Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
Legal Blonde
Here’s a new gowns and gangsters series Silk on BBC1 with gritty Maxine Peake as an up and thrusting barrister who wants to be a Queen’s Council.
Falling Ratings
Despite repeated adverts for Sky Atlantic, and at least five UPC digital channels promoting it, Boardwalk Empire only brought in 438,000 UK viewers.
Shameless US
Now that the Paul Abbott written Shameless on C4 has almost run out of expletives to delete or situations to shock us with, RTE2 have begun to show the American version.
TV Review
For the last three seasons BBC2 has had a hit with its Island Parish series featuring clerics on the picturesque isles of Scilly.
Something Fishy
The best thing you could say about the short bites or bits that is the C4 Jamie Oliver – Jamie’s Fish Supper is that they are short.
Cot Death
The dubious plot of cot death and stolen child in East Enders has caused a lot more controversy than I think the BBC expected.
TV documentary on Waterford and Lismore Railway
The 6-part series chronicles the history of Ireland’s railways through the stories and faces associated with six of the country’s most famous lines.
Local Faces
Over the holidays it was great to see local faces and local connections on the telly.
Major new Nemeton TV documentary to air on TG4
The violence depicted in Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York” was an everyday occurrence in rural Munster and in particular, Tipperary and West Waterford.