The Joy of Easy Listening, 9.00pm, BBC Four

Another chance to see this fascinating documentary about a style of music that has gone in and out of fashion since it emerged in the 1950s.

The programme explores the people behind the genre, its songs and the mark they have left on modern life.

Featuring interviews with Engelbert Humperdinck, Richard Carpenter and the genius that is Jimmy Webb.

Followed at 11.30pm by I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock, the first of two programmes in which Katie Puckrik revisits a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft from the likes of the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates.

Guy Garvey: From the Vaults 1981, 8.00pm, Sky Arts

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Clips in this episode all come from 1981 – a year of significant breakthroughs and TV debuts as New Order, Depeche Mode and Soft Cell appear on screen for the first time in some rare and unseen footage.

It was also the year in which the charts were ruled by Planet Pop, as children’s TV brings us classic hits from Adam and the Ants, Kirsty MacColl, Kim Wilde and Toyah.

There’s a Stiff Records connection between featured artists Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Madness, The Belle Stars and Dave Edmunds with The Stray Cats, and mod revivalists Secret Affair.

Guy (above) also takes a look at interviews from The Human League’s Philip Oakey, as well as Simon Le Bon and John Taylor from Duran Duran.

New or Returning Shows

The Best of The Late Late Show, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

Highlights from the recently ended chat show, featuring a selection of the usual mix of celebrity guests, music and in-depth interviews.

Spórt Iris, 9.55pm, TG4

Hosted by Kerry footballing legend Dara Ó Cinnéide and TG4 presenter Gemma Ní Chionnaith, this new series launches with a live broadcast from the opening night of Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta in Leitir Mór, county Galway.

Thereafter, Dara and Gemma will be joined each week in Croke Park by a panel of experts to analyse and preview all the best of the summer Sports action from the United Rugby Championship, the GAA Hurling, Football, Peil na mBan and Camogie Championship,s as well as the action from the Galway Races to name but a few.

New to Stream

The Boys, Amazon Prime Video

As season 3 begins, it’s been a year of calm. Homelander’s subdued. Butcher works for the government, supervised by Hughie of all people.

But both men itch to turn this peace and quiet into blood and bone. So when The Boys learn of a mysterious anti-Supe weapon, it sends them crashing into The Seven, starting a war, and chasing the legend of the first Superhero: Soldier Boy.

Physical, Apple TV+

Rose Byrne returns in this dark comedy where she plays Sheila Rubin, a quietly tortured, seemingly dutiful housewife battling a complex set of personal demons relating to her self-image.

Well, until she finds release through the unlikeliest source: the world of aerobics.

At first hooked on the exercise itself, Sheila’s real road to empowerment comes when she discovers a way to merge this newfound passion with the burgeoning technology of videotape to start a revolutionary business.

The series tracks her epic journey, as Sheila transforms into someone we take for granted today (but was entirely radical at the time) – the female lifestyle guru.

Floor is Lava, Netflix

A big hit during lockdown, but will it work this time around? They’ve certainly upped the ante for this second season.

The obstacles have changed but don’t worry – the floor is just as red and bubbly as you remember. New this season: a very slippery volcano.

Fire Island, Disney+

Set in the iconic Pines, Andrew Ahn’s modern-day rom-com showcases a diverse, multicultural examination of queerness and romance.

Inspired by Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice, the story centres around two best friends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) who set out to have a legendary summer adventure with the help of cheap rosé and their cadre of eclectic friends.

Ending Today

Here We Go, 8.30pm, BBC One

Paul resumes learning to drive in time for the family holiday, as suggested by newly single Robin – just as Rachel learns that Amy has abandoned plans to go to university to be with Maya.

On holiday in Scotland, some while later, with Paul still unable to drive, Robin reveals that he took the family there in order to intercept Cherry the day before her wedding, and the members begin to squabble.

Just as everything looks hopeless for the Jessops, Paul is forced step in for an over-the-limit Rachel to keep the family holiday on the road and provide them all with a renewed optimism for the future.

Also ending tonight: The Other One, 9.30pm, BBC One; Love Life, 10.40pm, BBC One; and The Terror: Infamy, 9.00pm, BBC Two.