Pick of the day: Cobra Kai
Streaming now, Netflix
This comforting hit show (a sequel to the original The Karate Kid movie, starring Ralph Macchio as Daniel and William Zabka as Johnny) reaches season six, the final one, and today the first five episodes land on the streaming platform.
Why Trains Crash
8pm, BBC One
“Why did a train packed with hundreds of people end up on the same track as another locomotive,” says one train expert about one of the worst train accidents of recent times in the Balasore district of India. The incident occurred on 2 June 2023 on the rammed Coromandel Express that collided with a goods train. It had a knock-on effect with another high-speed train smashing into the Coromandel. The tragedy killed 296 people. This grim film explores the reasons for the crash and the aftermath of it.
Supermarket Own-Brands: The Big Taste Test
8pm, Channel 5
This meat-and-potatoes doc explores store cupboard staples, the items we fill our baskets and trolleys with week in, week out. Apparently, we spend more than eight months of our lives in supermarkets and brands are often ingrained into us and evoke memories of our childhood, like the ketchup we put on our food or the cereal we ate at breakfast. Supermarket own brands used to be unappealing and boring, but now everything has changed. The packaging is cheeky and the names are even cheekier. And the taste? Well, a panel eat their way through food staples such as beans, bread and soup to name just a few in a bid to answer that question.
Golf: The Open
8pm, BBC Two
Can Rory McIlroy finally bag his fifth major at Royal Troon Golf Club in South Ayrshire? He was agonisingly close at last year’s US Open, coming second to Bryson DeChambeau, the LIV rebel player in a rich vein of form. Here are highlights of the first day’s play of the 152nd staging of the Major.
Armenia, My Home
8.40pm, PBS America
“Each country or nation has a cultural identity and we have one that goes far back before the genocide into ancient history and that culture is full of all kinds of pride and poetry,” explains actor and playwright Eric Bogosian (Succession) for this celebration of Armenia. The nation’s history goes back millennia and it was the first nation to adopt Christianity as the official state religion in the fourth century. Armenians discuss their nation, and capital Yerevan, including the genocide under the Ottoman Empire from 1915-17. This doc is one of resilience and belonging; it’s a “kind of a miraculous thing if you’re an Armenian”.
Suspect
9pm and 9.30pm, Channel 4
Anne-Marie Duff’s shrink, Dr Susannah Newman, has failed to get her former lover, DS Richard Grove (Ben Miller), to help find serial killer Jon (Dominic Cooper, criminally underused), so she takes things into her own hands. First, she meets up with ex-client and copper Louisa (Vinette Robinson) who, although initially hostile to her approach, has some info on the missing girls. Newman then meets Eddie Marsan’s overly nice therapist, who has bad news about Danny (James Nesbitt) in this talky (mostly angry) mystery thriller. One patient tells Dr Newman she is “not safe anywhere” – and she doesn’t appear to be.