Not quite sure of what the best picks of the box are for this week? Or will you regret having not recorded something during the week when everyone is suddenly talking about it?
Fear not, Tom Dunne has you covered.
Sue Murphy joined Tom to pick out the best of the box this week and there really is a lot of great TV picks.
Pick of the Week: The Scandalous LadyW, Monday, BBC2, 9pm
Natalie Dormer (Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, The Tudors) leads a cast of British actors in this gripping 18th century drama, detailing the scandalous life of Seymour, Lady Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset, played by Aneurin Barnard (Cilla, The White Queen).
Dormer plays the passionate, courageous Seymour, Lady Worsley, who escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley, played by Shaun Evans (Endeavour, The Lost Weekend), who seeks compensation from her lover for the affair.
Other Picks
The Rose of Tralee, Monday and Tuesday, 8pm, RTE1
Dáithí O Sé presents live coverage of the first night of the 57th staging of the event from the festival dome in Tralee, Co Kerry, as 32 contestants battle to be crowned successor to Maria Walsh. The competition seeks to find a woman of Irish birth or ancestry who best fits the attributes featured in the 19th-century ballad of the same name.
Terror on Everest - Surviving the Nepal Earthquake, Tuesday, Channel 4, 9pm
Documentary examining an earthquake which struck Nepal on Saturday 25 April, 2015, killing more than 8000 people. The quake, which was Nepal's worst in more than 80 years, caused a massive ice avalanche on Everest that killed a further 19 at Base Camp and left dozens more stranded in one of the world's most inhospitable places.
The film uses interviews and rarely seen footage, much of it shot by the survivors at the moments the quake and avalanche occurred.
Building the Ancient City, Thursday, BBC2, 8pm
The first city of a million was built two thousand years ago. But how did they make Ancient Athens and Rome work without petrol, gas or electricity? Professor Wallace-Hadrill finds out.
Beijing Athletics Championships, Saturday for 9 days, BBC2
Gabby Logan presents action from the opening day at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, where medals were decided in the men's 10,000m and marathon, and women's shot put, while the heptathlon got under way. Commentary and analysis by Steve Cram, Steve Backley, Brendan Foster, Andrew Cotter, Colin Jackson, Denise Lewis, Paula Radcliffe and Michael Johnson, with reports from Radzi Chinyanganya and Phil Jones.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Film 4, Wednesday, 11pm
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
