Today’s top TV and streaming choices: A murder restaged, Mark Wahlberg in Patriots Day and thriller Constellation




Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks:
The Jury: Murder Trial Channel 4, 9pm A real-life murder is restaged word for word in front of two juries of ordinary people, neither aware of the other. A husband has been charged with killing his wife with a hammer, but denies murder and claims he lost control — will the juries reach the same verdict?
The Jury: Murder Trial
Against the Head RTÉ2, 8pm Darren Cave, Donal Lenihan and Murray Kinsella join Daire O’Brien to mull over the weekend’s Six Nations games, as Ireland hosted Wales and England faced a tricky encounter away to Scotland. The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth BBC2, 9pm When the Columbia shuttle was just 16 minutes away from landing, Mission Control lost contact with the ship, which broke apart during re-entry. Afterwards, Nasa faced growing pressure from the media to come up with answers.
The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth
Patriots Day TG4, 9.30pm Thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as a Boston police sergeant who’s on duty at the city’s marathon in 2013 when a bomb goes off and he’s drawn into the hunt for those responsible. With Michelle Monaghan, JK Simmons.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive Netflix, streaming now Season six is upon us! Expect the usual level of unprecedented access so viewers can witness, first-hand, how the drivers and teams prepare to battle it out for the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship.
Constellation
Constellation AppleTV+, streaming now Noomi Rapace goes through all the emotions after her stint in space ends in disaster. She may have escaped with her life, and can return home to her daughter, but her existence back on Earth isn’t quite the same. For starters, there’s a piano in her house, which was never there before. Jonathan Banks’s lofty eyebrows put in a stirring turn in this atmospheric number. Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend AppleTV+, streaming now This four-part documentary not only charts the 17-year career of the world’s greatest footballer (sorry Ronaldo), with input from the likes of Gary Lineker and Roger Bennett, but it examines the level of stress Lionel was under given he’d never brought home the World Cup for his native Argentina.
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