Sat, 2nd May 2026

Travel

Talent?

Talent?

Surfing the channels, I paused at 3e and there was two or three America’s Got Talent shows back to back with Piers Morgan,...
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Home Grown

Home Grown

Some of the recent documentary programmes going out on TG4 are a result of a very local success story between Nemeton Television...
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Nama Flu

Nama Flu

That was the week that was for big issues with BBC1 doing Swine Flu: Everything You Need To Know and RTE running up the flagpole...
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Mad Bracken

Mad Bracken

RTE had a dose of the nostalgias for the guys and dames who reputedly created the celtic tiger – the advertising hot shots...
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Big Brother

Big Brother

O Brother, where art Thou? As the song says and C4’s Big Brother is to go in 2010 having, as they say, reached a natural...
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Fit Ups

Fit Ups

Congratulations to Angela Mulcahy who directed the TG4 First Chance production of The Fit Ups. Angela, from Kill, was a graduate...
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RTE Autumn

RTE Autumn

There’s a good entertaining look to the new RTE Autumn schedule, with old favourites holding the slots. Even the dodgy All...
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Survival

Survival

To watch the C4 short series of Gerry’s Big Decision with its touches of Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice, brings to...
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Smile

Smile

As in life so in death, Michael Jackson, the Prince of Pop, now King, changed tv schedules and millions all over the world...
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Is Mise

Is Mise

For a moment, watching Lemass – The Man Who Made Ireland, RTE1, I thought . . . that’s where we got the letter...
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Hope?

Hope?

At first view, the new BBC1 Sunday night drama, Hope Springs, is a mess of old ideas, a bit of oddness like Monarch Of The Glen...
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