Television highlights of 2013

Apparently it was Lord Byron who said ‘Show me a man who’s tired of Don Draper and I’ll show you a man who’s tired of life’. He obviously hadn’t seen the current series. RTÉ’s decision to show the advertising drama in a midweek graveyard shift looked justified at last, as Mad Men suddenly looked past its sell-by date. In 2014 we get the first half of the final run. About time.