Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

TV Review

The X-Factor returned for a 7th series and the talking point was not the crazy eliminations and auditions but the accusation that the programme makers used auto-tuning to improve or enhance contestants that the judges favour to make them sound better.

TV Review

The Waterford fire fighter Alan Smith is going to swim the English Channel this autumn as I watched the More4 documentary Big River Man.

TV Review

Maybe, some reader is watching the mega made thriller The Deep on BBC1 and knows what it is about.

TV Review

TV3 popped out a great feature-length crime drama last week, Jack Taylor, starring Iain Glen as an unshaven ex-guard who becomes a finder.

TV Review

Recognition Every time I see Waterford actor, director, performer Andrew Holden in the Meteor TV advertisement, my heart gives a little leap.

TV Review

RTE1 moved into “moving statues” territory with an honest and balanced view of an ordinary man who claims to have visions and communications with and from the Virgin Mary at Knock.

TV Review

Full marks to RTE 1 for their fascinating four part series last week, Seahorsemen, about Marine Biologist Kgalan Doyle and his U.C.G. friend Ken Maher who set out to save a species and breed seahorses.

TV Review

Try as you might, it is hard to avoid football on the tele.

TV Review

Imagine there was a time I thought John Lennon was the sun, moon and stars of music, freedom and doing your own thing.

RTE’s Nationwide Revisited

Nationwide Re-visited is a new series of programmes presented by Michael Ryan.