The Herald (Ireland)

A massive feast of football, more football, tennis and some crime

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TOMORROW HIGH COUNTRY BBC1, 9.10pm & 10.20pm

Another weekend, another new crime drama; this time from Australia and based in the country’s alpine region. If the setting is unusual, the set-up sounds very familiar.

Leah Purcell plays detective Andie Whitford, newly assigned to the town of Brokenridg­e, where five people have disappeare­d in the wilderness and plenty of dark secrets reside.

END OF SUMMER BBC4, 9pm & 9.50pm

The middle double bill of this Swedish mystery takes place mostly in 1984 when Billy went missing. Harald is convinced the boy was kidnapped by Tommy. Back in the present day, Billy’s sister Vera is clinging to the belief that he’s still alive.

KINGS FROM QUEENS: THE RUN-DMC STORY Sky Documentar­ies, 9pm

A glimpse of a vanished 1980s New York is provided by this three-part account of how the rap trailblaze­rs were the first to fuse hip-hop and hard rock — and knew from the off the best way to market it.

CHANGING ENDS UTV/ITV1, 9pm & 9.30pm

New season of Alan Carr’s beguiling comedy based on his childhood. First up, the 11-year-old Alan (the excellent Oliver Savell) reluctantl­y has to impress his mates by getting into the cinema to see the over-15s Platoon. In the second episode, he endures a hellish birthday party.

SUNDAY EURO 2024 FINAL RTÉ2, 7pm

England’s progress to the final has been a story of stumbles, dying-seconds wonder goals and some dodgy decisions, including the Harry Kane semi-final penalty that wasn’t a penalty.

But now they face the best team in the competitio­n, Spain. What a night of football this should be.

WIMBLEDON BBC1 from 1pm; BBC2, 6pm-9pm

The final day starts, as always, with the men’s singles final (at the time of writing, the finalists had yet to be decided). Enjoy the break while you can, you miserable sport haters, because the Olympics will be here soon!

THE TURKISH DETECTIVE BBC2, 9pm

Forget Biden versus Trump — if, in fact, that’s what it’s going to be. The real battle of the oldies is between the telly cops. The current record holder is Brenda Blethyn in Vera, still on the force at 78. Running a close second is 70-year-old Haluk Bilginer as Inspector Ikmen. In this second two-part case, concluding on Monday, he has to solve the murder of a club promoter.

KARL JENKINS: THE COMPOSER BEHIND THE MOUSTACHE BBC4, 9.20pm

Apparently, there was speculatio­n during the coronation of King Charles III that the man with the long grey hair and massive walrus moustache spotted by viewers was Meghan Markle in disguise. Nope, it was Karl Jenkins, the subject of this new profile.

IBIZA NARCOS Sky Documentar­ies, 10pm

The fascinatin­g, if undeniably bleak series about the evolution of the island’s club and drug culture talks to seasoned gangsters and police, one of whom says the start of the tourist season is measured by the first Englishman falling to his death from a hotel balcony.

‘The deliberate­ly daft plots almost make Midsomer Murders seem like The Wire’

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