TV not to miss
Cheryl Cole has a new album, so she will be in the studio to talk about that and other subjects. Andrew Lloyd Webber also discusses his Jesus Christ Superstar project.
Clint Eastwood may have fluffed his lines at the Republican convention last week, but this 1976 film shows him at the peak of his powers. Eastwood directs and stars in a tale of a vengeful bushwhacker with a bounty on his head. Described as a ‘revisionist’ western, it is also sympathetic in its portrayal of native American Indians.
The new series of the celebrity coaching series features the likes of George Best’s son Calum, Stephen Ireland’s partner Jessica Lawlor, singer Mary Byrne and two Dublin models, Roz Purcell and Jessica Lawlor, above.
First of a two-part show in which Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt travel through China by car. Along the way, they’ll ask questions about the country’s rapid economic growth.
Documentary underpinned by footage taken by an airship in 1919. It shows the trenches and battlefields of Europe, as well as some of the towns destroyed in the fighting.
The loudmouth chef takes a step back from some of his more gimmicky shows to present a series on basic cooking. Airing every weekday, the first episode includes pork chops with sweet and sour peppers, pan-fried scallops with crunchy apple salad, and a tip to keep your knives sharp.
A new series of the Irish-language scandal show begins with Bill Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
New eight-part series looking at how our food is made. They explore such questions as what is the wax on lemons; what bacteria are in probiotics; and what formed ham is? As well as the probiotic issue, the first episode travels to Swaziland to witness how they can produce perfect tinned grapefruit.
In the second episode of the three-part series, Alastair Sooke goes underwater to explore Emperor Claudius’s pleasure palace and the cave where Tiberius held his infamous wild parties.
Giovanni Trapattoni gets another chance to give some of the younger players a run in this game at Craven Cottage in London against a team ranked 92nd in the world.
While the men and women of Dublin Fire and Rescue do fight some fires in tonight’s episode, we also see how their work can involve so much more. They treat an elderly man who has been viciously assaulted, and also try to revive a man who seems to have overdosed on drugs.
Gabriel Byrne is currently filming a show on the Vikings for the History Channel, and this three-part documentary series from Neil Oliver will whet your appetite for the forthcoming drama. As we’ve seen on Coast and other shows, Oliver is a superb presenter, and his background as a real historian gives weight to his scripts.
The One Born Every Minute stable has created two special shows: this one about multiple births, and next week’s offering on plus-size mums. Tonight’s episode follows four couples through their pregnancies and into the labour ward. As is sometimes the case with such cases, the experience is anything but plain sailing.
Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen’s band reprises a mobster role in this joint US-Norwegian production from online broadcaster Netflix. Van Zandt plays a mafia member who has testified against his associates and is now living in Norway as part of the witness protection programme. We haven’t seen a preview yet, so don’t know how good it is, but we are very curious.
Another top series makes a welcome return to the schedules. Even though Anne Robinson and co primarily focus on British tradesmen and companies, some of them also do business in Ireland. Even if they didn’t, the might of the BBC’s budget for the show, with its hidden cameras and elaborate set-ups to catch the scammers, always result in enjoyable and worthy viewing.
Máirtín Tom Sheáinín’s first guest on the new series is sports commentator Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh. As well as his life in the commentary box, Ó Muircheartaigh talks about how his mother died when he was very young, and an aunt returned from America to help rear him.
Each episode of this new series focuses on somebody with a life-changing decision to make. The format requires them to be followed around by 50 strangers for a week, and at the end of it, they ask this ‘audience’ about what they should do. First up is Ian Wainwright, 47, a farmer who can’t decide whether to continue running the family dairy farm for his ageing uncles, or walk away and start a new life.
Season 10 of the comedy drama starts with a real shocker — Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall) is forced to take a job by the Department of Work and Pensions. Hence we get a death row fantasy sequence when he becomes a dead man walking as the big day approaches. Episode two on Friday.#
Mickey Rourke made a triumphant return as a dysfunctional semi-retired wrestler.
Episode two features Brenda Fricker, Ardal O’Hanlon, etc, talking about their childhoods.
Episode two of the new series has Don and Megan falling out over his surprise birthday party.
¦ FX channel more than justifies its existence over the next few weeks with the first views on this side of the Atlantic of both True Blood and The Walking Dead. Season five of the vampire drama begins on Monday, Sept 17, while series three of the zombie show starts in mid-October.
¦ Series three of Breaking Bad has just begun on TG4, but if you’re further ahead than that, season four is now available on Netflix.
¦ Reports in Britain suggest that ITV is in discussions with BT to show live Premier League games. The telecoms company has the rights to 38 matches a season for three years from 2013.
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