What to watch on TV and streaming today: MasterChef, The Magnificent Seven and High Hopes




Planning a night in? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks:
Super Garden
RTÉ One, 7pm
The garden design competition returns, as Gary Hegarty from Derry re-imagines a back garden for parents Keelin and Anthony and their children Ellie, Jackson and Fury. They’re hoping for a Love Island twist, and a sensory garden for five-year-old Fury, who has autism.
Super Garden
Live Premier League
TNT Sports 1, 7pm
Coverage of Arsenal’s tie with London rivals Chelsea at the Emirates, with three points essential to the home side as they chase their first Premier League title in 20 years. Kick-off at 8pm. MasterChef
BBC1, 9pm
Six new chefs undertake the Basic to Brilliant challenge before Jon and Gregg ask them to create a dish based on prawns. The best four must then cook a two-course meal for previous contestants Alexina Anatole, Dean Edwards and Steven Wallis.
Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven
RTÉ2, 9.30pm
Remake of John Sturges’s classic 1960s western starring Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm, a US marshal who rounds up a small group of gunmen to take on a mining tycoon who is terrorising a small frontier town. With Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke.
Tiger
Disney+, streaming now
Who doesn’t want to watch a litter of bumbling tiger cubs of a Monday? Narrated by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the film follows the wee cubs blindly barrelling after their mother as they navigate pythons, bears, and malevolent male tigers.
Freddie Miller in High Hopes
High Hopes
Disney+, streaming now
If you thought Jimmy Kimmel was too busy wrapping up Trump’s latest machinations in a 10-minute nightly monologue to produce a workplace reality series set in a medical marijuana dispensary, you’d be wrong. In fact, regular viewers of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (YouTube) will recognise a certain baked employee — Freddie Miller from Michigan.
After a news clip of Miller waiting in line at the state’s first legal dispensary went viral in 2020, Kimmel and his crew tracked him down for an interview. Twelve months later, they flew him out to LA for a dream job reviewing different grass strains, before landing a job at one of Hollywood’s oldest cannabis dispensaries, MMD.
Run by Belarus-born brothers, Slava and Mishka, the pair have grand plans to expand their empire nationwide and release their own cannabis brand. Will they reach for the stars, or will their hopes go up in smoke? With employees like Freddy sampling the wares at work, only time will tell.
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver
Netflix, streaming now
The epic saga of Kora and the surviving warriors continues. In this concluding part, they fight alongside the brave people of Veldt to defend the once peaceful village.
Black Flies
Black Flies
Prime Video, streaming now
Look away if you’re squeamish. For context, this Sean Penn Prime Video offering is so gut-wrenchingly gritty that he spends half the time snarling through a gnawed toothpick (not exactly hygienic given he’s a paramedic). Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) plays a rookie medic on the mean streets of NYC. Mentored by the aforementioned grizzled Penn, their respective reactions to a call-out involving an addled mother in labour haunt them both. Expect Mike Tyson to pop into this bleak yet affecting affair based on Shannon Burke’s novel.
Don’t Hate The Player
Netflix, streaming now
Picture it. Thirteen of you heading to an island in paradise, only to be met with a makeshift camp. Players compete for a spot in a luxury villa and a shot at €150,000 in a tense game of strategy and survival hosted by Claude Dartois. If it sounds like fellow Netflix fare, Surviving Paradise, that’s because it’s essentially a French version of Surviving Paradise.
Jane
Jane
AppleTV+, streaming now
Season two of the sci-fi kids’ fantasy, which puts the wonders of nature front and centre, returns. Consider it a live-action Once Upon a Time... Life and Inner Space, melding imaginations, and the teachings of Jane Goodall. Yes, it’s for kids, but we adults can learn stuff too.
Loot
AppleTV+, streaming now
Welcome to the halfway point of season two of this Maya Rudolph vehicle. It follows Molly, who’s still figuring out what to do with her $87bn divorce settlement in the most fish-out-of-water ways imaginable.
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